April STAFF Rev Franklin Ruff, Lead Pastor OUR PURPOSE. First Bapst Church of Slwell

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April 2017 STAFF Rev Franklin Ruff, Lead Pastor Rev Jennifer Schneider Administrative Pastor 913-488-1313. flyfree1@me.com Donna Rains Caring Ministry 913-449-6601 CaringMinistry@aol.

org Scan this with your smart phone OUR PURPOSE Know, Grow, and G0 A Model for Christian Discipleship As a disciple of Jesus, I will seek daily to personally know Jesus as Savior and Lord of my life,

1 April 2017 STAFF Rev Franklin Ruff, Lead Pastor Rev Jennifer Schneider Administrative Pastor Donna Rains Caring Ministry Church Office Scan this with your smart phone OUR PURPOSE Know, Grow, and G0 A Model for Christian Discipleship As a disciple of Jesus, I will seek daily to personally know Jesus as Savior and Lord of my life, To intentionally grow in a relationship of love with God and with others, To willingly go in service for Jesus, thus exhibiting God s love in all aspects of my life. The last month has been a very busy month. Praise God for all of his blessings! Pastor Ruff and his family have arrived and even though all the boxes are not unpacked, Pastor is settled in his office, the boys are in school, and ministry is happening. Of course, there have been some unforeseen glitches (internet and phone issues,) and there are still lots of things to learn and do. Yet, God is good and with lots of support and assistance, things are starting to calm down. Pastor Ruff and I have talked a lot. He has asked questions and I have answered those I can. We have shared our thoughts, dreams, hopes, and concerns with one another. We have talked about giftedness and responsibilities. During the next few months things will be changing. We can t grow without change. C.S Lewis has a quote I love. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. God calls us to follow Christ and we can t do that sitting still. When I look at the calendar for April I see an even crazier month coming up! Praise God for all of his blessings! April 1st will be my official first day as Administrative Pastor. Even though I have been ministering with you all since August, I will now have more time to be present with you and I am very grateful! In April we will be celebrating Holy Week and Easter. We will be having a Maundy Thursday service at 7:00, April 13 th ; we are hosting the Stilwell Community Easter Egg Hunt Saturday, April 15 th at 10 am; and will have three services, breakfast and Sunday School on Easter Sunday. I hope you will invite friends and family to celebrate with us this Easter season. Blessings, First Bapst Church of Slwell

From the Kid s Ministry Kid s Ministry at First Baptist Church Thoughts and Ideas: It seems spring has finally arrived! The trees and flowers have started to bloom.

2 From the Kid s Ministry Kid s Ministry at First Baptist Church Thoughts and Ideas: It seems spring has finally arrived! The trees and flowers have started to bloom. With spring comes the Easter season. I think sometimes we get caught up in the commercialization of Easter. We focus on bunnies and candy rather than the real reason we celebrate. This month we will be having special worship services on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, and Easter. Hope to see your family at all or any of these services. Upcoming activities and events for children: During Children s Church in April we will be talking about Holy week and Easter. We will be learning through art, games, science and story- telling. Keep your eye out for flyers going home with children letting parents know what they will be learning. This gives parents an opportunity to reinforce the lessons at home and share their thoughts and ideas about the learnings with their children. The community Easter Egg hunt will be Saturday, April 15th at 10:00 am at our church. We encourage you to bring neighbors and friends! * Our next Kid s Night will be Friday May 5th. More details coming soon. Peace,

3 From the Youth Ministry On Wednesday nights during Lent we have been talking about ways we can prepare for Easter. We have talked about what it means to give something up or take something up as a sacrifice. We have read passages from both the Old and New Testament about what it means to be in the wilderness and we have looked at passages in the Gospel of Luke and talked about what it means to be a disciple of Christ. I am amazed every week at how thoughtful, kind and committed our youth are to each other and to serving Christ! We will be having an IMPORTANT PARENT MEETING during youth group on Wednesday, March 29th. We will be talking about our trip to Quest this summer and about upcoming Fundraisers. Fundraisers for our summer trip to Quest at Green Lake Conference Center: - We are selling Price Chopper coupon books for $5.00 each. -The first Saturday in April we will be having a talent show with dessert. We will need people to donate dessert for the event. - The Handcraft fair the last Saturday in April. Youth will be selling baked goods, lunch and babysitting workers children. We will need donated baked goods, canned soda, and will need lots of helping hands that day. If you would like to help please let me know. Blessings, Youth Events for April Sunday nights: Wednesday nights: 2nd: 6:30-8pm 5th 7-8pm All Students 6th 12th 9th: 6:30-8pm 12th: 7-8pm 16th: No youth group 19th: 7-8pm 23rd 6:30-8pm 26th: 7-8pm 30th: 6:30-8pm

February 2017 *Families *Seniors *Adult *Children *Total Clients 1650 780 1953 1422 5805 Group Clients 270 117 440 330 1157 Total

Our grateful Thanks to the Volunteers who have helped serve God s Children. The hours are a valued gift to the clients we serve.

April Birthday Blessings Did you miss last week s Sermon? Do you want to see a special Sermon again? Check us out on YouTube!

