THE SIGNAL. From Your Pastor s Heart. SWANSEA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Post Office Box 550 Swansea, SC

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1 SWANSEA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Post Office Box 550 Swansea, SC NON PROFIT ORG US POSTAGE PAID LEXINGTON, SC PERMIT NO. 107 THE SIGNAL Return Service Requested The Signal is published monthly by the Swansea First Baptist Church of Swansea, SC. Volume 22 Issue 8 August 2011 From Your Pastor s Heart August is going to be an exciting time for the Wilders. I am sitting in the office writing this article on Sunday night, July 31st waiting to head to the hospital for the new grandbaby. Brent and Jeanette are excited as well. It is going to be a lot of fun having two granddaughters after raising those two boys. But we cannot be more pleased. I have to admit it is hard for me to go to the store without buying something for that little girl. There is just something in the way she calls me, Papa. I know that school is fixing to begin and a new year for our Sunday School. I want to thank the Nominating Committee for all the work they have done. They have truly worked hard and thanks to John Sturkie for his leadership. I ll see you Sunday and show you a few pictures!

2 August March Birthdays 2nd.Sierra Saylor 1st.Michael Hamp McCarson Redmond Deborah Ashleigh McCarson Steen 3rd..Duane Kristen Steinhoff Jay 4th Jane Ann Meredith Jenna Redmond 6th...Linda Cassidy 4th..Bill Annie Mack Deal Donnie Laura Hoffman Pound Tammy Ronnie Hoffman Caudill 5th.. Robert C.J. Hoffman Taylor 9th...Michael 7th...Wilma Luongo Davis Carrie Garrett 9th...Bryan Corley 11th...Catherine Nates 11th...Gladys 12th.Phillis Redmond King Wayne Jessica Fowler Calp 12th.Rebecca 13th..James Redmond Sharpe 14th..Becky 15th.Nancy Zeigler Blithe Tyler Christian Dasher Hill 18th.Jordan Redmond 16th...Adam Jumper 19th..Shelley Wannamaker 20th.....Shelton 18th...David Zeigler Hoffman Jr. Susan Joe Norris Lucas Leigh Peyton Ann Pearrow Teal 21st...James 20th..Chad Williams Moore 22nd..Brandy 21st Permilia Luongo Pearrow Della Adkins Alan Hoffman Linda Watts 22nd...Jean 23rd.Brenda Hoffman Burns Melodie Tom Sharpe Bennett 24th.....Haley 24th...Jeff Corley Mack 27th..Rhonda 25th....Jay Kirkland Rast 28th.....Jack Colin Williams Burns 27th..Cale Williams Dawson Sandifer 28th....Denise Ward Isaac Lisa Sandifer Dasher 29th..Carter Livingston Kim Goodwin 29th..Margaret Sharpe 31st.....Jan Marie Booth Amanda Williams Brent Wilder Jonathan Crider Sarah Watts The Signal is published monthly by the Swansea First Baptist Church in Swansea, South Carolina. The Swansea First Baptist Church is in friendly cooperation with the Lexington Baptist Association, the South Carolina Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention. The Church Staff The Senior Pastor Reverend Terry C. Wilder Minister of Music Mr. Chad Meredith Student Minister Reverend Rev. John John N. Harmon Parish Nurse Mrs. Angie Redmond The Organist Mrs. Jane Ann Meredith The Pianists Mrs. Brenda Hoffman Mrs. Jackie Cagle The Secretary Mrs. Joyce Saylor Preschool Director Mrs. Diane Goodwin Custodian Mrs. Kim Taylor In the event of a change of address please contact the church office: Swansea First Baptist Church 145 South Church Street Post Office Box 550 Swansea, South Carolina (803) The Church Website Seniors Will Visit Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Join the senior adults and adults for a trip to Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on Sumter Street for a tour of their new renovations. They have spent millions to restore their cathedral and we will have a guided tour on August 30. After the tour, the group will eat lunch at Red Lobster. Join us for a short day trip. Sign up in the hall. We will be departing at 10:15am on Tuesday, August 30th. ******************************************************* Metallic Club Join the Metallic Club for our monthly meeting on