FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, SENATOBIA, MS (www.sfbcms.com) June 25, 2020

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Make plans to join us on July 5th for the return of Sunday School. In order to provide for social distancing we will conduct two different Sunday School hours that will run concurrently with each worship service. Sunday School and Worship will take place and 8:30 and at 10:00. In order to social distance a few classes will be asked to meet at a different location. Most rooms will be set up differently than normal to allow for social distancing in the room. Below are lists for each hour of where and when each class will meet.

8:30 Sunday School

• Brownlee Class - 2nd Floor Conference Room

• Powell Class - Brownlee Room

• Joy Ladies - Youth Room

• Ambrosia - Office Suite Conference Room

• Harvesters Men - Regular location

• Faith Ladies - Choir Room

• Praise Class - Regular location

• Martin Men - Regular location

• Grace Ladies - Regular location

• Hope - Regular location

• Cinnamond - Regular location

• Dorcas/Homemakers - Regular location Those attending 8:30 Sunday School are encouraged to stay for 10:00 Worship in the Sanctuary.

10:00 Sunday School

• Nursery and Preschool - Preschool Hall

• Children’s classes - Regular location

• Youth - Youth Room - Regular location

• College/Young Adults– Regular location

• Tomlinson Class - Regular location

• Winstead Class - FLC Dining Room

• Pepper Class - Regular location

• Herring Class - Regular location

• Discovery Class - FLC Dining Room

• Dowdle Class - Regular Location Those attending 10:00 Sunday School are encourage to go to 8:30 Worship in the Sanctuary. There will be childcare in the preschool hallway during worship for children 3 years old and under. Children’s church will meet during the 8:30 worship service for children 4 years old up to fourth grade.

If you have any questions regarding where or when your Sunday School class will meet, please contact the church office. This is a temporary schedule to get us through current pandemic. Thank you for being flexible as we strive to provided the best worship and Sunday school experience while following social distancing guidelines.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Regular Weekly Tithe ............................................................... $19,498.37 Regular Weekly Budget ............................................................ $23,867.00

Regular Month to Date .............................................................. $70,735.75 Regular Monthly Budget ......................................................... $103,424.00

Regular Year to Date ............................................................... $933,347.61 Budget Year to Date ................................................................ $904,960.00 Prior Year to Date ................................................................... $991,874.55 2019/2020 Annual Budget .................................................... $1,241,085.00 Capital Additions & Improvements Offering ................................. $35.00

*Fiscal year: October 1, 2019-September 30, 2020

LAST WEEK AT A GLANCE

ANNIVERSARIES

June 25 Larry & Glenda Brasher June 26 James & Frankie McCrary, Glenn & Julia Herring June 27 Philip & Janice Duncan June 28 Jim & Pat Johnson June 29 Wayne & Bonnie Moore, Martin & Rebecca Allison, Larry & Pat Moore, Jay & Jennifer Foster June 30 Donnie & Ruthie Castle July 1 Chris & Amanda Williams July 3 Gary & Linda Newton July 4 Jeff & Connie Hunt

June 28 July 5 July 12 Julie Darby

The flowers gracing our sanctuary this week are given by

PRAYER LIST

OCTOBER 11TH - 15TH

TOTAL COST OF TRIP: $550.00:includes accommoda-tions for four nights, the seminar and seminar materials, and eight meals FEATURED SPEAKER: Dr. Erwin Lutzer

TOPIC : “Faith at the Breaking Point: Lessons from Lives of Biblical Heroes

SPACES ARE LIMITED - Reserve your spot with a $50.00 deposit

Jean Beckum Laurie Brown Jamie Chapuis David Etherton Jerrie Frayser Gail Gammon Mitch Graham Alison Hardison Shirley Lane

David Lunceford Mary Nations Gary Newton Ed Pang Marilyn Pang Nelle Parks Cohen Perkins Carolyn Rials Kathy Rowan

Dianne Sanders Louisa Sanders Kam Spencer Leon Warren Tommie White Evelyn Yarborough

EXTENDED SESSIONS LEADERS

July 5 8:30 a.m.

