Weekly Bulletin 1-24-21
Welcome, Pastor Tim!
Welcome, Pastor Tim!
We are excited to announce our new Lead Pastor, Dr. Timothy Walker. Pastor Tim brings over 26 years of ministry experience including as the Lead Pastor of Reconciled Christian Fellowship, the Chaplain for Lewis County Sheriff’s Department, and an Adjunct Professor at Gateway Seminary’s Pacific Northwest Campus. In addition to his ministry in the Pacific Northwest, he has traveled to Canada, Mexico, Central America, East Asia, Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula to provide leadership and ministry training in many diverse cultures. Pastor Tim, his wife Rebecca, and their family are looking forward to getting to know us and our community and leading us as we seek to follow Jesus.
Thank you for joining us today for the second part of Pastor Tim’s opening message to the First Family. If you are not able to make it in person, we would love to have you with us via our Live Stream on Facebook or YouTube.
Welcome
Welcome to our Sunday Worship Service!
• Worship with us live in the Auditorium with distanced seating
• We will continue to adhere to safe social distancing practices and wear masks as required for in-person activities
• If you have children attending KidZone, please pick them up promptly after the service
• Worship service will also be available via Facebook or YouTube for those who wish to continue to watch at home
• Please check in – whether you are here in person or watching online – using the ChurchCenter app on your smartphone, or on the ChurchCenter online portal on a computer
Regular Weekly Activities
SUNDAY
Connecting Point @ 9:20 AM
Chat with friends and family at FBC
or
online on YouTube or Facebook
(YouTube/Google or Facebook account required)
KidZone Classes
NURSERY-3RD GRADE @ 9:30 AM
Please pick your child up promptly after the Worship Service.
Sunday Worship Service @ 9:30 AM
In Person in Auditorium
Click here for self-screening protocol
or
Join us online on YouTube or Facebook
Weekly Bulletin
Worship through Music ~ Emma Watts
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
Abide in Christ: Exploring the Metanarrative of Scripture Part 2
Town Hall Meeting @ 11:00 AM
Sharing God’s work in our church family
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MONDAY
MOPS @ 6:30 PM
Meeting in the MPR
TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM
In person at FBC with Pastor Isaac
Meeting in the MPR
Youth Group ends at 7:30
WEDNESDAY
Awana @ 6:30 PM
Open to students age 3-6th grade
Announcements
TODAY:
TOWN HALL MEETING
There will be a town hall meeting today 11:00 AM in lieu of Sunday School. Mark your calendars now so you can join us in the Auditorium as we share what God is doing in our church!
FOOD SHOWER FOR THE WALKERS
Thank you to all of you who have participated! We are holding off on more submissions so that we can wait to see when the Walkers plan to get moved in. We will post another update as soon as we know when you can begin to bring perishable and refrigerated items to the dropoff locations!
Thank you again, Church, for showing the love of Christ to our new pastor and his family.
KIDZONE ONLINE
Follow the FBC KidZone page on Facebook and watch every Thursday for a new lesson and activity. We have new brite* lessons for January and hope you’ll enjoy them. Make sure to check every week for a new lesson and activity – click here for KidZone Online.
MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS
If you are a mom of kids (from pregnancy) through age five, please join us for some adult conversation, coffee, creativity, and fellowship.
More details:
• Meetings are on the second and fourth Mondays, September-May
• 6:30 PM in the MPR at FBC
• Bring a friend or neighbor!
