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January 26, 2023 Newsletter

on January 26, 2023January 28, 2023 By First Southern Baptist Church

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This weeks message.

This will be the last Sunday for the Lottie Moon Missions Offering.

Our next quarterly business meeting will be Sunday, January 29th at 5 PM in the worship center.

Anyone can come to the business meeting, all church members are encouraged to come and help take care of the church business.

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Lottie Moon Mission Offering

On another sunny day in northern Uganda, Hector steps into the river and turns to extend his hand to Oketa Robert, a new believer. Oketa Robert walks into the water, ready to take the next step of faith and be baptized. He is one of 34 believers baptized on this day in early spring. Each new follower of Jesus is a refugee from the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement.

Hector Cabrera is a global missionary partner who works closely with International Mission Board teams in Uganda. He was sent by the missions agency, Cuba to the Nations. His primary work is discipleship and outreach in refugee camps filled with South Sudanese and Congolese. What he really wants to see is a healthy church planted in the camp.

Hector, IMB missionaries and national partners are intentionally discipling new believers and looking for every opportunity to build relationships. Hector’s partnership multiplies the ministry in the area.

When Hector went to build a well in another camp, he took Joshua who attends a Bible study but is hesitant about baptism. While they worked on the well, they talked. Hector is intentionally pointing him to Christ.

Each week, Hector hosts a group of 13 young men in his own home. He feeds them homemade Cuban food and shares the gospel. He’s helping another house church planted by his friend Arich, a South Sudanese believer who was discipled by IMB missionaries a few years ago. Arich wants to reach youth in her village.

Hector’s days are busy but never complete until he heads to Rhino Camp, usually with a soccer ball. He can count on being joined by a group of boys, eager to play. On a dirt field, he shares the hope of Christ with refugee kids who have seen more violence, destruction and hopelessness in their short lives than anyone should.

Soon the kids will play in a permanent sports facility, funded through the generosity of Southern Baptists. Hector is praying that outreach will grow and flourish through the new youth center.

Like these refugees, Hector is acquainted with political turmoil and unknowns at home. During a time of uncertainty in Cuba, he entrusted loved ones to the providence of God and to the care of his sending church, Montes des los Olives Baptist Church in Alamar, Cuba. They made his journey to Uganda possible.

Please join us in sacrificially giving for this offering. This will be the last week for the Lottie Moon Mission Offering.

Wednesday Night Dinner
February 1, 2023
5:15 – 6:00 PM
Menu:
Spaghetti with Meat Sauce
Salad
Garlic Bread
Dessert

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Ladies Lunchtime

All ladies come to lunch together on Friday, February 3rd at Vargas (111 W. 15th Street) from 11:45 (or when you can) – 1:00 PM.

Friday – Food – Fun – Fellowship!! Come join us!

Lunch will be on your own.

Calling all men and sons to a men’s ministry breakfast on Saturday, February 11th at 8:00 AM. Come to at The Pancake House (640 E. Pancake Blvd.)

Come and enjoy some fellowship and good food together!

Man Up Conference

This conference is March 3-4th in Salina at Webster Conference Center.

The sign up deadline is February 15th.

If you are interested in going, please talk with Doug Werner (dougandchristiewerner@hotmail.com) or to Jim Dodge (jdodge@sharpmcqueen.com) to get more information on this wonderful men’s conference.

January Food Cupboard Numbers

54 – Families Served 7 – New Families 161- Total People Served

Our next food cupboard will be on Saturday, February 11th.

You can donate to the Food Cupboard by marking your check/envelope or your online donation “Food Cupboard” to help buy the food that we hand out each month to our community.

Contribution statements for 2022 have been emailed to those emails on file in Planning Center. Please make sure you download the statement soon and save it to your computer or cell phone as the link does expire on January 29! If you need a printed copy, please email Brandie at financial@fsbcliberal.com or call the church office (620-624-0186).

Those without an email address your statement has been mailed to you.

