First WordIn the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,

and the Word was God. John 1:1

First Baptist Church of Fulton, MissouriEmail: 1baptistfulton@sbcglobal.net August 2011

Wednesday, August 176:00 pm -- FBC, Fellowship

Hall

Speaker: Zack ParkCampus Crusade Missionary

While a student at Westminster College Zack was involved with Campus Crusade and the College Ministry of First Baptist Church. He is now a missionary with Campus Crusade at the campuses of University of Missouri, St. Louis, University of Missouri, Rolla and Quincy University. He has had the privilege of discipling Columbia students. Taiwanese students, Jefferson College students and Denver, Colorado students.

And personal news, Zack became a citizen of the United States in December.   He came to the United States when he was 10 and spent most of his teenage years in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then Zack has married his girlfriend, Corey (also a Campus Crusader) and hope you all have a chance to meet her.

Come enjoy a covered dish meal and learn about the ministry of Campus Crusade.

Please bring meat, vegetable, salad or dessert.

An Intentional

Marriage ConferenceBy Dr. Randy Carlson

A good marriage is important to our emotional wellbeing. Have you done anything recently to invest in your marriage? Dr. Randy Carlson, host of Intentional Living carried on 250 radio stations daily, including the Bott Radio Network, will be hosting the Intentional Love Marriage Conference at Crosspoint Church in St. Louis on Saturday, September 10 from 1:00-6:00 PM.

With an intentional love, you can transform your marriage! Learn to create a vision for your future at An Intentional Love Marriage Conference. Go online to TheIntentionalLife.com for more information and tickets.

Never wonder if your husband loves you. Don’t miss this fun, dynamic, fast-paced marriage conference.

Never wonder if your wife or husband respects you.

Never argue about money again.

Tickets for this great afternoon are $44.00 each. If you order before August 20, you can save $10.00 on each ticket. Make your reservations on line at TheIntentionalLife.com. Maybe we can travel together. Contact Murray for more information.

VBS went very

smoothly, had a lot of great staff and the kids had a wonderful time. Attendance was around 50.

Once again the school year is upon us and the Fulton college campuses will soon be buzzing with activity as we welcome the students into our community and church!  We look forward to seeing the familiar faces we've grown to love but are also excited to meet the newcomers!  Two events that have become annual outreach ministries for FBC is Move-In Day at William Woods and our Welcome Back BBQ -- both in August.

Wednesday, August 17, is new student move-in at William Woods and FBC will again be helping at the Smith-Allen-Swearingen Complex across from the Dome.  We'll begin at 7:30 am and we encourage anyone and everyone who is available to come by and help out.  You can stay all morning if you want, but even if you only have an hour or two to give, we'll appreciate your help.  There's always lots of things to help students and their families carry in to the dorm rooms...big things and little things....heavy things and light things -- so we need some of you with muscle for the big stuff and others to carry the little stuff.  The best part is getting to meet the students and their parents and inviting them to our church!  Come join us!

Saturday, August 27, will be our annual Welcome Back BBQ on the church parking lot for all Westminster & William Woods students!  This takes a lot of help from the church family and in years past we have been overwhelmed by the support you have given!  For that, we thank you!!!  Once again this year, we will need desserts and salads to be donated for the meal.  If you can provide that, please let us know.  If you are available to come to the BBQ and help out with set-up, serving and/or clean up, we welcome that also!  Another important element of this outreach event is when members of the church family make an effort to mingle with the students to get to know them and encourage them to join us for worship at FBC.  The students love a good meal, but when they sense we have a genuine love for them, that is what will draw them in.  If you have any questions about how you can be involved, just contact Debbie Love, Tracy Royer or Jenny Campbell.

S.A.L.T. NEWS –Meet Us at Callaway Senior Center, August 18th

All of us are getting older. I hope I didn’t startle you with the news? As we age, plans need to be made, possibly for our older care.

The 55 and Go Team of SERVE is sponsoring Strategies for Aging on Thursday, August 18 at the

Senior Center from 12:30-2:30. Since this would be the day of our monthly get-to-gether, let’s go to the Senior Center this time. A meal will be available for $3.00, then the program will follow.

Sign-up in the church vestibule so reservations can be made.

Presenters will give brief program overviews, followed by open forum questions regarding staying in your home longer & safer, money, long-term care and how to access services. The twist and turns on the road of aging.

Here is a list of the presenters: Karen Digh Allen – Public Admin. Attorney

Sherry Vanengelenhoven – Division of Family Services, Medicaid

Leslie Anderson – Services for Independent Living

Tim Borman – Callaway Bank, Financial Advisor

Trish Boeckmann – Home Maker Health Care

Karen Elwood – Central MO Area Agency on Aging

Stacy Bryant – Churchill TerraceEllen Clapper – Rehabilitation Services for the Blind

Dear Church Family, Thank you for the flowers that Wanda

Randal and Martha Morris brought me, the birthday cards, visits and phone calls. I miss everybody, think of you and pray for you often.

Love, Dorotha Meinhardt

Our Adult Deaf Bible Study has moved to the Annex building. Everyone seems to enjoy it there. We have had about an average of 10 deaf adults in attendance. Please pray for more deaf to come and learn God's wonderful Word.We ask for everyone's prayers for a director of Deaf Ministry to reach more deaf here in Fulton.

