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Did You Know... We Need Help! A great reporter is needed for this section!!!!!
Did You Know
....
that Chase Vandiver was one offive 6th graders
selected for the South Central All-District Honor
Choir?
.... that Bonnie Carter was honored with the Houston
Area Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement
award?
... that Madge Elmore was named president of the Texas
County Memorial Hospital's
Auxiliary?
... that Tanner Scheets, Carmen
Floyd, Lauren Wade,
Drake Yocom, and Justin
Schmidt were named
to the
Distinction Honor Roll at Houston High School?
....
that Alexa !chord, Dusti Turner, Ashton Vandiver, and
Darin Wade were named to the High Distinction Honor
Roll at Houston High School?
... that as of today, our youth
group has collected appr. 2400
pairs of shoes for Soles 4 Souls?
If you have good news to be placed in this column, please call the church office at 967,2297 or email us at fbc@firstbaptistchurchhouston.org. We're also looking for a volunteer "sports writer" for this column, so if you like to follow sports and would like to help us gather good news about our members in school and community sports, give us a call at the above number!
Join the
FBC
Welcome
Team
We're excited about our new greeters at the doors
on Sunday Mornings!
We now have enough team members signed up that
each volunteers will serve only once in about three
and a half months.
We would like to expand this ministry to have
greeters at all door and near the parking lots to help
people from their cars to the open doors of
the church on bad weather days.
We need youth, young adults and older folks-we
accept all!
Parents, this is a great ministry to let your child
stand alongside you and hand out the church
bulletins. Watch the expression on their face as
they are allowed to work for God! It's great to be
the first person someone sees upon approaching
God's House.
Come and join the fun!
To volunteer for this ministry, contact Kay Davy at
967-9953 or call the church office at 967-2297.
Are you interested in
being a part of our prayer ministry?
We are planning to reorganize our Prayer Chain so if you are interested in participating through an email or telephone prayer chain, please call the church office at 967-2297 or email fbc@firstbaptistchurchhouston.org.
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GLORY Breakfast
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Join us at
9:00 a.m. February 7 in the
church fellowship hall
for breakfast followed
by Sunday School.
We have classes for ALL ages!
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Join us for the Beth Moore
Bible Study
Esther: It's tough being a woman
Begins Tuesday,
January 19th at 9:00 a.m. Cost: $15.00
.
Facilitated by Marylee
Lowrey
To join this class, please
contact the church office
by January 8th at 967-2297 or
fbc@firstbaptistchurchhouston.org!
Soles4Souls shoe drive to benefit Haiti
We have collected 2400 Pairs of Soles4Souls
Help the youth group at First Baptist Church collect shoes for Project Haiti. We're asking that you donate your lightly-used or new shoes for the less fortunate. We are partnering with Soles4Souls, a Nashville-based organization that distributes both new and used shoes worldwide.
Drop off your shoes anytime at the church during February. You can also give the to Jeff McNiell at his Houston Herald office or get in touch with any member of First Baptist Church.
If you come to First Baptist during the month of February, we challenge you to take your shoes off at the door to raise awareness and support the cause.
Thanks for your support!
The Vision
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As February grinds on,
I want to
thank you for your faithfulness to worship and for your perseverance in
God's
Work through our church. You have braved cold weather and bad road conditions
to lead,
promote, and
undergird good programs ...
great
projects ... noble
ministries ...
this winter.
I
must
thank you for
all you have done for me and my family during Tileta's
mother,
Hilda's,
final illness. The pace has been grueling,
especially
for Tileta. Her dear,
Godly mother
is now with the Lord and her loved ones in Heaven, but, as many of you
know from your own experience,
there is a
"let-down"
and a deep
sadness after the death of a parent. We grieve,
of
course,
not for the
one who has gone on, but for ourselves.
These friends
get to go to Christ, and we have to stay and continue on.
All of you have been
so good
and
so understanding
...
and so patient
with us during this season of our
"distraction."
You have wrapped us in a cushion of love and compassion that has warmed
us and helped us to bear it all. May God bless you ... this wonderful
church;
this great
church ...
my beloved home church! God has blessed our church in this New Year!
Much necessary work has been accomplished; and our Sunday morning
worship is a rich blessing. We had 209 in worship Sunday morning,
February 21! Of course, we were helped by our fine friends, the "Blue
Jackets,"
the young people of the Future Fanners of America ... they came as a
chapter to worship and represent the values of their organization at
FBC. They are a fine group,
and we were
glad to have them.
I appreciate
the good leadership of their Vocational Agriculture Instructor and
Chapter Advisor, Brother Van Kirkwood. He is a Baptist pastor in our
association and works hard to develop young people. I'll never forget a
series of signs ...
on the right
of way of U.S. Highway 52 in Indiana ... five signs, about 500 yards
apart. Each blue board had one verse of a little poem on it.
.
.if you read them in
sequence as you passed, you got the message. The poem
said: "Future Fanners ... Turn the Sod ... and Never once ... Forget
their God." Then the last sign said: "Rush County FFA Chapters welcome
you." That compliment may not be so of
every
FFA
member,
but I know
from experience that it's true of
lots of them.
Hang in there everybody ... Spring will come!
Yours pastor loves you,
Letters from your Sunday School Teachers
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Welcome to Middle School Sunday School Class-Chattering, bickering, laughing, pouting, shouting, chaos, and occasional mayhem, 6th, 7th, and 8th graders competing for time..... Some of the weekly lessons are readily accepted and learned; others leave a question of doubt. What is not in doubt, is the biblical and spiritual knowledge that these pre-teens and teens already have can continue to gain! Those who have attended preschool and elementary Sunday School since they were toddlers are already cemented to a solid foundation of faith. Weekly Sunday School continues to strengthen this foundation. Have you checked your foundation lately? Are there some cracks? Need a little "mortar"? If you haven't been attending Sunday School regularly, then maybe it's time to work on that foundation! Can't decide which class is right for you? Come join us in the Middle School class! Donuts are appreciated-and provide your own earplugs! Terry Miller Sunday School Teacher, FBC Houston
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