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CHURCH STAFF
PASTOR
ASSOCIATE PASTOR OF MUSIC Keith Longo
Cell: 806.786.6679 [email protected]
ASSOCIATE PASTOR
OF YOUTH Harris Evans
Cell: 806.470.7621 [email protected]
PRE-SCHOOL
COORDINATOR Melody Young
Home: 806.872.9381 Cell: 806.332.8668
ASSOCIATE PASTOR
OF EDUCATION Wayne Smith
Home: 806.872.3909 Cell: 806.759.8668
CHURCH SECRETARY Fallon Garcia
Cell: 806-201-0565 [email protected]
MINISTRY ASSISTANT
Erika Brown Cell: 832-643-1563
Newsletter
801 S. 1ST PO BOX 399 LAMESA, TX 79331 806.872.5451 FAX: 872-9281 WWW.FIRSTLAMESA.ORG
May-June 2013
The Bridge
Sundays at 6:30 pm
New Church Website Firstlamesa.org
VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
JUNE 10–14, 2013
This summer you are likely to see a couple new faces helping out around the church. As of last Sunday the Personnel committee approved for the staff to hire two interns for the summer. These interns will do much more than just work with our teenagers but much of their time will go toward helping out in that area.
Why are Interns important? The process of internship is important for both the intern and the church they serve. Many young ministers are looking to begin their training early when they are in college so they can inter into the ministry right out of college with some much coveted experience. This helps them to better understand the ministry in which they are called and it helps them to “shadow” other ministers to learn from them. It is also important in that it is the churches responsibility to raise up and train our future church leaders effectively. This responsibility goes in the same vein that we see the apostle Paul use in his own ministry in the New Testament with Timothy and others he took under his wing.
You can help us by being willing to support our guests by providing some meals and fellowship for them. As well as making them feel welcome and at home.
New Faces
Summer Upon Us I’m sure that parents and teenagers are not already thinking about summer plans but we will have a full summer in the youth ministry as usual. June 10 – 14: Vacation Bible School June 17 – 21: Super Summer June 24-‐July 4: Firework Sales July 16-‐20: Camp On The Lake Some of these events require forms and deposits and others just a sign up. Please check the youth info booth for more information or contact the church office.
Camp On The Lake 2013
FBC Children’s Ministry FBC is he re to he lp fos te r ch i l d r en ’ s l ove fo r God , l ove fo r peop l e , and to share l i f e toge the r .
Children’s Ministry Activities Sundays: 9:15 am Sunday School 10:30 am Morning Worship
Wednesdays: 5:30 pm G-Force
A Church Just For Kids – Building the Future
Who: Children Birth through Pre-K What: A church just for kids that will share God’s love through music, art, creative play, and stories. When: Sunday Evenings 6:30 to 7:45 pm (check in by 6:15, please) Where: FBC Preschool Area (West Wing of Main Building)
Come join us and bring a friend! I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into
the house of the Lord’. Psalms 122:1
Ms. Melody’s Notes
• We need the following “throw away” items for upcoming craft projects: ~ Clear plastic water or milk bottles ~ Paper towels and toilet paper rolls ~ Buttons ~ Styrofoam meat trays ~ Colored straws ~ Pringles cans ~ Aluminum pie plates ~ #2 cans (like green beans or corn)
• We need your help for VBS! VBS is June 10th through 14th. Contact the church office.
Our Wednesday
night children's program is
drawing to a close for the
year. Our End of School Bash
will be May 22nd, then we
will stop for the summer.
Thank you to the following Extended Training workers for helping during March and April!
Sanford & Tina Boles Traci & Kaila Cox Maecee Coleman Mica & Clayton Roberts Davette Ferguson Connie Wyatt Teresa & Jillery Roberts Shelia Mitchell Paul & Debbie Wade Jon & Trena Cave Melissa Staggs Kay King Judy Meyers Joy Vara Cindy & Rick Corley Sarah & Kent Bartlett Brenay Fulton Jon & Ashley Friesen Diane & Russell Skiles
VBS preparations are being made. Please join us for a great time as we share the love of God with our children. VBS will be June 10-14. Be sure to sign your kiddos up in the office. Call the church office if you're interested in helping. It’s going to be so much fun!