Thanks, Shannon Love, Leader of Deaf Adults Bible Study

Students Reporton Youth Mission Trip

Two weeks ago on July 15th, around ninety people from various churches in the Grand Crossings Baptist Association (GCBA) boarded buses to take a trip to Bottineau, North Dakota. We would be working on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, in the town of Minot, and in Bottineau. Half of us left at 7:00 am and the other half at 7:00 pm. We all settled back for a long bus ride, and I mean long! It took us about 20 hours to get there. I was in the group that left in the evening so by the time we got to Bottineau the others were already there. We arrived on Saturday at about 3:00 pm. The rest of the day was spent unpacking and getting settled in. During the week we stayed in a dorm at the Dakota College at Bottineau. The next morning, we went to Community Bible Church where our own youth along with members of that church led the music. This was followed by a message on the absolute sovernity of God preached by Steve Tanner, GCBA's associational missionary.

Monday morning we were all up bright and early and ready to go to our mission sites. We ate breakfast at Community Bible Church, where members of the church served us our meals all week. It was a huge blessing. Then we loaded up in rental vans and went to our mission sites. People that went to the reservation went to one of five spots: Eagle View, Dunsieth, East Dunsieth, Shell Valley or the Barnes. There we played with kids who normally don't get love and attention from their families. Some people also went to Minot where they helped with disaster relief. The town had flooded and many homes were destroyed. Still others stayed in

Bottineau to help fix things at the church or around the college. The groups worked at these places Monday through Thursday from about 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. Every night we had worship and heard a message on the theme for the week: “follow”. Each night one of the youth pastors preached about following Jesus.

I was working on the Shell Valley area and this is a personal experience I had on the trip. All week I had been waiting for a kid to call me by my name because I guess it is hard to remember. So anyway, I was swinging with a little girl named Kauray on the playground when she asked me a question that had been frequently asked of me that week: “What is your name?”. My answer was the same as always, but I was in no way prepared for her response. She said, “Laurel, I love you.”…. wow!  I stood in shock for a moment before I responded, “aww thank you. I love you too.” Then she just continued swinging and humming to herself. Her thoughts might have moved on but mine were frozen on those four words. This whole week was very special, but that specific moment told me that indeed I and everyone else on this mission trip- wait, not us, God working through us- ARE making a difference. To hear that was well worth the wait! Thursday was a very bitter-sweet time for those of us on the reservation because it was our last day with the kids. We had gotten so attached to them that week.

The next day, Friday, we all packed up our stuff and then went to Lake Metagoshee, which is a state park in ND. Some (crazy) people swam in the lake, even though the water was freezing! Others hiked to the United States/Canada border. We ate lunch at the park and then were headed for home. I think most of us went with the idea that we were going to teach, which was partly true, but I think almost all of us came home with a better understanding of what it means to follow Jesus. The kids on the reservation, the people of Bottineau and Minot, and God showed us every day that we were there not only to teach, but to learn.  

Laurel Royer

This summer, July 15-23, 66 youth and 20 adults took a mission trip to Bottineau, North Dakota. We had 8 ministry teams, five that went to the Turtle Mountain Native American Reservation, two that went and did relief work in Minot, and one that stayed in Bottineau to do work at the Community Bible Church.

I was in one of the groups that went to the reservation to play with the kids. I went to Dunseith. The others were East Dunseith, Shell Valley, Eagle View, and the Barns. Dunseith was one of the nicer communities. We had a nice, fairly clean playground and kids that had clean clothes and were clean everyday. We had about twenty-five kids at the most during the whole week. We played for five hours Monday through Thursday and we played hard. The kids loved being with us and didn’t want us to leave,

and they’d make sure that we were coming back the next day.

The kids loved to paint on us with the face paint we had. The two days we had paint no one went home without paint all over them. They also loved to draw with chalk on the basketball court that was next to the playground. Playing any kind of game with a ball was a big thing for them. They loved to play kickball, baseball, and basketball.

Each kid kind of picked out a person that they really liked the best. I had a little boy that was two years old; his name was Memphis. On Wednesday he asked me to pick him up at around 11:30, I ran around after a ball for 45 minutes carrying him in my arms but after a while he was too heavy so I had to switch him to my back. While he was on my back he leaned forward and whispered in my ear, “mommy”. He kept calling me mommy until his actual mom came and he had to go home. Having a little boy who you have only known for two days call you mommy is something that will touch your heart.

Everyone that I have talked to from the mission trip has said that this was a life changing trip. Being able to love on little kids, or talking to a teenager about God, or getting a teenager to play a game of basketball with you, and just being able to get close to them and show them the love of God is such a big deal because they don’t get to hear that very much because they live in a place where Catholicism is the only religion they hear about. They have Catholic churches and Catholic schools. To be able to show them a different option and a different religion, you could see it in their faces that they were thinking hard about what we were telling them.

At Dunseith we had two big chances to share the gospel with the kids. We had little rubber bracelets that we were wearing and when they asked us what they said we got to tell the story of Jesus or tell them what it means to be a soldier of God. We also had a time when one of the leaders, Logan, got to share all of Jesus’ life with a group of six or seven boys. They just sat down in a circle around him and listened to everything he was saying and they asked questions. Afterwards you could tell that they were still thinking about what he had said to them.

We know that God was with us on this trip because there is no way we could have gotten through a whole week together without getting angry with each other, and to be able to play with kids for hours a day. We all got closer to God on this trip and we had a couple of people actually accept Christ on this trip. What a great mission trip! It changed 86 lives in one week.

Jamie Hunt