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

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
Click here for self-screening protocol
or
Join us online on YouTube or Facebook

Weekly Bulletin
Worship through Music ~ Rachel Montgomery
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
Can I Relate The Good News?

Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM
Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger – Room 303/305
Combined Session: Communicating the Gospel with Pastor Tim and friends – MPR

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MONDAY
MOPS @ 6:30 PM
Meeting in the MPR

TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM
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:

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.

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 303/305
• Combined Session:
Communicating the Gospel to Children
Communicating the Gospel to Students
Communicating the Gospel to Adults with Pastor Tim and friends
– All Ages Welcome! Meets in the MPR

ELDER & DEACON NOMINATIONS
Submit names as possible nominees for a role on the elder council or deacon board before Thursday, March 25.
Contact an elder with your nomination: Pastor Tim, Pastor Isaac, Pastor Brad, Alan Zacher, or Jeff Stachofsky.

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

Can I Relate The Good News?

Pastor Tim Walker

21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 20:21 (ESV)

37 Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
39 For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
40 And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
41 So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.
42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.
43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.
44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common.
45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.
46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,
47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
Acts 2:37-47 (ESV)

22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: “Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
28 for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
29 Being then God’s offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man.
30 The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
31 because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
32 Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked. But others said, “We will hear you again about this.”
33 So Paul went out from their midst.
34 But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
Acts 17:22-34 (ESV)

18 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
19 For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
20 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?
Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
23 but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
1 Corinthians 1:18-25 (ESV)

Further Scripture References:
James 1:19 (ESV)
John 1:17 (ESV)
Mark 8:29 (ESV)

Good News Handout

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 February 28, 2021
Giving: $380,728 • Expenses: $365,181 • Budget: $428,962

Jon & Suzanne Wright

World In Need International: Europe and the Middle East

Jon & Suzanne support pastors and churches in Europe and the Middle East so that local pastors can

better minister to their own people through counseling and mentoring. If you would like to receive their newsletter, please send them an email at TheWrights02@gmail.com as they cannot post their letter online due their work in sensitive countries. Their monthly support level is about $500.00 a month short due to the deaths of a couple supporters in the last quarter. They are sharing this information so that God can move people He calls to support them. Watch your email for a video conference date coming sometime in March.

Prayer Requests:

• Please pray for our students, church planters and workers who are training, mentoring and helping each week. God has given us a broad ministry with students in Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan. We are amazed and blessed.
• We are facing a significant need to buy another computer for the work. All our ministry depends on the computer and we use it with online ministry every day. At moment we only have one and if that fails we are in trouble and it is 5 years old. We usually try to buy one when in the USA because it is so much cheaper but we cannot make it there at this time. Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

To make a one-time gift (love offering) to the Wrights, 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 World in Need Donation website.

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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.

For this sermon series, here are a few book recommendations.
Remember that all books should be read with humility and discernment.

From Pastor Tim:
The Crucified Life by A.W. Tozer
Them by Ben Sasse
With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God by Skye Jethani
Filling up the Afflictions of Christ by John Piper
Permission Evangelism by Michael Simpson
I Once Was Lost by Don Everts
Conspiracy of Kindness by Steve Sjogren

From Pastor Brad:
Not-Yet-Christian by Les Goertz
(If you would like a copy of this book, please email Pastor Brad)

That’s all we have for now, but 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