IS THIS SATURDAY
April 21, 2007
8:00 a.m. until God is finished

The theme this year is “Let’s Do Kingdom Work.”
Come live what God can do! Be in prayer for this powerful outreach.
Join us in the Fellowship Hall Saturday morning for a light breakfast (just like on Sunday morning.) Groups will have time to gather and head out to their projects. It’s not too late to get involved. Projects are posted below!

1. Backyard Bible Club
2. Care Team Visitation & Communion
3. Baby Shower for Teen Moms
4. Bud Vases
5. Childcare for Volunteers
6. Cookies
7. Harbor House
8. House of Hope
9. Breakfast/Lunch for volunteers
10. Assisted Living/Nursing Home visitation
11. Rest Stop Ministry
12. Yard Work
13. Handy Hands Projects
14. Home Delivered Meals
15. Clothes Closet
16. Show You Care at FBC
17. Making the OIAM Documentary
18. Cancer Center and Behavioral Health

JOIN US SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 2007 AT 6:00 P.M., FOR THECOMMUNITY UNITY SERVICE.
Many churches will be participating through music, scripture, dance, creative movement, drama, and preaching. Our church will have a group of young people doing “dowel rod movement” and the Praise Ringers handbells. Plan to come.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE
On April 29th we will elect the 2007-2008 Nominating Committee. Please prayerfully consider your selections, as this group will recruit leaders for all our programs.

YOUTH NEWS
FBC Youth meet Sunday, April 22 at 6:15 for Snack Supper followed by Bible Study at 7:00 p.m. Hannah & Wallace Spragins, Justin Hensley, Clair Hooks, Brad Marcom, Colin & Madison Parker, Hope Rabil, and Meredith & Morgan Rabil are responsible for Snack Supper.

BEACH RETREAT INFO.
Senior High Beach Retreat is April 27-29. Cost: $45.00. Sign up has past. Call Tommy if you want to go.

YOUTH YARD SALE
It’s time to spring clean and donate all those unwanted items to the Youth Yard Sale. New and used items accepted (no clothing or computers.) THE TRAILER IS HERE! Let’s fill it up! Also, volunteers are needed for daytime and evening hours April 30 – May 4 for prep and pricing items. Contact Tommy Cook at 934-9771 or Jan Allen 989-7195 to sign up!

HISTORY TIDBIT
During the early years up until the early 1900’s churches met only once a month. Pastors often served three, four or sometimes five churches in the area at one time.

NEW MEMBER
We welcome into our Christian fellowship Emily Ann Wooters who comes to us by profession of faith and believer’s baptism.

FLOWERS SUNDAY
The flowers in the sanctuary Sunday will be given in honor of Mildred T. Jordan on the occasion of her birthday by Kay and Terry Carroll.

CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Lee Colbert who received the Paul Harris Fellow from the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International on Sunday, April 15th.

Congratulations to Bryan Harris who received the Perry Langston Christian Education award through the Christian Educators of North Carolina at Campbell University on Tuesday, April 17th.

NEW ARRIVALS
Congratulations to Jeremy and Shelley Thompson on the arrival of their infant son, Brady McRay. The proud grandmother is Denise Thompson. The proud great grandparents are Bill and Vertie Perry.

Congratulations to Michael and Jennifer Heavner on the arrival of their infant daughter, Lila Kate. The proud grandparents are Patsy Heavner and Dan and Lisa Heavner.

BABY DEDICATIONS
Baby Dedications will be Mother’s Day, May 13th. If you have had a baby since last May and would like to have your baby dedicated, please call the church office.

JOIN THE YOUTH IN THE ONE LIFE REVOLUTION!
One Life is a partnership between World Vision (a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice) and Youth Specialties (a national youth-serving organization that provides resources, training and encouragement to youth workers in churches) The youth of FBC Smithfield have committed to sponsor a village in Africa*. We will be doing several fund raising events this year for this purpose. They are:

Wed. April 25
Wednesday Night Pancake Supper

Saturday, May 19
Gently Used Clothing Sale
From Infants to Adults
9 a.m. to Noon in the FBC Fellowship Hall

We are calling upon our church members and others who wish to support our village to look within your closets and drawers to find some good quality, gently used clothing to donate for this cause. You can bring the clothes by the church by May 16. We will sell these items on May 19th . If you have any questions, please contact Tommy at the church, or see Eason Armstrong, Copeland Barnes or Anna Campbell.

