Weekly Bulletin 10-4-20
Welcome
Welcome to our worship service!
• If you’re here in person, please practice safe social distancing and wear a mask
• Once you arrive at your chosen indoor venue, please remain in that venue so that we may adhere to our regulatory guidelines
• 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
Announcements
YOUTH GROUP
HOSTING INTERACTIVE PRAYER NIGHT
Our FBC Students are excited to invite you to our first ever Interactive Prayer Night! This in-person event will be Tuesday, October 6 from 6:30 – 8:00 PM at the church. We are planning many different prayer opportunities and encourage each person/family to participate in every station. Separate childcare or children’s programs will not be provided.
Activities include:
- Live worship music
- Corporate and personal prayer opportunities
- Focus on different types of prayer and ways to pray, including personal intercession, repentance, confronting fear, and spiritual warfare
Help us with our planning by letting us know how many in your family plan to come by registering in the ChurchCenter app under Events, or via the ChurchCenter web portal.
TRUNK OR TREAT IS COMING!
Saturday, October 31 – mark your calendar and start planning your trunk!
We are gearing up for a great event and want to make it memorable with lots and lots of decorated trunks for the community to come and visit.
Start brainstorming now about how you can decorate, and we’ll have an event signup and more information for you soon.
AWANA REGISTRATION IS OPEN
We’re excited to offer our program again this year, starting THIS Wednesday, October 7, and we will be meeting IN PERSON!
Register now, because space is currently limited. We look forward to modifying our capacity limits as restrictions lift.
We’re ready to see all your smiling faces again!
NEW KIDZONE ONLINE CONTENT – brite*
Watch the KidZone Facebook Page each Thursday afternoon to see what this new online Bible learning powered by Awana can teach you!
Because kids who know the Bible can:
- Navigate a changing culture
- Build a strong foundation of faith
- Love Jesus for the rest of their lives
Click here to see what this new online Bible learning, powered by Awana, can teach you!
MOPS – MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS
MOPS has plenty of room for new moms, so if you are a mom of kids up to age five, please join us!
More details:
- Next meeting: Monday, October 12
- 6:30 PM in the MPR at FBC
- We have plenty of room for new moms, so bring a friend, neighbor, etc.!
- Meetings are on the second and fourth Mondays of the month, September-May
- See our Facebook page or the FBC MOPS page for more info
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD
Our faithful Operation Christmas Child enthusiasts have finished another year of prep and are ready to pack some boxes! First Baptist Church’s OCC goal this year is 200 boxes and we need to raise $2,000 to cover shipping and the cost of the boxes themselves.
We will not do a big packing party this year, but will to continue having small monthly gatherings and pack boxes from supplies we have received to date. OCC box items (school supplies, hygiene supplies, etc.) are still welcome!
This year we are packing at Dana Mortimer’s house on October 17 and 31. For more information and location details, please contact Dana Mortimer or Melany Bickford.
You may designate a donation to OCC, and an online option will be coming soon.
Song Lyrics
Today’s Songs
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Hosanna
10,000 Reasons
Refiner’s Fire
Hosanna
Verse 1
Praise is rising
Eyes are turning to You
We turn to You
Hope is stirring
Hearts are yearning for You
We long for You
Pre-Chorus
‘Cause when we see You
We find strength to face the day
In Your presence
All our fears are washed away
Washed away
Chorus
Hosanna hosanna
You are the God who saves us
Worthy of all our praises
Hosanna hosanna
Come have Your way among us
We welcome You here Lord Jesus
Verse 2
Hear the sound of
Hearts returning to You
We turn to You
In Your Kingdom
Broken lives are made new
You make us new
Ending
Hosanna hosanna
Hosanna hosanna
10,000 Reasons
Chorus
Bless the Lord O my soul
O my soul
Worship His holy name
Sing like never before
O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
Verse 1
The sun comes up
It’s a new day dawning
It’s time to sing Your song again
Whatever may pass and
Whatever lies before me
Let me be singing
When the evening comes
Verse 2
You’re rich in love and
You’re slow to anger
Your name is great and
Your heart is kind
For all Your goodness
I will keep on singing
Ten thousand reasons
For my heart to find
Verse 3
And on that day
When my strength is failing
The end draws near
And my time has come
Still my soul will sing
Your praise unending
Ten thousand years
And then forevermore
Tag
Worship Your holy name
Lord I’ll worship Your holy name
Ending
Sing like never before O my soul
I’ll worship Your holy name
Worship Your holy name
Worship Your holy name
Refiner’s Fire
Verse 1
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold
And precious silver
Purify my heart
Let me be as gold
Pure gold
Chorus
Refiner’s fire
My heart’s one desire
Is to be holy
Set apart for You Lord
I choose to be holy
Set apart for You my Master
Ready to do Your will
Verse 2
Purify my heart
Cleanse me from within
And make me holy
Purify my heart
Cleanse me from my sin
Deep within
Scripture & Sermon Notes
Ephesians Chapter Five: A Holy Marriage
Pastor Isaac Terry
3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
“Awake, O sleeper,
and arise from the dead,
and Christ will shine on you.”
15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Prayer
Giving
Financial Information through August 31, 2020
Giving: $102,903 • Expenses: $102,697 • Budget: $142,990
Missionary of the Month
Jim & Alene Latzko
The Latzkos utilize their 30 years of missionary experience in the Philippines to motivate and assist churches in the US to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches among new immigrants. They lead International Bible Studies, English Classes, and youth groups.
Jim was saved and discipled in the 1960’s through the ministry of First Baptist Church. Allene grew up in the Philippines, a child of missionary parents. They are sent by First Baptist with the assistance of ABWE-North America.
To make a one-time gift (love offering) to the Latzkos, you may choose “missionary of the month” in the drop-down menu of the Church Center app’s giving option. This option is also available online, here.
Alternatively, you may visit their ABWE giving page.
Praises
- On September 6, our International Fellowship at the Chinese Church held its first in-person meeting since the COVID-19 crisis began.
- Our English classes have built close friendships with Internationals in Richland and their families.
- We currently have people attending our classes from both the US East Coast and Asia.
- We have the privilege of caring for Allene’s mother, Fern, at our home.
Prayer Requests
- In March, our Bridge Seminar, focusing on helping churches disciple internationals, was cancelled due to COVID-19. Pray that we will be able to teach the Bridge Seminar within the next 6 months.
- Pray for us to have a growing ministry to our English students, and that they will continue to attend online, even after they return to their home countries.
Resources
Emma has gathered some of her favorite recordings of songs we sing in our services. Click the links to listen to these fabulous playlists!
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