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Welcome
Northern Hills Baptist Church
Our Mission: “Love Jesus, Serve People, Change the World”
February 15, 2015
love one
another
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pure heart.
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Northern Hills Baptist Church
17211 NE 180th, Holt, MO 64048
Email office@nhbcweb.org
Phone (816) 320-3301
www.NHBCWEB.org
1 Peter 1:22a
OUR INVITATION TO YOU: The people of Northern Hills Baptist
Church join in welcoming you. We invite you to share in the
various activities of Worship, Bible Study and Ministry which our
church offers. If you do not have a Church Home where you are
actively in Christian Service, you may feel the Spirit’s leading to
make this your church. If so, we invite you to present yourself for
membership by:
• A Profession of Faith & Baptism
• A Letter from another Church
• A Statement of membership in
another church where you have
accepted Christ as Savior and
have been baptized by immersion.
WHEN TO COME FORWARD: You are invited to respond at the close
of the service when the Pastor offers an open invitation for you to
come forward and make your decision known. If you are in doubt
about anything, you may come forward and someone will be happy
to counsel with you.
Interim Senior Pastor
Tom Willoughby
Pastor of Senior Adults
Richard Hubbard, Pastor Emeritus
Directors of Youth
Mike Jensen
Lisa Lawrence
Minister of Music
Rev. Randy Simmons
Opportunities for the Week
Worship Service
CHURCH OFFICE HOURS
February 15, 2015
Call to Worship
9:00am-4:00pm Mon.-Fri.
Come People of the Risen King
Congregation
Welcome/Announcements
Marriage Month Skit
Marriage Promises
Offertory Hymn
Matt & Jennifer Kirkpatrick
Sweet, Sweet Spirit
#243
Responsive Reading
#677
Deacon’s Offertory Prayer
8:00am
10:45am
Offertory Special
Gary Tracy
Ben Troupe
Teneshia Petree
Defender
Worship in Song
Congregation
God of the Ages
10:45am Children’s Church (K – 3rd grades only)
Children come forward at the beginning of the last praise song.
Invitation
Pastor Willoughby
Union of Man
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
5:15-6:30pm AWANA Trek – Peplow’s
MON - Feb. 16 – Presidents’ Day
No School at NHCA
WEDS - Feb. 18 (continued)
7:00pm Youth Group
7:00pm Men’s/Women’s Bible Study
THURS - Feb. 19
8:00am Ol’ Roosters @ Rock Inn
7:00pm Council Meeting
7:00pm Cowboy Church – Lathrop
FRI - Feb. 20
4:30pm Trek/JV Praise Team practice
5:15pm Youth Praise Team Practice
6:00pm Finance Meeting
6:00am Prayer Time
6:00pm Gran Prix Machining
TUES – Feb. 17
10:00am Music Practice – Sanctuary
6:00pm Family Game Night
9:00am Ol’ Roosters – Catrick’s in Lawson
1-4pm Women’s Quilting Group
7:00pm Men’s Ministry Meeting
8:00am Men’s Bible Study – Youth Center
2:00pm Staff Prayer/2:30 Staff Meeting
5:00pm Youth Praise team practice
6:15 Trek/JV Praise team practice
6:45pm AWANA
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SAT – Feb. 21
NEXT SUNDAY–Feb 22
Calvary Bible College Choir “Evidence”
Special MBTS Speaker, Tony Preston
9:30am Bible Study/SS all ages
9:30am Deacon Training Class
10:45am Worship Service/Ch.Church
5:15-6:30pm AWANA Trek – Peplow’s
6:30pm Special Business Meeting
#411
“The one who loves the least controls the relationship.”
Communion & Anointing
Dr. Robert Anthony
Next Week’s Praying Deacon
10:45am Kenny Omland
ONE SERVICE in the F.O.C. gym Next Sunday, February 22 at 10:45am.
Children’s Church will be dismissed from the gym that day and parents
will pick children up in the F.O.C. Foyer following services.
