Old Town Baptist Church 4386 Shattalon Drive Winston-Salem, NC 27106

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1 Old Town Baptist Church 4386 Shattalon Drive Winston-Salem, NC Return Service Requested Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Paid Pfafftown, NC Permit # 61 Old Town Baptist Church Staff Senior Pastor Dr. Ricky D. Speas Missions Pastor Mark Harrison Family & Discipleship Pastor Jason Ledford Student Pastor Joe Maye Worship & Discipleship Pastor Terry Smith Director of Contemporary Worship & Discipleship Cindy Johnson Children s Ministries Director Shannon Callahan Administrative Assistant Maxine Brown Church Pianist Pam Newsome Old Town Baptist Children s Center Director Linda Barham Weekend Minister on Call November 1st & 2nd Pastor Mark November 8th & 9th Pastor Jason November 15th & 16th Pastor Joe November 22nd & 23rd Pastor Terry November 29th & 30th Pastor Rick CHURCH INFORMATION Church Office address office@otbclife.org Fax number Web Site

2 This Christmas is Different Old Town Baptist Church - A church leading people to become fully committed followers of Christ It is hard to believe, but Christmas is fast approaching! Here at Old Town, we are already hard at work preparing for our Christmas At Old Town Dinner Theater. As you might have noticed, we are doing some things a bit differently this year. Our Dinner Theater has always been a success and we want to build on that legacy in order to share the gospel with as many people as we can. So, here is a quick list of some of the changes for Wednesday night December 10 th is the first night of the Dinner Theater and we are calling this All Church Night. This evening we will focus on celebrating together as a church family. While visitors are certainly welcome, we wanted to specify Wednesday night as more of an in-reach. 2. We want to use the following evenings of the dinner theater (Friday, December 12th, Saturday December 13 th, and Sunday December 14 th) as a very focused outreach opportunity. If you decide to attend the dinner theater one of those evenings, please invite several people who do not know Christ. Those who do not regularly attend church are often more receptive during the Christmas season and we do not want to miss such a valuable opportunity. Ephesians 5:15 15 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 3. The meal, the pre-service music, and the Dinner Theater will be exactly the same each night. That way, you will not feel like you need to attend every night in order to enjoy a different meal or hear different music. Instead, you can enjoy everything for yourself on All Church Night and then come back another night with some friends who do not know Jesus. 4. This year we are planning to provide childcare (birth to 4 years old) during each night of the Dinner Theater. However, we are also doing that a little differently-so please read this carefully. - Childcare will start once dinner has been completed. Children will eat dinner with their parents in the CLC and will then be dismissed to childcare. -If you, or someone that you invite, will need childcare, please call the church office and make a reservation for your child/children. We need to have an accurate head count so that we can secure the right number of workers. While this Christmas is a little different, our mission is the same. Let us proclaim the love of our Savior to all of the world! Good News! It s Not Too Late! It s not too late to get your family photo in the directory! If you would like to submit a photo of your family to be placed in the directory please contact Betty Huff at by Wednesday, November 5th.

3 Worship Care. Thank you to those who signed up in October and November for Worship Care. This is one of the best ways you can be a part of these children s Christian lives by humming a tune while rocking a baby, reading Bible story books to little ones, or assisting with a puzzle of Jesus and the children. Thank you for making a difference! October was a 4 week month requiring 102 volunteers. November is a 5 week month, requiring 130 volunteers! OTBCC.. Old Town Baptist Children s Center is one of many ministries of Old Town Baptist Church and continues to reach the community. At least 18 of our current 61 students in Pre-School and Before/After School care are either attending or visiting Old Town Baptist Church! With excellent teachers creating curriculum around Biblical teaching, we are meeting the needs academically and spiritually for each child. Thank you for your continued prayers and support for the Children s Center. Linda Old Town Baptist Church 2015 Budget Schedule Sunday, November 7:30 P.M. - Q&A opportunity concerning the 2015 Church Budget with the Budget Committee in the Multi-purpose Room. Wednesday, November 6:30 P.M. - Business Meeting to present the 2015 Budget Proposal. Sunday, December 7 th **Church Vote on 2015 Budget** following the 8:30 and 11:00 Worship Services.

