April 2015

Sunday Mornings

Prayer & Fellowship 9:45 AM

Sunday School 10:00 AM

Worship 11:00 AM

Wednesday Nights

Adult Choir Practice 6:30 PM

In the Sanctuary

Prayer & Bible Study 7:15 PM

In the Fellowship Hall

Rev. Kevin Moore Pastor

Cell: 252-235-7521 kevinmoore2007@gmail.com

Ann Boykin Interim Music

Director

Inside this issue: Celebration & Service Page 2

Missions & Service Page 3

Announcements Page 4

Calendars Pages 5-6

Pastor’s Note Page 7

Our Staff

The Letter

Celebrating 125 Years of Ministry

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

Spring Hope, North Carolina

Tommy May April 3rd

C.C. Armstrong April 5th

Ronnie Proctor April 14th

Bettye Clair May April 21st

Kendall Parker April 25th

Birthdays

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Altar Flowers April 5 Communion Sunday

April 12 In Memory of

Mr. Braxton Wilder

April 19 In Honor of

J.C. & Jean Womble

April 26 Open

Charlie Brantley April 28th

Eula Lee Brantley April 28th

Drake Smith April 29th

Carolyn Cale April 29th

Rochelle Baker April 29th

Homebound Member This month we are remembering

Rosabelle Wiggs as our Homebound Member

of the Month. We invite you to take the time

to write a card, or make a visit to remind

Rosabelle how much we love and care about

her.

Rosabelle Wiggs

PO Box 303

Spring Hope, NC 27882

478-5870

Ushers

Merle Cale ( Head Usher)

Steven May

Stuart Parker

Al Pitts

We want to thank our church family

for your prayers, cards, visits, and

phone calls during our recent illness.

In Christian Love,

J.O. & Linda Brantley

A Note of Thanks

During the month of April,

Women On

Missions is collecting

food and hygiene items for the 2015

NC Baptist Children’s Homes Food

Roundup! We will have a spot set up in the

Library where you can drop off supplies.

Please consider how you can help with this

missions project.

Our next meeting is Tuesday, April 14th at

7 pm. All women are invited to come as we

share a time of fellowship and learning

about missionaries!

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Baptist Men’s

Meal

& Meeting

Tuesday, April 7

at 6:30 PM

All men are invited!

Items constantly needed are canned food,

canned fruit, fruit juices, cereal, paper towels,

laundry detergent, deodorant, cleaning

supplies, shampoo and conditioner. Baptist

Children’s Homes also asks that we provide

the family-sized canned goods, if possible. You

can also donate Gift Cards that the homes will

use to buy perishables and items not received.

110 S. Ash St.

Spring Hope, NC

Thursday, April 9

12:00 PM—5:00 PM

Friday, April 24

12:00 PM—5:00 PM

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Diaconate Supper

Thursday, April 16

at 6:30 PM

All Deacons, past and present, are

invited. Join us for a good meal

and fellowship!

TRBA

Spring Meeting

Monday, April 27

Oak Grove Baptist Church

2124 Oak Grove Church Rd,

Wake Forest, NC

Session begins 5:30 PM

Wednesday,

April 8

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April 6

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Communion Communion Easter Sunday, Easter Sunday,

April 5 April 5

March 29 Palm Sunday

-Fifth Sunday Meal

April 1 Last Study of

The Way

April 2 Maundy Thursday

Tenebrae Service-7 PM

April 3 Good Friday

April 4 Community Easter

Egg Hunt.

-Downtown at the Depot.

10:30 AM to 12 PM.

April 5 Easter

-Community Sunrise Service at

Spring Hope Memorial Gardens

at 7 AM. Rev. Andrew Hook preaching.

-Bring fresh-cut flowers

for the Living Cross

-Easter Cantata &

Communion at 11 AM

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Before…

On the first day of April, we will be finishing up our study of Adam Hamilton’s book, The Way. Hamilton has taken us on a journey through much of the Holy Land, ranging from people getting baptized in the Jordan River and walking downtown in Capernaum to the streets of Jerusalem. We have deepened our faith and understanding of Jesus’ message by dwelling on how Jesus called those deemed ordinary and a few outcasts to follow him. Maundy Thursday occurs on April 2. I encourage you to join us for a service remembering the last words of Christ. Saturday, April 4 provides us with another chance to reach out to the kids in Spring Hope with the Community Easter Egg Hunt at the Depot area downtown. We need people from church to help volunteer. If you have free time between 10:30 AM and 12 PM, come on down and have some fun!

During…

Rev. Andrew Hook, along with myself and several other local pastors, will observe the annual Commu-nity Easter Sunrise Service at Spring Hope Memorial Gardens off of Webb’s Mill Road at 7 AM on Easter Sunday. It is a great time of fellowship reminding us how those women felt going to the tomb of Jesus early that first Easter morning and finding him having been resurrected from the grave. We will do something a little different on Easter Sunday at First Baptist. Everyone is asked to bring flowers to church, either cut from your yard or bought fresh. Before coming into the sanctuary for worship, place your flowers on the cross at the corner on the sidewalk. The flowers on the cross will represent the mosaic of our lives coming together to worship, as well as share the good news of God’s love with our community. Our choir will lead our service with their Easter Cantata, and we will end our service by sharing the holy meal of communion. Everyone will be encouraged to walk outside to see the “Living Cross” made of everyone’s flower offerings. It will be a day filled with opportunities to worship the risen Christ.

After…

What do we do as post-Easter Christians? One idea to share God’s love may be bringing in some of the needed items to give to the Baptist Children’s Home in Kin-ston. The home has great needs to provide for the children’s wellbeing. Another idea might be to volunteer at Faith Chris-tian Ministries. You’d be amazed at what 14 local churches working together can do for our town. Something else to think about might be planning to go to the Kennedy Home in Kinston to see first-hand what goes on at the Baptist Chil-dren’s Home by cleaning out cottages or doing landscaping. Most importantly, look within yourself to see how God is continually molding and shaping your life to follow what God is calling you to do. Each of us has so many different gifts and talents. If we use them on our own, we can do some things. But those things will never be as good as when we join together putting our gifts and talents to work as the Body of Christ. Have a blessed Easter, remembering it’s only the beginning!

Happy Easter, Kevin

First Baptist Church P.O. Box 177

Spring Hope, NC 27882

252-478-3221 firstbaptistchurchspringhope@gmail.com

www.fbcspringhope.org

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