Easter Sunday, March 31 - County Line Baptist Church

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RUTHER GLEN, VA 22546
PERMIT NO. 2
COUNTY LINE BAPTIST CHURCH
3461 Ladysmith Road
Ruther Glen, VA 22546
(804) 448-2915 Fax: (804) 448-2755
Dr. Fred R. Skaggs, Pastor
Email: [email protected]
www.countylinebaptist.com
Sunday Worship:
8:30AM Worship Service
9:45AM Sunday School
11:00AM Worship Service
March 248:30AM and
11AM Worship
Services
Easter Sunday, March 31
Sunrise Service is at Bethany Baptist Church
March 287PM Worship
Service
March 3010AM
Egg hunting,
crafts, prizes,
and Christian fun!
8:45AM Breakfast at CLBC’s Family Life Center
9:45AM Sunday School
11AM Musical “It Is Finished”
Everyone is encouraged to bring a flower bloom or some greenery to
decorate the cross on the front lawn. Flowers represent beauty and life,
and the cross is spiritual life to us. (No artificial flowers please)
than an offering envelope and an annual missionsgiving emphasis. When people give to the offering,
100 percent of their gift will be transformed into
missionary salaries and ministry supplies. Those
missionaries and supplies will help others hear the
message of Christ and respond in faith to His offer of
Theme: Whatever It Takes...Reaching the One
salvation. Time and again our missionaries relate how
the offering is their lifeblood. They know that behind
Scripture: Acts 8:26-31 (HCSB)
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An angel of the Lord spoke to Philip: ‘Get up and go each penny given, there is a Southern Baptist who
believes in what they do and are
south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to
affirming the need to equip them to
Gaza.’27So he got up and went. There was an
share the gospel with those who need a
Ethiopian man, a eunuch and high official of
Savior.
Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge
of her entire treasury. He had come to worship in
Each year, we honor the life and work
Jerusalem 28and was sitting in his chariot on his way
of Annie Walker Armstrong (1850home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud. 29The Spirit
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told Philip, ‘Go and join that chariot.’ When Philip
1938) when we give to the annual
ran up to it, he heard him reading the prophet Isaiah, offering for North American missions named after
and said, ‘Do you understand what you’re
her. As a tireless servant of God and a contagious
advocate and supporter of mission efforts throughout
reading?’ 31‘How can I,’ he said, ‘unless someone
the world, Annie Armstrong led women to unite in
guides me?’ So he invited Philip to come up and sit
mission endeavors that ultimately led to the formation
with him.”
of Woman's Missionary Union, for which she served
The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering® is much more as the first corresponding secretary.
2013 Week of Prayer for North American Missions
and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering®
March 3-9, 2013
County Line’s Goal $2,000
STOCK THE PANTRY The pantry is in need of restocking. We would like for the Sunday
School Classes to join with Jean Byrd Circle to restock the pantry. Place items in the kitchen area
marked “PANTRY”. Thanks!
March
canned meats
Adult III
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Easter! What an exciting time in the
life of a Christian!
There will be a
Maundy Thursday
service on March 28th
at 7:00PM.
We will gather to recall Jesus’ last
week on earth before His
crucifixion.
Come celebrate with us
on Easter Sunday at
11:00AM as the
Sanctuary Choir
presents the Easter
musical -
We look forward to our March
meeting on March 22. The Joy
Club officers will prepare
spaghetti. The club will furnish
salad, bread and spaghetti.
Ladies will bring a small
dessert. Everyone is encouraged to wear GREEN.
Our program will be a Hat
Parade (with a special guest).
Everyone is encouraged to wear
an Easter bonnet. Bring food for
the needy.
Everyone 55+ is invited to join us.
“IT IS FINISHED”
Watch the Easter story come alive as the choir
recounts Jesus’ final breath on the cross, celebrates
His victory over death’s Stronghold, and declares
with confidence, “It Is Finished.”
Also on Easter Sunday we will decorate the cross on
the lawn with lovely flowers remembering the
resurrection of our Lord.
Our annual Easter Egg Hunt
hosted by the Nursery
Department will be on
Saturday March 30th from
10a.m.- 12p.m. We will have
crafts, Easter Egg Hunt and prizes. If you would like
to donate candy for the Easter Egg Hunt, please place
it in the box marked "Easter Candy" in the
Fellowship Hall by Sunday March 17th. Any
questions, please call Debbie Lloyd @ 449-6699.
On Saturday, February 9, 8 from County Line
prepared and served 35 at the Thurman Brisben
Shelter. We were so overjoyed that Jean Byrd Circle
had purchased new fry pans for us to scramble the
eggs. It made the job much easier and faster.
