Weekly Bulletin 3-28-21
Welcome
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
Regular Weekly Activities
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
Can I Relate To Questions?
Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM
Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger – Room 303/305
KidZone Child Safety Training with Diana Crowell – Room 304
The Journey to Faith in Jesus with Pastor Brad – MPR
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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
Announcements
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
• KidZone Child Safety Training with Diana Crowell, Children’s Director
– Meets in Room 304
• The Journey to Faith in Jesus with Pastor Brad
– Meets in the MPR
SPERLINGS VIDEO
Did you see the video of Kris & Jason Sperling in our announcements before the service?
Click here to see the full testimonial on our YouTube page!
NEW! HEARING ASSISTANCE NOW AVAILABLE!
If you or someone you know needs to make use of this great tool in our worship service, here are some instructions.
- Download the WaveCAST Audio Receiver application.
Download for Apple phones
Download for Google phones - At the worship service, connect to the “FBC-Guest” Wi-Fi network.
- Next, open the WaveCAST app, and choose “FBC Service”
- 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
Song Lyrics
Today’s Songs
Click here for printer-friendly lyrics
~tap a title to jump
to the song~
I Will Stand
Yes I Will
Made Alive
Blessed Be Your Name
I Will Stand
Verse 1
You saved me from my destruction
You turned my feet from death
You lifted me with Your kindness
You filled me with Your breath
How can I thank You
What can I bring
Chorus
I will stand and worship You
For ev’rything You are to me
I will lift my voice in praise
For all the wonders You display
(I will stand I will stand and worship You)
Verse 2
You draw me with tender mercies
You hold me in Your grace
So I will fall down in rev’rence
At the myst’ry of Your ways
So how can I thank You
What can I bring
Bridge
In the middle of the congregation
I will lift my voice to say that You are good
And in the midst of ev’ry situation
I will make this declaration
You are good yeah yeah
Yes I Will
Verse
I count on one thing
The same God that never fails
Will not fail me now
You won’t fail me now
In the waiting
The same God who’s never late
Is working all things out
You’re working all things out
Chorus
Yes I will lift You high
In the lowest valley
Yes I will bless Your name
Yes I will sing for joy
When my heart is heavy
All my days yes I will
Bridge
I choose to praise
To glorify glorify
The name of all names
That nothing can stand against
Tag
For all my days
Yes I will
Made Alive
Verse 1
I once was dead in sin alone and hopeless
A child of wrath I walked condemned in darkness
But Your mercy brought new life
And in Your love and kindness
Raised me up with Christ and made me righteous
Chorus
You have bought me back with the riches of
Your amazing grace and relentless love
I’m made alive forever with You life forever
By Your grace I’m saved
By Your grace I’m saved
Verse 2
Lord You are the light that broke the darkness
You satisfy my soul when I am heartless
If ever I forget my true identity
Show me who I am and help me to believe
Bridge
My sin has been erased
I’ll never be the same
Blessed Be Your Name
Verse 1
Blessed be Your name
In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow
Blessed be Your name
Verse 1
Blessed be Your name
When I’m found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness
Blessed be Your name
Pre-Chorus
Ev’ry blessing You pour out I’ll
Turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in Lord
Still I will say
Chorus
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name
Verse 3
Blessed be Your name
When the sun’s shining down on me
When the world’s all as it should be
Blessed be Your name
Verse 4
Blessed be Your name
On the road marked with suffering
Though there’s pain in the offering
Blessed be Your name
Bridge
You give and take away
You give and take away
My heart will choose to say
Lord blessed be Your name
Scripture
Can I Relate To Questions?
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)
1 “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
2 In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
4 And you know the way to where I am going.”
5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”
6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:1-6 (ESV)
8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.
10 For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
11 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
13 Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good?
14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled,
15 but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,
16 having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
17 For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1 Peter 3:8-18 (ESV)
Prayer
Giving
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.
Financial Information through February 28, 2021
Giving: $380,728 • Expenses: $365,181 • Budget: $428,962
Missionary of the Month
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.
Library News
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
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