First Baptist Church 218 E. South Ave. Greenville, IL 62246-1820 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED The Good News October 2016 Special Points of Interest: FALL HARVEST PARTY Pictures from 180th Anniversary Youth Group announces Mission Trip Join us on the west parking lot at "The Vine"for the annual Fall Harvest Party to be held Saturday, October 8. A wiener roast will begin at 6 pm and program at 7 pm. Everyone is requested to bring roasting sticks and a lawn chair. Table service will be provided. In case of inclement weather, we will move indoors to the fellowship hall. Please bring a dish to pass. A sign-up sheet is available at church. FAFSA Workshop GAME NIGHT RETURNS Fellowship opportunities abound! After a long summer, Game Night returns to First Baptist on Saturday, October 22, at 6:00 pm. Please bring your favorite game and snack to share. Invite some friends and come enjoy an evening of fun! GAME ON!!! INSIDE THIS ISSUE: SECOND STREET TRUNK-OR-TREAT Food for Kidz crew 2 October Birthdays 2 New Friends 3 180th Anniversary Pictures 180th Anniversary Pictures Church Improvement 6 Signs of Growth! 7 ISAC 8 4 5 First Baptist Church will participate in the Second Street Trunk-or-Treat on Friday, October 28 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. The Christian Education Board is requesting bags of candy (individually wrapped pieces) to share at this large community event. Please bring your donations to the church office by Sunday, October 23. Cash donations are also welcome for purchase of candy. Our church will prepare treat bags for 900+ children which will contain information about our church, a tract, and of course, candy! FIRST BAPTIST TRUNK-OR-TREAT ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT First Baptist will host Trunk-or-Treat on Monday, October 31 in front of the church on South Ave. from 5:30-8:00 p.m. Trunk-or-Treat is a family-oriented event that is designed as a fun, safe alternative where children can enjoy receiving treats from festively decorated cars/trucks. Your involvement is crucial to the success of this neighborhood outreach. We are in need of several participants to decorate the trunk of their car and/or the bed of their truck. Also, feel free to come in costume! A sign-up sheet will be available at church. Participants are requested to provide candy to pass out to children. Plan to arrive at 5:00 pm as hot dogs, chips, cookies & drinks will be served in fellowship hall. There is a sign-up sheet at church. 1836-2016 Celebrating 180 years of Loving God, Loving People & Serving Others Thank You 9 World Mission Offering 10 October Calendar 11 Thank you for helping us reach the children of our community with the love of Jesus. - Pastor David
Page 2 Page 11 October Birthdays 1. Helen Admire Reauna Stiff 2. Roger R.J. Frey 5. Gary Shaw 6. Marilyn Klasing 16. Jane Reeves Castelein 17. Stephen Ross 18. Don McCray 24. Bonnie Christin 27. David Barbey 29. Nicole Crouch 31. Allison Bohannon FOOD FOR KIDZ Thanks to the following volunteers for participating in the Food for Kidz food packing event sponsored by Bond County Ministerial Alliance last month. Over 70,000 meals were packed by a couple hundred volunteers in just over two hours. We also wish to express appreciation to those who prayed for and contributed to this event. The meals are being shipped to Haiti. Front Row (left to right) Veronica Ross, Rita LaFaye, and Connie Zimpfer. Back Row (left to right) Stephen Ross, Doug Marti, GeeGee Spies, and Pastor David. www.fbcofgreenvilleillinois.com Rev. David S. Bilyeu, Pastor (618) 664-1062 or (618) 694-8856 Facebook : www.facebook.com/ FirstBaptistChurchGreenvilleIllinois Email: fbcgreenville@yahoo.com Church Office Hours Monday Friday 8:00 am 12:00 pm AXPN has had a great month! We are all excited to finally announce our mission trip for the summer of 2017! AXPN will be doing a five-day mission trip to St. Louis to serve at the Christian Activity Center (CAC). The CAC was founded in 1989 with one goal in mind; to keep kids alive. I was attracted to the CAC when I went on a trip with Greenville College last spring where I met Matt Cowman. Matt Cowman is a Greenville College Alumni and a former member of the First Baptist Church. He is now serving as the Chaplin Coordinator at the CAC. He asked us to come and love his kids: to show them as much love as we can; and here at First Baptist, we are excited to take our best quality to them. In October we will be starting fundraisers for this mission trip so please be on the lookout for that! Not all of our fundraisers will be here at the