Join us this Sunday for HOMECOMING

October 10, 2010
Our guest preacher will be Rev. Roy J. Smith.

Rev. Smith is a native of Franklin, North Carolina. He pastored from 1954 – 1962. Mr. Smith served as Associate in Mission in Western North Carolina until 1967 when he began serving at the North Carolina Baptist State Convention of North Carolina until he retired in 1997. He also served as the Chairman of the 175th Anniversary Celebration of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina. Please welcome Rev. Smith and his wife Charlotte this Sunday.

Come and enjoy this time of fellowship and bring a picnic basket full of good food to share as we have lunch on the grounds following the service.

There will be no early service Homecoming Sunday

ATTENTION YOUTH
FBC Youth Group will meet Sunday, October 10rd at 6:15 p.m. for Snack Supper followed by Bible Study at 7:00 p.m. Lily Faulconer, Cliff & Kevin Johnson, Muriel Lasater, Zack & Taylor Leposa, Taylor Mast, Boone & Rebecca Sasser and Tyler Tant are responsible for Snack Supper.

MISSION TRIP TO BELIZE: 11th & 12th graders, deposit of $200 is due no later than October 17th. 9 & 10 graders can begin to sign up and pay deposit of $200 beginning October 17.

PARENT MEETING for Passport Mission Youth Camp, Sunday, October 24th at 5:15 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Deposit of $75 is due.

COME JOIN US AT THE
EIGHTH ANNUAL
BECKY KNOTT MEMORIAL
GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Eighth Annual Becky Knott Memorial Golf Tournament is fast approaching. This year it will be held Friday, October 29th with tee off at 12:00 noon. Many individuals and businesses have sponsored this event each year and we appreciate their support. If you have been a sponsor in the past and plan to sponsor again this year, please contact the church office as soon as possible. If you have not participated in past years and would like to support our youth through this event, please come by the church office and pick up a brochure. Please pass this information along to friends or other businesses. ALSO, we will enjoy a pig pickin’ at the conclusion of the tournament, approximately 4:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to attend. The cost is a donation to the Youth Mission Trip. Please come out and join us.

OUR KNOWN SICK
Betty Self (Wake Rehab), Kenneth Smith (Home), Mable Schreibeis (Home), James Laughter (JMC)

HYGIENE KITS NEEDED
The Clothes Closet is in need of Hygiene Kits for men and women. The kits should contain one each of the following items: regular size bar soap, deodorant, can of shaving cream, medium toothpaste, shampoo, small box of Band-Aids, tube of first aid-cream, small package of Kleenex, comb, small lotion, wash cloth, toothbrush, small package of disposable razors, fingernail file, hair brush. If you can help with this ministry, please assemble the items and place in an extra large zip lock bag and turn in at the church office. Thank you so much for your help. Clothes Closet Volunteers.

LAST CALL FOR RELAY
I am still trying to find someone who would like to be Captain for the FBC Relay for Life Team. This can be one person or several working together. If interested, please contact Carolyn Jones. If I do not hear from anyone by December 1, I will give up Team 41 for someone else to take.
BACKPACK PROGRAM NEEDS YOU
We are looking for volunteers to help set up the backpack room on Wednesdays, deliver backpacks to South Smithfield and Selma Elementary on Friday mornings from 9:15 – 10:15, and pick-up empty backpacks on Wednesdays from South Smithfield Elementary only. We have approximately 100 backpacks that will be packed with food for children on the weekends. If you could help, please call Tommy at the church office at 934-9771.
ALSO
We need help with food items for the backpacks. The following items are needed: cans of spaghetti, ravioli, beanie weenies, vienna sausage, (small pop top cans would be great) non-refrigerated fruit cups or pudding, juice boxes, breakfast bars or pop tarts and peanut butter. If you can help in any way, please bring your food donations to the church office.

PRIMETIMER’S UPCOMING EVENT
October 12, Trip to Big Ed’s for lunch followed by “Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West” at the IMAX Theater. (They will not be showing “Under the Sea” for a while….sorry.) Cost: $15 plus lunch. Leave the church at 10:30. Call the church to sign up.

CARE CONNECTION:
A great opportunity for ministry!!!!
We are looking for those who would be interested in “adopting” several senior members of our congregation for the coming year. Would you be willing to visit, call, check up on two families or individuals every month or so? We promise that you would be the ones receiving the blessing! If you are willing to commit to this ministry, please call the church office (934-9771), Sherri Fox (989-2056), or Amy Galloway (934-9927).

Church-Wide Visitation: We will be meeting in the Fellowship Hall at 12:30 on the first and third Tuesday’s every month for visitation. We will be going out in pairs to visit. Will you come and join us? You don’t need to have a partner; come and join up with someone else! Starts on Tuesday, October 5th. Hope to see you then!

MEN’S BREAKFAST
Mark your calendar for the Men’s Breakfast, Sunday, October 17th at 8:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

RENEWAL WEEKEND
Watch the Visitor in the upcoming weeks for information of our Renewal Weekend, November 5 – 6. This is a church-wide event for adult, youth and children. The theme this year is “Ready, Set, Worship,” and will feature worship leader Giles Blankenship. Call the church to sign-up. Childcare for preschool ages provided.

SYMPATHY
We express our Christian sympathy to Pat Thomas in the recent homegoing of her husband, Jim Thomas.
THANK YOU
On behalf of my family and muself, I want to thank the Smithfield First Baptist Church family for all the love and support expressed duing the illness and death of my beloved wife, Joyce Harrell Hodge. Ray K. Hodge

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

We are proud to offer Williams portable hearing devices for your use during our worship services. To obtain one of these units, please see an usher or sound technician.

* Childcare provide

2010
General Fund:
Budget needs per week: $16,608.21
Received as of 10/03/10 $19,524.81
Budget needs Year to Date $664,328.46
Received Year to Date $564,340.54

Building Fund:
Received 10/03/10 $3,465.00

World Hunger:
Received to Date $884.00