Great Swamp Baptist Church. WMU Focus Sunday. February 14, 2016

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1 Great Swamp Baptist Church WMU Focus Sunday February 14, 2016

2 Great Swamp Baptist Church February 14, 2016 Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM Prelude Call to Worship Hymn# 595 The Welcome Announcements Send the Light Invocation Selections of Praise and Worship Hymn# 546 Love Lifted Me We Pray for Special Needs Pastoral & Offertory Prayer Duane Armstrong Rev. Ralph Lee, Jr. Demonstration of Stewardship Offertory Special Music WMU Emphasis Message WMU Focus Choir Rev. Ralph Lee, Jr. Benediction A special called meeting with no discussion and vote on the SFCA Gymnasium will be this morning, February 14th, following the service.

3 Nursery Workers Today: Mike Mingledorff Krey Lowther Next Week: Cassandra Bradley Krey Lowther Today: Pam Stanley Olivia Next Week: Pat Bryan Alice Way Toll Committee For February Bernice Malphrus & Bonnie Pope DEACON OF THE WEEK : Today: Duane Armstrong Next Week: Bjo Mills IF YOUR DEACONS CAN MINISTER TO YOU IN ANY WAY, CALL THE

4 From Pastor Ralph s Desk: The Story of Creation Intro: for two weeks prior to this past Sunday, we examined ways to reconnect with our creation and our creator. By the way the two go hand in hand together. There were two ways we focused upon. The first way was simple yet necessary to acknowledge and declare exactly what the Word of God teaches about creation and our awesome creator, which by the way, is clearly one thing and one thing only, that God in the beginning created all things without the process of evolution and did it in six 24 hour days. God gave us the Word of God and He gave us creation. Therefore, the two will not contradict one another. What you find in the Word of God about creation, you will also find in the evidence of creation. The second way we examined to reconnect to creation and our creator is to challenge and reject the unbiblical view of long periods of separation during our creation. Tragically the church and Christian schools in the past century decided that they must find a way to combine the teachings of much of the scientific community on evolution with the teachings of the Word of God. They came up with some compromises that they believed could reconcile the

5 Two together. However, what they did was instead to totally compromise God s Word and deny the true evidence found in creation itself. What the teachings of long periods of separation do is simply give credence to the theory of evolution which is nothing more than an instrument of the devil. It also makes God our creator someone who is so far removed form us. Now there are five reasons, at least, the Scriptures gives us to reject the long periods of separation. I don t want to spend too much time on them because I have already expounded on them. The first reasonwas because in Genesis 1, each day was connected by the conjunction and. The second reason is because each creation day had an evening and a morning. The third reason is because God told Moses to model each week exactly after the pattern of creation week, Exodus 20:8-11. The fourth reason is because when Jesus was asked about the subject of divorce, He referred His answer back to the beginning when He said God made them male and female. Not millions of years later but rather made male and female in the beginning. The fifth reason because you can t have the cart before the horse. If you accept the long periods of separation to allow for the process of evolution in our creation, then you have accepted death before sin and that can t be because Genesis chapters two and three as well as Romans chapter five teaches us that there was no death until after Adam and Eve sinned against God. So, absolutely nothing could have died before during all of those so-called millions of years of evolution. Now this past Sunday, I began examining the reasons why we need to reconnect with our creation and our creator. I m doing it by looking at what I and simply calling the Story of Creation found in Colossians chapter one, verses fifteen through twenty. Today, we will simply examine the point of the message.

6 I. First, The Story of Creation is a story of sovereignty, vs15. As Paul begins to tell in the story of creation he begins by telling us just who our creator is. In the preceding verses leading up to these set of verses, Paul is teaching us that God has redeemed through the blood of His precious Son. When Paul begins this verse and this set of verses with the pronoun He we know he is referring to Christ Jesus our Lord because that s been his focus in the verses leading up to these verses. When he says, He is the image of the invisible God he means that it is Jesus who is the image of the invisible God. Paul wants you to know that as he reveals about the sory of creation that it begins with the creator and the creator is Jesus Christ our Lord who happens to be the image of the invisible God. As a matter of fact, the writer of Hebrews whom I believe also to be Paul, gives us this same description of Christ but with one more detail. It says, The Son is the radiance of God s glory and the exact representation of His being (Hebrews 1:3). The details I am referring to is the word exact. So Colossians and Hebrews is saying that the creator of all is not just a nice resemblance of God but rather it is the exact image and representation of God and the reason why is because He is God. Jesus said the, he that has seen me has seen the Father. (John 14:9) Now Paul wants us to understand that the one who carried out our creation was capable to do so because He is the sovereign God of all time. He alone had and has the power and wisdom and capability necessary to take nothing and turn it into a universe that is so filled with design, pattern, engineer, organization, precision and complexity.

7 Also, because He is the exact representation making Him sovereign, we know that He not only can create it but sustain it and make sure that it will ultimately accomplish God s will for it. This also reminds us of another important truth and that is that because He is sovereign He can recreate what sin has so damaged in our lives. For God created us in the beginning in His image, but sin distorted this image that the only way it can be restored is for our sovereign Christ to restore it. When we surrender our lives to Him through repentance and faith, II Corinthians 5:7 tells us that He makes us a new creation. For He who is the exact representation of God not lives with us. Oh, blessed be our sovereign Lord who created us and recreated us because of who He is, the exact representation of God. So, let us exalt our sovereign creator, the Sovereign Creator. Jesus Love You, Ralph Lee, Jr. SFCA Blood Drive Friday February 19th Starting at Noon

