FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, SENATOBIA, MS (www.sfbcms.com) Thursday, November 21, 2019

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24th SENATOBIA PRESBYTERIAN

CHURCH

Friday, December 6th

The Nativity comes to life at

Longview Heights Baptist Church

• We will eave FBC on Friday, December 6th at 5:00 PM

• This is a free event • This trip is sponsored by the Active Group of

First Baptist Church and is open to all ages (children must be accompanied by an adult)

Sunday, December 1st- One Morning Worship Service

Morning Worship at 9:15 AM

Sunday School at 10:30 AM

Honor the LIFE or MEMORY of someone you LOVE with . . .

CHRISTMAS POINSETTIAS You can purchase poinsettias in memory or honor of special people in your life. These poinsettias cost $10.00 each and will be used to decorate the Welcome Center and the Sanctuary for Christmas. A list of memorials and honorariums will be published in the order of worship throughout the month of December.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: The church office will be closed November 27th - 29th for Thanksgiving

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Attendance Sunday School…………………………………………………………415

Regular Weekly Tithe ............................................................... $26,189.96 Regular Weekly Budget ............................................................ $23,867.00

Regular Month to Date ............................................................. $81,297.48 Regular Monthly Budget ........................................................ $103,424.00

Regular Year to Date .............................................................. $180,297.48 Budget Year to Date ............................................................... $180,992.00 Prior Year to Date ................................................................... $159,533.33 2018/2019 Annual Budget ................................................... $1,241,085.00 Capital Additions & Improvements Offering ............................. $2,085.00

Margaret Lackey Year to Date .......................................................... $6,330.00

*Fiscal year: October 1, 2010-September 30, 2020

LAST WEEK AT A GLANCE

ANNIVERSARIES

Nov 20 Larry & Pam Simpson Nov 23 Jeremy & Renee King, Adam & Lacey Moore Nov 27 James & Beverly Russell Nov 29 Veo & Ali Moore

Nov 24 Dec 1 Jimmy & Lucille Brewer Dec 8

The flowers gracing our Sanctuary this week are given in honor of Garrett Glaser and his staff and the volunteers who worked so tirelessly to make our Thanksgiving dinner such a success.

FLOWERS

PRAYER LIST

Wednesday, November 27 No Wednesday Activities Church Offices Closed Thursday, November 28 Happy Thanksgiving! Friday, November 29 Church Offices Closed

Jerry Brewer Wallace Chapuis Mignon Eoff Robert Eoff Carole Frayser Jerrie Frayser Jere Gammon

Shirley Lane Diane Latham David Lunceford Gary Newton Ed Pang Marilyn Pang Nelle Parks Cohen Perkins

Kathy Rowan Dianne Sanders Louisa Sanders Kam Spencer Leon Warren Donna Weisfeld

PRESCHOOL WELCOME DESK

Nov 24 8:30 a.m.

Emmy Jarjoura

Dec 1 9:15 a.m.

Barbara Young

Dec 8 9:15 a.m.

Artie & Tina Smith

EXTENDED SESSIONS LEADERS

ACTIVITIES FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK

Nov 24 8:30 a.m.

Bonnie Moore Dolores Wooten

11:00 a.m.

Linsey/Brooks Oakley Mary Jo Dilatush

Dec 1 9:15 a.m.

Sharon/George Harris Susan McNulty

Ann Lamar Ashley Scott

Dec 8 8:30 a.m.

Jay/Jennifer Hale Blake/Penny Frazier

11:00 a.m.

