JANUARY NURSERY VOLUNTEERS

January 4

8:15 AM

Bill Gibbs

Desirae Gibbs

10:50 AM

Kathleen Listman

Rachel Warren

Suni Estudillo

Faith Muller

January 11

8:15 AM

Anita Meler

Sally Compton

10:50 AM

Tricia Miller

Carolyn Gonzales

Sharon Tankersley

Ashley Ryan

January18

8:15 AM

Patty Addington

Ginny Fleming

10:50 AM

Patricia Walker

Kathy Citta

Lupe Medina

Erin Greeley

January 25

8:15 AM

Jeff Nelson

Jackie Nelson

10:50 AM

Laural McCoy

Angie Gillis

Sylvia Gonzales

Tori Warren

Attendance and Giving in Review November 23rd - December 14th

Sunday School Average - 241 Worship Service Attendance - 231

Weekly Budget Required - $12,460

Budget Offering Received

Nov. 23 Nov. 30 Dec. 7 Dec. 14

11,838.50 $15,122.59 9,196.00 8,921.00

Things You Need To Know

The Church Office will be closed from December 24th to January 5th. If you have an

emergency please call Tim at 817-571-9901 or 682-560-9767.

Albert Alvarez will be in the church office on Wednesday, December 31st from 10 AM to

2 PM to receive any last minute contributions for 2014.

The Pastor’s Tuesday Morning Bible Study will begin on January 13th at 10:30 AM.

Trinity Food Bank Saturdays will resume January 31st. Sign up in the atrium to volunteer.

Donations for the food bank can be left in the baskets in the atrium and the fellowship hall.

STAFF

Pastor

Tim Pierce, Ph.D.

Worship Minister

Karen Folkertsma

Minister to Students

Johnny Gonzales

Children’s Minister

Stephanie Thames

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Equipping Generations . . .

Church Family, 2015 is upon us. I am really looking forward to all that lay ahead. Worship Services, Bible Studies, Mission Trips, Outreach events, Inreach activities….so much is before us! I want to take this opportunity just to focus on three of them right now. Our 2015 Mission Trip to Macedonia will be June 3-12. As I have mentioned before, this will be the first of many trips during our long-term partnership with our IMB missionaries in Prilep. If you have any interest at all in participating, please make plans to be part of our Mission Trip meeting on January 11th. Johnny will be covering the youth trip and I will be covering this whole church trip and we will answer any questions you might have about them. Starting January 4th we will be undertaking a new sermon series that attempts to look at the big picture of God’s work with humanity through the Bible. We won’t be going verse by verse or even book by book, but rather saga by saga. We will be looking at the events and movements within the Bible and how they shape our understanding of God and His desires for us. We will be starting before time itself and going all the way through the book of Revelation sometime in May. I am really excited about this series and hope you are too – don’t miss it. During this year, like any year, we will be making some changes and implementing some new programs of ministry. Early in the year, we will use Sunday nights as a discipleship and evangelism training time and look at ways to carry that out. On Sunday mornings, in the second service, we will make a few changes as well. The one that will be most immediately evident is that we will not be doing the greeting time anymore. We will still have a welcome and prayer, we just won’t be doing the handshaking time. What this means is that you will have to make a concerted effort to make contact with visitors before and after the service. We want our welcome and friendliness to be organic and real. We believe as a staff that taking this step is one way to better accomplish this. For now, the greeting time will continue in the First service. Be praying about how God might use you in the coming year. Be ready to surrender as He leads. I am prayerful that this year will be our best one yet! Blessings,

Pastor Tim

January 2015

WOODLAND HEIGH S BAPTIST CHURCH

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Operation Christmas Child

Staff Open House

WHBC made 293 shoeboxes. We collected 1,538 boxes at our relay center.

Thanks to everyone who completed shoeboxes. And a special thanks to all those

who volunteered to help at the relay center. We couldn’t have done it without you!

The WHBC Staff invites you to the Staff Open House on Sunday, January 4th from 3 to 5 PM. Come visit

with the staff at these locations:

Tim Pierce - 1 Linderhof Circle, Bedford, 76022

Johnny Gonzales - 1925 Memphis Drive, Bedford, 76022

Stephanie Thames and Karen Folkertsma - 2527 Chinaberry Dr., Bedford, 76021

Message from Johnny

Dear WHBC Family, Thank you for your generous support of the students and Student Ministry during the Candy Fundraiser! I am most proud of how hard the students worked to make the candy, package the candy and clean up afterwards too! The funds raised will help students attend next year’s Centrifuge Youth Camp at Glorieta, New Mexico. For tax purposes, should you wish to contribute to help our students make it to youth camp please contribute to the Youth Camp Fund before December 31. We are all very blessed by your generous support of our teenagers and our efforts to reach and disciple them for Jesus. On a personal note, thank you for all you have done to make me and my family feel at home at Woodland Heights. We are truly blessed to be a part of a fellowship and staff that deeply cares for each other. Merry Christmas! Until Christ is formed in Youth, Johnny Gonzales

Join the Choir!

We have a great time every week during Adult Choir Rehearsal on Wednesday

nights at 6:30 PM. Rehearsals will begin on January 7th. Come and share your

musical talent and join us! If you have any questions you can contact Karen

Folkertsma at the church office or by email at karen@whbcbedford.org.

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Ladies Bible Study

Welcome New Member

Daniel Covarrubias

Member Christmas Cards

Sunday, January 4th will be your last chance to pick up your Christmas cards in the atrium. All cards left after

that date will be disposed of. It is not too late to donate your postage to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering.

HAVE A SEAT ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE.

Most of us have only encountered the Sermon on the Mount in fragments, considering its subdivisions as complete teachings in their own right. But what if we navigated these three chapters in Matthew as they were originally heard: one cohesive, well-ordered message, intended to challenge us to think differently about what it means to be a follower of Jesus, a citizen of the kingdom of heaven? Come and learn from Jesus, just as His disciples did.

9 Week Series Begins January 14th Sign Up in the Atrium

Men’s Bible Study

The Resolution for Men Bible Study

This men's group curriculum was inspired by the document featured in the movie

COURAGEOUS. The Resolution contained 12 commitments related to

characteristics that all men of God want to pursue, such as responsibility,

faithfulness, honor, justice, forgiveness, integrity, and courage. The Bible study

walks participants through each of the 12 commitments, especially to their families,

and identifies the biblical roots and showing how to live out each godly principle in

real life. It's ideal for men's accountability groups.

Begins January 14th

Sign Up in the Atrium

Begins Wednesday, January 7th

5:45 PM