December 7, 2014

Our Mission Equipping Christians

to Engage and Evangelize

our World

LIFE

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WHAT’S INSIDE TRINITY LIFE

Trinity Staff and Ministry Leaders ............................ 3

Core Beliefs ............................................................... 4

Guest Information ..................................................... 5

Campus Group Directory .......................................... 6

Trinity Map ............................................................... 6

Church Information ................................................... 7

Adult Volunteers ....................................................... 7

Weekly Schedule ....................................................... 8

News .......................................................................... 9-10

Missions Update ........................................................ 11

Pursuit College Ministry ........................................... 12

Engage Youth Ministry ............................................ 12

H!z K!dz Elementary Ministry ................................. 13

Preschool Ministry .................................................... 14

ETC—Extended Teaching Care ............................... 14

Guest Registration ..................................................... 15

Sermon Notes ............................................................ 16

December 7, 2014

Ronnie W. Rogers, Senior Pastor

Ext. 101 / ronnie@trinitynorman.org / Ronniewrogers@TBCNorman

Randy Presley, Pastor of Worship

Ext. 103 / randy@trinitynorman.org

Ryan Polk, Associate Pastor

Ext. 105 / ryan@trinitynorman.org

Chris Haynes, Collegiate Minister

Ext. 107 / chris@trinitynorman.org

Jim White, International Ministries Pastor

Ext. 108

Kathy Presley, Elementary Ministry Director

Ext. 128 / kathy@trinitynorman.org

Gina Rogers, Preschool Ministry Coordinator

Ext. 114 / hereigrow@gmail.com

Kara Polk, Preschool Ministry Director

Ext. 109 / kara@trinitynorman.org

Anita Charlson, Pastors’ Assistant

Ext. 101 / anita@trinitynorman.org

Kim Pitt, Financial Secretary

Ext. 102 / kim@trinitynorman.org

Mandy Latham, Church Secretary

Ext. 100 / mandy@trinitynorman.org

TRINITY STAFF AND MINISTRY LEADERS

Although we have many staff and volunteer ministry leaders, below is a

list of our staff that may be able to help you if you are new to Trinity.

Call the Church Office at 405.321.2000 and request the appropriate

person, or visit our website at www.trinitynorman.org.

To contact the Here I Grow Learning Center, call 405.321.0736.

Trinity Pastors:

Max Barnett, Ronnie W. Rogers, Randy Presley, Larry Toothaker, and

Billy Wolfe

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WELCOME

We extend a warm greeting of Christian fellowship to you. May you

feel Christ’s presence, hear His Word proclaimed, and be blessed. Pray

for Ronnie Rogers as he speaks in the morning worship, and for Randy

Presley as he leads us in Praise and Worship.

The Trinity of God

Verbal, Plenary Inspiration of Scripture

Total Depravity of Natural Man

The Virgin Birth of Jesus Christ

His Blood Atonement

His Bodily Resurrection

Personal and Imminent Return of Christ

Person and Work of the Holy Spirit

Eternal Security of the Believer

Freedom of Religion

The Autonomy of the Local Church

Worldwide Missions—the Obligation of Every Church

A Regenerated Church Membership

Personality of Satan

Justification by Faith

The Reality of Heaven and Hell

The Priesthood of the Believer

Two Ordinances Only: Baptism by Immersion and the Lord’s

Supper

Church Discipline

WHAT WE BELIEVE

HEARING IMPAIRED

Pocket-sized receivers with ear buds are available to be checked out

during the Worship Service from the sound booth at the rear of the

sanctuary.

ELDER INVITATION

Following morning worship, the elders will be available to members

and guests for prayer and ministry. Simply come to the front of the

sanctuary where we will be glad to: pray for your personal needs, lead

you in receiving Jesus Christ as your Savior, discuss church

membership.

December 7, 2014

ESPECIALLY FOR OUR GUESTS

We are glad to have you worship with us today. You

are worshiping with people who experience the

same difficulties of life as you. We have nothing to

boast about except the God we worship. Please relax

and focus upon the Lord Jesus who loves you and

desires for you to follow Him. While God has surely

led you here, you likely still have a number of im-

portant questions about us; how to get more involved and connected in

meaningful relationships or about your own personal or spiritual needs.

