YOUTH NEWS
FBC YOUTH will meet Sunday, September 10 at 6:15 p.m. for Snack Supper followed by Bible Study at 7:00 p.m.  Brooks & Morgan Hester, Whitney Carter, Regan & Morgan Gatlin, Abby Johnson, Fronia Knott, D. J. Langdon, Cara Jordan & Landon Price, Cliff & Cullen Sharp and Emily Wood are responsible for Snack Supper.

YOUTH TO BUSCH GARDENS
Sign up by this Sunday, September 10th for the trip to Busch Gardens, Friday September 22nd.  Cost: $55.00 (which covers your ticket, lunch and travel) due at sign up.  We will leave the church at 6:00 a.m (bring breakfast in a bag) and return by midnight.  You will need money for fast food on the way back.

SEE YOU AT THE POLE
Last day to order your t-shirt is this Sunday, September 10!
ALSO
SYATP Breakfast is September 27 at 6:15 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.  Transportation will be provided to schools.

FOURTH ANNUAL
BECKY KNOTT MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT
The Fourth Annual Becky Knott Memorial Golf Tournament is fast approaching.  This year it will be held, Friday, November 10th with tee off at 11:00 a.m.  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.  Also, please feel free to pass this information along to friends or other businesses. 

FAITH FESTIVAL
Mark your calendar for Saturday, September 30 for the Faith Festival held at the Neuse River Amphitheater.  The event starts at 4:00 p.m. featuring Every Day Sunday.

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.

MEN INTERESTED IN “SALT” (Studying And Learning Together)
It’s not too late.  Our group is still growing and we have room for more men who are interested in Bible study at the church on Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m. for the fall session.  Our first meeting will be Monday September 11th.  Call the church office to sign up.  Someone will call you back with more information. 

OUR KNOWN SICK
Wylie Mitchiner (JMH), Cynthia Vetrano (Home)

CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Brian and Cynthia Vetrano on the arrival of their infant son, Brian Douglas Vetrano, II.

WELCOME TO WORSHIP
Welcome to Worship starts this Sunday!  This four week class is 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.  See ya Sunday.

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.

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.

MEALS ON WHEELS
We will be preparing and delivering a meal for Meals on Wheels on Friday, September 29th.  We will need four people to pack meals.  If you can help please call Jo Paul at 359-0515 or 855-4408.

JBA MISSION FESTIVAL
Mark your calendar for this 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.

YOU’RE INVITED
Come help us celebrate the fact that Bessie E. McElveen was born 90 young years ago!  Bring a covered dish to share following church this Sunday, September 10 because she considers all here her family.  If you cannot attend, please send a note with a remembrance of how her life has touched yours.  We will gather these together as her gift…..none other needed.  If you need any further information, please call Mary Ann Bradshaw at 934-7115.

MISSION OPPORTUNITIES
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.

We will have a Disaster Relief Team 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.

Four Oaks Baptist Church is organizing a group of men to go to Honduras.  Their mission is to build a house for a lady and her children.  The house she is living in presently is made of sticks and mud.  Please prayer and listen for God’s call to go and serve.  If you are interested please contact Linwood Byrd at 202-9300 (mobile) or call the Four Oaks Baptist Church.  The dates are January 17-25, 2007.  There are four slots open.

SOUP KITCHEN NEEDS YOU!
Volunteers for the Soup Kitchen are needed for the following:

If you are willing to commit to one of the above needs please call Anesha Johnson or Sybil Edwards for details.

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.

FROM THE PULPIT

Sunday Morning                      Sermon by the Pastor

Greeters:  Robert & Ruby Holt

OPPORTUNITIES OF THE WEEK

* Nursery provided