June & July. God is Here... is our theme for this summer and we will carry it with us wherever we go.

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1 June & July Summer 2017 Newletter June 4 June 5-8 June 11 June June 17 June 21 June 25 June 29 July 8-15 July 21 July 23 Upcoming Events VBS Kickoff 5:00-6:30p.m. Church Parking Lot Vacation Bible School 9:00-12:00 Ages 3-6th Grade Church Picnic Lee Newton Park Youth Camp Out Tricycle Races 9:30-11:30a.m. For Children who have completed kindergaten and younger. Mommy & Me Playdate Jasper Duck Pond Park All babies, toddlers, preschoolers & moms! YMT Participant Meetings 4:00 Adults 5:00 Youth & Parents Cline Park Splash Pad Cline Park All families with children invited! Youth White Water Trip Sign up by June 21 Reverse Photo Scavenger Hunt 5:30-7:30 in Walker Hall 1st - 6th grade YMT 2017 Brunswick, GA Morningstar CSF Children's Movie Night 5:30-8:00 in Walker Hall completed pre-k - 6th grade Rome Braves Game 2:00pm - For anyone! $11 per person. Sign up by July 2. God is Here... is our theme for this summer and we will carry it with us wherever we go. There are God Is Here! signs in the office, chapel, and narthex for you to take with you and take pictures to post on social media with #whereverfbcjgoes. Church members will also be sharing in worship where they see God present in our life together as a congregation. If you would like to share, contact Greg. We will conclude our summer series with a Homecoming Celebration on Sunday, July 30. Many of us travel throughout the summer, but when you are in town, make every effort to be present for worship and Bible Study. We will begin on Saturday, June 3rd with a 12-hour prayer vigil (9:00am 9:00pm) asking to be made more fully aware of God s presence among us. You can participate in the vigil by signing up for a 15 minute time slot by ing Greg Pope or the office. In the month of July we will hold only one service at 11:00 in the sanctuary in order to give our worship band a rest and to take some time for creative planning. During this series we will dig deeper into who God is calling us to be a congregation and how we can use our gifts in our church and community. We look forward to a summer of growth and action! *see full sermon schedule on pg. 6* Monthly Meditation "I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." -Joshua 1:9

2 Summer Children's Acvitities! Vacation Bible School + Kickoff Party Sunday, June 4 at 5:00 Corner Parking Lot or Welcome Center if raining. Come enjoy creativity stations, hot dogs, and register for VBS! +VBS June 5-8 9:00-12:00 Ages 3 (by 9/1/16) completed 6th Grade Tricycle Races Saturday, June 17 9:30-11:30 Completed kindergarten and younger Bring your tricycle and race with your friends! There will be an obstacle course, popsicles, bounce house, and more! Dress to get wet because we ll have a sprinkler you can ride through, too! Sign up by Wednesday, June 14th. Playdate June 21 at 9:30 Jasper Duck Pond All babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their moms are invited! Meet at the small playground and enjoy time at the park with other parents and their little ones! Cline Park Splash Pad Sunday, June 25 at 5:00-7:00 Cline Park 704 Bartow St, Waleska, GA All families invited! Bring your swimsuit, sunscreen, and a picnic for your family to enjoy! There s a splash pad, playground, and covered pavilion with tables! Fun for the whole family! Reverse Photo Scavenger Hunt Thursday, June 29 5:30-7:30 Walker Hall Completed 1st-6th grade Enjoy a fun evening of pizza and a scavenger hunt with a twist! Each team will receive a list of pictures taken somewhere in the church. Their mission to identify the picture and take a matching picture of the item. It s a race against the clock and the other teams! Sign up required by Sunday, June 25th. Movie Night Friday, July 21 5:30-8:00 Walker Hall Completed PreK 6th Grade Enjoy pizza, popcorn, and of course, The Peanuts Movie! Bring a blanket or sleeping bag and a pillow to get cozy for the movie. Sign up required by Wednesday, July 19th.

