MONTHLY POTLUCK & QUARTERLY CHURCH REVIEW on Wed. 24th ~ 6:00 PM Don’t miss this last Quarterly Meet-ing of our Church year 2012-2013 All members

are urged to attend and, as always, visitors are welcome to come and hear all the excit-ing things happening at First Baptist Church of Glendale.

WHEN WE REACHOUT

WITH LOVE…

WE SHARE JESUS

WITH OUR

COMMUNITY & IT

IS FUN!!! Experience it for yourself. Join FBCG @ this event!

We will be sharing God's love to peo-ple at the car show through our smil-ing faces and free water at our church booth. With over 400 Pre-79 cars on display and live entertain-ment, it makes this outreach oppor-tunity fun for all ages.

Please contact Pastor Matt if interested.

Vol. 85 SUNDAY, July 14, 2013 No. 41

THE

HERALD of the First Baptist Church of Glendale, California

“The Lord is my light and my salvation.” ~ Psalm 27:1

PERIODICAL

DATED MATERIAL

DO NOT DELAY

2013 Church Text:

-Where your presence and support matters more than ever!

CHURCH-WIDE PULLED PORK LUNCH

On July 21st after worship, our youth & children will be serving a pulled pork meal to the entire church to raise support for

the renovation of their new upstairs class-rooms. We welcome all to attend this yum-

my meal, plus Miguel Gutierrez will be selling some of his most famous peppers.

(Donations encouraged!)

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THE HERALD (USPS 775140)

THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 209 North Louise Street

Glendale; California 91206 Phone (818) 242-2113; Fax (818) 242-2995

Website: www.fbcglendale.net

Periodical postage paid at Glendale, California POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: The Herald 209 North Louise Street, Glendale, CA 91206

Rev. Charles L. Updike …...………Senior Pastor Rev. Matt Andrews……………..Associate Pastor Rev. Emily S. Andrews….Worship & Music Pastor Anahit Rostomyan……………...Church Organist Susanna Kwon…………………................Pianist Gayle Stockon...………………………..Moderator Judi Cline………...………………….Church Clerk Spencer Brandriff ……………………...Treasurer Miguel Gutierrez………………Deacon Chairman Teena Frazier ………...…Accounts Administrator Fancy Nuque ………....Herald Editor & Secretary Ron Smith ……………………..Church Custodian Ted Pape, CAGO…………….Organist Emeritus

MISSIONARY PARTNERS Glen & Rita Chapman …….Dem. Rep. of Congo Wayne & Katherine Niles …Dem. Rep. of Congo Deborah's House…………..……Baja, California Hopi Outreach………..…………………..Arizona Aaron & Stephanie Glenn….....CBF Field Reps L.A. Josh & Caroline Smith ……………..South Africa

JULY 7, 2013

ATTENDANCE * Sunday School - 24 * Worship Service - 90

THIS WEEK AT FBC GLENDALE

Sunday, July 14 9:30am - Sunday School for all ages

10:30am - Coffee Fellowship 10:30am - Personal Prayer – Chapel

11:00am - Worship Service 6530pm - Young Adults Life Group

Monday, July 15 7:00pm - Bible Study Class: “The Poli-

tics of Jesus” led by Ryan Newson

Tuesday, July 16 6:30pm -Intergenerational Life Group

Wednesday, July 17 12:10pm - Free Noon Concert 6:00pm - Youth Movie Mania

6:30pm - Prayer Meeting 7:30pm - Choir Practice

Thursday, July 18 6:30pm - Finance and Assets Team Mtg.

Saturday, July 20 5:30pm - Cruise Night

¶ PASTOR’S PARAGRAPHS

Sharon and I returned feeling restored in body and spirit after being in both our home towns visiting family and old friends. While I have often visited Columbus Ohio where Sharon grew up, I have not been back to my

hometown of Frankfort, Kentucky since the early nineties. I visited the place where I grew up and became reconnected to a cousin I haven’t seen in years. I felt a special feeling when I drove by the First Baptist Church of Frankfort, KY where I was baptized and then later ordained to the gospel ministry forty years ago next month. While in Kentucky, we visited Bardstown and enjoyed an outdoor drama based on the life and music of Stephen Foster. All of it was a thrill and so good to walk the sidewalks of my younger years. Happily, the city has done a mag-nificent job of preserving the history, character and beauty of the city. Our son Craig, called this the “Nostalgia Tour.” And certainly, it felt that way. There is something so good about connecting to our roots and letting the nourishment of deep roots feed us. It is true in our church as well. Our 109 years is continually a wellspring of nourishment and encour-agement for the future. God has again and again enabled us to see goodness and grace in this place. You are all very special to our family and our years here continue to saturated with fulfilling ministry. I’m so glad that God called us to this place as our last place of full time pastoral ministry. As we continue through the summer months together as pastor and people, I am ex-cited about all God is preparing for this ministry beyond our years with you in a pastoral role. As I return from vacation, I am aware of how blessed we are as a church to see all kinds of new things happening and emerging. I have looked at the new rooms for children’s classes and gym floor and see how, even in the summer our attendance continues to grow and I’m so grateful for all God is doing here. During vacation, I was aware of how much Matt and Emily’s leadership and commitment have added to our effectiveness in outreach and worship. They bring such vitality and wisdom beyond their years. Thanks Matt and Emily for a great VBS...and for a wonderful VBS celebration service...great idea...wish I could have been here for that! Looking forward to Cruise Night Outreach, our beach days with the kids from our VBS and church plus enjoying this summer with you all!

