Welcome to our Sunday Gathering!

• Worship with us live at 9:30 AM in the Auditorium for our Main Session

• Join us live at 11:00 AM for our Breakout Sessions

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

• Click here for hearing assistance information

• 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

KidsChurch
Nursery-3rd Grade @ 9:30 AM

Main Session @ 9:30 AM
In Person in Auditorium
or
Online: YouTube or Facebook

Worship through Music ~ Emma Watts
Worship through the Word ~ Alan Zacher
Compassion

Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM

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TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM – Movie Night
with Pastor Isaac – MPR
Youth Group movie night ends at 8:30

TODAY:

2GO CAFE
Our coffee stand is open on Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM. Stop by and grab some coffee before the Main Session and again before Breakout Sessions. 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 Genesis with Paul Eslinger – An interactive bible study
  – Adults, Meets in Room 303
• Main Session Message Q&R with Alan Zacher – question/response about application of the morning message
  – Youth and Adults, Meets in the MPR

BREAKOUT SESSIONS FOR KIDS
Breakout Sessions are available for kids of all ages!
• Nursery – Ages 0-4, Room 106A (Nursery)
• KidZone Breakout – Grades K-3, Room 307
• KidsPlus Breakout – Grades 4-6, Room 305

CONNECT CARDS
If you’re visiting or simply want to send a message to staff and pastors, fill out a connect card! You can find them by the Information Table, click the “connect” button on our home page, or click here.

ONE NIGHT TO GIVE BACK
Help and Donations Wanted:

FBC is excited to host One Night To Give Back, this coming Friday from 4 PM to 8 PM, outside in our parking lot. This is a community event with multiple churches participating. There will be free hotdogs and lemonade, face painting, games and prizes, free haircuts, praise and worship music, and our own Ryan Frater (NJ Relighz) will be performing. There will also be bins to donate school supplies for kids in need in the Tri-Cities community.

We will need people to run a few game stations. A sign-up sheet will be at the Information Table on Sunday. If you would like to help in any other way, contact Travis Ruska or the FBC church office.

Join us this Friday; invite your friends and neighbors; bring school supplies to donate; and come and have fun, ministering to our community. This Friday Aug 20 from 4 PM to 8 PM.

Travis: travisruska@gmail.com or 509.282.2548
Office: fbc@fbcrichland.net

A POSSIBILITY FOR OPPORTUNITY
Join this special Breakout Session on  August 22 at 11:00 AM

The following ministries will share about volunteer opportunities that currently exist in our community and ways that you can become involved with them:

•    Forge Youth Ministry
•    Chaplaincy Healthcare
•    You Medical
•    Child Evangelism
•    Clean Sweep
•    Beautiful Beginnings

Come and find out how you can get involved in these local ministries.
Let’s all pray for God’s direction in being the Church!

• Hosted by FBC missions •

UPCOMING EVENTS
Mark your calendar for these events coming later this month.

•   Town Hall Meeting, August 29 at 11:00 AM
•   (Possible) Baptism Service, August 29 at 12:00 PM
•  Business Meeting, August 29 at 6:00 PM
•   Awana begins on September 8, 6:30 PM Register Online!

BLOOD DRIVE
We are hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by Oasis Physical Therapy.
THIS HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR Thursday, September 23, from noon to 5 PM.

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!

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

Compassion

Alan Zacher

1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
2 After agreeing with the workers on one denarius, he sent them into his vineyard for the day.
3 When he went out about nine in the morning, he saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing.
4 He said to them, ‘You also go into my vineyard, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’ So off they went.
5 About noon and about three, he went out again and did the same thing.
6 Then about five he went and found others standing around and said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one hired us,’ they said to him. “‘You also go into my vineyard,’ he told them.
8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard told his foreman, ‘Call the workers and give them their pay, starting with the last and ending with the first.’
9 “When those who were hired about five came, they each received one denarius.
10 So when the first ones came, they assumed they would get more, but they also received a denarius each.
11 When they received it, they began to complain to the landowner:
12 ‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day’s work and the burning heat.’
13 “He replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I’m doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me on a denarius?
14 Take what’s yours and go. I want to give this last man the same as I gave you.
15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first last.”
Matthew 20:1-16 CSB

As we study together…

What does the passage say?

Key words/phrases?

Major theological terms?

Commands?

Promises?

Difficult words/phrases?

What does the passage mean?

Context? (never interpret less than a paragraph)

How would the original hearers receive this?

Key word definitions?

Parallel Biblical teachings?

Can you communicate the point of this passage in a simple phrase?

As we leave on mission…

What must I do in response?

How does this truth apply to my life?

Personally?

As the church?

In my community?

What steps do I need to take to apply this?
(Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-based Goals)

To whom will I be accountable?
(reach out and ask… follow up)

The Christian life is designed to be transferred relationally and journeyed together. You need to “rope in”– brother to brother and sister to sister – on a weekly basis so that together we can draw near to God and join him in his kingdom work.

This is an exploration – commit and prepare for a long and rewarding journey.

To continue the conversation, email Alan:
a.zacher@fbcrichland.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 July 31, 2021
Giving: $82,185 • Expenses: $89,685 • Budget: $94,083

From Kristin:
I work with national partners all over the world, but am currently based in Arizona. While I’m based in AZ, I will Lord willing soon be traveling to visit national partners in the Middle East and Asia.

My calling is to use my gifts in Bible scholarship and my multicultural background to serve the global church, particularly for purposes of growing church unity, and helping the church to fulfill its peacemaking commission from Christ. My work is all about 1) bridging cultural gaps to deepen our understanding and love for God’s Word, and 2) breaking down dividing walls of hostility according to Eph. 2:11-22, so that we can be one even as Christ and the Father are one, and so that we can be a display of His glory to the world.

Right now, I’m working on my PhD in Bible and cross-cultural missiology, and have just begun to collaborate on a very exciting project with another organization based in AZ. This organization has an entire team of people who do exactly the kind of training and resource development work that I’m called to do, and I have the privilege of joining them on The Ephesians 2 Gospel Project, where we are using Ephesians 2 to develop resources made by and for the global church, to help Christians everywhere to address conflict and violence with the gospel, and to give us new tools for reaching our neighbors with Christ’s gospel of peace.

Prayer Requests:

• I praise God for the truly miraculous ways that He brought me in contact with The Ephesians 2 Gospel Project, and the many more-than-coincidental ways that He has provided for my financial needs, and for this project thus far.
• Please pray with me for God’s continued provision on The Ephesians 2 Gospel Project, and on my PhD work.
• Pray for the strength and wisdom necessary to do this work, that the attacks of the Enemy against us would be thwarted, and that financial provisions would continue to come in and increase.

To make a one-time gift to Kristin’s ministry, you may choose “Ministry of the Month” in the drop-down menu of the ChurchCenter app’s giving option or click here to give on our website.

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