infocus e-newsletter for September 3, 2017 What s in this Issue? Page 1 Sunday Schedule for September 3 Church and Life Way School Offices Closed September 4 Wednesday, September 6: Family Night of Prayer Page 2 Local Mission Opportunity An Invitation to Our Church Family from Alyssa Francis and Josh Junyor Sunday Schedule for September 10 Christian Fellowship Trap Shot & BBQ Other Dates of Note Women s Ministry Update Women Discipling Women Page 3 Calendar of Upcoming Events Fall Bible Study Opportunities The STUDENT Section Fall Retreat: REPLICATE, September 22 24 Student Worship Website/Text Messages Children s Ministry Update GAK is Back Speaking of GAK Family Scavenger Hunt Page 4 Operation Christmas Child FBC Centerton Family Ski Trip Attendance Recap from Past Week Focus on Giving for August 20 BONUS Insert TREK TO ISRAEL Group Tour Forming for Dec. 3-12, 2018 ****See below for details on each of these items**** Sunday Schedule for September 3 8:45 a.m. Small Groups and Sunday School Here (fbccenterton.org/#/connect/small-groups) is a list of our Groups for Adults 10:00 a.m. Worship Church and Life Way Offices Closed September 4 Our offices will be closed tomorrow in observance of the national Labor Day holiday. The only gathering on campus tomorrow will be the 6 p.m. Open Gym. Wednesday, September 6: Family Night of Prayer Be sure to make reservations today, and plan to attend a Chick-fil-A meal night on September 6, from 5 6 p.m. when we observe a special schedule for Family Night of Prayer. Sandwiches and chicken nuggets will be served along with chips, a cookie, and the usual Wednesday night drinks. We will gather for just a few minutes at 6 p.m. in the Worship Center for instructions from Pastor Babb, and for the forming of prayer groups. You can stay together as a family and combine smaller families to make groups that will go from location to location on campus to pray for the ministries that occur throughout our church and school campus. It will be both educational and inspirational as we spend a brief night in prayer for what God is doing at First Baptist Church. www.fbccenterton.org 1
Local Mission Opportunity Listen for Pastor Babb s radio invitations this week on KURM radio as we gear up to meet our neighbors at the city park on Centerton Day, September 9. More volunteers are need because Pastor Bob Metcalf has changed his plan to head up the group, and is going to Houston instead to serve for a week with the Arkansas Baptist Disaster Relief feeding unit at the Convention Center. He will be available to receive your questions and assign you a role today after the service. Pastor Babb will be present along David Armstrong and Bobbie Griffith with plans meet our neighbors and to engage the unsaved, unreached, and unchurched with the Gospel of Christ and an invitation to investigate the ministries of our church. We will have a couple of tents for shade, and will be giving away cold water and popcorn to folks who stop by to visit. More volunteers are needed so we don t have to scale back our plans for representing our church and the Lord. An Invitation to Our Church Family from Alyssa Francis and Josh Junyor Alyssa and Josh invite you to share in their happiness Saturday, September 9, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Centerton, with a reception to follow their wedding ceremony. Please RSVP online at theknot.com under Alyssa Francis and Josh Junyor, or by email at timfrancis@centurytel.net. The couple is registered at Walmart, Bed Bath and Beyond, and on Amazon.com. Sunday Schedule for September 10 8:45 a.m. Small Groups and Sunday School Here (fbccenterton.org/#/connect/small-groups) is a list of our Groups for Adults 10:00 a.m. Worship 11:15 a.m. Sunday School/Small Groups Appreciation & Training Luncheon The Pastors will lead a quarterly training meeting for every Sunday School and Small Group leader immediately after the morning worship next Sunday. It will be the opportunity to hear progress toward building and expanding our Sunday morning discipleship efforts, as well as to receive training for involving members of all ages in the worship of God through music. Plan to attend. Provision will be made for feeding and engaging your children in fun activities as you participate in the event. We should be through by 12:30 p.m. Other Dates of Note 1 day until Labor Day on September 4 (Church Office Closed but there will be Open Gym!) 6 days until Centerton Day on September 9, and Josh and Alyssa s Wedding 57 days until Fall Festival on October 31, and the 500 anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation 73 days until the Operation Christmas Child packing party on November 15 81 days until Thanksgiving on November 23 103 days until the Dessert Theatre begins on December 15 113 days until Christmas 120 days until New Year s Day 195 days until FBC Centerton Family Ski Trip Women's Ministry Update Sarah Bartmier, Women s Ministry Coordinator, Phone: 479.233.0516 Email: sbartmier2004@gmail.com Women Discipling Women Sunday, September 10 at 6 p.m., we will conduct our discipleship training sessions. We are going to do a modified progressive dinner. For dinner, the mentor group will meet at Arlyn Fleshman s house, the mentee group will meet at Laura Snowden s house and then we will all meet at Sarah Bartmier s house to finish out our evening with some dessert. www.fbccenterton.org 2
A food signup form is available online through CCB. If you don t know how to use the Church Community Builder website, Laura Snowden can take down your reservation and covered dish plan in the church office at 479.795.2591. Calendar of Upcoming Events o September 10 6 p.m. Women Discipling Women Training and Semi-progressive Dinner o September 16 10 a.m. Baby Shower for the Babbs (Diaper shower) o October 14 10 a.m. Craft and Game Day Fall Bible Study Opportunities o Sunday mornings 8:45 a.m. Habakkuk (ongoing), Keeping Place o Wednesday nights 6:30 p.m. Study of Ephesians (begins next week, September 13) o Friday mornings 7:00 a.m. Keeping Place (beginning date TBA) The STUDENT Section Kenny Wieda, Director of Student Ministries, Phone: 616.240.4346, Email: kenny.wieda@fbccenterton.org, Website: www.fbccenterton.org. Fall Retreat: REPLICATE, September 22 24 A weekend of life-changing messages, powerful worship, small groups, and interactive experiences challenging students to live a life of purpose that impacts the Kingdom of God. Replicate's vision is to share the Gospel while also offering opportunities for students, youth pastors, and leaders to be equipped and empowered to reach this generation by fulfilling the Great Commission. For all 7 12 th graders. The cost is $85 per person. Our goal is for students to attend and to not let money be an issue. If the cost is a struggle for you, please talk to Kenny Wieda personally. There are scholarships available and we would love to use them! You can register by going to fbccenterton.org or check the student Facebook page @ FBC Students Student Worship Wednesday nights 6 7:30 p.m. in the Student Center. Website/Text Messages Our webpage is a great source for parents to see what is going on in the Student Ministry. We generally send out a text to let you know when updates have been made. Also, if you or your student want to receive text messages, please respond to students@fbccenterton.org with your name, cell phone number and cell provider (AT&T, Verizon, etc.) and we will make sure you begin receiving our text message updates. Children s Ministry Update Laura Tidwell, Interim Director of Childhood Ministries, Phone: 479.883.2137 Email: ltidwell@lwcsar.com GAK (God's Amazing Kids) IS BACK! It is for kids grades kindergarten through 6th and takes place every Wednesday from 6:00-7:30 p.m.. We will have Bible study, games, memory verse games/activities, and missions! We would LOVE to have everyone signed up in advance to help our registration crew. SIGN UP TODAY using this link: https://myfbc.ccbchurch.com/form_response.php?id=114 Each week we'll continue our study out of Proverbs called, "The Way of the Wise." We are also trying to memorize 1 Corinthians 3:11, that reads For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ." Each week also includes a missions study (this month it's Ecuador) and games! Join us!! Speaking of GAK, we will not have GAK or Mission Friends in the usual way on Wednesday, September 6. Instead, we will have a "Family Prayer Night." We encourage all parents to include their children as they participate as a family in this night of prayer. Some families may miss the announcements regarding the special nature of this night. If children attend without their own family, it will be a great time for other families (or GAK/Mission Friends leaders where possible) to include a few extra kids in their group as we have multiple small groups praying over the facilities and ministries of FBC Centerton. Make plans to join us! Family Scavenger Hunt Our next family fellowship will be a Bible Scavenger Hunt. It will be on Sunday, September 24 www.fbccenterton.org 3
