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TODAY, April 11
9:00 MBC Brewer’s Café
9:45 Sunday Morning Bible Study
11:00 Morning Worship--All Strings Attached
12:00 MBC Brewer’s Café (Everyone invited!); Common Denominators
4:30 Deacon’s Meeting
5:00 HH4J
5:30 Dream Team meeting in the parlor
6:00 Worship Study--Obedience: Part One; Children and Youth Activities
Angel Food Ministries’ April order is due Monday, April 12. April’s distribution will be on Saturday, April 17, 10am. If you need an order form or have questions, visit www.angelfoodministries.com to view April’s menu or to place and an order.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, Menu: Soup, Sandwich, Salad, Dessert (Please sign up.)
5:30 Dinner; 6:00 Children and Youth Activities; 6:15 Bible Study; 7:00 Choir Rehearsal
National Advanced Directives Day--Friday, April 16, 2-6pm, in the SCCH Education Building-- Assistance will be available to complete free living wills and medical powers of attorney. If interested, see flyers posted in hallways.
Volunteers Needed --Church Yard Spruce-Up!!!--Saturday, April 17, 8-11am
April 20, 6:45pm--Lebanon Baptist Association Spring Meeting, Riverside Baptist Church
Have the Saturday night blues?? The Special Events Team invites you to a Fellowship Dinner on Saturday, April 24th at 6pm in the Fellowship Hall. We will provide chicken and drinks and invite you to bring side dishes to share. This will be a relaxed time for you to have fun and fellowship with your MBC family. The teenagers may be off to the prom that night, but the rest of us can have a fun Saturday night, too! Sign up in the foyer or talk to Tracy or Jonathan McCarty or Linda Dean.
Bullfrogs and Butterflies, Children’s Spring Musical about God’s promises--Sunday, April 25, 6pm
Smyth County Fuller Center for Housing 5K Fun Run/Walk: May 8, 9 a.m (registration begins 8am)--Race will start and finish at MBC. Entry fee $15 w/race T-shirt, $10 without T-shirt purchase. Race day registration begins at 8 a.m. Proceeds benefit the local Fuller Center Questions? Contact Neil Castrodale at (276)783-7537.
Brumley Cove Baptist Camp, located north of Abingdon, is looking for a certified life guard. If interested call 276-945-2128 or email reginald_blakewood111@comcast.net
MBC Homecoming will be June 6th and we need your help! We are trying to track down MBC members who were here for the first service in the old Sanctuary on June 6, 1960. If you were there or know someone who was, please call Tracy McCarty at 276-706-6703 or email mccartyparty@hotmail.com.
Easter Missions Reminder: Easter Missions Offering envelopes are included with your April packet of contribution envelopes.
MBC FYI: Mark and Linda are making plans to participate with a May Haiti team mission trip sponsored by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board working in partnership with the American Baptist Churches and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Total cost: approximately $1,257. (Additional info is posted on the mission bulletin board.) If you are interested in being a part of this mission team contact Mark.
MBC PRAYER CONCERNS: GULFPORT, MS: Jean and David Daniels (sister and brother-in-law of Nancy Lindsey); KINGSPORT: Diane Tucker’s father; Gloria Harvey (Attn: Gloria Harvey, Wexford House Room 512-A, 2421 John B. Dennis Hwy, Kingsport, TN 37660); GEORGIA: Carol Skinner (sister of Phyllis House and Lois Wolfe)
OTHERS: Janie Cline; Ralph Scott; Harold Conner; Greg Roberson; Tina and Lois Russell (friends of Debby Robinson); Charlie Kirby; Cletia Moore (mother of Brenda Boone); Brenda Boone; Steven Boone; Becky Sawyers (sister of Helen Deatherage); sister of Eva Mae Hutton; Wendy Webb (daughter of Linda Wymer); Tommy Harrison’s daughter, Diana; Ruth Ann Henry (friend of Ron DuPriest); Ron Dupriest (treatments); Debbie Taylor (sister-in-law) of Lisa Dockery; Mae Jesneck; Bobby Blevins; Bob Reeves (Debby Robinson’s friend); Freda Duncan’s daughter-in-law’s father
ALSO: the people of Haiti and Chile, the families of WV coal miners
IN THE MILITARY: Zachary McNew; Christopher Saufley; Brandon G. Holt (cousin of Christina Ellis’ cousin); Michael Snider (grandson of Nancy Lindsey); Jessie King and Walter Saleh (friends of Penny Dixon); Chris Lee (son of Darrell and Emma Lee); Monte Clark (brother-in-law of Jeremy and Holly Poplin)
CARE CENTERS: Chilhowie: Carolyn Forrest; Josephine Blankenbeckler; Sue Bonham (Lucille Hall’s mother); Margaret Farrington; Edith Pugh; Francis Marion: Leta Cummings (mother of Buddy Cummings); Elizabeth Fotschky (mother of Kathy Fotschky); Pat VanHoy; Jessie Ruth Osborne (friend of Janie Cline); Bonnie Stinson; Bristol, NHC: Austin Atwell (father of Barbara Armbrister);Florida: Harry Scott; N.C.: Oscar Roberson (father of Greg Roberson)
SYMPATHY is extended . . .
