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In the Kingdom of God there is enough for everyone. We practice this understanding each time we gather around the communion table and welcome all believers to join us in celebrating the Lord’s Supper.

Lott Carey was a freed slave from Charles City Virginia who led a group of freed slaves to return to Liberia and begin a mission school in the capital city of Monrovia which has been in existence for 104 years now, providing quality education for students of Liberia. Following a 15-year civil war, that destroyed much of the country including parts of the school, they are rebuilding and continuing their ministry as they go. It is currently a day school for students K-12, but they are working to rebuild and, once again, be a

residential school, thereby having a greater impact on the students. Their motto is “Character, Industry, Scholarship” as they strive to instill Christian values in their students. Several years ago now, Theresie Houghton and Patti English met Emile Sam Peal while all studying at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. The burden of his heart at that time was the terrible things happening in his home country of Liberia in the midst of civil war, and what was happening in the lives of the students. We prayed together in many contexts and, eventually, peace was restored to the country and things are being rebuilt. Emile has been able to help “jump-start” the school and has served as Superintendent of Lott Carey Mission School for the past 4 years as they have struggled to rebuild. The burden of his heart is still on the students! These students have many needs which could become barriers to their ability to participate regularly in their educational process and Emile is inviting us to partner with him and a church in

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Maryland that is filling a container to be shipped later in September. We are invited to bring underwear (grades K-12) and

hygiene items which will assist in meeting some of the students’ basic needs in order for them to remain in the educational community. Life is difficult for all who are struggling to rebuild and resources are scarce. These simple gifts can make a huge difference in the lives of students! So let’s be Kingdom Builders assisting Emile Sam Peal in serving his students and equipping them to experience, “Character, Industry and Scholarship” as they learn. You may leave your contributions in the vestibule at the Red Doors and you are invited to be prayerful for these students and their leaders!

The Lott Carey Mission School Please visit http://lottcareyschool.org/

Emile Sam Peal

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8:30am Johnny Jones (Lead),

Phil & Suzanne Short, Carolyn Helfrich

Welcome Darrell & Terri Caldwell

Balcony Norah & Adam Pence

September 4 Extra Deacons for Communion:

Robert & Chaleé Carmichael, Keith Wampler, Jane Sthreshley,

Larry & Joy Case

Offertory Prayer: September 4 Chaleé Carmichael September 11 Jane Sthreshley September 18 Johnny Jones September 25 Phil Short

-Deacons-

11:00am Zena Harvley-Felder (Lead),

Lindsey Haun, Marian Wiltshire, Shirley Onderdonk, High Mullen,

Jean English, Bob Dungan,

Welcome and Balcony: Bill King, Jan Pierson

September 4 Extra Deacons for Communion:

Tina Abel, Sherri Gallahan, Rich Pitts

Offertory Prayer: September 4 Rich Pitts September 11 Theresie Houghton September 18 Jean English September 25 Zena Harvley-Felder

-BusDrivers-

8:30am Clara Patton, B.J. King, David & Anne

Pierce Elevator: Mike Wondree

11:00am Dewey and Judy Lowman, Cindy Baker,

Paul Messplay & Beverley Blaisdell,

-Ushers-

Dewey Lowman Dean Goff Tony Overby Robert Carmichael Mark Houghton Keith Morris Jim McGlone Dean Goff

September 4 September 11 September 18 September 25

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--Greeters Schedule--

Princess Anne St: Jerry & Vicki Silver Sanctuary Door: Keith & Janis Snider Caroline Street: Children’s Area: Robert & Chaleé Carmichael Youth Area: Volunteer from Youth Class Amelia St: Hugh Mullen

--Deacons-- 8:30am

Marsha Stewart (Lead), Ed Monroe, Lori Yelverton, Sarah Bush King

Anne Nuckols, Whit Yelverton (W) John Ingram, Donna Guidry (B)

11:00am Steve Gallahan (Lead),

Ben & Janice Clark, Jack Marcom, Joe DiCecca, Keith & Donna Morris,

Jeff Leggitt Dewey & Judy Lowman (W&B)