Sandy Ozbirn Jacob/Kaitlin Warren

DATE DRIVER RIDER Nov 24 Jerry Davis Bobby Franklin Dec 1 Don Clanton Alexis Robinson Dec 8 James Cook Diane Cook

HOMEBOUND FOOD DELIVERY

Nov 27 No Services or Meal Dec 4 Alexis Robinson, Mary Agnes Kirkland, Jerry/Carol Stigler, Charisse Dec 11 Mickey Bailey, Jerry Davis, Jill Lamar

SUNDAY MORNING BUS MINISTRY

Sunday, November 24 8:30 Worship Service 9:45 Sunday School 11:00 Worship Service 6:00 Community Thanksgiving Service Monday, November 25 No Boys’ or Girls’ Bible Study Tuesday, November 26 No Children’s Choir

Nov 21 Hayden Eoff, Scott Cleven Nov 22 Beverly Briscoe, Daniel Beuker Nov 23 Eric Briscoe, Brent Warren, Jack Rhodes Nov 24 Sandra McCrary, Gary Newton, Leland Kairit, Shirley Clanton Nov 25 Tom Skelton Nov 27 Ronnie Warren, Nelle Parks, Brady Bozeman Nov 28 O’Neta Thompson, Dick Crawford, James Chapuis, Tyler Parker, Donna Tincher, Eddie Thornsburg, Lynda Coleman, Anna-Katherine Coleman, Ashley Scott Nov 29 Laurie Brown, Christopher Barlow, Mark McCommon Nov 30 Twinkie Moore, Jere Herrington, Judy Robinson

MEMORIALS

Max Frayser—David Hall Larry Baker—Roberta Mayfield Carolyn Powell—Roberta Mayfield, Faye Price Linda Busby—BACC Ladies Golf Association Janice Lance—Sharon Hale, Riley & Bernice Brooks

Wednesday Nov 27 Monitors Refreshments

Nov 26 No Children’s Choir

Dec 3 Liz Burt Jack McMillen Linda Summerford Joyce McMillen

CHILDREN’S CHOIR WORKERS

PRAYER REQUEST BOX

The Prayer Committee has placed a Prayer Request Box in the lobby for any-one who has specific prayer needs. Your requests will be retrieved by one Prayer Committee member, emailed to the other committee members, and will be held confidential.

LAST WEEK’S VISITORS

WMU NEWS

WMU General Meeting, December 2, 2:00 pm Meet at the church; Program, Carolyn Rials

Pat Williams Mission Group, November 21, 12:00 pm Hostess, Martha Byrd; Program, Evelyn McKay

Flowers Circle, December 10, 6:30 p.m.

Hostess, Maxine Barr; Program, Carolyn Rials

Happy Thanksgiving! No Wednesday Services or Meal

A WORD FROM YOUR PASTOR

Friday, November 22nd

Active Group Thanksgiving Meal

at “The Place” in Pope

Leave FBC at 10:30 AM

One verse that Ann has always quoted to our kids (and yes, sometimes to me) is Jeremiah 17:9, “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” How is that for a thought for thanksgiv-ing? However, it is I think at the heart of thanksgiving. What do we choose to grow in our lives? Hearts of complaining or hearts of gratefulness? How about another verse? Philippians 2:14-15, “Do everything without complain-ing and arguing, so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as chil-dren of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse peo-ple.” Wow, does that hit anyone else where you live? Where are you at in com-plaining? Tired of people not doing it your way? Tired of people who get on your nerves? Tired of politics? Tired of . . . You fill in the blank because it is easy to complain. From something as simple as the weather to much more important things in life, we usually have an opinion and when we have an opinion, it is usual-ly followed with a complaint. But what does a complaining heart reveal about ourselves? This is what it re-veals? It reveals a heart that is centered on self and a life marred with sin. God tells us not only to not complain but he also instructs us in 1 Thessalonians 5:18 to “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” But God doesn’t know what I’m going through? Yes, he does. Jesus was tempted in all ways we are yet he did not sin. If you are reading this, please no I am preach-ing more to myself than I am to anyone else. Just the other day, Ann and I had lunch and I was complaining and she said, “Really? That’s how we are going to end our nice lunch together is with you complaining?” A life filled with Christ is also filled with thanksgiving. A life filled with self is filled with complaining and often bitterness. And that is sin! This is a great time of year to focus on Christ and be grateful! Randy

MUSIC NOTES

UPCOMING DATES FOR KIDS

YOUTH NEWS

WEDNESDAY NIGHTS:

5:30pm gym opens; 6-7pm class

5:00-5:45pm

Upstairs Children’s Hall

Contact Mary to volunteer

SAVE THE DATE: November 25—Tunica Aquatic Center, 4K-6th;

sign up at the preschool welcome desk

December 1—Children Ring and Sing, 6pm

December 7 & 8—”Christmas Hangups” Musical

December 8—Breakfast In Bethlehem

December 11—CAs to Providence and Nursing Home

December 18—Christmas parties

• Join us every Wednesday at 6 for youth Worship!