If so, please allow us to help you by completing the guest registration

inside the back cover or by coming forward during the invitation time.

—Ronnie W. Rogers

Requirements for membership

at Trinity Baptist Church

—Receive Jesus Christ by faith

—Attend all four Discovering

Trinity sessions

—Be baptized by immersion

—Be presented to the church

—Turn in membership

commitment form

SERMONS

Do you want to hear a sermon

again? Did you miss a sermon?

You can listen several ways:

•Purchase a CD/ cost is $3

To purchase a CD, use the enve-

lope located in the back of the

pew or in the Welcome Center.

Place the request in the offering

plate or in the Suggestion box in

the Welcome Center.

•Listen online/ trinitynorman.org

For helpful information on a

variety of current issues, visit

Pastor Ronnie’s blog:

www.ronniewrogers.com

DISCOVERING TRINITY

101

Interested in joining or learn-

ing more about how Trinity

functions or what we believe?

Discovering Trinity is de-

signed for anyone considering

joining Trinity. Attending the

class is for your information

and does not obligate you to

join, but is a prerequisite to

becoming a member. You

must attend all 4 sessions.

Upcoming sessions of Discov-

ering Trinity 101 will be:

SATURDAY, 12/13, 8:30

a.m., library, sessions 1-4

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CAMPUS GROUP DIRECTORY

PRESCHOOL room

Newborn to Non-crawlers 109

Crawlers 107

Walker to 24 months 105C

Younger Twos 101

Older Twos 102

Threes and Younger Fours 104

Older Fours/Pre-K Fives 208

ELEMENTARY

Transition and Kindergarten 210

1st Grade 201

2nd Grade 205

3rd Grade 207

4th and 5th Grade Boys 206

4th and 5th Grade Girls 209

Elementary office 204

YOUTH Youth (6th –12th) 312

COLLEGE

College 309

ADULT room

Family Discipleship FH 2

Generations FH 1

Roots FH 4

Adult 301 FH 5

Connections FH 6

Artios: Equipped FH 3

Persuasive Faith FH 7

The Bereans 115

Adult 501 112

Senior Saints 111

Hearts On a Journey 116

Growing in Your Devotion

to Christ 226

DiscipleMakers 302

Foundations for Marriage 304

Iron Sharpens Iron TCF Office

Young Adults Loft

INTERNATIONAL

International Choir rm.

Youth

Entrance

December 7, 2014

WEDNESDAY EVENING MEALS Did you know you can eat dinner here

on Wednesdays from 5-6?

Menu this Week:

Chicken alfredo, salad, bread, and choc-

olate peanut candy for dessert.

PRICES

Adult: $3.00

Baked potato or salad only: $1.50

Child (under 12): $1.50

Max $12 for immediate family

College: free—paid by college ministry

ADULT VOLUNTEERS

SAFETY TEAM

December 14

Kuyler Johnson

Jamebo Wilson

Bo Maynes

December 7

Mike Snowdon

John Kiosterud

Andy Blackford

GUEST SERVICES December 14

(w) Dave & Linda Woodfin

(s) Anita Charlson & Shannon

Snowdon

(n) Paul Lawrence & CJ Haynes

K!Dz: Gunnar Colvin

After the service: Brian & Kim

Shaw

December 7

(w) David Bendure

(s) Brian & Kim Shaw

(n) Curtis & Emily Winkle

K!Dz: Josh & Anna Shaw

After the service: Max & Sandra

Barnett

CHURCH INFORMATION

DEACON OF THE WEEK The New Testament

describes the role of

a deacon as a servant.

Deacons serve by

meeting needs so el-

ders can equip, and

the church body can be

prepared to minister. Needs can be

someone’s car won’t start after

church, someone asks for help,

or any of a variety of issues.

