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Youth Group News
Children’s Ministry OpportuntiesSunday Mornings Jr. Children Church
8:30 & 11 am, 3, 4 & 5 year olds Sunday School 9:45 - 10:45am
More info. call Kathi Knowles - [email protected] 757-868-9215
More info. call Jeremy Humphrey - [email protected] 757-868-9215
Wednesday Evenings 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Join us for Biblical Fun & Activities
Nursery-5th grade
ebckids
Choir Notes
Weight Lifting Room Hours Christian Outreach Center
We are looking for volunteers for the weight room on week nights. Please call 868-9215 if you can help.
Monday, Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Tuesdays & Thursdays*4:45 - 6:00 am
*Please contact Dean Lowery 868-7358 for this time.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:00 - 11:00 am
Youth Wednesday Activities 6th - 12th grade
Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 - 7:30 pm
Youth Drama Team Practice 7:30 - 8:30 pm
GOD IS GOOD-ALL THE TIME
Wednesday NightFellowship Dinners
Adults & Youth: $4.00 Children thru 5th grade: $2.00Maximum Per Family $14.00
No Carry Out DinnersNovember 4 -Porkchops
November 11- November 18- Turkey
November 25- No Dinner Please sign up in the Glass Foyer.
ebckids November
Youth Winterfest Dec. 30- Jan. 1Sign Up NOW!
Sunday Evenings ebckids Choir
5 to 6 pm in the Choir Room.
(1st-5th grade)
November 20 - FREE Movie Night 6:30 - 8:30 pm 1st - 5th (Popcorn & Drinks )
November 22 - 6 pm Community Thanksgiving Service ( Location TBA)
November 26 - Churchwide Family Thanskgiving Breakfast 8 am Bring a casserole or side dish to share.
Youth Discovery Small GroupsSunday Evenings @ 5-6 pm
Middle School Girls meet at the Farmers, 6 Saunders Dr. Middle School
Boy’s & High Schoolers meet at the Dahls, 1 High Cedar Way.
With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the LORD: “He is good; his love toward Israel endures forever.” Ezra 3: 11
A Pastor I worked for years ago always said, “God is good.” And the audience replied, “All the time.” This is an absolute truth. Whether we can see or feel His goodness all the time is not what is im-portant. To know and stand firm on this truth is what God wants us to do. God loves us and knows what is best for each of us. He wants us to trust Him in all circumstances and to thank Him for everything-even tough times!
As you celebrate this Thanksgiving, my prayer for you and your family is that you will also sing to the Lord: “He is good; his love for me endures forever!”
Happy Thanksgiving, Kathi Knowles
ebcyouth November
November 1 - Noon Youth BBQ Fundraiser in COC
November 8 - 6 pm Churchwide Operation Christmas Wrapping Party
November 14 - 1- 6:30 pm Youth Turkey Hunt/with dinner
This fall is a great time to get involved in the Emmaus Baptist Church Youth Group and here are some of the exciting opportunities available for Emmaus Baptist Church youth!
On November 1st, after the 11:00 service, we will be having our annual BBQ Fundraiser. Come on out for some great country/gospel music and enjoy some delicious barbecue served by our youth and support our Youth Group! On No-vember 8th, we will be having our Operation: Christmas Child wrapping party
at 6:00pm Bring your family, bring some shoeboxes and small travel size toys and toiletries for a needy child and really make a difference this year in someone life! We are also going to be having our annual Turkey Hunt on November 14th from 1-6:30pm. Youth will enjoy our annual scaven-ger hunt and this year, it will have a Star Wars theme! Afterwards we will have a bonfire, smores and dinner. So plan on coming on out and bring your friends. Lastly, I just wanted to mention our annual trip to Lynchburg, Va for Winterfest! Winterfest is a 2 day long concert of today’s best Christian bands. During the day we explore Liberty University and at night we rock out. We will be leaving Dec. 30th and coming back January 1st. For cost, please contact Jeremy Humphrey.
Thank you and God bless. Jeremy
As we enter the holiday season, it is easy to be overwhelmed by family, school and church activities. Here are some important dates to highlight on your calendar. On November 7th 3-5pm the homeschool group, “Classical Conversation” will have a recital in the sanctuary. The church is invited to this annual event. Saturday Nov. 14th @ 7pm award winning “Soul’d Out Quartet, from Ohio will bless us with a message in song. The com-munity Thanksgiving service will be November 22nd at 6pm, location TBA. The wor-ship choir is working on music for the dramatic musical, “One Quiet Night” rehearsal
7:30pm Wednesday. ebckids choir rehearses Sundays @ 5-6pm in the choir room. The ebckid’s choir will also sing in the dramatic musical. And don’t forget the first Sunday of Advent is November 29th. It is not too late to sign up for ebckid’s choir and worship choir. Also Jeremy and I are looking stage hands and folks to help with set design.