4 February 2017 *Families *Seniors *Adult *Children *Total Clients Group Clients Total We were blessed by 83,542 pounds of food. Our grateful Thanks to the Volunteers who have helped serve God s Children. The hours are a valued gift to the clients we serve. 92 Volunteers spent 840 hours 45 miinutes Donna worked 92 hours 30 minutes and drove 18.4 miles. April Birthday Blessings Did you miss last week s Sermon? Do you want to see a special Sermon again? Check us out on YouTube! user/fbcstilwell Tell Your Friends! 1 Jim Redick 8 Holden Rolfs Mike Boydston Norma Redick Alex Pecenka Nancy Rains Selma Collette Nicholas Ludwig If we have missed your birthday, please let us know. ( )

5 ABW MINISTRY ABW met March 9 th in the Fellowship Hall with 10 members present. We discussed Family Joys and Concerns. Candice opened the meeting with a prayer. We sang Open My Eyes, That I May See. Delores did the roll call and read the February minutes. Joyce gave the treasurer s report and discussed some bills. Candice led a discussion on Spiritual Growth and read Psalm 34. We discussed some of God s promises- God hears our prayers God has His own plans and His own Time Plan God will punish those who do evil David appeared to practice Spiritual Disciplines regularly- He always praised God He saw good in everything He glorified God s name Doris reported on 2017 Baptist University of Congo (UNIBAC) Joyce and Norma talked about White Cross Shirley reported on Love Gift and reminded us to KEEP GIVING. Delores told us that the 6 Good s have passed ½ mark on going back to Hungary. Evelyn led a prayer for new Pastors. Pastor Franklin and family will arrive Tuesday or Wednesday. He will preach March 19. Joyce and others will clean parsonage March 11. Scholarship Student Cindy Boyer graduates in May. Nathan Marsh is in 3 rd year Program. Evelyn sent cards to both. Candice made motion to collect used eyeglasses and to ask for Church support with this project. We discussed a time to take food to the Fire Depart. Nothing was decided. Elsa gave the closing benediction. We went to Applebee s for lunch. NEXT MEETING: April 13 th in the Fellowship Hall. We will eat out. BIBLE BOOK NEHEMIAH Delores Cummings

6 HAPPENINGS: We have a lot going on in April: 1st: Youth Talent show at 7pm for a fund raiser (need donated desserts) 8th: Church Spring Cleaning at 9am 13th: Maundy service at 7pm 15th: Easter Egg Hunt at 10am 16th: Sunrise Service at 6:35 followed by breakfast then our usual Sunday schedule. (please bring your food by Saturday the 15th and if you plan on helping with the cooking, be here by 5:30am) 22nd: Stilwell Elementary Carnival (sign-up sheet for volunteers) 28th: Lunch for the teachers at Stilwell Elementary (sign-up sheet for food and help with serving) 29th: Handcrafted & Shopping Event 9am-4pm. This is a youth fund raiser. If you would like to be a vendor or if you know somebody that would like to be a vendor contact Jordanna Whitley ( ) We also need volunteers to help the youth, baked goods for a bake sale and the youth will be doing lunch for purchase so we need canned pop. April 30th: ABW will be hosting an all church brunch from 9:30-10:45am April 30th: There will be a Cluster Talent show at FBC Gardner at 6pm. There is a sign-up sheet if you would like to sign-up for a talent or a snack to share. **Please see church calendar for all other happenings. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you buy anything through Amazon, would you consider going through If you do, anything purchased through this link will donate money back to our church. This is the same Amazon site just a way to get a percentage back for the church. When you go to the above link, you will have to select First Baptist Church of Stilwell to donate to.

7 Every Sunday April :30 am Traditional Service 9:45 am Sunday School 10:40 am Coffee and Fellowship 11:00 am Contemporary Service Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 Youth Talent Show 7pm 2 Communion Benevolence Fund Trustee 3 Boy Scouts 7pm 4 Harvesters 2-5pm 5 SOS- Noon Youth Group 7-8pm 6 Pantry 6-7pm Home School 9-2pm 7 BSA Camping 8 BSA Camping Church Spring Cleaning 9am 9 Youth Group 6:30pm BSA Camping 10 Boy Scouts 7pm 11 Harvesters 2-5pm 12 Youth Group 7-8pm 13 Pantry 6-7pm ABW 10am Maundy Service 7pm 14 Good Friday 15 Easter Egg Hunt 10am 16 Easter Sun Rise Service 6:35am Youth Group 6:30pm 17 Boy Scouts 7pm 18 Harvesters 2-5pm 19 Youth Group 7-8pm Financial Committee meeting 7pm 20 Pantry 6-7pm Home School 9-2pm Deacons 7pm Eagle Court of Honor 2pm 23 Business meeting Youth Group 6:30pm 24 Boy Scouts 7pm 25 Harvesters 2-5pm 26 Youth Group 7-8pm 27 Pantry 6-7pm Handcrafted & Shopping 9-4pm 30 ABW all church brunch 9:30-10:45am Cluster Talent Show 6pm

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STILWELL Where 199th crosses Metcalf Slwell, KS 66085 Contact Informaon: Prayer Requests or to Talk with Administrave Pastor, Jennifer Schneider 913-488-1313 Church

8 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STILWELL Where 199th crosses Metcalf Slwell, KS Contact Informaon: Prayer Requests or to Talk with Administrave Pastor, Jennifer Schneider Church Phone: Fax: One-Call: April We re on the Web! FACEBOOK: facebook.com/ firstbaptistchurchstilwellkansas

March 2016 Church of the New Jerusalem Monthly Newsletter A community united by faith in God and love to the neighbor

March 2016 Church of the New Jerusalem Monthly Newsletter A community united by faith in God and love to the neighbor March Greetings! I hope this newsletter finds you well, dear readers. It s been a busy