church. We will also be going out in to the community of Greenville so when that happens we ask that you tell all your friends to come and check us out so that money is not a reason for our students to not be able to serve. Youth Director: James Furlong Cell: 970-294-6567 Office: 618-664-1062 Email: gfbyouth@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/ FirstBaptistChurchYouthGreenvilleIllinois/?fref=ts October 2016 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat World Mission Offering 2 World Commission Sunday (Communion) 9 Clergy Appreciation Day Helia Service 2 pm 16 National Boss Day 5:00 pm Potluck 23 30 Pastor Appreciation Month 3 4 Ministerial Alliance 8:30 am 10 Columbus Day Observed Trustee Board 7 pm 17 GRR Pastors 10:30 am 24 25 31 Halloween Trunk-or-Treat 5:30-8:00 pm Diaconate Board 7 pm 11 12 18 19 S.A.L.T. at The Glenwood 12-1:45 pm 5 6 Quarterly Business Meeting Potluck 6 pm Meeting 7 pm Christian Education Board 6:30 pm 13 FASFA Workshop 6-8 pm 20 26 27 7 8 1 Apple Day @ Courthouse Square Fall Harvest Party 6 pm Potluck 7 pm Program 14 15 Sweetest Day 21 22 28 2nd St. Trunk-or- Treat 5-7:30 pm ABW Fall Rally @ FBC Highland Game Night 6 pm 29
Page 10 Page 3 NEW ADDRESS World Mission Offering OCTOBER! Celebrate New Life in Christ on Earth as in Heaven (Matthew 6:10, NABRE) Bourgeois, *Alison 727 E. Main St. Greenville, IL 62246-1918 SIES, *Michelle 323 S. 3 rd St. #4 Greenville, IL 62246-1732 A great and surprising spiritual awakening is happening in Baptist churches in Cuba right now! Since 1990, the number of churches in Cuba has grown by 450%. The number of baptisms has risen by over 500%. And the number of prayer groups and total church memberships have climbed in equally high numbers. After decades of harsh restrictions, the church of God has risen from the ashes, says a retired Cuban church leader who witnessed the remarkable change firsthand. In God s time, the hearts of so many people have been opened up to the goodness of the gospel. The good news is that our church s support of the World Mission Offering (WMO) is helping to fuel the growth of the Eastern Cuba Baptist Convention through financial and global worker support and through International Ministries (IM)-sponsored pastor conferences. The better news is that there is a lot that we can learn from Cuba s spiritual revival. For example: Youth ministry is thriving through camping and sports ministries, concerts and youth rallies in the streets of Cuba s cities and towns. Spirit-filled outreach is yielding abundant fruit through evangelistic campaigns, undergirded with fervent prayer and fasting. Discipleship is spreading through numerous house churches and cell groups of prayer. NEW FRIENDS COLL, Vince 621 S. Second St. Greenville, IL 62246-1744 (618) 550-9036 drvcoll@gmail.com LAMPKINS, Shandye 235 E. Winter Ave. Greenville, IL 62246-1830 (618) 671-5714 shandyemarie@gmail.com SHARPE, Lisa 304 S. Spruce St. Greenville, IL 62246-1860 (630) 439-4224 lisa.sharpe@greenville.edu A new generation of leaders is growing through faithful teaching at seminaries and lay training centers. Give generously and expectantly to the WMO as, together, we help people everywhere come to Christ, grow in their relationships with God and change their worlds through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Page 4 Page 9 thank you Thank you David, Marsha Middleton and the Baptist Church for the wonderful meal you provided while I m down. GOD BLESS! Becky & Terry Diesselhorst thank you We would like to thank the members and friends of First Baptist Church for all the kind words and prayers after our Mother s recent death. In addition to all your encouragement we are thankful to those who provided a meal after the service to her family and friends. You are true servants of our Lord! Thank you also for the beautiful plant that was given to our family. It is a great reminder of our beautiful Mom! Marti Reeser and Renate Moyers October 13th from 6:00-8:00 pm at the First Baptist Church thank you David, Thank you for your part in the Bond County Fair Church Service. We have received so many positive praises for the service. Many were sorry that it wasn t on the fairgrounds, but we had to do what seemed best for the situation. May God continue to use you in Greenville. You are doing a great job. Wayne Pierce
Page 8 October 13th from 6:00-8:00pm at the First Baptist Church 218 E South Ave Greenville, IL 62246 BRING LAPTOPS!! For more information, contact Brittany.Blackburn@isac.illinois.gov Work Cell: (618) 367-2495 Page 5
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