THE SIGNAL

The Signal is published monthly by the Swansea First Baptist Church of Swansea, SC. Volume 26 Issue 11 November 2015

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From Your Pastor’s Heart I am thankful that all have survived the flooding! The rains were relentless there for a week or so! The Shower and Laundry Unit has been called into action and helped the shel-ter in Cayce at the Trinity Baptist Church! Thanks to Johnny and Phillis King and all the volunteers for a job well done! We need more volunteers to be trained at the next Training for Disaster Relief! I also want to thank all for the help with the mattresses

at St. Terry and St. Kathy Orphanage. We were able to buy all the mattresses needed! I appreciate Josh and Jessica for spearheading this effort! I also appreciate the extra giving many of you have done the past two Sundays! We are catching up on the budget after missing the Sunday due to the flooding! Swansea folks always come through! November is going to be busy with all the missions activities! Shoe box-es, Angel Tree, Christmas music and so much more is happening this month!

Operation Christmas Child Boxes Due By

Sunday, November 22nd Swansea First

Baptist Church

Shoe Boxes are Available at the Church Welcome

Center Beginning October 25th See list of needed items and instructions on how to pack your shoebox elsewhere

in this newsletter. Contact Barbara Nystrom for further information.

The Signal is published monthly by the Swansea First Baptist Church in Swansea, South Carolina. The Swansea First Baptist Church is in friendly cooperation with the Lexington Baptist Association, the South Carolina Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Church Staff The Senior Pastor Reverend Terry C. Wilder Minister of Music Mr. Chad Meredith Student Minister Reverend John N. Harmon Parish Nurse Mrs. Angie Redmond The Organist Mrs. Jane Ann Meredith The Pianists Mrs. Brenda Hoffman

Mrs. Jackie Cagle The Secretary Mrs. Joyce Saylor Preschool Director Mrs. Diane Goodwin Custodian Mrs. Kim Taylor

In the event of a change of address please

contact the church office: Swansea First Baptist Church

145 South Church Street Post Office Box 550

Swansea, South Carolina 29160 (803) 568-3368

The Church Website

www.swanseafbc.com

The Signal is published monthly by the Swansea First Baptist Church in Swansea, South Carolina. The Swansea First Baptist Church is in friendly cooperation with the Lexington Baptist Association, the South Carolina Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention.

The Church Staff The Senior Pastor Reverend Terry C. Wilder Minister of Music Mr. Chad Meredith Student Minister Reverend John Harmon The Organist Mrs. Jane Ann Meredith The Pianists Mrs. Brenda Hoffman

Mrs. Jackie Cagle The Secretary Mrs. Joyce Saylor Preschool Director Mrs. Cindy Grimsley Custodian Mrs. Kim Taylor

In the event of a change of address please

contact the church office: Swansea First Baptist Church

145 South Church Street Post Office Box 550

Swansea, South Carolina 29160 (803) 568-3368

The Church Website

www.swanseafbc.com

November Birthdays 3rd………………………………...Austin Steen Katie Sturkie Grace Kubischke 4th……………………………....Garrett Sharpe 5th………………………………...Steve Saylor 6th………...………………….Kevin McCarson Katie Strickland 7th………………………………….Patti Bailey Diane Goodwin Chase Granger 8th…………………………….Blaine Redmond 10th……………………………...Libby Cooper 11th……..……………….Tommy Wannamaker 12th…………………………......Randy Sturkey 13th…………………………………...Bill Starr 14th………………………….....Sabrina Sharpe 17th……………………………..Austin Caudill 18th…………………………..T. Mack Granger 19th………………………………..Tony Norris 20th...…………………………..Pam Strickland James Livingston 22nd……………………….……..John Harmon Kathy Mixson 23rd……………………….……….Lucie Flake Cindy Grimsley Melissa Redmond Shannon Wilder 24th…………………………..Rudolph Sturkey Caitlin Crider 25th……………………………....Tom Bennett Teresa Smith 27th…………………….………..Seth Hoffman 30th………………………….Sandra Westberry J.C. Redmond

Senior Adult Fall Festival

Join the adults and senior adults for a fall festival on Thursday, November 12th at Saluda River Baptist Church. Dr. D. Ray Davis, Vice-President of the International Mission Board will be the speaker. He and his wife are former missionaries in southern Africa. The bus will depart at 9:30am. This is also an opportunity to fill-a-truck/feed-a-tot for Connie Maxwell Children’s Home Food Drive. The truck will pick up donated items that day. Churches together can do this! Tickets for this event cost $10. Food will be catered by Shealy’s BBQ. Please give $10 to Phillis by November 8th (Sunday) if you plan to attend. Tick-ets must be purchased on Monday, No-vember 9th. A listed of items needed by Connie Maxwell’s Children’s Home is printed in this newsletter.

