First Baptist News INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

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Pastor’s Article

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Church Staff

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Pregnancy Care Center

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Upcoming Fall Schedule

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Team 252

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Foster Care Luncheon

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API Mission Trip

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ABCS For Girls

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Sunday, June 21, 2015

During Both Morning Worship Services CHURCH PLANTING TEAM

Bold Believers & G.R.O.W.

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Stephen and Monica Weeks moving July 2015

Calendar

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Maressa Gabriel & Rebekah Weeks moving August 2015

First Baptist Church 200 S. Church St. Rocky Mount, NC 27804

Church Office Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 2:30 pm Friday

Church Office (252) 446-9113

Fax (252) 446-5025

Website www.fbcrm.org

24-Hour Prayer Request Line (252) 446-5993

First Baptist Child Care Center (252) 446-7416

Maressa  Monica  Stephen  Ashley  Rebekah

My family and our team were blessed to spend all of last week in Philadelphia. I wanted to share a few praises from our trip and some prayer requests for our Philadelphia Church Plant. 1.) After much prayer and searching, God has provided us a great place to live! We will be living in a row home at 2949 W. Girard Street, Philadelphia. This is two blocks north of the church building NAMB is gifting to us. There are thousands of young couples moving in all around the area where we will be living. Our landlord is from Iran. He seems very open to relationship and is married with a son who is 1 ½ years old - which is almost the exact age as Mercy. Please be in prayer that God will allow us to build relationships and share the Gospel with him and his family. I won’t go into detail, but we have seen God’s hand all over leading us to this home - and we could not be more excited! 2.) I want to praise God for giving us favor with a man named Ryan, who joined us from Campus Outreach. CO is a solid campus ministry, headquartered in Alabama, and found all around the country. CO is committed to evangelism and discipleship. Ryan’s job is to oversee mobilizing students from his region to take jobs in influential cities where they can then become a part of a church plant, be discipled themselves and to make disci-

Ashley Weeks moving January 2016 ples. Ryan stated that he feels our location is very strategic, and a great fit for graduates. He said he felt we were very likeminded in our vision for the church and city and he eagerly anticipates moving forward with this partnership! Please be in prayer that God will guide us as we move forward in this Gospel partnership. 3.) Our partnership with NAMB continues to progress. I’ve received final confirmation from them that everything is approved and moving forward as planned. You can actually see my church planting profile on NAMB’s website now! 4.) Please be in prayer for me to have wisdom and discernment as I am in the process of incorporating our church plant and working through some final details before we move. 5.) Lastly, please continue to pray for my family as well as Maressa Gabriel and Rebekah Weeks and Ashley Weeks who will be moving with us to help plant. Pray we will all abide in Christ and have faith in Him. What an incredible time it has been as we have seen God sovereignly moving. Thank you all for your faithful support and prayers. Grace be with you, Stephen

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Church Rhythms for Kingdom Purposes

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Rev. Tim Griffin

MINISTRY TEAM Dennis Darville Preaching & Leadership Tim Griffin Education & Discipleship Mike Avery Family Ministries Larry Curtis Pastoral Care Tom Jones Missions & Evangelism Stephen Weeks College Students Jack Heim Music & Worship Louis Griffin Music & Worship Bob Britt Homebound Visitation

OPERATIONS & ADMIN TEAM Beth Thompson Operations Director Jewell Pullen Financial Administration Faye Strickland Facilities Administration Mary Helen Batten Receptionist/Admin. Assistant Kayla Dozier Administrative Assistant Nina Daughtridge Music Assistant Jane Clark Food Service Administration

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This past year’s schedule at FBCRM has been “different”, to say the least. Special meetings to discuss church staff, dealing with semi-retirements and new hires and realignments and the loss of a dear, dear pastor. More special meetings to teach and discuss church structures, dealing with pastor/elders and deacons and congregational responsibilities and relationships. It seems like a full year of altered schedules. Sort of makes one look for a little “normalcy”, doesn’t it? A little “rhythm” to life – individually and as a covenant community of believers. As we head towards the Fall and a new church year, knowing what to expect and what’s expected would be really nice, wouldn’t it? Over the next three newsletters, we want to explore a return to rhythm and normalcy.  What might that look like?  What purposes do all of the activities in which we engage serve anyway?  Why are we even doing what we do? Let’s start with the last of these this month, dealing with the other two in July and August. Why are we doing what we do? What are we seeking to accomplish with each and every activity in which we are asking our covenant members to participate and give their heart and soul? How is it that we are bringing glory to God and advancing His kingdom in the pursuits undertaken by our church family? We’d like to propose three primary facets of our life together as a body of disciples that drive us towards those ends. 1.The Rational Facet – Knowing God and His Ways Our knowledge of God is an absolutely pivotal point of life as a disciple. God has revealed Himself to man, and the deposit of that is the Word of God (i.e., the Bible). It is here that we find truth about who God is, how we relate to Him, what is broken in our world, and what the remedy to our dilemma here is. Accurate understandings of God through His Word are crucial. By the