Brandie Winter
Financial Secretary

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You now have many safe and secure options for your giving towards FSBC, you may:

1. Drop off contributions on Sunday or church during office hours.
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First Southern Baptist Church
621 N Western
Liberal, Kansas 67901
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Offering required weekly for 2023 – $10,415.13

Offering received for Sunday, January 22, 2023 – $11,098.70

Year to date budgeted $441,660.52 Year to date received $30,814.89

Lottie Moon Mission Offering $1,494.41

January 12, 2023 Newsletter

on January 12, 2023January 16, 2023 By First Southern Baptist Church

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We are looking at restarting the men’s ministry.

This Saturday, January 14^th at 8:00 AM we will meet at The Pancake House (640 E. Pancake Blvd.) We will eat, have a devotional and discuss a schedule of men’s ministry activities for this year.

Come to enjoy fellowship and some good food with other men.

Hey Church!
We’re kicking off a new year with a new series called, “I LOVE my Church”!
We’re excited to kick off a brand new year with each and every one of YOU!

Wednesday Night Dinner
January 18, 2023
5:15 – 6:00 PM
Menu:
Turkey & Noodles
Mashed Potatoes
Vegetable
Dessert

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Lottie Moon Mission Offering

Everyone in the small church wondered if the baptism was ever going to happen. In this Central Asian city visited by thousands of tourists each year, the delays kept stacking up.

Delay one: A new believer fell through a double-paned glass sliding door, landing him in the hospital.

Delay two: The pool overflowed, flooding everything around it.

Finally, everything fell into place and the new believers were baptized. They shared stories of meeting Jesus and choosing to follow Him. The celebration marked an extra special occasion — welcoming a man and a woman into the family of God. In this Central Asian city, only about 0.01% of the population follows Christ.

“It’s kind of a number that doesn’t mean very much,” Erik White, International Mission Board missionary, said, trying to explain a statistic that normally rounds down to zero. “The best way to explain it is ‘very, very, very few believers here.’ Because of that, there are even fewer churches.”

Each decision, and subsequent baptism, is cause for celebration. Having a female submitting to Christ is rare. In this city, most interest in the gospel comes from young men. Through strategic placement of advertisements on social media, the team made up of IMB missionaries and local ministry partners have piqued interest in learning more about the gospel. The one-on-one contact most often begins with answering questions and progresses to studying Scripture.

A lot of young people are disillusioned by the majority religion in this area. Many turned to a hybrid-form of Deism — not wanting to say there’s no god but searching for a better answer.

“So that’s why Southern Baptists sent us,” Erik explained. “Here, we try to do the missionary task to see healthy churches among the peoples and places of our city.”

In this global city are immigrants sleeping on dingy warehouse floors, troubled youth escaping into the shadows of gaming salons and minority groups struggling to find acceptance. Erik sees a lot of beauty here but what God continues to show him are neighborhoods filled with people in desperate need of the gospel.

Equipping a local church or believer to engage their neighbors with the gospel can take 5-10 years. The goal is to have local believers pouring into others so they might go and see new churches planted. The reality is that there are few believers. Millions walk the city streets without knowing the Savior. That’s why each proclamation and baptism is cause for rejoicing and celebration, despite the delays.

Please join us in sacrificially giving for this offering.

Our next quarterly business meeting will be on Sunday, January 29th at 5 PM in the worship center.

Anyone can come to the business meeting, all church members are encouraged to come and help take care of the church business.

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Dear FSBC –

Thank you for allowing us to use the church for Jerry’s service. We appreciate your prayers during this time.