Monday, August 15 at 11:00am. John Harmon will be our guest speaker. He will share with us about Community Changers 2011 including a video from the weeks activities. Join the group at 11:00am for food, fellowship, and good information. Welcome Senior New Adult Members: Trip Last month By Baptism: the trip to the JAARS Center was cancelled Cole Baker due to the winter weather forecast for that day. On March 17, the Adults and Senior Adults will travel to Waxhaw, NC to visit the JAARS Center. ******************************************************** The Please group remember will be Mrs. introduced Lottie Smith to in their unique your prayers. role in If Bible you would translation like to through write videos, to her or interactive send her presentations, a card her address and a is tour of below. their campus and museums. They recommend Mrs. you Lottie wear Smith comfortable shoes and they will make special arrangements if the Room 205 group can t walk the distance. Life Care Center of Columbia Lunch will be in their dining hall. The cost 2514 will Faraway be around Drive $7.00 plus tax. We will be Columbia, leaving at SC 7:45am on Thursday, March 17th. Please sign up in the hall if ********************************************************* you would like to be a part of this very interesting Congratulations tour. Franki and Haley **************************************** Franki Jumper and Haley Meredith were named to The State newspaper s All Area 2A Girls Metallic Soccer Team. Club They both were also On selected Monday, to March the North-South 21, the Metallic All Star Club Classic. will meet Franki at 11:00am. Jumper was At this meeting named by we The will State play Bingo after the business as the All Area session. 2A At 12 o clock the group Girls Soccer fellowships Player together while eating a of delicious the Year. home-cooked Congratulations, for information, we are fun, food, and meal. Join the group conversation. proud of you.

3 Student Ministry News The saying goes that time flies when you are having fun and this summer has flown by. We have had a busy and productive summer. It seems like just yesterday that we were celebrating our graduates and their accomplishments. Now we are right around the corner from school starting back. We have one more event planned before we all start back to school. Coming up on August 10 th we have our annual end of the summer pool party. The pool party is open to all rising 7 th graders through our graduated seniors. This year we are going to the home of Tommy and Brenda Bryant and using their pool. We will have pizza for dinner along with other snacks and desserts. As usual the normal swimsuit rule applies for girls. The party is from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. If possible we are asking if you will meet us at the Bryant s house. If you need a ride please let me know and we will work something out, as of now we are not planning to take the bus. The Bryant s live at: 664 Archwood St. Gaston, SC Last month we had a great week at Community Changers. We had a great group of students working here that week, you should be proud of them. We are looking forward to the opportunity to share about our week with the church on an upcoming Wednesday night, I hope you will make plans to be here. I cannot thank the adults that helped us throughout the week enough. Ronnie Dasher, Doug McGaha, Gene and Angie Redmond, Marty Mack, Faye Stabler, Charlyse McCarson, Terry Wilder, Buck Brazell, Kary Hoffman, and Darren Smith all helped on our job sites. Serenity Martin and Lisa Dasher brought some of the GA s out to help as well. Becky Zeigler and Lori Myers helped with some of our meals. Jim Kinard, Cathy Nates, and Daniel Buzhardt gave some nights to stay as chaperones. Thank you for all that you did, we could not have done this week without you. We are already looking forward and setting plans for Community Changers 2012, we hope that you will be involved. In Christ, John