3 Summer Youth Events Youth Summer Bible Study EVERY WEDNESDAY 5:30-7:00PM Revive! reminds us what it means to be alive and made new in Christ. It also gives us an opportunity to reconnect with each other and God after a busy school year. For all students completed 7th-12th grades! June 8 POOL PARTY 1:30 McCrary s Carpool from church after VBS lunch 14 Water Revive! wear clothes you don t mind getting dirty and wet! 16th 17th Camp Mrs. DuBose A summer tradition! Bring your sleeping bag, fishing poles, and happy camper attitudes! Meet at the church Friday. We will eat dinner at the camp out. Pick up at the church at 9:00am Saturday. 20 Stone Mountain (details TBA) 25 YMT Youth Participant Meeting 5:00pm 29 White Water sign up with Annie by June 21. $30 - $40 based on how many attend. Leave church at 9:00am Pick up at 5:00pm July 5 pack uhaul for YMT advance crew 6 YMT advance crew leaves 8th 15th YMT 2017 Brunswick, Ga $150 per student Morningstar CFS more info given at meeting June 25th 23 Rome Braves game 2:00 pm leave from 12pm bring money for lunch and dinner sign up by July 2 and pay ahead by July 19 $11 per person 25 - YMT Participant Meeting 5:00pm - All youth partcipants & their parents must attend 29 White Water Rafting Nantahala, NC Prices & info TBA This trip is a yearly tradition! 30 YMT Report Service 10:00am

4 Memorial & Honorarium Contributions In Memory of Jennie Boggan Gerald & MaryJane Reid Frances Wagner Walt & Vesta Doster Mary Ann DuBose Mary Smith Mike & Kathy Westbrook Dan & Rebecca Forrester Dennis & Mahala Moore Catherine M. Woodall Victoria M. Crider Kyle & Cassie Rasco The Ladies of WMU/Lamplighters Reeder & Robin Burch Robert & Kitty Baldwin Bill & Angie Hall Loretta Hicks Glenn & Betty Mullinax John & Phyllis Sloope George & Brenda Weaver Alvin & Hettie Young Albert & Elizabeth Hamrick David & Helen Stuart In Memory of Leon Gay Stan & Jeanne Barnett Mark & Debra Hinton Milt & Norma Wilson Janice Andrews In Memory of Elizabeth Stuart Gerald & Martha Allen In Memory of Rocilles Allen Gerald & Martha Allen In Memory of Jeff Bennett Loretta Hicks Robert & Kitty Baldwin In Memory of Tim Burton Ann Wall Lamplighters: Women on Mission Thursday, June 15 10:15a.m. meet to carpool North Georgia Pregnancy Center tour & meeting All ladies are invited to attend and join us for lunch afterward at the Woodbridge Inn Restaurant Homecoming Sunday, July 30 10:00 Mission Trip Report in Chapel 11:00 Worship in Sanctuary 12:00 Lunch in Walker Hall May Sanctuary Flowers 5/7 Given by Sam Thompson and Sara Williams in honor of their wedding anniversary. 5/14 Given by Angie Higgins & Miriam Hudgins in memory of Mrs. W. T. Bradley & Doris Bradley Carver 5/21 Given by Jean Hanley in gratitude for the Wednesday Kitchen Crew! 5/28 Give by Mary Ann DuBose in honor of our 2017 Graduates!

