SUNDAY, January 27, 2013

        

         OUR NEW WEBSITE is www.boothbaybaptist.com.  Check it out!        

        

         CONGRATULATIONS to Renée and Joe Lefebvre on the birth of

         their daughter Ella Brynn Lefebvre, born Jan. 20 at Penn. Bay Hospital,

         weighing 6 lbs, 7 oz, 19.75” long.  She joins her big brother Noah.

 

         COMING EVENTS – MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP Saturday, Feb. 2, 10:00 a.m. – noon.  The Porters of Child Evangelism Fellowship will be here to conduct a workshop for any and all who work with children. Snow date is Saturday, Feb. 16, same time.

 

A LADIES’ SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS will start Sunday, Feb. 3, in the annex meeting room with Meredith Fowlie leading. “With God being the Author of love and the Creator of marriage, it’s fitting that He would have a plan for our marriages. In this study women will learn that by carefully studying the Bible and adopting a willingness to follow its principles, instructions and examples, they can begin to experience all that God intended for their marriage. Women can begin to build or rekindle their marriage according to His design. This 8-week study offers practical insights for women seeking to be godly wives.”

 

Glory of God Astronomy Evening Saturday, February 2, 6-8 p.m.  Bring your binoculars or telescope, bundle up warm, and bring the family to the lower parking lot for a fun and inspiring evening of viewing the stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and beautiful constellations that God had created to show His glory! Maybe we’ll even see a shooting star or two! You’ll be amazed at what’s up there! We will have hot chocolate and goodies available inside. Contact Fay Christy 633-9872. (Cloud date is Saturday, February 9.)

 

THE MINISTRY MAPPING Project will involve a survey that all members and regular attendees are asked to fill out. This anonymous survey will be available on the internet Feb. 3-18; paper copies will also be available in church.  Also, focus groups will be organized to meet with consultants during their site visit here Feb. 28 – March 3. Stay tuned for more details!

 

 FIRST AID CLASS.  Dr. Daniel Bates will conduct another First Aid Class for anyone and everyone in the church on Friday evening, Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.  All who work with children are urged to attend this valuable – but free – class! Please sign up so we will have an idea of how many will participate.

 

The Care Net baby bottles for donations are due back in church on Sunday, Feb. 24.

 

MISSIONARY NEWS

From Paul and Miriam Beliasov, Salatiga, Indonesia ~

 

   …God continues to settle us here in our new country of Indonesia in many different ways.  We had been praying and searching for a car, and right before Christmas we were able to find the perfect car for our family. Through the help of a local man, we were able to get a used car that was in good condition.  So, now we are free to explore, learn about and discover more about the people and places of Indonesia.  Another thing that we had been praying for was a pre-school for Nadia and Miriam to join in January.  After some searching, Miriam settled on a very local Indonesian pre-school.  It uses very little English so Nadia and Miriam are plunged into full Bahasa Indonesian 3 times a week for 2 hours.  We are just entering our 2^nd week of pre-school and thus far Nadia has enjoyed it, so pray that it stays that way.  Many moms hang out and wait for their kids so it is no problem that Miriam is doing the same.

Miriam continues in language school 5 days a week.

 

     Over the Christmas break, we wanted to go somewhere for a few days where we would really have to use Indonesian. Two of Paul’s students’ parents (Korean missionaries) run an orphanage a five hours drive from Salatiga.  So we arranged with them to go for a visit and had a most wonderful time.   The House of Boaz takes care of 32 Indonesian children.  It was delightful to spend time with those kids. Noah loved feeding the little 2-3 year olds their rice every evening.  It was great to see Noah and Noelle relax and play with the kids even though they can’t really speak their language; but all kids speak the language of “play.”  Nadia…well, she joined in without any problem and had a blast.  We had 3 days of only Bahasa as the Koreans didn’t know much English themselves.

 

To be continued next week.

SUNDAY, January 13, 2013

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TODAY: There is a ten-minute meeting right after church today for all those who work with children here in any capacity: in the nursery or infant room, Sunday School, Junior Church, Word of Life, Vacation Bible School, etc.  If you know of child or youth worker not present today, please pass the word that they need to see Mary Ann Nash.

 

THIS WEEK: Quarterly Business Meeting Thursday, Jan. 17, 6:30 p.m.  Reports are due to Secretary Robin by this Tuesday, Jan. 15.  Please email them to the above address.

 

THIS WEEK: Family Potluck Supper & Game Night Friday, Jan. 18, 6-8 p.m.  Bring family, friends and food!  Also, bring your favorite game to play.  Tables will be set up for kids and for adults to play.  Come out and have some fun on a winter’s night!  For more information, speak to Karen Lawless.

