Weekly Bulletin – June 27, 2010
Posted on June 24, 2010
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The Lord’s Day
June 27, 2010
Welcome!
God offers each of us acceptance and love. Let us pass that love to others with a hardy Welcome!
Prepare Your Hearts
Our help “comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth” (Psalm 121:2). Come, dear Lord; touch us with your Holy Spirit.
Announcements, Given by Ralph Jackson
Sing Praise
- The Heart of Worship
- You Are God Alone
- Jesus Saves (hymnal p. 537)
- O How He Loves You and Me (hymnal p. 629)
- Shout To the Lord
Our Offering / Special Music
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7
A Word from God
- Special Speaker: Grace Fabian
A Song in Our Hearts
- America the Beautiful
CHURCH BUSINESS MEETING, NEXT!
TODAY – Business Meeting following the service. Children up to sixth grade will meet in the chapel with Mrs. Fabian. Ladies Book Club will be hosting a luncheon in the chapel at 12:30 for Grace. Ladies, you are welcome to join us.
THIS WEEK
Wed – Bible Study/Prayer Meeting, 7:00 PM / Chapel
UPCOMING EVENTS
- July 4 – Beginning of Missionary Christmas in July. We will be collecting donations for our Missionary’s Christmas gifts all month. There is a box in the foyer under the bulletin board to drop in your coins/bills/checks. If you would like a receipt at the end of the year for your contributions, then pick up a missions envelope (beside the box), be sure to put your name on it, deposit it in the box or drop it in the offering plate. This year’s goal $2090.00.
- July 5 – 11, Pastor & Shannon will be on vacation.
- July 6 – Building & Grounds and Bldg. Team Meeting – 7:00 PM @ Fellowship Center.
- July 18 – Special Guests, Gene & Mary Smith, Missionaries to Honduras
- July 29 – Red Cross Blood Drive, @ the Fellowship Hall. Details will be posted later.
- Aug 8 – Run/Walk for Life @ the Speidie Fest. – All new this year. To participate you must register ahead of time with the Kelly LaBare 5K & pay an $8 fee. Register at www.SpiedieFest.com or call race director Grace Tabeek @ 607-722-8744
- Aug 12 – 14, Kirkwood Fair
- Aug 21 – FCC Corn Roast/Chicken Bar-b-q
VOLUNTEER PLEASE!
Sunday school teacher needed for First Grade Class.
NEW ADDRESS:
Addie Scott has a new address and phone number. You may send your cards to her at: 116 Loughlin Road Binghamton NY 13904. Or give her a call at: 775-4524. Please make a note in your directory.
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Thanks for attending First Christian today. Please come again!
Protected: Prayer Requests – June 23, 2010
Posted on June 23, 2010
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Weekly Bulletin – June 20, 2010
Posted on June 17, 2010
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Father’s Day
June 20, 2010
Welcome!
Sunday’s are special because we show our love for our heavenly Father together. On this Father’s Day, we worship God and honor our earthly fathers as he commanded.
Prepare Your Hearts
Remember the affirmation of the psalmist: “As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God” (Psalm 42:1)
Announcements
Given by Ralph Jackson
Sing Praise
- Jesus Is the Sweetest Name I Know (hymnal p. 627)
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- How Can I Keep From Singing
- Top of My Lungs
- Here and Now
Our Offering / Special Music
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7
(No Jr. church, summer break)
A Word from God
Special Speaker: Will Reichel
A Song in Our Hearts
PLEASE STAY FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL, NEXT!
THIS WEEK
- Pastor will be out of town this week for class.
