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 ~ Emma Watts
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
Approach: Week 2 – Altar of Burnt Offering

Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM

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MONDAY
MOPS @ 6:30 PM
Meets in MPR

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 MONTH
Join us in the month of May 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
• The Discipline of Communion with Pastor Tim – Join this session as we explore and discuss the discipline of communion
– Meets in the MPR

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:
Week 2 – The Altar of Burnt Offering

Pastor Tim Walker

The Altar of Burnt Offering

10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:10-12 (ESV)

35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
36 For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Mark 8:35-36 (ESV)

23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
Matthew 5:23-24 (ESV)

15 For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
22 And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
23 which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 1:15-23 (ESV)

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:1-10 (ESV)

For further study:
Genesis 22:1-8
Exodus 12:1-7
Leviticus 4:32-35
1 Peter 1:13-23

As we leave on mission…
Can you recite James 4:8a from memory?
(memorized reading)
Luke 6:37 (ESV) J n, & w n b J; C n, & y w n b C; F, & y w b F

Read Matthew 18:21-35
Terms to know:
Talent: A monetary unit worth about twenty years’ wages
Denarii: a monetary unit; one is worth a day’s wages

Why did Jesus tell Peter (his student) this story?
What was the main point of Jesus’ teaching through this story?
Why do you think the servant couldn’t/wouldn’t forgive his fellow servant?
If you were asked to go visit this servant in prison, what would you want to ask him? What would you want to tell him?
How could an understanding of the Altar of Burnt Offering and the Tabernacle inform your discussion and help to free him?
Where do you struggle to believe God’s promise of forgiveness for you in Christ?
Is there someone in your life who you are struggling to forgive?
How can you make it right?

To continue the conversation, email Pastor Tim: t.walker@thefirstfamily.net

Prayer Requests

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.

Give Online

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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Latest Library Info

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
Jen, Shelly, Tami, and Tara