 

CONGRATULATIONS to Kim and Mike Hilgendorf on the birth of their son Dakota Michael, born Jan. 3, weighing 7 lbs, 3 oz, measuring 20” long.  He joins brother Demetrius and sister Morgan and has already been to church! Congratulations also to grandparents Dick & Diane Crocker and all the Crocker family.

 

COMING EVENTS – MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

TEACHERS’ WORKSHOP Saturday, Feb. 2, 10:00 a.m. – noon.  The Porters of Child Evangelism Fellowship will be here to conduct a workshop for any and all who work with children in Sunday School, Junior Church, Vacation Bible School, etc.  Snow date is Saturday, Feb. 16, same time.

 

A LADIES‘ SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS will start Sunday, Feb. 3, with Meredith Roberts Fowlie teaching.  Watch for further details!

 

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and

 the firmament shows His handiwork.”

Glory of God Evening – Astronomy Eve!

Saturday, February 2, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.  Come join us!

       Bring your binoculars or telescope, bundle up warm, and bring the family to the lower parking lot of the Boothbay Baptist Church for a fun and inspiring evening of viewing the stars, planets, galaxies, nebula and beautiful constellations that God had created to show His glory! Maybe we’ll even see a shooting star or two! You’ll be amazed at what’s up there!    (Cloud date: Sat. February 9.)   We will have hot chocolate and goodies available in the warm fellowship hall. Contact Fay Christy 633-9872.

 

BIG THANK-YOU’S go to:

                Alan Reed and Tim Rand for laying the paver walkway outside the side entrance to the 999B meeting room;

               Tim Rand and Tim Beck for installing two new windows and replacing rotten wall and woodwork in the church foyer;

               Pam Kamen, Nancy Van Dyke, Mary Ann Nash, Vickie Pinkham, Martha Reed, Shirley Brown, Alan Reed, Gary Pinkham II, and Tim Beck for helping to decorate and un-decorate the church for Christmas;

               All those who plow, shovel, and sand the lots, walks and entries.

                  The church family appreciates the time and labor many folks dedicate as volunteers to the upkeep of God’s house.

                     Therefore [we] … do not cease to give thanks for you…  Eph. 1:15-16

           

             Winter Sunset

Amid the bleak and dreary scene

That Winter brings to my backyard,

I still find rosy, warming hope

As Winter’s sunset I regard.

The vivid pink and scarlet cape

Flung wide across the western sky,

Restores in me the confidence

That even Winter passes by.

God’s flawless cycles of the year

Will waken Springtime, come next May;

While roses, sweet, unfold their bloom

My Winter thoughts get stored away.

                       ̶ Devin R. Jones

 

SUNDAY, January 6, 2013

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

        

 COMING: Quarterly Business Meeting Jan. 17, 6:30 p.m.  Reports are

due to Secretary Robin by Jan. 15.  Please email them to the above address.

 

   

    MISSIONARY NEWS

    From Tim & Nancy Pierce, Brazil ~

    Dear Praying Friends,

            Merry Christmas to you!  We pray that your days will be filled with joy as you celebrate the birth of our Savior with family and friends. This past weekend was so exciting for us, especially when Laurie walked out of the arrivals door at the airport!

            Thank you so much for your prayers for our meeting with the pastor and deacons of Igreja Batista Regular em Curio.  We enjoyed having them come for dinner and then the meeting which was very encouraging and helpful.  We asked for the help of a young man who feels called into the ministry and has been waiting to go to seminary, and also for help with the music. Little did we realize that a week and a half later the church would vote to send Renato to seminary!  Praise the Lord he can go, but please pray the Lord would provide someone else to work beside us as we start this new ministry.  We also discussed starting with a Children’s Bible club, and this past Saturday we kicked off the Children’s Bible club with a Christmas Party for children in the area. We handed out one notice/invitation for the party to a child on the street, and that’s all it took for the doorbell to begin ringing continuously!  Praise the Lord for the 48 children that came and the great time we had!  We’re kicking ourselves for forgetting the camera so you could see

how everything went.  During the party, parents were hanging around our open gate to see what was happening; and Nancy had a great opportunity to speak with the 15 to 20 parents, get to know some of their names, and just extend a friendly welcome to them.  We will begin a regular weekly Bible Club Jan. 12.  During January and February, we are hoping to “officially” meet the parents and hope to start an Adult Bible Study shortly after that. Please pray for open hearts!  We know the Lord goes before us and He works in hearts.

