Welcome to our Sunday Worship Service!

• Worship with us live in the Auditorium 

• We are following CDC guidelines, masks are welcome

• Worship service will also be online via Facebook or YouTube for those who wish to watch at home

• If you have children attending KidZone, please pick them up promptly after the service

• 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: Week 4 – The Holy Place

Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM

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MONDAY
MOPS @ 6:30 PM
Meets in the 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
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
• Video Chat with Gustafsons, our May Missionaries of the Month from ABWE International: Kiev, Ukraine
– Meets in the MPR

Children in grades in 4-6 can join our (new!) KidsPlus Breakout Session!
We will also have our KidZone Breakout Session open for kids in grades K-3.

ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Our Annual Business Meeting will be TONIGHT! May 23, at 6:00 PM.
Please arrive early enough to sign in and receive a ballot if you are a member.

CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES UPDATE
Thanks to those who have provided feedback and who are willing to serve in the kids’ classes we offer. Considering the new volunteer signups we have received, we are excited to move forward with a plan to have kids’ programs available during the Worship Service as well as the Breakout Sessions. To sustain this plan, we still need more volunteers. Click here to volunteer.

Please keep Children’s Ministries in your prayers as you consider serving in this highly impactful area.

MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC
Join us NEXT WEEK on Sunday, May 30 for our Memorial Day Picnic after the worship service at the Liberty Christian playfield.
There will not be any Breakout Sessions, and the 2Go Cafe coffee stand will only be open before the worship service.
All food for the picnic will be provided, so bring your lawn chairs or picnic blankets and be ready to have some family picnic fun!

Sign up for the picnic here!

ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Our Annual Business Meeting will be on Sunday evening, May 23, at 6:00 PM.
Please arrive early enough to sign in and receive a ballot if you are a member.

YOUVERSION STUDY GUIDE
We now have our sermon study guide 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 Study Guide

Printable Study Guide

Approach: Week 4 – The Holy Place

Pastor Tim Walker

Life in The Holy Place is about…

25 When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?”
26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
27 Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”
28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?”
29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
30 So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
33 For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.”
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
41 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”
43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.
44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
45 It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me—
46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father.
47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
48 I am the bread of life.
49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. 50This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
52 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.
54 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
56 Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.
58 This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”
59 Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum.
60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this?
62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
63 It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
64 But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
65 And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”
68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,
69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
70 Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
John 6:25-70 (ESV)
“Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood” What?!

1 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:1-18 (ESV)
“our outer self is wasting away” What?!

1 I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.
5 As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me but also to all who have loved his appearing.
2 Timothy 4:1-8 (ESV)
“poured out as a drink offering” What?!

Application for life:
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-based goals:
Who will keep you accountable?

For further study: Exodus 25:23-40; 29:38-46; 37:10-24; 40:16-27; Numbers 4:5-10; 28:7-8; Leviticus 24:1-9; Revelation 1:12-20

As we leave on mission…

Can you recite Romans 6:4 from memory?
(memorized reading) 2 Tim 3:16-17 (ESV)
a S i B O b G & P 4 T, 4 R, 4 C, & 4 T i R, t t M o G m b C, Eq 4 e G W.

Life in The Holy Place is sole dependence on Jesus for light and life. It’s about trusting Jesus and the Bible. It’s about faith.
Learning to live by faith is similar to how a pilot must learn to trust in his instruments as an Accurate External Standard of Reference. Without instruments, the pilot would get disoriented and crash. The results are the same when we choose not to trust in the Bible. To live by faith we have to trust in the Bible as our A.E.S.R.
The Bible is absolutely trustworthy. It was written over a 1600 year span, by more than 40 different authors , from all walks of life, in many different places and circumstances, on three different continents, in three different languages, in a variety of literary styles, covering hundreds of controversial topics, and yet, in perfect harmony, communicates one unified story: God’s redemption of humanity.
Read 2 Timothy 3:16-17 and fill in the blanks:
“All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable
for ____________________,
for _______________________,
for _____________________, and
for ______________________ in
righteousness, that the man
of God may be complete,
equipped for every good work.”
In the Bible, God meets with us to teach us the way to live by faith, to reprove us when we choose the wrong way, to correct us so we can get back on track, and to train us so we can stay on track. Wow!
How can we start to establish the Bible as our A.E.S.R.?
Read, pray, & obey. Take time every day to talk with
God through the pages of His Word. Read to know Him, ask Him questions, search for His answers, and obey
His directions. Be real with God and let Him be real with you…really.
Study with trusted friends. The history we read in the Bible happened a long time ago and on the other side of the world. It takes work to understand what it first said, what it really means, and how to apply it. We can help each other.
Commit the Bible to memory. A pilot can’t just glance at some gauges on the ground then hope to fly by the seat of his pants. He needs those instruments with him.
We also need the Bible with us…all the time.

“The truth of the Bible is obvious to anyone willing to fairly investigate it. The Bible is uniquely self-consistent and extraordinarily authentic. It has changed the lives of millions of people who have placed their faith in Christ. It has been confirmed countless times by archaeology and other sciences. It possesses divine insight into the nature of the universe and has made correct predictions about distant future events with perfect accuracy. When Christians read the Bible, they cannot help but recognize the voice of their Creator. The Bible claims to be the Word of God, and it demonstrates this claim by making knowledge possible. It is the standard of standards. The proof of the Bible is that unless its truth is presupposed, we couldn’t prove anything at all.”
-Jason Lisle

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

Prayer Requests

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Financial Information through April 30, 2021
Giving: $440,098 • Expenses: $466,059 • Budget: $524,288

Mike and Rachel Gustafson

ABWE International: Kiev, Ukraine

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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