Weekly Summary – 2/8/2015
Attendance Last Sunday
General Offering Last Sunday
2014/15 YTD Budget Needs
2014/15 YTD Giving Received
2014/15 YTD Expenses
8:00am Worship Service
9:30am Bible Study/SS all ages
9:30am Deacon Training Class
10:45am Worship Service/Ch.Church
WEDS - Feb. 18
I Stand in Awe
Message
TODAY- Feb. 15 - Communion
294
$11,932.00
$197,545.00
$180,400.00
$129,888.00
TODAY’S NURSERY & WEE WORSHIP WORKERS – Sun., Feb. 15
8:00am Wee Worship
Christine Hartman and Lisa Dorsey
9:30am Sunday School
Patti Smith
10:30am – Babies (Nursery)
Brendon and Amy Turpen
10:30am – Younger Wee Worship Nathan Ice and Jenna Newsome
10:30am – Older Wee Worship
Andrea Newcomer and Julie Votipka
10:30am – Children’s Church
Mike and Cathy McElwee, Jordyn Petree
NEXT WEEK’S NURSERY WORKERS – Sun., Feb. 22
9:30am Sunday School
Kathi Harris
10:30am – Babies (Nursery)
Barb and Harold Haines
10:30am – Younger Wee Worship Katie Alexander and Kristy Jennings
10:30am – Older Wee Worship
Julie Gatten and Jessica Sanders
10:30am – Children’s Church
Monique A., Linda G., and Lexi Cooper
February
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David Asher 
Thomas Graves Jr. 
Karissa Terry 
Roy Hutcheon 
Molley Newsome 
Kathi Harris 
Coda Kirkpatrick - 09
Mariah Rainey - 17
Hiroko Gatten 
Marvin Hodges 
Jenna Petree 
Deidre Arnone 
Lucy Claycomb 
Shavonne Troupe 
Curtis Alexander 
Jessica Burres – 20
Annabella Hohenstein – 5
Birthdays
17 Robert Collins 
19 Adam Ashcroft 
19 Jackie Subra 
21 Tom Chase 
21 Andra Cooper - 10
22 Roy Christy 
22 Ariel Hutcheon 
23 Jim Reed 
24 Patty Bergloff 
24 Sharon Sykes 
25 Annelise Kirkpatrick – 11
26 Angela Crawford 
27 Jack Watts – 6
28 Brenda Deaton 
 Over 20
Happy February Anniversaries
06 Roy & Marilyn Christy – 55 yrs
14 Chuck & Sherry Belben – 6 yrs
15 Marc & Rosa Newsome – 29 yrs
17 Randy & Donna Thompson – 42 yrs
28 Pastor Richard & Dee Hubbard – 56 yrs
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Nominating Team Volunteer Needs for NHBC
Buildings Interior Team Leader
Exterior Grounds Team Leader
If you would be willing to fill one of these positions, please call
Stephanie Knoche 320-2115 or Harold Haines 628-5419.
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NHBC Youth Progressive Dinner – Saturday, March 7
The Youth Department needs volunteers who would like to bless the youth and
leaders by participating in a Progressive Dinner for the youth on Sat, March 7th,
starting around 4pm. We need 4 or 5 homes willing to host around 25 youth,
plus youth leaders, for a short portion of our meal. We will visit 5 homes eating
only one course at each house. Appetizers, soups, salads, desserts, main dish,
and/or coffee bar are some ideas. Help us build community in our youth group!
Thanks, in advance, for being a part of this wonderful opportunity! Contact
Amanda Jensen (816) 903-0335 or (816) 665-6874.
Message Notes
Date: February 15, 2015
Speaker: Pastor Tom Willoughby
Message: “Union of Man” Genesis 2:18-25
Living the Message by Eugene Peterson
LOVE – If we, deeply in love with someone, begin describing with
passionate appreciation what has been unnoticed or ignored by others
for years, some people around us are sure to dismiss us, “Love is blind.”
