FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 216 Sunset Road Willingboro New Jersey fbcwillingboro.org Transforming Lives with the Word of God

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1 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 216 Sunset Road Willingboro New Jersey fbcwillingboro.org Transforming Lives with the Word of God

2 THE LORD S DAY NOVEMBER 4, 2018 Text of Meditation: Psalm 27 Call to Worship: Cast All Your Cares Choir Praise & Worship: Open Up the Heavens Day by Day A Prayer #55 Be Thou My Vision #382 Recognition of Visitors Announcements Prayer Worship in Giving Scripture Reading: Mark 11:12-26 Message: The Mystery, Problems Pastor Gary Tum Suden and Purpose of Prayer Mark 11:12-26; Luke 18:1 Song of Response: Great Is Thy Faithfulness #43 Prayer EVENING WORSHIP SERVICE Hymns Message: Haggai Pastor Gary Tum Suden Haggai 1:1 2:23 2

3 November 4, 2018 AM Prayer-Life The Mystery, Problems and Purpose of Prayer Mark 11:12-26; Luke 18:1 Eternal Truth: Prayer is NOT about. It is ultimately about. I. Some Preliminary THINKING (Why this Matters)-We don t understand how it works or doesn t work II. The TRUTHS A. The Frustrations (What Jesus states what happens) B. The Questions (What s the problem) C. Some Problems When We Dig Deeper D. The Purpose Clarified III. So Where Do We Go from Here (The Applications) 3

4 November 04, 2018 PM The Last of the Prophets Haggai Haggai 1:1-2:23 Eternal Truth: In every age, God raises up people with His prophetic voice. I. The Command to Build God s House (Haggai 1:1-11) II. The People s Obedience (Haggai 1:12-15) III. The Coming Glory of God s House (Haggai 2:1-9) IV. The People are Defiled (Haggai 2:10-14) V. Promised Blessing (Haggai 2:15-19) VI. Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet (Haggai 2:20-23) VII. Applications for Us 4

5 Christmas Cantata Rehearsal: The next gathering for adults will be tomorrow evening, Monday, November 5 at 7 p.m. Christmas Music Teen and Adult Sign-Up form is enclosed in the bulletin today. Please prayerfully consider how you can help to make this program a blessed and fruitful experience. Place your completed form in the box beside the door of the Music Office. Children s Christmas Musical Lunch Rehearsal today following the morning service (BRING LUNCH for all children in Gr. 2 and up) in Rooms For children ages 4-6, please fill out a form and give to Cindi Decker. We are planning a song for them if there are enough children PLEASE REGISTER THEM BY TODAY. Parents or other adults are also needed on a rotational basis as lunch chaperones for Children s rehearsals from 12:20 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. or later times as the season progresses. There is a sign-up on the bulletin board. All parents and willing adults please fill out a separate Adult Support form or see the Lunch Coordintor (Debby Beach). Pick-up time today will be around 3:30 p.m. with auditions or certain teams dismissing later (see posted signs). Auditioning students will need to stay until auditions are complete. ABBA Certificates - If you shop at Shop Rite or Acme, please consider buying a gift card from either store, in denominations from $5 to $100. It is exact exchange of money, with no surcharge, and five cents of every dollar benefits ABBA Pregnancy Crisis Center. Please stop at the Welcome Center before or after every morning service to make your purchase. It s an easy way to show you are pro-life!! ABBA SALES FOR OCTOBER $4, Upcoming Events Saturday, December 8 Christmas Banquet / Christmas Cantata Sunday, December 9 Christmas Cantata Tuesday, December 18 Ladies Christmas Party Thursday, December 20 Keenagers Christmas Luncheon Monday, December 24 Christmas Eve Candlelight Service Saturday, March 9 Women s Ministry Dine by Design 5

6 YOUTH ANNOUNCEMENTS THE BRIDGE Please join us each Friday at 7:30 p.m. for an exciting time of learning God s Word, exciting Games, Sports and spending time with Friends with Food and Fellowship. Bring a Friend! Awana club Join us each Friday for our children s AWANA ministry for grades K 6 th. We will learn the Word of God, experience an exciting Game Time and enjoy Music and Teaching. Bring a friend!! ATTENTION ALL AWANA LEADERS & HELPERS We will be having our next meeting Sunday, November 11 th following the morning service. EACH MONTH after September we provide a store for the clubbers to spend AWANA shares they have earned in club. The store is stocked with games, toys, books and other items they can purchase with their shares. We are asking the congregation for donations of new/unused toys, games and books that would be appropriate for children ages 4-12 to help stock the AWANA Store. We respectfully ask that items not be previously used, no weapon/war toys, or food items. Items can be purchased inexpensively at Dollar Stores or Five Below. Online Registration for Children s Ministries: You may complete an online registration form to register your children for this new year of ministries (AWANA, Youth, Sunday School, Jr. Church) by going to the home page of the church web site ( Click on the banner slide for AWANA or The BRIDGE (rotating event slider) and you will be taken to the registration form (same form for all ministries). If you already filled out a VBS Registration Form for your child this summer, you are already current and do not need to submit a new form. If there are any changes to your form, however, please be sure to update the information by speaking with a Registration Guide (or fill out a new form if you wish). 6