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Metallic Club To Celebrate Rudolph’s

84th Birthday

On Monday, November 16th, the Metallic Club will honor Thanksgiv-ing by bringing food for a needy family. The family selected will have a wonderful dinner on that spe-cial day. Also, Rudolph Sturkey, a member of SFBC since 1950, will celebrate his 84th birthday with cake and ice cream. Rudolph and Billie have been married for 59 years. While he was in the Air Force, they traveled the world for 21 years. After return-ing to Swansea, Rudolph worked for NAPA for 40 years. For 20 years he served as a deacon and was also a Sunday School teacher. Those who know him, admire his green thumb. He always has a beautiful garden full of vegetables every summer. Come help us celebrate. It starts at 11:00am in the Fellowship Hall.

The Student Ministry at Swansea First Baptist Church will strive to put God first in every aspect of our lives, build relationships as brothers and sisters in Christ, learn and mature as believers in Christ, show the love of Christ by serving others, and we will share the truth of God in word and deed.

Mark Your Calendars November 1st – Chillipepper Registration Opens Deadline for Summer Camp Commitment November 11th – Youth Committee Meeting November 18th – Last Day of “12” Studies November 25th – No Services ***Be on the lookout for other events and fundraisers.***

November Power Point Presentations

Joe Burns

Preschool News & Tidbits

The children seem to have settled in, no more tears, yeah!! We still have 22 children enrolled. We all thought there would be another huge adjustment after our long “break” because of the flooding rain but just he opposite happened, the kids were very happy to be back at “their school”, how exciting! God is good all

the time, and we need to continue praying for His will in this ministry and for all who are involved! If anyone has a talent they would like to share with the children please con-tact Cindy Grimsley at 803-542-4869. Upcoming Events

November 1st Day Light Savings Time Ends—Set Clocks BACK 1 hr. 6th Rescheduled Day for Pumpkin Patch Field Trip 10th Veterans Day Program @ 10:00am 16th Visit from Lexington County K-9 Officer Adam Clayton & “Baby” 25th-27th Thanksgiving Holidays 30th Back to School Thanks for all the prayers and support that we at Preschool get! Keep them going up, God hears and will bless what we do! The Staff at SFBC Preschool

Text Messaging Updates

We have created a way to send out group texts for the church. If you would like to be a part of this group all you need to do is text swanseafbc to 84483. Once you are signed up you will get the mes-sages that we will send out with updates, prayer requests, reminders, Family Night Dinner Menus, weather closings, and other things. This is a great way for us to communicate with you quickly and I encour-age you to sign up for it. If you need help getting it set up please let us know.

Missions Sunday December 6th

11:00am Worship Service—Kenya Team Report and Video

5:00pm—Chili and Soup Cook off and Lottie Moon Auction

Kick off of Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Church Goal: $6,000

Student Ministry News October was an interesting month to say the least. We dealt with historic rainfall and the flooding that occurred with that. Personally, that event was a reminder of how good we have it. God has blessed us with many things and provided for us through this event. Many people in the midlands were hit much worse than we were and I encourage you to continue to pray for them as

they are in the process of putting their lives back together. November 1st is a big day for our Student Ministry for 2 reasons. This is the day that Chillipepper registration opens. Chillipepper will be $175 per stu-dent again this year with a $50 deposit due to register for the trip. Many of our students have already earned a significant portion of their balance through the peanut fundraiser. If you want to go on this trip I encourage you to register early as space will fill up. November 1st is also the deadline to turn in a $50 deposit for Summer Camp. I have been monitoring several camps and our preferred week, June 20-24, is starting to fill up at some of the better camps. Summer Camp is a great ex-perience and one that we have not had in a while. If you are the slightest bit in-terested in going to Summer Camp I highly encourage you to go. The final cost for the week will depend on the camp that we select. Right now I am looking at Student Life Camp in Myrtle Beach. They have a great line up of speakers and Rush of Fools is on tap to lead worship for the week (we have seen them at Chil-lipepper). Finally, we will wrap up our “12” studies this month. I especially want to thank our leaders: Wayne and Cindy Grimsley, Chippy and Lucie Flake, Joye Hoffman, and Bill Granger for leading us in these studies. I hope you have en-joyed the look into these Biblical characters’ lives and have learned something along the way. We look forward to seeing you each week on Wednesday night and some of you more often now that our fall sports are wrapping up.

