Weekly Bulletin 1-3-21
Welcome
Welcome to our Sunday Worship Service!
• Worship with us in the Auditorium or in the MPR where we will simulcast our livestream.
• 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
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
Livestream Simulcast in MPR
Click here for self-screening protocol
or
Join us online on YouTube or Facebook
Weekly Bulletin
Worship through Music ~ Pastor Brad Nelson
Worship through the Word ~ Rev. David Lunsford, BNN Executive Director
Just Because: The Love of God
Sunday School Classes @ 11:00 AM
Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger – Room 303/305
TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM
In person at FBC 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:
COMMUNION SUNDAY
We are having Communion during our 9:30 AM service. We will provide single-serving packaged elements for those who wish to partake, and if you will be joining us online, you’re welcome to participate from home.
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
Sunday school classes 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
– Room 303/305
• NOTE: Bible Talk with Pastor Isaac is taking a break until January
WELCOME TO TIM WALKER AND FAMILY
As many of you are aware from our business meeting on Sunday, December 13, God has led us to call Tim Walker as our new Lead Pastor. Pastor Tim and his family agree that God is also leading them to become part of First Baptist Church and have accepted this call. They plan to join us in mid-January 2021!
Please continue to pray for the pastors and staff as we prepare to bring Pastor Tim on board. Pray also for Pastor Tim, Rebecca, Katie, Larah, Samuel, Abigail, and Elias as they have lots to do to prepare and move.
Pastor Tim has asked for more detailed information about who is part of the First Family so he can start to get to know us and pray for us individually, as families, and as a corporate body. We have added the Walkers to the ChurchCenter app directory. If you have not yet joined this private group, now would be a great time to do so! Just send an email to fbc@thefirstfamily.net and let us know you want to be included so that we can add you to the directory. Then you can upload both individual and family pictures, and choose what information you would like to share.
If you have any specific questions about the transition process, please reach out to an elder or deacon.
KidZone Online – Christmas Lessons
Follow the FBC KidZone page on Facebook and watch every Thursday for a new lesson and activity. This week is our last Christmas lesson. Make sure to check next week for some new lessons for the new year – click here for KidZone Online.
Song Lyrics
Today’s Songs
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No One Like Our God
At The Cross (Love Ran Red)
You Are My King (Amazing Love)
No One Like Our God
Verse 1
What is this love that won’t relent
That’s calling out with heaven’s breath
Who is reaching wide to save our souls
Only You
What is this grace that makes no sense
That we could never recompense
Who gives us all a second chance
Only You only You only You
Chorus
There is no one like our God
There is no one like our God
There is no other God who can save
There is no one like our God
Verse 2
Who hung the stars upon the night
And showed the sun how bright to shine
Who shaped the world within His hands
Only You
Who set the sky upon the hills
And told the waters to be still
Who spoke to form the universe
Only You only You only You
Bridge
No height or depth can stand between us
No pow’r on earth or all creation
No life or death can separate us from Your love
At The Cross (Love Ran Red)
Verse 1
There’s a place
Where mercy reigns and never dies
There’s a place
Where streams of grace flow deep and wide
Where all the love I’ve ever found
Comes like a flood comes flowing down
Chorus
At the cross at the cross
I surrender my life
I’m in awe of You I’m in awe of You
Where Your love ran red and my sin washed white
I owe all to You I owe all to You Jesus
Verse 2
There’s a place
Where sin and shame are powerless
Where my heart
Has peace with God and forgiveness
Where all the love I’ve ever found
Comes like a flood comes flowing down
Bridge
Here my hope is found
Here on holy ground
Here I bow down here I bow down
Here arms open wide
Here You saved my life
Here I bow down here I bow (down)
You Are My King (Amazing Love)
Verse 1
I’m forgiven
Because You were forsaken
I’m accepted
You were condemned
I’m alive and well
Your Spirit is within me
Because You died
And rose again
Chorus
Amazing love
How can it be
That You my King
Would die for me
Amazing love
I know it’s true
It’s my joy to honor You
In all I do I honor You
Bridge
You are my King
You are my King
Jesus You are my King
Jesus You are my King
Scripture & Sermon Notes
Just Because: The Love of God
Rev. David Lunsford, BNN Executive Director
Deuteronomy 7:6-8
6 “For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth.
7 The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples;
8 but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Just Because: The Love of God
1) God’s love is ______________ Philippians 2:1-8
2) God’s love is ______________ John 3:16
3) God’s love is ______________ Romans 5:6-10
4) God’s love is ______________ Acts 9:1-6
5) God’s love is ______________ Galatians 1:23
6) God’s love is ______________ Deuteronomy 7:6-8a
7) God’s love is ______________ Deuteronomy 7:9
8) God’s love is ______________ 1 John 4:19, Hebrews 13:15
This week we welcome David Lunsford back to our service. In over 38 years of ministry Dave has served on many ministry leadership boards and is a Certified Biblical Counselor (ACBC). Dave holds degrees from Corban University and Baptist Bible Seminary in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania where he is currently working toward a Doctor of Ministry degree. He is the Executive Director with the Baptist Network Northwest (BNN). This group of 80 churches works together to encourage and equip one another and extend their ministries by working together throughout Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.
Thank you Dave, for joining us again!
Prayer
Giving
You may give in person using the boxes at the back of the Auditorium or the MPR
Financial Information through November 30, 2020
Giving: $200,530 • Expenses: $202,511 • Budget: $285,975
Missionary of the Month
Tim & Rebecca Walker
If you want to be a dynamic part of God’s story here, you need to be willing to be a part of God’s story anywhere. So often, God’s specific callings include leaving and going. This realization and commitment can be scary, but it can also lead to amazing stories of our Lord’s provision, power, and purpose.
In our family’s experience, God has consistently leveraged the smallest amounts of courage into undeserved opportunities to join his great big story. From conversations about Jesus in our home, neighborhood, and communities, to epic adventures in American indigenous cultures, Canada, Mexico, Central America, East Asia, Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula, God persistently proves the manifold implications of Psalm 24:1 and the directive of Psalm 8. And through all of these, God faithfully calms our fears, stretches our trust, and patiently shapes us into missionaries.
In the summer of 2000, our family answered God’s specific call to leave family, friends, and familiarity to go with him on mission to a little valley in Washington’s Cascades that we came to call home. In the winter of 2020, God has once again called us to leave family, friends, and familiarity to follow him on mission to the Tri-Cities. As our trust is stretched and our fears calmed, our prayer is that God would continue to shape all of us at Richland FBC into the missionaries he will use to write his great big story in Central Washington, the Pacific Northwest, and around the world.
Pray with us:
- For all the practical details of packing up 20 years of life, securing a home, and relocating.
- For the emotional strength to grieve leaving while embracing the joy of new friendships.
- For the healing of wounds and relational struggles in the First Family.
- For flexibility, grace, and sweetness as we all learn as a church to work from within old and new relationships to see our love grow for the Lord, for each other, and for our communities.
- That God’s name would be praised and that his kingdom would come in Richland as it is in Heaven!
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!
RightNow Media is an online video streaming service with Christian content for all ages & interests and has been called “The Netflix of Bible Studies”.
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