5 During the summer months we are participating in a church wide project called "God is here!" During June & July our congregation often scatters between family vacations, mission trips, kids & youth camps, visiting loved ones, and weekend or day trips. The challenge is this - to take a sign that says "God is here!" with you and your family, snap a picture, and post it on social media with the hashtag #whereverfbcjgoes. The hashtag will link all the posts together so Annie can gather them together. If you don't use social media, the pictures to youth@fbcjasper.com. This project is a reminder to us that no matter where we go, inside or out of the church, God is already there and is with you! Be creative with the pictures and check out Facebook, Instagram, and the August newsletter to see the adventures of our church family! If you didn't get a sign on Sunday, come by the church office and pick one up! 1 2 H o u r P r a y e r V i g i l Saturday, June 3 9:00a m - 9 : 0 0 p m sign up for a 15 minute time slot by calling or ing Greg or the church office We ask that you select one of 12 categories of our life together as a family of faith to provide focus for your prayer: 1) eyes to see where God is present 2) people sharing themselves, their gifts, and their resources through the church 3) for each person to find their place of ministry in the church 4) for us to walk faithfully in the way of Jesus 5) a strengthened sense of community 6) the courage to share our faith in word and deed beyond the walls of the church 7) for us to be a house of prayer & worship for all 8) for us to see worship as a time to offer ourselves to God 9) Vacation Bible School 10) Mission Trip 11) the ministerial staff, deacon body, the sick and hurting in our church 12) Jasper community and the larger world. Morningstar Child & Family Services Brunswick, GA Contact Kyle Rasco or Annie Sutton with interest or questions. We need: - $8000 in monetary donations - food & kitchen donations - prayer & prayer partners - people to go A letter with needed food & kitchen supplies will be coming through or printed in your Sunday School classes. To give monetarily pay online under the "Mission Trip (YMT)" fund, put "mission trip" or "ymt" in the check memo line, or pay cash in an envelope labeled "YMT." To attend sign up before June 25 & attend the participant meeting: 4:00 adult meeting 5:00 parents & youth meeting

6 Wednesday Nights in the Summer Starting June 14 Bill Stone will be teaching a series entiled "Embracing the Prophets" by Walter Brueggemann. There will be no Wednesday night dinner or children's activities through the summer. Adult Bible Study begins at 6:00 in Walker Hall. June 7 - greg pope teaching, lesson tba June 14 - "Moses, Pharaoh, the Prophets and Us" June 21 - bill out, lesson tba June 28 - "The Prophets as Uncredentialed Purveryors of Covenant" July 5 - no meeting for 4th of July week July 12 - "Moral Coherence in a World of Power, Money and Violence" July 19 - "The Shrill Rhetoric that Breaks Denial" July 26 - "The Grief of Loss as Divine Judgement" Aug 2 - "The Promissory Language that Breaks Despair" Happy June Birthday! 1 - Krista Newton 2 - Bill Hall 6 - Clint Chapman, Lynn Weaver, Sandra Payne 7 - Treva Lee 8 - Sara Williams, Dwayne Daniels 9 - Thomas Johnson 11 - Georgie Weaver, Brad Rutledge 12- Ashley Preisinger, Helen Stuart 13 - JJ Roper 14- Robert Kelley, Jerry Bohannon, Claire Callahan, Mary Zuidema 15 - Jackson Jones 17 - June Ingram 18 - Tucker Burch 19 - Seth Cronic, Alan Jent 20 - Hettie Young, Mike Westbrook 21 - Angela Higgins 23 - Earl Gaskins, Holly Miller, Neil Boggan, Michael Bravo 24 - Myrna Denson, Frances Wagner, Albert Hamrick 25 - Sandi Denson, Chuck Payne 26 - Brian Russell, Marla Callahan 28 - Rebecca Forrester, Harper Childers, Henley Childers 29 - Will Denson, Tripp Shaw 30 - Gerald Allen, Sharon Wofford, Misty Henderson, Sam davis God is here a summer series on our life together June 4 - A Church Full of Gifts 1 Corinthians 12 The Celebration of Holy Communion June 11 - A Church with Glad & Generous Hearts 2 Corinthians 8-9 June 18 - Annie Sutton Preaching June 25 - A Church Following in the Way of Jesus Matthew 4: :00 Service only through the month of July. July 2 - A Church Living, Serving, and Praying Together Acts 2:42-47 Commissioning of our Mission Trip Team July 9 - A Church who Shares our Faith 1 John 1:1-5 & Acts 4:32-35 July 16 - A Church of Prayer & Worship for all People Acts 2:42-47 July 2 - A Church in Covenant Community Acts 2:42-47 July 2 - A Church that is Home Acts 2:42-47 HOMECOMING God & Country Roman Brass Band July 2 6:00pm Sanctuary Church Wide Picnic June 11 5:00-7:00 Lee Newton Park Bring a potluck side to share!

