March 2018 Beyond the Bulletin cus Church Mission Statement We are committed to becoming fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ and inviting others to do the same. Welcome to our March Newsletter! On March 20 th, we welcome Spring. It s the wonderful time of the year when snow melts, trees begin to blossom, temperatures start rising, and nature appears to come alive once more. Spring comes with the idea of rebirth, rejuvenation, renewal, resurrection and regrowth, and most people see it as a time of change. Church Events IF:GATHERING 2018 March 3 rd Ladies AM Bible Study March 6 th (last day of study) Ladies PM Bible Study March 6 th Moments for Moms *Only March 9 th Shuffleboard March 7 th, 14 th, 21 st, 28 th IMPACT March 7 th, 21 st, 28 th Knitting/Crocheting March 8 th, 22 nd Community Dinner March 21 st Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush Doug Larson FIRST BAPTIST KINGSVILLE 58 Division St. N., Kingsville, ON N9Y 2E8 (519) 733-4144 Pastor: Rev. Jim Bagley Christian Ed. Co-ordinator: Tracey Bagley Email: kingsvillebaptistjim@cogeco.net Email: kingsvillebaptisttracey@cogeco.net Office Email: fbkingsville@gmail.com Website: www.firstbaptistkingsville.com Sacred Rhythms March 22 nd Family Fun Night March 23 rd Ladies AM Bible Study March 27 th (new study) Days for Girls March 28 th
PALM SUNDAY MARCH 25 TH The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest heaven!" (Matthew 21:9, NIV) GOOD FRIDAY JOHN 3:16-17 (NIV) 16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him... 11:00AM Communion Service GOOD FRIDAY MARCH 30 TH Plan to join us on Good Friday as we prepare ourselves to celebrate the Resurrection on Easter morning. This is a time to reflect upon all that Jesus did for us when he willingly gave His life on the cross at Calvary. DEVOTIONS Devotions are great resources to help lead up to Lent & Easter. If you are looking for ideas for your family: cbokids.ca. Also, the YouVersion app has a number of reading plans you can choose from. EASTER SUNDAY APRIL 1 ST AT 9:15AM EASTER MORNING BREAKFAST Gather with your church family in Herrington Hall to celebrate around the breakfast table together.
CBOQ SUNDAY March 18 th On CBOQ Sunday, we will celebrate being a part of the CBOQ family. We are part of a family of churches, transformed by Christ, revealing God s kingdom. Together, we are sharing our common faith, caring for our leaders, growing & expanding our church family and building up the next generation of Canadian Baptists and ultimately working together for the glory of God and his kingdom! Please feel free to a copy of The Canadian Baptist magazine located on the table in the lobby. CBWOQ WOMEN S CONFERENCE & AGM Come Thirsty. Drink Deeply... because there s more! A Baptist Women s conference for women who want to experience more of God and more of mission. Friday April 27 (6 p.m. start) to Saturday April 28 (5 p.m.) Mississauga Chinese Baptist Church 5220 Creekbank Road, Mississauga, ON L4W 1X1 Great CBWOQ deals with 3 hotels close to venue (book directly with your hotel of choice) $59 Registration (includes sessions, workshops, prayer room & coffee/tea breaks) $15 Catered Lunch A family of churches Transformed by Christ Revealing God's kingdom MISSION: CBOQ exists to equip churches and leaders as they engage in their mission from God in their community. CORE VALUES: Faith Community Mission Churches Cooperation Leadership Learning Prayer We encourage you to learn more about CBOQ at: info@baptist.ca www.baptist.ca Sign up for CBOQ ENews news, stories, events and more from your Canadian Baptist Family (BAPTIST.CA/ENEWS) www.baptistwomen.com
World Day of Prayer is a worldwide movement that began in the U.S. and Canada in the 19 th century and became worldwide in 1927 for Christians around the world united in prayer. The continuing motto for this very special day is Informed Prayer and Prayerful Action. BAPTISM AT FBK If you have questions and/or thinking about baptism, please speak to Pastor Jim.
