We wanted you to be aware of all the worship opportunities YOU have at FSBC this Easter season. If you have any questions beyond the schedule below, please call (620-624-0186) or email (church@fsbcliberal.com) the church office.
Friday, April 2 – Good Friday Worship Experience at 6:30pm
Worship
Prayer
Lord’s Supper
Brief message with interactive response
Childcare provided for age 5 and below
Sunday, April 4 – Sunrise Service on Front Lawn at 7:15am
Worship
Brief resurrection message as the sun rises
No childcare
Sunday, April 4 – Easter Worship Experience 9:30 or 11AM
Worship
Prayer
Baptism Celebration
Easter Message of Hope!
Normal childcare provided
Please be praying for those you’ll have the opportunity to bring with you to one or more of these exciting worship experiences!
You can scan the QR code and sign up for the Wednesday Night Supper on April 7th.
Menu: Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Chips, Veggies and Dessert. Please sign up by 5 PM on Monday, April 5th.
Don’t miss this! We will have a special Good Friday service on Friday, April 2nd beginning at 6:30pm. Here, we’ll consider the very last words Jesus spoke on the cross before his eventual death, and their implications on our lives today. This service will include:
Worship
Prayer
Communion/Lord’s Supper
Brief message w/ clear application
Family friendly environment
Childcare for kiddos 5 and under
We’re excited to get to celebrate this season with you!
Food Cupboard
Our next food cupboard will be on Saturday, April 10th from 10 – 11:30 AM at the east entrance of the church. Here are a few food items that we are needing before our next food cupboard: Peanut Butter, Jelly, 1 lb. bag of Rice or Beans, Ramon Noodles & Mac & Cheese.
You may bring these food items to the church. You can also donate by marking your check or donation – Food Cupboard. If you have any questions or would like to help with the Food Cupboard, call Cheryl Dreitz at 620-655-3548. Thanks for your help with this ministry!
Cross Seeker Camp: Register TODAY!
Attention Parents: Cross Seeker Camp Registration is now open. Click on the QR Code to access the application.
Cross Seeker Camp is a 5-day youth camp for students who have completed 3rd-5th grades, Cross Seeker Missionaries (9th-12th, grades), and their sponsors. Camp is scheduled for June 7-11, 2021 at Webster Conference Center in Salina, KS. Cross Seeker Camp is both an evangelistic and discipling event. Encourage your students to invite lots of friends.
A week includes:
Worship, messages by the camp pastor, and outdoor games and activities.
Quiet Time with God: Each day begins with planned daily devotions for participants to have an individual encounter with God.
Church Group Meetings: Led by CSMs and Church sponsors.
Recreation: The Blob, swimming, canoeing, paddle boats, disc golf, gaga ball, dodgeball, volleyball, and the Zipline.
Camp forms are due by Wednesday, April 7, 2021, with half of the registration fee.
The other half is due by Sunday, May 30, 2021. We will try to have a couple of fundraisers between now and May. Please do not let the cost be an obstacle. Visit with Norma Jean about possible scholarships.
I look forward to your child(ren) joining us this summer. If you have any questions, please call me or send me an email at children@fsbcliberal.com.
Who is Annie Armstrong anyway?
FSBC is in the midst of our annual Annie Armstrong Easter Offering when we contribute funds to support missions work in North America. But who, you might wonder, is Annie Armstrong? We may know her only as the namesake of this annual offering, but she is an important figure in Southern Baptist history. In the late 1800s Annie was a bold missions advocate, who is remembered for beginning WMU, and for having an influence in the denomination during the era after the Civil War years.
Annie lived from 1850 to 1938. She had become a Christian in 1870 in Baltimore, and was impressed by a women’s group called “Women’s Mission to Women,” and always remembered that circle of kneeling women praying for missions. This group did much for missionaries and gathered funds for them. Her goal was for every church to have a group who would pray for and support home missions. She was instrumental in forming the Women’s Missionary Union in 1888. GO FORWARD was Annie’s watchword and she always saw endless possibilities for ministry. She organized activities involving churches among the black community, worked among struggling mountain people, and took a special interest in reaching international visitors in Baltimore.
