Weekly Announcements (10.25.11)

Gospel Centered Family - Join us for this 4-week seminar about aligning our families around the gospel. This will be taught on Wednesday nights from 6:00-7:30pm, starting October 26th-November 16th. So drop your kids off for AWANA or youth, and come join us. There is no cost for this seminar and no homework.




"Memories of Christmas" Service - December 4th at 6:30pm in the FBC sanctuary. A night for family, fun, and focus on the Savior. Featuring the children's musical "Census Time in Bethlehem". (Practices for the children are Sunday nights at 6:30pm). See Anthony for details.


Trunk-or-Treat - We need you to come up with carnival type games for our annual Trunk-or-Treat event. The event will be on Monday, October 31st. Also, anybody can donate candy for the event as well (and we need lots of it). Look for flyers Sunday morning to put on your doors on Halloween night.

***We need to know how many games we have coming. If you are bringing a game, please confirm with Pastor Mark.*** All games will be inside the LEC.


Sunday, October 30th - On the eve of Reformation Day we will be watching a feature film about the life of Martin Luther, the man God used to spark the Protestant Reformation. This film will be shown in the LEC starting at 5:30pm. Children will have movie in one of the classrooms as well.


AWANA Returns - This week AWANA starts back up this week on it regular Wednesday time, 6:00-7:30pm.

Weekly Announcements (10.5.11)

Gospel Centered Family - Join us for this 4-week seminar about aligning our families around the gospel. This will be taught on Wednesday nights from 6:00-7:30pm, starting October 26th-November 16th. There is no cost for this seminar and no homework.




Serving at Lighthouse Christian Camp - Sign up sheet will be on the bulletin board for you to sign up to serve any day or days, October 10-14. LCC needs help with painting, construction on Widow's Home, and leaf removal.


Trunk-or-Treat - We need you to come up with carnival type games for our annual Trunk-or-Treat event. The event will be on Monday, October 31st. Also, anybody can donate candy for the event as well (and we need lots of it).


Naco Mission Team - Your mission team is leaving October 15th to travel to Naco, AZ. Please be in prayer that God will be glorified in this time and through our work.


"Memories of Christmas" Service - December 4th at 6:30pm in the FBC sanctuary. A night for family, fun, and focus on the Savior. Featuring the children's musical "Census Time in Bethlehem". (Practices for the children are Sunday nights at 6:30pm). See Anthony for details.


"O Holy Night" - A Christmas worship service led by the FBC Sanctuary Choir. December 11 at 10:00am in the FBC sanctuary.


AWANA Break - AWANA is taking a break along with the school system's fall break the next 2 weeks. We will return on October 26th.

Weekly Announcements (9.26.11)

Communion Service this Sunday - So, Ecclesiastes is finished (I can hear your excitement). Communion is always a special time in the life of our church. See you Sunday.


Get Motivated Conference - We have a few free tickets available for this business conference. If any of our business men or women want to go please let pastor Mark know and we'll get you the tickets. Date of the conference is Monday, October 17th. Location is Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Click here to go to the conference website.


Serving at Lighthouse Christian Camp - Sign up sheet will be on the bulletin board for you to sign up to serve any day or days, October 10-14. LCC needs help with painting, construction on Widow's Home, and leaf removal.


Trunk-or-Treat - We need you to come up with carnival type games for our annual Trunk-or-Treat event. The event will be on Monday, October 31st. Also, anybody can donate candy for the event as well (and we need lots of it).


Business Meeting This Sunday Evening - After our evening worship service this Sunday, we will have our regularly scheduled business meeting.

Announcements (9.20.11)

Chasing After the Wind - This is our final week of our series in Ecclesiastes. We're going to finish up with Ecclesiastes 11:8-12:14. The most famous verse of the book (12:13) is found in our passage. See you Sunday as we look at the Scripture says to the young and the old.



Returning to Revelation - Sunday night we'll get back into the book of Revelation, chapter 11.


October Events

• Week of October 9th (fall break) - Teams will go to Lighthouse Christian Camp to help serve. We'll be helping with camp leaf cleanup (and they have a lot of leaves) and other tasks they request. For those who have construction skills, LCC is building a new widow's home and may need help.
• October 31 - 4th annual Trunk-or-Treat event

Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions - September is our month for collecting the Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions. This offering goes 100% to support TBC ministries and new church starts in Tennessee. The offering envelopes are in the pew backs if you want to give to this offering. Click here to go to the Golden Offering website to learn more about this offering.

Weekly Announcements (9.8.11)

9/11 Memorial Service - This Sunday at 2:00pm on the city square, east side of courthouse, we will join with other churches in a memorial service on the 1oth anniversary of the terrorist attacks. We will not have an evening service here at our church.


