Georgia Avenue Baptist Church A Montgomery County Historical Site

12525 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20906 Rev. Tim Bonner, Pastor

February 16, 2020

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

“Our mission is to bring people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and to membership in His church and His family; to equip and develop people into the image of the Lord Jesus, so that they can be on mission in His world in order to glorify His name.”

OUR VISION STATEMENT

“We embrace all people to lead them to the knowledge and saving grace of Jesus Christ and model His life and love.”

Phone: (301) 946-1331 - FAX: (301) 946-1333 Web: www.gabcglenmont.org - E-Mail: gabc@gabc.comcastbiz.net

Angela Clark - Minister of Youth Zelma Edwards-Organist Glenda Whitaker-Pianist

“ . . . The LORD is in His holy temple . Let all the earth keep silence before Him." Habakkuk 2:20 (NKJV)

Heart Month/Order of Worship - 8:30 AM

Worship Leader: Doris Foggie

Sunday School - 9:45 AM (For Adults & Children)

Prelude Glenda Whitaker

Hymn Jesus Lifted Me

Scripture I Corinthians 4:17,

I Corinthians 16:10 Pastor Bonner

Prayer Pastor Bonner

Prayer Response Thank You, Lord

Hymn No. 74 Holy, Holy

Welcome/Greeting Pastor Bonner/So Glad We're Here

Announcements Pastor Bonner

Black History Part 1 Every Time I Feel The Spirit

Hymn No. 445 Yes, Lord, Yes

Offering Prayer Amos Walker

Offertory Somebody Prayed For Me Praise Team

Hymn No. 668 Doxology

Message

Recruiting For Jesus Acts 16:1-5

Pew Bible Pages 1274 Pastor Bonner

Hymn (On Screen) Oh, It Is Jesus

Benediction

Hymn (On Screen) Oh, Freedom

Our prayer room is staffed by volunteers after the 8:30 AM and 11 AM services every Sunday. The prayer room is located by the upstairs restrooms. Please join us in the prayer room if you need prayer. Also, if you have a prayer need, please fill out a prayer card at the end of your pew, and place it in the offering plate, or tape your request at the beginning of the church service to the cross. It will reach the pastor and our prayer team, who will pray for you.

Heart Month/Order of Worship - 11:00 AM

Worship Leader: Doris Foggie

Prelude Zelma Edwards

Hymn Jesus Lifted Me

Scripture I Corinthians 4:17,

I Corinthians 16:10 Pastor Bonner

Prayer Pastor Bonner

Prayer Response Thank You, Lord

Hymn No. 74 Holy, Holy

Welcome/Greeting Pastor Bonner/So Glad We're Here

Testimony Grace Tinife

Announcements Pastor Bonner

Black History Part 1 Every Time I Feel The Spirit

Guide My Feet

Hymn No. 445 Yes, Lord, Yes

Offering Prayer Amos Walker

Offertory Somebody Prayed For Me GABC Choir

Hymn No. 668 Doxology

Anthem Awesome GABC Choir

Message

Recruiting For Jesus Acts 16:1-5

Pew Bible Pages 1274 Pastor Bonner

Hymn (On Screen) Oh, It Is Jesus

Benediction

Hymn (On Screen) Oh, Freedom

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@GaAvenueBaptist

For Your Convenience And Added Spiritual Care Child Care

Child care is provided during the 11:00 a.m. worship service for infants up to age 2 in our nursery and for preschoolers, ages 3 to 5 in an activity room. An usher will escort you at your request.

If you need to meet with Pastor Tim, please call the church office to make an appointment.

You can now give online through our website

http://www.GABCGLENMONT.ORG Click

on the Give Online Tab on the Left, Click on

the Red Link Marked GABC Online Giving

Sick & Shut-In Onita Alexander- Home Joan Ascencio- Arden Courts of SS Janice Brown - Home Elizabeth Dujon- Bedford Rehab 144B

Millie Hollingsworth-Home Jimmy Kennedy - WV Lucille Ledbetter - Home Barbara Marvel - WV Natalie Massaquoi - Home Winnie Massaquoi– Home Donald Myers-Unknown

Freddie Perry - Home Iris Pettigrew - Home Richard Porterfield - Home Charlotte Rausch - Home

Please notify the Church Office immediately when there is illness or bereavement in your family.