- Mon – Ladies Softball, Kirkwood @ FBJC (17C)
- Wed – Bible Study/Prayer Meeting, 7:00 PM / Chapel
UPCOMING EVENTS
- June 27 – Special Speaker – Grace Fabian, this will be the kick-off for our “Missionary Christmas in July”. There will be a box under the bulletin board to collect your donations for our Missionary Christmas gifts. We currently have 4 Missionary Families that we support. FCC has supported Grace & her family for many years. She & her husband spent many of those years in Papau, New Guinea as Bible translators. She currently has a book out telling about that experience. It’s available in the church library and she will also have them available for sale when she is here next week. SS Teachers please note: Children up to the 6th grade will be joining Grace in the chapel for Sunday school while everyone else meets in the main auditorium for the Business Meeting. Of course we do need a couple adults to stay in the chapel to help Grace.
- Special Business Meeting, during Sunday school. After diligent consideration we are pulling back the vote on the package for the new facility. There is a need for more discussion and interaction on the best course of action for FCC. The scheduled meeting will focus on supplying information and hearing feedback in light of the work we have done up to this point. I hope you can come and the church body is encouraged to participate in a conversation concerning your future.
- July 6 – Building & Grounds and Bldg. Team Meeting – 7:00 PM @ Fellowship Center.
- Aug 8 – Run/Walk for Life @ the Speidie Fest. – All new this year. To participate you must register ahead of time with the Kelly LaBare 5K & pay an $8 fee. Register at www.SpiedieFest.com or call race director Grace Tabeek @ 607-722-8744
Ladies Book Club Note: The Ladies Book Club will be serving lunch in the chapel for Grace following our services. You’re welcome to join us if you’d like, but please let Terry know.
VOLUNTEER PLEASE
Sunday school teacher needed for First Grade Class.
Thanks for attending First Christian today. Please come again!
BE THE FLAME Acts 9:26-31
Posted on June 12, 2010
Filed Under Pastor's Blog, Sermons
Once upon a time Paul was not “in”. I know it’s hard to believe. One tends to just assume that Paul was born with an apostolic spoon in his mouth. He spoke and people listened. But such is not the case, which brings us to our text. Paul was up against the deadly triad of fear, faith and forgiveness. Fear you can grasp but how are faith and forgiveness triad “like”? Well, the people were afraid of Paul and did not believe (faith) that he had become a follower of Christ. Not to mention the fact that they could not forget/forgive what he had previously done. Such is one of the realities of church life. It is one thing to be haunted by our past and be burdened by our baggage but this is a text which puts the church in the position of antagonist. She won’t let go of Paul’s past nor is she willing to carry any of his baggage. Ironically, Paul would later write in Galatians that we are to “bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
What we all need to participate in is the “Barnabas factor.” Were it not for Barnabas Paul would have been left out in the cold. He plays two major roles in Paul’s life. First, as advocate and then as mentor. As an advocate Barnabas did what so many of us won’t take the time to do. That is listen. Which is central to being an advocate. He took it even further when he chose to believe Paul’s story and actively speak on his behalf. Barnabas spoke for Paul and it was by his word that Paul gained entrance to the church at Jerusalem. Barnabas is in every way Jesus-like for this is exactly what Christ has done for us before the Father. “We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous” (1 John 2:1). Jesus brings us through the front door of his death and resurrection to a heavenly audience with God the Father. No back room deals here. But the public demonstration of the matchless love of God. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on his will not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
As mentor he becomes a guide to Paul. In their early travels it is “Barnabas and Paul” but by the end of their journeys it is, “Paul and Barnabas.” We need to be the flame that ignites a soul for Jesus. Making investments in people’s lives with the hope of nurturing faith in Christ. The Church does not need more “stuff”. We already have everything we need, “His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence” (2 Peter 1:3). What we need is to give of ourselves. We are the light of the world and that light can not be extinguished, for it is Christ. Ask God to place upon your heart one person for whom you must advocate and mentor. Then be the flame that ignites a soul for Jesus. WHB
Weekly Bulletin – June 13, 2010
Posted on June 10, 2010
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The Lord’s Day
June 13, 2010
Welcome!
With warm acceptance we greet you in the name of Christ. Let us strive to show love to our Creator and to one another as we gather as God’s family.