            When things are going well, Satan is not happy.  Several things have been happening, and we would appreciate your prayers.  One item is the registration of our car.  When we went to transfer the registration, I found out there was an outstanding fine on the car from before we bought the car.  As soon I found out about the fine, I notified the dealer, and he promised to take care of it.  The dealer delayed paying the fine until yesterday.  With some other complications, I now have to wait until Jan. 15^th until we can transfer it to our name.  There may be other complications (and possibly a fine) for the delay, but even in this the Lord is in control.  Pray everything goes well on the 15^th so we can drive the car free and clear.  Satan is working overtime.  Yesterday, Nancy went to pick up a pan of boiling water, as she has done thousands of times before when doing dishes.  The handle slipped just enough to splash boiling water on her.  She has a nasty burn with blisters on her stomach but it is feeling a little better today.

            How we praise the Lord for our Savior, Jesus Christ who came and died to give us eternal life.  How we look forward to seeing Him face to face.  As I write this, tomorrow is supposed to be the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar.  Praise the Lord we serve a wonderful God who is in control, and His timing is perfect in everything.  Thank you for your prayers and support that make it possible to serve our Savior until He returns! 

                                                                                 In Christ,

Tim & Nancy

SUNDAY, December 30, 2012

Happy New Year!

        

New Year’s Eve Service

TOMORROW NIGHT, Dec. 31, 6:30 p.m. there will be a New Year’s Eve service with music, the reading of the book of Revelation, and snacks to follow.

 

COMING: Quarterly Business Meeting Jan. 17, 2013.  Reports are due to Secretary Robin by Jan. 15.  Please email them to the above address.

 

    MISSIONARY NEWS

    From Danny & Shirley Guimond (New Tribes Mission, Arizona) ~

    Dear Fellow Partners,

         How good it is to know how many of you pray and give so others can hear the good news of Jesus Christ.  We are happy to have two families in training.  For the next nine months these pilots will be training to land and take off on very short air strips. This will help them to bring missionaries in to very remote locations around the world.  There are also three more pilots coming in January to be evaluated. They are put through an intense flying procedure to see if they have the qualifications to become bush pilots for the mission. We are in need of pilots at this time in Papua, New Guinea. Please be in prayer with us as we train the pilots that they will soon be in the ministry God has for them.

      On a more personal note, Danny’s mother went to be with our Lord in September.  She had a stroke and was not able to recover. Danny was able to be with her for a few days until the Lord took her home. The good news through this is Danny’s father became a child of God. Through this difficult time of seeing his wife of 68 years dying, Danny’s youngest brother had the privilege of leading him to the Lord. We believe that this is the last thing that she heard when she went home to be with the Lord. Praise!  …

          Our year is rapidly coming to a close and we want to take this time to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and posperous New Year for our deserving God.  Matthew 1:23 “Behold the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son and they shall call his name Immanuel, which, being interpreted, is God with us.”

          We want to thank you all for your continued prayers and finances through this year and next as well. Without the people of God praying and giving it is impossible to reach the unreached in different parts of the world.  We all have our part in spreading the gospel at home and abroad.                   In Christ,

                                                                        Danny & Shirley Guimond                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

    From Frank Carmical, Harvester Ministries, Lafayette, LA (excerpt) ~

         After my brief journey with cancer in the fall of 2011, God has blessed me with good health most of this past year. However, the week I was scheduled to leave for the big conference in Ecuador, I began to experience severe stomach and abdominal pains. A night in the local ER and multiple tests have failed to find a physical cause. At the moment, stress and anxiety are the tentative medical explanations. I was unable to fly to Ecuador because of the pain.

     I called the leaders of the South American pastor’s conference 48 hours out to let them know I’d not be able to make it. But God led us together to come up with an alternate plan: My recent Genesis videos (which anyone can watch at Vimeo.com) have the Powerpoint slides embedded into the upper corner of the video. Watching the videos is like sitting in church watching me! The conference leaders in Ecuador projected these videos on a big screen during the conference in place of my live sessions and got a seasoned missionary to translate them into Spanish. Partly because of the novelty of the format and the excellence of the production values, but mostly because God has blessed this series, my videos were the surprise hit of the conference! The consensus written by pastors in the evaluations at the end of the conference was that this was the best Genesis series they’d ever heard! While I was extremely ill in Lafayette, my “virtual” self, teaching via the Internet, was more popular than if I’d I been there in person live!  Only the Lord could take the defeat of missing the trip and turn it into a victory like this!   
      As soon as the Ecuador conference was over and pastors returned to their respective South American countries, I began getting email requests from churches asking if they could also play my audio Daniel series and project my videos of Galatians and Genesis on the big screen in their churches. There is a hunger and need across Latin America and the world for verse-by-verse Bible preaching that has simple evangelistic and discipleship challenges like I do. Reports are coming in from across Latin America that people love these videos! Whole congregations are watching me! So, without my even planning this, God has opened a new door for me to preach to ordinary Christians and unbelievers across the world. Again, what’s so cool is that I’m not pastoring a mega-church to do this. I’m just the guest missionary speaker in a small church in a small town. This opens the door once again for Lafayette Bible Chapel to become a model for other small churches to use their pulpit ministry to do strategic mission work overseas and at a fraction of the cost of sending full-time workers or mission trips to the field! The numbers coming in blow me away: In my last year of travel championing the vision of children and youth, God enabled me to preach and teach to 10,000 people. In just a few weeks, I have already gotten reports that 50,000 people have watched these Genesis videos. That’s 5 times as many people as I spoke to at the height of 4-14, and much more economically! So you can see the exponential outreach potential for this Internet-based ministry far outstrips what I was ever able to do in person!

