Week of July 17, 2006

SUPER SUMMER @ FBC!

I'm sorry that the blog site has gone unattended for the last few weeks. That's over NOW.

FBC is having a wonderful summer. Our kids are being blessed each and every Wednesday night by the parents of the Super Summer Kid's program. Thanks to all and especially Ramona Hood and her gang of Super Moms for getting together a weekly program for our younger kids during the Awana break this year. Don't miss out on what the kids are doing this summer. Check the weekly bulletin or check in with Ramona at hoodisfun@yahoo.com.

Business Meeting Results

The church had a special business meeting this past Sunday for the purposes of electing two Ministry Teams that need to go to work right away, and to nominate names for the two deacon positions that we will fill on August 27th at our annual business meeting that starts the new church year.

The names you elected to the Nominating Ministry Team this year are:

Standing Members:

Pastor, Sunday School Director (Calvin Powell) and Gene York (Deacon Chairman)

Newly Elected Members:

Neal Davis

Crystal McBrayer

Kaye Nowlin

This Ministry Team will need to go to work immediately, filling the many positions of leadership in the church.

Please PRAY hard for this team's work. This is one of the most important ministries of our church each year. They will need to find GODLY people with SPIRITUAL GIFTS to fill the many positions in our church structure.

The Names you elected to the Budget and Finance Ministry Team are:

Standing Members:

Pastor, Chairman of the Deacons, Church Treasurers (Rusty and Beverly Cummings)

Newly elected members are:

Tracy Davis

Larry Nowlin

Tim Hood

This team will have a monumental task this year, planning the largest budget ever in the history of this church! Please give them your most faith filled prayers in the days ahead!

MOVE NIGHT COMING TO FBC

Each summer we try to provide different kinds of activities that will enrich your lives and help you grow closer to the Lord. Last summer, it was the Dave Ramsey financial peace course. This summer, we will do a little summer-something different: A Movie Night!

This Sunday night will be our first movie night (6 pm). It will be one of the most anointed movies EVER! A Southern Baptist church in Georgia, learned that the culture is more impacted by movies and television than they are by the local church. This disturbed them greatly. So, they bought one digital camera, an Apple computer to edit on, and collected $20,000 dollars in donations and produced their first movie: Flywheel.

The results have been phenomenal! Flywheel beat out 10 Hollywood movies for 14 weeks in their local town. Then, it went on to earn many movie awards, winning at movie festivals all over the world. They have sold over 42,000 copies of the DVD over the internet! And now, the church has produced their second movie, Facing the Giants that will be released in national movie theaters soon.

Flywheel is an unbelievable story acted out by the members of the church in their own homes with no real movies making experience or professional equipment. It is anointed!! The first time pastor saw it, he wept over it's powerful message. DON'T MISS MOVIE NIGHT WITH "FLYWHEEL" THE MOVIE THIS SUNDAY NIGHT AT 6 PM. If you have anyone that you think needs the Lord or needs to grow closer to Him, please invite them to this free ministry event!

FLYWHEEL. Just One example of what a local church can do,

WHEN THEY HAVE V I S I O N!!

LIFT UP YOUR EYES

The message Sunday night, "What's Going on in Israel", opened up a lot of conversation about the end times and what's happening in our world today. I want to impress upon you that this is not just another little skirmish going on in the Middle East. I truly believe that Israel is settled on fighting this until they have defeated their enemies. And their enemies are ready to use this as an excuse to follow through with their threats to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Ezek. 38-39 is about to be fulfilled before our very eyes! (A Russian led confederacy of Arab nations will move against Israel, But God will defeat them supernaturally, destroying 5/6ths of their armies. This is closer to being reality than ever before. In fact, the leader of Hezbollah said Sunday that all of the Arab nations were about to move against Israel if they stop what they were doing!!!)

We need to be sober and diligent like the Word tells us to be. The Lord is soon to return. I believe this. Most of the Bible prophesy teachers that I know and trust believe this. ARE YOU LIVING FOR THE LORD TODAY? IF HE WERE TO RETURN TODAY WOULD HE FIND YOU FAITHFUL?

I love you and hope that you KNOW Jesus as your Savior and Lord and that you are living for Him to the best of your ability!

God Bless you.

Let's GO to Church!