February Birthdays

2/2 Judy Monzey

2/4

Brooke Collins Megan Ingram Hawa Jalloh Asha Richards

2/6

Elizabeth Dujon Ibrahim Garba Ebby Mukabwa

2/19 Michel Mulumba

2/21 James Morton

Our Record 02/9/2020

Sunday School 111

8:30 a.m. Worship 33

11:00 a.m. Worship 142

The weekly budget need is $6,534.38.

On Sunday, 02/09/2020, the budget need

WAS NOT met.

Van funds received to date have totaled $13,549.48

2/22 J Andrew Redd

2/24 Onita Alexander

2/25 Wilhelmina Davis

2/26 Nicole Gregory

2/27 Isaiah Limontas Gynantrian Watson

2/28

Mischler Joseph Iris Pettigrew Philip Shadid

Announcements

Chrisma Food Drive, the next food distribution will be March 21. 2020. You must call 301-458-7472 or 202-427-2816 to register.

A Challenge To The Congregation A challenge has been made to the congregation to donate $2.00 every Sunday to-ward the van fund. Please continue to pay your regular tithes and offerings. It may just mean something as simple as one less hamburger at McDonalds or one less cup of coffee. We need about $35,000 dollars to be able to look at purchasing a van.

Attention VBS Workers! Training for VBS will be held on February 29, 2020 at First Baptist Upper Marlboro. We do need a headcount ahead of time as we must preregister. Please see Beatrice Gray or Angela Clark if you are willing to serve in VBS this year. VBS Dates are: Kickoff– July 25, 12 PM, VBS- July 27-31 6 PM to 9 PM, VBS Graduation– August 2, 6 PM

There will be a Children’s Department meeting for Teachers and Parents on March 1 after

the 11 AM service. All parents are encouraged to attend this important meeting.

Handbells Handbell players there will be rehearsal at 6 PM on March 11, 18, 25 and April 1.

See you then. Zelma

Disability Ministry

Meeting Agenda for March 14, 2020

1. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Training

2. Disability Ministry Funding Strategies

3. Annual Autism Speaks Capital National Walk 4. Conferences/Upcoming Roundtable discussion on the theme: "The Foundation of the

Church, Spiritual Beliefs, Christians' Attitudes toward Persons with Disabilities" Disability intersects all aspects of human life and affects all ages. We invite you to join us on March 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM in Coleman Hall. We solicit your precious support to succeed. If you want to help GABC Disability Ministry activ-ity, please contact Jeannette Kah Le Guil.

Please consider giving $1.00 a week for the Disability Ministry. Be sure to put your name on the

envelope with Disability Ministry written on the envelope.

Please see the insert about the Congregational Town Hall Next Sunday after the 11 AM service.

Youth Ministries • Youth Bible Study - Wednesdays, at 6:45 p.m. Our Bible study topic for February and March will be on

Faith. Our first DCD on faith is called Down By The River. This will be followed by a Bible study on What Faith Means To You. Please join us.

• Youth Lock-in– March 13, 7 PM to Saturday, March 14, 9 AM. The sign-up sheet will be on the youth bulletin board on February 2. Permission slips will be mailed the week of February 17. You must bring your permission slip to Angela Clark by Wednesday, March 4. The theme for the lock-in: “What is true love?” We will have a speaker, food and games for the lock-in.

• Parents and guardians: please encourage your youth to come to church and youth Bible study so that we can help them grow and mature as disciples.

Children’s Corner PARENTS! PARENTS!

Please remember our,” Children’s Department TOWN HALL MEETING”, immediate-ly following the 11 AM worship service, Sunday, March 1st, 2020. As seen in letter

below, this meeting deal primarily with our children. Please make every effort to attend.

Dear parents of the children of Georgia Avenue Baptist Church,

The year 2019 went by so fast, and if that was not enough...guess what? We just finished the first month of 2020. Please do not be anxious, we have surprisingly good news for you.

Like any other progressive institution, we have reviewed our children’s department policies. So many things have changed, some for the better or worse. Our teaching styles have changed, eating habits, lifestyle, but most important of all the changes is our communication. Our children have in the palm of their hands, a little device, yes, the cell phone, that brings the world to their palm.