--Ushers--

8:30am Dave & Susan Ellefson, BJ King,

Megan Overby Elevator: Mike Wondree

11:00am Jim & Bettie Wiltshire, Randy Hart,

Tom & Zena Harvley-Felder, Gayle Webster

--Bus Drivers--

Keith Morris, Mark Houghton

Saturday, August 27 To Reach a Minister After Office Hours,

please call 540-300-1442

Sunday, August 28 8:30am Worship 9:45am Sunday School 11:00am Worship 12:30pm Kirundi Worship 5:30pm Sunday Night Youth

Monday, August 29

Tuesday, August 30

Wednesday, August 31 6:00pm Youth Pool Party @ Snellings’ 7:00pm Sanctuary Choir

Thursday, September 1 10:00am Prayer Shawl Ministry 5:00pm Community Meal 6:00pm Preschool Orientation

Friday, September 2

Saturday, September 3 To Reach a Minister After Office Hours,

please call 540-300-1442

Sunday, September 4 8:30am Worship/Lord’s Supper 9:45am Sunday School 11:00am Worship/Lord’s Supper 12:30pm Kirundi Worship 5:30pm Sunday Night Youth

Ministry Budget

Weekly Needs $26,091

Sunday, August 21 $17,003

Y-T-D Total $766,656

Ahead/Behind Budget -$120,207

BUOH in Missions

Weekly Needs $4,808

Sunday, August 21 $2,588

Y-T-D Total $93,387

Ahead/Behind Goal -$70,085

Capital Fund

Sunday, August 21 $1,380

Y-T-D Total $30,755

—CongratulationsTo—

John Garnett, IV and Mar in the birth of their son and daughter, John Milton Garnett, V, and Jana Garnett. Proud grandparents are John Garnet, III, and Lish.

-In Memory of- Ministry Memorial Fund for Nancy P. Atkins, given by the Baraca Bible Class of FBC...for Narlene Brooks, given by Marian Wiltshire...for Larry E. Snider, Sr., given by his wife, Kathy...for Betty B. Walters, given by Edward & Dinamarie Gross; Lene Lavery; Paul & Betty Morgan; Frances & Cameron Nerdahl; Marian Wiltshire...for J. Weldon Wampler, given by The Ruth Class of FBC...for Camilla Willett, given by Francis & Dot Curtis; Bill & Marla Tignor; Marian Wiltshire

Micah Ministry for Camilla Willett, given by John & Margaret Ingram

Embrey Endowment for Nancy P. Atkins, given by Janice Ashley...for Dean Freeman on her birthday, August 23, given by Gail & Chris Hylton...for Walter Self, on his birthday, August 2, given by Gail & Chris Hylton...for Al Simms, Jr., given by Sam & Laura Smart

Watering the Roots Campaign for Betty Blaisdell on her birthday, August 8th, given by Pep & family...for Al Simms, Jr., given by Bill & Marla Tignor; Charlotte M. Walker; the Sojourners Class of FBC; E-TRON Systems, Inc; Kitty & Ben Wafle...for J. Weldon Wampler, given by Annie Mae Jones...for Camilla Willett, given by Rosemary Dodd

Music Ministry for Betty B. Walters, given by Nolie & Tina Abel

Special Friends for Kathy West on her birthday, August 24, given by Gail & Chris Hylton

Capital Fund for Al Simms, Jr., given by Janice Ashley...for Betty B. Walters, given by Rosemary Dodd

Thursday Community Meal for Camilla Willett, given by Janice Ashley; Jack & Barbara Louthan; Don & Cheryl Seay; Kathy Snider

Building Upon Our Heritage for Narlene Brooks, given by Starke & Madelyn Jones...for Camilla Willett, given by Ben & Janice Clark; Gail & Chris Hylton; Neal & Betty Walters

