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: Auditorium
or
Online: YouTube or Facebook

Worship through Music ~ Rachel Montgomery
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Tim Walker
That You May Proclaim: Week Seven

Breakout Sessions @ 11:00 AM

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TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM
with Pastor Isaac – MPR
Youth Group ends at 7:30

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
• A Possibility for Opportunity today only – discover local volunteer opportunities
– Youth and Adults, Meets in the MPR

11:00 AM 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.

AWANA BEGINS SEPTEMBER 8 – SIGN UP NOW
Join us for a great year of Awana – where kids matter!

• Awana is centered on the gospel – Scripture memory is a key element.
• Awana helps parents worldwide raise children to know, love, and serve Christ.
• Awana is built on volunteer leadership.
• Awana is exciting and fun!!

Awana begins Wednesday, September 8, 6:30 PM

Space is limited – register now!
Questions? Click here to contact Diana Crowell, Awana Commander

TOWN HALL AUGUST 29
We are having a Town Hall meeting next Sunday, August 29 from 11:00 AM to Noon, in lieu of breakout sessions. There will be time to allow us to have some good discussion as a congregation, and answer some questions. We also want to celebrate together all that God has been doing among us, as well as speak to some of our upcoming FBC plans. Please join us next week after the Main Session!

BUSINESS MEETING AUGUST 29
We’ll be having a special business meeting next Sunday, August 29 at 6:00 PM.
We will be discussing and voting on the possible sale of the Mac House.
Mark your calendars and please join us!

POSSIBLE BAPTISM SERVICE
We have had several people express interest in making a public expression of their commitment to Jesus by being baptized. We are looking at having our next baptism service at Leslie Groves Park on August 29. If you would like to be baptized, please reach out to Pastor Tim, and let him know.

YOUVERSION STUDY GUIDE
Access the sermon study guide on the Bible app! This will allow you to follow along with the message AND take and save your notes. We use 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

That You May Proclaim: Week Seven

Pastor Tim Walker

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9 ESV

“a chosen race”
Isaiah 43:10-21

“a royal priesthood”
Exodus 19:2-6

“a holy nation”
Genesis 12:1-3

“a people for his own possession”
Malachi 3:17-18

“that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
John 1:4-5
John 3:17-21
John 8:12
John 12:25-26
John 12:44-50

6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;
7 let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
10 “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater,
11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
12 “For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress; instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle; and it shall make a name for the Lord, an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
Isaiah 55:6-13 ESV

18 And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
1 Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.
2 But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.
8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair;
9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;
10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.
11 For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
12 So death is at work in us, but life in you.
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,
18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
2 Corinthians 3:18-4:18 ESV

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 Pastor Tim:
t.walker@fbcrichland.net

Prayer Requests

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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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