Upcoming ScheduleThursday & Friday,

November 23-24Offices Closed

Sunday, November 268:40AM Service in

the SanctuaryWednesday, November 29

No Family NightNovember 30,

December 1, 2, 3Singing Christmas

TreeSunday, December 3

8:40am Service in the Sanctuary

Wednesday, December 6

Christmas OIAM Family Packing

Wednesday, December 13Dinner & DevotionWednesday, December 20

No Family NightSunday, December 24

One Worship Service

10am | SanctuaryChristmas Eve

Services3:30pm & 6pm

“Hearts United in Loving God, Sharing Christ, and Serving Others.”

The

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Sunday, November 26Living in Light of Heaven

2 Peter 3:9-148:40am Service - Sanctuary

11am Service - Men’s Ensemble

Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service

Wednesday, November 226:15pm | Sanctuary

Goal: 1800 Collected: 1448

Thank You!

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Christmas Family WorkshopSaturday, December 9

10am - NoonRegistration is $5 per child and

ends on 11/25. Contact Cathy Hopkins or Penny Maxwell in the

Church Office at (910) 484-3191 to register.

Who? Preschool - 4th Grade in the FH5th-6th Grade in the Gym

Come celebrate the birth of our Savior with family and friends!

Each Advent Season Snyder collects an offering that goes to different mission causes. We used to collect these offer-ings throughout the year, but combined them all together beginning in 2006. The Christmas Mission Offering begins Sunday, November 27, and concludes at the Christmas Eve Service. This year we have set the goal at $40,000. The offering will be divided between the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Mission Offering, the Southern Baptist Convention Lottie Moon Offering for Foreign Missions, the Annie Armstrong Offering for Home Missions, the Baptist Children’s Home offering and the Baptist Retire-ment Home offering. A couple of years ago we added the Fayetteville Family Life Center. This year we are adding The Friendship House that is being built in the Haymont Community. Friendship House Fayetteville works alongside young adults with intellectual and developmental disabili-ties and their families to provide intentional, transitional living. At its core, this faith-based community is rooted in table fellowship expressed through a daily rhythm of eating, praying and celebrating together. The Christmas Mission Offering is a perfect way to give a Christmas gift for Jesus. Much of the offering goes to help share about Christ all over the world. You may give at anytime during December by using your special offering envelope or by writing on your check Christmas Mission Offering.

Couples’ Night Out A House Built By Two Working Together to Create Your Dream Home

Saturday, December 163:30 - 7:30pm

Childcare provided, but you must sign up by December 4.

Sign up online at

CNO.eventbrite.com (Password: SMBC).Sponsored by Snyder Marriage Ministry

Maddie & Elsie Kate Dodson helping Mrs. Diane Alabaster with the shoe-

boxes! Thanks to all who gave!

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Sunday, December 1011am Worship

If you are interested in participating, contact Cathy Hopkins at cathyh@snydermbc.com by November 26.

Singing Christmas Tree Reminder

Just a reminder that if you are attending the Singing Christmas Tree this year, you are asked to bring a non-perishable food item. These items will be donated to Operation Blessing, His Bread of Life and Fayetteville Urban Ministries. We will also be taking a special offering at the end of each performance that will go to The Friendship House being built here in Fayette-ville. Thank you!

Snyder’s Gift Catalog is Updated!

Looking for a unique gift this Christmas, Snyder’s Gift Catalog is your answer. The gift catalog contains many gift ideas that will ben-efit our 3 international partnerships. There are also some local giving ideas as well. You may purchase the gifts with

cash, check or even online giving, but you must accompany your payment with a gift card, so we know where to send the money. The gift catalog will help us continue to invest in the relation-ships of our partnership wtih Haiti, Kenya and Myanmar. The gift catalogs are available around the church and gifts may be purchased online.

No Family NightNovember 29

Family Night will resume on December 6 with a Family Mission project, packing our

Christmas Operation Inasmuch items.

SINGING CHRISTMAS TREE

Performances 2017:November 30, 7:30pm December 1, 7:30pm

December 2, 4pm & 7:30pm December 3, 4pm & 7:30pm

Unused Tickets Needed!

