August - MemorialChurch

Vol. 55 Edition 8
The
MATTHEW 5:14
august 2014
Messenger
“Here am I. Send me!”
Upcoming sermons
Dear Saints,
Welcome to another edition of the Memorial
Baptist Church’s Messenger newsletter. This is the
beginning of the eighth month of the fourteenth
year after Y2K (angst remembrance) or as
everyone else likes to put it…August 2014. This
year is clipping by pretty fast so if you are going to
do something this summer, you better get after it.
I would like to take a moment and welcome on
board our newest staff member. David Mace has agreed to be our interim
music and worship leader while we seek the direction and person that God
has for us. David is a talented musician and worship leader. God always knows
our needs even before we ask. I am very grateful to David and his family for
their willingness to come and serve our Lord here at Memorial. Welcome
aboard David and the entire Mace family!
Colossians 3:15 says, “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which
indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful.” Our Youth Pastor Jordan
Jones is doing a great job leading our youth and college ministries. Special
thanks are in order to folks like Brian and Tamara Massingill as well as Ray and
Carrol Dubcak who volunteer assisting Pastor Jones by giving of their time
and resources in both of these areas, respectively. We are excited about the
possibilities that God is giving us for continued growth in these constantly
fertile fields.
Our Children’s minister Kacie Hill has been platinum in her ambitious hunt
for new children and families. She also has been investing in some great
relationships with our children and their parents. Way to go, Kacie! Keep up the
good work. Journey Kids will be kicking off again, after school starts back up,
so be ready to volunteer, and get involved!
august 3
Holding On to the
Teachings
august 10
Receiving What Only
God Can Give
august 17
Warning the World for
Christ
august 24
Caring Enough to
Confront
august 31
Saying the Blessing
Laurie Deaver, our ministry assistant and financial secretary, has also been busy
this year and is looking forward this month to taking a week or two of much
needed vacation. I hope she comes back to work after she gets done being
refreshed and renewed!
We have some other paid staff and many volunteers who make valuable
contributions each week to see that everything works and continues to
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look and taste great. People like Karen Kuryla, and Vicki
Hurley, Mary Hermosillo, Earl Zellmer, Dick Stafford, Joel
Shumate, Robert Trevino, our nursery workers, homebound
visitors, Sunday School teachers, our deacons, our various
committees, our sound booth guys, instrumentalists, and
many, many others. What I am trying to say is that…I just
love Memorial Baptist Church and thank you for all that each
of you do to serve the body of Christ!
new members
Corey stewart
409 A East Zenith
Temple, TX 76501
(432) 847-9858
The best way to get involved and to know people is to
invest in getting to know our church through a small group.
Coming to worship is absolutely great and solidly edifying,
but if you want to meet people and get to know our church
family, it’s going to happen in a small group.
Michael &
Charlene Cates
5937 Fairhill Drive
Temple, TX 76502
(512) 769-6514
Join our membership, get involved, come to Sunday School,
invest in prayer meeting, or serve on one of our many
committees and I know that God will bless you with new
and rewarding relationships with your brothers and sisters
in Christ. It is a pleasure to serve here as your pastor. I love
y’all!
Ridge adams, Senior Pastor
announcements
— HOMEBOUND MINISTRY
— WOMEN’S ministry
The members of Memorial who deliver meals on Wednesday
nights are very blessed to spend time with faithful members
who have served our Church in by-gone years. This week we
are honoring only one of these members, but in the months
to come be sure to meet and enjoy our other homebound
members.
The Ladies Bible Study will not be meeting during the
summer.
— Evangelism Training
Want to see lost people come to a saving knowledge of
Jesus? Interested in learning how to tell others about the
“Good News”? Want to be a soul winner? Then you need to
contact Joel Shumate. Learn how to share your faith with
others. Matthew 28:19 “therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit” Pray about it and ask Him what
He would have you do.
— mission trips 2015
WANTING TO SERVE GOD IN THE UTTER MOST PARTS OF
THE WORLD? We are looking at the possibility of a couple
of Mission trips for next year.
The 1st possibility is for Nicaragua in late June or early July.
We are taking a break for the summer & will resume at a later
date, to be determined.
The 2nd possibility is for Kentucky in early August
Please let Joel Shumate know if you are interested in either
one of these trips!