4 Share the Blessings with Neighbors in Need Annual Thanksgiving Basket Ingathering Collection through November 23 Share your material blessings with our neighbors in need this Holiday season. We are collecting non-perishable food items as well as turkeys for use in preparing 25 Thanksgiving Baskets. Perishable items like butter and milk will be purchased through your gifts to the Acts One 8 Challenge offering. This year, we pan to deliver the baskets to the families we serve. If you are interested in helping make deliveries, please contact Pastor Joe or Pastor Mark. A brief delivery instruction meeting will occur on Sunday, November 23 immediately after Awakening worship (12:15) in the Multi-Purpose Room. A display with cards to show items needed and to remind us of our commitments as well as a drop-off point is located near the Media Center. All items are due by November 23. Angel Tree: Give the Gift of Christmas Give the Gift of Christmas to a child whose parent is incarcerated in a local prison. The children and parents will celebrate with a Christmas Party during which the gifts will be given. You can provide the gift of a toy or clothing as well as the Good News about Jesus to one of these families through Angel Tree. Simply take your angel from the tree then enjoy shopping for your special child. This is a wonderful way for families or Sunday school classes to give the Gift of Christmas. Gifts should be placed under the Christmas Tree near the Media Center by December 7. This ministry is provided through the Forsyth Jail and Prison Ministry. Collection Dates: November 23 December 7 Week of Prayer for International Missions: November 30 December 7 Season of Giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering through December In His perfect plan to redeem all peoples, God continues to call His people to advance His Gospel among all nations, together, in one sacred effort. From a song stage in Sweden to pregnancy health classes in Southeast Asia, IMB missionaries find creative and effective ways to meet people where they are. And they are grateful for Southern Baptists prayers that empower them to share Jesus with those who don t know Him. Southern Baptists send missionaries through IMB to go into the world making disciples in the name of Jesus. In that partnership, Southern Baptist churches provide the funding to send and support these missionaries and their ministries. The more resources they provide, the more missionaries can be sent. As the body of Christ, we re like an orchestra each member is so vital, is so important for making beautiful music. So just like your praying and giving is so important in us coming to Sweden, we can work together through sharing his love with others, church planter/ musician Anissa Haney says. You have a place in God s story! To learn more, visit

5 Gifts Received (thru 10/26): $ 94, Investments Made (thru 8/31): $ 52, Our Jerusalem Winston-Salem: $ 23, Our Judea North Carolina: $ 7, Our Samaria North America: $ 4, The Ends of the Earth Global: $ 16, Making Jesus Known Locally to Globally Our Acts One 8 Challenge partner of the month is the Old Town Medical Mission. This in-house, homegrown mission touches the lives of hundreds of neighbors showing and sharing the love of Jesus by providing quality medical care the 1 st and 3 rd Monday each month. This mission outreach involves more of our church members and friends than any other single mission outreach we do together. The faithful volunteers (medical and non-medical personnel) along with our prayers for the Medical Mission and gifts to the Acts One 8 Challenge offering enable us to make Jesus known locally through our bi-monthly medical clinic. Praise the Lord for His work through this important mission action! November Our Student Ministry is seeing God do some incredible things! Over the past several weeks we have been actively engaging both the Old Town and the Waughtown community. On the 2 nd and 4 th Wednesdays of every month we are going to a multi-unit housing complex in the Waughtown area. We have been going into 4 different homes and conducting Bible Studies for Kindergarten-aged children all the way to adults. We have had anywhere from people in attendance coming and it has been a great time. Our students have been leading these studies and they as well as the people attending seem to be having a great time. So far we have taught lessons on The Bible in general form Psalms, Creation, and the Fall. On October 29 th we held a community Halloween Festival where we had inflatables, hot dogs, games, prizes, candy, and a Gospel presentation to those in attendance. We are so blessed that God allows us to be ambassadors of Him and to shine light throughout this community. We are also gearing up for our Fall Retreat in early November. This retreat is at Camp Willow Run on Lake Gaston, North Carolina. It is a beautiful place with all kinds of fun activities and powerful worship and teaching. This year s Retreat focuses on the Gospel being the only way to God and how we should live in light of its truth. It s sure to be an awesome time and we would love your prayers for our students and this retreat. In Christ, Pastor Joe

6 John & Joan Kinzie 4450 Clarksburg Road Clemmons, NC Dear OTBC Family, Miles Devin Wohlnick Born: September 17, 2014 Weight: 6 lbs. 14 oz. Proud Parents: Mark and Beth Wohlnick Proud Big Brother: Zane Thank you for honoring my dad with the flowers that you gave for his visitation and funeral. You have been faithful to my family since 1962, so I cannot begin to thank you for the lifetime of service you have provided all of these years. Some of you helped shaped my faith, since I was five years old. Thank you, Kevin Jarvis Proud Grandparents: Grady and Eleanor Kilby Updates We are updating our notification records. If you would like to receive notifications that are sent out to our congregation please be sure that we have your correct address. We have had several s come back not deliverable. Please Maxine at mbrown@otbclife.org or by calling the church office at OTBC Medical Mission Medical Clinic: November 3 and 17 Clinic opens at 6:30 p.m. Volunteers welcome at 6:00 p.m. Pray for the Medical Mission: express thanks to God for our volunteers; pray for faithful witnesses to share the Gospel, as well as for new medical providers. Ask the Father to open the hearts of our guests to the Good News of His Old Town Baptist Church Blood Drive Live a story. Give a story Donate Blood. Sunday, November 9, :00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. 1 pint saves 3 lives! Sign-up today. Call Billy Turner at or the call the church at to schedule an appointment. Please bring a photo ID. Please Give Blood