All of our tickets have been given out. We still have a large number of people who are still waiting for tickets. If you have extra tickets, please, return them to the Church Office so we

do not have to turn anyone away. Thank you!

Snyder Veterans 2017

PERIODICALSWEBSITE: www.snydermbc.comTHE BELL (USPS 549-180) is published weekly except Christmas and July 4 weeks by Snyder Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Westmont Drive, Fayetteville NC 28305. Tele: 910-484-3191. Periodicals postage paid at Fayette-ville, NC. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE BELL, 701 Westmont Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28305.

Pastor’s Perspective I’ve never been especially good at buying gifts for others. I don’t like to shop.

At all. And I seldom know what to get for people. Most folks I would buy for already have everything they need. Though it’s always nice to be able to give something special to someone that will bring joy into their life, I tend to gravitate to more practical gifts. Something someone needs. A gift that will make a real difference in someone’s life. Like sponsoring a child in one of the countries our church partners with in missions.

That’s one thing I really like about Operation Christmas Child. We have packed shoeboxes as a family for years. Our married children all do now as well. Shoeboxes are still coming in to the church as I write these words. Not sure we’ll reach our goal, but every box will make a difference in a child’s life. This is the week Samaritan’s Purse will collect 12 million boxes for children in over 100 countries. While most of these children have little to nothing, OCC is about much more than the gifts they will receive in their shoebox. It could literally be the gift of a lifetime as their shoebox will include an explanation of the true meaning of Christmas in their native language. They will know WHY a stranger from another country took the time to pack and send a shoebox of gifts to them. They will know God loves them.

This past Saturday I spoke to a member of our community who just returned from a 3-week mission trip to Puerto Rico helping families recover from the devastating effects of a hurricane. He spent most of his time putting tarps over the roofs of houses that had been damaged. One home they worked on had a family still living in it even though it had no roof. This family was familiar with the Samaritan’s Purse logo because they had packed shoeboxes for OCC in the past. When the little girl from that family looked up at the underside of the tarp placed over her home and saw the Samaritan’s Purse logo on it, she pointed it out to her parents and exclaimed with joy that God had sent the tarp to her family to bless them.

Soon after Billy Graham’s wife died, he told his son, “Everything I have came from God and I want to give it back to Him while I’m living.” In the last 10 years, he has given almost all he has to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to further the Gospel. The time is short. The need is great. Eternity is at stake. Not all gifts are equal. In value or impact.

See you Sunday! ~ John

Overseas: Matthew Graves, Layton Legg, Katie Matthew

Deacon of the Week: Mark Ingram

(910) 483-6646

Hospital:Stacy Honeycutt - CFV

Menu:No Family Night Supper

on 11/29/17

Family Night Supper will resume on 12/06/17

The Bell • November 24, 2017 • Page 4 MEMBERSHIPNovember 19

Resident Membership 1842

Number Additions to Date 23

Number Lettered Out to Date 0

Loss by Death 1

Moved to Non-Resident/Roll Rev. 8

Total Membership 1856

SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCESunday School 560

Fire Station 12

Total Attendance 572

WORSHIP ATTENDANCE8:40am Worship 337

11am Worship 490

Total 827

FINANCIAL REPORTTotal Budget Gifts 43,216.65

Amount Needed 2,964,813.11

Given to Date 2,649,376.20

Under Budget to Date 315,436.91

WORSHIP CARE VOLUNTEERS November 26

8:40am: Melody Steenbergh, Marisa Fonville, Christina Fejerang

11am: Max Weinstein, Nicole Burkhart, Kerry Wheeler

MINISTERIAL STAFFSenior Pastor JOHN COOK

Minister of Worship GILES BLANKENSHIP

Church Administrator GERON GAMBILL

Associate Pastor BRUCE HERRMANN

Minister of Children CATHY HOPKINS

Minister with Youth CRAIG MORRISON

Minister of Missions SUSIE REEDER

Minister of Music RICHARD SUGGS