  [Pray for Frank’s health, family and financial issues, and his ministry.]

SUNDAY, December 16, 2012

              Christmas Love Baskets

We will gather at 9 a.m. this Friday, December 21, in the Fellowship Hall

and put together 15 baskets of Christmas goodies to deliver to public servants in our community who have to work during the holidays. Please bring homemade breads, cookies, Christmas candies and/or cards, decorations.  We will all go out to deliver them and sing Christmas carols.  Bring children, friends, anyone who would like to help! For more information, call Fay Christy.

 

Family Supper & Movie Night

THIS FRIDAY NIGHT, Dec. 21, at 5:30 p.m., everyone is invited to come out for an evening as a family to enjoy a soup-and-salad supper followed by a showing of The Nativity, a beautiful dramatization of the Christmas story.  Please bring a soup or salad and breads to share.  Volunteers are needed to care for children under 5 during the movie; please speak to Caroline Roberts.

 

Christmas Eve Service

On Monday, Dec. 24, 6:30 p.m. our church will host a joint Service of Carols and Candles with the Boothbay Region Community Fellowship.  Bring family and friends for a meaningful time of worship of Emmanuel, God with us, as a shepherd offers an eye witness narrative that takes us to the place where Jesus is born.  Children will be invited up front to sing Happy Birthday to Jesus and enjoy birthday cake afterward.

 

Take Them A Meal

    In an effort to show Christ’s love, members are taking meals to David & Jen Bryer and their two children on Barter’s Island. Jen is a young mom suffering with cancer, a challenging trial for the family.  If you can help, go to takethemameal.com, enter “Bryer” and “Jen” as the password, and then sign up for a date that works for you.  Their address and phone number are on the     website. The family is blessed by and very appreciative of these meals.

“For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given.” ~ Isaiah 9:6

Dear Church Family,

     Christmas Day marks six months since Ray went home to be with Jesus. Remember Ray? (I think he is spending his first Christmas in many years with his mother whom he always missed so much.)

     This has been a painful, grueling journey for me in new, unwanted, and unfamiliar territory, and one from which I will never recover, but there have been blessings and much grace from God as well. I am so thankful for God’s salvation because I will see Jesus and Ray one day soon. God will redeem my tears with joy.

     I want to thank you for being there for me (at all hours), for all the help with the house and truck, for your patience, and for not trying to “fix” me, for not telling me to “get over it and get on with my life” – but for letting me cry when I need to, and for encouraging me to press on in the Lord. I know it’s been awkward for some – at a loss for words – but thank you for trying. It means a lot. Thank you for including me in your plans even though I am not a ‘couple’ anymore. Thank you for holding me accountable not to be absorbed in a “self-pity party.”  Thank you for encouraging me in Through the Fire Ministries – to keep going. Thank you for your prayers that wash over me like a gentle rain.

     I hope as time goes on to use my deep sorrow and sadness, together with hope and grace from the Lord, to help others who go through their own “dark night of the soul.”

     May God bless you and yours in this beautiful Christmas season with Jesus Himself – the Hope of Heaven.

                                                                   In Christ’s great love,

                                                                   Fay

                                                                   Through the Fire Ministries

 

The BBC website is under construction. If you have ideas or suggestions, please call Jason Schlosser, 837-7484, or email him at Jason@newageninn.com.

 

MISSIONARY NEWS

Retired missionary Donald Taber, whom our church supported for many years, went home to be with the Lord on November 4.  He was 86.  He and his wife Polly served with ABWE as missionaries among the tribal people of northern Luzon, the Philippines, for 40 years.  A funeral service was held on Nov. 8 at the Fellowship Bible Church in Longview, Texas.