The Carlile & Garrison Families

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Offering required weekly for 2023 – $10,415.13

Offering received for Sunday, January 8, 2023 – $10,440.17

Year to date budgeted $20,830.26 Year to date received $13,064.77

Lottie Moon Mission Offering $3,383.91
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Totals for 2022

2022 Year Budgeted – $556,742.16 2022 Year Received – $518,221.89

Christian Light Foundation Total – $3,486.00
Lottie Moon Mission Total – $3,338.91
Viola Webb Mission Total – $1,566.75
Bill Koehn Mission Total – $3,724.90

December 22, 2022 Newsletter

on December 22, 2022January 3, 2023 By First Southern Baptist Church

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We are excited to worship with you and your family at each of these services. There are a few things to be aware of as you plan to join us:

Christmas Eve Services Dec. 23rd & 24th
- The two services will be identical.
- We will partake in communion together and light candles.
- There will be no childcare provided during these services. Please bring your whole family to worship together.
Christmas Day
- There will be no other activities on this day. The only thing taking place will be our worship service at 11:00 AM.
- There will be no childcare provided during this service. Please bring your whole family to worship together.
New Years Day
- There will be no other activities on this day. The only thing taking place will be our worship service at 11:00 AM.
- Nursery will be provided, but no children’s church for this service.

Our Christmas series, “All I Want For Christmas” will go through Christmas day, December 25th. Please make plans to join us as we take time to remember and celebrate the very first Christmas!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from your church staff
Pastor Mark, Pastor Jeremy, Pastor Todd, Pastor Tony, Brandie, Linda & Karol

In order to receive credit on your 2022 giving record, all contributions must be postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2022.

If you have any questions about your 2022 giving record, see Brandie Winter our FSBC financial secretary.

Lottie Moon Offering

God’s Ministry Through Students

Across the 2,000 inhabited islands of more than 7,600 that make up the Philippines, is a vast spiritual darkness. People are not only trapped by the islands, but trapped in their sin — separated from God because many have not yet heard the life-saving gospel.

International Mission Board missionaries Jess and Wendy Jennings committed their lives to bringing the gospel to these islands. The Philippines is their home, the place where they raised their three children, who are now adults.

The Jennings coordinate the work of training and sending out both American and Filipino students each year. Since 2004, almost 2,400 Americans and 1,200 Filipinos have participated in. They see the long-term value of short-term commitments made by students who experience God’s work among the unreached.

A man called “Tatay” was one life whose eternity changed when he met a small group of believers committed to reaching his remote island with the gospel. The Journey Church in Tennessee adopted his island, first in prayer and then by sending volunteers to serve on the island. Several mission teams met him and shared the gospel. Tatay, 81, welcomed visitors and enjoyed time spent with them in his home.

During the summer of 2019, the church sent a team of college students to live on the island and serve there for several months. Jess went to visit these faithful students and during that trip, the team went to Tatay’s home. Tatay had grown up religious because of the strong Catholic influence that is common in the Philippines, but he didn’t know Jesus personally. By the time Jess met him, the students had already shared six or seven Bible lessons with him. Jess helped facilitate a Bible study on Nicodemus with Tatay. Jess explained that he had two birthdays — the day he was physically born and the day he accepted Christ and was born again.

Tatay kept a notebook in his house with all the names of visitors who came. In this notebook were the signatures of many believers who had shared the truth of the gospel with him. Tatay asked Jess to sign it. Then Tatay wrote the date and said, “This is my spiritual birthday.”

When Jess visits Tatay, they look at the notebook and talk about that day. Tatay is being discipled by Filipino believers and still looks forward to visitors. God used missionaries, students, a U.S. church and local believers to reach one man on one island, but many lives were changed.

Thank the Lord for the faithfulness of missionaries Jess and Wendy Jennings. Praise God for the willingness of a church to care for the unreached on a remote island in Southeast Asia. Ask God to send more students who are willing to sacrifice a summer or semester so that others can hear truth.

Please join us in sacrificially giving to meet our $2,000 goal for this offering.

The church office will be closed
Monday, December 26 – Friday, December 30.

There will be no ENewsletter sent out on Thursday, December 29th.

Hey Church!
We’re kicking off a new year with a new series called, “I LOVE My Church”! Series begins on New Year’s Day! We’re excited to kick off a brand new year with each and every one of YOU!

December Food Cupboard Numbers

44 – Families Served 6 – New Families 127 – Total People Served

Our next food cupboard will be on Saturday, January 14th. If you have any questions about the food cupboard, maybe you would like to help with the food cupboard on distribution day or help make the food bags before distribution day, please talk with Cheryl Dreitz at 620-655-3548.