ANNOUNCEMENTS CONGRATULATIONS: To Rick & Deb Cowell on the birth of their grandson, Emmett John Cowell, born on January 25 th, to proud parents Brian & Melissa and big sisters Isla & Lydia and to great-grandma Virginia Ediger. IN SYMPATHY: Please keep Les Hodgkins in your thoughts & prayers on the passing of his sister, Joan Murtagh on February 12 th. We extend our sympathy to Elizabeth Balogh on the passing of her daughter, Valerie, Aylesworth on February 9 th. MARCH BREAK: There will be no Sunday School on: March 11 th & March 18 th. Wishing everyone a safe, happy and healthy March Break. BTB SUBMISSION(S): If you would like something included in the April BTB, please email your submission to the office by the 21 st. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL (VBS) JULY 9 TH TO 13 TH If you would like to serve in this exciting Ministry, speak to Laura Gaffan. There are many opportunities! FOOD BANK NEEDS 4 th canned fruit 11 th cookies 18 th - regular sized boxed cereal 25 th canned flakes of ham CURRENT MATTHEW HOUSE NEEDS Toilet paper, sheets & blankets (single/double) & all-purpose cleaning supplies. FBK WEEKLY EVENTS SHUFFLEBOARD Each Wednesday at 9:30am We are looking for MORE PLAYERS. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! Join other seniors in the basement for some exercise, fun & fellowship! IMPACT each Wednesday at 7pm Join other senior youth in the basement for an evening of fun, faith & friends. MOMENTS FOR MOMS each Friday at 9am (excluding PA/fog/snow days) Join other moms/ care-providers of young children in Herrington Hall as we continue to study the book Unseen by Sara Hagerty. Childcare is provided. NOTE: MARCH 9 TH IS ONLY MEETING DATE. KNITTING / CROCHETING Thursday, March 8 th & 22 nd at 1:30pm Bev Murray hosts at her home (11 Leonard Dr., Kingsville) every other Thursday from 1:30-3:30pm. If you have not joined, please come to knit/crochet with us to learn how or simply enjoy a cup of tea & great conversation. WOMEN S PRAYER each Wednesday at 7am in the Resource Room MEN S PRAYER each Saturday at 7am in the Resource Room KPS BREAKFAST each Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday at 8:30am (not during March Break) SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR ALL AGES Each Sunday at 9:45am. It s not too late to join! UPCOMING APRIL EVENTS- EASTER: APRIL 1 ST
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 T I M O T H Y 1: 6 7 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH KINGSVILLE 58 Division Street, Kingsville (519) 733-4144 Contact: fbkingsville@gmail.com www.firstbaptistkingsville.com IF:Gathering Saturday March 3, 2018 8:30am to 5:00pm. Coffee and muffins will be served at 8:15am. A hot lunch and snacks will be provided (gluten-free available) LADIES OF ALL AGES INVITED! If God is real then we want more than anything to live like it. Come as we gather together to refresh our hearts and renew our desire for loving God and loving each other. Invite your girl friends (ages teen & up) to spend a day with you. We will hear passionate speakers, worship God, share and eat together. $25.00 (payable to FBK) includes simulcast, lunch, snacks & giveaways. Register by email: fbkingsville@gmail.com or call 519-733-4144 (please inform if gluten free option is required) For more information speak to Tracey Bagley or Heather Skeates. At IF:Gathering 2018, we will look at one of Paul s letters to Timothy as he reminded him of the power and responsibility of sharing the gospel. We want to give God away in the very places He has put us, we re going to gather for the purpose of remembering why following God and making disciples matters. We all get tired, we all wonder if what we re doing matters, IF:Gathering 2018 will be the reminder it will be the celebration. The work we re doing to share the gospel on the earth is worth it. God DOES move through the little things that nobody sees. www.ifgathering.com