7 June 2017 Church Calendar Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Schedule: 9:00 AM Chapel 10:00 AM Sunday School 11:00 AM Sanctuary Pray for One Another: On the calendar you will find the names of Church Members to pray for five days a week. Please remember them in your daily prayers. (James 5:16) 1 Ben & Kristin Stuart Henry 2 David & Helen Stuart 3 Prayer Vigil 9:00am - 9:00pm *schedule on separate page* 8 Youth Pool Party McCrary's 9 10 Vaction Bible School 9:00am - 12:00pm VBS Kick Off & Registration 5:00pm Hannah Stuart 13 Misty Sullivan Annie Sutton Youth Revive! 5:30pm Frances Swain Monroe & Nan Swilley Church Picnic 5:00-7:00 Nancy Teague Judy & Terry Roland Barabara Thomanson WMU 10:30am Seana Thompson Tim Thuma Tricycle Race 9:30-11:30 Youth Revive! 5:30pm Youth Camp Mrs. DuBose Lora Tilley 20 Youth Stone Mountain Trip 21 Mommy & Me Park Playdate Duck Pond 22 Jody Vann 23 Janet Vardaman 24 Jim Trimby Lucy VanDoran Youth Revive! 5:30pm 25 YMT Meetings: 4:00 Adults 5:00 Youth & Parents 26 Betty Videon 27 Keith Wade 28 Frances Wagner 29 Youth White Water Howard & Phyllis Walker 30 Cline Park Splash Pad 5:00-7:00 Youth Revive! 5:30pm Reverse Photo Scavenger Hunt 5:30-7:30 1st - 6th graders

8 An abbreviated version of the Newsletter will be sent for the month of July. It will include July Birthdays, Church Calendar, Deacons of the Week, Memorials/Honorariums, and Sanctuary Flowers. For ministry news and worship calendar, please retain this Summer Newsletter. Thank you! - FBC Jasper Staff 2017 Deacon Body Brenda Weaver Rick Goble Kym McCrary Chair Vice Chair Secretary/Treasurer Gerald Allen Reeder Burch Albert Hamrick Marcia McDaniel Patton Childers Kevin Crowe Bill Hall Chuck Payne Glenn Rasco Kathy Westbrook Matt Dunn Pauline Maturo Scott Powell Brian Russel Leigh Ann Williams Deacon of the Week: 6/4 6/11 6/18 6/23 Chuck Payne Kathy Westbrook Brian Russell Brenda Weaver & Marcia McDaniel Next Deacons' Meeting: June 12 at 7:00 in Walker Hall following the Finance Meeting at 5:30. In the spirit of Jesus who said, the first shall be last and the last shall be first, the staff is listed alphabetically backward: Brenda Weaver, Chair of Deacons - basw54@gmail.com Annie Sutton, Minister of Youth & Outreach - youth@fbcjasper.com David Stuart, Minister of Music Emeritus - davidstuart52@hotmail.com Cassie Rasco, Preschool Director - preschool@fbcjasper.com Greg Pope, Pastor - gregpope43@gmail.com Matt Newton, Associate Pastor/Music and Administration - music@fbcjasper.com Ruth Mehari, 9:00 Worship Leader - rf.mehari@yahoo.com Kim Mason, Minister to Children - children@fbcjasper.com Christie Beiring, Office Administrator - office@fbcjasper.com On our website! Subscribe to church s - get ministry updates, notifications, reminders, and newsletters Send a prayer request or message to the staff Give online Watch past worship services