7 Fall Festival Community Outreach Wednesday, November 5th 6:00-8:00pm Volunteers are still needed to help with trunks, serving food, clean up and crowd control. The festival is a fun event for our kids as well as an effective outreach for the community. PLEASE SIGN UP outside the media center, scallahan@otbclife.org or call the church office at to be a part of this special night. The Hot Dog Supper for volunteers will be from 5:00-6:00pm in the CLC. The Community Hot Dog Supper will be from 6:00-6:30pm in the CLC. The supper is free, but donations will be accepted. Even if you are on the regular Wednesday Night Supper list please be sure to make any changes or additions to your meal reservation. Also, if you are not on the list please sign up so that we have an accurate count for food preparation. Please be sure to have your trunks ready to go by 6:00pm. Then we would like for everyone to join us in the CLC as Pastor Rick gives a gospel presentation to our friends from the community. After Pastor Rick speaks we will move outside for the festival. What: Centri-Kid Camp the best week of the whole summer! Who: Completed 3 rd completed 5 th graders Where: Gardner-Webb University, Boiling Springs, NC When: Monday, July 6 th Friday, July 10 th Theme: FIT: Faith In Training Cost: $180 Contact Shannon Callahan ASAP to register at OR scallahan@otbclife.org. Don t wait spots will fill up quickly. Remember a deposit of $90 is due by February 1 st!

8 KIDZTOWN A Note from Mrs. Shannon Wow it s November November!!! Hard to believe that we only have one more month left in 2014! Now starts the busy time of year for most of us it is my prayer though, even during all the busyness, that our focus will remain on Jesus and what He has done for us and sharing His love with others in our lives! Fall Festival Community Outreach will be taking place on Wednesday, November 5 th from 6:00-8:00PM. This will be a special time for us to love on people from our community and share the love of Jesus with them. We will start serving OTBC folks dinner starting at 5:00PM so we can eat and then be ready to serve the community when they come in to eat from 6:00-6:30PM. We will have a special presentation immediately following dinner in the CLC and will then head outside for Trunk-or-Treat, inflatables, cotton candy and other fun things. Even if you have not signed up to provide a trunk to give out candy or treats you can still show up and do it. We need more trunks! We need help with other things too, so please just show up and help, even if it s only for an hour or so. Please consider joining us on that night as we reach out to our community and share the love and hope that is only found in Jesus. Thank you to all those who have already agreed to help out. It s going to be a great night! Sunday School & Children s Worship (Sunday mornings) for ages 3-5 th grade (Small Town, Mid Town & Big Town), are going great. We are continuing through The Gospel Project and have currently been learning about the miracles that Jesus performed. We will continue to not have a separate children s worship time on the last Sunday of each month. This has been a special time for us to all come together as one big family and allow families to all worship together. Awana (Sunday evenings from 5:45-7:15) for ages 2-5 th grade (Puggles, Cubbies, Sparks & T&T) are still going great. We now have close to 80 children attending Awana for the year. Speaking of Awana...we just wrapped up our collection of items for Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes. We collected a lot of items. We are going to be stuffing close to 40 shoeboxes during PowerUp time on Wednesday evening with the help of some very special visitors! We have some more exciting theme nights coming this month, such as Glow-in-the-Dark-Night, special collection for the Bread of Life Food Pantry, Dots & Stripes Night, as well as a special Pot-Luck on November 23 rd. We will also have our very own Awana missionary, David Roach here to visit one evening as well. On Wednesday evenings we are continuing to have our Music & Missions time for our children from ages 3 through 5 th grade from 6:30-7:30: Praise Pals (3 yr. olds - Kindergarten) and Power Up! (1 st -5 th grades). The children are continuing to learn Christmas songs that they will share on Sunday evening, December 7 th and then also on each evening of the Dinner Theater (Wed., Dec. 10 th, Fri., Dec. 12 th, Sat., Dec. 13 th & Sun., Dec. 14 th ). The Power Up group will also be traveling to a local retirement home to share Candles of Christmas with them too. We are continuing to see the children learn more about Jesus and His love for his people and how we can reach out and share His love with those around us. Mark your calendars now for CentriKid Camp, which is for students that have completed 3 rd through 5 th grade. We will be at Gardner-Webb University from July 6 th -10 th. The total cost for camp will be $180. A deposit of $90 will be due by February 1 st and the remaining balance of $90 will be due by June 1 st. Hope all our 3 rd through 5 th graders will be able to join us. CentriKid is always a blast! I m very excited that we will again be having a Junior Co-Ed Basketball Team (Grades 4-6) this year in the Hoops4Him league. It is going to be a fun season. They will practice (most weeks) on Tuesdays from 5:45-7:00 in the CLC. Their games will be played, mostly on Saturday mornings, at College Park Baptist. Look for more information to follow in the bulletin and on our church and OTBC KidzTown Facebook pages. You are all invited to come and cheer on the team. One VERY IMPORTANT closing thought did you know that it takes around 90 volunteers (yes, 90!!!) to spend time with, share Jesus with and love on the children of OTBC during the services on Sundays and Wednesdays from nursery to Small Town to Mid Town to Big Town to Puggles to Cubbies to Sparks to T&T to Praise Pals to Power Up and more! It definitely takes lots of wonderful volunteers to make things happen when it comes to our children's ministries. We do have really great volunteers, however we are always looking for more folks to join us and are really in great need at this time. Have you considered helping out? We can definitely use some more help in our worship care ministry...that is our greatest and most pressing need at this time. Please consider helping out. You can contact me or Linda Barham to help fill one of the many spots that we have for November and the coming months. Thank you for your continued support and encouragement! Please contact Mrs. Shannon with any questions that you may have either by calling the church office or by at scallahan@otbclife.org. Hope you have a very special November!