Thanks! The shelter will hold 80 and they had only
59. That was good news.
On March 3, we will have Fill A Pick-Up with
canned vegetables, fruits, meats, soups, paper
products. This will be taken to Glory Outreach. We
have been so blessed and we need to share with those
that are less fortunate and the missionaries so they
will be able to spread the word of God.
Jean Byrd Circle will be collecting phone cards for
the veterans and troops. They will be given to the
VA Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. A box will be
located in the education building to place them in.
Thanks for your help.
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AS I SEE IT TODAY
A Pastoral Conversation
Fred R. Skaggs
Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? It’s easy to be a whiner, a person
who sees nothing but bad things happening to us. Their favorite line is usually, “Things just aren’t like
they used to be.” Well, they aren’t, and that’s a good thing most of the time. However, there are some
things, particularly moral and ethical issues, that we need to be careful about not losing. They are worth
paying special attention to cultivating in every generation. One of my great concerns is the question I’ve
already stated above. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions?
More and more we are observing the deterioration of common sense and character in our justice system.
Here are three examples of the failure of common sense and our justice system, but they are also
exemplary of many Americans who, rather than taking responsibility for their behavior and decisions they
make, desperately want to blame someone else for their problems, and, unfortunately, in our society it
often pays off. I have many more illustrations like these in my files, but let me give you just three
examples of such “happenings” here in America.
A jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania $113,500 after
she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms.
Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. “Who’s to blame for that?”
is my question.
Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell
from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was
trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the
night club had to pay her $12,000....and, of course, plus dental expenses. .
And this is my favorite. Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, purchased a new 32-foot
Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home from an Oklahoma University football game, she drove
on to the freeway, set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go to the back of the
Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and
overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the Owner’s Manual
that she couldn't actually leave the driver's seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury
awarded her $1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result
of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home, I assume.
Does this kind of behavior disturb you? Is there anything right about this? Where do we begin to restore
personal responsibility to the mindset of our culture? It’s worth talking about, don’t you think?
Answer: D (See Mark 15:33.)
When Jesus was crucified, over what time period did darkness cover
the earth?
A. 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
B. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
C. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
D. 12 noon to 3 p.m.
OUR MINISTRY LEADERS
Pastor
Dr. Fred R. Skaggs
Music Leader
Barbara Satterwhite
Youth Leader
Administrative Assistant Susan Proffit
Pianist
Debbie Jones
Sunday School Director
Deacons
Dennis Martin (Chairperson), Debbie Jones, Martha Samuel, Linda Carter, Joan Carter and James Carter
Mission Leaders
Baptist Women: Joyce Wilson, Children in Action: Margaret Lloyd
Treasures
Garret Lewis and Linda Carter
Childcare Coordinator
Debbie Lloyd
Audio-Visional Ministry Garret and Christine Lewis
Head Ushers
8:30AM11AM- Rodney Mundy
Trustees
Michael Barnett, Michael Satterwhite, Mason Keyser and William R. Satterwhite
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Coming in APRIL
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Office Closed
Jean Byrd Circle
The Lord’s Supper/Children in Action
CLBC serves breakfast at Thurman
Brisben
Blood pressure check
Newsletter Deadline
Men’s Prayer Breakfast
JOY Club
Quarterly Business Meeting
Sun
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Peggy Satterwhite
Patti Smith
David Napier
Kitty Trainham
Lydia Wright
Karen Flaherty
Debbie Lloyd
Winfield Wilson
Elizabeth Carter
Kendra Smith
Katie Detrick
Wed
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Thu
3/31
James Carter
Robert Upshaw
Billy Satterwhite
Nick Mundy
Amanda Mundy
Hayden Pugh
Lois Smith
Sydney Hall
Cindy Schaefer
Carroll Ernest
David Tate
Stephen Melson
Fri
Sat
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7PM-volleyball
Sunrise at Bethany
8:30AM-Breakfast in
FLC
9:45AM-Sunday
School
11AM-Worship
Service
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9:45AM-Children in
Action
5PM-Youth
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6:30PM-Bowling
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10AM-Jean Byrd
Circle
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7PM-Prayer Meeting
7:30PM-Sanctuary Choir
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8PM-Agape Bells
7PM-volleyball
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Daylight Saving Time
Starts
9AM-Blood Pressure
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6:30PM-Bowling
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8PM-Agape Bells
7PM-volleyball
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8PM-Agape Bells
12PM-JOY Club
7PM-volleyball
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7:30PM-Sanctuary Choir
5PM-Youth
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6:30PM-Bowling
12:15PM-Deacon Meeting
2PM-Church Council
5PM-Youth
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7AM-Men’s Prayer
Breakfast
7:30PM-Sanctuary Choir
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6:30PM-Bowling
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7:30PM-Sanctuary Choir
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5PM-Youth
7PM-Worship Service
7PM-Volleyball
10AM-Easter Egg
Hunt