In Christ, John Harmon 2 Tim 2:15

*****Don’t forget to check out the calendar for upcoming events*****

Operation Christmas Child

Swansea First Baptist Church will be participating in Op-eration Christmas Child. Toys, school supplies, hygiene items and other items are needed to complete this operation.

Gift Ideas: Toys: small cars, balls, dolls, stuffed animals, kazoos, harmonicas, yo-yos, jump ropes, small Etch A Sketch, toys that light up or make noise (with extra batteries, Slinky, etc. School Supplies: pens, pencils and sharpener, crayons or markers, stamps and ink pad sets, writing pads or paper, solar calculators, coloring and picture books. Hygiene Items: Toothbrush, toothpaste, mild bar soap (in a plastic gab), comb, washcloth, etc. Other: Hard candy and lollipops (please double bag all candy), mints, gum, T-Shirts, socks, ball caps; sunglasses, hair clips, toy jewelry, watches, flashlights.

How to Pack a Shoe Box Gift 1. Use an empty shoe box (standard size) or small plastic container 2. Determine whether your gift will be for a boy or girl and the child’s age category:2-4, 5-9, or 10-14. Mark the correct age category on a label and tape the label to the top of your box. 3. Include your donation of $7 or more for each shoe box you prepare to help cover the shipping and other project costs. If you or your family are prepar-ing more than one shoe box, please make one combined donation. Our Shoe Box Ministry Resource Person is Barbara Nystrom. Please contact her for additional information.

Meredith Moments The adult choir will begin working on the Christmas cantata entitled, “God Is With Us!” This is a multimedia presentation and will be a blessing to all who hear it. I am excited and ready to work once again. However, I cannot work alone. Therefore, choir members be sure to make it to

every practice. I know how busy this time of year can be can! Also, the children’s choir will be working on their Christmas cantata. Jane Ann and I are excited to work with them and we hope you make every ef-fort make sure your children and/or grandchildren come on Wednesdays for practice. Thanks ahead for your efforts!!! Children’s Choir practice: Wednesdays @ 7:25 pm Adult Choir Practice: Wednesdays @ 8pm If anyone is interested in joining the choir, please contact me or just show up on Wednesdays. We would love to have you! In Christ,

Chad

November Bible Reading Plan

Kenya Team Meeting and Lunch

The Kenya Team will get together on Sunday, November 8th after church for a covered dish lunch. Kevin Mickel will be here and will be conducting some interviews on our experience that he will include in the video that he is making for us. We look forward to seeing you and your family on the 8th.