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announcements
— round up sunday
HIGH ATTENDANCE DAY
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:30 AM
Sunday school
10:45 AM
Morning Worship
— women of faith 2014
Come join us as we have high attendance Sunday and move
up to new classes!
If you are interested in attending Women of Faith
Conference, September 19 – 20 in Dallas, please attend the
luncheon on Sunday, August 3rd. For further information,
please contact Sara Looker or Debra Eaton.
— journey kids back
to school party
Journey Kids Back to School Party
— ctlc
Wednesday, August 27
Sunday, August 31st, we will take up a special offering for
CTLC. Please prayerfully consider what God would have you
give to support this mission.
6:00 PM
— new student fair
Begins September 7!!
— bible drill/bible buddies
Temple College
University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Monday, August 18
Friday, August 22
11:00 AM
We will be meeting new students and inviting them to
attend our church.
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thank you notes
with Jesus Christ. Your gift allows us to continue offering
hope.
Through Baby Bottle Boomerang, friends like you opened
your hearts and your pocketbooks and have given Hope over
$26,000 this year!
Thank you so very much for joining God in His mighty
work at Hope Pregnancy Centers. What a blessing you have
been!
With much gratitude!
Karen Wistrand
Executive Director of Hope Pregnancy Center
Dear Church Family,
Thank you for all the support of prayers, monetary gifts,
and encouraging words to go and tell others about Jesus on
the Kentucky Mission Trip. I pray that all who have a heart for
Missions may experience a trip to Lynch, Kentucky to serve
God. We praise God who is in control of all of our days and
how He does His mighty works in and through us. May Jesus
be seen in us, the church unified and God Glorified. In His
Grace & Peace,
William, Cheryl and Bethany Prater
Dear Rev Adams and Memorial Baptist Family,
I am so very grateful to you and your congregation
for participating in our 2014 Baby Bottle Boomerang
campaign. Your special gift of $1,380.04 will help give hope
for many young women who find themselves in unplanned
pregnancies.
Dear Church Family,
Thank you for your prayers, support, love and the gift card to
Tulip’s Nails. You have all been there for me. I thank God every
day for my church family and know that I am praying for each
and every one of you.
In His service, Laurie Deaver
Not only do we offer our clients practical information and lifeaffirming resources, we offer them the hope and life that can
only be found through a loving, unconditional relationship
august BIRTHDAYS
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Frances Palasoto
Don Willitt
Norma Monell
Vera Scott
Davy Hill
David Daniel
Shirley Sladek
Corey Stewart
Stanley Tomek
Olie Fischer
Trey Sharp
Iladene Hejl
Jeannie Persky
Nancy Molina
Michael Conche
Betty Zellmer
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Wayne Cobb
Ava Knorr
Leo Salazar
Sharla Carroll
Crystal Cain
Josh Burtchell
Taylor Meyer
Madison Carvalho
Paul Mitchell
Robert Trevino
Crystal Mullis
Bruce Waldock
Bill Blankenship
Matthew Cline
Lee Froebel
Troy Rickabaugh
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Courtney Crane
Ruchie Teague
Kim Cook
Dick Stafford
John Mixell
Susan Seiter
Doris Norwood
Stephen Sapp
Ed Mace
Jimmy Gross
Nicholas Hernandez
Helen Spurlin
Laura Weatherford
Dece Vanderbogart
Aaron Sharp
Ruth Bridges
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Leonard Farr
Emeraldine Fleming
Carl Jurca
Sandra Wilson
Christine Gray
William Buswell
Justin Kanne
Laura Childs
Dylan Sebek
Angus King
Kanisha Jarosek
Robert Slowik
Gary Meyer
Jared Burtchell
Please let the office know if we don’t have your birthday listed, you have moved, changed names, changed a number,
changed an E-mail address, or changed anything for that matter. We would like to be able to keep you up to date with
information and stay up to date with you!
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coming home
During the first week of July we took the
High school and Junior High students to
Youth camp at Camp Zephyr in Corpus
Christi. What an amazing week! The
students experienced an incredible
time of growth and commitment! They
engaged with other student believers in Bible Study, recreation
and wonderful times of praising God together through song!
The theme of the week was Identity, specifically our identity
in Christ as a new creation. (2 Corinthians 5:17) The students
received the Word of God through great teaching by Youth
Pastor from Round Rock, Texas, Allen Frans.
Several of our students made commitments to follow Jesus in
Baptism, while others committed to sharing their faith with their
friends and being a light in the darkness! Watching our students
respond was such a wonder and joy for the student leaders, my
wife, and me!