Allen & Kim Bradley Camille Brister

July 12 8:30 a.m.

Melissa Wilhite Amy/Jeremy Isome

July 19 8:30 a.m.

Hayley Warren Katie Hunt

June 25 Jay Foster June 26 Howard Patterson, Briley Tomlinson June 28 Nancy Patterson, Polly Baker June 29 Amy Isome June 30 Cameron Smith July 1 Sharon Harris July 3 Tristan Moore, Molly King July 4 Kathy Schexnayder, Kellie Waldrip, Nicholas Vaughn

PRAYER REQUEST BOX

The Prayer Committee has placed a Prayer Request Box in the lobby for any-one who has specific prayer needs. Your requests will be retrieved by one Prayer Committee me

MEMORIALS

Jerry Brewer—Coleman & Mary Ida Graham, Gary & Judy Meeks

DVDs of each Sunday’s sermon will be available each Thursday afternoon in the church office suite. If you or someone you know is unable to stream our video content, feel free to drop by each week and pick up a free

DVD.

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Honor the life or memory of loved one by providing flowers for the sanctuary on a specific Sunday.

Sign up on the Floral Calendar on the wall outside of the sanctuary.

The First Baptist Church Preschool is excited about the upcoming school year! We have several exciting things happening in our Preschool. If you are looking for a preschool for your child, we still have openings in our Two, Three and Four Year Old Program. If you are interested, please call Jan Miles at 562-0543 or email jmiles@sfbcms.com.

CHILDREN IN ACTION Annie Armstrong Easter basket offerings can be turned in

any time. Those wanting to earn their KEEP badge can send Mary videos of them saying their verses.

BACK YARD BIBLE CLUBS June 22-25, 9-10:30am

Please be in prayer for this week of ministry to our communities and neighbors: for clear weather, for safety and for open hearts for the Gospel.

SUMMER ACTIVITIES: Each Wednesday we will alternate our groups

and meeting times. All their SS leaders are invited to join us.

July 1—Finished 4K– 2nd 6-7pm During this time we will fellowship with snacks and

games and study God’s word. We will meet outside on the Pee Wee field so kids are encouraged to bring a

towel or lawn chair for seating. If it rains we will meet in the gym.

July 8—Swim parties for all 6-7:30pm 4K-2nd at Bart and Lindsey Allen’s

3rd-6th at Jeff and Dawn Underwood

MUSIC NOTES

UPCOMING DATES FOR KIDS

YOUTH NEWS

I was talking with David Lunceford about wisdom the other day. A great working definition for wisdom is applying knowledge to everyday life. But for us as followers of Christ, it is applying God’s Word to everyday life. I read an article the other day and it just had some great points for applying God’s Word to everyday life. 1. Learn God’s Ways. We will never make it a habit of applying the

Bible until we prove it’s worth in our life. And that means not just reading a portion of scripture each day but thinking about it, meditat-ing on it, and treasuring it in our hearts. We must desire more of Christ in our hearts minds and lives in order to continue to learn and grow to be like Him.

2. Live God’s Ways. When we read, we understand, and then we must move to obedience. Obedience is a necessary ingredient to life and growth in Christ.

3. Love God’s Way. As we study 1 John together, John makes a bold statement, if you don’t love others, you don’t love God. Jesus said all the commandments are summed up in these two: 1) Love God with everything we are and everything we have and 2) Love others as Christ loves us.

4. Long to spend time in prayer. Prayer is communicating with God. Talking with Him includes allowing Him time to speak to us. Do we long to spend time with God? Would we rather talk to Him than anyone else in our life? And the benefit of spending time with God is that we become more like Him.

