Welcome, Pastor Tim!

Welcome to our Sunday Worship Service!

• Worship with us in the Auditorium or in the MPR where we will simulcast our livestream.

• 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.

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
Livestream Simulcast in MPR
Click here for self-screening protocol
or
Join us online on YouTube or Facebook

Weekly Bulletin
Worship through Music ~ Pastor Brad Nelson
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
Abide in Christ: Exploring the Metanarrative of Scripture

Sunday School Classes @ 11:00 AM
Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger – Room 303/305
Bible Talk with Pastor Isaac – Room 302/304

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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

TODAY:
PASTOR TIM’S FIRST SUNDAY AT FBC
We are excited to welcome 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 Pastor Tim’s opening message to the First Family.

ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
Sunday school classes begin at 11:00. We hope you’ll join us after the service:
• Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger: An interactive bible study for adults
– Room 303/305
• Bible Talk with Pastor Isaac: An interactive study for youth & adults
This week: Practical Prayer
– Room 302/304

NEXT SUNDAY JANUARY 24 Town Hall Meeting, 11:00 AM
There will be a town hall meeting on Sunday, January 24, at 11:00 AM in lieu of Sunday School. Mark your calendars now so you can join us in the Auditorium for this informational meeting!

FOOD SHOWER FOR THE WALKERS
Thank you to all of you who have participated! We are holding off this week on more submissions so that we can wait to see when the Walkers plan to get all 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
MOPS has plenty of room, so if you are a mom of kids (from pregnancy) through age five, please join us!

More details:
•    Meetings are on the second and fourth Mondays, September-May
•    January Meetings: January 11 and 25
•    6:30 PM in the MPR at FBC
•    Bring a friend, neighbor, etc.!
•    See our Facebook page or the FBC MOPS page for more info

Abide in Christ: Exploring the Metanarrative of Scripture

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.

John 15:4-5 (ESV)

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?

You may give in person using the boxes at the back of the Auditorium or the MPR

Give Online

Financial Information through December 31, 2020
Giving: $294,395 • Expenses: $242,349 • Budget: $333,637

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!

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