And now we have come home. I’ve often heard of camp referred
to as a “mountain-top experience”. Students go away and come
back from camp ready to go and fired up… and the fire dies. So
we chalk that up to mountain-top experiences and “camp-highs”
and we shrug it off never asking ourselves if there is more to it
than that!
I see in our students, however, a desire to change; to grow and
be different. We blame the lack of change in our students on the
world. We say that they get energized at camp, and come back to
the “Real World” and that is what steals their fire away. But what
if it’s the fact that they get back to their church and nothing has
changed here? What if it’s that our students desire to grow, but
we don’t give them the opportunity to grow?
Our students spend a whole week praising God with the music
of their generation and even more importantly, with people who
are interested in investing in them directly because they are the
next generation of believers to shine as lights in a dark world.
And then they get back, and their church is the same as it has
ever been! Who will be glad to share in this next generations
praises of God?! Who will be overjoyed to share in making them
disciples of Jesus!? The Youth Pastor can’t do it on his own. It
takes a whole church being involved and interested in the
discipleship of this generation of young people! Who will be
invested enough to make the sacrifices necessary to connect
with this generation so that the fire doesn’t die when they return
home from camp!? Is it you?!
Jordan Jones, Student Pastor
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be one, as the body of
Christ
As we come to serve and to worship together, my prayer for our church family
is that we love each other as Christ loves us. Paul says in Romans 15:5-6, “May
the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude
of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and
one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” As we
begin to minister, our goal is not to have the best choir in town, the most polished praise band, or
the newest, chart-topping music. Our desire is to be one, as the body of Christ, and to glorify our
God. Jesus prayed in John 17, “That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in
you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them
the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to
complete unity. My family is blessed to be a part of the work that God is doing through MBC, and we have witnessed your love
for each other in action. Thank you for loving us as Christ loves. Let us continue to grow in unity, and to love the people of our
community.
david mace, interim music minister
on the road
August is almost upon us. My girls and I will be
taking a week off for vacation in August. They are
counting the days and have begun to mentally
pack! We are planning on going to Amarillo,
Groom, Fort Worth, Waco, and Glen Rose, Texas.
The 5th & 6th grade Sunday school class of Memorial Baptist Church had
the honor of visiting Dorothy Prinzing. What a delightful visit this was.
Cailin Powell and Emaleigh Layton found out that she has been a member
for almost 80 years!!! They could not believe it. They found this out in
addition to the many other questions they had for her. On her fireplace
she has a small toy stove. This is the same stove that her Dad got her after
he took her to the dentist. If you get a chance to visit her, ask her about
the toy stove. We will be visiting someone else this month, who will it be?
Laurie deaver, finance
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summer happenings
Greetings Church Family!!!!
Summer is almost over! Which means students go back to school and routines begin! This summer has
been a blast. iCan camp was a fun packed program that each child had a thirst for. VBS was a huge success
-- 9 kids accepted Christ! At the block party we baptized kids, youth, and a family. Plus many members
expressed a new found joy of hanging out with our church family beyond the 4 walls of our beautiful
building. We took 5 young ladies to Kidz Kamp. None of them have ever been to camp before and they all want to go back next
year!
As the summer passes I have seen some God changes in our church. One
is community growth. We have a team going, knocking on doors, and
praying for our neighbors. We have seen more baptisms this summer
than during the school year. Plus we have some new fantastic members in
our church. Another God change I’ve seen is people stepping up. Maybe
members have always done this and I’m just now seeing it, but to me it
seems like more and more people are finding ways to serve in our church
and being a part of His kingdom purpose. Another God change I see,
especially in the children’s ministry, is the amount of seeking happening.
I have had many questions asked of me about salvation, what happens
to people who don’t believe, what is sin, how do you stop sinning after
you have accepted Christ, what is baptism, does baptism save you, what
is the Holy Spirit, and the list goes on and on and on. These kids are
searching for answers! I’m so happy to be part of a church family that can
answer them in truth. I can’t wait to see how these God sized changes
are going to be played out in His kingdom work this coming fall season
and into next year. We must remember to always keep God as our focus
and purpose. He is the one who gets all the glory and honor, for without
Him nothing is possible. This summer wouldn’t have been as awesome
without Him! Go GOD!