We would like to invite you to a Town Hall meeting, Sunday, March 1st immediately following the 11 AM service. Please come to meet a team including: Pastor Bonner, Angela Clark, Juan Ri-vas, Beatrice Diggs, Laura Mbeng, Doris Foggie, Petrina Annan, and Sylvia Bernard. All are dedi-cated to help you train up a child in the way he should go. We would like to hear your thoughts on training and raising Christian children.

Sylvia Bernard

Memory Verse: Sunday, February 16, 2020, February 23, 2020 Proverbs 3:5 (KJV) Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding Lesson February 9: “Hannah Prayed” I Samuel 1 Lesson February 16: “A Widow Helped Elijah” 1Kings 17:1, 8-16 Weekly Children’s Activities: Children’s Choir: Wednesdays 7 PM to 8 PM Children in Action: 2 PM to 4 PM Sunday School: Sundays 9:45 AM God Bless You, Sylvia, Elizabeth, Carla

Wednesdays

11:00 AM Adult Bible Study

6:45 PM Youth Bible Study

7:00 PM Adult Bible Study, Children or Youth Choir

8:00 PM Adult Choir Rehearsal

Saturdays

8:00 AM Men’s Meeting, Meets 4th Saturday

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Every Third Saturday Partnering with Chrisma Foods

2:00 PM Children in Action

Sundays

2:00 PM

ESL

Bel Pre Nursing Home (2nd Sunday Of Every Month)

After 11 AM Service Women’s Missionary Union (3rd Sunday of Every Month)

Deacon of the Week Feb 16 Amos Walker

Deacon of the Week Feb 23 Elizabeth Rivas

Ushers

Florine Shoffner Norma Hanna

Eleanor Clark Rebecca Johnson

Jean Rochford-Molineaux

Diane Butler Norman Plummer Ophelia Acolatse

Gilbert Mbeng Cardell Foggie Christopher Chiatoh

Edmund Bernard Jacqueline Kittrell Philip Shadid

February 22 10:00 AM Sunday School Teacher Training

February 23 After 11 AM service Congregational Town Hall

February 26 8:00 PM Cantata Choir Kickoff

March 1 After 11 AM service Children’s Department Town Hall

March 2 7:30 PM Deacons Meeting

March 7 12 PM Women’s Choir Rehearsal

March 13-March 14 7 PM to 9 AM Youth Lock-In

March 14 10 AM Disability Meeting

March 20 7 PM Usher’s Meeting

March 22 Sunday School High Attendance Day

Attention Parents: Just a reminder, you must sign your children in and out for

Sunday School, CIA, Children’s Choir, VBS and other children’s ministries.

Sunday School

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Mat. 28:19-20, NKJV) There is a need for Sunday School teachers. Teachers are needed from Nursery to Adult classes. If you have a desire and feel committed to teaching God’s word, please see Valentine Nchinda, Angela Clark or Bonnie Bonner.

Join us in one of our Sunday School Classes at 9:45 AM.

If you need a ride to church or Sunday School, please follow these steps: 1. Call your Sunday School teacher. He/she will try to arrange a ride.

2. If you are not enrolled in Sunday School, call your deacon. He/she will try to arrange a ride.

3. If your Sunday School teacher or deacon can’t arrange transportation, then call the church office. The office manager will contact one of our members and see if pickup is possible.

Georgia Avenue Baptist Church Purpose Statement The purpose of the Sunday School of Georgia Avenue Baptist Church is to REACH the lost with the good news of Jesus, TEACH the Bible to change

lives, and CARE for people through prayer, ministry and fellowship.

Agape (Women Ages 61-74) Room 103 Teachers: Doris Foggie, Toni Simmons

Faith-Ruth (Women Ages 75+) Room 205 Teachers: Ruth Williams, Norma Hanna

Younger Men (Ages 46-60) Coleman Hall Teacher: Quintin Coleman

Lydia’s Ladies (Ages 46-60) Room 206 Teachers: Marie-Yolene Limontas, Beatrice Ayokhai

Inquirers (Men, 61+) Room 101 Teachers: Cardell Foggie

Mount Sinai (Men & Women Ages 25-45) Room 203 Teachers: Godlove Nyicho, Laura Mbeng

Word Dividers (Men & Women, Ages 46+) Single & Married Room 102 Teachers: Helen Corrothers, Garpue Barchue