Summer blessings to each of you!

Link to our group on website.

YOUNG ADULTS BBQ @ THE ANDREWS' HOUSE

On Sunday July 14th at 5:30pm, young adults are invited

to the Andrews house for some good ol' fashion BBQ. Friends and family are welcome, as well. Please

bring $6/person to help pay for the meal. Con-tact Pastor Matt if you would

like to attend.

Our spiritual growth would be stifled, if uniformity were our goal. Our congregation’s life would grow monotonous.

Thankfully the love of Christ is our goal at FBC Glendale. Be-cause of this, people from all different walks of life are at-tracted to our church. They are seeing a congregation united in Christ that above all else is to committed extravagant love. They are seeing a church that will actively support and guide them as they grow in their faith.

A clear sign of a healthy, grow-ing, and biblical church is one that cultivates diversity. That is

what we are do-ing at FBC Glen-dale, and you should be ex-tremely proud of that.

~Pastor Matt

In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity. (Anonymous)

I don’t know if you’ve realized it yet, but we are a diverse congregation. It is a unique blessing to look around the sanctuary on any given Sun-day and see people from all walks of life—African Ameri-can, Guatemalan, Anglo Sax-on, Chinese, Indian, Filipino, Latino, Armenian…I could keep going. We’re also diverse in our giftedness, with mem-bers coming from various oc-cupational and educational backgrounds. Finally, we are a theologically diverse congrega-tion, with God-fearing individ-uals who share differing per-spectives on how God and the church relate to our world. All

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PASTOR MATT’S MEDITATIONS

that diversity under one roof! Can you believe it?

I cannot emphasize enough how special this diversity makes our church. Coming from churches in the South where Sundays can be the most segregated day of the week, it is most refreshing for me to know that Sundays at our church can be the most united day of the week. Diver-sity within a church shows that the congregation is united under Christ. Diversity, in fact, is a fruit of unity. A church united under Christ follows Paul’s advice to the congrega-tion of Colossae. Above all oth-er Christian virtues, they “…put on love, which binds them all together in perfect uni-ty.” (Col. 3:14) Notice it is not uniformity that binds us to-gether in perfect unity. How boring would it be to go to a church where everyone looked, talked, and thought the same?

Inter- generational Life

Group July 16th at 6:30pm in the

Norman Room

YOUTH MOVIE MANIA

Every Wednesday in July at 6pm, our youth will grab some pop-corn and watch a movie together in the church coffeehouse.

BEACH TRIP—If you missed it last time, another one is coming up next Thursday, the 25th (9:00am-4:00pm) But if you came before, you can still join and once again, experience this summer fun. Remember, you can bring the whole family!

“If Jesus Is Truly Lord…”

Discipleship Class

@ 7:00pm on Mondays

led by Ryan Newson

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Let us help peo-

ple in our community

who are in need of food. We are working to keep our supplies up to the need. If you have canned goods or any you want to pur-chase for our food pantry please bring them to the church. We especially need canned fruits and meat! Our deacons Miriam & Miguel Gutierrez are head-ing this drive. THANKS!

This is our region’s Annual Meeting.

Juanita Crosby, beloved mother of

Charles Crosby passed away on July 2,

2013. Our love and prayers goes with

Charles, Cindy and the rest of the family.

VBS COLLABORATION

NEAR AND ABROAD

Our church has donated many of its VBS supplies to our friends at the Armenian

Evangelical Brethren Church in Glendale. They will be doing Kingdom

Rock as well this year, July 22-26! We donated the rest of our VBS supplies to Pastor Caroline in South Africa. FBCG’s

VBS impact will also be reaching the Philippines. Inspired by what they had witnessed here, in November, Fancy

Nuque with Ed, her husband will be hav-ing their own “Community Block Party” in their hometown in the Philippines. In fact they will be using some of the game

materials we had used.

Our VBS is touching lives all

across the world!

GYM FLOOR SHINES

ANEW

As you can noticed our

gym was closed on the

first week of this month

for a much needed refin-

ishing work. This maintenance job needs to

be done from time to time to keep our gym

usable for a long, long time.

FBCG IS GUEST CHEF @ ASCENCIA

NEXT THURSDAY, JULY 25th

Ascencia is one of our mission part-ners that helps those trying to over-come homelessness. We are in charge of cooking and serving dinner to their guests. Dinner is served at 6pm. This is every 4th Thursday and this month it falls on the 25th. If you’re able to help, please contact Pastor Matt @ 818-242-2113 ext. 12.