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The Current
First Baptist Church
200 Hwy 17 South
North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582
www.fbcnmb.com
October 2014
A Note from John and Kathleen
After twelve years of ministry and
service to this church, we are retiring
as Pastor and Music Director. We
carry with us many memories of the
time spent with you. We wish each of
you God’s best as we all seek to do
our Father’s will.
Keep serving,
singing and loving for Him. To God
be all the glory!
World Hunger
We at First Baptist Church need to give much thought and prayers to this dire need in giving to the World
Hunger Fund October 12. Please do not forget to bring non-perishable food items to the church any time between
now and Sunday, October 12 to be given to North Strand Helping Hand. The food items may be placed on the altar
or in the gray boxes in the front foyer and also at both side doors.
Every dollar donated to the World Hunger Fund is used 100% to feed the hungry in SC, the USA and the world.
World Hunger envelopes will be available and someone will be at each door with containers for you to place your
offering in for this worthy cause. PLEASE GIVE!!
FBC Staff Welcomes
Christina!
I moved to the Myrtle Beach area in 1997 from
Virginia. I am married to Chris Bellamy. We have
three children Isaac, Samuel and Olivia. My
husband is a life long member of the church and I
have enjoyed attending here for many years. I love
reading, hiking and gardening. I am looking forward
to working with my church family.
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Christina will work as
secretary on Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday.
Paula will work Monday
and Tuesday. Please stop
by the office and welcome
Christina!
Thanks to Darlene
Thank you, Darlene, for everything! We want to
express our great appreciation to Darlene
Dunlow for her ministry to the church the past
eight years. Darlene has tremendous
administrative skills and we were blessed to
have her as part of our team. As our church
“secretary”, she went above and beyond her
job in assisting others and making our church
run smoothly. She had the gift of anticipating
what would be needed and covering all the
bases. She was willing to help us in any way
she could, spending extra hours and even some
Saturdays just to make sure things were done
well.
We will miss you, Darlene, and wish you the
very best in your much earned retirement!
First Baptist Church Staff and Members
SUNDAY
8:00 Chapel Choir Practice
8:30 Worship Service
9:45 Sunday School
9:45 Contemporary Service
11:00 Worship Service
5:45 RAs and GAs
6:00 Evening Worship & Youth
Sun
First Baptist Church
October 2014
Mon
Tue
Homecoming
Sunday October 26
Sunday School 9:00am
One Worship Service 10:30 am
Covered Dish Lunch
No Evening Service
5
4:30 pm—Deacons’
Meeting
Wed
1
2
6:00 pm— Prayer Service
6:30 pm—Youth Worship
7:00 pm— Choir Practice
8:00 pm—12 Step Program
6
7
10:00 am—1:00 pm— 9:30 am—Ladies’ Bible
Comfort Quilters
Study (FH)
8:00 pm—12 Step
Program
8
9
6:00 pm— Prayer Service
6:30 pm—Youth Worship
7:00 pm— Choir Practice
11:30 am—Lunch Bunch at 8:00 pm—12 Step ProBoulineaus
gram
Thu
Fri
3
Sat
4
7:30 am—Men’s Prayer
Breakfast at Friendly’s
10
11
6:30 pm—Visitation Team
12
4:30 pm—Personnel
Meeting
13
14
10:00 am—1:00 pm— 9:30 am—Ladies’ Bible
Comfort Quilters
Study (FH)
World Hunger
8:00 pm—12 Step
Program
19
20
21
10:00 am—1:00 pm— 9:30 am—Ladies’ Bible
Comfort Quilters
Study (FH)
8:00 pm—12 Step
Program
26
Homecoming
Sunday School
9:00 am
One Worship Service
10:30 am
No Evening Service
6:30 pm—Visitation Team
6:30 pm—Budget and Finance Committee Meeting
6:30 pm—Visitation Team
27
28
10:00 am—1:00 pm— 9:30 am—Ladies’ Bible
Comfort Quilters
Study (FH)
8:00 pm—12 Step
Program
6:30 pm—Visitation Team
15
16
6:00 pm— Prayer Service
6:30 pm—Youth Worship
7:00 pm— Choir Practice
8:00 pm—12 Step Program
17
18
11:00 am-2:00 pm—
Chicken Bog
Fundraiser
22
23
6:00 pm— Quarterly
Church Conference
6:30 pm—Youth Worship
7:00 pm— Choir Practice
8:00 pm—12 Step Program
24
30
29
6:00 pm— Prayer Service
6:30 pm—Youth Worship
7:00 pm— Choir Practice
8:00 pm—12 Step Program
31
6:00 pm —8:00 pm Trunk or Treat
25
Volunteers for October
October 5
October 12
October 19
October 26
USHERS
Homecoming
Lee Greenspan
Ray Mason
Charles Brewer
Gary Carroll
Ian Isenberg
Porter Kennington
Donal Wright
8:30 am