COMMUNITY DINNER Wednesday, March 21 st 5:00-6:30pm Invite your friends & neighbours to come to Herrington Hall and enjoy dinner with you. (Free Dinner offering envelopes are provided in bulletins each Sunday prior to the dinner) SACRED RHYTHMS Thursday, March 22 nd 6:00pm This group continues to meet at Pastor Jim & Tracey Bagley s house (22 Conservation Blvd., Kingsville) as we encourage each other as we learn key spiritual practices that can help us. If you would like to join a group like this in the spring, let Pastor Jim know. DAYS FOR GIRLS Wednesday, March 28 th 9:30am-12:30pm Herrington Hall There are a lot of things that are hard to change in the world. This isn t one of them. Join with us, and show what s possible when we work together on behalf of women & girls. (held the last Wednesday of each month) FBK FAMILY NIGHT FRIDAY, MARCH 23 RD 6:30PM Join us for a Family Board Game Night! Each family is asked to bring one or two of their favourite board games to play with others and a snack to share. Beverages will be provided. You may wish to wear comfy clothes should you attempt to play the Human Hungry Hungry Hippo Game! More details to follow Please see Rob & Jen Augustine and/or Trevor & Winnie Stanley for more info. NEW LADIES MORNING BIBLE STUDY Starts Tuesday, March 27 th @ 9am Join Judy Fysh each Tuesday at 9am in the downstairs lounge for this 6-week study: FINDING I AM How Jesus Fully Satisfies the Cry of Your Heart by Lysa Terkeurst. That ache in your soul that keeps you up at night? Jesus not only cares about this deep, spiritual wrestling, but He wants to step in & see you through it. Join Lysa on the streets of Israel to explore the 7- I AM statements of Jesus found in the gospel of John.
Camp Kwasind was founded in 1944. It is proudly affiliated with the Canadian Baptists of Ontario and Quebec and is a fully accredited member of Christian Camping International and the Ontario Camping Association. REGISTRATION - Start planning today and register for an amazing, life-changing camp experience! Week Dates Ages Week 1 July 1-7 9-15 Week 2 July 8-14 7-15 Week 3 July 15-21 7-15 Week 4 July 22-28 7-15 Week 5 July 29 Aug 3 7-15 Week 6 Aug 6 11 7-12 Teen Week Aug 26 Sep 1 14-17 L.I.T. July 1-28 16-17 L.E.A.P. July 29-Aug 11 13-15 Explorers Girls Aug 12-18 9-12 Explorers Boys Aug 19-25 9-12 Camp Kwasind 1122 Skeleton Lake Road #5 Utterson, ON P0B 1M0 (905) 294-6360 / (705) 769-3751 Toll-free: (866) 220-2282 www.kwasind.com
MARCH REVIEW- FROM THE LIBRARIAN SMITTY Everyone Needs a Friendly Paw When 13-year-old Ben Barrett gets into trouble with the law again, his struggling single mother sends him to spend the summer with his estranged grandfather, Jack. Sensing that Ben needs a friend, Jack gets him a lovable abandoned mutt named Smitty. Can the dog and a friendly neighbor teach Ben about friendship, family, and responsibility? Starring Mira Sorvino, Peter Fonda, and Louis Gossett Jr. Rated PG. Approx. 94 minutes. THE LOST MEDALLION The Adventures of Billy Stone When Daniel Anderson visits a foster home, he doesn't expect to get roped into telling the kids a story. But once he begins the tale, his audience is captivated---and you will be, too! Two 13-year-old friends find a mysterious medallion and wish themselves back in time. Will courage and selflessness save the day? Rated PG. Approx. 98 minutes. DEATH S DOORSTEP - Prayer and a Miracle by Diane Ramandt, is a mother's story about her oldest son's crippling car accident, when a careless driver broadsides the car he is in. Author Dianne Ramandt depicts what this tragedy meant to her son, herself, and the rest of their family. This book describes what it was like to have a son dropped off on death's doorstep, with a brain injury and in a coma. She writes about the shock and emotional pain that she, and the entire family suffered, and how her faith in God and in prayer became everything she needed. It's a story about faith, prayer and miracles, but also about opposition and fierce conflict that followed, while her son received miraculous recovery, restoration, and underwent strenuous rehabilitation. Dianne takes the reader through her dark valleys of anger and unforgiveness, to the glorious mountaintops of forgiveness and victory over the darkness that had formed over her life. Her story ends with changed lives, strengthened faith, and a passionate desire to serve her Lord and Savior. THE MASTERPIECE by Francine Rivers, Roman Velasco is a successful commercial and graffiti artist with a mansion overlooking the Topanga Canyons of Los Angeles, California. On the outside, he appears to have everything he could possible want including money, women and fame, yet everyday demons from his past haunt him. Grace Moore is a single mom who was in a marriage that crushed her dreams. She is Roman s newly hired personal assistant, wrestling with ghosts and secrets of her own. She will never lose sight of her dreams again. When the unexpected happens, it changes their lives & relationship forever.