Musical Notes
Psalm 111:1
Hallelujah I will praise the Lord with all my heart in the
assembly of the upright and in the congregation. I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you to everyone who has given of their time, efforts, and
talents to make the Bridge a reality. There has been hours upon hours given and we could of not done it without you. It truly was a gift to watch our church
come together side by side and complete this monumental task. We have already seen people
impacted and touched in the first two weeks and we have only just begun. I look forward with great antisipation to how the Lord will use the Bridge to minister in our church and cummunity. I want to
encourage everyone to continue to pray for all of our services, ministries, and cummittees as we seek
direction and guidence from the Lord for First Lamesa as we long to see people reached and lives changed
for His honor and glory.
Luke 10: 27 The Parable of the Good Samaritan
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength and with all your
mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
We are called to make a difference.
An Invitation To Worship
Blended Worship Service
Sunday Morning 10:30 A.M.
Traditional Worship
Service Sundays 5:00P.M.
The Bridge
Contemporary Worship Sundays 6:30 P.M.
We have a place for you. Come now is the time to
worship.
Psalm 113: 2-‐3
Let the Name of the Lord be praised both now and
forever. From the rising of the sun
to its setting, let the name of the Lord be
praised.
Paul’s Gift to the Philippians
In A.D. 61/62, Paul was confined to jail in Rome. At this stage of his life, he had completed three Missionary Journeys, plus a fourth arduous trip to Rome to appear before the Roman Emperor. While in Rome, he received a gift from the church at Philippi. The Letter to the Philippians was a response to the Philippians’ generosity, together with an admonition against a dangerous heresy that threatened the existence of the church.
The church at Philippi was founded on Paul’s Second Missionary Journey (A.D 49-‐52). Paul and Silas, in answer to a visionary call for help in Macedonia, had traveled to Philippi. There they met Lydia who listened to their message and was baptized along with her entire household. Lydia allowed the missionaries to use her home as headquarters for their ministry in Philippi. Paul and Silas interfered with the business of fortune telling and an angry slave-‐owner had them flogged by the authorities and thrown into jail. An earthquake damaged the jail so badly that Paul and Silas could easily have escaped. Instead of leaving the jail, Paul and Silas stayed and witnessed to the jailer who was baptized, along with his entire family. Thus, Paul and Silas left town with the foundation of a strong church in place. (Acts 16:12-‐40)
The church prospered and grew during the ten years that elapsed between its’ founding and Paul’s completion of a third Missionary Journey and his trip to Rome in answer to a charge brought against him in Jerusalem.
As Paul endured the imprisonment in Rome, he no doubt thought of all the churches he had been instrumental in founding in answer to his own call on the road to Damascus to be God’s missionary to the Gentiles.
In his letter he began by stating “I thank my God every time I remember you” (Phil. 1:3). He follows with his confidence that “He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”(Phil. 1:6)
Paul changes the tone of his letter when he warns: “Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.” (Phil 3:2)
Who better then Paul could have pointed to his long length of service, the many hardships he had endured, and the threat of imminent death, to respond to their plight with a warning and the hope that they could survive this threat and simply wished them well in dealing with their adversity.
Instead he gave them a priceless gift : ”Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of you who are mature should take such a view of things. (Phil. 3:13-‐15)
Yours in Christ Wayne
Events at the Church
Williams Walk
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Lamesa High School Track Contact Abigail Ramford
([email protected]) or Joyce Laurens ([email protected]) for more
information.
