FAITH MISSIONARY BAPTIST

CHURCH BULLETIN

WELCOME TO FAITH

2243 Burbank Avenue (Corner of Rose & Burbank)

Nashville, TN 37210

March 6, 2011

Sunday School:

10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship Services 11:00 a.m.

Evening Worship Services 6:00 p.m.

Church Website: http//www.faithmbcnashville.com/

Pastor: Elder Barry Armour 615-822-4681– 615-812-6204

Pastor Email: armour1975@bellsouth.net

Music Director: Bro. Bert Lanier Sunday School Supt.: Bro. Terry Parker

Church Clerk: Bro. Billy Clemons

Deacons:

Bro. Jimmy HicksBro. Bert Lanier

Bro. Don LangfordBro. James Quinn

God With Us Women’s Fellowship

March’s Women’s Fellowship has been changed to the 4th Tuesday, March 22, 6:30 p.m. – Mrs. Sue Woodard, Speaker. Faith Missionary Baptist Church Basement . God Bless you ALL! 

Cindy Clemons clemons.cindy@gmail.com

.BOOK OF REVELATION TEXT ON CD’S

The Book of Revelation Study conducted by Elder W.T. Russell, 1979, has been transcribed in written form by Joyce Callis and is being made available to the church on CD. Terry Parker will be taking requests for the CD’s and are available without cost. If you would like a copy, let Terry know. The Book of Revelation, The Book of Daniel, and The Man of Sin will soon be added to our Faith Website.

REMEMBER IN PRAYER

Mrs. Ezma Trapp is in the hospital again. Remember he r when you pray; also remember Brenda, who is going through an emotional overload right now.

Mayrene Quinn’s sister who had a stroke has now broken her ankle We hope that she will soon be mended.

Gary Quinn is better but has continuing health problems relating to kidney stones. Keep Gary in your prayers.

Mary Jo Whaley’s sister is now in a nursing home. Pray for her. Mary Jo is returning to work this week. She is still pretty fragile so let’s pray that she will be able to return to work without any problems and that she will soon be enjoying good health.

Mary Jo’s friend had storm damage this week and she is having some health problems. also.

Irene Patterson’s great-grandson is having his tonsils removed

on Monday. Pray for this little guy’s successful operation.

Cindy Clemons has been ill during the past week. We hope she is better and will be able to be back with us.

Jimmy Hicks’ co-worker lost a family member this week. Please pray for this family. Jimmy’s mom also needs our prayers. Her church is closing its doors.

REMEMBER IN PRAYER (CONTINUED

Remember the Dycus family, friends of Bro. Armour in the recent death in that family.

Christie, a friend of Cindy Clemons, needs our prayers in her personal life and in her spiritual life. She was a visitor last Sunday and has visited the Women’s Fellowship meetings. Let’s not fail to include her needs in our prayers.

Keep our missionaries in our prayers for their safety and help as they try to carry out God’s work.

MEMBER NOTES

Don and Jean Langford are having a 50th Wedding Anniversary celebration March 26. We hope this will be an enjoyable day for this couple.

Susan Coon is not only an expert swimmer. She bowled 127 last week and we’re all proud of her doing so well in everything she undertakes. Good going, Susan! O, you haven’t seen anything until you see her Dukes of Hazzard room. We all love Susan.

Stetson Billy Clemons might be considering a sideline of selling Stetson in addition to his new business venture. Seems the ladies of the church have endorsed this product....ummmmm.

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES OF MEMBERS AND FAMILY MEMBERS (Mar. 6 through Mar.13)

James Parker – March 13 – Birthday

Maranda Herlein – March 13 – Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU BOTH!

REVIVALS & CHURCH EVENTS OF SISTER CHURCHES

Victory Spring Revival – March 11-13, 2011

4th Annual Benefit singing –Old Fashion Gospel Hour - Trousdale County High School, Highway 25, Hartsville, TN. March 19, 2011, 1:00 p.m.

McFerrin Spring Revival - March 20-22, 7:00 p.m. – Bro. Mark Carver and Bro. David Woodard.

Old Paths – 402 College Street, Smyrna, TN – Spring Revival – Beginning March 24-27, 2011, 7:00 p.m. Elder Mark Horton to assist Pastor, Elder Jason Wheeley.

Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist – Spring Revival – Beginning April 14-, 2011, 7:00 p.m. - Nolensville Rd., Nashville, TN.

Harvest Missionary Baptist Church – Spring Revival – 192 Curtis Crossroads,Hendersonville, TN April 16-20, 2011 – Elder David Anderson.

Victory Missionary Baptist Summer Revival - July 17-24, 2011

McFerrin – Summer Revival - July 24-29 – Bro. Ron Spurgeon and Bro. Luke Spurgeon, 11:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

New Bethel –Summer Revival – August – Bro. Neal Forshee Assisting the pastor, Jerry shrum.