-In Honor of-

Ministry Fund for the 54th Anniversary of Kathy and Larry Snider...for Mary Bain, given by friends...for Becky Bennett on her birthday, given by her family...for Dot Curtis, given by friends...for Brenda Douglas, given by friends...for Susan Graham, given by friends...for Sylvester Silver, on the occasion of his 99th birthday, given by Francis & Dot Curtis; John & Margaret Ingram; Jerry & Vicki Silver

Global Missions for Jim & Bettie Wiltshire on the occasion of their 63rd wedding anniversary, given by Lucille Skinner

Hospitality Ministry for Sylvester Silver, on the occasion of his 99th birthday, given by Bill & Nancy Young

Music Ministry for Sylvester Silver, on the occasion of his 99th birthday, given by Charlotte Walker

Watering the Roots Campaign for Sylvester Silver, on the occasion of his 99th birthday, given by Rosemary Dodd

Group Home Bell Ringers for Anne & Tommy Higgins, III, given by Janice & Ben Clark

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Music & Missions For Children

Beginning Wednes-day,

Dinner- 5:15pm* Activities-6:00-7:00pm

*Please make reservations for

your family by calling the church office.

Wednesday Night Dinners and Wednesday Night Dinners and Wednesday Night Dinners and Wednesday Night Dinners and Activities for All Ages Resume Activities for All Ages Resume Activities for All Ages Resume Activities for All Ages Resume

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We are excited to announce that this year we will offer our mission and music programs in six-week sessions. This will allow us to focus each learning experience and build towards a mission project or leading in worship. These sessions will run on the same schedule as adult sessions, beginning on September 14th with missions. Below you will find a schedule of sessions including special events and breaks. Missions- Sept. 14th-Oct. 19th / Feb 15th-March 22nd Grades 4th-6th- A102 Grades 1st-3rd-A100 Preschool/Kindergarten- Room C313 Music- Nov. 2nd-Dec. 14th/ Jan. 4th-Feb. 8th/ March 29th- May 10th Grades 4th-6th- Choir Room Grades 1st-3rd- Room PA111 Preschool/Kindergarten- Room C313 Special Events- Oct. 26th Fall Festival, May 17th Church Picnic No Activities- Nov. 23rd, Dec. 21st, Dec. 28th, April 19th

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Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12!Beginning the week of September 12! A variety of activities have been planned and more will be added to our schedule as we go! If you have a suggestion, please let Patti know! Beginning the week of September 12, we will enjoy daily activities planned for adults who are available to participate. Some will be ongoing, some will be one-day events. So watch your calendar carefully and participate in as many things as you are able to enjoy! We will update the schedule regularly on the website calendar so look there frequently! For now, you may begin looking forward to:

Weekly Events:

Mondays, 9:30 -11:30am – Women’s Bible Study – Using Anne Graham Lotz’, Into the Word. We gather in PA 111 (The Blue Room) for a time of study, sharing and prayer. Led by Leah Fromer and Becky Parker. A few books are available in the church office for purchase at $15 or you may order from Amazon. Tuesdays, 1:00pm – Bored? Games! – Everyone is invited to gather in the Welcome Center to join in playing games. Do you have a favorite game you would like to bring and invite others to play with you? Are you ready to play whatever game someone else brings? Come and join in the fun! As a part of this gathering, Neal Walters will be teaching lessons in Bridge, for anyone interested, beginning at 2:30pm each Tuesday. Tuesdays 3:30pm – Take a Walk in Pratt Park – Meet Jan Pierson & Frank Graebner & others at Shelter G at 3:30 and walk the great path! Exercise and fellowship together! Yoga Classes – Elana Hartman is a Hatha Yoga Instructor at Dragonfly Studio. She taught in our preschool last year and has a wonderful gentle spirit. She has been teaching yoga since 2001 and is a certified yoga instructor. Her classes are adaptable for people of all ages and levels. These classes will be offered in PA-111. Since it is carpeted you may not feel a need for a yoga mat, but you may bring one if you wish. We must have ten participants to make a class and there is a participant fee of $30 for each 6-week session. Our first session of classes will be from September 13 or 14 through October 18