For December 7-13, Andy

Blackford will be the Deacon of the

Week. You can locate him in the

building. 11/30/2014 Offering $16,435.75

Offering for month $79,395.25

Offering YTD $796,630.50

Budget YTD $764,668.32

Balance $31,962.18

Lottie Moon $4,210.00

Trinity’s 2014

Lottie Moon

offering goal:

$50,000

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE SUNDAY

9:15 a.m. Campus Groups/Sunday School

K!Dz on Mission—room 201/205

10:40 a.m. Morning Worship—worship center

Preschool Praise and Worship—room 211

K!Dz worship—room 201/205

4:00 p.m. 1VOX—choir room

5:00 p.m. Missions prayer time—room 112

TEC

AWANA

Budget Q & A—room 115

6:00 p.m. Evening worship—worship center

7:15 p.m. Prayer time—Hal Clary—FH3

MONDAY 11:00 a.m. Preschool playdate—Andy Alligator’s

7:00 p.m. Prayer time—Larry & Nietzie Toothaker home

TUESDAY 9:15 a.m. Precept Bible study

6:30 p.m. Zumba—gym

7:00 p.m. Prayer time—Randy & Kathy Presley home

WEDNESDAY

5:00 p.m. Food pantry—room 116

Fellowship meal—gym

6:00 p.m. Bible study—FH5/7

Engage family groups—room 312

Honeybees—room 211

Starz!—choir room

Missions Prep—room 111

Haynes community group—room 309

7:15 p.m. Prayer time—Doug Gray—FH3

Engage Bible study—room 312

Adult choir—choir room

8:00 p.m. College pancake party—C. Haynes home

THURSDAY

6:30 p.m. Zumba—gym

7:00 p.m. Prayer time—Blake & Carol Ann Lindley home

FRIDAY

2:00 p.m. Homeschool Christmas party—gym

7:00 p.m. Prayer time—Andy & Sherrie Blackford home

SATURDAY 8:00 a.m. Prayer time—Kevin Gerber—FH3

8:30 a.m. Discovering Trinity—library

10:00 a.m. Ladies’ Christmas brunch—FH

6:00 p.m. TCF Christmas party

December 7, 2014

LATE BREAKING NEWS

PERSPECTIVES ON THE

WORLD CHRISTIAN

MOVEMENT Perspectives will

give you fresh eyes to see God,

His story, His world, and His

heart. Come learn how He wants

to include YOU in His plans and

purposes. Audit the course or

take it for 3 hours credit at OU!

Classes will be held at the

Paradigm (BCM) Building on

Monday nights from 6-9 pm,

January 12 through May

4. For more information, contact

Debby at PerspectivesNor-

man@gmail.com or Carol Ann.

You must sign up by December

15. The class is not only for

students. If you will require

child care, please contact us

ASAP to let us know.

Please join us for the annual Ladies’ Christmas Brunch

Saturday, December 13, 10:00-12:00 in the Fellowship

Hall. Shannon Schroeder will be sharing about her

son Christopher's birth and how God miraculously

spared his life and transformed her life, as well as

George's, and the rest of her family forever. Angie

Bushey will be leading us in worship. Invite a friend

and don’t miss this special time! Please sign up on the

board in the hall and plan to bring a brunch/breakfast

item to share. Please contact Melinda with any

questions.

This week is Randy Presley’s

18th anniversary serving as our

elder. Thank you, Randy for

blessing us with your leadership!

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LATE BREAKING NEWS...Continued

WILBERFORCE INITIATIVE The Wilberforce Initiative is a

ministry of TBC that helps equip

believers on cultural and current

issues from a biblical perspective.

We address many topics includ-

ing: the family, pro-life, marriage,

race, science, religious liberty,

and many others. November's

focus will be on adoption. Check

us out regularly at wilberfor-

ceinitiative.org If you have any

questions please visit with Ryan

Polk or Curtis Winkle.

THE ACADEMY

The Academy is a training minis-

try that tries to give believers a

well rounded biblical foundation

in several key areas of the Chris-

tian life. This is accomplished in

monthly meetings through reading

one book a month, presentations,

interaction with TBC staff and

elders, and discussion, all with the

goal of trying to use what we are

learning to help others know

Christ better. This is a challenging

but rewarding equipping oppor-

tunity that nearly 75 members of

TBC have already participated in.