Vessel (Ages 17-24) Room 204 Teachers: Juan Rivas, Agnes Ekunseitan

Youth (Grades 7-10) Room 201 Teachers: Patricia Wood, Jamar Biscoe Substitute: Austin Diggs

Children II (Grades 3-4) Room 106 Teachers: Jacqueline Nah, Beatrice Diggs

Children III (Grades 5-6) Room 105 Teachers: Sylvia Bernard, Grace Tinife Carla Blackmon, Louisa Nchafe

Pre-School & Kindergarten (Ages 3-5) Room 100 Teachers: Angela Clark & Ginny Watson Substitute: Ivonette Destine Extended Care: Toni Simmons, Cynthia Gould, Cordelia Joseph

Children I (Grades 1-2) Room 104 Teachers: Felicia Nchinda, Beatrice Gray Extended Care: Petrina Annan

Nursery (Ages 0-2) Room 107 Teachers: Bonnie Bonner, Maria Statom Extended Care: Janice Clark, Alma Thomas, Laura Mbeng, Marcia Richards, Maryam Garba, Massel Andemel, Elizabeth Rivas, Estelle Memadji

Escuela Biblica Dominical Peniel (Adult) Handbell Room Teachers: Esperanza & Carlos Barrios

“Recruiting For Jesus” Acts 16:1-5

Background

• Paul revisited many of the cities where he had evangelized on his 1st journey to see how the disciples were doing

• Paul’s other main purpose was to share the decision of the Jerusalem Council

• In Lystra, Paul found a disciple named Timothy who greatly impressed him

• These verses describe Paul’s 4-step plan of discipleship to train a new recruit for Christian service—still applies today

Paul’s Discipleship Plan Enlistment

• Paul looked for a potential worker who was already active in the church

• Paul asked Timothy to serve under him

Evaluation

• Paul conducted a background check on him—family/community references

• Paul requested and Timothy agreed to observe a religious practice that would en-hance his ministry to Jews

Equipping

• Paul took the new worker with him on ministry outings that built confidence

• Serving on a team allows workers to use strengths and minimize weaknesses

Employment

• Paul gave Timothy increasing ministry responsibilities to build leadership

• After proving him(her)self, the worker is ready to take charge of a ministry—Timothy became a pastor in Ephesus

How To Recruit A New Worker

• Ask God to reveal who in the church is ready to assume greater responsibility

• Recruit the person, not for the position

• The person’s spiritual gifts must match the position he/she will fill

Ev’ry Time I Feel The Spirit

Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit moving in my heart, I will pray. Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit moving in my heart, I will pray.

1. Upon the mountain when my God spoke, Out of His mouth came fire and smoke. All around me, it looked so shine, I asked the Lord if all was mine.

2. Ol’ Jordan River, all chilly and cold, It chills the body, but not the soul There ain’t but one train that’s on this track, It runs to heaven and runs right back.

Guide My Feet

1 Guide my feet while I run this race, guide my feet while I run this race, guide my feet while I run this race, for I don't want to run this race in vain!

2 Hold my hand while I run this race, hold my hand while I run this race, hold my hand while I run this race, for I don't want to run this race in vain!

3 Stand by me while I run this race, stand by me while I run this race, stand by me while I run this race, for I don't want to run this race in vain!

4 I'm your child while I run this race, I'm your child while I run this race, I'm your child while I run this race, for I don't want to run this race in vain!

Town Hall Meeting

February 23, 2020 After 11 AM Service

Discussion Topics

• 8:30 service discussion

o Boost 8:30 AM service & keep 11 AM service

(advertise/invite/welcome people to 8:30 AM)

o Revise schedule to earlier Sunday School at 9 AM/9:30 AM

and have 1 worship service at 10 AM/10:30 AM

o Eliminate 8:30 AM & keep 11 AM service & current Sunday

School time

o We don’t have the option of doing nothing! Therefore, if

you don’t like any suggestions, what is your suggestion?

• Eliminate giving envelopes/giving numbers for non-users or 1-

time monthly givers and reassign giving numbers to envelope

users in 2021

• Renting church space

o Permanent regular use for other established churches

o Rent for 1-time events, weddings, funerals, baptisms,

special events and 1-time meetings

• Other fund-raising ideas for outside the church

o Car washes

o Other ideas case by case evaluation

Usually not everyone agrees, if you see a problem, please offer a

solution to the problem. Someone may not have thought of your

solution to the problem.