or 29. We need you to submit your $30 participation fee in order to sign up and we need signups as soon as possible. Please indicate which of 3 possibilities you are interested in: Tuesday mornings 8:00 -9:00am Tuesday evenings 6:00-7:00pm, or Wednesdays at noon. If we have 10 participants or more for each of

these classes, she is willing to offer them at each of these times! Wednesdays 10:00am – Noon – Painting with Pam Hicks – Meet in the Welcome Center and enjoy a time of fellowship as we explore the creative art of painting. Pam will lead this 5-week session from September 14- October 12. Supply list will be posted on the church website. Thursdays 9:30 – 11:30am – Theology and Current Events – Meet in the Blue Room and explore current events with Larry Haun. What does faith in God reveal in our responses to the events we face within and beyond the walls of the church? How does our faith guide our interactions and responses? Thursdays at 12:30pm – Tea Basket Ministry – learn how Marian Wiltshire and Theresie Houghton have been making a tea party out of visiting with our homebound members! They will share some of the things they have learned and how they go about making their visits. After your questions are answered, you are invited to help in making these visits. Wouldn’t it be wonderful for every single one of our homebound members to receive a visit each month?! It will take several teams to make this possible. You may choose to visit one Thursday a month or every Thursday! What might you offer to this special ministry? Please pray about your potential involvement! Fridays 9:30 – Noon – Faith in Film – Meet in the youth lounge to view films together and then explore themes/lessons of faith demonstrated in the films consistent with or challenging of our faith. Coming Soon: Pub Theology – C.S. Lewis, J.R. Tolkein and their friends were known to gather at their neighborhood pub to discuss theology. Watch the church website for details on a group forming soon!

Special Events:

September 2, 5:30-8:00pm – First Friday – Art Show in Welcome Center with Photography of Bob Dungan and music by Chris Ryder & Andy Reese. September 7 – DC Monument Tour – Have you ever wanted to see some of the newer monuments in Washington DC, but then realized the parking is terrible and there would be too much walking? WELL, what if you could be driven right to the monument entrance and let out to tour, be picked up again and transported to the next stop?!!!! If that works for you, then this trip is for you! We will board our church buses at 8:45 and head to DC where we will see the WWII Memorial, the Teddy Roosevelt Memorial, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and the Jefferson Memorial. We will plan to head south by 12:00, stopping at Woodbridge for lunch at Chuy’s on our way home. The goal is to be back at church by 3:30. We are asking each person to contribute $4 toward the purchase of gasoline and lunch is on your own. Please sign up by September 1, by calling or emailing the church office. Tammy@FredericksburgBaptistChurch.org or 373-4402. September 17, 8:00am – Benefits of shopping at

the Farmers’ Market – meet us at Hurkamp Park at 8:00 a.m. for a tour of the Farmers’ Market and a conversation with Gayle Pryce about effective ways to shop and the benefits of “shopping local!” Following our tour, Gayle will give participants who sign up in advance $5 in tokes so we can learn about shopping with tokens, and each of us may then purchase some produce – perhaps something you have never tried before (they have a new canary melon). If you want to take home a watermelon, you might want to bring a wagon so you don’t have to carry heavy items very far. Bring your own reusable shopping bag and you are free to park in the church parking lot or in Renato’s parking lot. September 21, 3:00pm – Container Gardening with Jack Marcom – Meet in the Welcome Center and get ready to learn alongside an excellent gardener! September 23 – Supper Club – Sign up to participate in all four of the Fall Supper Clubs or just one, but plan to be a part of the fun! October 3-7 – Fall in New England – There is still room for you to join in this journey to Plymouth, MA; Portsmouth, ME; Bar Harbour, ME; and Hyde Park, NY! For a daily itinerary, request a brochure in the church office or go to www.FredericksburgBaptistChurch.org and look in Adult Ministries for more information about this special trip! October 28—Supper Club – Sign up to participate in all four of the Fall Supper Clubs or just one, but plan to be a part of the fun!