Prepare Your Hearts
With the Apostle Paul, let us affirm: “[T]he life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Gal. 2:20
Announcements
Sing Praise
- Sing, Sing, Sing
- Marvelous Light
- The Nails in Your Hands
- I Surrender All
- All for Love
Our Offering / Special Music
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7
(No Jr. church, summer break)
A Word from God
- Title: The Flame
- Text: Acts 9:26-31
A Song in Our Hearts
- Came to My Rescue
PLEASE STAY FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL, NEXT!
THIS WEEK
- Mon – Ladies Softball, Kirkwood @ Community Church of Nazarene (17C)
- New Date: Tue – Deacon’s Meeting
- Wed – Bible Study/Prayer Meeting, 7:00 PM / Chapel
UPCOMING EVENTS
- June 20 – Father’s Day, Special Speaker, Will Reichel. Pastor will be out of town.
- June 24 – Ladies Softball, Kirkwood @ FBJC (17C)
- June 27 – Special Speaker – Grace Fabian, this will be the kick-off for our “Missionary Christmas in July”. Special Business Meeting, during Sunday school.
- Aug 8 – Run/Walk for Life @ the Speidie Fest. – All new this year. To participate you must register ahead of time with the Kelly LaBare 5K & pay an $8 fee. Register at www.SpiedieFest.com or call race director Grace Tabeek @ 607-722-8744
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OUR CONGRATULATIONS GO OUT TO:
Andrew & Tiffany Pavlik
3 Tremont Ave First Floor
Binghamton NY 13903
Please add this new address to your church directory.
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Let’s hear it for this year’s High School Graduate:
Amanda Clark
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VOLUNTEER PLEASE
Sunday school teacher needed for First Grade Class.
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Stewardship Update: May Offerings ……… $10,494.86
Disbursements ………… $11,078.96
Balance Forward ………… $10,059.71
Thanks for attending First Christian today. Please come again!
Protected: Prayer Requests – June 9, 2010
Posted on June 9, 2010
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Weekly Bulletin – June 6, 2010
Posted on June 3, 2010
Filed Under Weekly Bulletin
The Lord’s Day
June 6, 2010
Welcome!
The writer of Hebrews instructs us to “Pursue peace with everyone” (12:14). In the spirit of peace and Christian love, we extend the hand of friendship to all.
Prepare Your Hearts
On this beautiful Sunday morning let’s say with the Psalmist: “I will praise the Lord as long as I live” (Psalm 146:2).
Announcements
Sing Praise
- Open the Eyes of My Heart
- What Can I do
- Jesus Paid it All
- Lead me to the Cross
Our Offering / Special Music
“So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7
(No Jr. church, summer break)
A Word from God
- Title: Re-imagining the Future
- Text: Jeremiah 29:1-14
A Song in Our Hearts
- Mighty to Save
NO SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES TODAY.
TODAY – Quarterly Business Mtg, in place of Sunday school. Update on the future building project on Trim Street.
THIS WEEK
- Mon – Ladies Softball, UCCC @ Kirkwood
- Wed – Bible Study/Prayer Meeting, 7:00 PM / Chapel
UPCOMING EVENTS
- June 14 – Ladies Softball, Kirkwood @ Community Church of Nazarene (17C)
- June 20 – Father’s Day
- June 21 – Deacon’s Meeting
- June 24 – Ladies Softball, Kirkwood @ FBJC (17C)
- June 27 – Special Speaker – Grace Fabian, this will be the kick-off for our “Missionary Christmas in July”.
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OUR CONGRATULATIONS GO OUT TO:
Andrew & Tiffany Pavlik
3 Tremont Ave First Floor
Binghamton NY 13903
Please add this new address to your church directory.
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Let’s hear it for this year’s High School Graduate, Amanda Clark
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VOLUNTEER PLEASE: Sunday school teacher needed for First Grade Class.
Thanks for attending First Christian today. Please come again!
Protected: Prayer Requests – June 2, 2010
Posted on June 2, 2010
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