7 TODAY: 9:45 a.m.---sunday School / Youth Baptism & Membership Class 11:00 a.m.---morning Worship Service 12:45 p.m.---children s Christmas Music Lunch/Rehearsal 6:00 p.m.---evening Worship Service MONDAY, 7:00 p.m.---christmas Choir Rehearsal TUESDAY, 7:00 p.m.---associate Pastor Pulpit Search Team Meeting WEDNESDAY, 12:00 p.m.---prayer Meeting WEDNESDAY, 7:25 p.m.---choir Rehearsal FRIDAY, 7:25 9:30 p.m.---awana Clubs FRIDAY, 7:30 10:00 p.m.---the BRIDGE (Youth Group) SATURDAY, 8:00 9:00 a.m.---men s Bible Study Special Benevolence Offering As determined in our Annual Meeting, today, (Communion Sunday), will be our special over and above benevolence offering to help those in need in our congregation first and also our community. Please place these offerings in a blue envelope and mark them Benevolence and place your offering envelope number on it. Nominations for Deacons and other Advisory Board Offices Please submit in writing any nominations that you have for Deacons and other Advisory Board Offices to the church office by placing them in the mail box outside the main office. Ordination & Installation Service for Abraham Ansu Momo The First Baptist Church Family is cordially invited to join with our brothers and sisters at the Good News Baptist Church next Sunday afternoon November 11 th at 3 p.m. for the Ordination & Installation for Pastor Momo. This service will be followed by a Celebration Dinner for all in the Gymnasium. Please come and support our brother, his family, and the Good News Baptist Church for this blessed occasion. PRAYER QUOTE Comfort me in my day of need with a love that is infinite and true. Ignore my lack of desire to forgive. Fill my anger with the waters of peace and serenity that I may come to accept this situation and move on to a greater level of understanding and knowing. 7

8 Nursery Schedule Today: Senia Massaquoi, Sherry & Gloria Devine Next Week: Dolores Martin, Kathy Wittmaier, Aliya Ferguson Junior Church Teachers Schedule November Ages 2 & 3 Richard & Natalie Palmer Ages 4 & 5 Surat Lasissi, Chris Gore Grades 1-6 Stewart Boyer, Helpers NEW CHAIRS!!! We are excited to have two new rows of special chairs for those requiring extra comfort or special needs access in the Auditorium. If this is your situation, please test them out and let us know how they are or any additional ideas you may have to help us include everyone in our corporate worship. Cell Phones and Beepers As we prepare to worship God together we would ask that these be turned off or put in the silent/vibrate mode. Handicap Restrooms - Unless it is an emergency, please use our regular restrooms facilities to allow our people with special needs complete access to the Handicap Accessible Bathroom. Thank you for your cooperation in this area. Parking Spaces Please refrain from parking in the designated handicap spaces unless you have an authorized permit. Please DO NOT PARK in unauthorized or unmarked spaces to allow access for Emergency Service vehicles. If you need assistance in parking, please pull up to the awning at our main entrance and someone will assist you. Health Concerns During the Services If you don t feel well during a service please summon an usher or ask a neighbor in the pew to summon someone so that we can adequately tend to any medical issues. Please do not be concerned about disrupting the service. We care about you! Parents & Children Parents, in an effort to consistently improve our worship services, we ask you to sit with your children and teenagers in the worship service so that all can be edified without great distraction. Phones and tablets can be used too by our young people to access sermon notes and the Bible online, but we ask that they refrain from other uses so that they can grow as well. Tithes & Offerings FBC keeps track of all financial giving by check or cash through an envelope system. If you want a financial tax deduction statement at the end of year, please help us by requesting and using our envelope system. Please put name clearly on your envelope for the first month or two so we can be accurate in recording your giving. Gordon Johnson is our point of contact to request an envelope box. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Glorifying God by Making Faithful Disciples of Jesus Christ 216 Sunset Road, Willingboro, NJ (609) Rev. Gary Tum Suden, Senior Pastor - ext. 211 Cindi Decker, Director of Music & Arts - ext. 213 Carol Bachman, Office Manager ext. 212 Terry Kerner, Maintenance & Facility Manager ext