You can also donate to the Food Cupboard by marking your check/envelope or your online donation “Food Cupboard” to help buy food that we hand out each month.

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Offering required weekly $10,706.58

Offering received for Sunday, December 18, 2022 – $12,168.31

Year to date budgeted $546,035.58 Year to date received $457,372.73

Lottie Moon Christmas Mission Offering YTD – $2,539.50

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In order to receive credit on your 2022 giving record, all contributions must be postmarked on or before December 31, 2022.

If you have any questions about your 2022 giving record, see
Brandie Winter our FSBC financial secretary.

December 15, 2022 Newsletter

on December 15, 2022January 3, 2023 By First Southern Baptist Church

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Our Christmas series, “All I Want For Christmas” will go through Christmas day, December 25th. Please make plans to join us every Sunday as we take time to remember and celebrate the very first Christmas!

In order to receive credit on your 2022 giving record, all contributions must be into the church office or postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2022.

If you have any questions about your 2022 giving record, see Brandie Winter our FSBC financial secretary.

Everyone meet at the church – 6 PM
Wednesday, December 21st
Hot drinks at the church afterwards

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

God’s reach through healthcare

Word spread quickly in this North African town. A medical clinic arrived, and anyone is welcome. Setting up in a local church gave some people pause, but free healthcare is hard to turn down.

Security guards sent by the local government wander close by. They are used to keeping a close watch on activities hosted by Christians. The medical needs in the area are numerous and most people have very few opportunities to see a doctor or nurse or even get needed medicines. This time police choose not to deny people entry. The clinics don’t seem to cause trouble in the community.

International Mission Board missionaries Patrick and Anne Stein work with ministry partners to facilitate medical clinics all over the country. Healthcare strategies offer access to people they wouldn’t even have a chance to meet, let alone engage in gospel conversation. By meeting physical needs, believers can also bring the cure to their greatest spiritual need — separation from Jesus.

People come ready for help, but they also come ready to talk. They bring their ailments, their concerns and even their spiritual questions. One patient seeks care for an infection. Another had a dream last night and wonders if someone in the church can help them understand it.

Healthcare professionals are ready to receive them, but so are Christians trained in evangelism, discipleship and church planting. The Steins train several hundred people each year in gospel-sharing strategies; many are used alongside the medical clinics. They see countless relationships built as contact information is traded and follow-up visits in homes are added to calendars.

It’s usually after the clinic has closed that church members find those who are ready to accept Christ. People come for the free medicine, but some find eternal life. The Steins hear reports from their partnering churches about those who have come to faith. After one clinic in the fall of 2021, more than 60 people made professions of faith as a result of the relationships started.

In one town, the good will formed by a church clinic was so strong that local police and religious leaders allowed a pastor to hold prayer meetings. People of different faiths were invited to ask the pastor to pray for them in Jesus’ name. This exposure to the gospel is unprecedented in most countries where the growth of Christianity is strictly guarded.

Pray for the Steins and their work among the lost of Northern Africa. Ask God to bring boldness and wisdom to the believers in these areas. Pray for continued access to the lost through healthcare strategies around the world.

Some names have been changed for security reasons.
Please join us in sacrificially giving to meet our $2,000 goal for this offering.

We are excited to worship with you and your family at each of these services. There are a few things to be aware of as you plan to join us:

Christmas Eve Services Dec. 23rd & 24th
- The two services will be identical.
- We will partake in communion together and light candles.
- There will be no childcare provided during these services. Please bring your whole family to worship together.
Christmas Day
- There will be no other activities on this day. The only thing taking place will be our worship service at 11:00 AM.
- There will be no childcare provided during this service. Please bring your whole family to worship together.
New Years Day
- There will be no other activities on this day. The only thing taking place will be our worship service at 11:00 AM.
- Nursery will be provided, but no children’s church for this service.

