The Encourager June 2016

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1 Lakeview Baptist church The Encourager June 2016 Message from our pastor Recently, a friend introduced me to the writings of Carey Nieuwhoff, a pastor living north of Toronto, Canada. Many of his articles have proven to be wise and helpful. (I encourage you to check out some of his writings at careynieuwhof.com). Recently, he wrote an article entitled 3 Words You Should Drop From Your Vocabulary Starting Now. As I browsed the article, I quickly found that it had significant application for leaders and members of a church. Let me summarize and quote heavily from his article to see if you agree. The words: Someone. Something. Someday. Someone. You know how this comes up. Someone should do something about that. Someone should fix that. Someone should step up. Someone really means no one. Here are some handy substitutes: I will do something about it today. I m going to ask Josh to have that fixed by Friday. Every single day, I m going to ask five people to tackle the problem until someone steps up and says yes. You can t build the future on someone. Something. You ve said it. We need to do something about that. I m sure that s true. But the translation is that no one will do anything about it at all. Not until you become clear and specific. Exactly what needs to be done? If you can t define the solution, you haven t even properly diagnosed the problem. But answer those specific questions and things change. Then you have a plan. Someday. Leaders can t help but dream about someday. I dream and think about the future every single day. But someday is also the graveyard of too many dreams and far too much vision. You re going to radically change your church someday. You re going to break that bad habit someday. You re going to get organized someday. And someday never comes. Days become months which become years and absolutely nothing happens. Someday actually means never. Jeffrey E. Garten has rightly pointed out that vision without execution is a hallucination. Far too many leaders hallucinate. If you can t put a calendar date on it, then put a year on it and reverse engineer toward it. Sure, you ll encounter setbacks, but only the determined eventually break through. I m a far better leader when I stop talking about someone doing something someday. You are too. * * * What do you think? Can you think of some ways in which this article is personally applicable? Do you have dreams that are unrealized? Do you have goals that you can t seem to reach? Is it because you ve used these three unhelpful, vague words? Probably. I m guilty, too. So let s commit, together, to rid ourselves of such talk. Let s get specific on the who, the what, and the when, when it comes to our mission as a church. Let s fulfill our church s potential to make disciples! Adam

2 THE ENCOURAGER PAGE 2 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Our 2016 Graduates College: Aaron Begley Bachelors degree in Psychology, Western Michigan University Caitlin Hicks Psalm 23:6 Bachelors in Social Work, Western Michigan University High School: Emily Batch Lakeview High School David Mohney, nephew of Rich & Deb Zesiger Mattawan High School Nate Ritzler, grandson of Ed Ritzler John Adams High School, South Bend, IN. Plans to attend Indiana University Tyler Smith, late nephew of Rich & Deb Zesiger Would have graduated with his cousin, David Mohney, from Mattawan High School Jacob Trumbull, grandson of Dick & Betty Trumbull Marshall High School

3 PAGE 3 Congratulations, Lakeview Baptist Food Pantry Day Friday, June 3rd (9:30 am) Class of Please contact Hal Longman if you are willing to share your time with this ministry. 2016! Notice for Graduating Seniors Graduation Recognition will be Sunday, June 5 during morning worship and coffee hour. Please advise the church office if there is a graduate in your family you would like to honor. Scholarship Grants: Grants are available to members of Lakeview Baptist Church who are interested in pursuing or continuing educational activity beyond the high school level at an accredited college or university. Applications are available in the church office. Please submit completed applications to the church office by Sunday, June 26, All applicants must be an active member and have attended regularly or on a reasonable basis. Beckley Road Meijer Simply Give cards Please note the Beckley Road Meijer Simply Give cards will benefit all of the Neighborhood Food Pantries. Please pick one up today and help support our pantry. We will receive double the benefit during June 3-5. Any purchases made during this time will give the Lakeview Pantry double the usual benefit. Simply Give

4 THE ENCOURAGER PAGE 4 SMALL GROUPS Sunday AM 3rd Tuesday of each month XYZ All retirees of the church are invited! The Gift of Faith Studies in Mark & Luke Sundays, 9 AM LBC Church Office Contact: Ted Headings, The next meeting will be Tuesday, June 21, :30 am Meet in church parlor for devotions with Connie Summers. Eating out and fellowship at Liz s Parkview Café Richland Wednesdays AM 10 AM at Riverside Elementary Women s Walk Join us for fun, fellowship & exercise Wednesday PM Frogs Join us Wednesday June 1 & June 8 7-8:30 pm Fun, food, games and Bible study for school age kids. Thursday AM 10 AM Women s Bible Study A Woman After God s Heart Join us Thursday mornings in the parlor. Father s Day June 19, 2016

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6 THE ENCOURAGER PAGE 6 Nursery Volunteers 5 Donna Headings & Lisa Thomas 12 Shauneene Crowe & Betty Trumbull 19 Worship at the Lake 26 Kathy Snyder & Marni Haapapuro SUNDAY MORNING: Coffee Hour Hosts 5 Grow 12 Pat & Evelyn 19 Worship at the Lake / Picnic 26 Financial Record Budgeted need through April 2016: $ 62,696. Received through April 2016: $ 56,453. Received: 4/3 2,562. 5/1 2,541. 4/10 1,144. 5/8 1,371. 4/17 2,629. 5/15 1,425. 4/24 1,482. 5/22 1,008. 5/29 APRIL TOTAL: $ 7,817 $ 6,345. If you have any trouble at all hearing the morning worship service, personal listening headsets are available. Please see an usher

7 Lakeview Baptist Church PAGE 7 June 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat SUNDAY SCHEDULE 9:00 AM Sunday Study 10: 30 AM Worship Kids Church 10: 30 AM Worship & Kids Church 11:30 AM Coffee Hour 12:00 PM 11:30 Falam AM Baptist Coffee Church Hour service 12:00 PM Falam Baptist Church service 1 7 PM Frogs 2 3 9:30 LBC Food Pantry volunteer day 7 PM Falam Praise 4 7-9:30 PM Falam Baptist Church 5 Communion PM Frogs PM Falam Praise :30 PM Falam Baptist Church 12 Children s Day Graduate recognition PM Falam Praise :30 PM Falam Baptist Church 19 Father s Day Worship at the Lake :30 am XYZ First day of summer PM Falam Praise :30 PM Falam Baptist Church

8 June South 20th Street Battle Creek, MI info@mylakeviewbaptist.com Ph Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Worship & Kid s Church Wednesday, 7-8:30 pm Frogs (Youth who Faithfully JUNE BIRTHDAYS: JUNE ANNIVERSARIES: 1 Charles Finney Jordan Linscott 2 Richard VerLee 5 Emily Blankenship 6 Aubrey Metzger 8 Carol Bernard 10 Christi Marsh 11 Carletta Adams 13 Cindy Bowersox 15 Don Snyder 17 Austin Begley Wanda Hartman 18 Connie Tower 20 Alex Batch 22 Carol Sandum Hodgson 29 Mitch Truex 3 Walt & Marni Haapapuro 13 Ted & Donna Headings 14 Lloyd & Mildred Lee 17 Gerhard & Terri Loewe Richard & Elizabeth Trumbull 22 Pastor Mory & Mary Anderson