From the Trustees General Offering for June 7 - $ 2269.20 General Offering for June 14 - $ 681.65 General Offering for June 21 - $ 1388.00 General Offering for June 21 - $ 977.00 Sunday School Today - CJ and Myrna July 12 - Sally and Cecille July 19 - Lulu and Judy THIS WEEK AT FBC: Today - The young men are having a bake sale after church to help raise money so they can go to the men’s retreat. Please buy something and support our guys! Nursery Aaron, JP, Mercedes, and Danika We are a diverse community united under Christ in spirit and action, transforming the heart of our neighbourhood. GETTING INVOLVED AT FBC: • Fill out an encouragement card in the pew and hand it to the person. You can also leave the card in the offering plate and it will be delivered for you. • Invite someone out for coffee. • Help with the nursery or Sunday School. • Join our prayer chain. You can receive regular emails or a phone call informing you what needs prayer. • Give your testimony on a Sunday morning. Talk to Jeff and he will give you the opportunity to share how God is working in your life. • Volunteer to read the Scripture on a Sunday morning. The Importance of Weakness The Coronation of the King: Pt 22 Sunday July 5, 2015 “God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” - 1 Corinthians 1:27 Tuesday - North Park Neighbourhood Festival! This festival runs from 4-8pm on Vancouver St. by Royal Athletic Park. Our church has a table and so does North Park Manor. If you want to volunteer to man the table talk to Jeff or Nora. You are highly encouraged to at least stop by at some point during the festival to visit the tables and interact with our neighbours. ADVANCED NOTICE July 17th @ 7:00 - Fellowship Night! This month we are going for a walk at Ogden Point and then getting ice cream! A WARM WELCOME to all guests who are worshipping with us today. Please take time to sign one of the visitor cards in the pew and place it on the offering plate. Following the service join us for coffee, tea, and conversation in the church hall. July 19th - Baby dedication! Ryle is being dedicated before the Lord in our Sunday service! We will be celebrating with a bbq right after the service. PRAYER REQUESTS • Continue to pray for healing, whether physical or emotional for Eric Boullion, Peggy McFadyen, Danika Sears, Barbara MacCaskell, Judy Ross, Lorne Hofmans and Stan Sojonky. • Our neighbour in North Park Manor, Stan Smith, lost his 10 week old grandson last Sunday. Please pray for Stan and the family as they continue to mourn this devastation. • Jeff has a friend, Jordan, whose dad was in a severe mountain bike accident last week. He has been in a coma and the situation does not look good. The family is deciding this weekend whether to put him in palliative care. Pray for wisdom and comfort during this tragedy. Organ Prelude Prayer of Approach Songs of Praise and Worship The Story Greeting One Another Hymn 4 “How Great Thou Art” Congregational Concerns Tithes and Offering Congregational Prayer/Sharing Scripture: Mark 9:14-29 The Story Today Hymn 87 “May Jesus Christ Be Praised” (vv. 1-3) Communion Hymn 87 “May Jesus Christ Be Praised” (vv. 4-6) Benediction and Choral Amen Organ Postlude Small Groups We meet weekly in our Small Groups so that we can care for each other by learning together, praying together, and challenging each other. WANT TO GET INVOLVED AT FBC Volunteer to read the Scripture on a Sunday morning. Sermon Notes: The Moral of the Story: Life will be filled with struggles. It is only when we embrace our weaknesses rather than hiding them that we will learn to depend upon God’s power. 1) When you follow Jesus you will ______________. 2) We need to use our ______________ to bring us closer to God. 3) The source of all power is a ________________________. Prayer Room The door outside the sanctuary is our prayer room. Feel free to use it from 10:45-11:00 to prepare your heart for worship. It will also be open after the service if you want to pray a prayer of reflection. (We have sermon questions available in the foyer for anyone who wants to research further.) Sunday afternoon Filipino Small Group Sunday @ 4:30 - Young Adult Small Group in the prayer room. Monday @ 1:00pm in the Wellesley Monday @ 2:00pm in the church We care better together. CBM Prayerline Kenya/South Sudan Aaron and Erica Kenny recently visited Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, home to displaced people from East Africa & the Middle East. They pass along news from Pastor Nyok who leads a church in the camp: “Our church keeps growing as new people arrive every day from South Sudan and my congregation is now reaching 870 people, most are widows and orphans. This week we are meeting for two days of prayer and mourning to comfort the orphans, widows and widowers of the deceased families. It is not easy for the widows to stay alone, but they encourage each other. God is at work! The people are supportive of one another and we have not lost our faith. Please pray for the orphans and widows of our church. We are doing our best for each other, but the needs are so great." Pray for God’s comfort and for peace and reconciliation in South Sudan. Bolivia Tim & Kallie Hutton, our newest Field Staff in Bolivia, praise God for the caring ministry of dedicated volunteers from a local Baptist church in El Alto who provide preschool classes as well as nutritional snacks and health care to young children living in some of El Alto’s most struggling neighbourhoods. Members of the church are also partnered up with each student’s family to encourage community relationships and more personal support. The program is called PEPE and is one of the initiatives of the Integral Mission Centre supported by CBM and the Union of Bolivian Baptists. First Baptist Church, 877 North Park Street, Victoria, BC V8W 1S9 phone: (250) 383-6011 office@firstbaptistvictoria.org www.firstbaptistvictoria.org
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