9 Ladies of Old Town, you are officially invited to Dessert & Design Tuesday November 18 th 6:00-8:15pm Cost is $22.00 per person (please bring money on the night of the event) Join us for an evening of delicious desserts and learn how to find and embrace your inner creative side. Artist Heather Jones will be leading the evening and she will be teaching us how to paint our very own masterpiece! Step by step, Heather will demonstrate and paint along side your group showing how to mix colors, use paint brushes properly, and achieve the desired effects for your chosen theme. Beginners are welcome! If you have painted before or know little about the subject, the easy to follow phases of each theme are simple and produce beautiful personally created artwork! This monogram pumpkin is what we will be painting. 1. Please RSVP as soon as possible. The maximum capacity for the party is 30 people and the sign ups are first come first serve. We will provide childcare, but you must make reservations ahead of time for your child/children. Please contact Cindy Johnson via for all reservations. 2. Wear clothes that can get messy! 3. Bring a dessert to share with everyone! We will provide everything else! (As always, please do not let cost be a factor. If you need financial assistance in order to participate, please contact the church office at ) Bring your gift-filled shoebox to share the Good News about God s love with children around the world. Shoe Box Dedication Sunday: November 16 Bring boxes to OTBC through November 17. Day Trip to OCC Center in Charlotte on December 1 Join the fun of packing shoeboxes for shipment around the world. A trip to the Charlotte Processing Center is planned for Monday, December 1 st. Everyone (age 13 and above) is welcome, though sign up is required. See the sign up sheet next to the Deacon Bulletin Board. Participants will leave the church at 7:00 a.m. (sharp) and return by 4:30 p.m. For more information, please contact Shelba Finger at

10 We exist to see God establish a Gospel-centered, multicultural expression of the church for His glory and for the city of Winston-Salem. Believing the gospel transforms all things, we exist to Exalt Jesus, Equip believers and Engage the world Worship Gathering > 6:15 pm at Old Town Baptist Church (4386 Shattalon Drive) Contact Info: Jason Ledford > Lead Pastor ( ) Facebook: TapestryChurchWS Tapestry Church Core Team Members: Jason & Carla Ledford, Matthew & Tatia Wooten, Max & Cynthia Greer, Alan & Debbie Parker, Gregg Persons, Zach & Stephanie Watkins, Mike & Marie Cannon, Julia Miller, Lee & Whitney Plunkett, Heidi Cole, Josh Cole, Donnie & Aletta Lane, Matt & Kristi Brannon & 15 kids + 2 more on the way J Prayer for Team Members: Growing in their love and obedience to Christ Walking by the Spirit daily Deepening love for one another Marriages to be strengthened and protected Family discipleship To have servant s hearts Eyes to see the harvest and hands & feet to engage the needs Boldness to proclaim the Gospel Prayer for South Fork area: Pray for every man, woman & child to have multiple opportunities to hear the Gospel where they live, work and play without having to come or go anywhere Provision of a central place to gather for worship & ministry For the staff, faculty and families of South Fork Elementary School Pray for persons of peace to be found throughout the SF community Pray for wisdom and creativity in seeking to engage the diversity that exists in the SF area Pray for the ability to partner with other churches in the SF area for the purpose of expanding His Kingdom