The Good News Kilmarnock Baptist Church Newsletter

P.O. Box 99 65 East Church Street Kilmarnock, Virginia 22482 info@kilmarnockbaptist.org

June 1, 2020

Worship with Us During the coronavirus quarantine, you can join us for Sunday services via YouTube, the radio, or even by phone.

• Worship Service on YouTube

The KBC Worship Service is live on YouTube each Sunday at 11:00 am. Previous services are also on YouTube. Just type the following URL in your browser and it will take you directly to the site. Then click on the date of the service you wish to view.

www.youtube.com/user/kilmarnockbaptist

You can also go to the KBC website (kilmarnockbaptist.org) and select Click Here for Link to KBC Worship Services.

• Worship Service on the Radio (101.7 Bay FM, WKWI)

The service is also available on the radio. This service will be the prior week’s recorded service.

We hope that you will be able to access one of the broadcasts! If you have any questions, please contact a member of the Media Room Committee:

Gerald Abbott Don Headley Troy Pouchot Marty Sutherland

June Calendar June 4 - Day of Prayer (wherever you are!) June 17 - Food Pantry (donations accepted) June 23 - Primary Election Voting Site June 29 - Red Cross Blood Drive (Pre-register on-line)

The Church is Never Closed This was beautifully expressed by the Bishop-elect of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Missouri, Deon K. Johnson:

“The work of the church is essential.

The work of caring for the lonely, the

marginalized, and the oppressed is

essential.

The work of speaking truth to power and seeking justice is

essential.

The work of being a loving, liberating, and life giving

presence in the world is essential.

The work of welcoming the stranger, the refugee and the

undocumented is essential.

The work of reconciliation and healing and caring is

essential.

The church does not need to “open” because the church

never “closed”. We who make up the Body of Christ, the

church, love God and our neighbors and ourselves so much

that we will stay away from our buildings until it is safe.

We are the church."

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New Office and Building Protocols We are glad to report that persons are generally observing recommended safety measures when they visit the church office. It is not only wise, but necessary, especially when considering some of the previous conditions and general health issues of staff and volunteers which would compromise their body's response if they became infected with COVID-19. So, please do not be offended if we remind you of certain reasonable protocols, but rather as an invitation to prove sympathetic and helpful.

• It would be helpful if you contact the office before visiting. Much might be accomplished over the phone, shorten the duration of your visit and, if the virus is present, minimize the exposure.

• If you haven't had the opportunity, please, first visit our restrooms where you can wash your hands and face.

• If you spy a bottle of hand sanitizer, please take that as an invitation to use it.

• Please wear a mask. • Avoid shaking hands or hugging. • Cover coughs and sneezes. • Attempt to maintain the six-foot

social distancing recommendation made by all medical authorities. That would mean, for instance, not entering the ministry assistant office unless invited.

• Naturally, staff will be required to clean surfaces frequently and at the close of business day, including chairs, desks, tables, counters, door handles, phones, computer keys, rest rooms and more. So, help where you can.

When we elect to reconvene, whether on a trial basis, or for limited or full gatherings, please attempt to keep these protocols in mind and continue to support them. Prevention will still be the most important measure we can take.

We are, after all, instructed by the Apostle Paul to seek the advantage of others (I Corinthians 10: 24).

Dear Ones, Graduations are upon us – if a bit different this year – but it has me thinking what this is about.

If you will be kind enough to accept an opinion, I think something essential has been lost in the sense that an education is not only 1) an attainment, but also 2) skills learned, in order to 3) keep learning. Years ago, the journalist Jim Lehrer spoke at the graduation at Southern Methodist University and here are a few paragraphs.

I urge you to please keep in mind what the diploma

you are about to receive does not mean. It does not

mean you are well educated. Quite the contrary. It

means, I hope, that you have been opened up to a

perpetual state of ignorance and thus a lifelong

hunger for…more ideas, more good words, more

knowledge, more good thoughts, more challenges,

more of everything. I must tell you that some of the

dumbest people I know went to great, prestigious

colleges and universities like Southern Methodist

University. They walked across a stage like this, took

their diplomas in their hot little hands, pronounced

themselves well-educated, then walked off…and

proceeded to never read another book, entertain

another fresh idea, or tax their minds in any way

beyond the minimum limits required to make a living

or make it socially, or both. (Chronicle of Higher Education, May 31, 1989.)

I kept Lehrer’s remarks because it’s not a bad thing for those of us who are further along to assess how it’s going.

In point of fact, the purpose of the church is, according to Jesus, first, making disciples, and, only then going into the world with a gospel. Yet, I can’t imagine he meant one course and then out you go, boot camp and then immediately world peace, one swing and then the batting title, one sermon and a call to deliver the Lyman Beecher lectures, a certificate from the primary department of the Sunday School and then this world becomes the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.

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With a smile on my face, it occurs to me that we are preparing believers for a lifetime career in sainthood. I know, I know, it is been a long time since you were tempted to think of yourself as a saint, but forget the Catholic version. Sainthood understood the Lehrer way simply means to learn continuously to do what Jesus did.