My prayer is that you find time to join us. There is always room for more in the choir. Child care is provided upon request.
Blessings, Kathy Heath
Sunday ScheduleSunday School 9:45 am
Praise Worship Service 8:30 am &Traditional Worship Service 11:00 am
Youth Discovery Groups & Kids Choir 5 pmNursery & Children’s Church available.
Business Meeting Jan. 24, 2015
6:30 pm
Wednesday ScheduleDinner: 5:45 pmAdult, Women’s,
ebckids & Youth Bible Study
6:30 to 7:30 pm Choir Rehearsal 7:30 pm
Church Council Feb. 28, 2015
@ 6:30 pm
Would you like to provide flowers for our Sanctuary.
Please fill out a slip & sign-up on the flower
chart in the hallway or call Faye Morse 868-8374
November 2015Vol. 5. No. 11
814 Yorktown Road Poquoson, VA 23662
Phone: 868-9215Email: [email protected]
Website: www. emmausbaptistchurch.org
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE:
“THE FACES OF GOD” Two recent and great delights came during our church’s return to participation in the Poquoson Seafood Festival in October, where a tent/booth was set up in the children’s section for providing free glitter tattoos.
On the way to their “glitterings” from those who did great and caring jobs of artistically placing and painting images for them, children’s parents found tables of tracts about our need for Jesus Christ, both for now and for eternity. There were also free Bibles for anyone who needed or wanted them, or knew someone else who did. All of those volunteers who gave liberally of their time and talents, greeting and engaging with people coming near the tent: they were my first delight… how they shared smiles and time with people, most of whom they did not know, was a great blessing to see. Their visible love brought to my mind a famous line from the epilogue of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserable: “To love another person is to see the face of God.” But there was even more delight, that which came from our purpose there: to bring joy and show love to children from inside and outside the community, from wherever they came. Specifically, here was my second delight: to see the smiling faces of those children as they left the area, having been touched by those who were the hands and feet of Jesus to them those days.
In “What On Earth Am I Here For?” Rick Warren speaks of doing things that bring God pleasure… things that make God smile. Have you ever wondered what it looks like when God smiles? I saw many times in that tent what I have imagined God’s smile looks like. My image is the full delight that comes to me when I get to witness the epiphany moment - perhaps accompanied by a quick intake of breath, widening eyes, and raised eyebrows - when a child smiles. It is a pure and holy moment. I get to see it in times of unbridled joy that occur when our 7-year-old Alena’s pleasure in a moment springs to life on her face, and… she smiles.
And when I saw children leaving the tent so enthralled, not at having a tattoo, but at being touched by the outreaching hand of God, their smiles spoke of God’s smiling down upon us all. For these gifts, I say in worship, “Thanks be to God!” For I remember God’s Word in Psalm 127:3, and one of the most important prayers in all Judaism, found in Deuteronomy 6, beginning with the Shema: “Hear, O Israel… The words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
When we realize that children are a gift, a reward from God, and we show it… God smiles. May God continue to smile upon the Children’s Ministry of Emmaus Baptist Church.
*NOTE! SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1stONE WORSHIP SERVICE ONLY
BEGINNING AT 10:45AM*FOLLOWED BY THE
YOUTH FUNDRAISER LUCHEON AT 12:00 NOON IN THE
CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER
SOUL’D OUT
In Concert November 14
@ 7 pm
Wednesday Evening Small Group Bible Study
Please join us for Bible study Wednesday’s from 6:30 -7;30 pm
Ages: 18 to 40 + Location: Upstairs, Main Building
1st room on the right. Call church office for details 868-9215
Monday Evening Small Group Bible Study
We would love for you to come and join us. Location: The Dahls, 1 High Cedar Way Time: Fellowship 630pm, Study 7- 8pm Topic: “Cast of Characters” by Max Lucado
Books available for $10 or download on Kindle.Questions: Kelley Dahl 659-0222 Teresa Lowery 868-7358
Operation
Christmas Child Shoe Box MinistryMark your Calenders, November 8 @ 6pm.
Boxes & info are in the Sanctuary.
