Deacon of the Week:

1st Sunday: Rhonard MacRae

2nd Sunday: Winston Riddle

3rd Sunday: Tony Silver

4th Sunday: Arthur Burnette

5th Sunday: Stephen Willie

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Old Fort, NC

July 2017 Volume 51, Issue 7

JULY EVENTS

SUNDAY:

9:45 - Sunday School

11 - Worship Service

4 - Choir Practice

6 - Adult Bible Study, Youth

WEDNESDAY:

6 - Adult Bible Study/Prayer,

Youth, RA’s, GA’s, Mission

Friends,

7 - Choir Practice

July 3-5 - Office Closed

July 4 - Independence Day

(Office Closed); Old Fort 4th of

July Parade 4 pm

July 9 - Lord’s Supper 11 am;

Lunch Bunch 3-5 pm; Deacon’s

Meeting 7 pm

July 15 - VBS Kick-Off 4 pm

July 16 - Called Business

Meeting-Deacon Nominations

11 am; VBS 5:30-8:00 pm

July16-20 - VBS 5:30-8 pm;

VBS Family Night July 21 6 pm

July 20 - Newsletter Articles Due

July 23 - Lunch Bunch 3-5 pm;

Church Council 5 pm;

Quarterly Conference 6 pm

July 30 - 5th Sunday Singing

6 pm & Refreshments to follow

Church Staff

Rev. Drew Dalton, Pastor Stephen Willie, Director of Music

David Workman, Pianist Betty Reaves, Organist Susan Willie, Secretary

Wanda Parker, Custodian

Office: 828-668-7853 Fax: 828-668-7578

Email: offbc@frontier.com Website: oldfortfirstbaptist.com

July Birthdays

Kevin Revis ….. 7

Maia Becker ….. 8

Gayle Padgham ….. 18

Sherry Burnette ….. 24

Offertory Prayer:

1st Sunday: Sherry Burnette

2nd Sunday: Bob Smith

3rd Sunday: Susan Hoyle

4th Sunday: Rhonard MacRae

5th Sunday: Tony Silver

Our deepest sympathy is expressed to

Rhonard MacRae in the passing of his

brother-in-law, Rev. Dean Stockton and

to the family of Mamie Elliott.

With Sympathy

leff Notes

We will observe the

Ordinance of the

Lord’s Supper

on Sunday, July 9th

at 11:00 am

We welcome new member

Julie McKinney who joined our fellowship

on June 4th, 2017

Sunday, July 23 at 5:00 pm

in the Fellowship Hall

5th

Sunday

Sunday, July 30th

at 6:00 pm

If you would like to participate

in this service please let

Stephen know by July 26.

Refreshments following service. Please bring your favorite finger food.

Drinks will be provided.

Sunday, July 23

at 6:00 pm

in the Fellowship Hall

VBS Kick-Off - Saturday, July 15, 4:00 pm

VBS - July 16-20, 5:30-8:00 pm

VBS Family Night - Friday, July 21, 6:00 pm

There will be a

Called Business

Meeting

Sunday, July 16

for the purpose of:

Deacon Nominations

Relay for Life follow-up: Relay for Life was held Friday, May 12 at Tom Johnson's

in a near constant state of rain - downpour to heavy mist.

FBC donated $100 for 10 lumanaria bags to celebrate and

honor those who have and are battling cancer. Thanks

also to our church family members who came out to

walk/wade around the track.

May 21 breakfast: Our church-wide breakfast was May 21. We had 33 join in for food and fellowship. We do this at the end of each quarter. The next breakfast will be near the end of August.

The young people at Old Fort First Baptist will start July off with the Old Fort Parade!!! Kelly Coons is our contact person for this event. All small children will ride in the back of Mr. Kelly’s truck waving flags and

tossing tootsie rolls, while older young people ride their bikes!! Parade line up at Old Fort School is 2pm-3pm. The parade starts at 4pm. Hope everyone comes out to celebrate our inde-pendence on July 4th.

SHOUT OUT TO ALL 3RD-12TH GRADERS---- Something to LOOK forward to... AUGUST 19TH DOLLYWOOD SPLASH COUNTRY!!!!

One Day Trip to Dollywood Splash Country August 19th. In order to go, you must come to church Sunday mornings, Sunday nights and Wednesday nights. In order to bring a friend they must also come to church to hold your spot for this trip! Contacts for this are April, Nova, and Josh. We will plan a parent meeting and go over this trip with everyone, so please look at your calendar and plan ahead. We would hate for our young people to miss out. We want to remind everyone good attendance at church is most important for trips like these. We, as leaders, want to know the young people we are with and for them to trust in us as their leaders to take care of them.

Rev. Drew Dalton

& Family

Rev. Dalton has been in vocational ministry

for almost 8 years. He and his wife, Martha,

have been married for 14 years. They have

been blessed with three beautiful daughters:

Rebekah (9), Abigail (6), and Hannah

(1-1/2).

Rev. Dalton has a strong commitment to the

pulpit, pastoral ministry, and relational

evangelism desiring to disciple, educate,

inspire, and lead the church to become

spiritually maturing Christians, as well as

being spiritually reproductive Christians.

On behalf of the Hensley family and everyone involved

in the event, we would like to thank you for your sup-

port of this second annual Eleck Willis Hensley "Heart

of a Lion" Scholarship Car Show. We sincerely appre-

ciate your generous contributions to this fund raising

event which will sponsor scholarships awarded in

Eleck's name to graduating seniors at McDowell High

School each year who are pursing 2 and 4 year degrees.

Dear Church Members,

Thank you for the wonderful dinner in honor of

graduation. Also, I love the beautiful Bible.

Love,

Megan Gaffigan

Dear Church,

I am sorry I missed the graduate recognition dinner. I

had to work. Thank you for the Bible and welcoming

me to the church.

Love,

Nick Favorite

Thanks to all of you!

We all enjoyed the Easter Basket. Needless to say,

Gemma got first choice!

Love,

James & Jeanette

Dear Homebound Committee,

Thank you so much for the Easter basket. I’m afraid

we may have put on a few more founds but we enjoyed

it.

May God continue to bless each of you.

Richard & Rachel Newton

To all the wonderful people who prepared the delicious

meal for the family of Mamie Elliott:

Your thoughtfulness and kindness was so greatly ap-

preciated and we just wanted to say “thank you” again.

As the summer begins we find our Lord working and provid-ing for First Baptist Church of Old Fort in a very remarkable way. It is to our great need, desire and expectations that we now have a Pastor. We are so grateful not only for the interim leadership of Dr. Don Berry but also for the upcoming leadership of Rev. Andrew Dalton. We look forward to the start of Brother Andrews ministry here on July 30th and ask that everyone pray for Brother Andrew and his wife, Martha, along with their three daughters Rebekah, Abigail and Hannah. Moving and change of jobs are two of the top three most stressful life events along with getting married. Let us rise to make this transition and move as uneventful as possible. As a minister of 25 years and several moves, the move loading and unloading can be the most ex-hausting and the provision of meals is extremely wel-comed. Prayer is always a positive and providing attention to the children is a great way to say “We love you.” So let’s be in prayer asking God what we as individuals and as a family of faith can do to make this transition smooth and easy.

God Bless Rev. Stephen Willie Director of Music

The five members elected to serve on the 2017-2018 Nominating Committee are:

Margie Swann Josh Becker Dana Revis Mickey Gilliam Liz Lowery

Sunday, July 9

3-5 pm

Sunday, July 23

3-5 pm