The One Who called you means to prepare you for every situation for every season in your life for the sake of God’s purposes. Don’t skip Christ’s vocational education classes. Did you ever stop to think that the reason the church of Jesus Christ is struggling these days is not because of the world, but that we are ill-equipped to be saints?

There is much yet to learn.

I remember someone summing up graduate school for me as “simply preparation to join the conversation of a circle of those who really are in the know.” Don’t consider yourself graduated. Consider yourself as being prepared to join an on-going conversation with “those in the know” in the school of Christ.

The best is yet to be.

You know what to do. Abide in Christ and his company of fellow learners.

JIM

June Birthdays

1 Ethan Raymond 13 Gerald Abbott 13 Linda Small 16 Jennifer Riley 27 Howard Demory

Woman’s Missionary Union WMU Members:

Brenda Iverson from HopeTree Family Services was supposed to come to our meeting on June 9 to present a Certificate of Appreciation for the gifts sent over the last 27 years and to also update us about the changes made to the children's home. I have emailed her about rescheduling her visit for September or October.

- Karen Cox

KBC Food Pantry The KBC Food Pantry continued with the drive-thru process of distributing food to food insecure families in May. The process works well and allows for social distancing. Face masks, hand sanitizer and gloves are all available to the volunteers.

We distributed food to 55 households which included 123 individuals. In addition, we are now receiving 55 “senior boxes” for those seniors over 60 years of age and meeting income guidelines. These boxes include an additional 35 pounds of food (low sodium canned vegetables, fruits, shelf-stable milk, tuna fish, peanut butter, oatmeal, juices. cheese). In total, we distributed 8,000 pounds of food in May!!!

The pantry also distributed 120 bags of food for the Backpack Buddies Program and activity packs donated from the Lancaster Community Library.

In June, the pantry expects to receive food through a new USDA program, Corona Food Assistance Program (CFAP). This program helps keep farmers across the nation from losing good produce during the epidemic. The USDA, with assistance from various companies, has put together 23-pound boxes of a good variety of produce such as potatoes, apples, carrots, yams, lettuce, oranges and onions. Also, the pantry expects to start seeing more dairy products through this program.

The food pantry is so blessed by the wonderful volunteers who support this mission every month. We also want to thank all of you who provide monetary or food donations,

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along with plastic bags and handled paper bags. This only works because of all the support from you!!!

Lynnie and Collette Bagging Groceries

Peggy Bagging in Her Area

Lynnie, Collette, Susan and Jessie Delivering to Cars

Winnie - the Meat Man

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Cemetery Committee The Cemetery Committee has been hard at work honoring our veterans resting at Woodlawn Cemetery. The flag was flown at half-staff on Memorial Day.

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We want to wish Mike and Judy a Happy 50th Anniversary! They were married at Calvary Baptist Church in Roanoke, VA on June 20, 1970. What a beautiful couple!

Happy 50th Wedding Anniversary to Mike and Judy Kelley!!

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Building and Grounds Maintenance While we’ve been away from the church building, Steve Tevault, Rick Ferrell and Jim Johnson have again been working hard on building improvements, including cleaning and reflooring the storage closet in Beane Hall, and installing new ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) compliant toilets in the educational wing off the Fellowship Hall. This means toilets are taller by several inches, helping those for whom getting up and down is difficult.

Recent Memorial Gifts General Fund: Janice S. Shanks, Mr. & Mrs. John Roberts, Nancy Wetherington, Mary Jane Gemmell and Courtney A. Meyers in memory of Jim Harnsberger Mr. & Mrs. Oliver Crane, Janet Marshall, Ed & Quin Holden, Augusta Sellew, Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Atkinson, Mr. & Mrs. David Whitlow, Frances Ohls, and Kaye Daniel in memory of Carolyn Coates Debby Sachen in memory of Loved Ones Karen B. Frye in memory of Peggy Davis Food Pantry Mr. & Mrs. Warren Sutherland in Memory of Carolyn Coates Building Renovation Pat Ramey in memory of Pat Kirby, Virginia Kelley, James Conley, Jim Harnsberger and Ron Klein

Send Us Your Pictures!

Let’s reconnect! For next month’s newsletter, send me an old picture. It can be you as a child or young adult. It can be a portrait, an action shot, a wedding picture--your pick. We’ll post the pictures in the newsletter and have everyone try to guess who it is.

If you don’t have an electronic version, take a snapshot with your camera and send that.

I already have mine picked out! Send your pictures to me at cgferrell@bellsouth.net.

Can’t wait!

Cindy

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Jim Johnson, Pastor Elaine Johnson, Music Director

Janet Marshall, Ministry Assistant Mary Ann Crane, Organist

Lori Eanes, Pianist

Church Office Hours: Monday – Thursday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Phone: 804-435-1703

Website: www.kilmarnockbaptist.org Email: info@kilmarnockbaptist.org

Sunday Mornings:

Sunday School @ 9:45 am Worship @ 11:00 am