Week of June 3, 2022

bellviewbaptistpaducah.com 270.554.3173

WELCOME

Bill Allen

ANNOUNCEMENTS

TeamKid/Youth Wednesday Night Meal

June 8—Team #5 TeamKid Meal/Activities

Cathy Bottoms, Janice Jackson & Nancy Stewart

Sunday, May 8

Sunday, June 5 @ 9 am

VBS Family Night

We are asking for volunteers to help make cookies

for the kids on Friday night, July 1. Please drop the

cookies off by 2 pm on Friday, July 1. (fellowship hall)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sunday, June 5

WOMEN’S MINISTRY YARD SALE

Friday, June 24—7 am—2 pm

Saturday, June 25—7 am—1 pm

Saturday, June 18 @ 9am

Sunday, May 8

NO Evening Service

Pastor Bob’s Message

I am a baseball fan, and I love to tell baseball stories. Let me tell you one that took place in 2019. The Washington Nationals beat the Houston Astros in 7 games. This is the first time in world series history that neither team won a home game. The series started in Houston, and the Nationals won both games there, then the game moved to Washington D.C. where the Astros won three straight games, and finally, the series moved back to Houston, where the Nationals win the last two games. That is a great story; however, a better one is of the National’s third basemen, Anthony Rendon. Rendon is coming off the best seasons of his career and was one of the leading candidates for the MVP award (He did not win). However, more important

to Rendon than baseball is his relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He told the Washington Post, “You want to plan for the future, but I’ve come to learn your plans don’t always come to fruition. Obviously, with my faith, too, I don’t want to seem like it’s all about me, me, me. It takes away from what I do for Him, for the Lord.” Rendon stressed, “I want to be known as a Christian baseball player and I’m still trying to grow into that. But, in the end, I want to be more Christian than a baseball player.”

What if we all understood that our identity revolves less around what we do than Who has called us to do it? What difference could it make in your life and work if you view yourself as a Christian first and foremost, and only then as your assigned work or job?

For example, think of the difference it would make if we saw ourselves as Christian parents and Christian spouses, Christian brothers and or Christian sisters. What a difference it would make if we never separated the identity established by the first from the responsibilities borne by the second. Joshua, for example, was God’s general. David was God’s king. Elijah was God’s prophet. Paul was God’s Apostle. These men weren’t perfect, but each had an outsized influence on the Kingdom of God because they kept their focus on Who called them more than on what they were called to do.

We celebrate Thanksgiving in November. As Christians, we can practice Thanksgiving every day. I am so, so thankful to God for you, the members of Bellview Baptist Church. I feel thankful to God for allowing me to be part of His work through the local Church.

Being a Christian is the best decision I have ever made, what about you? We all should be thankful that the Lord has allowed us to be a part of His family. There are many different people types in His family. One thing we all have in common (besides His forgiveness) is that we are all sinners, sinners saved by God’s Grace.

Pastor Bob Whitter

Special Called Business Meeting

Sunday, June 5, during the Evening Service

Vote to send Pastor Bob and Ronda as messengers to the South-

ern Baptist Convention on June 12.

Mission Friends

Will resume on Wednesday, June 8

at 6:30 pm for 4 and 5 year olds

WEEKLY SCHEDULE/GIVING

LIVE STREAMING SCHEDULE

Sunday, June 5—10 am

Sunday, June 12—10 am

Last Sunday’s Report for May 29, 2022

Required Weekly…………….........$9,714.82

Offering Received……………......$4,466.39

Designated Received………….……$941.00

Sunday Bulletin and the

monthly newsletter are online!

Go to

www.bellviewbaptistpaducah.com

Only newsletters that will be sent out are

the members with no email addresses.

VOLUNTEERS FOR THE WEEK Deacon of the Week

Randal Lambert—270-554-1781

Greeters/Welcome Center Chris & Dayna Newton| Mary Ann Karnes/Dayna Newton

FAMILY DAY 1st Sunday of the month will be Family Day.

There will be no Preschool.

Card Ministry for June —Beckie Stanley

June Ushers Ron Cunningham—Keith Hodge—Jeff Lambert

Christian Richards—David Turner

Please NO food or drinks in the Worship Center.