Right now we are going through the book of

Mark and looking at “The Real Jesus.”

• Join us every Monday night for Boys and Girls

Bible Study! Call Brooks for details on location

and times!

• Wednesday Dec. 18th we will have our annual

student Christmas Party! The party will be at the

Church in the youth room!

Heth

57 The Lord is my portion; I promise to keep your words. 58 I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise. 59 When I think on my ways, I turn my feet to your testimonies. 60 I hasten and do not delay to keep your commandments. 61 Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law. 62 At midnight I rise to praise you, because of your righteous rules. 63 I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts. 64 The earth, O Lord, is full of your steadfast love; teach me your statutes!

When I was young, I wasn’t known for cleaning my room when my mother told me to. I would get around to it in my own time, but rarely was it when she told me to. Back then, I wouldn’t have classified my behavior as “disobedient” because I did clean my room…just not immediately when she told me to.

However, I now understand that it was disobedience. As Rick Warren at Saddle-back Church wrote, “Delayed obedience is disobedience.”

My not cleaning my room when my mother told to, was delayed obedience. Yes I did it, when I got around to it. But my delay caused me to be disobedient.

The psalmist wrote in v60…”I hasten and do not delay to keep your command-ments.” He understood that delayed obedience to the Word of God is disobedi-ence…and his prayer was for continued desire and willingness to be obedient immediately.

The point is…don’t put-off doing what you know the Word of God says to do. That may be tithing. It may be forgiving someone, or seeking forgiveness from someone. It may be volunteering to serve in your local church.

We know the Word says to do these things, and by delaying in getting started, we show our disobedience to the Lord.

Don’t put off any longer, what you know the Word of God says to do.

Hebrews 13:17-25 this week, as we wrap up our study of this incredible book!

Love you, and see you Sunday! Bro. Chris

Chris Williams (cwilliams@sfbcms.com) ............................................................................................................................................. Pastor Allen Winstead (awinstead@sfbcms.com) .................................................................................................... Minister of Education/Outreach Randy Chappell (rchappell@sfbcms.com) .......................................................................................................................... Minister of Music Sylvia Alford (salford@sfbcms.com) ........................................................................................................... Church Administrator/Activities Mary Tindle (mtindle@sfbcms.com) ............................................................................................................................... Minister of Children Brooks Ward (bward@sfbcms.com) .................................................................................................................................... Minister of Youth Beverly Russell (brussell@sfbcms.com) ............................................................................................................................................ Finance Susan McNulty (smcnulty@sfbcms.com) .......................................................................................................................... Ministry Assistant Garrett Glaser .......................................................................................................................................................... Director of Food Services Jan Miles (jmiles@sfbcms.com) .........................................................................................................................Weekday Preschool Director Mae Wooten..................................................................................................................................................................................... Custodian Chantay Rhone ......................................................................................................................................................... Serve Ministry Associate

CHURCH STAFF

November:

• 24 Community Thanksgiving Service

• 27– 29 Thanksgiving Holidays - Office Closed December:

• 1 “Hanging of the Green” (one service) at 9:15 a.m.; Sunday School at 10:30 a.m.

Children’s Choirs and bells lead worship at 6pm

• 7 & 8 Music Maker Children’s Choir present “Christmas Hangups” @ 6pm

• 8 “Breakfast in Bethlehem” during Sunday School

• 14 Chancel Choir presentation at 6pm

• 22 Christmas Caroling on Sunday evening

• 24 Grief Service @ 4:30pm; Christmas Eve Service at 5pm

• 24-26 Church offices closed

• 29 Regular morning worship. No evening services or activities

• 31 Office closed January:

• 1 Church offices closed; No supper or evening activities

• 7 Children’s choir and Bells resume

• 8 Regular evening activities resume