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Offering required weekly $10,706.58

Offering received for Sunday, December 11, 2022 – $10,5748.17

Year to date budgeted $535,329.00 Year to date received $445,204.42

Christian Light Foundation YTD – $3,466.00
Lottie Moon Christmas Mission Offering YTD – $2,099.50

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In order to receive credit on your 2022 giving record, all contributions must be into the church office or postmarked on or before Dec. 31, 2022.

If you have any questions about your 2022 giving record, see
Brandie Winter our FSBC financial secretary.

December 1, 2022 Newsletter

on December 1, 2022December 6, 2022 By First Southern Baptist Church

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Come to our fall teaching series called, “The Church Next Door”, a study of 1 Corinthians.
Whether or not we admit it, most churchgoers have a “church crush”: a church or ministry that we look at and think, “Wow. Now, that’s how you do church.” The tendency to look at another church down the road or online and think it has to be better than our local church is more than common. As we dive into 1 Corinthians, we will dispel the myth of the perfect church and help us find joy in being part of the family that makes up our home church.

Wednesday Night Dinner
December 7, 2022
5:15 – 6:00 PM
Menu:
Hot Ham & Cheese Bake
Chips, Salad,
Dessert

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“Reaching the Nations Together” is this year’s theme for our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.

Partnering with others to send God’s representatives throughout the world. The greatest problem facing humankind is not a natural disaster, a humanitarian crisis, or political instability. The greatest problem in the world is lostness.

Southern Baptists send IMB missionaries to be steadfastly present among those who have never heard the gospel — people in cities, people in hard-to-reach places, and people who are dispersed and displaced around the world. At the IMB, we believe that missionary presence cultivates gospel access, gospel belief, and church planting and multiplication. Gospel access that knows no geographic or social boundary. Gospel belief that results in lives transformed. Church planting and multiplication that leads to local ownership of God’s mission. God has made our purpose clear. Together, we seek to take the gospel to every nation, all tribes and peoples and languages. We give ourselves to this mission every day.

Please join us in sacrificially giving to meet our $2,000 goal for this offering.

The video is available for your viewing pleasure below.

Click Here to View the Video – “Serving gods to Serving Christ”

Our Christmas series, “All I Want For Christmas” begins Sunday, December 11 and will go through Christmas day, December 25th. Please make plans to join us every Sunday as we take time to remember and celebrate the very first Christmas!

“Let Heaven and Nature Sing”

Ladies!
You are Invited!
“Let Heaven and Nature Sing,”
Ladies’ Legacy Christmas Celebration.

Sunday, December 11,
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Room 202
There will be Christmas music brought
by a variety of musicians,
stories of Christmas carols,
and delicacies to sample.

Please add your name to the
sign-up list in the foyer.

We are looking for some folks to help us out with a special piece of music for the Christmas Eve services on Dec. 23-24th. Whether you are a trained drummer or just like to keep a beat with the music in your car or home, you are invited! We would like to have 7-15 people participate in playing some drum parts. If you would be interested, please let Pastor Jeremy or Pastor Mark know ASAP! We will need to have a couple of rehearsals to make sure everything comes together!

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To Our Church Family –

Thank you so much for being here for us with the loss of Donovan’s mom. We appreciate the prayers, messages, flowers and support of this church family. Thank you also for providing the supper for our family after the public viewing time; it was so nice and a huge help.
We appreciate you all.

The Donovan Batt Family

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Offering required weekly $10,706.58

Offering received for Sunday, November 27, 2022 – $4,936.41

Year to date budgeted $513,915.84 Year to date received $422,395.30

Christian Light Foundation YTD – $1,966.00
Viola Webb Mission Offering YTD – $1,516.75

November 23, 2022 Newsletter

on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 By First Southern Baptist Church

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November 10, 2022 Newsletter

on November 10, 2022November 15, 2022 By First Southern Baptist Church

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Everyone is invited to the Liberal Ministerial Alliance Thanksgiving Service on Monday, Nov. 14th at 7:00 PM. The LMA is excited to worship with the sister churches across our community! The service will take place at Central Christian Church 500 N. Lincoln. There will be a time of praise and worship, an offering to help the LMA continue to serve our community, and a message from our own Pastor Jeremy Harris. We hope you will make plans to attend this special time together.