New Books in the Library
Adult: • CD: The Parable of
the Kitchen Junk Drawer by Judy Reamer
• Feelings Women Rarely Share by Judy Reamer
• Prayer by Philip Yancey
• The Sermon on the Mount by R.T. Kendall
• Novel: People of the Book by Kathy Macias
Children: • The Jesus
Storybook Bible • Jesus Calling for
Children • Dave Ramsey’s
Money Series for Children
• See Inside Ships • The Sunflower
Parable by Liz Curtis Higgs
May & June Birthdays
19th Kelley Culp 20th Debbie Wade 21st Metta Harris Shelly Hightower Beverly Reid Jordan Smith 22nd Barron Barkowsky Tamra Miller 23rd Taylor George Steve McLaren Susan Wilson 24th Norma Browning Price Cooper 25th Rosalia Clemens Kari Gaines Regina Phillips 26th Genevieve White Mollie Williams 27th Andrea Evans 28th Stanley Brown Jeannene Bryant Karen Faulkner Pat Ranson 30th Brady Lambright Adam Oliva Chance Payton John Santiago Trista Woodul 31st Thomas Oliver Elmer Walton June 1st Shannon Moore Robin Seal 2nd Brooklyn Webb 3rd Brooke Adcock
Keith Longo Alan Reeves Amy Wrona 4th Kristy Pierce 5th David Brewer Michal Douglas Guy Dunbar Bob Smith
May 1st Allison Chandler Richard Garcia Scott Scarborough Donnie Stephens 2nd Tony Calhoun Homer Chamberlain Hannah Johnson Kelli Matlock Andrew Tijerina 3rd Traci Brown Melissa Clark Benjamin McMillin Linda Smith Sawyer Wallace 4th Jena Cobb Estella Walton 5th Marcia Reeves Tim Sherrill 6th Barbara Schoonover Leon Wilson 8th Terry Brown Joe Raines Donna Todd 9th Mikey Abeyta Stretch Sealy Brock Tijerina 10th Treg Addison Beverlee Kinnison 11th Maxine Rosson Ginger Wallace 12th Christy Lambright 13th Brady Chapman 14th Jerry Berry 15th Janice York 16th Rondy Ferguson Becky Straley 17th Timothy Annalla Brandi Cude Randy Culp Taylor Mann Joyce Oliver Jake Weatherman
6th Roy Byrd Michael DeAnda Mark Matlock Debbie Park Liz Payton Gene Schmidt Brittan Webb 7th Troy Howard Joy Payson 8th Richard Melville 9th Haley Medlin 10th Brenda Anderson Dora Gutierrez Lynn Ranson Max Smith Kendra Staggs 13th Anna Standefer 14th Ross Santiago Paul Wade 15th Heather Coulter Stacy Lott Melissa Menix 16th Barney Blount Jay Gray Teresa Hogg Gayla Hogg Bryan Roberts 17th Terry Coleman Alan Franklin 18th Garrett Tidwell 19th Earl Jackson Guy Miller Lori Straley Becky Tidwell 20th Humberto Diaz John Mitchell Erin Rodriguez 21st Gene Lee Austin Walton 23rd Dennis Borland Sheron Holladay
Wednesday’s Midweek Manna will end on May 15th. Prayer Meetings will resume at 6:00 pm every Wednesday night on the 22nd.
May 4th – Family Night at the Rockhounds Game May 9th – OASIS Lunch and Program May 14th – Food Bank May 15th – Last Midweek Manna, 12:00 noon May 22nd – Wednesday Prayer Meeting, 6:00 pm May 24th – Last day of Mother’s Day Out May 25th – William’s Walk May 26th – Senior Recognition Sunday June 10-14th – Vacation Bible School June 17-21st – Super Summer Youth Camp June 24-July 4th – Come support the youth group by buying your Independence Day fireworks from your local Mr. W store!
Otis Hudson 24th Lanny Brown Brian Rodriguez 25th Mike Cope 26th Micha Tyler Bobby Warren 27th Bob Brown Bruce Dopson Teresa Roberts 28th Tina Cooper Elise Stewart 29th Jillery Roberts 30th Joyce Laurens
Weekly Schedule Sunday 9:15 am Sunday School 10:15 am Fountain Fellowship 10:30 am Morning Worship Service 5:00 pm Evening Traditional Worship Service 6:30 pm The Bridge Monday 1:30 – 3:30 pm Office closed for staff meeting 3:00 pm Chair Exercise Class, Activity Bldg 5:30 pm (2nd Mon) Sack food at FBC Tuesday 9:00 am—12 noon (2nd Tuesday) Food Bank
Wednesday 8:15 am Loving Hands Quilters 12:00 am Mid-‐Week Manna (until May 15) 5:30 pm Kid’s Supper* 6:00 pm Prayer Meeting (begins May 22) 6:00-7:00 pm G-‐Force * 6:15 pm Fuel (Middle School Fellowship)* 7:00 pm Choir Practice 7:15 pm The Gathering (HS worship)* Thursday 11:30 am (2nd Thurs) OASIS covered dish lunch and program in Fellowship Hall 1:15 pm (2nd Thursday) Woman on Mission, meet in the parlor 3:00 pm Chair Exercise Class, Activity Bldg Friday 9:00 am-3:30 pm Mother’s Day Out*
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*Youth, Children’s, and Mother’s Day Out ministries are held only while school is in session. See specific ministry’s pages to see schedules during school holidays.