8 GSBC Prayer Pages February 14, 2016 Ralph Lee, Jr. - Pastor Richard Waitt- Music Director Deacons Child Dev. Ministries Leadership President Barack Obama United States of America Church Needs Sunday School Small Groups SFCA-Donna Carter Unspoken Jonathan Malphrus-Job Search Ann Malphrus Ministries Outreach Ministry Nominating Committee Bereavement Families Of Hospitals Nursing Centers Jeffrey Stanley-Sav. Memorial Elaine Degler-RNC Ann Blocker-NHC Surgery / Recovery Patti Morgan (1/21) Bonnie Pope (1/21) Tommy Cooler (1/22) Brandi Freeman (1/28) Saylor Moser (2/4) Cancer / Treatments Barry Jones (12/10) Henry Etheridge (1/14) Myrtle Rowell Smith (1/7) Lane Malphrus (1/20) Tom Hiers (1/26) Other Health Needs Mike Hodge (1/14) Jerry Vaigneur (1/14) Kenneth Cleland (1/21) Levi Soucy (1/28) Margie Davis (1/28) Julie Barnes (1/28) Amanda Bradley (2/01) Lucille Degler (2/4) Brice Rupert (2/4) Annette Malphrus (2/11) Elizabeth Malphrus (2/11) Expecting / Births Beth Reynolds Cabiness July N/A Donald Cooler (1/7) Barbara Mills (1/14) Robert Sauls (1/21) Suzanne Stivers (1/21) Barry DeMay (1/8) Wayne Malphrus (1/14) Kelly Chapman (1/28) Elle Bryan (1/28) Frankie Malphrus (2/11) Called to Ministry Chris Carter & Family Robin Gray-Central Asia

9 Pray For Our Military Bobby Emerson- Fort Hood-Army Jared Blanton-Home If you have someone who needs listing, call either the church office or E.L Thank You Please Continue To Remember Ricky Cleland Mike Hodge Shirley Malphrus Rose Boyles Myia Angala Ellis Susan L. Vaigneur Lula Floyd Mary Cope Dot Nettles Jimmie Mills Betty Nettles Tom Hinely Olivia Stanley Joyce Sutler Kevin Roach Wofford Malphrus Lois Bootle Myrtle Rowell Smith Billie Langford Lisa Koon Mitzi Cramer Gary Way Christy Gagel Vera Miles Mary Daley Leonard Steedly Today s Prayer Team Group II Barbara Mills Leader Betty Robertson Here s Something to Think About! This being WMU Focus Week is a good time to pray and give thanks for the good women of our church who continue to emphasize missions and do missions locally. They are always urging us to be praying for our mission activities and our missionaries. God bless you all.. E.L. Ambrose Watchman Prayer Service 8:00am Prayer Note For emergencies a prayer chain is available for needs. You may access by calling the Or E.L

10 February 12th Callie Malphrus February 14th Allene Malphrus Jordan Moser February 15th Jimmie Mills February 16th Alex Sineath February 17th Kris Goethe February 18th Steven Lang Luke & Leah May February 19th Vera Miles February 20th Debbie Hodge February 10th February 11th Tom & Connie Benton Rodney & April Malphrus

11 WATCHMAN PRAYER Anyone wishing to join the Watchman Prayer Group on Saturday Mornings or join the Prayer Chain, please see E.L. Ambrose. Announcements Monday, February 15th Office / School Closed Monday, February 15th Quilting Club Thursday, February 10:00am Watchman Prayer Group Saturday, February 8:00 am

12 Please Pray for our Southern Baptist Convention Chaplains of the Week

13 Meatloaf Potatoes / Gravy Peas Cabbage Dessert Tea & Coffee Donna Carter Cooking Team

14 Baby Bottle Ministry Our Annual Baby Bottle Ministry has begun. Baby bottles are available for you to pick up after Morning Worship Service. Bottles will need to be returned on Sunday, February 21st. There is a sign up sheet when you pick up your bottles. Pastor Ralph Operation Christmas Child For the month of February, we are collecting: Soap & Wash Cloths

15 Great Swamp Baptist Church 9009 Tarboro Road, Ridgeland, SC Office Fax greatswampbc@gmail.com Website: greatswampbaptistchurch.com Church Staff Pastor: Rev. Ralph Lee, Jr...jehu27@gmail.com Music Director: Richard Waitt..waittfamily@embarqmail.com Sunday School Director: Wallace Malphrus...Josie6@embarqmail.com Pianist: Michelle Waitt waittfamily@embarqmail.com Administrative Assistant: Sybil Reynolds...greatswampbc@gmail.com Treasurer: Faye Lowther...kreyleesmom98@gmail.com School Administrator: Donna Carter..dcarter@hargray.com Custodian: Ann Malphrus...ramalphrus@hargray.com Landscaper: Wallace Malphrus...Josie6@embarqmail.com Calendar of Events For February 15th through February 21st Sunday Morning Breakfast (September thru May Only)... 8:30AM Sunday School :45AM Morning Worship :00AM Evening Worship.....6:00PM Wednesday Night Supper (September thru May Only)... 6:00PM Wednesday Night Service...7:00PM Saturday Watchman Prayer.....8:00AM Stewardship Budget Offerings This Week Weekly Budget Surplus/Deficit + / - Tithes & Offerings $4, $ 4, $ Designated Funds This Week ********* Acct. Balances WNS $ ********** $ SMB $71.00 ********** $ Annie Armstrong $25.00 ********** $25.00 Lottie Moon $ ********** $ Youth Offering $5.00 ********** $1, George Pepper $ ********** $1, OCC $51.00 ********** $313.55

16 Great Swamp Baptist Church 9009 Tarboro Rd. PO Box 446 Ridgeland, SC 29936