And they crucified him Mark 15:24 It was the darkest day. The unbearable day. Many who had followed Jesus up to now fled from the events of Friday. And those who stayed to watch wept in horror. The rigged trial, the mob that howled for the blood of the man who had failed to meet their patriotic expectations. The brutal beating, the savagery of the soldiers, the stumbling walk through the city He had entered to cheers five days before. Finally, the nails pounded into flesh, the tortured body jerked upright, the naked man dying by inches as his enemies jeered. To have it end like this, after all the bright promise! It was not just the cruel death of the disciples young leader, but the death of their faith, the end of all they believed in, on this black Friday that seemed anything but good. Most of us have experienced this Friday for ourselves. It s not the disillusionment of Thursday, when our own performance falls short. It s the blow that strikes from the outside, the tragedy that destroys our loved one, our health, our livelihood. We feel, as the disciples did on that terrible day, that Jesus Himself has failed us. If He were really God s son, things like this could not happen. Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us! (Luke 23:39) There is no way around the Fridays of our lives, only the way through through pain and death and burial. As His sorrowing followers laid Jesus in the tomb, so we lay down the wreckage of our hope. Ahead was Easter Sunday, but on Friday they couldn t know that. And neither can we, in the first shock of loss. We can only know that we will know. We can only know that the whole story is not yet told. For, of course, Jesus is the Christ. He is saving us, whatever the appearance. He is bringing about our everlasting joy, in a way only God could have chosen. If it is Friday in your life today, Easter cannot be far away. https://www.guideposts.org/faith-and-prayer/daily-devotions/the-coming-of-everlasting-joy
2018 MARCH SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 World Day of Prayer 1:30pm-Epworth United Church 3 7am-Men s Prayer IF:GATHERING 2018 8:15AM-5PM 4 9:45am-Sunday School 11am Communion 5 OFFICE CLOSED 6 9am-Ladies Bible Study 7pm-Ladies Bible Study (22 Conservation Blvd.) 77am-Women s Prayer 9:30am-Shuffleboard 7pm-IMPACT 8 1:30pm-Knitting/Crochet (11 Leonard Dr.) 9 9am-Moments for Moms 10 7am-Men s Prayer 11 No Sunday School 11am-Worship 12 OFFICE CLOSED March Break 13 March Break 14 7am-Women s Prayer March Break 9:30am-Shuffleboard 15 March Break 16 March Break 17 7am-Men s Prayer 18 No Sunday School 11am-Worship CBOQ SUN. 19 OFFICE CLOSED 20 SPRING 21 7am-Women s Prayer 9:30am-Shuffleboard 5pm-Comm. Dinner 7pm-IMPACT 22 1:30pm-Knitting/Crochet (11 Leonard Dr.) 6pm-Sacred Rhythms (22 Conservation Blvd.) 23 PA DAY 6:30pm-Family Night 24 7am-Men s Prayer 25 PALM SUNDAY. 9:45am-Sunday School 11am-Worship 26 OFFICE CLOSED 27 9am-New Ladies AM Bible Study 28 7am-Women s Prayer 9:30am-Shuffleboard 9:30am-Days for Girls 7pm-IMPACT 29 30 11am- GOOD FRIDAY Worship Service OFFICE CLOSED 31 7am-Men s Prayer