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same token, this is not the sole component of life as a disciple. Our Christian experience is not limited to “information download” from some guru with more and deeper knowledge. This life with God is a far more comprehensive understanding of walking with God and others that necessitates the other two facets. As a result, we must include… 2.The Relational Facet – Knowing God and His People as Family This knowledge of God and man and His world that is gained through God’s revelation of Himself in His Word demands a response. It is crying out for us to transparently acknowledge our shortcomings and personal failure (regardless of the ex- “Truth about tent of one’s knowledge), to place God drives our trust in Christ alone to remedy our us to long situation, and our ongoing fight to live out for in our day-to-day lives that which is true relationship about us as new creawith God…” tions in Christ. Truth about God drives us to long for relationship with God – to be His and have Him be ours. This life found with God in Christ is unique. Our design and desire for relationship with God is not lived out in solitude. Rather, it is lived out with others who are made for and are pursuing relationship with Him. We need other covenant believers in the working out of our Christian lives. We need each other at FBCRM. We were made for Him. We were made for life with each other. This need drives us to recognize our call to the last facet… 3. The Missional Facet – Reaching God’s World to Further God’s Kingdom As ones who have received God’s revealed message about who He is and how He relates to us in living life with Him and other

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Pastor’s Article Continued believers, we long to live out the charge to share this truth with others who do not know Him. We become ever mindful of our charge to make disciples (Matthew 28:19-20). We seek to teach them to hear and obey all things that

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God has revealed about Himself and life with Him. We long to see them come into covenant relationship with God through Christ and with other believers (That’s us… and it’s the idea behind “baptizing” them.). Our Christian endeavor as the believers at First Baptist, Rocky Mount, is not merely internal for our personal walk, or familial, sensing that we belong with those who are fellow church members with us, but it is also compassionately caring and outreaching to God’s world around us. It is praying for those outside of relationship with God and His people, serving them and inviting them into our lives, sharing God’s truth with Gospel-intentionality. It is to the end that all men and women everywhere will know the one true God, personally and in community with other believers.

Everything that we do at FBCRM is driven by a desire to be all that God wants us to be. Our church rhythms, which have necessarily been adjusted lately, should be driven by these balancing facets of life together. We would love to encourage you to join us on Sunday, June 14th for a joint Sunday School session, in the large room on the third floor of the Family Ministry Center, to explore how we, as a covenant body of disciples, hope to establish rhythms in our schedule to the end of being well-rounded Christ followers, to His glory and the advance of His kingdom. For further information on this, you can check out Jonathan Dodson’s book, Gospel Centered Discipleship.

Join us on Sunday, June 14, for a joint Sunday School to hear about all of the exciting things we have planned for Fall 2015! Women’s Ministry

Pick up a baby bottle from the foyer of the FBC sanctuary and fill with check, cash or silver. Return filled bottles by Father’s Day, June 21.

Mother’s Day, May 10 THROUGH

Father’s Day, June21

Summer Bible Study, will be starting SOON. SOON.

Watch for more details in the Informer, Bulletin & on the Website. We are still working out a few details and will have this information out ASAP.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN START … YOUR … ENGINES!!! FBCRM Trail Life and American Heritage Girls recently built and decorated their own soapbox derby cars, then raced them on May 9, 2015.

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MISSION ECUADOR: June 2015 Our goals are for our family to grow in Christ, to share the Gospel with nonbelievers, to encourage believers and to assist the Shelter of Love in gaining sustainable funding support. Our prayer requests are for divine appointments, to honor God and against spiritual warfare. Pray for our health, the health of our parents here at home while we are away, for our flights and that we may build meaningful relationships with several Cambodians. While away, we will be praying for our church family.

Guy Tutterow will be leaving on June 5th and returning on June 13th. He will be teaching on what scripture reveals to us about missions from Genesis to Acts. Prayer requests:  That God would continue to be glorified through FBCRM’s ongoing ministries in Ecuador.

 That God would direct our involvement with a church whose leader has left.

 That God would give strength and stamina to Guillermo and Elvia to continue the work to which God has called them.

 That the believers in the Salasaka, Chiquicha, El Florida, Condoragua, El Triunfo, Huambalo, Surangay and surrounding areas would desire continued growth in God’s Word and their relationship with Him.