*Village facts:

Swaziland, Mpolonjeni
Two-thirds of Swazis live in poverty, most of them in rural areas. Nearly 40 percent are HIV-positive, giving Swaziland the highest HIV prevalence rate in the world. The number of orphans has skyrocketed since 2000, reaching 100,000, largely due to HIV and AIDS. The crisis is likely to worsen, as the HIV prevalence rate among 20 to 30-year olds approaches 50 percent. The Mpolonjeni Community Partnership will focus on the Ngcina community, located within Mpolonjeni community development area in the eastern part of the Lubombo region of Swaziland. An estimated 2,350 people live in this community in 298 households. Families in the community rely on subsistence farming for food and income. Farmers grow corn for consumption and cotton as a petty cash crop. However, Mpolonjeni has been hit by a prolonged drought for the past four years, which has exacerbated the unemployment rate and poverty in the region. Eighty percent of the population in Ngcina is unemployed. This poverty increases the rate at which AIDS patients die because they cannot afford nutritious food to stay healthy or medical treatment for opportunistic infections.

one life: yours
to save one life: a child’s
from one disease: AIDS
on one continent: Africa

MUSIC NOTES
Kelley Garris will be singing at Bald Mountain Baptist in West Jefferson, NC on Monday evening April 23 with the NC Baptist Singers.

Coming Sunday evening, April 29 is our own Baptist Blend Men’s Quartet in worship concert. They will sing at 7:00 p.m. in our Sanctuary. Don’t miss it!

LET’S GO SEE THE RALEIGH RINGERS
Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Meymandi Hall at the Progress Energy Center in Raleigh, the Raleigh Ringers will perform their Spring Concert. We will take a bus from the church parking lot, leaving at 5:00 p.m. to go to Golden Corral in Garner for supper (on your own). Then we will attend the concert at Meymandi Hall. Cost of $14 includes a group rate ticket and transportation.

The Raleigh Ringers is an internationally acclaimed, advanced community handbell choir based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Since its founding in 1990, the Raleigh Ringers have been dazzling concert audiences with unique interpretations of sacred, secular and popular music, including famous rock ‘n’ roll tunes arranged just for handbells. Many of our adult handbell ringers have seen this group at festivals and been amazed by them. All ages would enjoy this program. Call the church office to sign up by Friday, May 11.

SUMMER BIBLE STUDY
You are invited to join a women’s Bible Study this summer using the book The Other Side of the Garden by Virginia Fugate. It will meet on Thursdays from 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. in the Ryberg Hall and childcare will be available. The study will begin June 7th and continue through August 23rd. The cost of the book is $9.75. For more information call Judy Williams at 934-0261. You can also sign up through the Church office. The last day to sign up will be May 18th.

The purpose of this study is to understand the principles of biblical womanhood from God’s perspective including what He says in His Word about our role as a wife.

OUR KNOWN SICK
Mabel Schreibeis (Brian Center), Jim Laughter (UNC), Will Denning (Home), Wallace Ashley (Home), George Jordan (JMH), Ann Morgan (Houston, TX)

SYMPATHY
We express our Christian sympathy to Doug Shirley and Tina Hobbs in the recent homegoing of their father, T. W. “Red” Shirley.

RELAY FOR LIFE BAKE SALE
Need a dessert for that special mother in your life? Look no more. On Sunday, May 13th Relay for Life will sponsor a Bake Sale in the Fellowship Hall. All proceeds will go to Relay for Life. Call Debbie Jones at 934-7861 if you could bake a dessert for this fundraiser.

ALL HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE GRADUATES
All graduates are invited to be honored guests of the church at the Graduate Banquet June 3, 2007 following the 10:55 service. Family members are invited to attend at a cost of $8.50 per person. Please call the church office by or before Monday, May 28th and let us know if you will be attending and how many from your family will be with you. College graduates, don’t forget to call and let us know what degree you will be receiving so we may recognize you in the Bulletin and Visitor.

Greeters: Doug & Glenda Strickland

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

* Nursery provided