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Join us this
Sunday morning for
our
Church-wide Christmas
Breakfast
From 8:15 – 9:40
a.m.
Come enjoy lots of yummy,
delicious, mouth-waterin’
good
food, and fellowship. Everyone is
invited.
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As most of you are aware,
our pastor will be undergoing surgery this
Thursday, December 7th at Duke University
Hospital. For quite some time, Lee has been
experiencing some pain (quite severe at
times). It is our hope and prayer that the
surgery will help alleviate his pain and keep any
further damage from occurring.
As with any neck surgery there will be
a time of recuperation. Lee will not be able
to drive for some 6-7 weeks, and for much of that
time will be homebound. Please feel free to
check with the church office to find times you may
visit.
Church activities will go on as
normal. We have a wonderful church
staff and church family that will pull together to
make the Body of Christ function as it
should! Bryan Harris, some of our own
ministers, collegians, and Dr. Roy De Brand,
Professor of Preaching at Campbell University
Divinity School, will be filling the pulpit
through January. In times of crisis, we have
a church staff, other ministers, and a church
family that will respond as they have in the
past.
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This Sunday
December 10 at 7 p.m
Join us for
the
CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS MUSIC
PROGRAM
Featuring our Children’s
Choirs:
Combined Preschool Choirs,
Younger Children’s Choir
Older
Children’s Choir, Older Children’s
Handbells
Kathi Nixon and
children
Piano music by Olive
Cooke
Coming
Soon:JOURNEY
TO BETHLEHEM December 17
and 18Ten interactive scenes
from the time of Jesus’
birthRunning continuously
from 6 to 8 p.m.Start in the
sanctuaryRefreshments in
Ryberg Hall |
YOUTH
NEWS
FBC Middle School
(7th & 8th Graders) Christmas
Outing is Saturday, December 9th, 11:30 a.m. – 4:00
p.m. Join us for a “Christmas Tree Ornament
Search” (a Christmas Scavenger Hunt). Meet at the
Busses and Bring money for lunch at Mucho Mexico.
See ya there!!!!!
FBC Senior High
Progressive Dinner is Saturday, December 16th,
5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Meet in the Fellowship
Hall. Bring an inexpensive (no more than $5) gag
gift for a Dirty Santa Gift exchange.
 AUCTION
TO BENEFIT
THE YOUTH MISSION
TRIP!!!
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3rd
We’re looking forward to a great
event for the church and our youth! The Youth
Mission Trip Auction is the biggest fundraiser for the
youth’s mission trip. We need items such as:
Antiques, Professional Services, Cakes and Pies,
Vacation Home Weekends, Gift Certficates, Homemade
Quilts/Afghans, Sports Tickets, New Electronics, etc…
AND IT’S NOT TOO EARLY TO CONTRIBUTE!!!
If you want to have contribution
credit for year end 2006 for 2007 auction donations,
merchandise must be received by or before 5:00 p.m.
December 29th
Questions? See Art Andrews, Margie
Crumley, or Tommy Cook
YOUTH WINTER
RETREAT
February 9-11
Cost:
$80
Where: Camp Carraway in Asheboro, NC
$25
deposit is past due. Call Tommy to sign
up.
Watch the Visitor for more information.
MUSIC
NOTES
The NC Baptist
Singers are coming! Monday, January 29,
2007 this large group of Baptist Church musicians will
play and sing a worship concert at our church starting
6:45 p.m. Plan to
attend!
FEEL FREE TO JOIN
US
The Men’s Bible Study that meets on
Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. would like to say “come and
join us.” We have been meeting for several weeks
but it is not too late to join. Nine of us meet
and have a great time discussing the book of Acts.
We will meet in December on the 4th, 11th, and
18th. Hope you will join us!
OUR KNOWN
SICK
Golda Pittman (Wake Rehab, Zebulon),
Mitzie Isenhour (Home), Tyrus McCuller (Home), Bill
Jordan (Home), Lee Colbert (Duke), Perk Braswell
(Dix)
KENNEDY HOME
CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, December 10 the
Kennedy Home will hold its annual Open House. If
you would like to attend we will have a bus leaving
immediately after church. We will stop on the way
for a quick lunch. Please contact Carolyn
Tharrington at 934-3749 to reserve your place on the
bus.
SPECIAL SUNDAY
EVENING PROGRAMS
- Sunday, December 10, 7:00 p.m. -
Children’s Christmas Music Program
- Sunday and Monday, December 17 &
18, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Journey to Bethlehem
- Sunday, December, 24, 7:30
p.m. – Christmas Eve Candle Light Service
There will be two Sunday
morning services all five Sunday mornings in
December.
FOOD NEEDED FOR
JOURNEY TO BETHLEHEM
Sign up on the bulletin
board outside the kitchen to bring, cookies, cider, or
hot chocolate mix for Journey to Bethlehem. We
need everyone to take part to have enough refreshments
to serve the persons who attend this
program.
2006
CONTRIBUTIONS
Important Notice
To comply
with tax law, contributors must deliver or mail (and
postmark) checks on or before December 31, 2006 to claim
a charitable contribution deduction for 2006.
Checks that are given to the church after December 31st
will not qualify for a charitable contribution in
2006. However, checks that are dated, mailed, and
postmarked in 2006 will be deductible in 2005 even
though they are not received in the church office until
2006. The church office will be open on
December 29th until 5:00 pm to accommodate your
needs.