Sand and Stars

Taken from “The Genesis Record” by Henry M. Morris

(Mr. Morris’ writings are accepted by many old-time Baptists preachers)

After Abraham had completed the work of offering the ram on the altar as a burn’t offering, the angel of the Lord spoke to him again from heaven. God had given him his final examination, as it were, and Abraham had passed the test perfectly. There was no longer any question that he and his seed would be qualified to serve as God’s channel of blessing for mankind; therefore God was ready to fully implement His great plan through them. As far as the record goes, this is the last time God would speak personally to Abraham, so He summoned up all His previous promises and enlarged on them.

To emphasize as strongly as possible that His word would be accomplished, God made an oath to Abraham, swearing by His own name, “For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

Jesus said, “He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” (Matthew 10:37) God told Abraham: “Because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,” therefore he would:

1. bless Abraham himself abundantly;

2. make his descendants (seed) as innumerable as the stars of heaven or as the sand by the sea;

3. cause his descendants (seed) to prevail against their enemies;

4. cause all other nations of the earth likewise to be blessed in Abraham’s seed

Three times in this promise God used the word “seed.” It is instructive to note God’s comparison of Abraham’s seed to the sand and to the stars. He had said once before (Genesis 15:5) that his seed would be as numerous as the stars of heaven. However, to the naked eye one can only count approximately three thousand, at the most. Consequently, God’s promise might not at first have seemed overly impressive, since three thousand descendants would not make a very large nation. Now, however, God says in effect that there are as many stars as there are grains of sand on the seashore. He had earlier told Abraham his seed would be “as the dust of the earth” in number (Genesis 13:16)

Abraham recognized that God was saying his descendants would be impossible to count, but it did sound as though He were making an “unscientific” comparison when He likened the stars to the sand. In our modern day of giant telescopes, however, we know that such a comparison is very appropriate. No one knows the exact number of the stars, but it can be roughly estimated for the observable universe, at least, as approximately 10 25 Since there are approximately 10 15. square feet of area on the earth’s surface, and approximately 15 million grains of sand in a cubic foot of sand, if we assume that there is an averag of 1,000 feet of unconsolidated sediments around the surface of the earth (probably deeper than this on the ocean bottom, but shallower on the land surfaces), then the number of sand-sized particles would be calculated as 10 25. Although such a calculation may well be considerably in error, it at least shows that the stars and the sand are of about the same order of magnitude in number. This fact could not have been discovered by men without the telescope; so it constitutes one of the many remarkable examples of modern scientific truths found in the pages of the Bible long before scientists could have learned them by the scientific method.

ABOUT HEAVENLY SINGING

A preacher said there would be nothing in heaven but singing and he was reminiscent of a fellow preacher who was more interested in singing than he was preaching. So, this preacher and the singer-preacher were arguing over whether on Sunday night they were going to have a sermon or have a singing. The singer said, “Let’s have a singing.” The preacher said, “Well, I don’t fell like dismissing preaching service.” The singer said, “You know when we get to heaven, there’s not going to be any preaching. That’s all over. All we’re going to do up there is sing.” The preacher said, “That’s right, but if we don’t do some preaching down here, there won’t be anybody up there to sing.” So we can mix it down here, preaching and singing, but up there we’ll sing and rejoice on and on.

Do you ever have this problem?

Ordination of Bro. David Reed

The ordination of Bro. David Reed took place at Beckwith Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday, March 5. The moderator was Bro. Danny Tomlinson, Clerk, Gerald Reid; Presentation of Candidate – Edward Tomlinson; Interrogation of Candidate - Elder Barry Allison; Prayer – Elder Jr. Dickerson; Charge to Candidate – Elder Danny Raines; Charge to the Church – Elder Pee Wee Massey; Presentation of the Bible – Elder James Gibbs. The Presbytery was represented by the following churches: Caney Fork, Mt. Tabor, McFerrin, Plunkett’s Creek, Harvest, Faith (Nashville), Gateway, Mt. Calvary, Rayon City, North Carthage;, South Carthage, Jared and Beckwith.

Bro. David gave his experience of salvation. Back around 1967 his grandmother, Nell Dickerson, would come to their home during tobacco setting time and in the evenings they would gather around and talk about the Lord and he liked to hear this. During this time he began to not like to hear this sometimes and then he realized they had something he didn’t have. There was a meeting that began the first week in October of 1967 at the Sanderson’s Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Bro. Swann was the preacher. David was in much trouble. They came to talk to him and he went to the altar and there God saved his soul. David joined Faith Missionary Baptist Church in June of 1980 and sometime around 2001 he united with Beckwith Missionary Baptist Church in Mt. Juliet. We are all proud of David and agree that he will make a very good Deacon. We wish him the best in this office of his church

A Little Laughter is Good

An old time preacher was moderator of the association. He didn’t believe in women speaking in the churches. One got up and started to speak. He said, “Sister, Paul forbade women speaking in the church, so I must ask you to sit down.”

Said she – “Where would you men be if it wasn’t for women?”

He replied, “In the Garden of Eden, Sister.”

McFerrin Missionary Baptist Church

Madison, Tennessee

Bulletin Committee: Joyce Callis 352-3070JoyceCallis38@Comcast.net Betty Coon- 773-5250 epcn@aol.com Susan Coon– 773-5250 Jean Langford-758-7431 Langford @tds.net Lisa Parker-274-2783 Lisa274@gmail.com