. . . to the family of Malene Millard.
. . . to the family of Bradford Henry Bangle (father of Jim Bangle).
. . . to the family of Helen “Hodie” Scott (Regina Davidson ‘s brother-in-law’s mother).
Saturday workday
We celebrate the risen Christ, but we live in Saturday, the day with no name, between Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
Author Philip Yancy makes a case for that argument in his book “The Jesus I Never Knew.”
“What the disciples experienced in small scale – three days, in grief over one man who had died on a cross – we now live through on cosmic scale. Human history grinds on, between the time of promise and fulfillment. Can we trust that God can make something holy and beautiful and good out of a world that includes Bosnia and Rwanda, and inner-city ghettoes and jammed prisons in the richest nation on earth? It’s Saturday on planet earth; will Sunday ever come?”
On many days, inklings of doubt work their way into my thoughts as they did this morning when I listened to a news report about clashes between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria that have claimed hundreds of lives. NPR reported, “Witnesses say the attackers hacked Christian children, women and men to death with machetes, axes and other crude weapons, and rammed corpses down water wells.” The news report went on to explain that issues beyond matters of faith are at work in the situation and that alternatives to violence are being promoted. Yet, the reporter concluded, “Death threats are circulating once again in poisonous hate text messages and people are living in fear.”
I think, yes, it is Saturday, but what are we to do on Saturday. Are we to merely wait and hope for Sunday?
Not if we heed Jesus’ instructions to the disciples when he first appeared to them after the resurrection. They were hiding behind locked doors paralyzed by fear, but Jesus told them, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”
We have work to do this Saturday.
-- Stephanie
Prayer of the Week
Father, Open our eyes and hearts to see all the work that must be done to bring the kingdom ever closer. Amen.
Read more
John 21:19-23
CHILDREN’S EXTRAVAGANZA
APRIL 3, 10AM
for children ages
birth-6th grade-
Easter Story
Games
Crafts
Music
A hotdog luncheon will follow. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
BULLFROGS
& BUTTERFLIES
April 25, 6pm
Bullfrogs and Butterflies is a spring musical about new life and promises to be performed by MBC’s children’s choir.
EGYPT
CHILDREN’S WORSHIP
Children 1-6 grades will journey with Joseph from prison to palace. Children’s Worship will meet every other Sunday at 11am.
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Marion Baptist Church
1258 N. Main St.
Marion, Va 24354
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Marion, VA 24354
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MARION BAPTIST CHURCH
APRIL 2010
THURSDAY, APRIL 1
7:00pm MAUNDY THURSDAY COMMUNION
FRIDAY, APRIL 2
GOOD FRIDAY
12:00 Noon--Community Good Friday Service--Ebenezer Lutheran Church
SATURDAY, APRIL 3
10am Children’s Easter Extravaganza
Easter Story, Games, Crafts, Music (ages birth-6th grades)
SUNDAY APRIL 4
EASTER
7:00am Sunrise Service (in the gazebo area)
Forests and Trees--John 20:1-18
Sunrise Service will be followed by a deluxe continental breakfast in the MBC Brewer’s Café lasting until the SMBS hour. MBC Brewer’s Café will not be open following the morning worship. Please enjoy this opportunity to fellowship with others. Breakfast is free; however, all donations received will help fund our “Bobby Blevins” project.
11:00am RESURRECTION SUNDAY
It Just Hit Me!
Acts 10:34-43
(There will be no evening activities.)
The sun is shining as I write these words. It has been toying with us the last week or so. One day it feels like spring and one day it snows. Winter is fighting a losing battle. The recent wintry blasts are the death throes of a season whose days are numbered. “The sun will come out…bet your bottom dollar.”
Even as spring is somewhat pliable, we call Easter a moveable feast. That is, unlike Christmas, Easter does not occur on the same day every year. It is a moveable feast.
