Sunday School Report

FBC

Nursing Home Total

June 4 75 15 90

June 11 64 11 75

Weekly Witness

June 14, 2017 Volume 117, Issue 23

Fellowship Suppers

Wednesdays, 5:30 PM $5/adult; $3/child; $20/ family

Call the office by Monday to sign up. Or, sign up online at www.fbcmetter.com!

Set up Clean up

June 21 Joyce Franklin Andrew

June 28 Mary Buijnarowski Antioch

Covered Dish Supper on the Wednesday after the Second Sunday of every month.

June Volunteers

Deacons

June 18 June 25

Wayne Carter Rickey McDaniel

Children’s Church

June 18 June 25

June Coursey Kay Lovett/Amanda Vernon

Ushers

June 18

June 25

Wayne Carter, Jordy Carter, Brent Carter, Jerry Lanier

Rickey McDaniel, Matthew Rigdon, Dustin Vernon, Reid Oates

Greeters

Sunday School Area

Martha Cannady, Faye Lamb

Sanctuary Area

June 18 June 25

Tadd & Beth Wiggins Rick McDaniel Wayne Carter

Sanctuary Flowers

June 18 June 25

Jerry & Phebia Lanier Penny Lott

The congregation will vote for a nominating committee during the morning

worship service on Sunday, June 25. As a reminder, the church constitution

and by-laws establish the following parameters for the nominating committee:

There shall be at least two (2) males and two (2) females on the committee. The person receiving the most votes shall be the chairperson. No member may serve two (2) consecutive years. The seven persons receiving the highest number of votes and agreeing to serve shall constitute the committee provided that no two (2) persons having a close family relationship as defined herein shall be permitted to serve on the Nominating Committee. A close family relationship is defined as 2 people related as spouse, parent, child, grandchild, brother, sister or in-laws.

Pete and Nancy Cyprian, our area’s Awana Missionaries, will be at

First Baptist on Sunday, July 9 to lead our church in training for an Awana program. FBCM has had Awana before, but for those who aren’t familiar with the program or don’t remember, the Awana website explains:

Awana is a global, nonprofit ministry with fully integrated evangelism and long-term discipleship programs for ages 2 to 18 that actively involves parents and church leaders. Each week, more than 3.7 million children and youth, 470,000 volunteers and 260 field staff take part in Awana in over 47,000 churches around the world. Offered through local churches, Awana reaches kids where they’re at and walks along-side them in their faith journey.

We’ll be re-starting our Awana program in the Fall, and the Cyprians will be a

part of that process. Please plan to attend that evening — July 9, at 5PM.

There will be a church-wide fellowship as well as training and insight into how everybody in the church — even those who are not actively volunteering as Awana leaders — can be a part of the success of the ministry.

For more information, feel free to ask a pastor or go to the Awana website at www.awana.org.

Ministering to our Children

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Good morning church family,

With Tom O. out this week, I have the opportunity to share a short word with you.

First, I want to thank all who came out to support the summer movie night series. We have had two amazing opportunities to grow as individuals as well as a church family. This past Sunday night we had approximately 90 in attendance and we had great fellowship as we shared the movie Left Behind as well as many, many bags of popcorn and cups of soda. We were reminded of the amazing power of prayer and the importance of mentoring and encouraging someone else in their walk with God through the movie War Room. We were then challenged with the reality that the rapture of the church is a real event in the future and that it could happen any day. Do we really believe it and are we living as if we believe it?

This Sunday is Father’s Day so we will not have an evening service, but, Lord willing, we will pick back up with our summer movie night series on June 25th. Right now, the plan is to show the movie Courageous. So please make plans now to attend.

Speaking of Father’s Day, I just wanted to share a word of encouragement with our dads.

I know that we don’t get the same billing recognitions as moms, but that is okay. Most of us would rather stay in the background anyway. But dads, I want you to know that your role as dad, father or grand dad (Poppop), is more impor-tant today than at any other time in our nation’s history.

10 Reasons Why Kids without Dads Are at a Big Disadvantage

Author Darren Ferguson wrote of his former prison life: “We inmates are all from 5 neighborhoods in New York City. It’s like a train that begins on my block. You get on the train when you’re nine or ten years old, and the train ends up at Sing Sing.”

What’s missing in these neighborhoods that Darren grew up in? Involved fathers. Male parenting. You matter tremendously to your children and the future of our country. Don’t ever under-estimate your importance. In fact, here are 10 reasons why kids without dads are at a great disadvantage:

1. Balance: Mothers are amazing. Fathers are amazing too. But we were created to learn and grow as balanced people. Dad is a unique piece of that puzzle.

2. Parenting at best is a tag team sport: Reality check: Father does not know best – and neither does Mother. But between them, employing their complimentary gifts, more often than not, they’ll get it right.

3. Mom is missing something too: We’re not saying a woman is incomplete without a man. What we are saying is that kids miss out twice when there’s no father in the home. Kids whose mom is loved eloquently by their dad have the advantage of a mother who’s loved by a good man. Every child should live in a home like that.

4. Modeling for boys: Boys need to see what it means to live as a man. Men are different in a variety of ways. Boys who see man stuff in action around the home on a day-to-day basis are at an advantage to be better equipped.