Also, your 2007 offering
envelopes are ready to be picked up. Feel free to
pick up your envelopes in the church office Monday
through Friday before 5:00 and or in the Fellowship Hall
on December 10th and 17th before Sunday School or after
the worship service. Any envelopes not picked up
by Friday, December 22nd will be mailed.
Please do not begin using these envelopes before
Sunday, January 7th .
Thank you for your continued
support of First Baptist Church and its ministries to
continue God’s work. “In everything I did,
I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help
the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself
said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to
receive.’” (Acts 20:35)
THANK
YOU
I would like to thank everyone from
their thoughts prayers, visits, cards, shopping, well
wishes, food and the radio ministry during my recent
sickness. Ruth B. Childress
ANGEL TREE
UPDATE
We still have a few names on our
Angel Tree. Please come by the church office and
get a name and help make Christmas brighter for a
child.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HELP?
The Middle Children's Sunday School
Department has adopted a family for Christmas. We
are collecting money among our department families to
buy gifts. Some items on the list can be used if
in good shape. If you have any of the following
items, and would like to share them with us for this
project, please call Judy Williams at 934-0261.
- Educational games
- Hairbows
- Mouse Trap game
- Dora Candy Land game
- Monopoly Sponge Bob game
- Uno game
- Bike for 7 year old girl
- Bike for 11 year old girl
WEBSITE
UPDATES
Christmas has been added to the FBC
Website! Check it out!
PARENTS OF 3RD AND
4TH GRADERS
The Middle Children's Sunday
School Department has a webpage. Click on
Education on the FBC homepage, Sunday School,
Children's Division, Middle Children
CAN YOU
HELP?
Smithfield Selma High School needs
volunteers to help judge Senior Projects on December 18
and 19 from 2:45 – 5:00 p.m. If you can help
please call Angie Reardon at 369-0011.
NEW
MEMBER
We welcome into our Christian
fellowship Allyson Council who comes to us by profession
of faith and Believer’s Baptism.
DECORATION
DONATIONS
Donations of $10.00 are being
taken to help with the cost of the Christmas decorations
for our Sanctuary. You may give these donations in
honor or memory of a loved one or a special
friend. Drop off your donation at the church
office.
SYMPATHY
We express our
Christian sympathy to Bill Downs in the recent homegoing
of his sister.
DEACON FAMILY
MINISTRY
Enclosed you will find a copy of
the updated Deacon Family Ministry. Use it to
notify Deacons of ministry needs of which you become
aware.
Printable version of Deacon Family Ministry list
| Sunday Morning
|
Ray Hodge (10:55) |
When Jesus Was Born in
Bethlehem”
Matthew 2:1 |
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Dade Sherman (8:45) |
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| 8:00 A.M. |
Set up for Journey to Bethlehem, church
grounds |
| 8:15 A.M. |
Church-wide Christmas Breakfast, end at
9:40 |
| 8:45
A.M.* |
Early Service |
| 9:45 A.M. |
Sunday School Classes for all ages |
| 10:00 A.M. |
Radio Bible Class, taught by Sylvia Evans,
broadcast over 1270 AM |
| 10:55 A.M.* |
Morning Worship, broadcast over 1270 AM,
Sermon by Ray Hodge |
| 1:00 P.M. |
Hispanic Worship
Service |
| 6:00 P.M. |
Children’s Handbells
Warm-up |
| 6:30 P.M. |
Children’s choirs meet to warm up |
| 7:00 P.M. |
Children’s Christmas music program, Sanctuary
|
| 10:00 A.M. |
Clothes Closet, end at 12:00 noon |
| 4:45
P.M. |
Soup Kitchen in Ryberg Hall, end at
5:45 |
| 6:30
P.M |
Men’s Bible Study |
| 7:00 P.M. |
First Baptist Belles |
| 2:00 P .M. |
Wednesday Afternoon Bible Study, Fellowship
Hall |
| 5:30 P.M. |
Family Night Supper |
| 6:00 P.M. * |
Children’s Choirs, Ages 4-Kindergarten: Ryberg
Hall; Grades 1-2, Adult II; Grades 3-6, Music
Room, Combined grades 3-6 choir and
discipleship groups will leave about 6:15 to go
caroling, returning to church by 7:30. |
| 6:30 P.M. * |
Small Groups for Adults |
| 6:30 P.M. * |
Bible Study with Ray Hodge, Fellowship
Hall |
| 6:30 P.M. * |
Discipleship Training for ages 2 – Grade
6 |
| 7:30 P.M. * |
Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal |
| 10:00 A.M. |
Clothes Closet, end at 12:00
noon |
| 4:45 P.M.
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Soup Kitchen in Ryberg Hall, end at
5:45 |
| 7:00 P.M. |
Journey to Bethlehem dress rehearsal, start
sanctuary |
* Nursery
provided
| 2006 |
| General
Fund: |
| Budget needs per
week: |
$14,286.11 |
| Received as of 12/03/06 |
$28,397.77 |
| Budget needs Year to Date |
|
| Received Year to Date |
$680,276.67 |
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| Building Fund:
|
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| Received
12/03/06 |
$10,710.00 |
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| Thanksgiving Offering:
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| Received as of
12/03/06 |
$6,727.27 |
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| Lottie Moon Received
to Date: |
$2,597.14 |
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