JOIN US SUNDAY EVENING
MARCH 15 AT 6:00 P.M.
IN THE SANCTUARY
FOR THE
COMMUNITY UNITY SERVICE

Many churches will be participating through music, scripture, dance, creative movement, drama, and preaching. Our church will have a group of adult handbell ringers providing service music. Plan to come.

ATTENTION FBC FAMILIES IT’S TIME FOR THE

2009-2010
WEEKDAY EARLY EDUCATION
AFTER SCHOOL CARE
AND
SUMMER ADVENTURES
REGISTRATION

Weekday Early Education:
2 year olds (DO NOT have to be potty trained), 3 year olds and 4-5 year olds

After School Care And Summer Adventures
K-6th grade

It’s time to get registered! First Baptist Families registration is March 19, 20 and 23. If you are interested in any of these programs for your children, please register before public registration day on the 24th. Registration forms may be picked up in the office or can be downloaded from the church website at www.fbcsmithfield.org (click on Education). For more information call Margie Littlefield (ASC, SA) at 934-1829 and June Ward (WEE) at 934-9771.

YOUTH NEWS
FBC Youth Group will meet Sunday, March 8 at 6:00 p.m. for Snack Supper followed by Bible Study. Muriel Lasater, Hillary Braswell, Grace Ann Carroll, Whitney & Elizabeth Carter, Chelsea Creech, Kelsey & Laura D’Artois, Claire Austin & Reid Hooks, Katlyn Thompson are responsible for Snack Supper.

GREAT BIG YOUTH NITE!!!!!
THIS Sunday, March 15, 6:15 – 8 p.m.
ATTENTION ALL YOUTH!!! Join us for a GREAT BIG YOUTH NITE! Bring a friend or call a friend you haven’t seen at youth group for food, music, games, and interactive small group discussion led by our youth leaders. SEE YOU THERE!!!

CASWELL
When: June 15 – 20
Cost: $235
Deposit: $135.00 by or before March 29
It’s time to sign-up! Sign up and pay a deposit from March 15 through March 29!

SPRING BEACH RETREAT DATES
Sr. High - April 24 -26 $50 due by or before April 11

7th & 8th Grade – May 15-16 $50 due by for before May 3

MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
Plans are in motion for a Medical Mission Trip to Honduras June 6. Non-medical volunteers are needed as well as nurses, pharmacists and doctors. If you are interested, please call Anesha Johnson at 934-1601. Visit www.missionhonduras.org to see photos of past mission trips to Honduras.

RELAY FOR LIFE
There will be a Relay for Life meeting Sunday, March 15 at 3:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.

RELAY BIG THANK YOU
I want to thank everyone who participated in our Variety Show this past Sunday. All of our entertainment was wonderful and enjoyed by all! A very special thanks to Kelley for coming up with the idea and helping to organize, and to Paul Burgess, our Emcee. The offering taken at this event will go to the American Cancer Society. God bless each of you for caring. Carolyn Jones, Captain, Kim Gibbs, Co-captain

SYMPATHY
We express our Christian sympathy to Vel McLamb in the recent homegoing of her husband, Bob.

We express our Christian sympathy to Iris Adkins in the recent homegoing of her brother.

OUR KNOWN SICK
Mac Stacy (Wake), Lib Lane (Home), Ken Williams (Home), Joyce Wright (Rex)

NEW MEMBER
We welcome into our Christian fellowship Chad Wilkinson on statement of faith and previous baptism.

OPERATION INASMUCH
Operation InAsMuch is March 28. Sign up opportunities are on the bulletin board outside the kitchen. Please be in prayer about how you can be a part of this day of community outreach.

OPERATION INASMUCH NEEDS
Bud vases are needed for Operation InAsMuch. If you have any, please bring to the church office.

Shower for Teen Mothers needs new or gently used baby items. We have names of 20 girls that will be participating in the shower for you. All donations should be dropped off at the church office or contact Susan Culbreth 965-9141

PRAYER CORNER FOR OPERATION IN AS MUCH
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13
In 1956, pilot Nate Saint and four other missionaries were killed in Ecuador by the Auca Indians they had come to serve. Many years later after these same Indians had come to know Christ, one of them told Nate’s son, Steve, that he was the man who took his father’s life. Steve said to him “You didn’t take my father’s life, he gave it!” Most of us are not called to be missionaries in a foreign country where we might be in danger of losing our life for Christ. However, we are called to serve others when and where He gives us the opportunity. Have you prayed for the Lord’s guidance in where to serve? Have you signed up for an OIAM Team? What are you waiting for? The OIAM Prayer Team meets each Wednesday evening from 6:00 – 6:15 in the church library for focused prayer. Join our team! Your presence is needed! No sign-up required!

