First Baptist Church
“Seeking to Expand God’s Territory”
Disciples Making Disciples
Pastor Trent Drye – Senior Pastor
Graham Honeycutt – Music & Family Ministries
Marsha Carter – Organist
Cecil Lipscomb – Drummer; Sammy Freeze – Electric Guitar;
JoAnn Collins – Vocalist; Tim Honeycutt – Keyboard
Teresa Poole – Secretary
July 25, 2021
Sunday School/Bible Study @ 8:45 AM
Worship in the Family Life Center @ 10:00 AM (89.1 FM in the Parking Lot)
Bible Study – 5:30 PM
Deacon of the Week – Jimmy Carter
Next Week – Phillip Karriker
For Our Guests
Thank you for honoring us with your presence today. Our guiding verse is “For we do not preach ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (II Corinthians 4:5). With that in mind, we’d like to ask all first time guests to fill out an online guest card at chinagrovefbc.com/guests
Newsletter items are always due the 20th of each month.
Sunday School – 8:45-9:30am
Sunday Morning Worship Service will be in the Family Life Center through July. August 1st we will meet in the sanctuary.
TANZANIA – PRAISE GOD ~ Since December, over 100 people in remote villages have accepted Christ and they do NOT have a Bible. Each Bible costs $21 to purchase. We are collecting until July 31st. We currently have $4,999.66, which will purchase 238 Bibles. Let’s see how many Bibles we can send beyond 200! Prayerfully consider being a part of spreading the Gospel in Tanzania. Please mark your envelope and check with “Tanzania”.
Ruth – Sam Sunday School Class meets at Jimmy and Marsha’s home on Thursday’s at 10am. . If you’d like to come you are invited!
Deacon Meeting, Monday, August 9th at 5:30 will be a cookout at Jimmy and Marsha’s house. This is for all deacons (present and coming on – including families). We will have hamburgers and hot dogs.
Deacon Election will be August 1st following the morning worship service. We are asking the church to affirm the following top 6 nominees: Paul Toler, Karl Kimball, Reed Simmons, Jason Wilson, Brian Collins (JoAnn), and Steve Brown. With the church’s approval these 6 will join the five deacons currently serving (Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Clark, Rodney Phillips, Allen Fontenot, and Gene Doby).
Rowan Helping Ministries – Ladies your help is needed! Saturday evening, August 21st, is our opportunity to give a helping hand to feed and serve the folks at Rowan Helping Ministries. We are looking for several women to meet up and help pull together a meal at 5:30pm then be at RHM to serve at 7pm. Please see Sara Misenheimer and Jeannie Patterson ASAP to get things underway for this opportunity. Blessings, Sara M. & Jeannie P.
Sunday’s Report
Sunday School/Bible Study: 64
Morning Worship: 91
Budget Receipts: – $4,345.35
Happy Birthday
July 26 – Carolyn Scercy