They mean that love diminishes our capacity to see what is actually there
so that fantasy, tailor-made to fit our desires, can be projected on
another and thus make him or her acceptable as a lover. The cynical
follow-up is that if this did not happen, if we saw the other truly, we would
never get involved. Why? Because everyone is, in fact, quite unlovely,
wither visibly or invisibly, or in some particularly unfortunate cases, both.
Love doesn’t see truth but creates illusions and incapacitates us for
dealing with the hard-edged realities of life.
But the popular saying, as popular sayings so often are, is wrong. It is
hate that is blind. It is habit, condescension, cynicism that are blind.
Love opens eyes. Love enables the eyes to see what has been there all
along but was overlooked in haste or indifference. Love corrects astigmatism so that what was distorted in selfishness is now perceived
accurately and appreciatively. Love cures shortsightedness so that the
blur of the distant other is now in wondrous focus. Love cures farsightedness so that opportunities for intimacy are no longer blurred
threats but blessed invitations. Love looks at the one who had no “form
or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should
desire him” and sees there the fairest of the sons of men . . . anointed
with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”
If we could see the other as he is, as she is, there is no one we would
not see as “fairest . . .all fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia.”
Love penetrates the defenses that have been built up to protect
against rejection and scorn and belittlement, and it sees life
created by God for love. I Corinthians 13:3
Can be seen at AMC
Barrywoods 24, 8101
Roanridge Road,KCMO
64151 Phone: (816) 505-9199. https://www.amctheatres.com/movietheatres/amc-barrywoods-24 (Commitment numbers were not enough for
Liberty B&B Theatres to arrange showing the movie.) Please plan to attend
“Old Fashioned” on a day and time of your choice beginning Valentine’s Day
through the following weekend. You can purchase tickets at the AMC
website or at: http://www.oldfashionedmovie.com/
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Calvary Bible College Choir “Evidence” Coming to NHBC Sunday morning,
February 22! We will have SS at 9:30am and ONE morning worship service at
10:45am in the Outreach Center with special speaker Dr. Tony Preston.
Pastoral Candidate, Tom Willoughby and His Family
Pastor Willoughby is a native of
Indianapolis, Indiana, but has
lived in Missouri since August
1987. He is the husband of
Stacy and the father of Nicole
and Joshua. The Willoughby’s
were also blessed to be able to
adopt 2 children from foster care,
Kristy and her biological brother
Josh. They have been foster
parents for 16 years. They work
with Behavioral, Career and
Therapeutic children; most of
whom they are helping to
transition from residential treatment centers to a family-type structure.
Pastor Tom Willoughby has pastored for approximately 20 years, serving as
senior pastor at Harwood Baptist, FBC Osceola, FBC El Dorado Springs,
FBC Greenwood. He has also served as an associate pastor at Temple
Baptist in Frankling, Indiana and staff pastor at Lenexa Baptist Church in
Lenexa, KS. He is very passionate about missions and has led every church
he has pastored into increased missions involvement and giving.
He teaches Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary &
College in Kansas City, MO; Religion at Charleston Southern University in
Charleston, SC; and New Testament at Criswell College in Dallas, TX. He
graduated from Southwest Baptist University with a B.A. in Christian
Ministries and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary with an M.A. in
Biblical Languages. He is currently in the dissertation phase of his PhD in
Biblical Studies at Midwestern.
He also did doctoral research at Princeton Theological Seminary and was
invited back to lecture there this past April and to return again sometime this
coming year. He has studied toward an M.A. in Christian Apologetics at
BIOLA University in La Mirada, CA and an M.A. in Biblical Archaeology at
Midwestern.
Pastor Willoughby loves to fish, play piano, is a writer and author, but most
importantly, enjoys spending time with his family in a variety of ways
whenever he can.
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Special Business Meeting Sunday, February 22 at 6:30pm for
discussion and vote on our pastoral candidate, Tom Willoughby.
We will have a church family time of fellowship in the F.O.C. fellowship
hall following the business meeting. Please bring finger foods to share.