1st 2 Chr. 30 Dan. 10 Acts 10 16th Neh. 3 Hosea 13 1 Thess. 1-2

2nd 2 Chr. 31 Dan. 11 Acts 11-12 17th Neh. 4 Hosea 14 1 Thess. 3-4

3rd 2 Chr. 32 Dan. 12 Acts 13 18th Neh. 5-6 Joel 1 1 Thess. 5

4th 2 Chr. 33 Hosea 1 Acts 14-15 19th Neh. 7 Joel 2 2 Thess. 1-2

5th 2 Chr. 34 Hosea 2 Acts 16-17 20th Neh. 8 Joel 3 2 Thess. 3

6th 2 Chr. 35 Hosea 3 Acts 18-19 21st Neh. 9 Amos 1 1 Tim. 1-3

7th 2 Chr. 36 Hosea 4 Acts 20 22nd Neh. 10 Amos 2 1 Tim. 4-5

8th Ezra 1-2 Hosea 5 Acts 21-22 23rd Neh. 11 Amos 3 1 Tim. 6

9th Ezra 3-4 Hosea 6 Acts 23-24 24th Neh. 12 Amos 4 2 Tim. 1

10th Ezra 5-6 Hosea 7 Acts 25-26 25th Neh. 13 Amos 5 2 Tim. 2

11th Ezra 7 Hosea 8 Acts 27 26th Esther 1 Amos 6 2 Tim. 3-4

12th Ezra 8 Hosea 9 Acts 28 27th Esther 2 Amos 7 Titus 1-3

13th Ezra 9 Hosea 10 Col. 1 28th Esther 3-4 Amos 8 Philemon

14th Ezra 10 Hosea 11 Col. 2 29th Esther 5-6 Amos 9 Heb. 1-2

15th Neh. 1-2 Hosea 12 Col. 3-4 30th Esther 7-8 Obadiah Heb. 3-4

.Upward Basketball and

Cheerleading Our Season will begin soon. Look for coaches to be contacting you in the next couple of weeks. Practice will begin the week of No-vember 16th and the first game will be on Saturday, December 5th. Picture Day will be the week of our second game, Saturday, Decem-ber 12th. We are still in need of a few coaches and referees. If you feel led to fill this need or to help with Upward in any other way please see John Harmon. We are looking forward to a great Upward season. We expect God to do great things this year!

Baptist Men’s Dinner Tuesday, November 17th

7:00pm

Joe Sharpe’s Cook Crew

David Zeigler, Jr. John Sturkie John Harmon

Phil Nates Joe Galloway

Don’t Forget!! Time to Fall Back

November 1st It’s time to reset your clocks to regular time—don’t for-get to reset your clock back one hour before you go to bed Saturday evening.

Upcoming Special Services

Sunday, November 8th—Veterans Day Service Sunday, November 15th—WMU Sunday Sunday, December 6th—Missions Sunday We hope that you will join us for these special days.

Angel Tree

The Angel Tree will be placed in the Welcome Center on Sunday November 22nd. We are supporting the children at the Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Orangeburg again this year. Stop by and select the name of a child and their list will be on their tag. The date that the gifts will be due is TBD so check in the December Newsletter for more infor-mation.

Children’s Committee

On Wednesday, November 11th, the children will get together during Wednesday night services to make packages for soldiers. We will collect non-perishable snack items and magazines to send. More information to come soon. Also, the Swansea Christmas Parade will be held Sun-day, December 6th. Following the parade, hot chocolate and cookies will be served to the children. More information coming soon on this also.

Connie Maxwell Needs Your Help

You can help by providing some of the food items listed below. Typical items on a week’s grocery list for a cottage of eight children at Connie Maxwell:

Canned fruits and vegetables 6 (16 oz) cans *Paper Napkins—2 large packs 1 large Dukes Mayonnaise Cooking Oil (64 oz) bottle (Preferably Canola) *Chunk Chicken, Tuna, Salmon, Spam, Corned Beef, Beef Stew or Roast Beef (6) Pickles (32 oz) jar (Whole Dills, Sweet & Dill Relish) Canned Soups (Cream of Chicken or Mushroom) Peanut Butter (Large Jar) Jelly (Large Jar) Ketchup (Large) Mustard (Large) Syrup (Large) *Cleaning Supplies (Comet, 409. etc) 3 cans/bottles *Dish Detergent—1 Bottle *Dish Washer Detergent (Liquid/Gel) 1 Large Bottle Laundry Bleach—1 Gallon *Fabric Softer—1 Gallon *Foam or Plastic Plates 1 (150 count) package *Paper Towels 3 rolls *Bathroom Tissues 8 rolls *Shampoo, Conditioner, Deodorant *High Effeciency Laundry Detergent

*They can use extra quantities of these items.

The Department of Health requires they accept commercially canned foods only..

Library News

So many good books and movies, which to pick first?! That may be your thoughts when you come into the library; but just take a couple

home, and next time get more. Some of the new picks are Crazy Love by Fran-cis Chan, The Best Yes by Lisa Terkeurst, Parenting with Kingdom Purpose by Ken Hemphill, The First Shot by Robert Rosen; great fiction picks such as Man in the Blue Moon by Michael Morris, So Shines the Night by Tracy Higley, The Missionary by William Carmichael and a number of new books by Karen Kingsbury; new movies include The Crippled Lamb, Last Ounce of Courage, and Indescribable. On Sunday, October 25th, the library celebrated the beginning of its 5th year of service to our Church family, as hard as that is to believe. We hope that you took the opportunity to come by during our drop in celebrating our anniver-sary and we hope to see you in the library soon! We would also like to invite children between the ages of 5 and 12 to come in and make a Christmas stocking fro themselves as a gift. We are look-ing forward to seeing the results of their God-given creativity!

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