SUNDAY, December 9, 2012

        

 One Bethlehem Night

TONIGHT! at 6:00 p.m.: Members or our church and the Boothbay Region Community Fellowship present One Bethlehem Night,a retelling of the Nativity story in music, drama, dance and humor.  Directed by Becky Roberts, it is being performed ONE NIGHT ONLY (storm date is Sunday, Dec. 16). Invite family and friends to this special evening of entertainment as we celebrate the reason for the season and proclaim the good news of Immanuel, God with us. 

 

Christmas Love Baskets

 The church will again create several baskets of homemade Christmas goodies and deliver them to our local emergency personnel who have to work during the holiday – police, fire, ambulance, hospital, Coast Guard, bridgetender, et al. We will gather at 9 a.m. on Friday, December 21, in the Fellowship Hall and put 15 baskets together while enjoying hot chocolate and hot cider.  Please bring homemade breads, cookies, Christmas candies and/or cards, decorations (no Santa’s, please).  We will all go out to deliver them and sing Christmas carols.  Bring children, friends, anyone who would like to help!  For more information, call Fay Christy.

 

 Christmas Eve Service

Monday, Dec. 24, 6:30 p.m. our church will be the site of a joint Service of Carols and Candles with the Boothbay Region Community Fellowship.  Bring family and house guests for a meaningful time of worship of Emmanuel, God with us, as a shepherd, a real eye witness, takes us to the place where Jesus is born.

MISSIONARY NEWS

   From Paul and Jan Bothwell, Missions Door, Boston ~

Here’s a way to get a pretty stunning look at the wonders of what God is doing through City Church Movements in Greater Boston. Recently, 10 adults from a nearby supporting church, as part of their Missions Conference, came to Boston for a Sunday afternoon new-church site visit. We met them at the first church, stayed for part of the service, then traveled together to see three more young churches… Four churches in one day, four languages, four miracles:

     Iglesia Comunidad de South End (Spanish) is a new Spanish congregation of the South End Church, whose founding 40 years ago started our church-planting movement. God gave us Pastor José Flores from a prior church to launch this new congregation. He gathers and nurtures Hispanics from the Villa Victoria Housing Coop next door, people ready and eager for God!

     Ziah Mission Church (Liberian refugees; language: Dan) meets in a refurbished garage/chop-shop/thrift shop, now painted with murals and hope.  We heard from Pastor Torli Krua of his own journey as “African Missionary to America,” his calling to  develop young African leaders (both here and abroad) to rebuild nations, and then [heard] from Hawa, a refugee and (miraculous) formerly Muslim believer who works to lead others like herself to Christ.

     Quincy Street Missional Church (African-American/white) meets in the same location.  Pastored by Ralph Kee, this church focuses on deep, costly ministry among high-risk youth and adults, all of whom live within about two blocks of the church.  It brings hope, healing, and determination to “develop leaders within the Quincy Street community who passionately follow Christ and live out God’s mercy and justice for the poor.”

     Fourth, back to the starting site to join the worship servvce with Emmanuel Disciples Church (Ethiopian; language Amharic).  Pastor Workneh Tesfaye is wise, experienced in ministry, and deeply prayerful.  Here the music is North African style, shared prayer is loud and jubilant, and the calling to reach Ethiopians both here and in Ethiopia is clear and fervent.  What a privilege to soak that in!

     One afternoon, ONE Christ, four missionary sites – and what beauty to behold… I can attest that 1) starting churches, building leaders, and redeeming cities never gets old and is close to the heart of God; and 2) that YOU, our supporters and fellow workers in the harvest, are a big part of our Team too.  With you beside us, we are rich, carried by God’s river of grace, and we can last forever. Your support keeps us living. Come and visit us sometime!  

SUNDAY, November 11, 2012:  Veterans Day

We appreciate and honor our veterans!  May God bless you richly for your service and your sacrifices. 

TODAY: SHOEBOXES ARE DUE for Operation Christmas Child. Don’t forget to insert check to Samaritan’s Purse, $7 each box, for shipping.

 

COASTAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL’S Annual Craft Fair and Silent Auction take place next Saturday, Nov. 17, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., 574 North Nobleboro Road, Waldoboro. Christmas crafts & decorations, wooden toys, baskets, soaps, candles, jams, baked goods, and soups & pies for lunch.

 

BAPTISM SERVICE. The worship service on Sunday, Dec. 9 will include baptism.  If you are interested in being baptized, please speak as soon as possible to an elder: Mark Kamen, Stan Lewis or Chuck House.

 

One Bethlehem Night

Coming December 9: a reprise of the Broadway-style musical One Bethlehem Night, telling the story of the Nativity in music, drama, dance and humor. It will be performed Sunday, Dec. 9 at 6 p.m.  Mark your calendars!

