BS Director: Bryan Harris Refreshments: Ann Stallings, Mary Ball, Co-Chairmen
VBS Pastor: Lee Colbert Jean Ashley, A. J. Ball, Linda Barefoot, Ann Clouse,
Music &Worship Leaders: Paige Barnes, Eliza Burgess Sybil Edwards, Faye Hardee, Pope Hardee,
Commencement Cookout: Larry & Mitzie Isenhour Annie Laurie Lewis, Joyce Thompson, Jean Williams
Records: Faye Hardee

Crafts: Director: Renee Wooters, Jill Baggett, Mary Ann Bradshaw, Anna Campbell, Sarah Campbell, Deborah David, Jonathan David, Charlotte Hoyt, Elaine Langley, Jacob Sasser, Cynthia Vetrano, Keri Walls, Mike Wooters

Nursery: Barbara Lamb, Alison McMillen, Michelle Campbell, Judy Broadwell

3 year olds: Director: Heather McLamb, Carolyn Carroll, Teresa Daniels, Cindy Hester, Jennifer Narron-Hardy, Emily Wood, Morgan Gatlin

4 year olds & Director: Kathy Hale, Emily White, Frances Felts, Missy Colborn, Hannah Spragins

Rising “K” Directors: Lisa Baker, Sabrina Dees, Judy Williams, Jenny Williams, Missy Medlin,
And “K” Rebecca Chance, Annie Paul, Terry Carroll, Helen Carroll, Sheri Fox, Olivia Stevens,
Ryan Rose, Keni Harrison, Leah Isenhour, Brittany Talton, Elizabeth Carter, Chloe Ivey, Whitley Holt, Tasha Harrison, Ali Bovender, Jessica Hubbard, Marie Mobley

1st Graders: Director: Janna Langley, Jewell Norris, Kay Strickland, Taylor Haines, Jeanette Blackmon,
Sherry Boyette

2nd Graders : Director: Kelley Garris, Amy Galloway, Becky Maust, Valerie Vann

3rd Graders: Director: Jan Maust, Angela Dotson, Abby Salas, Vel McLamb, Kay Joyner, Meredith Massengill

4th Graders: Director: Kathi Nixon, Kellie Wood, Laura Murphy

5th Graders : Director: Martha Pope, Debbie Jones, Pam Williams, Nicole Hargis

6th Graders: Director: Hinton Armstrong, Paul Burgess,

VBS Runners: Ken Williams

HOT DOG SUPPER & COMMENCEMENT
The supper will begin at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, July 18 with the Commencement following (approximately 7:00 p.m.). The menu will be especially for children: hotdogs, chips, baked beans, and cold drinks. Dessert will be ice cream sundaes. A special invitation is extended to the church family and friends to join us for this special event.

VBS ATTENDANCE REPORT
(as of Tuesday, July 15)
Enrolled: 323

YOUTH NEWS YOUTH ON MISSION
VERY EARLY Sunday morning (3:45 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.) our senior high youth and adults will arrive at the church to depart for RDU airport where they will catch their flights to Guatemala. Please be in prayer for these folks for safe travel and as they minister through construction, VBS, and Bible study.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT TO 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.

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

ATTENTION YOUTH “JESUS FOR PRESIDENT” TOUR
The “Jesus for President” tour with authors Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw and friends will be at First Baptist Church in Raleigh on July 22nd. The service will feature teaching from both authors as well as storytelling, art, music and worship that provokes the political imagination. We will meet at the church at 5:30 p.m. on July 22 to depart for Raleigh. Youth, parents and church members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Please contact the church office if you plan to attend. For further information, please contact Mike Reynolds at 938-0639.

GUATEMALA SHARE
Don’t forget to join us Sunday night, July 27 at 7:00 pm. in the Sanctuary for a time of reflection and sharing about our mission experience in Guatemala.

OUR KNOWN SICK
Margaret Twisdale (Wake Rehab), Chris Gilbert (Home), Jan Barry (Home), Durward Stallings (Wake)

SYMPATHY
We express our Christian sympathy to Jack Sasser in the recent homegoing of his sister.

SAMARITAN’S PURSE WAYS YOU CAN HELP
Mpolonjeni Needs
We Need Containers
Random is the name, containers are the game. What kind of containers? That is up to you. They can be coffee cans, tins, bins of all shapes, but not bigger than a bread box. These containers will be used to collect change for Mpolonjeni, but collect where? Your house. The youth are going to decorate the containers you give us and redistribute them as transformed family change containers for Mpolonjeni. Put them in your laundry room, kitchen, whereever is best for you to collect change. Bring your containers by the Church office, and Hinton Armstrong will gladly take them.

Community Garden Needs
Glass Bottles/Jars
We will be collecting glass bottles, 5 inches tall or larger to use as vases for flowers from the Community Garden. These flowers will be distributed to nursing homes and throughout the community. If you have jars, please bring them to the storage room in the church office. If you would like more information about this project or the Community Garden, contact Michelle Ball.

Plants Needed
We would like to plant blueberry bushes and grape vines at the Community Garden. If you are cleaning out your blueberry bushes and have new “volunteer” bushes you would donate, and/or grape vines that you could root and donate, please contact Michelle Ball.

CAMP CRESCENDO FORMS ARE DUE
It’s time to get in your forms for Camp Crescendo, August 4-8, for kids having completed grades K-6. Cost is $30. This years’ theme is “Friend of God” with anthems, fun songs, and Bible stories about friendship with God, others, and animals. Children will be divided by age groups for “hands on” musical activities such as Orff instruments, Boomwhackers, and crafts. Deadline to register is this Friday, July 18.

PRIMETIMERS’ UPDATE
The “Big Trip” of the fall, Charleston, SC on Mon.-Weds. Oct. 20-22, is here! Departing Monday morning at 7:30 on church busses, the price of $190 includes: 2 nights’ stay at La Quinta Inn Riverview (double), continental breakfast, travel, 90 minute Gray line bus Charleston history tour, Spiritline Cruises Fort Sumter tour, one lunch. Not included in price are two lunches, two dinners. Details being mailed this week to your home. Due to limited number of seats, priority sign up for First Baptist members until August 4, after which time it will be open to anyone. Sign up by coming by the church office and paying a deposit of $100 per person by August 4.

Day Trips already on the calendar;
• July 25 Clayton work day at Habitat Re-Store
• August 12 day trip to IMAX theatre, Raleigh
• September 5 dinner theatre, Fayetteville
• Oct. 20-22 Charleston trip, details soon

SAMARITAIN’S PURSE
This Sunday, July 20, at 10:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary we will have a informational video about Samaritain’s Purse and Operation Christmas Child followed by a brief question and answer time. Please join us if you are interested in learning more about how you and your family can volunteer this fall in this worldwide ministry.

TRAVELERS’ CLUB JULY 24 NOTICE
The busses will leave the parking lot at 8 a.m. on July 24, much earlier than usual, because of the length of the trip. Please remember lunch and comfortable walking shoes. We will not wait for late arrivals! The usual brief devotional will be taught on the vehicles “in transit.”

MUSIC NOTES
Maranatha Touring Choir of Fredericksburg, Virginia is performing at Sharon Baptist Church on Saturday evening, July 19th at 7 p.m. The choir consists of around 70 middle school, high school, and college youth of various backgrounds and denominations. They present a program of sacred music and drama. The program is free, and all are invited. The church is located at 114 Britt Street.

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

* Nursery provided