Always good to do a check-up! See you Sunday! Randy

All Active Group activities are postponed until further notice. The senior adult community is at a higher risk of contracting Covid-19 from social interactions. We encourage all of our Senior Adults to carefully practice social distancing during this time of pandemic.

• Cost of the White Water Rafting Trip is

$230. The date is July 31-Aug 3! A $100

deposit secures your spot!

• Join us each Wednesday at 7 for youth! We

will meet upstairs in the youth room. Make

sure to check our Instagram for updates:

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A WORD FROM YOUR PASTOR

Hello everyone - this is your friendly, neighborhood Min- ister of Edu-cation - Allen Winstead. Pastor Chris is on a well deserved vacation this week. I will be filling in for him behind the pulpit on Sunday morning. As always it is an honor and a blessing for me to have the opportunity to share with you from God’s Word. My text will be John 1:43-52 - the call of Na-thanael. Now some of you with sharp memories may be thinking “Hasn’t he preached on this passage before?” And the answer is Yes . . . About five years ago. But this won’t be the same exact sermon. Some of it may be familiar, but I will be emphasizing some different points. Nathanael is only referred to by this name in the first chapter of John. Every other time we see him in the gospels he is referred to as Bartholomew. The name “Nathanael” means “God has given” while the name “Bartholomew” means “Son of Tolmai”. So “Bartholomew” is probably a name added to “Nathanael” for the purpose of identifying his family background. But there may be more to this word “Tolmai” than just a family name (we will explore this on Sunday morning). One my favorite aspects of this gospel account is how Nathanael was intro-duced to Jesus. His friend Philip encountered Jesus and was called by Jesus first. Philip was so excited by this encounter that he immediately ran to find Nathanael to tell him that he had found “the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph” The impression I get is that Philip had been looking for the Messi-ah, anxiously awaiting the arrival of Christ. This is why he was so excited upon meeting Jesus—because the wait was finally over. I would like to be a little more like Philip (and maybe you would too). Imagine if all of God’s people woke each morning sincerely thinking “This could be the day - I may meet Jesus face to face before this day is over.” However, the big difference between all of us and Philip is that, unlike Philip we cannot wait until we meet Jesus face to face to begin inviting our friends and family to come and meet Him also. On that day when we stand in the presence of Jesus it will be too late for us to bring anyone else to Him. And so we must do it today. To whom do you need to take the good news of Jesus Christ? If someone comes to mind then do it today. Afterall - this could be the day that we meet Jesus

Chris Williams (cwilliams@sfbcms.com) .............................................................................................................................................. Pastor Allen Winstead (awinstead@sfbcms.com).................................................................................................... Minister of Education/Outreach Randy Chappell (rchappell@sfbcms.com) .......................................................................................................................... Minister of Music Sylvia Alford (salford@sfbcms.com) ........................................................................................................... Church Administrator/Activities Mary Tindle (mtindle@sfbcms.com) .............................................................................................................................. Minister of Children Brooks Ward (bward@sfbcms.com) ................................................................................................................................... Minister of Youth Beverly Russell (brussell@sfbcms.com) ............................................................................................................................................ Finance Susan McNulty (smcnulty@sfbcms.com) ........................................................................................................................... Ministry Assistant Garrett Glaser .......................................................................................................................................................... Director of Food Services Jan Miles (jmiles@sfbcms.com) ........................................................................................................................ Weekday Preschool Director Mae Wooten ..................................................................................................................................................................................... Custodian Chantay Rhone (chantayrhone@gmail.com) ........................................................................................................... Serve Ministry Associate

CHURCH STAFF

For the month of July your church staff will be going TIE-LESS on Sunday mornings, and we invite all of you tie wearers to join us. Now we could try to come up with some symbolic meaning or theological precedence for leaving our neckties at home. But the simple fact of the matter is - it’s hot in Mississippi during the summer. So men (and any necktie wearing ladies out there) - why not ditch the tie for one month and come to church in comfort? NO TIE JULY starts Sunday, July 5th.