Wednesday Night Dinner
November 16, 2022
5:15 – 6:00 PM
Menu:
Tacos & All the Fixings
Beans, Rice, Salad,
Chips & Salsa,
Dessert

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Offering required weekly $10,706.58

Offering received for Sunday, November 6, 2022 – $7,097.84

Year to date budgeted $481,796.10 Year to date received $395,886.17

Christian Light Foundation YTD – $1,946.00
Viola Webb Mission Offering YTD – $978.75
Bill Koehn Mission Offering YTD – $3,499.95

September 22, 2022 Newsletter

on September 22, 2022September 26, 2022 By First Southern Baptist Church

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Wednesday Night Dinner
September 28th, 2022
5:15 – 6:00 PM

Menu:
Pizza
Salad
Dessert

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Hey Church!

Many of you know that we are a part of a larger association of churches called the Western Kansas Baptist Association, led by Randy Caddell. What you may not know is that Randy is coming up on 20 years of dedicated service to churches in western Kansas, ours included.
To honor the 20 years of services, churches within the WKBA are working together to raise funds to send Randy and his wife, Vicki, on a SURPRISE, all expense paid 7-day cruise of the Hawaiian Islands. To make this a reality, a total of $10,000 needs to be raised. If this is something you’d like to help make happen, you can send your donation of any amount to:

Western Kansas Baptist Association
1202 A Street
Garden City, KS 678467
Please put “Randy’s Surprise” in the memo line.
Thank you, in advance, for helping make this surprise a reality!

Every fall KNCSB collects the Viola Webb Offering for State and Associational Missions.
“Celebrating 75 years of sharing the Gospel in Every Town, City and Campus” is the offering theme for 2021-22. The offering goal is $210,000.
Half of offering gifts will be returned to the association where the money was given.
The offering will help support KNCSB church planting, collegiate work, church health and disaster relief.
The offering is named for Viola Webb who led Kansas-Nebraska Woman’s Missionary Union for 1959 to 1982. KNCSB named the offering in her honor after she retired.

460 Churches

Across Two States KNCSB
is the cooperation of 450+ Kansas and Nebraska churches and missions

81,000 Church Members
Being Equipped For Ministry
We aim to help the local church enable and equip its members for ministry

4,800,000 People Needing the Gospel
In Our Mission Field
The population of our mission field of Kansas and Nebraska

Our church goal this year is $2,000

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Offering required weekly $10,706.58

Offering received for Sunday, September 25, 2022 – $6,557.51

Year to date budgeted $406,850.04 Year to date received $336,589.78

Christian Light Foundation YTD – $1,906.00
Viola Webb Mission Offering YTD – $110.00

September 15, 2022 Newsletter

on September 15, 2022September 26, 2022 By First Southern Baptist Church

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Ladies’ Legacy Invites You!
“Back to Haiti Night”
Monday, September 19th
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Join us as we hear from Cindy Adams, Elizabeth Denoyer, and Karol McKee.
They will tell us about their experiences from the recent FSBC Mission Trip to Haiti, where they worked at Christian Light School with Sherrie Fausey.

Be thinking of questions you would like to ask the ladies. We all wonder about what their weeks in Port-au-Prince were like, and this is our opportunity to find out.

We will also have an opportunity to lend a hand to Sherrie by taking an offering to send a CD player, or more than one, and CDs of children singing. She says these would be very helpful to the teachers at CLS. We will be able to send them by way of Agape flights.

Please add your name to the sign-up sheet at the Welcome Center, so that we will order enough Dominos pizza for our meal!