Rather than the word feast, we might prefer holiday or holy day. Yet, feast is related to another word, fast. A feast can be a time to fast.
I think it is odd that Easter is moveable. I want it to be the one festival or holy day that is immovable. To me, the truth of Easter should reflect in the date of Easter. The facts around Easter are unquestionable, so should the date be. Of course no one is asking me, but if they were!
I suppose there are some who debate the facts around Easter. Some question the resurrection.
A variety of theories to explain the empty tomb emerged soon after the resurrection. The Gospels provide ample evidence that some people charged that the disciples of Jesus stole his body to give rise to the rumor that he rose from the dead.
Then there is the “swoon theory.” As that theory goes, when the soldiers took Jesus down from the cross he was not dead. Rather, he had only passed out. Then in the coolness of the tomb, Jesus came to and simply left the tomb.
Modern writers have even suggested that it was not Jesus on the cross but some one else had taken his place. Rather than die on the cross, Jesus lived until a ripe old age.
Yet, for most of us, the resurrection is without dispute. That is certainly true from the perspective of the writers of the New Testament. The Apostle Paul leaves us room to disagree on a variety of doctrines and beliefs. However, the resurrection is not up for debate. To me, the date should be that definite.
I do take some comfort in the fact that as a moveable feast, Easter is different from the others. A complex computation gives us the date for Easter. The other moveable feasts are set by the date of Easter. In other words, all our other holy days rotate around the holy day, Easter.
Let me challenge you this season. Set your calendar by devoting yourself to what means most, the resurrection of our Lord and Savior. --Mark
Sunday, March 28, 6:00 Worship Study will be preceded by a brief, called business meeting to vote approval of MBC Virginia Baptist Mission Board scholarship applicants.
TUESDAY, MARCH 30--7pm wePraise Rehearsal
THERE will be no Wednesday, March 31, meal, Bible Study, children’s or youth activities. However, there will be choir rehearsal at 6pm.
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 6PM --Youth Committee Meeting
Donations needed: Plastic eggs and individually wrapped candy are needed for our Easter Extravaganza. Please place donated items in the box provided. Thank you.
The MBC Endowment Committee (John Hill, Sherry Hester; Linda Ross; Richard Saufley, Joie Shuler, Joanne Tallent, and Ken Hall) is receiving requests for allocation consideration from 2009’s interest/dividends from the MBC Virginia Baptist Foundation’s Endowment Fund. Request forms are available by contacting the church office. The deadline for return of requests is April 8.
Angel Food Ministries’ April order is due by Monday, April 12. April’s distribution will be on Saturday, April 17, 10am. If you need an order form or have questions, stop by the Angel Food table in the coffee shop or go to www.angelfoodministries.com to view April’s menu or to place and an order.
Saddle Ridge Ranch--All VBS volunteers are invited to a VBS training on Sunday, April 18, at 12:15 pm. Lunch will be provided. If you are interested in helping with VBS and have not contacted Lisa or Debby, please attend this meeting.
Would you like to help? Items needed for Brenda Jackson, CDP employee-whose house burned over the weekend--cleaning items, kitchen items, toiletries, paper towels/toilet paper, laundry detergent, full size bedding --Take all donated items to the Agape House, 218 South Iron Street, Marion.
MBC PRAYER CONCERNS: SCCH: Ralph Scott; Elva Davis (Vanessa Teaters’ mother); Russell “Pete” Teaster (urgent need, friend of Janie Cline); BRISTOL: Robin Jones (niece of Louise Taylor); JOHNSON CITY: Caden Testerman (infant, friend of Ken and Betsy Hall); Lula Grey (friend of Janie Cline); Bobby Blevins (400 N. State of Franklin, Johnson, City 37604); GULFPORT, MS: Jean and David Daniels (sister and brother-in-law of Nancy Lindsey); SYCAMORE SHOALS: Beverly Greer (sister of Marie Blevins); KINGSPORT: Gloria Harvey; GEORGIA: Carol Skinner (sister of Phyllis House and Lois Wolfe); Shane Plummer (cousin of Shelley Eckert); MANASSAS, VA: CJ Brewer (grandson of Marie and George Blevins); LEBANON: father of Ramsi Humsi
OTHERS: Greg Roberson; Tina and Lois Russell (friends of Debby Robinson); Kay Bishop; Charlie Kirby; Cletia Moore (mother of Brenda Boone); Brenda Boone; Steven Boone; Becky Sawyers (sister of Helen Deatherage); sister of Eva Mae Hutton; Buford Hagy (friend of Tommy Harrison); Wendy Webb (daughter of Linda Wymer); Tommy Harrison’s daughter, Diana; Ruth Ann Henry (friend of Ron DuPriest); Dan Blevins (surgery, 4/6); Brenda Jackson (CDP employee, house fire); Debbie Taylor (sister-in-law) of Lisa Dockery
ALSO: the people of Haiti and Chile
SYMPATHY is extended to the family of Mark Thomas, (friend of Dennis and Linda Farris).
