Newsletter - First Baptist Church

OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE WEEK
Sunday, November 6
8:25 A.M.
Orchestra Rehearsal
9:00-9:30 A.M.
TV Sunday School Lesson, Ch. 44, 44.1 & 112
9:15 A.M.
Sunday School
10:30 A.M.
Morning Worship
5:15 P.M.
Discipleship Classes
5:30 P.M.
ALIVE Student Choir, Kids Praise & Worship Ministry
6:30 P.M.
Evening Worship
Monday, November 7
7:30 A.M. First Baptist to Prayer Statement Around the Capitol/Jackson
8:00 A.M.
Chair Aerobics/FLC
Deacon Greeters
for November
Larry Littlejohn
Bobby Moore
Dan Skinner
Travis Wiseman
Deacon of the Week
November 6-12
Larry Littlejohn
534-8448
EXTENDED SESSION - November 6
(Morning Worship)
Bed Babies
Marsha Roberts & Morgan Stepp
Older Babies
Melinda & Mary Lauren Cook
Toddlers
Paige & Jeffrey Cook
2 Yr. Olds
Tricia & Derek Stevens
FIRST NEWS
3 & 4 Yr. Olds
Lyndie & Brad Scott
Tuesday, November 8
7:00 A.M.
11:00 A.M.
6:00-8:00 P.M.
GAP for YOUth Prayer Breakfast/FLC
55+ Meeting & Lunch/FLC
ESL Classes/Fellowship Hall
Bed Babies
Paige Cook
(Evening Worship)
1 & 2 Yr. Olds
Marsha Roberts
3 & 4 Yr. Olds
Rickey Roberts
Wednesday, November 9
8:00 A.M.
Chair Aerobics/FLC
9:45 A.M.
Senior Adult Choir/Union County Health & Rehab
5:30 P.M.
Acteens
6:00-7:30 P.M.
AWANA
6:00 P.M.
“Insanity of God” Simulcast/Sanctuary
Thursday, November 10
9:30-11:00 A.M.
3:00-5:30 P.M.
Friday, November 11
8:00 A.M.
10:00 A.M.- 2:00 P.M.
6:00-9:00 P.M.
Volume 48 No. 43
RETIRE THE
Ladies Explorers Bible Study/Room 101W
FLC Open (Pickup Grades 1-5 at School)
Chair Aerobics/FLC
Home School Co-op/Church & FLC
Rescue 1:27 Foster Care Certification Training/
Fellowship Hall
Saturday, November 12
8:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Rescue 1:27 Foster Care Certification Training/
Fellowship Hall
7:00 P.M.
Joe Gilley & Haley Forsythe Wedding & Reception/The
Franklin Courtyard, 201 Franklin St., Corinth, MS
First Baptist is collecting bags of flour for the Good Samaritan Center during November. Please place your donation in
the designated box behind the choir loft, on the west side. If
you’d like to volunteer at the Good Samaritan Center, please
call 534-0931.
FIRST NEWS
Published weekly at New Albany, MS, by the First Baptist Church, 200
East Bankhead, New Albany, MS., 662-534-5812. Periodical #193160
postage paid at New Albany, MS. Post Master, send address change to
First Baptist Church, 200 East Bankhead St., New Albany, MS 38652.
First Baptist Church
Greg Spencer - Pastor
Paul Sizemore - Associate Pastor/Minister of Education
Mark Mathis - Minister of Music/Senior Adults
Chris Moore - Minister of Students
DEBT
DATES TO REMEMBER
November 6
Orphan Sunday
November 13
Deacons Meeting-7:15 a.m./FLC,
KidLife-10:30 a.m./Room 101W,
Youth Scavenger Hunt-3 p.m.,
Cole Owen’s Licensing-6:30 p.m./Sanctuary
November 16
Senior Adult Choir-9:45 a.m./New Albany Health & Rehab,
Monthly Business Meeting-6:30 p.m./Sanctuary
November 20
KidLife-10:30 a.m./Room 101W,
George & Sandra Gafford’s 50th Wedding
Anniversary Celebration-1:30-3 p.m./foyer,
Missions Committee Meeting-5 p.m./Conference Room,
Community Thanksgiving Service-6 p.m./Victory Life Center
November 23
No Activities, Prayer Meeting or Choir
November 27
Lottie Moon March for Missions-10:30 a.m./Sanctuary,
WMU Guest Speaker-6:30 p.m./Sanctuary,
WMU Soup Supper-7:30 p.m./Fellowship Hall,
No “First News” Newsletter
EXTENDED SESSION
Wednesday, November 9
Bed Babies
Lisa Topper
1 & 2 Yr. Olds
Lorie Keener
DAY
Sunday, November 6
We ask that you pray as to what
you can give toward paying
off the Education Annex.