Annie was a prolific letter writer, sending 17,718 letters in 1893, mainly to Southern Baptist Convention leaders, missionaries, pastors, and women. She also was a prolific writer of curriculum for WMU, and for young people in a S.S. publication, as well as in other publications related to missions.
Traveling consumed much of Annie’s time. For example, in 1903, she covered over 12,000 miles and was sometimes gone from her home in Baltimore as many as 50 consecutive days. This was travel in jolting wagons and hiking up and down rough mountain paths! She never accepted a salary and paid her own traveling expenses.
Annie had a special heart for young people. She often visited colleges to talk to young women. She believed that youth should be trained so that they would be informed about missions and would respond if God should call them into missions. Because there was hardly any printed material available for this training, she planned and prepared program materials and made them available.
Her biographer called her a “dreamer in action, with the emphasis on action. She worked long, hard hours in too many ventures to recount in a brief story.” Tom Nettles, a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary called Annie Armstrong “a person who looked at her gifts and her opportunities and pushed through any personal inhibitions and contextual prejudices to do what she believed God wanted her to do for His glory and the extension of the Kingdom.”
In 1938 when Annie was 88 years old, she was asked to send a message to the Golden Jubilee meeting of WMU. Missions was still on her heart when she wrote: “Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward…After the study of God’s Word comes the study of the fields. Then people pray. Then they give.” On December 20, 1938, Annie died. Her many accomplishments point to her strong belief that if a person will GO FORWARD in faith, she will find “the stone rolled away.”
Our Easter offering takes its name from this great lady. In 2021 may we at FSBC honor her memory by praying and giving to reach our North American neighbors with the gospel. Our goal for 2021 is $2000, our portion of the $70 million for the greater North American goal. Today, over one billion dollars has been raised through this annual offering, and it continues to support missionaries and their work across the U.S. and Canada. What a privilege to be a part!
Get Ready!
Beginning Sunday, April 11, we will begin a brand new teaching series called, “What’s Next?” Following our Easter celebration on April 4, we’ll ask and answer the question, “So, since Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave, what am I supposed to do next?” This is a sermon series designed to challenge the church to pursue the Great Commission in Matthew 28:19-20. We’re so excited to see what God will do in our church as we respond in obedience!
Our next quarterly business meeting will be on Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 5:00 PM in the worship center. Come join us as we plan for upcoming events and ministry for our church.
Secret Church is a 6 hour intensive study of God’s Word. We gather with some snacks and study together with Pastor and Author David Platt as he guides us to understand God’s Word better. The simulcast is taking place on April 23rd this year from 6:00 PM to Midnight. We would love for you to join us! Sign up in the lobby today as we have a limited number of study guides for this event. If you would like more information about this years theme, please click here…
VBS 2021 Destination Dig – – Volunteer Applications Being Accepted
Please mark VBS on your calendar for July 18-22, 2021, from 6 p.m. to 8:45 p.m for VBS Destination Dig. VBS is for kids who are 4 years old by September 1 through 8th grade. We would love to have your children and teenagers join us for this huge evanglististic event. We need volunteers for the following areas: teachers, cooks, security, registration, missions, crafts, recreation, music, prayer team, and more. To join the VBS Crew, click on thislink and complete the information needed. You may also reach out to Norma Jean at children@fsbcliberal.com for any questions. VBS Volunteer training begins on Wednesday, May 19, 2021, from 6:15-7:15 p.m.
FSBC is excited that God led us to start a Broadcasting ministry many years ago. As we entered into this crazy year, the fact that we were already set up to livestream and record our services was a blessing. The equipment that we use for this ministry is beginning to wear out and we are in the process of replacing it. Would you be willing to prayerfully consider helping us purchase the new equipment to keep this ministry running smoothly? Click on the link below to hear from Gary Classen the head of our Tech Team for more information!
We have already received $8,600 towards the new cameras.
If you haven’t done so yet, download the Church Center App today! With this app you can:
1. View our Sermon Archives 2. Connect with FSBC and ask for Prayer 3. Give Securely Online 4. Pre-Check In your children 5. Keep Connected with the Groups you’re a part of
To get started simply click one of the links below to download on your device, and then search for First Southern Baptist Church Liberal as you open the App. Let’s Go Church!