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Linda Farris would like to thank the MBC family for all the support of prayers, cards, condolences, and gifts shown to her and her family in the recent deaths of her two brothers, Roscoe Welch and Carl Welch.
Dear Marion Baptist Church family, God bless you from Mombasa, Kenya. I wanted to send you a quick hello and thank you for your generous love-offering and prayers. We are so honored to have you as “friends” and pray for your church family regularly. Our ability to send snail mail from here is very limited, so I thought an e–mail would be more reliable. We are doing well and look forward to beginning at Kijabe (after language school) in August. Please do not hesitate to e-mail when you have time. In His Service, Tom and Jolene Boeve (tjboeve@aimint.net)
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Get ready for a great time of music and praise! The Denbigh Baptist Christian High School Ensemble "One Voice," under the direction of Karen Poplin (Jeremy's mother), will join us for worship on Sunday, February 21st. These teenagers are talented and filled with the Praises of God! Don't miss out!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21
- 9:00 MBC Brewer’s Café
- 9:45 Sunday Morning Bible Study
- 11:00 Morning Worship--“You Really Matter”
Joining us for worship: Denbigh Baptist Christian High School Ensemble
- 12:00 MBC Brewer’s Café; HH4J (12-2pm)
- 5:00 Ensemble Rehearsal in the Music Suite
- 6:00 Bible Study in the Music Suite, Children and Youth Activities
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24: COVERED DISH DINNER
Women of all ages are invited to be encouraged and inspired by national speaker and vocalist, Joani Tabor, as she conducts a women's conference at First Baptist Church Damascus on Saturday, February 27th. See website (www.joanitabor.com) for more information.
MBC PRAYER CONCERNS: SCCH: Sara Hill, (mother of Kim Nyvoll); JOHNSON CITY: Bobby Blevins (ICU) 400 N. State of Franklin, Johnson, City 37604.); KINGSPORT: Gloria Harvey; BEALETON, VA: Maxine Davis; DURHAM, N.C. Dennis Fitzgerald (Michael Fitzgerald’s father); GEORGIA: Carol Skinner (sister of Lois Wolfe); Shane Plummer (cousin of Shelley Eckert); SC: Libby Hyland (sister of Frances Detweiler);: OTHERS: Greg Roberson;Tina and Lois Russell (friends of Debby Robinson); Phyllis House; Debra Buchanan (friend of Janie Cline); Kay Bishop; Charlie Kirby; Cletia Moore (mother of Brenda Boone); Carolyn Forrest; Cynthia Kemper (aunt of Mary Beth Jackson); James Buchanan (brother of Becky Guy); Brenda Boone; Steven Boone; Becky Sawyers (sister of Helen Deatherage); sister of Eva Mae Hutton; Harold Church and Debbie (friends of Barbara Armbrister); Elva Davis (mother of Vanessa Teaters); Pat Bolter; Beverly Greer (sister of Marie Blevins); Junior Davidson; Ralph Scott (tests); Andrea Burchfield (wife of Dan Birchfield, pastor of East Bristol Baptist Church); ALSO: the people of Haiti; Frances and William Hester (LBA Gulfport Mission Trip, February 20-27)
CARE CENTERS: Chilhowie: Louise Wiles; Josephine Blankenbeckler; Sue Bonham (Lucille Hall’s mother); Margaret Farrington; Edith Pugh; Francis Marion: Leta Cummings (mother of Buddy Cummings); Elizabeth Fotschky (mother of Kathy Fotschky); Pat VanHoy; Jessie Ruth Osborne (friend of Janie Cline); Bonnie Stinson; Florida: Harry Scott; N.C.: Oscar Roberson (father of Greg Roberson)
IN THE MILITARY: Zachary McNew; Christopher Saufley; Brandon G. Holt (cousin of Christina Ellis’ cousin); Michael Snider (grandson of Nancy Lindsey); Jessie King and Walter Saleh (friends of Penny Dixon); Chris Lee (son of Darrell and Emma Lee); Monte Clark (brother-in-law of Jeremy and Holly Poplin)
Beginning on Sunday, March 7, Jeremy will lead a Sunday evening open discussion and round table study entitled “Seven Words of Worship.” This study will encompass a history of worship, past forms of worship, as well as the future direction of worship.
