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

SUNDAY

2Go Cafe Open @ 9:00 AM

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

Worship through Music ~ Pastor Brad Nelson
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
Approach: ‘Draw near to God and he will draw near to you’

Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM

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TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM
with Pastor Isaac – MPR
Youth Group ends at 7:30

WEDNESDAY
Awana @ 6:30 PM
Open to students age 3-6th grade

TODAY:

2GO CAFE
Our coffee stand is open on Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM. Stop by and grab some coffee before the worship service begins. You can pay in cash or by using a prepaid 2Go Café coffee card. Proceeds from your purchase will go toward FBC missions.

COMMUNION SUNDAY
Join us this morning for Communion during our 9:30 AM service.
We will provide single-serving packaged elements for those who wish to partake, and if you will be joining us online, you’re welcome to participate from home.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Breakout sessions 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
– Meets in Room 303
• Modern Day Parables with Pastor Isaac – This will be a fun breakout session based on conversation, and biblical examination of modern day sayings. Join us this week as we talk through and examine, “You can’t win ’em all”.
– Meets in Room 302/304
• Children’s Ministry Volunteers-Start Here! with Diana Crowell – If you are interested in volunteering with Children’s Ministry, please join this session and find out how you can help!
-Meets in Room 306
• The Discipline of Communion with Pastor Tim – Join this session as we explore and discuss the discipline of communion
– Meets in the MPR

MEN’S BREAKFAST
If you are a man of middle school age or older, you’re invited to breakfast every 2nd Saturday of the month! Mark your calendar for our next gathering, which is THIS Saturday, May 8 at 7:30 AM in the MPR. Food will be provided, so come and eat and enjoy some great fellowship.

We will follow mask and social distancing guidelines. Information about prescreening for symptoms can be found here.
If you have any questions, email Dave Neumayer or fbc@thefirstfamily.net.

UPCOMING EVENTS
Mark your calendars for these coming events in May:

May 16, 11:00 AM • Town Hall
May 23, 6:00 PM • Business Meeting
May 30, 11:00 AM • Memorial Day Picnic

• more details to come •

YOUVERSION SERMON NOTES
We now have sermon notes on the Bible app! This will allow you to follow along with the message AND take and save your notes. We will be using the YouVersion Bible App which is FREE and available for iPhone/iPad, Android, and Kindle Fire devices.
Here’s what to do:
1. Go to your app store or https://www.bible.com/app and install on your device.
2. Set up a FREE account either in the app or on the website.
3. If you haven’t used this app before, spend some time getting to know all its features.
4. When you come on Sunday look under “More” and “Events” to find our service. Alternatively, you can click on the “YouVersion Notes” link right here!
5. Make sure to click “save” when you get to the event so you will be able to access your notes later.
If you have any problems let a staff member or deacon know and they can point you in the direction of someone who can help!
(If you would prefer a hard copy notes page, you may download one here, or they will also be available on the table as you enter the auditorium.)

HEARING ASSISTANCE
If you or someone you know needs to make use of this great tool in our worship service, here are some instructions.

1. Download the WaveCAST Audio Receiver application.
   Download for Apple phones
   Download for Google phones
2. At the worship service, connect to the “FBC-Guest” Wi-Fi network.
3. Next, open the WaveCAST app, and choose “FBC Service”
4. You should be connected! Just move the slider to adjust the volume.

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

YouVersion Sermon Notes

Printable Sermon Notes

Approach:
‘Draw near to God and he will draw near to you’

Pastor Tim Walker

18 Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
19 and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
Exodus 20:18-19

8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst.
9 Exactly as I show you concerning the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture, so you shall make it.
Exodus 25:8-9

5 They serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect the tent, he was instructed by God, saying, “See that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain.”
6 But as it is, Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises.
7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.
8 For he finds fault with them when he says: “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
9 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant, and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws into their minds, and write them on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.
1 Now even the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly place of holiness.
2 For a tent was prepared, the first section, in which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the Presence. It is called the Holy Place.
3 Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,
4 having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.
5 Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.
6 These preparations having thus been made, the priests go regularly into the first section, performing their ritual duties,
7 but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood, which he offers for himself and for the unintentional sins of the people.
8 By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
9 (which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,
10 but deal only with food and drink and various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.
11 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
12 he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
13 For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes of a heifer, sanctify for the purification of the flesh,
14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
Hebrews 8:5-9:14

Further scripture references:

Exodus 36:2-3 & Philippians 2:1-3
Exodus 29:42 & John 14:6
Exodus 38:8 & John 13:8
Exodus 25:29-31 & Philippians 2:12-13
Exodus 30:35 & 2 Corinthians 2:14
Exodus 25:22 & Romans 10:17

As we leave on mission…
Which part of the Tabernacle did you resonate with the most?
Why?
Which part of the Tabernacle did you struggle with the most?
Why?
If the tabernacle outlines our journey of drawing near to God, where do you sometimes get off course or stuck?
How could you get traction again?
Think of a friend God has put on your heart or in your life lately…
Where are they on this graphic?
How could you encourage them?
If you could get to a place where listening to God was consistent in your life, what might he say to you right now?
What you be afraid he would say?
What would you hope he would say?
Faith is trusting what God says.
Look up and read out loud James 4:8a
If you were to choose to trust this promise, what would change in your life today?
Would it be worth it?
What is a first step for you to approach God?
If you want to continue the conversation, email Pastor Tim at t.walker@thefirstfamily.net

Memorized reading: James 4:8a (ESV)
D n 2 G, & h w D n 2 y.

Prayer Requests

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Financial Information through March 31, 2021
Giving: $409,159 • Expenses: $417,513 • Budget: $476,625

Mike and Rachel Gustafson

ABWE International: Kiev, Ukraine

Mike, Rachel, Ellie (13), Jonathan(8), Titus(4), Susanna(6), Daniel(10)

Mike and Rachel serve in Kyiv, Ukraine. They serve in Ukrainian church ministry and leadership training where Mike is the team leader. Mike is the chaplain for Kyiv Theological Seminary and works with the evangelistic Men’s Christian Basketball League. They also support ministry leaders and theological educators as they pivot to online classes during Coronavirus.

Prayer Requests:

• For continued recovery from the fatigue from coronavirus for the entire family
• For Rachel as she homeschools the children and serves in the ladies and children’s ministry
• For Mike as he leads and mentors the church and other ministry leaders during Coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions

To make a one-time gift (love offering) to the Gustafsons, you may choose “Missionary of the Month” in the drop-down menu of the ChurchCenter app’s giving option. This option is also available online, here. Alternatively, you may visit their website to contribute directly to them.

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We hope y’all have had a chance to stop by the Library. We are still working on it, and have plans for cataloguing and creating a new checkout system, and even a sign for our window. But in the meantime, as we go about our work there, we hope you will feel free to take a look at the books and resources we have available.

Stay tuned for our next book recommendations, coming soon. Make sure to come and visit church library and look around again and see what’s new. If you have any questions, you can always send us an email!

~The Lovely Library Ladies
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