Gerald Smith
BooBoo Todd
Ron Bruce
Ben McSwain
Leon Hayes
Ken Plummer
11:00 am
Chris Bellamy
Russell Courtney
Mike Lewis
Bronson Summers
Ben Timmerman
Charlie Bellamy
Rico Bruton
Charlie Davis
Russ Courtney
Ashley McLamb
David Bell
Chip Bellamy
Frank Boulineau III
Ray Cooper
Kenny McLamb
6:00 pm
Ron Ball
Ron Bruce
Wayne Carey
Dwain Spivey
Bobby Scott
Debbie Scott
No Evening Service
Hank & Vi Crawford
Winston & Pat Jones
Monroe & Susie Tickle
AJ Edge
& Charlie Davis
Leon & Carolyn Hayes
Duke & Jan Foyle
Ron & Margaret Ball
GREETERS
Front Door
Side Door B Wing Bobby & Debbie Scott
Drive Thru
Chuck & Becky McDowell Bill & Lynda Hoke
Jerry & Margie
Branscome
Bobby &
Debbie Scott
Welcome
Cathleen Floyd
Nancy Holt
Margie Branscome
Nelda Courtney
Allison Isenberg
Cassandra Courtney
Children’s Committee
Children’s Committee
Children’s Committee
Porter Kennington
Ian Isenberg
Hank Crawford
Rico Bruton
Sandy Hawley
NURSERY & CHILDREN’S CHURCH
Nursery
Natalie Bellamy
Children’s Church Children’s Committee
SECURITY TEAM (All services this week)
Mason Collins
Michael Rue
Chris Bellamy
Bobby Scott
6th Annual
Coastal Samaritan
Soup Cook Off Fundraiser
January 11, 2015
4:00 p.m.—6:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church NMB
Coastal Samaritan Counseling Center Offers spiritually
integrated psychotherapy to anyone in need
regardless of the ability to pay for the counseling
service provided and for the counselors salaries.
Sub-committees for all areas needed!
Jim and Teri Pruitt
Cell (843) 333-3745
teripruitt@sc.rr.com
Operation Christmas Child
It’s never too early to start thinking about Operation
Christmas Child. The “Shoe Box Packing Party” is Tuesday,
November 11, at 11:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
Remember to mark your box for boy or girl and include a
donation of $7.00 for shipping. We’d love to have money for
items to pack in the boxes and we are in need of sponsors to
cover shipping. Anyone who does not feel they could pack a
box could sponsor one or more boxes at $7.00 a box. Checks
should be made payable to FBCNMB for Operation
Christmas Child or give money to Beady Moore marked to
pack or ship. Make this a family project. The dedication
service is Sunday, November 16. Sometimes only one family
receives one box. Christian literature will be placed in the box
in the proper language at the inspection/packing centers.
Send His love in a shoe box!
October Birthdays
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
1
Thu
2
Fri
Sat
3
4
10
11
Anna-Austin Boyers
Ronnie Caulder
5
6
7
8
Richard Young
Diane Shell
Banks Mitchell
Joseph Harrison
9
Ann Taylor
Pat Jones
Bob Teater
12
13
Lucian Stephens
Ruth Smith
Beth Humphreys
Patrice Landrum
14
Colleen Smith
15
21
22
16
17
18
Melanie Smith
Trenton Bell
Margie Branscome
23
24
25
Kim Rue
19
20
Donal Wright
Tawanna Boyers
Joyce Young
Anita Gore-Eaton
Winston Jones
Ray Mason
Edwin Bellamy
Beady Moore
26
27
28
Betty Keith
Noah Hayes
Fannie Holmes
29
A.J. Edge
Caleb Mishler
30
31
Lynne Smith
Allison Lewis
Prayer Team Meeting
The Prayer Team will meet in the Belle Edge classroom on Monday, October 13 at 4p.m. If you are interested in
joining the Prayer Team, please come to this meeting. If you are interested but unable to attend this meeting, please
contact Catherine Brewer at 249-4355 or the church office with your information. Please come join us as you will
receive a blessing from this ministry.
Lunch Bunch
Lunch Bunch is a prayer group and a part of the WMU (Women’s Mission Union). Each month, we meet to review
the current missions within the Southern Baptist organization for opportunities to help. Our meetings take place at
various local restaurants, usually the first Tuesday of each month during lunchtime (around 11:30am). The group
currently consists of all women, but men are certainly welcome to join.
We try to participate in one community project each month and support other charges that are worldwide.
Sometimes we provide razors for men, toiletry bags, serve meals, or haircuts. Street Reach, a homeless ministry in
Myrtle Beach, may call with needs such as blankets for the night. We get them together and deliver the blankets on
a moment’s notice. During November, we host a shoe box packing party for the Samaritans Purse…Operation
Christmas Child.
If you would like to attend or help, check the church schedule for specific times and dates of our monthly “Lunch
Bunch” meeting.