Living to share His story,
Kacie hill, children’s minister
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Wanted:
Pre-School (ages 3-4)
Sunday School teacher
starting August 24th
august CALENDAR
3rd
12th
15th
16th
18th
22nd
23rd
24th
25th
31st
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
College Scholarship Applications Due
12:00 pm Women of Faith Information Luncheon
6:00 PM Finance Meeting
7:00 PM Deacons Meeting
Church office closed
9:00 AM Good News Trainin
@ Skyline Baptist Church (Killeen)
Student Fair Temple College
11:00 AM New Student Fair @ UMHB
9:30 AM Feed My Sheep
Promotion Sunday: Round Up Texas
6:00 PM Church Conference
School Begins
CTLC 5th Sunday Monetary Offering
SUNDAY MORNING
8:45 A.M. - Prayer with Pastor
9:30 A.M. - Sunday School
10:45 A.M. - Worship
SUNDAY EVENING
6:00 P.M. - Worship
TUESDAY
7:00 A.M. - Prayer Meeting
9:00 A.M. - Staff Meeting
WEDNESDAY
We will not have Zumba from August 5 through August 26.
It will begin again on August 29 at 6:00 pm
4:45 P.M. - Homebound
Meal Delivery
5:00 P.M. - Fellowship Meal
6:00 P.M. - WW4Kids
Prayer Meeting
6:00 P.M. - Youth Activities
august USHERS
Ray Dubcak
Joe Hellmueller
Willie Prater
Robert Howe
Mallory Miller
Robert Trevino
Mike Eaton
Bill Blankenship
Office Hours:
Mon-Thur 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Friday 8:30 AM - Noon
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Dear Church Family,
Thank you so much for the wonderful commissioning and send off party you gave us. Your generosity was
overwhelming and a blessing to us in so many ways. We were able to cover all our living expenses here in
the states for the last month and a half as well as expenses for our first month here in China before my first
pay check. We also greatly enjoyed our fellowship. It was so nice to get to hang out with everyone, all the
food was delicious and the hospitality committee did a great job with set up and decorations. Finally, thank
you for the commitment y’all made to support us through prayer. This is the most important thing and we
appreciate it so much. Y’all are in our thoughts and Prayers. We already miss you. Keep loving God, loving
others, and serving the world with everything you’ve got. May the grace of Christ our Savior, the love of God
our Father, and the fellowship of the Spirit be with you.
Thanks and Blessings,
Rick, Trish, Zeke, and Obie Emerson
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kentucky
mission trip
The following church members were a
part of the mission team to Lynch, KY
from July 5th thru 12th.
Julie Deaver, Ron McGill, Lori McGill, Robert Trevino, Olivia
Trevino, Hanna Trevino, PaulGonzales, Arianna Gonzales,
Cailin Powell, Bruce Waldock, Willie Prater, Cheryl Prater,
Bethany Prater, Kevin Looker, Kayleah Trevino, Jim McDougall,
Monica McDougall, Wilna Shumate and Joel Shumate. The
team, like a church body, consisted of people with different
gifts including those who prepared our meals (Kevin and
his assistant Jim), those who worked in construction (Bruce,
Willie, Robert and Paul) and those who spent time with the
kids in the park (Wilna headed up this group­Kayleah and
Hanna told Bible stories­Olivia, Julie and Cailin helped with
the games­Bethany headed up the songs­Lori, Cheryl and
Monica helped to chaperone and corral the kids and also
visited with parents, grandma’s of the kids and others in the
neighborhood) Ron spent lots of the time running errands and
helped with construction­I helped with construction, shared
the gospel with the kids and tried to keep everything running
as smoothly as possible. Each person had a definite job and
everyone did their job to the best of their abilities.
Colossians 3:23 “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord, not for human masters.”
Little did I know that God had been working to set this trip up
in such a way that would take care of all that we were about
to experience. Only 2 hours into our trip we had a fuel pump
problem with the church bus. After getting it diagnosed and
determining that we could not go any further in it, we had to
make some decisions. Several phone calls were made to see
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if it was possible to borrow another church’s bus or van without
any favorable results. Since it was a holiday weekend finding
the proper vehicles to haul all the people and pull a trailer was
also a problem. We finally found 2 vehicles that could seat a
large number of people comfortably. A team member, who had
decided not to go due to extenuating circumstances, decided
to join us giving us a third vehicle to pull the trailer. GOD IS
FAITHFUL !!!!!!!
