Weekly Bulletin 9-13-20
Welcome
Welcome to our service!
• If you’re here in person, please practice safe social distancing and wear a mask
• Remember to check in using the Church Center app whether you are here in person or watching online
• Worship service will also be available via Facebook or YouTube for those who wish to continue to watch at home
Announcements
YOUTH GROUP
Tuesday, September 15 • 7 PM on Zoom
Email Pastor Isaac if you need the link
SUNDAY SERVICE HELP
We have had some fabulous helpers over the last 3 weeks to get us ready for our in-person services on Sunday morning and put things away when we are finished.
Please consider joining the team so we can set up a weekly rotation. You do not need to help with both setup and teardown unless you want to.
Take a quick minute to tell us how you are available to help.
Thank you!
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
MOPS FIRST MEETING ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
Mothers of Preschoolers has plenty of room for new moms, so if you are a mom of kids up to age five, please join us!
More details:
- 6:30 PM outdoors at FBC
- Bring a lawn chair for the first two meetings
- 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
AWANA REGISTRATION IS OPEN
We’re excited to offer our program again this year, starting Wednesday, October 7 (beginning online).
We look forward to modifying the program as restrictions lift.
For now, all you’ll need is a handbook (and the registration fee has been reduced to only $10 per clubber!).
We’re ready to see all your smiling faces again!
Song Lyrics
Today’s Songs
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Great Are You Lord
Holy Holy Holy
Heart of Worship
Great Are You Lord
Verse
You give life You are love
You bring light to the darkness
You give hope You restore
Ev’ry heart that is broken
And great are You Lord
Chorus
It’s Your breath in our lungs
So we pour out our praise
We pour out our praise
It’s Your breath in our lungs
So we pour out our praise to You only
Bridge
And all the earth will shout Your praise
Our hearts will cry
These bones will sing
Great are You Lord
(back to top)
Holy Holy Holy
Verse 1
Holy holy holy
Lord God Almighty
Early in the morning
Our song shall rise to Thee
Holy holy holy
Merciful and mighty
God in three persons
Blessed Trinity
Verse 2
Holy holy holy
All the saints adore Thee
Casting down their golden crowns
Around the glassy sea
Cherubim and seraphim
Falling down before Thee
Which wert and art
And evermore shalt be
Verse 3
Holy holy holy
Though the darkness hide Thee
Though the eye of sinful man
Thy glory may not see
Only Thou art holy
There is none beside Thee
Perfect in power
In love and purity
Verse 4
Holy holy holy
Lord God Almighty
All Thy works shall praise Thy name
In earth and sky and sea
Holy holy holy
Merciful and mighty
God in three persons
Blessed Trinity
(back to top)
Heart of Worship
Verse 1
When the music fades
All is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that’s of worth
That will bless Your heart
Pre-Chorus
I’ll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You’re looking into my heart
Chorus
I’m coming back to the
Heart of worship
And it’s all about You
All about You Jesus
I’m sorry Lord
For the thing I’ve made it
When it’s all about You
All about You Jesus
Verse 2
King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I’m weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Ev’ry single breath
(back to top)
Sermon Notes

“ALIVE IN CHRIST” Pastor Dean Ellis
Ephesians 2
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins,
2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,
3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
11 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh—who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands—
12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,
15 having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace,
16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.
17 And He came and preached peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near.
18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.
19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,
21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,
22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2 (NKJV)
Emerging from Ephesians 2 are four key points…
1. What we WERE
(vv. 1 – 3, 5, 11 – 12, 15)
2. What God DID
(vv. 1, 4 – 10, 14 – 18)
3. What we ARE
(vv. 1, 5, 6, 10, 13, 19 – 22)
4. Who God IS
(vv. 4, 14)

Dean and his family have been serving at First Baptist Church of Colfax for many years, most recently since 2009. He fills the position of Associate Pastor, ministering through Bible teaching and doctrinal instruction in various Sunday School classes and Bible studies, and regularly filling the pulpit.
Giving
Financial Information through August 31, 2020
Giving: $102,903 • Expenses: $102,697 • Budget: $142,990
Missionary of the Month
Nathan & Rachel Waldock
Nathan and Rachel have been missionaries with Baptist Mid Missions for the past 13 years.
They served 7 years in India, teaching at Baptist Seminary of South India in Bangalore, and then God sent them to Cambodia in 2016.
They have been working with a church plant in Pursat, Cambodia with 2 other missionary couples. They plan to return to Cambodia in October 2020.
To make a one-time gift (love offering) to the Waldocks, 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.
Current praises:
- They have had a safe furlough for the past several months
- They have even been able to speak at a church camp
- For their church in Pursat, as all of the missionaries are on furlough in the US, and it is ultimately unknown when they will be able to return
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