• See our Facebook page or the FBC MOPS page for more info
Song Lyrics
Today’s Songs
Click here for printer-friendly lyrics
~tap a title to jump
to the song~
Our God
The Heart of Worship
Lord I Need You
Our God
Verse 1
Water You turned into wine
Opened the eyes of the blind
There’s no one like You
None like You
Verse 2
Into the darkness You shine
Out of the ashes we rise
There’s no one like You
None like You
Chorus
Our God is greater
Our God is stronger
God You are higher than any other
Our God is healer
Awesome in power our God our God
Verse 3
Who brings our chaos back into order
Who makes the orphan a son and daughter
The King of Glory the King of Glory
Verse 4
Who rules the nations with truth and justice
Shines like the sun in all of its brilliance
The King of Glory the King above all kings
Bridge
And if our God is for us
Then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us
Then what could stand against
And if our God is for us
Then who could ever stop us
And if our God is with us
Then what could stand against
(Then) what could stand against
The Heart of Worship
Verse 1
When the music fades all is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring something that’s of worth
That will bless Your heart
Pre-Chorus
I’ll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You’re looking into my heart
Chorus
I’m coming back to the heart of worship
And it’s all about You all about You Jesus
I’m sorry Lord for the thing I’ve made it
When it’s all about You all about You Jesus
Verse 2
King of endless worth no one could express
How much You deserve
Though I’m weak and poor all I have is Yours
Ev’ry single breath
Lord I Need You
Verse
Lord I come I confess
Bowing here I find my rest
And without You I fall apart
You’re the one that guides my heart
Chorus
Lord I need You oh I need You
Ev’ry hour I need You
My one defense my righteousness
Oh God how I need You
Verse 2
Where sin runs deep Your grace is more
Where grace is found is where You are
And where You are Lord I am free
Holiness is Christ in me
Where You are Lord I am free
Holiness is Christ in me
Bridge
So teach my song to rise to You
When temptation comes my way
And when I cannot stand I’ll fall on You
Jesus You’re my hope and stay
And when I cannot stand I’ll fall on You
Jesus You’re my hope and stay
Chorus 2
Lord I need You oh I need You
Ev’ry hour I need You
My one defense my righteousness
Oh God how I need You
My one defense my righteousness
Oh God how I need You
Scripture & Discussion Questions
Abide in Christ: Exploring the Metanarrative of Scripture
Part 2
Pastor Tim Walker
4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.
5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
Discussion Questions (for us big kids… yes, even those of us with gray hair):
1. If you had to tell the narrative of your life so far in three events what would they be?
2. When you read the Bible, what verse or paragraph has emerged as an overall theme?
3. To tell the metanarrative of Scripture in under 90 seconds, what historical events would you include?
4. Is your understanding of Scripture’s metanarrative more reflective of your desires, personality, and preferences or of God’s?
5. Why is it important to study, understand, shape/reshape, and articulate our understanding of God’s metanarrative?
Discussion Questions (for our younger kids):
1. What is your favorite memory so far? Second favorite? Third?
2. What is your favorite Bible Verse? What do you like about it?
3. What does the Bible tell us?
4. Is the Bible about us living right or about God showing us who he is?
(hint: the answer might be “yes”)
5. Why is it important to read the Bible?
Prayer
Giving
You may give in person using the box at the back of the Auditorium. You may also mail a check, use the ChurchCenter app, or click the button below.
Financial Information through December 31, 2020
Giving: $294,395 • Expenses: $242,349 • Budget: $333,637
Missionary of the Month
Tim & Rebecca Walker
If you want to be a dynamic part of God’s story here, you need to be willing to be a part of God’s story anywhere. So often, God’s specific callings include leaving and going. This realization and commitment can be scary, but it can also lead to amazing stories of our Lord’s provision, power, and purpose.
In our family’s experience, God has consistently leveraged the smallest amounts of courage into undeserved opportunities to join his great big story. From conversations about Jesus in our home, neighborhood, and communities, to epic adventures in American indigenous cultures, Canada, Mexico, Central America, East Asia, Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula, God persistently proves the manifold implications of Psalm 24:1 and the directive of Psalm 8. And through all of these, God faithfully calms our fears, stretches our trust, and patiently shapes us into missionaries.
In the summer of 2000, our family answered God’s specific call to leave family, friends, and familiarity to go with him on mission to a little valley in Washington’s Cascades that we came to call home. In the winter of 2020, God has once again called us to leave family, friends, and familiarity to follow him on mission to the Tri-Cities. As our trust is stretched and our fears calmed, our prayer is that God would continue to shape all of us at Richland FBC into the missionaries he will use to write his great big story in Central Washington, the Pacific Northwest, and around the world.
Pray with us:
- For all the practical details of packing up 20 years of life, securing a home, and relocating.
- For the emotional strength to grieve leaving while embracing the joy of new friendships.
- For the healing of wounds and relational struggles in the First Family.
- For flexibility, grace, and sweetness as we all learn as a church to work from within old and new relationships to see our love grow for the Lord, for each other, and for our communities.
- That God’s name would be praised and that his kingdom would come in Richland as it is in Heaven!
Resources
Emma has gathered some of her favorite recordings of songs we sing in our services. Click the links to listen to these fabulous playlists!
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