I want to mention here that the team members did not gripe or
whine while sitting around waiting to see what could be worked
out but spent time in fellowship and I saw some of our team
praying with other customers at the repair shop. We hit the road
about 5 hours later making our first day on the road long with
not much sleep for the team. As I gave the room keys out I ask all
to report for breakfast in just a few hours­to which I had favorable
results. The next day was uneventful and we arrived at our
destination giving praise to God for a safe trip.
Again I want to stop here and say thank you to those who drove
during this trip, noting that we had no accidents and as it turned
out, we needed the extra vehicles to take care of all our ministry
needs.
We stayed in an old hospital that had been converted to a
place for volunteers to stay, with pretty good accommodations.
Showers had to be scheduled and the men’s and women’s
bathrooms had to be shared because no one had their own
private bathroom. We did have our own kitchen and we ate like
royalty thanks to Chef Kevin and his assistant Jim who spent
long hours preparing our meals. We had a large room where
we spent time each morning with a short devotional. At night
we would have a longer devotional, sing songs and spend time
sharing what had happened during the day and what we saw
God doing while we were there. We saw 12 kids accept Jesus
as their personal Lord and Savior during our visit along with 1
very special young man. One day as we were in the park I saw a
young man standing out in the middle of a field all by himself
a little ways from where the kids were playing games. I felt the
Holy Spirit prompting me to go over and share the gospel with
him. I went and introduced myself and after visiting with Derrick,
who was 18, I asked if he knew where he would spend eternity ­to
which he said “no.” I told him that I knew for sure where I would
spend eternity and asked him if he would like to know for sure?
He said he did, so I told him about Jesus and how He died for him
and about the forgiveness he could have through faith in Jesus.
He prayed and accepted the free gift of eternal life as it began to
rain on us. It reminded me of how God washes our sins away and
makes us white as snow.
Joel 2:32 “everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved”
Wednesday night we went to a small local church and listened
to Lonnie Riley share about how God was making a difference
through the ministry which God had given him to start in Lynch,
Ky. His message boiled down to this­do what God directs you to
do, don’t worry about who­, what, when, or where­God will take
care of the details if we will only take the first step. Thursday
afternoon we had the opportunity to see a little of the history of
Lynch and then we packed for home. Thursday evening we were
blessed to be able to minister to a couple and their children. He
is associated with Meridzo Ministries but they live by faith and
depend on God for all their needs. Our team gave them a love
offering along with any food and other items we had left over.
Our trip home was uneventful, arriving back home safe and
sound. One last God story­! I had budgeted for some construction
materials but we were blessed to have almost everything on the
job when we got there. As a result of not having to purchase
construction materials, the extra cost of the rental vehicles was
taken care of in advance by God!
Philippians 4:19 “and my God will meet all your needs according
to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus” Thank you Memorial for
sending us and praying for us,
joel shumate, Team Leader/Missions
Chairman
CTLC
Food needs: Macaroni & Cheese, rice,
pasta (1-2 lb size), dried beans (1-2 lb
size), ramen noodles
Personal products: Hotel toiletries,
razors, shaving cream, shampoo,
feminine hygiene, deodorant,
toothpaste and toothbrushes, baby
wipes
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There’s a
adults
Place
for everyone
children
youth/college
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
Sunday 9:30 a.m.
Sunday School or
Discipleship Classes
Sunday School
Sunday School
Sunday 10:45 a.m.
Sunday 10:45 a.m.
Morning Worship
Morning Worship
1-2-3 Kids
Children’s Church
Sunday 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday 6-7:30 p.m.
Evening Worship
Evening Worship
WW4Kids (K-6th)
Sunday 10:45 a.m.
(Meet us in room 2)
ministries
Wednesday 5:00 p.m.
4th Saturday of Each Month
Fellowship Meal
Wednesday 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting &
Bible Study
Wednesday 6:00 p.m.
Youth Bible Study
Tuesday 7:00 a.m.
Prayer Meeting
Sunday 6:00 p.m.
Texas Baptist Men serve
food at Feed My Sheep
(Meet us at the church
kitchen at 9:30 a.m.)
Wednesday, 5:00 p.m.
Deliver food to our
homebound members.
(Drivers are needed!)
infants + toddlers
Child care for infants and
toddlers is available for
Sunday School, Morning
& Evening Worship,
Choir Practice, Prayer
Meetings, Bible Study
and Special Events
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