Garry Smith and his family would like to thank our church family for all the cards, calls, food, visits, and especially their prayers during the recent loss of his father. At times like these, the meaning of "a church family" really becomes meaningful, and all your support was appreciated.
UPDATE: BOBBY AND JOYCE BLEVINS PROJECT
Floor Installation Date--FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 10:00 a.m.--If you are interested and available to help with the installation of hardwood flooring at the Blevins’s home, contact Mark Ross. A crew is also needed for light preparatory work, including picking up/delivery of supplies.
To Our Church Family, Bobby and I have been absolutely overwhelmed by your thoughtfulness and love. We can never find words to express our thanks for the cards, calls, gifts and visits, but most of all, your prayers. We have a long road ahead but with your love and support it will be so much easier to keep pushing forward. We look forward to the day that we will once again be seeing your smiling faces from our seats in the choir. -- In His Love, Joyce and Bobby
MBC offerings to the Haiti Relief Fund to date: $1,907
If anyone has mini-blinds they are ready to discard, please save the wands from them. They will be used by the interpretive movement group HH4J, and will be greatly appreciated. Please leave them in the church office or give them to Tracy Smith.
Sewing Bee Coming!! If you sew, we need your help making costumes for children for the special Easter program. This is very simple sewing, and we would appreciate any help. Please notify Ruthie Smith at 783-7779, and she will get you fabric, patterns, etc. The snow has delayed our starting this project, so we need to hear from you!
New Beth Moore Study starting soon!
Starting on March 5 at 6 pm, Barbara Armbrister will host a study on the book of Esther. All women are invited to join in this great study to be held each Friday night, 6pm, at the Armbrister home (531 Keller Lane). For additional information or questions contact Barbara Armbrister at 783-2554 or meet with her in the MBC Brewers Café following Sunday morning’s worship service, February 21.
Ranch Hands Needed!
Ranch Hands are needed for Saddle Ridge Ranch to be held on June 20-24. If you are interested in helping please see Lisa or Debby Robinson
MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES
~~”Buckets of Hope” offers opportunity for every Baptist to provide hands-on help to Haitians. (Additional information will be available at a later date.)
~~MBC’s Outreach Ministry Outreach Team is sponsoring a food drive--NOURISH THE BODY…NOURISH THE SOUL--Food items will be collected (in designated boxes) now through February 24. (Items needed: canned meats, canned fruit and vegetables, cereal, crackers, instant potatoes, peanut butter, instant powdered milk, infant formula)
~~A trailer has been donated to the Lebanon Baptist Association for the construction of a “shower trailer.” Approximately $5,000 has been raised; however, additional monies are needed. There will be four showers, a washer and dryer, and a water filter system inside the trailer. (Checks can be written to MBC. Please designate your check “LBA shower trailer.”)
~~To give to the Haiti Relief Effort write your check to Marion Baptist Church, designate to “Haiti Relief Effort,” and place in offering plate or return to the church office. You also can donate online @ www.vbmb.org.
~~The Lebanon Baptist Association is collecting shoes, school supplies, and book bags to send to Belize. If you are interested in donating items, you may leave them in the box provided. Shoes can be black for school or flip flops or tennis shoes for everyday use. All sizes including adult are needed. Additional details are posted on the mission bulletin board
~~Coupons Needed--Military families are in need of your product coupons. They can even use out of date ones until 6 months later. If you have coupons that you are willing to donate, leave them in the box provided. (on the wall outside Lisa’s office)
~~Twenty-five people are needed to staff a Day Camp (ages 7-18) in Belize during the week of July 24-31. Contact Ron Gilbert, Lebanon Baptist Association (944-4554) for more information or questions.
~~Thirty– five to forty children’s workers are needed to serve in Interlaken, Switzerland, during July 7-17, 2010. Volunteers will be teaching VBS to children birth – 6th grades. This trip is offered through the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. Cost is $2,600. See Lisa if you have questions or need more information.
~~2011 Mission opportunity – Interlaken Switzerland – Volunteers will be teaching VBS to children birth-6th grade. This will be a ten day trip starting around the first of July. Cost would be around $2,600 per person. This is a church sponsored trip, so we will be fundraising to help with the cost. If you are interested in going, please see Lisa Dockery.
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He is my loving God and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer, my shield, in whom I take refuge, who subdues peoples under me.
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