NOMINATING COMMITTEE
This Sunday, May 18th we will elect the 2008-2009 Nominating Committee. Please prayerfully consider your selections, as this group will recruit leaders for all our programs.

YOUTH GROUP
FBC Youth Group will meet this Sunday, May 18th at 6:15 p.m. for snack supper followed by Bible study at 7:00. Sydney Ball, Alison & Mark McMillen, Jacob & Boone Sasser, Cliff & Cullen Sharpe and Katlyn Thompson are responsible for snack supper. Note: This is the final Youth Group meeting for the school year.

Attention Norfolk Mission Trip Participants: Balance of $50 for the Norfolk Mission Trip is due NOW! Please bring payments to the church office.

SPONSOR A CHILD FROM MPOLONJENI
If you want to continue making an impact to the community of Mpolonjeni in Swaziland, Africa, you have an opportunity to sponsor a child. Just $35 a month (a little over a dollar a day) benefits a child in this AIDS-affected region, along with his or her family and their community.

You’ll be able to demonstrate the unconditional love of God by helping to provide access to resources like clean water, nutritious food, basic health care, educational opportunities, and economic development assistance – plus critical resources such as compassionate, trained volunteers to help children whose parents are sick or dying; age appropriate HIV-prevention education based on biblical values; and practical life skills training.

All of these essentials work together to break the cycle of poverty and help sponsored children reach his or her God-given potential.

Upon our visit to Swaziland, we met many children who were under the umbrella of World Vision Sponsorship and feel it is a valuable ministry. If you’re not sponsoring a child already, please consider doing so.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE OR CALL TOMMY AT CHURCH.

ATTENTION HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR PARENTS
A reminder that your formal photograph and three candid photos are due in the church office by May 18th. That same day at 7:00 p.m. please join Beth Watson in the Music Room to rehearse a song to be sung at the Graduate Banquet on June 8. All parents are welcome; a copy of the CD is being made this week and will be distributed soon.

COLLEGE GRADUATES
College graduates, don’t forget to call the church office and let us know what degree you will be receiving so we may recognize you in the bulletin and Visitor.

OUR KNOWN SICK
Paige Barnes (Home), Lisa Devearux (Home), Eddy Patterson (Home), Sam Shirley (Home)

GET YOUR CAR WASHED
Need your car washed? Come out to Evans Tire on May 17 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. and get your car washed and ready for the weekend. The cost is a donation to Relay for Life.

WORKIN’ AT THE CARWASH
Youth Needed to help with a Car Wash on May 17th from 9:00 – 3:00 p.m. at Evans Tire. This will be counted as mission hours. Donations will go to Relay for Life. If you can help, please contact Laura Grantham at 934-8799.
And Parents are needed to help supervise. Call Laura Grantham if you can help. Also Shop Vacs are needed. Let Laura Grantham know if you can lend your Shop Vac to vacuum the cars.

DISASTER RELIEF DAY TRIPS
The Disaster Relief Day Trips to Red Springs will be May 23 and 24th. If you can go help, please contact Joyce Wright at 934-3547.

HERE ARE A FEW WAYS TO HELP

Relay for Life
Luminaries – If you signed up on the Sunday School clipboard to buy luminaries please make sure I have your $10.00 ASAP Please make checks payable to American Cancer Society. You may drop off your checks in the church office or you can mail them to me at 65 Huntington Place, Smithfield. Thanks so much for your support.

Relay for Life team needs people to contribute hamburgers for our booth at the event. We usually get boxes from WalMart. We also need several boxes of table salt, cinnamon, and powdered sugar. If you can help, please call me at 934-7742.

Raffle Tickets – Don’t forget to buy your Raffle Ticket for the Relay for Life Quilt. Call Mary Ball at 934-6382 or Carolyn Jones at 934-7742 or 631-5617.

Keep that Peanut Butter Coming! - We are still collecting 18 oz. jars of peanut butter for the Backpack Program. This is going to be an ongoing mission here at First Baptist. Please drop your donations at the church office.

Magazines and Bibles – If you have a child of any age who receives a Christian magazine or monthly devotional magazine that you would be willing to give away after your child is finished with them, please call Terry Carroll at 934-5882. We would like to share these materials with children who attend Sunday School at the Flea market. Also, if you have any Bibles you would like to donate, they would be useful too.

THANK YOU
To my Church Family, and all others, I would like to thank you for your letters, phone calls, visits, food, prayers, sympathy cards, concerns and care during the long sickness and death of my wife. I feel blessed to have so many loving and caring friends. Bill Royall and family

PLEASE JOIN US

Together with their parents Laura Abigail McAlister And Michael Brantley Littlefield

Request the honour of your presence
At their marriage
On Saturday, the thirty-first of May
Two thousand and eight
At three o’clock in the afternoon
First Baptist Church
202 South Fourth Street
Smithfield, North Carolina

Reception immediately following
Please RSVP 934-5052

2008 TRAVELER’S CLUB SCHEDULE
Below are the activities for Traveler’s Club this summer. Registration forms were mailed last week. Registration forms are available in the church office.

June 19—Craft activity and games at the church.

June 26—Visit the UPS (United Parcel Service) Terminal at Raleigh Durham airport.

No trip July 3—day before National Holiday

July 10—At church, a live animal program by “Dan the Animal Man” of Wake Forest.

July 14-17—Vacation Bible School week at First Baptist

July 24—A day trip to the NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores, recently renovated.

July 31—A trip to Historic Yates Mill Pond Park in Raleigh.

August 4-8—Camp Crescendo Music Camp at First Baptist

August 14—Rocky Mount Children’s Museum and Science Center, Rocky MountAugust 21—Fun and games at the church.

SERVING OUR COUNTRY
Casey Harrison, daughter of Gary and Karon Harrison, is overseas serving our country. Her address is:
1LT Cassandra Harrison
379 AEW – 816 EAS
APO, AE 09309

Her email address is cassandraharrison@gmail.com.

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

* Nursery provided