If you are interested or have ques-

tions please talk to Ryan Polk.

The 2015 Academy group will be

determined by mid December and

the first meeting will be mid Janu-

ary 2015.

2015 BUDGET

Proposed 2015 Budgets are avail-

able in the Welcome Center. An

elder will be available today at 5

p.m. in room 115. There will be a

vote, without discussion, at the

end of tonight’s evening service.

December 7, 2014

MISSIONS MINISTRY UPDATES

Rick and Cheryl M. had

planned to go to Nepal to visit

their daughter, Amanda, son-in-

law Jay, and their four grandchil-

dren during the Christmas holi-

days; but they need to delay that,

so pray the Father’s comfort for

everyone’s sad heart. It is tough to

be so far apart. Shirts for the

children at the orphanage have

been sent. Pray that these and

other packages will be safely

delivered at the right time.

Neil and Sommer B. will be

back with us soon from their

training in Virginia. However,

they will leave for Italy right after

Christmas.

Alex and Diane M. in Colombia

are meeting with friends from

three different unreached people

groups. One of these families

comes over regularly. Alex and

Diane just finished storying

through the book of Exodus. Pray

that the Holy Spirit continues to

go before them, preparing hearts

and convicting them as they study

His Word. They will be storying

soon about Jesus as the sacrificial

Lamb of God. He is the only true

God worthy of our worship and

our lives.

Continue praying for Susan

Logsdon, whose bir thday was

last Thursday, Nov. 27. She has

returned from Senegal, West Afri-

ca, due to severe arthritis, but she

continues to work here in the

States preparing translations for

print. Her sister, Mary, who

helped us locate our adopted peo-

ple group, is also in the States on

furlough from East Asia.

As it stands now, Dr. Jiening

Ruan will be leading the next

team to visit our people group for

a week in March 2015. Justin

Devero and Dr. Sean Huang

will be accompanying her. They

have attended the Missions Prep

class and will be following up on

our previous contacts with a

village school and the newly

discovered Christian community

in another mountain village.

We have been encouraged to send

one or two volunteer children’s

workers to help Pastor David for

two to three months this summer.

Antioch has about 20 children

in the three minority house

churches that share one rented

facility in the main city. Contact

Billy Wolfe if you might be availa-

ble and could attend the Wednes-

day night, 6:00-7:00 PM Missions

Prep class. Funds are in hand al-

ready.

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www.trinitypursuit.org chris@trinitynorman.org

PURSUIT COLLEGE MINISTRY

1VOX YOUTH CHOIR

TODAY at 4:00 in the choir

room.

SUNDAY MORNING CLASSES at 9:15 OT Minor Prophets—Terry Garner

Philippians—Greg Hughes

Apologetics—Dr. Billy Wolfe

Foundations in Finance—Dr. Richard Carpenter

Pilgrims Progress—Adam Westerman

SUNDAY

9:15 a.m. Youth Life groups

4:00 p.m. 1VOX

WEDNESDAY

6:00 p.m. Engage family groups

—room 312

7:15 p.m. Engage Bible study—

room 312

ENGAGE YOUTH MINISTRY

PURSUIT PANCAKE PARTY!

Wednesday, 8:00 p.m.

YOUTH BREAKFAST

Weekly need is 5 dozen

donuts and 4 two liter

bottles of drinks.

December 7—Shaw

December 14—Gray

December 21—Latham

December 28—???

To sign up to bring donuts, con-

tact the church office, 321-2000,

or mandy@trinitynorman.org.

December 7, 2014

H!Z K!DZ! ELEMENTARY MINISTRY

First Grade Bible Presentation

TONIGHT, all fir st graders will

be presented a new Bible in the

evening service. Please have your

first grader sitting on the front

center pew by 5:50 if they are not

in AWANA. If they are in

AWANA, we will pick them up

and bring them to the front center

pew. We love giving children

their very own copy of God's

Word!

