YOUTH NEWS
FBC YOUTH will not meet this Sunday due to the holiday weekend……enjoy this time with your family. 

FIRST FBC YOUTH GROUP MEETING will be Sunday, September 10th beginning with Snack Supper at 6:15 followed by Bible Study at 7:00 pm.

CHURCH-WIDE OUTING: HURRICANES GAME
Let’s go to a Hurricanes Hockey Game!!!  Everyone is invited to sign-up to go the RBC Center on November 9th to see the Carolina Hurricanes play the Washington Capitals.  The cost will be no more than $16 - $23 per person, which will cover your ticket and transportation.  We need to order tickets so call the church office to sign up.  It will be a great time of fun and fellowship for all.

ON MISSION
Experience the Joy of Missions at Ridgecrest September 29-30.There will be great motivational speakers, workshops,wonderful music and Disaster Relief training. Call Sybil Edwards or Anesha Johnson to sign up. Let’s go and learn more about Missions

ATTENTION 3RD – 6TH GRADERS
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
September 15 – 17 trip to Camp Oak Hill.  The theme this year is “Hey God!”  On this weekend retreat we will enjoy Bible study, camp activities, worship, fun and fellowship.  The cost is $80.00.  You may pick up your registration form in the church office.  Deadline to sign up has past.  If you are interested in going please call Tommy Cook.

MEN INTERESTED IN “SALT” (Studying And Learning Together)
Three of us are still looking for men interested in Bible study at the church on Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. for the fall session.  Beginning September 11, we will begin studying the book of Acts.  On September 18, Lee Colbert will share an overview of Acts and the early church.  Join us to see how the apostles were transformed from followers to leaders.  If you are interested in joining this Bible study, please call the church office.  Someone will call you back with more information.  Hope to see you there.

ON MISSION
We will have a Disaster Relief Trip leaving on October 28th. If you would like to devote a week to helping others please contact the church office or Joyce Wright at 934-3547.

OUR KNOWN SICK
Wylie Mitchiner (JMH), Alton Bizzell (Home)

SYMPATHY
We express our Christian sympathy to Janet Redman in the recent homegoing of her brother, Fred Weeks.

JBA MISSION FESTIVAL
Mark your calendar for Saturday, September 9, 2006 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. for the JBA Family Missions Festival at Community Park on Booker Dairy Road.  There will be mission and ministry booths, food, clowns, puppets, balloons and much more. FBC Soup Kitchen and NC Baptist Children Homes will have a special booth.  This event is sponsored by the Baptist Women and Baptist Men of the Johnston Baptist Association.

HELP THE CHILDREN
The Friends of Children will have a workday Saturday, September 16th at Kennedy Home where they will do cleaning, minor repairs and wrap up with a lunch and meeting.  If you would like to go help and visit with these children, please call Carolyn Tharrington at 934-3749 or the church office.

WELCOME TO WORSHIP
Welcome to Worship is a four week class offered for our First Graders.  This will be held during the 10:55 worship service September 10, 17, 24 and October 1.  These classes will help our First Graders to find ways to worship God, learn about baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and give them some helpful tools they can use as they join us in worship.  Children will go back to their Sunday School classroom after the Children’s Sermon and stay there until you pick them up after worship.  Look for more information in the mail.

OUR CHILDREN NEED TEACHERS!!!
Our children need teachers!!!  Teachers are needed in the following Preschool Sunday School Rooms:
Preschool 3 – Lead Teacher (will serve with four rotating teachers)
Preschool 4 – Lead Teacher (will serve with three other teachers)
Preschool 5 – Lead Teacher (will serve with two other teachers)
Preschool 6 – Lead Teacher (will serve with two other teacher)

Please be in prayer for our Preschool Department.  If you would be willing to share your time on Sunday morning with our children and teach God’s word, please call the church office.

WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY
The Wednesday Afternoon Bible Study will resume September 13 at 2:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.  If you are interested in attending, please call Sybil Edwards at 934-4972 to sign up.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUPPERS RESUME
Wednesday Night Suppers will resume on August 31st.  As a reminder, below are some guidelines for Wednesday Suppers:

1. Cost: $4.00 Adults, $2.00 Children (ages 2-12), $12.00 max. per family.  No charge for children up to 2 years old.  Independent children not living with family are not part of the “family” plan.
2. Meals will be served from 5:30 – 6:15.  Children in choir must eat before going to choir.
3. All meals are to be eaten in the Fellowship Hall.  Do not take to choir or classrooms.
4. Parents, if you sign up your child for a child’s menu, please be sure that it is what your child gets.  Pick up a red ticket when you pay for the meal.
5. When you finish eating, please take your plate, silverware and glasses to the clean up area.  If you wish to keep your tea/water, please get a paper cup.  That way the dishwasher can get everything washed.  This also helps those who are cleaning the tables.
6. We do not encourage take-outs; however, if one is necessary, sign up when you pay for the meal.  The take-outs will not be ready before 6:30, and there will be an additional charge of $.50 for each take-out.
7. Sign up in Sunday School or call the church office by noon on Tuesday.  If you realize that you cannot be at supper, please call the church office and cancel.

MEALS ON WHEELS
We will NOT provide meals on the Labor Day Holiday…..instead we WILL PROVIDE A MEAL ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29.  We will need four people to pack meals.  If you can help please call Jo Paul at 359-0515 or 855-4408.

BECAUSE YOU CARE
In September we will observe the N.C.M.O. (North Carolina Missions Offering) and Week of Prayer. This year's goal for the N.C.M.O. is 2.5 million dollars. This offering provides the entire program budget of North Carolina Women's Missionary Union and North Carolina Baptist Men. This offering also supports disaster relief, prison ministries, camps and more. A portion of the offering is returned to our associations for local community ministries. Your support of the N.C.M.O. and Week of Prayer show that you care. Get out your yellow envelope! Our goal at First Baptist is $5,000.00

WEBSITE UPDATES
The following are updates to our website, www.fbcsmithfield.org.  Please visit the website often to browse as we continue to develop and add new areas.

* The Wed. night supper menu has been added to the online calendar (will be updated weekly)
- Point to the Wed. night supper event on the calendar with the mouse and see the menu
- The menu can also be seen scrolling in the Next 7 Days Events window at the top of the calendar

* The Bible Buddies/Bible Drill time has been corrected on the online calendar

* Send prayer requests or join a prayer chain (phone or email)
 - click on the Prayer button on the Home page for instructions

* Read about the Weekday Early Education Program (WEE)
 - Click on Children's Programs on the Home page

* Check out the list of Sunday School Classes and the Wednesday night Adult Discipleship  Opportunities
 - Click on Education on the Home page

* Have you been wanting to know how to talk to others about becoming a christian?
 - Click on Becoming a Christian on the Home Page

* The Mental Health Sunday School schedule is on the Website.
 - Click on Missions on the Home page and then on Mental Health Sunday School

WEDNESDAY BIBLE STUDY
The Wednesday Afternoon Bible Study will resume September 13 at 2:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.  If you are interested in attending, please call Sybil Edwards at 934-4972 to sign up.

CALLING ALL COLLEGE STUDENTS (or parents of college students)
College students (or parents of college students)…..It’s that time of year again…moving to school, classes starting, getting back into the routine, which means you have a new address.  Please contact the church office at 934-9771 (or parents call) with your address (even if it is the same address you had last year) so we can send you the Visitor and a “care” package.

The church office will be
CLOSED
Monday, September 4
in observance of Labor Day

FROM THE PULPIT

Sunday Morning                      Sermon by the Pastor

Greeter:  Dan & Vickie Evans

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

* Nursery provided