5. Modeling for girls: Most girls are going to get married one day. If they haven’t seen a real-life dad being a good man, day in and day out, then they have missed a great opportunity to understand what to value and what to look for.

6. The family is a model love relation-ship: Love is the great force in rela-tionships. The family is a place where the dynamics of love between a man and a woman work themselves out in the real world. Commitment, faithfulness, forgive-ness, discipline, belief – all these and more play out in front of a child’s eyes. Without a dad, this very important part of the function of a family simply is not there to instruct children. Not having a father present in the home is a huge loss in that regard.

7. The best man: Not every young man is going to ask Dad to be best man at his wedding but, beyond the ceremonial moment, Dad should be there to fulfill the role from the day his kids start dating to the day they start a family of their own.

8. Loss of focused time: Understand this, a single-parent family is not 50% of a parenting unit. In fact, it’s no fraction of a family because a single parent family is a bona fide family, period. But, in the metrics of time, a missing dad is irreplaceable in terms of what a dad does while the other parent is doing what they do. No matter how talented mom is, she can’t be duplicated and she is finite in time and space.

9. The cost in innocence: Try this ques-tion: When there’s no dad around

for mom to lean on (and vice versa), then who is left to play the other grown-up when one’s needed? Just in case you wonder, a grown-up is often needed. It doesn’t matter how old the kids are, they’re going to step up and fill those shoes prematurely and there’s a cost to go along with that.

10. The cost in security: Ideally, one job dad does best is carrying the mantle of security for a family. It doesn’t mean he’s always strong physically, and it doesn’t mean that mom is weak. The “dad” kind of security is a simple fact of biology. But it’s real, and every child without a father loses something intangible that takes its toll in confidence.

One other thing dads, your commitment to God through the church is a strong determining factor in your children’s further attendance and participation in the church. Check out these stats:

1. If both father and mother attend regularly, 33 percent of their children will end up as regular churchgoers, and 41 percent will end up attending irregularly. Only a quarter of their children will end up not practicing at all.

2. If the father is irregular and mother regular, only 3 percent of the children will subsequently become regulars themselves, while a further 59 percent will become irregulars. Thirty-eight percent will be lost.

3. If the father is non-practicing and mother regular, only 2 percent of children will become regular worshippers, and 37 percent will attend irregularly. Over 60 percent of their children will be lost completely to the church! What happens if the father is regular but the mother irregular or non-practicing? Amaz-ingly, the percentage of children becoming regular goes up from 33 percent to 38 percent with the irregu-lar mother and up to 44 percent with the non-practicing.

In short, if a father does not go to church – no matter how faithful his wife’s devo-tions – only one child in 50 will become a regular worshipper. If a father does go regularly, regardless of the practice of the mother, between two-thirds and three-quarters of their children will become churchgoers (regular and irregular). If Dad takes faith in God seriously then the message to their children is that God should be taken seriously. You are very important dad, your family needs you. Let’s talk again on Sunday, see you then.

Bro. Tom A.

There will be no Evening Worship

on Sunday, June 18. June’s

Business Meeting will be held on

Sunday, June 25.

Every Wednesday

at 5:30 PM. Call the office or go

to www.fbcmetter.com to sign up.

GEORGIA BAPTIST CHILDREN’S HOMES — TRUCK LOADINGS

ORBA is collecting canned fruit, instant potatoes, ketchup,

mayonnaise, liquid laundry detergent, 100% fruit juice, and

gift cards. Items need to be dropped off at the church by

Monday, July 10.

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Vacation Bible School July 21-23.

Friday, July 21: Saturday, July 22:

Sunday, July 23:

6:00 PM-8:30 PM 9:30AM-12:00 Noon 6:00 PM-8:30 PM 10:30 AM

Covered Dish lunch after closing on July 23

Studies show that if the mother of a family attends worship, there’s a 16 percent chance that the rest of the family will also attend. Yet when a father attends worship,

there’s a 93 percent chance that other family members will be present, too.

THIS SECTION

BLANK FOR

PRIVACY

Pastor, Tom Osborne

tominmetter@gmail.com

Mobile: 912.601.9694

Associate Pastor, Tom Alderman

talderman6854@gmail.com

Ministry Assistant, Jeanna Simons

Sunday Worship services are broadcast live on Comcast Channel 7

June 18-24, 2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 9:30 AM Fellowship Gathering

9:45 AM Sunday School

11:00 AM Morning Worship

6:00 PM No Evening Worship

9:00 AM Ladies’ Exercise

5:30 PM Fellowship Supper

6:00 PM Youth Ministry

6:15 PM Adult Bible Study & Prayer

7:00 PM Choir Practice

8:15 AM Prayer Conference Call

641.715.3680 Code: 347361#

Life Journal Readings I Kings 22 II Chronicles 18, 19 Colossians 4

II Kings 1-3 Psalm 82 I Timothy 1

II Kings 4, 5 Psalm 83 I Timothy 2

II Kings 6, 7 II Chronicles 20 I Timothy 3

II Kings 8, 9 II Chronicles 21 I Timothy 4

II Kings 10 II Chronicles 22, 23 I Timothy 5

II Kings 11, 12 II Chronicles 24 I Timothy 6

Sunday School Scriptures: June 18: Psalm 23:1-6 *** June 25: Psalm 138:1-8

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