A weekly prayer guide will be posted to the Prayer page of the church Website each Wednesday morning. http://fbcsmithfield.org Note: There will be a time of prayer for OIAM from 6:00 – 6:15 on Wed. evenings in the church library beginning this week. Please join us for focused prayer.

SENIOR FEST AT CHOWAN
Join older adults from all over Eastern NC on Thursday, March 26 at Chowan University for a “Senior Fest.” Morning session features Bill Leslie, WRAL TV anchor, and afternoon features Ruby Fulbright, Executive Director WMU of NC. Breakout interest sessions late morning on topics of interest to older adults, lunch is included. Cost is $20 (lunch and transportation) Leave church at 7:30 a.m. (eat breakfast first), arrive back around 5:30 p.m. Sign up and pay in the church office by Thursday March 12.

JBA SENIOR ADULT RALLY
Thursday April 2 is JBA Senior Adult Rally at Parrish Memorial Church. Morning program, covered dish lunch. Watch later Visitors for more details.

CONGRATUALTIONS
Congratulations to Trey and Michaela Bearden on the arrival of their infant daughter, Addison Marie, and infant son, Logan Carter. The proud grandparents are Carter and Liz Bearden.

The book
Prayers of Rev. John L. Ryberg
(1969 – 1984)
is now available to order.
Paperback is $10
Hardback is $20.
If you would like a copy of this book, please place your order with payment in the church office.

“Look to our church today, the fellowship as it were, that it may be a true and a genuine fellowship in Christ – not just a group of people self-satisfied in their selection of each other or looking for somebody else to receive in a condescending way. But let this be a fellowship where every man denies himself in favor of his neighbor, where each of us, because we would be like Jesus, strives honestly and sincerely to love his neighbor as himself.”
--Rev. John L. Ryberg

“John Ryberg always spoke his mind. Not everybody liked that about him. Not everybody liked what he had to say. But everybody knew him to be a man of integrity, a true man of God. That trait is reflected in the prayers on these pages. His Sunday morning prayer set the tone for the morning’s worship and for the message that would soon follow. They, like his sermons, were provoking, inspiring, often challenging. He was our pastor from 1960 until his death, December 13, 1984. For 23 years Mr. Ryberg challenged us to be ‘intellectually respectable, socially responsible and spiritually redemptive.’
--William H. Perry

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SUNDAY SCHOOL
Attention Behavioral Health Sunday School Teachers…We are back on schedule. Please check your list to see when you teach. If you have questions, please contact Debra Avery at 965-6768 or davery8@nc.rr.com

PASTOR’S CLASS OUTING
There will be an outing for Pastor’s Class participants on Monday, March 23. We will be going to Rainbow Lanes in Clayton, leaving the church at 3:40 and return to the church at approximately 6:30 p.m. The cost is $9 per person (which includes 2 games of bowling, 5 tokens, 1 Himalaya ticket.) We will have a snack at the church before leaving. If your child plans to attend this outing, please complete the permission form sent home this past Monday and return to the church with the $9.00 the day of the outing, or you may bring it to the church office any day prior to Monday, March 23.

DISASTER RELIEF TRAINING
NCBM is offering training April 3 – 4 in Clinton, NC, and May 1-2 in Greensboro, NC. Basic training is Friday afternoon until 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. If you were trained in 2002 or later you can recertify by attending Saturday from 8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. If you are interested, please go to www.ncmissions.org to register.

DO YOU NEED A ROOM?
If you wanted to go the NC Mission Conference March 20-21 in Charlotte but could not find a place to stay, we can help. There is a reservation that can be taken over due to a family conflict. Please contact the church office if you are interested.

FROM THE PULPIT

Greeters: Matt & Shelley Gardner

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

* Childcare provided

2009
General Fund:
Budget needs per week: $16,462.33
Received as of 03/08/09 $17,216.40
Budget needs Year to Date $164,623.27
Received Year to Date $147,189.01

Building Fund:
Received 03/08/09 $1,255.00