FBC Carthage E-News
June 16, 2014
Good Morning,
Today begins a week of
Centri-Kid Camp for eight of our children plus Bro. Jeff Hall and our Summer
Intern Anna Maxwell. The camp is located
at Campbellsville College in Campbellsville, KY. This will be an important week in the
children’s lives, one that prayerfully will make an eternal difference. Pray for the children and workers this week
at camp.
Last week’s Vacation Bible
School was a great week of discovery, decision and defending the faith. We had 134 children and around 50 adult
workers join us for the week. We had 11 children meet with us to talk more
about trusting in Jesus as their Savior and Lord. Two of these children, Hayden Bush and Ean
Jones came forward in the services yesterday to profess their faith and share
with the church that they have trusted in Jesus. We will follow-up with them for baptism and
with the other children to make the commitment to Jesus.
Thank you to all the
workers in Vacation Bible School last week.
VBS is a huge undertaking involving one of our largest groups of workers. It takes a lot of work for Vacation Bible
School to be successful. Thank you to
each one who was a part of the VBS Team 2014.
During VBS the children
gave offerings each evening for the mission work iat First Baptist Church in
Poplar, Montana. The specific need is to
repair the FBC Poplar bus for picking up children each Sunday and
Wednesday. The pennies, nickels, dimes
and quarters added up to $630. This past
Sunday, the adults in the services were challenged to give in response to the
children’s great VBS offering. This
offering brought in an additional amount of $735.51 for a total offering to send
to FBC Poplar, Montana of $1,365.51!
Thanks for your help as we encourage our ministry partners in Montana to
“Roll that Bus!”
I would like all teachers
and workers in Vacation Bible School give us feedback and share observations
that can help us improve VBS in coming years.
We tried a couple of “new” ideas this year and are interested in your
input. You can copy these questions and
place them in an email with your thoughts.
Email the evaluations to tfrank@fbccarthage.com.
VBS 2014 Evaluation Questions:
1.
What was your position this year in VBS?
2.
What were your
overall thoughts/feelings/evaluation of VBS 2014?
3.
If you were in
the Children Grades 1-6, what were your thoughts on:
The combined Bible Study, music, mission
hour?
The schedule for the refreshments,
recreation and crafts?
Your children’s participation in the Large
group Bible study time?
The evangelistic emphasis and follow-up?
4.
How can we
improve VBS 2015?
Bible Study?
Music?
Crafts?
Missions?
Recreation?
Refreshments?
Overall?
Theme Interpretation?
5.
Additional comments on VBS 2014:
6.
Name (Optional):
Please be praying for the
Mission Montana 2014 Team as we make final preparations. Mission Montana 2014 will be June 26-July
5. We have a team of 22 people from 6
different churches. This is the largest
team we have taken to Poplar, Montana for a mission project. Our main objective will be conducting
Vacation Bible School with the Native American children and having various
community events each evening. Your
prayers will make the difference in our mission efforts. Please “hold the rope” through prayer.
Have a blessed week,
Bro. Tim
Here’s the news for the
week:
1.
We welcome Ean
Jones and Hayden Bush to our church fellowship as they follow the Lord in
baptism this Sunday, June 22.
2.
The Senior Adult
Fellowship will meet tomorrow, Tuesday, June 17 at 11:30 AM in Christian Life
Center. Pam Ferris, the new Director of
the Smith County Help Center will be our special guest. Bring a covered dish and join in the
fun.
3.
This Saturday,
June 21st at 8:00 am the Women on Mission Group is sponsoring a cookie bake in
the CLC Everyone is invited to come help. We have 100 dozen to bake and
then vacuum pack for our visitation in Poplar. We will have the recipes
and ingredients ready, just need willing helpers!!! This is a great opportunity
for you to serve and be a part of the Mission Montana 2014 Team.
4.
Another way you
can be a part of the mission effort to Poplar, Montana is to bring small toys
this Sunday, June 22 for the team to give as prizes at the Community Feast and
Kids Carnival. Last year we had almost
200 people come and participate in this event.
Collection boxes will be available at the Connection Point and the front
foyer for you to place your toys.
5.
The Youth have
two important events this Sunday, June 22:
·
Youth Pool Party
at 12:00 Noon after the morning services at Phillip and Kathy Piper’s house.
·
Student and
Parent meeting for Student Life Camp at 4:30 PM in the Youth Room. All students going to camp and their parents need
to attend this meeting. Student Life
Camp will be July 13-19 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
6.
The new church
ministry t-shirts have been a great success.
A re-order has been made and should be in by this Sunday. If you haven’t gotten a shirt, stop by the Connection
Point and pick one up for your whole family.
7.
Bible Pathways
Bible reading guides for July will be available in the front foyer and in the
Connection Point this Sunday, June 22.
8.
Don’t forget to
make plans to join us for the Church Camp-Out at Defeated Campground, July
25-27. The church has reserved 8 spots
and they are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The church is providing the camp sites for you
to enjoy the weekend with others from FBC Carthage. The
early service will be moved to the Defeated Creek Pavilion for that Sunday
morning, July 27 at 8:30 AM. All other
services will be held at normal times.