Wednesday Night Dinner
September 21st, 2022
5:15 – 6:00 PM

Menu:
BBQ Meatballs & Sausage
Mac & Cheese with Broccoli
Salad
Texas Toast
Dessert

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Offering required weekly $10,706.58

Offering received for Sunday, September 11, 2022 – $11,463.39

Year to date budgeted $396,143.46 Year to date received $360,032.27

Christian Light Foundation YTD – $ 1,906.00
Bill Koehn Mission Offering YTD – $3,350.00
Viola Webb Mission Offering YTD – $10.00

September 1, 2022 Newsletter

on September 1, 2022September 7, 2022 By First Southern Baptist Church

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Our Summer sermon series this year is, “He Really Said That?!” We’ll take a look at some of the shocking statements Jesus made during his ministry. Statements like:

Anger = murder
Being maimed > continuing to sin
Unless you hate your family, you cannot be my disciple

These statements can be difficult to swallow in light of the kind, loving, Jesus that we prefer to envision. However, Jesus really said this and a lot more. Check us out Sunday at 11 am to get to the bottom of Jesus’ shocking statements!

Wednesday Night Dinner
September 7th, 2022
5:15-6:00 PM

Menu:
Hot Dogs
Chili
Chips
Dessert

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TeamKID is coming back here at FSBC! We are super excited to be offering TeamKID again starting Wednesday, September 7th! TeamKID is designed for Kids in Discipleship! It features Bible memory games and application of Bible truths, engaging missions videos and activities, and fun activity-based learning all while helping your kids grow to be more like Jesus. If you have a child who is 3 years old (as of September 1st) through 5th grade, they are invited to come join us each Wednesday from 6:10-7:30 PM. You can pre-register your kids by clicking here.
https://fsbcliberal.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1396718

We are excited to share that Betsy Betts is coming aboard as the TeamKID Director this year! Would you be willing to help us share the love of Jesus with kids this year? If you know you want to help us out this year, please click here to register as a volunteer!
https://fsbcliberal.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1396097

Hey Church –
The results from our recent survey regarding service time(s) are below:

Total voters – 79
9:30am service only – 13

11am service only – 34
Both services – 32

While the vote was closer than many of you may have expected, we will be moving forward with a single service at 11am and Sunday School at 9:30am. We will continue offering in-home community groups throughout the week for all who are interested. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this decision or the vote in general, please feel free to contact the church office to speak with one of our pastors – 620-624-0186
Thank you to all who took the time to participate in the survey.

Beginning Sunday, September 11, we’ll begin our fall teaching series called, “The Church Next Door”, a study of 1 Corinthians.
Whether or not we admit it, most churchgoers have a “church crush”: a church or ministry that we look at and think, “Wow. Now, that’s how you do church.” The tendency to look at another church down the road or online and think it has to be better than our local church is more than common. As we dive into 1 Corinthians, we will dispel the myth of the perfect church and help us find joy in being part of the family that makes up our home church.

Dear Friends,
Have you been participating in the life of First Southern Baptist Church for awhile now? Thank you! We are blessed to have you here. Are you ready to take the next step? We have a Membership Class coming up on September 11th following the morning service. We will provide lunch and childcare (if requested) so that you can come and hear what it means to be a member of FSBC. If you have questions about this class, please call the church office and speak with one of the pastors. If you would like to sign up to participate, please use this link.
https://fsbcliberal.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1394835

We hope to hear from you soon!
God Bless,

The Staff at First Southern Baptist Church

Small Groups here at FSBC Liberal encompass a few different types of groups. We have Sunday School classes that meet weekly all year long, we have Community Groups that meet in homes on various evenings, and we have special Bible Study groups that will meet for a specified time to study something specific.
As we head into the Fall, we are excited by the idea that every person in our congregation would be involved in a small group of some sort! Are you in a group? Would you consider hosting or leading a group? Pastor Jeremy would love to talk to you about the groups we currently have or about starting a new group this fall! Click the link for more information or talk to Pastor Jeremy.
https://fsbcliberal.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/1397273

Women’s Bible Study is starting on Tuesday, September 13^th at 9:30 AM in room 210. If you are interested in this study, The Gospel of Mark, please go by the welcome desk and sign up or call Shari Abbott at 620-655-6214 so we can get study books ordered.

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