Special Business Meeting - This Sunday immediately after morning worship there will be a short business meeting to approve money to be spent for heating and air units. The property committee will bring a proposal. The business meeting is necessary b/c the money needed is significantly more than budgeted.


Deacon Ordinations - Sunday night, September 18th, we will ordain our two new deacons, Mack Harney and David Hirsbrunner, during our evening worship service.


AWANA - We have jumped out to a great start this year. Our average club attendance has been 57 over the first 2 weeks. Please keep praying for these kids and for the volunteers who serve.


Golden Offering for Tennessee Missions - This month. Look for offering envelopes in your pews. 100% of this money goes towards mission causes in the state of Tennessee. 50% of all money collected statewide will go towards starting new churches.


Request from RT Ministry - RTs would like to have the names, addresses, and birthdays of all our college students. Please submit this information to the church office. You may call the church secretary Monday, Wednesday, or Friday between the hours of 8:30 and 12:30 to give her this information. Or you may leave it on the secretary’s desk anytime.

Weekly Announcements (8.22.11)

2011-2012 Service Positions Open - We have just a couple of positions still needing to be filled for this coming church year.

1. Mission Friends teacher
2. Children in Action teacher

Mission Friends (preschool ages) and Children in Action (elementary ages) are our missions programs for our children. They meet during Sunday evening service.


Naco, Arizona Mission Trip - We will be partnering once again with Tim and Jennifer Scarbrough and Naco Baptist Church this fall to help spread the gospel in Naco. The main focus of our work will be in Naco doing a children and youth outreach camp to reach the younger population and intensive adult discipleship classes to help ground all of the new adult believers they have seen come to faith over the past several months. Dates for the trip are Sat, Oct. 15 - Sat, Oct. 22. This is during the second of the two school fall break weeks. You are officially invited to come!!! Speak with or email pastor Mark to sign up. We have up to 2 spots remaining.


AWANA Registration Night (this Wednesday, August 24th) - Registration night will start with some hamburgers and hotdogs off the grill. We will have our very on ventriloquists with us for some entertainment and then we'll finish off with ice cream. (We'll get the kids registered in the middle of all that as well.)


Puggles Is New to FBC AWANA This Year - Puggles is the AWANA club for boys and girls that are 2 years old (Cubbies is 3-4 year olds). So, if your child isn't quite ready for Cubbies, then come register him/her for Puggles!


Deacon Ordination Council - All ordained men are invited to ordination council this Sunday afternoon at 4:30 in the Sanctuary.


September 11th Memorial Service - This year Sept. 11th falls on a Sunday. This year is also the 10 year anniversary of the terrorist attacks. We will be doing a special afternoon memorial service that day on the town square with other churches in the area. We have one request: if you or someone you know was particularly affected by the events of the day and found hope thru Christ will you please contact me to talk about doing a short testimony during the service? Thanks so much.

Weekly Announcements (8.16.11)

Naco, Arizona Mission Trip - We will be partnering once again with Tim and Jennifer Scarbrough and Naco Baptist Church this fall to help spread the gospel in Naco. The main focus of our work will be in Naco doing a children and youth outreach camp to reach the younger population and intensive adult discipleship classes to help ground all of the new adult believers they have seen come to faith over the past several months. Dates for the trip are Sat, Oct. 15 - Sat, Oct. 22. This is during the second of the two school fall break weeks. You are officially invited to come!!! Speak with or email pastor Mark to sign up.


Homecoming - This Sunday (Aug. 21) - This year's homecoming speaker will be Mark Thomas, former pastor of youth and worship. As always, make sure you bring a dessert/side dish or two for our Homecoming meal that follows our morning worship service.


2011-2012 Service Positions Open - We have just a couple of positions still needing to be filled for this coming church year.

1. Mission Friends teacher
2. Children in Action teacher
3. 3rd-4th grade SS teacher

Mission Friends (preschool ages) and Children in Action (elementary ages) are our missions programs for our children. They meet during Sunday evening service.


AWANA - School is starting back up so that means that AWANA is returning as well. Here's the schedule we have planned.

• Wednesday, August 24th - Registration / Parent Orientation, 6:00 pm
  
• Wednesday, August 31st - First Night of AWANA Clubs, 6:00 pm
  

Church - We have an awesome opportunity for you to serve children. I hope you remember the sermon from Mother's Day this year called "One Generation Away". The critical importance of passing on the faith to the next generation cannot be understated. Will you embrace this opportunity? We averaged over 50 children per week last school year, so that means we have a lot of opportunities for you to serve. Speak to or email pastor Mark to get connected to this ministry.

Parents - If your child is 3 years old thru 6th grade this school year please come to our registration night on August 24th to get your child in AWANA.



Youth Pastor Search Team - Our search team has worked diligently to take our list of candidates from 70+ submitted resumes down to a final 3 candidates. Please be in prayer for the search team as they continue forward.