November 7 -- Graves Mountain Lodge, It will be that time of year for our annual pilgrimage to enjoy fried chicken and all of the wonderful sides that Graves Mountain Lodge serves for lunch. On our way, we will stop at the apple barn for apples and we will stop along the way at Yoder’s for a shopping experience. It’s a great place to stock up on all of your Thanksgiving and Christmas baking supplies! We will leave the church at 9:00am and return by 3:30pm The price of the trip is $22 and is due when you sign up no later than October 24. November 18 Supper Club – Sign up to participate in all four of the Fall Supper Clubs or just one, but plan to be a part of the fun! December 5 -- Candlelight Tour of Historic Homes in Charles City—partake in a progressive candlelight tour of Edgewood, Shirley and Berkeley Plantations. Enjoy the famous hospitality at these three historic homes with Christmas celebrations through four centuries of history. The tour begins at 2:30, so we will leave the church at 12:30 for our destination in Charles City. The first stop will be Shirley Plantation! The price of tickets for Candlelight Tour is $42 and let’s each contribute $3 toward the purchase of gasoline for $45 total. In order to get

tickets to this event (which usually sells out), please get your money turned in and get signed up by September 7.

December 9-- Supper Club – Sign up to participate in all four of the Fall Supper Clubs or just one, but plan to be a part of the fun! December’s Supper Club Finale will be an open house at the home of Jean and Patti English (6:00-9:00 pm). Bring an appetizer or dessert to share, meet other folks, and join in the fun! Supper Clubs – September 23, October 28, November 18, December 9 (Finale – Open House at Patti and Jean’s) Sign up to participate in all four of the Fall Supper Clubs or just one, but plan to be a part of the fun!

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Two weeks ago, a little girl, age 5, and her parents came into the Thursday Community Dinner. Her eyes were big as she stood in line at the potato bar to choose her toppings. She got chili when she didn’t want it, but her parents weren’t content to let her ask for anything else or throw out what hadn’t been her real choice. You see, they knew the value of a solid warm meal, especially after living in a hotel for the last few months without a kitchen.

It was T., the little girl, who started the conversation with a volunteer, saying she liked her new house. “I like my new house,” she said. That one proud comment offered with a really big smile led to a conversation about their lives and got Mom and Dad to let volunteers offer T. a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to take home with her potato.

The family was back again last week. Their house is coming together. They’ve gotten their things from storage. And, T., well, she came bursting into the room offering a hug, looking for her friends here at FBC. She had been telling her Mom all day on Thursday that she couldn’t wait to see her friends again. She called us friends—what an honor.

“Taste and see that the Lord is good,” writes the psalmist. Indeed, the Lord is good to both the one who receives and the one who gives in the name of the Lord. Remember to join in with FBC to serve our community each week by praying, donating food items, coming to wash and wrap potatoes on Wednesday evening, or serve in some way during the Thursday Community Meal.

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This year children will promote to their new Sunday School classes on September 4, 2016. On this Sunday children will need to be dropped off and picked up from their new classroom. Below is a list of grade levels and the corresponding classroom:

Preschool Infants/Toddlers (C305)

Preschool TWOs (C306)

Preschool THREEs (C309)

Preschool FOURs (C310)

K/1st Grade (C312)

2nd/3rd Grade (C313)

4th/5th Grade (A102)

6th Grade (A100)

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After 30 days of class, monitors and students are taking a well-earned break from FBC’s NOVA High School Diploma Program. Due to the recent article in the Free-Lance Star, people are calling into ask about joining classes. One sixty-year-old woman calling in to request information said, “I only went to 10th grade and I’d really like to do this for my children and grandchildren.” There are also Micah clients who could benefit with the addition of another class session. While we would like to accommodate all interested students, class-size is intentionally kept small to insure that students receive attention needed from the number of volunteer monitors available. Currently, there is a waiting list for established sessions.

Monitor sign-up will begin again on Sunday, August 28th. See Jeanne in the Welcome Center or email (Jeanne@fredericksburgbaptistchurch.org) to add your name to the NOVA Monitor Schedule for the upcoming term.