 

Car Care Ministry

  Saturday, Dec. 1, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. here at the church.  A FREE 21-point checkup for your car: tires, fluid, brakes, battery, exhaust, belts, and more.  Make sure your car is safe for the winter and enjoy refreshments while you wait!  This is an outreach for the church and the community.  For more information or to help with the event, contact Jason Schlosser, 837-7484.

 

  ~ If you have not filled out a scheduling questionnaire, please do so today! ~

 

NEW FAY CHRISTY CD – Our own Fay Christy, singer-songwriter-missionary, has just released a new CD entitled Song of the Dance. It features ten new songs including the title number  and “Something Greater,” the special song she wrote in honor of our church’s 200th anniversary.  Copies of the CD are available here in the church as she has given the firstfruits of her work to the Lord.  Suggested donation for each CD is $10, made out to Boothbay Baptist Church.  Her music is also available on iTunes and Amazon.com, as well as directly from Fay, 633-9872.

   

          From  Barb & Chuck House, Hope Haitian Choir ~

     Greetings in the name of our marvelous Lord – the One who never sleeps, who loves us continually and unconditionally, who never forgets us and who is always sovereign!  In this uncertain world I am so grateful to know Him, the One True Solid Rock!

     As most of you know, Chuck and I just returned from another trip to Haiti.  It was a fabulous and fruitful time – as it always has been.  We spent Friday and Saturday auditioning about 66 children for Hope Haitian Choir 2013.  We knew people were praying – for how do you narrow that large a group to just 15-16 without God’s help?  But we are confident in the 18 we chose…   On Saturday, we showed again the Jesus  film and 13 children responded by giving their hearts and lives to Him.  Then on Sunday, Chuck preached and the children sang and danced.  They sure know how to SING!  On our drive back to Port au Prince, we discussed the possibilities for ministering in Nathan’s home village.  We had known previously that there was a piece of land for sale – actually belonging to a girl, Locitha, who helped to build Nate’s family’s home and whom we have been helping financially to go to school.  The time and situation had never seemed right to buy it.  But we learned that there was now a possibility of planting a church there with one of the pastors training under Jacques!  That church is what is needed to begin a development center with Compassion International!  That development center could potentially reach and help Nathan’s family and extended family for a long time.  I was just about jumping through the roof of the car with excitement!  This is something we cannot do alone, but it is something that can be done – it requires much prayer, physical and financial support.  The land alone is $40,000.  Down the road, there would need to be building projects: church, school, clinics, etc.  

     The ministry of Hope Haitian also has many needs (coordinating travel and visas, setting up the tour and communicating with churches, writing press releases and doing promotional packages, sound technician, and fund-raising, to name a few). The needs are great and the opportunity is here and now, but we are praying for God’s heart and timing in it all.  [Speak to Barb about specific needs. Also, visit  www.hopehaitian.com]

SUNDAY, November 4, 2012

 

 TODAY:  Gather here at the church at 2 p.m. for an hour of prayer for the Nov. 6 national and state elections and referendum questions.  Please come and join in lifting our nation up to the Lord for His will to be done. This is so important, and we are here “for such a time as this.”

 

Car Care Ministry

  Saturday, Dec. 1, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. here at the church.  A FREE 21-point checkup for your car: tires, fluid, brakes, battery, exhaust, belts, and more.  Make sure your car is safe for the winter and enjoy refreshments while you wait!  This is an outreach to those in the church and the community who may benefit from such a program.  For more information or to help with the event, contact Jason Schlosser, 837-7484.

 

SCHEDULING QUESTIONNAIRE

If you have not yet filled out a questionnaire about the times of church services and Sunday School, please fill out the yellow sheet – available on the back table – and place in the shoebox on the table. JUST ONE per person, please! Thank you.

 

ONE BETHLEHEM NIGHT

Coming December 8 & 9: a reprise of the Broadway-style musical One Bethlehem Night, telling the story of the Nativity in music, drama, humor and dance. It will be performed two nights, Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 6 p.m.

 

Song of the Dance

FAY HAS A NEW CD OUT!  Our own Fay Christy, singer-songwriter- missionary, has just released a new CD entitled Song of the Dance. It features ten new songs including the title number  and “Something Greater,” the special song she wrote in honor of our church’s 200th anniversary.  Fay plays acoustic guitar  and sings the lead vocals in tunes rich in eternal truths.  Jeannie Dotson provides keyboard and vocal harmonies, and the music is layered with electric guitar, violin and drums. The CD’s cover is graced by a spectacular seacoast photo by our friend Paul Golden of his wife Brenda on the rocks by towering foamy breakers.  Song of the Dance is dedicated to Ray. 

Copies of Fay’s CD are available here in the church as she has given the firstfruits of her work to the Lord.  Suggested donation for each CD is $10, made out to Boothbay Baptist Church.  Her music is also available on iTunes and Amazon.com, as well as directly from Fay, 633-9872.