 That we would remain sensitive to those God is going to bring into His Kingdom, and obey His leading to share Christ with them.

 That our FBCRM Team going in July would have clear direction and leading as they prepare for their trip.

MISSION UGANDA: August 2015 Come be blessed as you learn more about serving some of God’s most precious and needy children. Enjoy lunch and fellowship while learning about foster care, one of the many ways we are able to care for "the least of these” in God’s kingdom. This lunch isn’t only for prospective foster parents, but also those willing to prayerfully consider being a support system for foster parents and their foster children within our church family. We would love to have you join us for more information. Meet at 12:30pm in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday, June 28, 2015. RSVP online or call the church office.

We are collecting the following items to take with us to Uganda, you can place these in the “Mission Bin” outside the Fellowship Hall. Please make donations by August 1.      

Candy Bibles & Books Boys shirts (preferably new) Boys dress/school and tennis shoes (preferably new) Hygiene Products (toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, wash cloths) School supplies

June 15-18 Students from FBCRM & participating churches in the community will invest in downtown Rocky Mount with a missional mindset to help meet spiritual, social, physical, and recreational needs of those living in our community. Please Pray:  For safety and good health for all of our students and leadership  For God’s Word to transform the hearts of those that hear the Gospel  For unity among the participating students  For those in our community to see the love of Christ through our service to them.

If you have any questions, please contact Jordan Griffin.

COOL KIDS A tutoring program through which we express the love of Christ, with the ultimate goal of the children and their families entering into a personal relationship with Jesus.

Beginning: September 30, 2014 Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3:15—5:15 pm

Volunteers Needed Volunteer Applications will be available Sunday, June 28

Volunteer Orientation—September 27

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BOLD BELIEVERS (For all Rising 1st Grade — 5th Grade)

Rising 2nd—5th Grade Girls

T u e s d a y, J u n e 2 3 & T h u r s d a y, J u n e 2 5

Join us as we look at

THE TORCHLIGHTERS Heroes of the Faith

R e g i s t r at i o n f o r m s w i l l b e ava i l a b l e i n Yo u r S u n d a y School Class or online 5/31.

Wednesdays @ 6 pm in the FMC Gym

Begins June 3

Preschool - Kindergarteners Join us on Wednesday nights beginning June 3 at 6pm We will be learning about “The Big Picture” in the New Testament

God’s people  In God’s Place  Under God’s Rule

Save these DATES!!! September 4-6 @ Camp Willow Run (High School Students) July 19-23 from 6 - 8:30 pm Family Ministry Center A great sports camp that combines athletic & spiritual training! Vacation Bible School (3 yrs. – Pre-K) Modified time for VBS 6—7:30 pm Cheerleading Instruction (Girls Entering Grades K-5) Soccer Instruction (Boys & Girls Entering Grades K-2) Basketball Instruction (Boys & Girls Entering Grades 3-5) Register at: www.fbcrm.org

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RE G UL AR WEE K LY S CHEDU L E Wednesdays

Sundays 8:00 am

3:00 pm 5:00 pm 6:00 pm

Televised Morning Worship (WHIG Channel 17) Contemporary Worship Service Church Library open until 10:00 am Bible Study Worship Service

8:15 am 9:00 am 9:30 am 11:00 am

Mondays 7:00 pm

Church Library open until 6:00 pm Fellowship Meal Nursery for Birth—2 yrs. (M105 & M101) GROW for 3 yrs.— rising Kindergarten Bold Believers Rising 1 – 5th Grade (FMC gym) Crossroads for Grades 6-12 (M301) Prayer Meeting for adults (Fell. Hall) Adult Choir Rehearsal

7:10 pm

Praise Team Rehearsal

Thursdays

Tuesdays 6:30 am 8:15 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 1:00 pm

6:30 am 12:30 pm 7:30 pm

Women’s Prayer Groups Staff meeting Pastor’s Meeting Women’s Prayer Group Stephen Ministry (1st & 3rd Wks M103)

Joint Sunday School 3rd Floor of the FMC Sunday, June 14 at 9:30am

Men’s Prayer Group (Choir room) Prison Ministry The Bridge

Come and hear about the exciting things we have planned for Fall 2015!

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7 Lord’s Supper Graduate Recognition Sunday (11am Service)

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14 Deacons’ Meeting (4pm M201A)

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T e a m 2 5 2 ( Hig h S c ho o l M i s s i o n t o R oc ky M o unt )

21 Father’s Day

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23 ABCS for Girls

24 Meals on Wheels

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25 ABCS for Girls Meals on Wheels

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