NC Dental Bus

Saturday, March 15

There are still some openings for fillings (6-7) and a few cleanings (2-3).

Please call the church office for more information.

March, 2014 Volume 38, Number 3

This meeting is open to ALL Baptist Men, women and students. Special features

include mission action break out sessions, mission fair exhibits, volunteer supper and mission testimonies. Program personalities

include Anne Graham Lotz, David Platt, Bryan Loritts, Leonard Sweet and music by

Christy Nockels.

A $15 per person registration fee is required for the conference. This fee covers materials packet, name tag/entry badge for

all sessions and Saturday lunch. Pre-registration is required. Registration needs

to be completed by March 7. A sign-up sheet has been posted on the bulletin board outside the office for those attending. For

more details, please go to the website: www.baptistsonmission.org/Events/

Missions-Conference.

The church extends Christian sympathy to the family and friends of Mr. Zack Line-berger. Mr. Lineberger

passed away, Saturday, February 8, 2014. He is the grandson of Jean Lineberger.

UPCOMING MARCH MISSION EMPHASIS & EVENTS

Week of Prayer for North American Missions

and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering March 2 - 9

Firmly Planted . . . Rooted in the Gospel Matthew 13:3 - 9, 18 - 23

In the scripture passage, Jesus tells the parable of

the sower. The sower spreads the seed intentionally and generously upon many types of soil, and each type yields unique results. As Southern Baptists, we are all partners in sowing the seeds and firmly planting the gospel throughout North America. NAMB missionaries are involved in planting churches dedicated to ensuring that those who hear the good news of Jesus Christ are firmly planted in the gospel and are bearing fruit. The call to sow seeds is a call we all share, but we can’t sow seeds sitting in the comfort of our homes or churches. We must sow individually and collectively with inten-tionality, and that means getting our hands dirty for the kingdom. We don’t sow only once, and we don’t choose only the choicest soils. We sow generously and widely.

The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is much more than an offering envelope and an annual missions-giving emphasis. When we give to the offering, 100% of our gifts will be transformed into missionary salaries and ministry supplies. Those missionaries and supplies will help others hear the message of Christ and respond in faith to His offer of salvation. They know that behind each penny given, there is a Southern Baptist who be-lieves in what they do and are affirming the need to equip them to share the gospel with those who need a Savior. The national goal is $70,000,000.

Support our missionaries and our church plants with your intentional partnership. Make sure you are firmly planted so you can help others be the same. Our goal for Berea this year is $5,300.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation to those women who filled the choir loft for WMU Sunday a few weeks ago. They did an

outstanding job, as did all the women who took part in the service. Thanks, ladies, for your contributions to WMU Sunday, and thank you, Tina for your organization of the service.

I know it’s hard to believe, but Easter is less than two months away, and the Chancel Choir is working on something very special for our Easter Sunday worship. It is a short musical entitled Finished, and features several well-loved Gaither songs, a few classic hymns and two original songs. If you would like to sing with us, feel free to come on Wednesday evening at 7:30pm for our Chancel Choir rehearsal. We’d love to have you!

Speaking of Easter, let me remind you that we will be having our special Holy Week services leading up to Easter Sunday on April 20. This begins, of course, with Palm Sunday Worship on April 13 at 11:00am. This will be followed by the Maundy Thursday Communion at 7:00pm

and the Good Friday Tenebrae Service, also at 7:00pm. The Easter Sunrise Service will be at 6:45am Easter Sunday followed by our annual Easter Breakfast in Faith Hall. Make your plans to join us for these special services.

I know many of you were disappointed last week with the news that the pastoral candidate selected by the search committee had withdrawn his name. However, this is no reason to lose the excitement and enthusiasm the we need during these days and weeks ahead.

Remember, we are on God’s calendar, not our own, and He knows what is best for us. As some would say, “Keep the faith,” and remember the words of the prophet Isaiah, “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” Let us continue forward, doing and seeking God’s will, as we wait upon Him to reveal His wonderful plans for us.

—Rusty

Sunday, March 9

MISSION UPDATES

WMU Sunday! February 9 was a wonderful day to focus and cel-ebrate the history, mission and ministry of WMU. Thank you to everyone that had a part in the

service, taking care of our guest and the meal to make the day so special. Our guest speaker was Mrs. Sandra Johnson, a Mission Service Corps Mis-sionary through the North American Mission Board and President and Founder of Triad Ladder of Hope in High Point NC. Sandra brought a powerful mes-sage on the problem of human trafficking and how we as a church can and should work to help stop this worldwide problem. In your bulletin was an in-sert with information about how you can be in-volved or financially support Sandra’s ministry. Please keep Sandra and Triad Ladder of Hope in your prayers. Additional copies will be located in the Narthex.