November 6, 2016
NOVEMBER USHERS
Family,
I can’t even begin to thank you all for what
MINISTER OF
STUDENTS
you did for the Fall Festival! You really
outdid yourselves. We had almost 600 people on campus
that night according to the number of cards that were
filled out. Thanks for what you do as the body! You
were a huge encouragement to me that night, just like
you always are.
We will be having the annual scavenger hunt for canned
goods on Sunday, the 13th. This will start at 3pm. We
have signups for different items that you are willing to
donate, so that students will know where to go. This is to
help stock the Good Samaritan Center. Please have your
student here no later than 3, so that we can get started
quickly.
D-Now weekend will be over the MLK holidays. We
will be going from Friday night through Sunday morning. The cost will be $25. I’m looking forward to this
weekend, and I’m asking you to be in prayer for it in the
two months to come. We are praying that God will do
huge things in the lives of our students!
IN Christ,
chris
EAST
Mike Conway
Chuck Cooper
David Grisham
WEST
Michael Brown
Charles Kitchens
Michael McDonald
Charles McVay
Move your clocks back
1 hour Saturday night,
November 5!
55+
MINISTRY
SENIOR ADULT CHOIR
The church will be taking a group, and leaving at
7:30am. If you would like to attend, please call
Diane at the church office 534-5812 to reserve
your spot, as there will only be a certain number of
seats available. (Sponsored by the WMU & the
MBCB)
Wednesday, November 9
9:45 A.M.
Union County Health & Rehab
55+ TRIP
Branson, MO
December 6-8
Sunday, November 6 &
Wednesday, November 9
Dave Kitchens
55+
Tuesday, November 8
11:00 A.M.
Family Life Center
(If you need to sign up or cancel, call
the church office by 12 noon Monday.)
Wednesday, November 9
6:00-7:30 P.M.
Church/FLC
If you have any questions, feel free to contact
Larry Littlejohn (538-1840).
Visitors - 16
Financial Report
Weekly Requirement
Budget Offering
Designated Offering
Total Offering
$20,455.00
$6,776.00
$24,859.50
$31,635.50
Generations Of Generosity
Given This Week
$22,860.50
Year-To-Date
$194,728.07
Outstanding Debt
$162,895.68
Acts 1:8 Fund
Give This Week
Year-To-Date
Yearly Goal
$1,974.00
$110,475.70
$105,000.00
RESCUE
1:27
Friday, November 11
6:00-9:00 P.M. &
Saturday, November 12
8:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M.
First Baptist, New Albany
DEADLINE TO TURN IN
YOUR SHOE BOXES
Sunday, November 20
Pickup a brochure and shoe box to fill
with items listed inside. Remember to
include a $7 donation for each shoe
box to help with transportation and
delivery. Also, NO used or damaged
items; war-related or military figures;
seeds; chocolate or food; liquids or
lotions; medications or vitamins;
breakable items such as snowglobes
or glass containers; aerosol cans.
First Baptist W.M.U. is sending
blank Christmas cards to the inmates of one of our state prisons in
Mississippi. This will enable them
to send Christmas cards to their
family/friends. If you would like
to donate some cards, please bring
them this Sunday, October 30, and
leave in the church foyer marked
“cards”.
Sign-up on the church
Facebook page!
TAKE NOTE!
All Current Committee
Chairmen, Church Staff and
Organization Chairs
Please submit your 2017 Budget recommendations to Melissa Dunnam, Financial Ministry Assistant, no later than November 7, 2016.
New Members - 0
FOSTER CARE
CERTIFICATION
TRAINING
MEETINGS
SCHEDULE UNLOCKING &
LOCKING FIRST BAPTIST
SUNDAY SCHOOL REPORT
October 30, 2016
YTD Avg.
On-Site
410
420
Nursing Home
23
15
Homebound
10
11
Jail
23
25
Total
466
471
REMINDER
Joe Gilley and Haley Forsythe will
unite in marriage on Saturday, November 12 at 7 p.m. at the Franklin Courtyard, 201 Franklin St., Corinth, MS,
with a reception to follow.
INVITATION
Simulcast
Wednesday, November 9
6:00 P.M.
First Baptist Sanctuary
For more information and tickets,
contact the center at 534-7061.
You’re invited to George and Sandra
Gafford’s 50th Wedding Anniversary
Celebration on Sunday, November 20
from 1:30-3:00 p.m. in the First Baptist foyer. No gifts please!
First Baptist Church wishes to extend
Christian sympathy to the family of:
Donald Peters
(brother of Tommy Peters).
FBC THANKSGIVING
LUNCH
Sunday, November 20
12:00 P.M.
Family Life Center
Please sign up in the foyer.