Harmon 2 Tim 2:15 *****Don t forget to check out the calendar for upcoming events***** Meredith Moments I hope all of you are enjoying the summer heat as the temperatures some days are reaching a tormenting 100 degrees! In any case, as we prepare for another school year, Jane Ann and I are excited to get back to work with the children s choir. We will start children s choir rehearsal the Wednesday after Labor Day. Therefore, we are one month away from getting things kicked off again. Wow how time flies! Speaking of how time flies, we will take Haley to Erskine College on August 14 th. This was sort of a last minute change and may come as a surprise, as I know that many of you were aware of her plans to attend USC Columbia as a commuter this fall. She will, however, be attending Erskine on an academic and soccer scholarship. I am both excited and depressed at the same time. Though I will miss Haley, I know she is doing what she feels the Lord has planned for her life. I am very proud of Haley, but even more so, I am proud of her commitment to the Lord! I appreciate all of your prayers for our family and our soccer family during this difficult time. All of our hearts were deeply saddened with passing of Crystal Torres and her brother Brian. Crystal was Hannah s good friend and riding partner (on the bus) to soccer games. I will miss the cackle of these two laughing in the seat behind the bus driver which was ME! Crystal was a neat, bright, and talented young lady who was a friend to all she came in contact with. She was loved by her friends, her team, and her coach. I will close with some paraphrased words from Terry s Wednesday night prayer meeting about a week ago: I choose to remember Crystal, not by her short life, but rather by the quality of life she was able to live. You see, she was a remarkable young girl who was devoted to her church and committed to Jesus Christ. Even though I will miss her smile and her kind heart, these are the kinds of qualities I will always fondly remember about her! In Christ, Chad

4 August Bible Reading Plan 1st 2 Sam. 18 Jer. 22 Rom. 9 16th 1 Kings 11 Jer. 37 Mark 11 2nd 2 Sam. 19 Jer. 23 Rom th 1 Kings 12 Jer. 38 Mark 12 3rd 2 Sam Jer. 24 Rom th 1 Kings 13 Jer. 39 Mark 13 4th 2 Sam. 22 Jer. 25 Rom th 1 Kings 14 Jer. 40 Mark 14 5th 2 Sam. 23 Jer. 26 Rom th 1 Kings 15 Jer. 41 Mark 15 6th 2 Sam. 24 Jer. 27 Mark 1 21st 1 Kings 16 Jer. 42 Mark 16 7th 1 Kings 1 Jer. 28 Mark 2 22nd 1 Kings 17 Jer Cor th 1 Kings 2 Jer. 29 Mark 3 23rd 1 Kings 18 Jer Cor. 3 9th 1 Kings 3 Jer. 30 Mark 4 24th 1 Kings 19 Jer Cor th 1 Kings 4-5 Jer. 31 Mark 5 25th 1 Kings 20 Jer Cor. 6 11th 1 Kings 6 Jer. 32 Mark 6 26th 1 Kings 21 Jer Cor. 7 12th 1 Kings 7 Jer. 33 Mark 7 27th 1 Kings 22 Jer Cor th 1 Kings 8 Jer. 34 Mark 8 28th 2 Kings 1-2 Jer Cor th 1 Kings 9 Jer. 35 Mark 9 29th 2 Kings 3 Jer Cor th 1 Kings 10 Jer. 36 Mark 10 30th 2 Kings 4 Jer Cor st 2 Kings 5 Lam. 1 1 Cor. 14 The Student Ministry at Swansea First Baptist Church will GIVE GOD THE GLORY with everything we do; and we will have FUN while GROWING TOGETHER, MEETING OTH- ERS NEEDS, and SPREADING THE WORD. Mark Your Calendars August 10 th End of the Summer Pool Party 5:00 pm 8:00 Tommy and Brenda Bryant s home August 16 th Back to School ***Be on the lookout for other events and fundraisers.*** You Are Invited. Sewing Party August 27, :00am 1:00pm We will be making dresses for girls, shorts for boys, and bags for medicines. The Kenya Mission Team will take the dresses and shorts to the to the children in our orphanages. The medicine bags are used during the medical clinics. Items you can bring to help: Portable Sewing Machines Irons and Ironing Boards Pieces of Cloth Ribbon Scissors/Straight Pins/Needles Thread/2 Gallon Plastic Bags/Yarn Every one can help-whether you sew or not there will be something you can do. Please join us we plan to have a sewing party each month until August or until we have a lot of dresses, shorts, and bags to take to Kenya.

