Boothbay Baptist Buzz
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Sue Burge, Communications Coordinator, welcomes your announcements until Thursday at noon. Thanks!
Phone: 633-7049 or e mail to: vanmanbill@roadrunner.com
Contact Information for Interim Pastor: Rev. Stuart (Stu) Taylor (wife – Anita)
Email: fstaet@suscom-Maine.net
Phone: 207-729-5460 Cell: 207-449-8711
Church Secretary: Maggie Brown – Office hours: Mon, Wed, Thurs and Fri 9:30 a.m. – Noon
Office closed on Tuesday
You may reach Maggie at: 633-7378 or email at boothbaybaptistchurch1@myfairpoint.net
Week of November 8 – Nov 15, 2009
So Long Pastor Stu and Anita Taylor
Members and Friends of Boothbay Baptist Church are in a better place today
because of you’re love, kindness, patience and teaching from the Word of God.
The journey behind was not without it’s challenges. Our God sent you as our Shepherd to help guide us through a rough terrain – back into the Light.
May God reign mightily in your heart, in your health and in your daily walk.
We are forever grateful to both of you.
Members and Friends of Boothbay Baptist Church
TODAY
Please join with us today for a celebratory luncheon following worship in honor of
Pastor Stu and Anita Taylor.
TOMORROW MORNING
Quilting with Karen Keyes at her home on Kenneyfield Drive. Monday’s at 9:30 a.m.
For a second year, we’ll be making quilts for Project Linus and more. Ladies, you don’t have to be proficient in quilting – you just need to know how to thread a needle. This group is an extension of Lights of Love Women’s Ministry and offers wonderful fellowship, step by step instruction on quilting, coffee and snacks, and the end result – bringing warmth and joy to a child in crisis through this blanket ministry.
First project – 3 baby quilts for the Reed triplet grandchildren expected in Feb.
HELP WANTED ON SATURDAYS
The Board of Trustees will be working every Sat. at the “white house” to prepare it for the residence of a full-time pastor and his family. Work day begins at 8 a.m. They need people to be helpers to the tradesmen and for clean up. Later there will be opportunities for painting, etc. Many hands make light work. Questions, please speak with Tim Beck.
NEXT SUNDAY
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD. DEADLINE IS NEXT SUNDAY! The goal is 200 boxes in honor of our 200th Anniversary year. How are you doing getting your shoe boxes packed for needy children throughout the world? There are plenty of empty boxes available for you in the church. Please bring your gifts to church by next Sunday. Questions – you can call Tom and Kathy Wilson 633 – 4942.
Welcome Rev. Jim Beliasov and Jan who will be our Interim Pastor couple until a permanent pastor is called. Pastor Jim will begin his duties next Sunday.
Candidate for Pastor Rev. Steven Nash and his wife Mary Ann arrive in Boothbay on Sat., and will be staying with the Becks then the Christy’s. The Nash’s are flying from their home in Brazil to Portland where they’ll be met by a member of the pulpit committee. Pastor Steve is originally from New Jersey and the couple have been serving in children’s ministries and seminary training for 14 years in Brazil. Pastor Nash will lead Sunday School and deliver the message during worship both next Sunday, Nov.15th and the following Sunday, Nov. 22nd. A Dessert and Coffee with Pastor & Mrs. Nash is scheduled for Wed. Nov. 18th at 6:30 p.m. followed by their testimony with a Question and Answer time at 7 p.m. You are invited and encouraged to attend the scheduled events during their visit.
COMING
Lights of Love – Thursday, Nov. 19th, 9:30 a.m. Outreach trip to The Boothbay Green.
Our women’s ministry has adopted the residents of this assisted living facility. We’re bringing – hymnals for group singing, a gift of an apple pie for their kitchen and our infants and toddlers who always brings smiles to these dear folks. Mary Ann Nash, wife of our Candidate Pastor, Steven Nash, will be joining us for our outreach ministry trip and will be with us for a light lunch to follow in Fellowship Hall.
Christmas Is A Comin! and The Deaconesses are planning their annual Ladies Christmas Breakfast.
Mark the date: Saturday, December 5th at 9 a.m. in Fellowship Hall. Come for breakfast and sweet fellowship. There will be a fun-filled, good old fashioned, Yankee Swap. Bring a wrapped gift and let’s have some fun….
SAVE THIS DATE
Have you considered going to a Marriage Conference but found the cost or distance to be an issue? Do you feel that your marriage needs a “tune-up”? Do you desire to have the same passion and friendship with your spouse like when you were first married? Pastor David and Joan King have been invited to lead an informal couples seminar presenting a biblical world view of marriage. The seminar is Friday January 15 from 6pm – 9pm and Saturday January 16 from 8am to 1pm called “Happy Wife, Happy Life.” The Kings have been been married for 48 years, have 5 children, 11 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. They have counseled couples for over 30 years and have a wealth of knowledge and entertaining stories to share. Please set aside this time to enrich your relationship with your spouse and truly discover God’s plan for your marriage.
MISSIONARY NEWS
UGANDA MISSIONARIES LEAVE- for Kaabale Village next Wednesday, Nov. 18th.
Meet our Fall 2009 Team: Nancy VanDyke, Joanne Rigas, Rev. Bob Emrich, from Plymouth church, Sean Welton, owner of Community Oxygen, Damariscotta, and two teenage girls (one being Sean’s daughter.) Nancy and Sean are the medical team. Rev. Bob will be training young pastors. Joanne and the teen gals will be conducting Vacation Bible School . Your prayers for their long journey to and from and for their work in the village will be very appreciated.
Joe and Angie Cousins – Campus Crusade for Christ, U. of Maine, Orono, Maine. A recent e-mail from Angie: “Things are good up here at UMO and we are busy as ever with ministry and preparing for the new baby. I am doing well (just tired) and looking forward to our new arrival (due Nov. 22nd). We have had lots of ministry trips and opportunities – please pray, however, for our follow up with students from those trips. We have been finding it increasingly difficult to get students to meet with us after the trip (even when they say the are interested).”
New England Bible College, S. Portland, Maine – “Fifty-six students began the fall semester, among them 16 were new or transfers. Twenty-six students returned to continue their programs, and 14 auditors found classes of interest. Most of the incoming students are taking a full load of classes and bring with them an excitement to prepare for ministry.”
