For all things "Life at First Baptist" click here!
|
|
|
What's Happening at FBC |
|
August:
September:
October:
Ongoing:
|
|
Editor's Note: If the full email does not display click "View Entire Message" and it will open in your browser to allow you to see all of the content in Life at First Baptist. |
|
|
|
|
Rick Beall - Continue to pray for the Beall family. Rick will need to continue to follow up with doctors as they seek answers regarding the stroke like symptoms he was having last week.
Download our Church App for prayer requests in real time at this link: https://tithely.app.link/fbc- |
|
|
Church Building Closure |
|
|
On Thursday RS Electric will be replacing the power poll that leads to our building on the East side of the building. The church will be without power while they are working. Pastor Daniel and I will be working from home. |
|
|
Our next Membership Class will be held Sunday, August 17th. This is a class that is designed to teach all interested candidates about membership in the Bible and how it is practiced at First Baptist. Location is still TBD but it will be held on Sunday morning during the Sunday School Hour with a light breakfast and coffee. Click here to sign up! |
|
|
Back to School Prayer Night |
|
|
Join us in the West Platte Elementary Parking Lot on August 17th at 7:00 p.m. for community wide night of prayer to kick off the school year. |
|
|
Women's Book Club Meeting |
|
|
The next Women's Book Club Meeting will be August 25th at 5:30 p.m. All women are invited. You can purchase the book here if you do not already have a copy! |
|
|
Family/Vision Meeting |
|
|
Our next Family Meeting will be unlike those we've done in the past as the bulk of our time together will be vision casting! Please plan on joining us Sunday, August 31st. More details to follow. |
|
|
|
|
FBC Youth Resumes Sunday, September 7th. All youth grades 6th-12th are invited! Mark your calendars and plan on joining us Sunday evenings from 5:30-7:30 p.m. More details to follow. |
|
|
Applefest Float |
|
|
We have been kicking around the idea of entering an FBC Weston Float in the Applefest Parade for a couple of years now. Here is what we need: an open trailer, volunteers to help construct a vision for it, float riders, folks to walk with the float to hand out information about the church and our upcoming Outdoor Movie Night/Carnival, lots of candy donated, someone who would like to pull the trailer with a tractor or truck, etc. We will have a short planning/informational meeting following our Worship Service on Sunday, September 7th. If you would like to take part please plan on joining us then! |
|
|
Applefest Sunday 2025 |
|
|
REMINDER: The weekend of Applefest we will not have Sunday School and will have our regular worship service at 9:00 a.m. to allow for everyone to beat the traffic home! |
|
|
Baptisms |
|
|
We will be having a Baptism Service in the near future! If you or your child has come forward with a profession of faith and are ready to talk next steps please contact Pastor Ricky. We will simultaneously be scheduling a class for eligible Baptism Candidates. |
|
|
Outdoor Movie Night/Fall Carnival |
|
|
As many of you are aware we had to cancel the VBS Carnival last Friday. However, we are going to bring it back and attach it to our Outdoor Movie Night event! Mark your calendars for October 25th! This is a guaranteed good time!! |
|
|
FBC Fellowship Lunch Connection |
|
|
On Sunday's Eric & Dawn Hite are organizing a Fellowship Lunch Connection. Any and all are invited. If you plan to go you need to contact Dawn to let her know so they can call the restaurant with a headcount in advance. The restaurant will be posted here every week.
Sunday, August 17: Eric & Dawn have plans this week but if anyone else would like to take up organizing the FBC Fellowship Lunch Connection, please do so! |
|
|
|
Pastor's Pen |
|
Brothers & Sisters,
The above is a photo of a slice of a "Crab Apple Pie" and the recipe for it can be found here! You can give thanks to Rick Beall for sending this over. I do not endorse this recipe because I have no idea if it is actually any good! I know I used this pie as a negative sermon illustration but after I had a good laugh from Rick's text I got to thinking about it. This can be used in the positive sense as well.
The warning Jesus gives to the Pharisees here is to repent of their wicked ways and bear good fruit. In other words they can be redeemed. Perhaps, crab apples can serve as an illustration of what this takes. For a crab apple to be of any value or good it has to pass through the fire of the oven. So it is with us. We must be confronted with the flame of hell that is deserved because of our sin. We then see Jesus for who He is, repent, and place our faith in Him. Then, and only then, are we made good. I know the illustration of the crab apple pie breaks down a bit but I think you get the picture.
My encouragement for you this week is to remember that you were once a crab apple with seemingly no redeeming qualities but Jesus has given you His righteousness. Even a crab apple can (allegedly) be used for good when baked into a pie. It just takes a whole lot of sugar and fire! Paul writes to the Ephesians “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” (Ephesians 2:8-10)
Go bear fruit!
|
|