STARZ! K!DZ CHOIR K-5th

graders will be performing a

special Nativity next Sunday,

December 14 at 10:40 a.m. We

will take the children out of their

Sunday School classes at approxi-

mately 10:00 a.m. and take them

to the gym to begin dressing.

Our "HAPPY BIRTHDAY,

JESUS!" par ty will be Wednes-

day, December 17, 6:00 p.m.-7:15

p.m. in the gym.

K!DZ On Mission All 1st-5th

graders will meet TODAY, 9:15-

10:30 a.m. in rooms 201/205.

What a great time we will have

learning more about world mis-

sions and the life of Lottie

Moon. We will kick off our Lot-

tie Moon Christmas Offering with

a special emphasis-"Take Out the

Gospel”. Each child will receive

their Chinese take out box to fill

up with their offerings that go

100% to supporting missions

around the world. Snacks and

crafts included.

AWANA CHRISTMAS PARTY

TONIGHT 5:00-7:00 PM Meet

in the gym prepared for an espe-

cially FUN TIME of a movie,

popcorn and M&M's and

GAMES! AWANA will resume

on January 11!

Mark your calendar for our annu-

al K!DZ LOCK-IN! J anuary

16, 8:00p.m. until January 17,

8:00a.m.

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PRESCHOOL MINISTRY

PRESCHOOL PLAY DATES

December 8—We’ll meet at

Andy Alligator’s off Indian Hills

and I35 at 11:00 a.m. On Mon-

days they have a special where

you can spend $9.95 for a $20

game card, or a large pizza, or an

indoor fun pass. See their web-

site, www.andyalligators.com, for

more information.

ETC—EXTENDED TEACHING CARE

December 14 109-Tristan & Gayla Martin

107-Dagan & Krista Flowers

105C-Pete & Jennifer Jackson

101-Kevin & Teresa Gerber

102-TaMara Gibbs & family

103-Hailey Angel & Savannah

Charlson

211-Jason & Catherine Colvin,

Kara Polk

December 7 109-Grahm & Candice Dickinson

107-Matthew & Alana LaFon

105C-The Lynn family

101-The Sewell family

102-The Branscum family

103-The Hunter family

211-Mike & Dana Smith

HONEYBEES PRESCHOOL

CHOIR If your child is age 3-

PreK 5, we would love to have

him/her join Mrs. Angie and

Ms. Hailey every Wednesday

night, 6:00-7:00, in room 211 for

a time of worshipping Jesus

through fun songs and activities.

Your child must be potty trained

to attend this class.

We need a few couples to help

out once every 2 months with our

younger 3-year-old class during

the worship service (10:30-

12:15.) Please contact Kara Polk

ASAP if you can help out in this

area.

The Honeybees will be joining

the kids choir on Sunday,

December 14, in the morning

worship to present the

Nativity. If your Honeybee will

not be attending Sunday school

that morning, please make sure

he/she is in the Honeybee room

by 10:15 that morning. Puggles and Cubbies will meet

again tonight! On December 28, we will not

have Preschool Children's

Church. All of the children who

usually go into 211 on Sunday

mornings will need to sit with

their parents that morning for the

worship service.

December 7, 2014

Or send your prayer requests by email—

prayerministry@trinitynorman.org

GUEST REGISTRATION December 7, 2014

Thank you for being a guest of Trinity Baptist Church. Help us get to

know you better by providing us with some information about yourself:

Name____________________________________________________

Address___________________________________________________

City, State, Zip_____________________________________________

Home Phone Cell Phone__________________

Birth date____________________ Single or Married (please circle)

Undergraduate Student _________ Graduate Student ______________

e-mail address ____________________________________________

Names and ages of children and grades if school age:

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

I am interested in visiting with a member of Trinity about the topic

I’ve checked below.

__ becoming a Christian __ being baptized

__ joining Trinity Baptist __ joining a Bible Study group

__ other (please describe) __ being contacted by a pastor

Please fill out this form or the guest form in the back of the pew and

place in the offering plate. We’re so glad you joined us for worship

today!

Prayer Requests: If you have a prayer request, please fill out this form

and place in the offering plate.

Please pray for:

Prayer request:

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SERMON NOTES