Sound System
Thanks to each of you who were able to make a
donation to the sound system fund. With your help,
along with help from profits from the concessions
sold in the Family Life Center and help from the
Yard Sale funds, we were able to follow through
with the immediate needs on equipment
replacement. The two TV monitors have been
replaced. A new Digital mixer (sound board) has
been ordered along with the necessary processors,
amps, boxes, supplies and training necessary for
installation.
We are excited about the new
equipment and look forward to getting it
installed.
We are in need of
workers in both sound
and video. This is the
perfect time to get in on
training on the new
board! If you would be
able to work in sound or video (if only one
Sunday per month) we need you!
Letters of Thanks!
From: Darlene Dunlow
Retirement wasn’t an easy decision for me. I have been praying about it for a while, and finally realize after 44 years of
employment, it is time! My knee surgery wasn’t as successful as I had hoped for, which meant we had to give up our two story
townhouse and move back to a single family home. Unfortunately, the one we liked the most was off the south end of
Forestbrook Road making the drive to North Myrtle Beach even further. Although I will be spending more time with my
husband, JL, visiting our son, Michael, and catching up on some traveling, I am going to miss my church family and the
interactions with everyone. I knew God had a plan for me when he brought me to First Baptist Church and I appreciate all the
well wishes and am so thankful for the love and friendship of everyone here. God bless you! - Darlene Dunlow
From: Amanda Earnhardt
“The Jewelry Ladies” would like to express our appreciation for all the donations of jewelry for our church yard sale! With your
generosity, the jewelry booth had our most successful year ever. In Christian Love—Amanda Earnhardt P.S. We’ve already
started collecting jewelry for next year!
From: Agnes Roller
A big thank you to my church family for the concerns, calls, cards, and especially the prayers after my knee surgery. Prayers
were answered. I am doing fine and go back to the doctor in one year.—Agnes Roller
From: Jane Rose
I was so surprised and moved by your loving and caring gift that arrived today. Please extend my heartfelt gratitude to those
ladies who created such a beautiful lap quilt with such loving hands and caring for someone they do not even know. Thank you
also for all of your prayers. I am so blessed to have all of you lifting me and my family up in prayer and cannot tell you how
much that means to me. God bless all of the comfort quilters. Much love and gratitude.—Jane Rose
From: Ocean Drive Elementary School
Dear Friends at First Baptist Church NMB: Thank you for donating supplies to our school. They will be very useful for our
students. Thank you for your support.—Ocean Drive Elementary
From: Mrs. Felicia Bellamy (Guidance Counselor)
Thank you for the school supplies! It really means a lot to us here at Riverside Elementary. Thanks for al you do!!!! - Mrs.
Felicia Bellamy
Flower Ministry
If anyone is interested in participating in the flower ministry by taking the Sunday flowers to the
shut-ins, please contact the church office. This involves only a couple of hours of your time
and is greatly appreciated by our home bound members.
Chicken Bog Fundraiser
A Night in Bethlehem
By Cindy Parker
Publicity Committee Chairman
ago with an outdoor dramatization of the
Christmas story. Live animals will
enhance the drama. It’s truly a family
Christmas event. When you enjoy your
chicken bog on the 17th, you’ll know you
helped the drama become a reality!
On Friday, October 17th a Chicken Bog
Fundraiser will be held in the Family Life
Center from 11:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. The
plate is $8.00 and includes chicken bog,
green beans, slaw, and fresh bread.
Thanks in advance for your purchase of a
Sweet tea will be available with pick up
chicken bog ticket and know there are
plates but no tea with
over 50 people working
deliveries. Tickets will be
on the drama to make
available
beginning Don’t Forget the Dates it a spectacular family
Sunday, September 28.
event!
The fundraiser is to raise
money for the outdoor
drama, A Night in
Bethlehem. The drama
will be held Saturday,
December
20
and
Sunday, December 21
from 5:00 p.m.—8:00
p.m. You will experience
the journey Mary and
Joseph
took
to
Bethlehem, 2,000 years
Chicken Bog Fundraiser
October 17
11:00 a.m.—2:00 p.m.
$8.00 per plate
A Night in Bethlehem
December 20, 21
5:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.
(These events are wheelchair and
stroller accessible)
NOTE: We will need a
lot of props (baskets,
earthenware
jugs,
containers, imitation
palm fronds, blankets,
small rugs and candle
sticks. If it looks like it
could fit into that era of
time, we can use it. If
it’s something you want
back after the drama,
label your item.
Youth Fundraiser
They’re Here!
2015 Attractions Books
Trunk or Treat
This is an annual youth fundraiser for
the kids to attend Winter Extreme.
Get yours from any
youth or see Tracy
Fulford. They are
only $20 per book
and have many
savings at some of
your favorite places.
Help support our
youth!
Bring the kids Trunk or Treating! There will
be music, hayrides, free hot dogs and
bottled water. Located in the church’s front
parking lot, this is an event the entire family
will enjoy.
There will be containers for
candy collection in your Sunday School
classes. If you would like to include your car
or trunk in the fun this year, call Cindy
Parker at (843) 249– 0399.
Friday, October 31
6:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m.