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 ~ Pastor Brad Nelson
The Old You – The New You

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
Breakout sessions 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
  – Meets in Room 303
• Ministry Update with Kristin – Join Kristin as she shares about her fabulous ministry! She is our featured August Ministry of the Month.
  – 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

NEW! 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.

LADIES BIRTHDAY LUNCH
The Ladies Birthday Lunch will be meeting on Wednesday, August 4. You can also call Merry Collop for more details. Men are invited and welcome to join (and will sit at their own table). There will be accommodations for wheelchairs as well. Here are the details for August:

•    Wednesday, August 4, at noon
•    Bob’s Burgers at Queensgate in Richland
•    Call Merry with questions: 509.531.6881

BUSINESS MEETING NEXT SUNDAY
There will be a Special Business Meeting next Sunday August 8th at 6 PM. We will be discussing and voting on the possible sale of the Mac House. An email was sent out last Thursday with additional information, so check your inbox.

SUMMER FAMILY BARBECUE
The whole family is welcome to come to the FBC MOPS Summer BBQ as we kick-off the MOPS year. Hamburgers and hotdogs provided, please sign up for other potluck items here. We are planning on having a bounce house, so bring a lawn chair along if you want to sit outside. Open to all FBC families!

• Friday, August 13 at 5:00 PM

BLOOD DRIVE
We are hosting a Red Cross Blood Drive sponsored by Oasis Physical Therapy on Thursday, August 12, from noon to 5 PM. The Red Cross is facing a critical shortage with only 60% of donations needed scheduled this summer. Please consider giving blood. It’s easy and only takes about 30 minutes!
Click here to register to donate. Donating Blood is safe, quick and easy, and you can save up to 3 lives with just 1 blood donation!  Giving Blood saves 4.5 million lives each year in the US, yet fewer than 1 out of 10 people in the US donate.
Let’s roll up our sleeves and do our part!

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!
(If you would prefer a hard copy notes page, you may download one here, or they will also be available on the table as you enter the auditorium.)

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

The Old You – The New You

Pastor Brad Nelson

17 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.
Ephesians 4:17 CSB

22 to take off your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires,
23 to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24 and to put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.
Ephesians 4:22-24 CSB

14 For the love of Christ compels us, since we have reached this conclusion, that one died for all, and therefore all died.
15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!
18 Everything is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation.
19 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed the message of reconciliation to us.
2 Corinthians 5:14-19 CSB

1 What should we say then? Should we continue in sin so that grace may multiply?
2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
3 Or are you unaware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
4 Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.
5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be in the likeness of his resurrection.
6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
Romans 6:1-6 CSB

To continue the conversation, email Pastor Brad:
b.nelson@thefirstfamily.net

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Financial Information through June 30, 2021
Giving: $32,532 • Expenses: $40,761 • Budget: $47,042

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