The Focus - First Baptist Church
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The Focus - First Baptist Church
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH GriefShare begins new sessions on September 13! 800 Thompson Street, Ashland, VA 23005 (804) 798-9014 Fax: 804-798-9043 GriefShare is a special weekly seminar and support group. We want to help you rebuild your life after losing a loved one. We know it hurts and want to help you through the difficult days ahead. We meet weekly on Sundays from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM in Room # 216. Please call Joyce Parsley at 798-4118 if you are interested or just want additional information. Email: [email protected] Website: firstbaptistashland.org FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH STAFF Josh Hayden, Senior Pastor The Focus “Transforming people for Christ in Ashland, in the world, one person at a time” August 23, 2015 [email protected] Bill Ellis, Interim Associate Pastor [email protected] Steve Law, Church Administrator [email protected] Betty Stadnick, Parish Nurse [email protected] Crystal Hopper, CCDC Director [email protected] Joanie Tompkins, Ministry Assistant [email protected] Lisa Reckley, Ministry Assistant [email protected] Ken LeFevre, FOCUS Editor [email protected] Greg Dean, Interim Organist [email protected] Gabe Fowler, Part-time Youth Council Asst. [email protected] Calling all Kids! The Train is Coming! Noteworthy News of the Week FBC Ashland, under the direction of our new Senior Pastor Josh Hayden, is excited to announce our new children’s experience KidExpress. We’ll bring together Kindergarten through 5th grade students to sing, dance, perform and worship with a goal of enriching the Ashland community and lives of our children in a fun, supportive and engaging environment. We hope you will see the value in this program and bring your children on Wednesday nights beginning in September! FBC Ashland Children’s Drama/Music Team "Christmas In September" Fall Session - Wednesday, Sept. 9 thru Wednesday, Dec. 16 Spring Session - Wednesday, Jan. 6 thru Wednesday, May 18 Times: 5:45 PM to 6:15 PM - Missions and Snack Supper 6:15 PM to 6:45 PM - Drama/Music 1st Half 6:45 pm to 7:30 PM - Drama/Music 2nd Half Children’s Drama/Music Team contact Information: Lydia Collins - 804-363-8085 or [email protected] Laura Ross - 804-363-2268 or [email protected] Tim Robertson - 804-363-5114 or [email protected] Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 3 for our annual Christmas Auction to benefit our great shoebox ministry. Dinner will cost $5 per person and tickets will be sold during the weeks before the event. The dinner will start at 5:30 PM and the auction will start at 6:30 PM. As always Santa will join us. Please think about what you or your group would like to donate to the auction. Make a tree, a wreath, or some type of table top holiday decoration. We will auction off homemade cakes again this year. All decorations for the auction are due on Tuesday, September 1 and the cakes are due the morning of the Auction on Welcome to our church September 3rd. Contact Anne Leigh Klinger or Debbie Powell if you family, Aryanna Robinson. have questions. Tickets are now on sale for the dinner! You can buy your tickets TODAY at the church’s Shoebox Display table or during the week from the church office. Cost is $5.00 a person. We will be serving a delicious Pasta dinner. Get your tickets before September 3rd! Call Debbie Powell with questions at 798-7961. Prayer Concerns Our Members: Chris Christiansen - Memorial Reg.; Bill Ager (Please call before Visiting), Marilyn Ellis, Claire Durham, Linda Bateman, Frank Cassell, Greg Buckley, Phyllis Booth, Jim & Eleanor Smith, Durwood Stone, Travis Edwards, Rob Wait, Clay Sylvia, Opal Dyke, Theresa Gardner, Carol Moyer, James Holmes, Mary Williams, Tom Herbert, Evelyn Castle, Cody Roane, Fran Slater, Sally Stone, Melissa Wickham, Catherine Painter, Mary McLean, Buddy & Pat Gilbert, Forrest & Frances Stairs, Gwen Bennett. For Our Relatives and Friends: Julie Kent and Wess Gray (Gay Blankenship); Lillie Griffith (Bill W ard); Fred Hodnett (Brenda & L arry Gilm an); Frank Hague and Margaret Oberholtzer (Gail Hague); Christian Cozens (Barbara Robertson); Johnny and Cindy Axselle (Jessie Axselle); Frances, Steve and Scott Hazelwood (Glenn Davis); Shelby Carter (Cecil Clemons); Libby Gregg, Christian Cozens and Hailey Lane (John Irby); Arnold Layne and Ronnie Dougan (Lenny Dean); Peggy LaFoon (Marie Cassell); Jimmy Poates (Jackie Lee); Julie Tremblay; Betty Jane Elliott (Wendy Farmer); Joe and Pat DeLuke, Richard Beverly, Dennis and Shane Polasky & Carlos Hileman (Charolette DeL uke); Martie Chidsey (Sharon Chidsey); Elizabeth & Alex Bolin (Faye Page); Betsy Heiskill (Donna Flournoy), Katrina Viruses (Jennie Pegram); Jacquelyn Booth Bowles (Booth Fam ily); Hubert Jewel (A nne Bales); Conde Palmore Hopkins (Linda Bateman); Judy Viernes (Judy & A shley Pierce); Norman Gotthardt (Nancy Barnett); Donald Petri (Deborah Mason); Jim Martin (Sarah Gardner); Dana Rucker (Joe Monroe); Chuck Cannon (Mary Stone), Laura Bowman (Kay Boggs); Kenneth Johnson and Richard Bagby (Betty Ellis); Bill Glave (Marti Glave); Andy and Estee Summers & family and Dorothy Ferguson (Mick Outten); Anna Guthrie & Billy Fox (Eleanor Jones); Nola DeStephen (Mary Dale Barry); Robert Hart, Nancy Scileppi (Joe Scileppi); Anne & Mike Saettel (Roy Saettel); Lacey Parga (Marlene Ward); Comer family (Chancellors); Alan DeBoer (Sarah DeBoer); Lauren Truchsess (Lydia Collins); Anna Harmon (Dorothy Busic); Harland Stairs (Frances & Forrest Stairs); Don McLean (Mary McLean); Don Fritsch & Shirley Harrell (Susan Glisson); Bill Medlin, Dylan Dillard and Dick McGrew (Peggy & Bob Dillard); Harriet Bledsoe (Jennifer Thompson); Larry Horner (Mark Horner); Steve Doane, & Arlene Hayes (Pat Ross); Chanel Hobbs (Tricia Duvall); Scotty and Dottie Scott (Ginger Collison); Karen Snyder (Beth Mallory); Tommy Clemons (Alison Clemons); Our military personnel, church and country. "GREAT NEWS" Welcome to our church family, Joyce Farmer. Wednesday Night Fellowship Dinners are coming back! Star ting Wednesday, September 16th, we will be serving dinner from 5:00 to 6:30. We need your help. We have a lot of great cooks, both men and women, and we are asking for volunteers to assist a team in preparing the meals. We want to form teams of four people to commit to one Wednesday per quarter. All expenses will be reimbursed the day you prepare the meal. PLEASE call Kathy Powell (314-3577) or Lydia Collins (363-8085) to volunteer or get more info. August 23 - 29, 2015 Sunday - 23 CARITAS Week 8:30 a.m. Worship 9:45 a.m. Sunday School “I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, whom shall I 10:45 a.m. Deacon-Led Prayer Time 11:00 a.m. Worship send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I: 6:00 p.m. Youth send me.” Monday - 24 - Isaiah 6:8 7:15 p.m. Deacon Meeting Nothing is impossible to the Tuesday - 25 willing heart. 6:00 a.m. Men’s Prayer Group - Thomas Heywood 7:00 a.m. Men’s Early Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Men’s Horseshoes Wednesday - 26 5:00 p.m. Supper at Cracker Barrel 6:00 p.m. Praise Choir Rehearsal 6:15 p.m. Youth Bible Study 6:15 p.m. “OK Chorale” Choir 7:30 p.m. Sanctuary Choir 7:30 p.m. Personnel Committee Mtg. Thursday - 27 6:30 p.m. Co-ed Bible Study at Lynch’s house T HE FO C U S PAGE 2 T HE FO C U S A Word From The Pastor “Now you’ve got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I’m on the right way.” Psalm 16:11 MSG Each year, since I was seven years old I've tried to read through the entirety of the scriptures. I've had some off years here and there, but I simply love the narratives. I love the poetry, the songs, the fantastical stories of God's activity, the room for woe and lamentation, the deep questions from the heroes of the faith. Along with trying to read the scriptures in their entirety, I also try to read a Psalm and Proverb each day, too. I'd love to hear from you the ways you practice your faith day to day, week to week, season to season that help you to grow closer to God and to one another. For it is these daily practices, that help us to see the radiance of God's face. It is the daily and weekly and seasonal rhythms that help us to hold the right hand of Christ and set off down the right paths. Labor Day is almost here, a new season is almost upon us and I'm wondering if you would join me in praying that God would continue to show us his radiant face. That the Holy Spirit would continue to hold our hands, as new staff, new families, and new members join our family and we make room at the family table for them. Let us live and love generously so that we see God's face shining so brightly upon us that it lights up the halls of our building and the streets of our neighborhood. Baptist Church, Ashland as a taxdeductible donation, it would be greatly appreciated. Please contact the church office if you would like to donate a used car. Please contact the office at: [email protected] or 804.798.9014 Your help is needed! The music committee is looking for someone to assist Ashley Boyles with Preschool Choir this coming fall. Practice starts Wednesday night September 9 at 6:30 PM in the 4yr old Sunday school classroom. Preschool