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 ~ Rachel Montgomery
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
Approach: Week 5 – The Altar of Incense & The Holy of Holies

Memorial Day Picnic @ 11:00 AM

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

TODAY:

2GO CAFE (before service only)
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.
**Today the coffee stand will not be open after the service, only before.**

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.

MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC
We are excited for our annual Memorial Day Picnic TODAY, right after the morning service, beginning at 11:00 AM. There will be plenty of time for fellowship, food, and fun! Remember that there will not be any Breakout Sessions, and the 2Go Cafe coffee stand will only be open before the worship service.
The picnic will take place across the street at the Liberty Christian School playfield. The church will be providing the food and beverages. There will also be an organized game of kickball at the softball field.

Feel free to bring:
• Friends
• Lawn chairs or blankets for your people
• A favorite lawn or picnic game to play & share
• Sunscreen
Since the church is providing the food, please make sure someone in your group has let us know how many of your family/friends are planning to attend.
If you read this before Sunday, sign up for the picnic here! Don’t worry about signing up on Sunday, just come join us!

CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES UPDATE
Thanks to those who have volunteered to serve in our children’s ministries!
We are excited to announce that we will be able to provide nursery as well as a kids’ program during the Worship Service AND Breakout Sessions, beginning on June 20. In order to sustain this plan, we do still need more help. Click here to volunteer.

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

BREAKOUT SESSIONS FOR JUNE 6
This week we will not have any Breakout Sessions due to our Memorial Day Picnic, but we’ll be back on June 6!
Our breakout sessions begin at 11:00. We hope you’ll join us after the service next Sunday:

• Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger – An interactive bible study for adults
– Meets in Room 303

• VBS Volunteers – This breakout is for anyone thinking or planning on serving in VBS this year. It will cover expectations, plans for this year, and have a Q&A time. If you haven’t yet signed up to help with VBS, click here to volunteer and then come on Sunday June 6 to get more info!
– Meets in Room 302

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

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.

YouVersion Study Guide

Printable Study Guide

Approach: Week 5 – The Altar of Incense & The Holy of Holies

Pastor Tim Walker

The Altar of Incense
The Holy of Holies

1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
Selah
4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns.
6 The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
7 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord, how he has brought desolations on the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth; he breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the chariots with fire.
10 “Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
11 The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah
Psalm 46 (ESV)

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
11In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
Ephesians 1:3-14 (ESV)

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
9 where your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for forty years.
10 Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their heart; they have not known my ways.’
11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest.’”
12 Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
13 But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
15 As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
16 For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses?
17 And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
19 So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Hebrews 3:7-19 (ESV)

1 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it.
2 For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
5 And again in this passage he said, “They shall not enter my rest.”
6 Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
7 again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on.
9 So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
10 for whoever has entered God’s rest has also rested from his works as God did from his.
11 Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.
12 For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Hebrews 4:1-13 (ESV)

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

For further study:
Exodus 25:10-22; 30:1-10; 34-38; Numbers 7:89; Psalm 145; 2 Corinthians 2:14-17; Ephesians 4:1-5:21; Hebrews 9:1-5; Revelation 8:1-5; 21:1-27

As we leave on mission…

How much can you draw and label from memory?

Can you recite 2 Timothy 3:16-17 from memory?
(memorized reading) Psalm 46:10 (ESV) b s , & Kn t i a G

Let’s revisit our original Tabernacle questions:

Which part of the Tabernacle do you resonate with the most? Why?
Which part of the Tabernacle do you struggle with the most? Why?

The tabernacle outlines our journey of drawing near to God. Where do you sometimes get off course or stuck?
How will 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 will 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. Read James 4:8a
Will you choose to trust this promise?

What will change in your life today?
Would it be worth it?

What is a first step for you to approach God?

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

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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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