at 4:30. Families will be given clues to look up in their Bibles that will lead them to different spots on campus to find more clues and tokens. The first family back with all the tokens wins a gift basket of goodies including movie passes! We'll finish the game with cookies and drinks, and then we can all attend the Lord's Supper and monthly Family Fellowship. It will be so fun! RSVP using this link: https://myfbc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/120/responses/new Operation Christmas Child Last year we were able to pack around 60 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child (OCC). This year, we thought we may be able to pack even more if we begin collection early! So, starting this week we began collecting items to fill up our shoeboxes! The August items are school supplies (pencils, markers, erasers, scissors, notebooks, etc.) We will have boxes near the checkin desks and near the gym each Wednesday. Our packing party (when we actually put the items in the shoeboxes) will be November 15. FBC Centerton Family Ski Trip This year we are headed to Winter Park, Colorado, March 17-22. The estimated cost (dependent upon what type of condo you stay in and whether you ski or not) will be $500 for adults and $410 for kids ages 12 and under. Are you interested in going with us this spring? We will have an informational meeting TODAY, September 3, after church in the Fellowship Hall. We also know it's a holiday weekend, so if you're out of town and are interested, you can contact Ashley Grisham at 479-531-0441 or agrisham@lwcsar.com. Attendance Recap from Past Week Connect Groups (August 21 August 27, 2017)... 63 Sunday Small Groups... 353 Sunday AM Worship Gathering... 466 Focus on Giving for August 27, 2017 General Fund: Weekly Receipts... $29,651.10 Designated Funds: World Mission Weekly Receipts... $911.00 World Mission YTD... $48,259.45 Building Forward... $300.00 Building Forward Balance... $36,869.07 Seattle... $1,085.00 Love Offering Robert & Rhonda Walker... $1,048.00 Bedia... $250.00 Ecuador Morris Family... $200.00 Direct Missions... $30.00 www.fbccenterton.org 4
For Website/on Church Newsletter for Sept - October 2017-May 2018 TREK TO ISRAEL Group Tour Forming for Dec. 3-12, 2018 JERUSALEM - The Center of the World. A place where God has chosen to place His NAME. Israel, the navel of the earth. Every believer must know how important Israel is to God. His former home, His future home. A place where His people should call the Holy place of God. Have you ever thought about visiting the home of God? We visit the homes of famous people all the time, but have you ever thought about a trip to one of the most important places on this earth, a place where God says in Isaiah 2:2, in the last days the mountain on which the Lord s temple stands will become the most important of all mountains, and His teaching will go out from Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:3b). Isaiah 62:1,4 (NCV) you will be called the People God loves, and your land will be called the Bride of God. Jeremiah 31:66 Come, let us go UP to Jerusalem to worship the Lord Our God. Take a 10 day trip with Gary and Anita Burney, group tour leaders, and travel with Pilgrim Tours on an unforgettable trip to the Holy Lands. We will be seeing Israel with a Jewish Perspective. We will have a Jewish Christian Studies Consultant on the trip, along with a Seasoned Jewish Tour Guide when we arrive. Before the trip, we will have introductory classes, and frequent fellow traveler fellowships to get you acquainted with the friends going on the trip. Find out what you will see, and know what you need to take with you, and when payments for the trip will be due. You will have over a year to SAVE UP funds! A first question/answer, inquiry meeting will be held on Oct. 22 Sunday evening in the fellowship hall at FBC Centerton. A potluck will begin at 5:00, bring your favorite food. To see a sample of the trip itinerary, go to www.trektoisrael.weebly.com or just call Gary or Anita at 479.601.3803. We would like to do a personal announcement on Sunday, October 1 (Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem) to announce the trip to church family. We will then announce about the inquiry meeting for Oct. 22 nd. If possible, we would like to do a personal announcement every other month beginning December 3 rd. We will need to have a personal commitment by Dec. 30 th, 2017 Announcements in January, May- 30th being the final deadline for signing up for the trip. We need to have a minimum of 33, and a maximum of 46 would be allowed. www.fbccenterton.org 5