choir covers ages 2 - 4. If you are interested in being a helper please call Kim Hutcheson at 804525-0105. Thanks for your prayerful consideration and your willingness to help us further the work of the music ministry of FBCA! PAGE 3 UPCOMING EVENTS Beth Moore is coming to Norfolk next April. Tickets are on sale now and we would like to purchase the tickets so we can all sit together as a church body of believers. We haven't done a ladies trip in a long time and would love to have a great turn out. The event is Friday, April 29 in the evening and then the morning of the 30. We will be staying overnight and will be blocking a group of rooms. If you are interested in going, please sign up at the church office or call or email Lydia Collins. [email protected] or 3638085. We would like to have a count by September 1. The cost of the tickets are $59 and money will be due by September 15th. The Co-ed A New Bible Study by Bible Study Rick Warren “Son of will be held on God” will be lead by August 27! We Joyce Parsley at 6:30 will share a pot PM in Room # 208 on luck dinner. Tuesday, September The dinner will 15th! Cost of start at 6:30 workbook is $10. PM at Dan & June Lynch’s Call Elaine Mallory house. at 804-938-1930 to purchase workbook by September 1st! Grace Sightings . . . “Christ is not valued at all unless He is valued above all.” Shining with you, Pastor Josh CCDC News MOSAIC News Benevolence Need The children had so much fun making spaghetti for their families on Thursday night! They gave praise to God through songs, and talked about their favorite summer activities at CCDC. This week they will learn about CARITAS, and are excited about making muffins to help the homeless. Our CCDC children are the best! Crystal Hopper, Director Thursday, September 10 Quarterly Luncheon with renown Storyteller - Betsy Mountcastle. Don’t miss it! Sunday, October 18 Senior Adult Sunday Thursday, November 12 Michie Tavern Lunch and Apple picking Thursday, December 10 Quarterly Luncheon “4 The Lord Quartet” There is a family in town in need of a car donation through a benevolence request. If you or someone you know would like to donate a car to First OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOXES Sunday, August 23: Sunday School, 9:45 AM Sunday, August 23: Devotions and activities with Gabe 6:00-7:30 Sunday, August 23: Youth serve dinner and fellowship at CARITAS! 6:00 - 8:00 PM (Get 2 Community Ser vice hour s) Sunday, August 30: Youth Pool Party at Kings Charter. After Pool Party Youth girls Lock-in! Welcome upcoming 6th graders to our Sunday and Wednesday night activities! We look forward to you joining our Youth Sunday School department in September! Bible Study with Gabe on Wednesday nights, 6:15-7:15 PM in Red Room Downstairs! (Call us if you need a ride!) Summer Mission Opportunities: Paint a local house in August; Volunteer at Church Food Pantry (Tuesday & Thur sday mor nings); Fill Blessing Buckets (Supplies are needed)! A HUGE Thank You to Larry Hickman for sending off our seniors with a great cook-out and water games! We are going to miss them! Call Susan Robertson (310-0012), Susan Gerhart (837-1730) Jackie Gray (7989753 / 874-8460) or Gabe Fowler (607-316-3040) with any questions! Items needed for the month of August are: School Supplies There are great buys at Walmart! Thanks, Debbie Haley Dear Friends, Thanks to those who have volunteered to staff the Food Pantry. However, we still have slots that need to be covered. The 3rd Thursday and the 5th Tuesday of September are still open. Two volunteers are needed for each date. So grab a friend, spend some quality time together and help a good cause! Please either call, text or email if you can help: (H) 550-3836 or (Cell) 4325271 or [email protected]. - St. Augustine Sunday School Classroom Refresh The Sunday School Department is in the process of freshening up several of our classrooms! We have new furniture and rugs for many of the rooms and are requesting assistance with painting of 4 children’s classrooms on the second floor, assembling chairs, removal of old furnishings (tables, chairs, etc.), and placement of new furnishings. Please contact Elaine Mallory at 804-938-1930, if you are interested in helping. STATISTICS: Financial Information - Attendance As of Sunday, August 16, 2015: Other Gifts This Week: Weekly Budget Gift $ 9,290.46 Weekly Budget Goal $ 13,051.20 YTD Budget Gifts $ 541,020.56 YTD Budget Goal $ 503,661.60 Food Pantry $ 235.00 Shoebox Ministry $ 160.00 WEEKLY ATTENDANCE Sunday, August 16, 2015 Worship: 8:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Total 102 229 331 Sunday School: Members Visitors Total 249 21 270