5 Community Changers Bee-Havior Yesterday I was thinking, now what am I going to write about this month? I had no idea and then I picked up a magazine and saw an article entitled Lessons from the Insect World. There was an interesting article about Honeybees and their highly intellectual society. As I read the article it reminded me of the work of the Community Changers last week. So I give credit to Christian Woman Magazine. First, there are three kinds of bees in a hive, worker bees (which by the way are female) that take on many jobs such as housekeeper, nurse maid, construction worker, and grocer. There are drones or male bees (which do no work at all) in the colony and then of course the queen bee which only has one job to lay eggs. There is a division of labor among the colony. And so it was with Community Changers, but I must admit our drones worked just as hard as the worker bees. We all had different projects that required different talents. Not all of us could paint, but we could plant butterfly bushes and flowers. Some helped take care of the flowers at Flowers for Bibles. While other projects required hammers and nails, cutting boards for floors carpenter skills. Let s not forget we also had queen bees that were site leaders. Our individual talents worked together for the good of the group that eventually completed the project. Read 1 Corinthians 12:14-31 which says that each part of our body has a unique design and it takes each and every part working together to accomplish a task. Communication is a key component to the survival of the bee hive. The field bees go out scout for food and come back and dance as a means of communicating the exact location where food can be found. At Community Changers we had LOTS AND LOTS of communication day and night from ideas about how to complete a job to pulling pranks and laughing a bunch. In our spiritual community we need to learn how to communicate with each other not only with words but expressions such as smiling, patting each other on the back and hugs. Galatians 6:2 says we should bare each other s burdens but without communication we won t know each other s needs or sorrows. A proper diet is also necessary for the bees to survive. They eat mostly honey. But we know man does not survive on bread alone. At Community Changers there was food. good food provided by many for all. It was appreciated by everyone. In addition, spiritual food was provided by youth leaders, pastors, chaperones and many caring adults. Each night there were devotionals and some decisions were contemplated. Philippians 4:8 reminds us that we need to have a good healthy spiritual diet in order to concentrate on that which is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent or praiseworthy. Last week was a good week. The hive thrived! Projects were completed and there was a sense of accomplishment in serving the Lord. Until next time, Angie Redmond, RN or angela.redmond@palmettohealth.org Gel Packs For Sale The 2011 Kenya Mission Team is selling gel packs from Accurate Manufacturing as a fundraiser for our trip. We greatly appreciate Mr. Doug McCarthy for working with us on this fundraiser. The gel packs can be used either hot or cold. Please see one of the mission team members or the church office if you would like to place an order. 10x15 $ x18 $ x25 $15.00 Eye Mask $10.00 Penguin Pack $5.00 Kenya Mission Team 2011 Ron Rowe Terry Wilder Ed Huggins Brett Brown Faye Stabler Deloris Zeigler Nancy Redmond The Kenya Mission Team and dates have now been finalized. Please pray for this team as we leave on Sunday, September 11 at 2:30 pm. We will fly to Washington, DC, then to Zurich, Switezerland and into Nairobi. We will spend the night and then fly to Kitale and then to Turkana for two days. We will then fly back to Kitale and spend four days. Then we get on our van and head to Kissi and spend three days with Charlie at the St. Karen s Smith Orphanage. Then we will travel to Narok for a day and then back to Nairobi for two nights. We are going to have a great time! We will fly out of Nairobi on Friday night, September 23rd at 11:10 pm, arrive in Brussels, Belgium at 6:30 am, fly out of Belgium at noon arriving in Washington at 2:26 pm and leaving Washington at 5:10 and arriving in Columbia at 6:37 pm on Saturday, September 24th. We want to thank you for all your support of our trip and we have raised a great deal of the money because of your generosity. If you would like to help with the expenses you may continue to do so.