   

            SAMARITAN’S PURSE OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD.  Filled

         shoeboxes (boxes available here) are due by next Sunday, November 11.  If you would rather donate funds to cover the cost of a filled shoebox, please give to Tom or Cathy Wilson.

 

          A BAPTISM SERVICE will be held in the near future.  If you or someone you know is interested in being baptized, please speak to Pastor Steve or to an elder (Mark Kamen, Chuck House, Stan Lewis), and pick up a pamphlet on Baptism on the back table.

 

          MISSIONARY NEWS:  

          From Christine Sears, Berlin, Germany ~

              The last two weeks have been somewhat difficult for me with a strong cold-flu virus problem. It has been a long time since I have been laid up so strongly and for a longer period of time… I had to cancel many of my activities. Only since yesterday do I feel my strength coming back.   

             …On Tuesdays I meet with a deaf lady, nicknamed Boba, who really wants to grow in the Lord. This is a joy to see. One big challenge is being able to explain abstract thoughts to her. Yesterday I had to thoroughly explain Romans 12:1-2 to her. She finds it very difficult to read a Bible verse or passage and then be able to give me the meaning in her own words… This is true of a lot of new believers but it is even more difficult because of her deafness. I need wisdom to be able to explain things well enough that she can understand it and know how to apply it in her own life.

              On Nov. 3 I will be speaking for the first time at a Ladies Breakfast at another church in Berlin. In the past I have only spoken to ladies here in Marzahn. This breakfast is mainly to reach out to unsaved ladies. I speak a lot to ladies’ groups when I am in the states but it is mainly to saved ladies. I will be speaking on being healthy. The Germans have a phrase,  “Hauptsache Gesund” (the title of my talk). It means that the most important thing is to be
in good health. I will speak on being healthy physically, mentally and of course spiritually.  Pray for my final preparations and for a clear presentation.

              Thank you for all your prayer support.           Leaning on Jesus, Christine

 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2012

TODAY WE CELEBRATE PASTOR APPRECIATION and say thank you to Pastor Steve and Mary Ann for all they do in shepherding the BBC flock.

    “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you, always in every prayer… making request for you all with joy, for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now…”  Philippians 1:3-5

 

TODAY: WORD OF LIFE Leaders’ Planning Meeting right after church.

 

TRUNK OR TREAT 2012!

   Trunk or Treat is Wednesday, Oct. 31, 6-8 p.m. in our parking lot.  Trunkers are asked to be here by 5:30.  We need volunteers! Please connect with Meredith Fowlie if you can help set up, grill hot dogs, do games, monitor the Bounce House, serve food, or take down/clean up.  This is an alternative to Halloween and a  popular outreach to the community’s kids and their families. No rain date — STAY TUNED TO HURRICANE SANDY.

CARE CARE MINISTRY

  Saturday, Dec. 1, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. here at the church.  A FREE 21-point checkup for your car: tires, fluid, brakes, battery, exhaust, belts, and more.  Make sure your car is safe for the winter and enjoy refreshments while you wait!  This is an outreach to those in the church and the community who may benefit from such a program.  For more information or to help with the event, contact Jason Schlosser, 837-7484.

SCHEDULING QUESTIONNAIRE

TIMING IS EVERYTHING, so they say.  We want your opinion on whether the church should continue  to have separate winter/summer schedules for Sunday School and worship service or maintain the same schedule all year-round.  Inserted in today’s bulletin is a questionnaire for members and regular attendees to fill out and place in the box on the back table or mail to the church office, P.O. Box 64, Boothbay, ME 04537.  Though the questionnaire will be available for a few weeks, please fill out JUST ONE per person! Thank you.

 

Song of the Dance

FAY HAS A NEW CD OUT!  Our own Fay Christy, singer-songwriter- missionary, has just released a new CD entitled Song of the Dance. It features ten new songs including the title number  and “Something Greater,” the special song she wrote in honor of our church’s 200th anniversary.  Fay plays acoustic guitar and sings the lead vocals in tunes rich in eternal truths.  Jeannie Dotson provides keyboard and vocal harmonies, and the music is layered with electric guitar, violin and drums. The CD’s cover is graced by a spectacular seacoast photo by our friend Paul Golden of his wife Brenda on the rocks by towering foamy breakers.  Song of the Dance is dedicated to Ray. 

 

Copies of Fay’s CD are available here in the church as she has given the firstfruits of her work to the Lord.  Suggested donation for each CD is $10, made out to Boothbay Baptist Church.  Her music is also available on iTunes and Amazon.com, as well as directly from Fay.

