Calder Baptist Church1005 North Eleventh StreetBeaumont, Texas 77702

(409) 892-4251www.calderbaptist.org

M - F, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.January 2, 2018

Periodicals

Postage Paid

B

mt, T

X 77702

The Calder C

aller (UPS 765-520) is published w

eekly except Christm

as by Calder B

aptist C

hurch, 1005 N. 11th St. B

eaumont, Texas 77702. Periodicals paid at B

eaumont, Texas.

Postmaster: Send address changes to 1005 N

. 11th Street, Beaum

ont, Texas 77702.

Calder Caller

* Nursery is provided

VOLUME XLVII January 2, 2018 NUMBER 1

James R. Fuller, Ph.D. Senior PastorBrian S. Abel, M.Div. Minister to YouthBettye Phillips, B.S. Minister to ChildrenWalter LaForge, M.M. Ed. Director of Music

Ministry and OrganistBetty Duncan PianistCarol Burkhart Pastor's SecretaryBeth Randall Recept. and Financial SecretaryMary Ann Iles, M. Mus. Organist EmeritusRosemary Garza Nursery/Preschool CoordinatorKarl Meynig Building Supt./CustodianFaye Fields Custodian/Food Service

Activities of the WeekJanuary

The lectures are free and open to the public!

Offering EnvelopesReady for you to pick up

in the Adult classroom hall!

2018

Sunday January 7 9:30 - Sunday School with Sister Carol in FH* 10:30 - Morning Worship/Sister Carol 11:30 - Visitors' Reception in Fellowship Hall 6:00 - 7:45 - Lecture with Sister Carol in FH Monday January 8 9:30 - Library Committee 6:00 - Lecture with Sister Carol in FH Tuesday January 9 9:00 - MDO/Pre-K 9:45 - Mark's Circle - 5684 Longwood 9:45 - Wollerman Circle - Calder Woods 6:00 - Lecture with Sister Carol in FH

Wednesday January 10 8:30 - Calder at Some Other Place 5:00 - Family Supper for all ages, Hamburgers 5:30 - Finance Committee room 101 5:45 - Prayer Meeting 5:45 - Preschool and Children's Choirs 5:45 - Youth 6:00 - Devotion 6:15 - Mission Friends and Children in Action 6:15 - Deacons Meeting room 107 6:20 - Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Thursday January 11 9:00 - MDO/Pre-K

Friday January 12 9:00 - MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) room 106

Saturday January 13

The Scholar-in-Residence of Calder Baptist Church

Sunday, Monday, TuesdayJanuary 7, 8, 9, 2018

Sister Carol Perry, St. Ursula

Resident Bible Scholar, Retired, Marble Collegiate Church, New York City

(The late Norman Vincent Pealewas former pastor of Marble Collegiate)

Calder Baptist Church welcomes Sister Carol Perry, SU, as our 2018 Scholar-in-Residence. Carol holds a Master’s Degree from St Mary’s at Notre Dame, with additional study at Fordham University and Re-gina Mundi in Rome. She has published two books: Waiting for Our Souls to Catch Up: Reason, Ritual, and Faith in Our Fallow Time, and Among Women: Lives of Challenge, Courage and Faith in Biblical Times. Known and loved by many in our community, this is Sister Carol’s second lectureship at Calder Baptist Church.

“Carol’s passion and competence lead you to feel you are living in the very midst of the

Biblical stories.”

The Book of Acts

Faith for the Road

January 7, Sunday morning • 9:15 lecture in Fellowship Hall for adult classes Getting Ready for the Spirit Acts 1-2 • 10:30 sermon during worship The Other Road Home Matthew 2.1-12 January 7, Sunday evening • The Dream Meets Reality Acts 3-7 • Enlarging the Boundary Acts 8-9 January 8, Monday evening • Peter Dares the Unthinkable Acts 10-15 • Barnabas and Paul Step Out Acts 11-18 January 9, Tuesday evening • Paul’s Bigger World Acts 16-19 • There Is No End Acts 21-26

January 7, 8, 9 evening schedule • 6-6:45 lecture in Fellowship Hall • 6:45-7 refreshments • 7-7:45 lecture in Fellowship Hall

The Pastor’s Pen . . . January 2, 2018

Happy New Year!

We seldom schedule a baptism service on New Year’s Eve Sunday morning, but I am so glad we did! Nicole St Pere, daughter of Susan Cal, embraced our youth ministry consistently during her years at West Brook High School and just completed her first semester at The University of Texas in Austin. This past fall, she was active in a church in Austin and increasingly felt God’s activity in her life. She contacted me as the se-mester was ending and expressed her desire to share publicly with our church family her profession of faith and request for baptism. She made her decision pub-licly at the end of morning worship on Christmas Eve and we joyfully baptized her the following Sunday morn-ing, December 31. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve seldom fall on Sundays, but this year our services were made even more powerful due to Nicole following the leadership of God’s Spirit in her life. Pray for Nicole and all of our college students as they continue their studies and embrace God’s leadership in their journey of faith. I look forward with you to the arrival of Sister Carol Per-ry this weekend. As our 2018 Scholar-in-Residence for January 7, 8, and 9, Sister Carol will lead us in a study of the Book of Acts entitled, “Faith for the Road.” We invite our adult Sunday School classes to meet in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday, January 7, at 9:15 a.m. for our Bible study hour that Carol will lead (your class records will be in the Fellowship Hall). Carol will preach in morning worship and lecture each evening, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday from 6:00 – 7:45 p.m. with a re-freshment break. Sister Carol is lodging with her dear friends, Bill and Dot McKinley, but if you want to host her for a meal, please let me know. She readily shares that her needs are modest, so we will work with her to provide the kind of hosting that is best for her. Sister Carol endeared herself to us during her service last year as our Scholar-in-Residence. She shares a lovely faith journey and has spent almost all of her adult life studying the Bible and teaching others how to mine the gems of Holy Scripture. An active member of The Sisters of Ursula, she took a vow of poverty when she became a nun, so our honorarium goes to support her Order. Carol has visited our community each of the last twenty years as a visiting Bible Scholar for Holy Family Retreat Center of the Diocese of Beaumont. We wel-come her again eagerly to our church. I hope you will be able to join me and invite others to attend!

Jim