WMU Sunday was also the beginning of the Week of Prayer for the WMU NC Heck-Jones Of-fering. Offering envelopes are located in the pew racks. We will continue to collect this offering for a few more weeks. Please give to this special offering as God leads to help support the missionaries and mission efforts of WMU of NC. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE HOMEMAD VAL-ENTINE COOKIES for our Adopt-A-School Min-istry to Lake Norman High School Teachers and Staff. We received 1,600 cookies! Thank you for all the volunteers that stayed to help package them and thank you to Joyce Brinkley, our Adopt-A-School Coordinator for delivering them. BABY BOTTLE BOOMERANG UPDATE! In conjunction with Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, we distributed baby bottles for the Baby Bottle Boomerang to benefit the Community Pregnancy Center in Mooresville and their ministry to women in crisis pregnancies. On Sunday, February 16, 15 bottles were returned with donations and were de-livered to the center. Thank you for your generous giving to this ministry.

I am very excited that our Youth will be returning to Greensboro for our 3rd annual Acquire the Fire winter conference again this year. The con-ference is the best weekend our Youth will experience all year. We will be leaving on Friday afternoon

around 4:00pm and returning home around 11:00pm that night. Then we will meet at Lineberger Youth building at 7:00am for a quick biscuit and donut and head back to Greensboro on Saturday. We should be back home Saturday night around 11:00pm. The speakers and the Worship team that leads us at each session are very strong in their faith and makes a great connection with all the Youth. It is also a great time for our Youth to see thousands of other local Youth worshiping and learning more about God. The culture they live in 24/7 back here at school is so different and they really get an opportunity to see that there are so many other Youth that are sold out to Christ in their everyday walk. There is no charge for the Youth con-ference except for the lunch and dinner meals on Sat-urday.

Forgiveness is our theme for Berea Kids in March. I am very excited that our kids will be experiencing Bible stories about how relationships can be healed. They will be taught that forgiveness is deciding that someone who has wronged you doesn’t have to pay.

When we choose to forgive others, it’s a response to the great love and forgiveness God has shown us. For-giveness means letting go of what someone did to us in order to restore the relationship.

But forgiveness isn’t always a simple exchange. What if the person never apologizes? Forgive anyway. What if the person does it again? Forgive again. What if the person never changes? Keep on forgiving. By control-ling how you respond and making an alternate choice to forgive, you can delete the impact of what that per-son did to you. The monthly memory verse is: “Forgive the things you are holding against one an-other. Forgive, just as the Lord forgave you,” Co-lossians 3:13, NIrV. —Larry

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“Dymre” Nicholas & Family Carter Adams

Bill Aiken Jenny Alexander

Connie Allen William Anderson

Clifford Archer Miss Armstrong Shirley Bailey Wilma Barker Dan Barkley

Mike Barnette Geraldine Beaver

Madelyn Belk Marie Belk

Elsie Benfield Louise Benfield Johnny Benson

Peter & Rosette Bermudez Nancy Biggers

M/M Howard Bostian Jareyt and Sarina Bourg

Elizabeth Bowan Ethan Bowman

Maureen Breitigan Riley Brilliant Allen Brindisi

Pam Brinkley & Family Tosha Brinkley

Fred Brooks Susan Brooks

Randy Brotherton Cindy Brown

Edward Lee Brown Heather Brown

Jim Brown Keri Brown

Kim Brown Alyssa Brudnak

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Steve & Rhonda Chrisley Nikki Clark Nell Cline

Lorene Clodfelter James Cochrane

Gary Conway Larry Crees Joey Crisp

Jeff Crissman Marilyn Cundiff Marc Czarnecki Louise Dalton

Anna Beth Davis Corey and Tim Davis

Michael Deese Pam Doherty Sarah Dolan Dee Donko

Dwayne Draper Joyce Draper

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Allison Earhardt Bud Earl

Bob Edelen Dalton Edwards Gary Edwards

Christine & Scott Erbscholoe M/M Arthur Fant Blaine Fingado Tyler Flinner Annette Ford Dan Freeman Linda Fromal

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Dr. Chris Hall & Family Sandra Harrison

Joan Harwell Shirley Harwell Kaylin Hawks Jerry Hayes

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Robbie Hudspeth and Family M/M Ron Hughes Nancy Hummel Brenda Hunter

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Betty Martin Erin Martin Lynn Martin

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March Birthdays

1 Conrad Beam

David Beaver

Tina Buie

Joan Schmidt

Nicholas Stutts

2 Summer Meadows

4 Tim Nicholson

5 Ronald Reid

6 Doug Payseur

7 Jim Ireland

9 Tom McHouell

12 Betty Callahan

13 Lorene Clodfelter

17 Matthew Buie

19 Carl Martin

21 Marshall Hartness

22 Gayle Hathcock

23 Jean Lineberger

24 Kenneth Johnson

25 Gloria Standley

26 John Callahan

30 Stephanie Lumpkin William Pruitt

Phil Phelps

DATE NURSERY

March 2 Sandy Low Shirley Wallace

March 9 Judy Smith Robin Turpin

March 16 Lori Stutts Jerry Stutts

March 23 Jean Martin Susan Stutts

March 30 Gayle Hathcock Delores Garcia