 

   

MISSING: The four ropes that were specially made for marking off pews.  If you know their whereabouts, please tell Pastor Steve or Chuck House, or leave them on or near the back table.  Thank you.

 

            SAMARITAN’S PURSE OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD.  Filled

        shoeboxes (boxes available here) are due by November 11.  If you would

        rather donate funds to cover the cost of a filled shoebox, please give to Tom

        or Cathy Wilson.

 

          A BAPTISM SERVICE will be held in the near future.  If you or someone you know is interested in being baptized, please speak to Pastor Steve or to an elder (Mark Kamen, Chuck House, Stan Lewis), and pick up a pamphlet on Baptism on the back table.

SUNDAY, October 14, 2012

 

COMING:

      Thursday, Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m. – Rehearsal for One Bethlehem Night

      Thursday, Oct. 18, 6:30 p.m. – Quarterly Business Meeting for members

      Sunday, Oct. 28, after church – WOL Leaders’ planning meeting

      Wednesday, Oct. 31, 6-8 p.m. – Trunk or Treat – Please sign up to do a trunk or to help with set up, serving food, etc.  If you are doing a trunk, please sign the orange car registration and guideline form. Deadline: Sun. Oct. 21. For more information contact coordinator Meredith Fowlie.

 

RETURNABLE BOTTLES & CANS: A NEW PROCEDURE.  Effective now, there is no longer a collection bin on church grounds for bottles and cans.  Please take your returnables to the G & J Redemption center, on Rt. 27 at Industrial Park Road, and have the cash credited to the Boothbay Baptist Church account which has been set up there.  The funds will still go to the Hope & Mercy Mission in Uganda for milk for children.

 

    SAMARITAN’S PURSE OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD.  Filled

    shoeboxes (boxes available here) are due by November 11.  If you would rather

    donate funds to cover the cost of a filled shoebox, give to Tom or Cathy Wilson.

 

    COMMUNITY FREE CLOTHES CLOSET. Gently used clothing is available

    for anyone in our community at no cost.  The Clothes Closet, located behind the

    Boothbay Harbor Methodist Church, is now open Wednesdays and Saturdays,

    10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

FREE: Two Hewlitt Packard printer-scanners for Windows XP with software, cables and new ink.  Call Tammie Cusumano, 350-6200.

 

A BAPTISM SERVICE will be held in the near future.  If you or someone you

know is interested in being baptized, please speak to Pastor Steve or to an elder

   (Mark Kamen, Chuck House, Stan Lewis), and pick up a pamphlet on Baptism on

   the back table.

 

          MISSSIONARY NEWS:

           From Paul & Miriam Beliasov in Indonesia ~ 

                It has now been almost 3 months since we settled here in Salatiga.  Mountainview International Christian School opened its doors on Aug. 8, and we just completed the first quarter of school! Due to a few national and religious holidays here during the month of August, it was a slow start. However, once September came, the weeks have started to clip along very smoothly for us all.

                Paul is teaching 9th grade Old Testament Survey, 10th grade World History and 8th grade Speech. The school uses a block schedule which means class periods are 95 minutes long. This is a new way of teaching for Paul, but he reports that he actually enjoys the longer class periods as it makes him work harder to make class more interesting and engaging.  When basketball season comes, he will be coaching the girls’ team.  Right now is soccer season which is not really Paul’s sport, but help was needed so he volunteered to be assistant to the assistant coach of the JV team… It has been a good chance for him to get to know the students more.

                Recently the secondary level (grades 7-12) went on a retreat at a nearby hotel/campground. The purpose of the retreat was to bring the student body together to build unity and to encourage the student body spiritually as a new school year begins. The theme was “Run the Race.” Paul was able to develop healthy competition as the games & activities director, and the students loved the games and competitions that he set up. We are happy that God has been able to use Paul to meet some of the school needs in these ways.

                 Miriam started her Indonesian language classes. She has class for an hour and a half every day and then is able to study on her own some. She is very pleased with her classes and the progress she has made in 2 months. Paul is also able to study with a teacher at Mountainview every day; Noah and Noelle are also taking language classes as they both desire to communicate with the people here…

                 Our life is quite small now as we have not gotten a car. For now this is okay. We live near the school and Miriam’s language class is not too far away.  However, we like to get out and really learn about where we live, so we will be looking for a vehicle for our family. Pray God gives us wisdom about what vehicle and when is the right time to purchase one.

                  Even though political situations in many Muslim countries have been tumultuous recently, we are thankful that our town has not seen any violence.  Thank you for your prayers for us as we continue to transition.

                                                  Blessings, 

                                                  Miriam, Paul, Noah, Noelle and Nadia Beliasov