First
Baptist Church
224
Main St. Penn Yan, NY 14527
(315)
536-9821 e-mail: pyfbc@peoplepc.com
Rev. John R. Tharp, Pastor
SEPTEMBER WORSHIP NOTES
Sept.
7 “Let the Little Children Come to Me”
Luke 18:15-17
Communion Sunday
Sept.
14 Baptist Church School History
Sept.
21 Women’s Sunday
Special Guests from
Utica Tabernacle Church
Sept.
28 “The Greatest of These is
Love”
I Corinthians 13:1-13
Serving the Church in
September:
Date Lay Readers Greeters
Sept. 7
Jack Clancy Margaret
Mills & Viola Gray
Sept. 14 Sean Ahearn Eva Dillon & Erma Mullins
Sept. 21 Meghan Fuqua Mary & Bob Fullagar
Sept. 28 Cheryl Stewart Necia Smith & Pat Ames
SEPTEMBER
BIRTHDAYS
7 ~ Kathryn Clayson 20 ~ Pat Ames
7 ~ Sean Ahearn 24 ~ Greg
Miller
8 ~ Mary Lou Hainsworth 25 ~ Jack Clancy
9 ~ Sylvia Ansley 28 ~ Viola Gray
17 ~ Matt Scutt 30 ~ Barbara
Burke
EVERY SUNDAY IS SPECIAL
September is
going to be a “WOW!” experience for the people of Penn Yan First Baptist. The
boards and committees have been working over time to bring us the finest and
most exciting worship and fellowship experience one can imagine.
September 7
Rally Day – “Let the Little Children Come to Me” (Luke 18:15-17)
Starting the church school
year off with a BANG, the Christian Education Board is making this a super
inviting day. More information below.
September 14
Bring a Friend
Sunday
An exciting worship and
fellowship time put together by one of our worship teams: Sean Ahearn, Greg
Marion, and Barbara Burke. We will learn of the roots of our faith by looking
at the exciting history of our church school. There will be a fellowship time
after worship and an invitation for all to join in the Christian Education
experience. There will be an “Apple Theme” dish to pass luncheon to follow. All
are welcome. That afternoon J. Brent Walker, director of the Baptist Joint
Committee, will be speaking at Geneva FBC for the Finger Lakes Association
Meeting.
September 20, 6
p.m.
Dinner and
Science Show Entertainment
Len Ortenzi, nephew of Ralph
Wilkes and professor of physics at Finger Lakes Community College, will present
a program of science and Christian teaching; which will delight young people of
every age. Some of what he does is break wine glasses with sound waves, a “Myth
Buster” presentation, makes aluminum rods sing, shows how “Star Wars” gets its
sounds, explodes marshmallows, and lays on a bed of nails. It will be a great
evening! More information below.
September 21
Women’s Sunday
Edith and Jim Davison will
be coming from the Utica Tabernacle Church, with a group of the Karin tribes
peoples (twelve altogether) in their native costumes. One of the women who is
an interpreter in the public schools, Khin Sae Moe, will speak about the
experiences of the refugees. The children will be singing. There will be
fellowship meal at noon. More information below.
September 28
Love Sunday
This is a good day to bring
your husband or wife. Paul and Cathy MacDougall plan to renew their wedding
vows during worship and husbands and wives are invited to join them in doing so.
Rev. Bruce Westerdahl will join the pastor in this time of special meaning. The
message is “The Greatest of These is Love.”
Mark Lawrence will
present a concert on this evening.
~~~ CONCERT ~~~
"SEPTEMBER SONGS"
Mark Lawrence, Tenor
Accompanied by Bill Cowdery
Sunday, September 28, 3:00 PM
~ Donation - $5.00 ~
For New Building Mortgage
Tickets available at the door
A time of refreshments and fellowship will follow the concert
RALLY DAY – Sept 7
Rally Day 2008 will be
Sunday, September 6. At this time you can sign up for church school and we have
church school for all ages.
¨
Adult
¨
Middle & High School
¨
Elementary
¨
Primary
¨
Parenting Classes
The day will also feature an
ice cream social and sing – a – long!
ABW Scholarship
Fund
This year’s ABW Ministries
Scholarship girl is Janielle Barrett. She is a sophomore at St. Francis
College. Her address is: 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn Heights, NY 11261.
In this newsletter is a “Giving Calendar” – a fun way to think
about our scholarship girl, the program and suggestions for contributing to the
fund. If you choose to donate to the scholarship fund, please give your money
to our treasurer, Nancy Tharp, and she will forward it on.
Thank
You
Sheryl
Robbins
Chair,
Church & Community
Mary & Martha Circle –
Sept. 9
The ladies of the Circle
will resume their meetings beginning Tuesday, September 9. The meeting begins
at 10:30 a.m., everyone should bring their own sandwich. We will set up our
calendar of meetings, and organizing turns for devotions and desserts. Bring
along someone new!
Finger Lakes Association Meeting
Sunday, September 14
First Baptist Church, Geneva
Registration – 2:30 p.m. Devotions – 2:55 p.m.
Hymn Sing – 2:45 p.m. Program –
3 p.m.
Dish –to-Pass supper at 5 p.m.
Guest Speaker: J. Brent Walker, Executive Director,
Baptist Joint Committee, Religious Liberty.
Fellowship Class Sept. 17
The third Wednesday of the
month brings the Fellowship Class together. This group of ladies will meet on
September 17, at noon in the library. Please bring your own sandwich. At our
first meeting we will sign up for monthly turns for devotions and desserts.
Bring a new friend!
SCIENCE SHOW – Sept 20
Seeing Scripture in Science!
A collection of fun science demonstrations by
Educational Astronaut Finalist Professor Len Ortenzi, FLCC
Sunday, September 20th at 6 p.m.
in the Great Room
Professor Ortenzi is the nephew of Ralph Wilkes
¨ Hear aluminum rods sing
¨ See sound waves on a slinky
¨ Watch a wine glass shatter with sound
¨ Witness a cinder block smashed on the chest of a crazy guy
laying on a bed of
nails!
¨ And much, much more!
This fun and educational evening also includes biblical truths that are
revealed in these scientific demonstrations. Please come and be entertained and
blessed
Women’s Sunday – Sept. 21
Women’s Sunday is designed
to give Pastor John a well -deserved day off, and gives the women a chance to
take over the Sunday services. We have
an exciting morning planned for you! This year we have special guests Jim and
Edith Davison from Utica Tabernacle Church. Along with them, will be guest
speaker, Khin Sae Moe. Khin came to Utica from a refugee camp after being
displaced by the Burmese Army. She and her husband have been U.S. citizens for
7 years. There will also be several school children with them and they will
sing during our service. Don’t miss this special Sunday service!
Lay Studies Course
Finger Lakes Association
will offer a course in Baptist Church History.
The class will be held on
Saturdays, Sept. 20 – Nov. 22, from 10 a.m. – noon.
This is a course in the
history of the Christian Church from the Resurrection
to the present. Ed Carey
will lead the course and completion will earn a certificate in Lay Studies.
Call Greg Marion at 536-6771.
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ABCNYS Biennial Meeting - Oct
12-14
A special opportunity will
come this fall when the ABCNYS Biennial Meetings are held at Keuka College,
October 12-14. As you know, Ruth Spencer Is ABCNYS President and we should do
all we can to support her in this great event. There is always a need for local
churches to be involved in the work of a Biennial, and this one is no
exception.
The following areas will
need our involvement and support:
Child Care Ushers
First Aid Transportation
Flowers Signs
Hospitality
If there is any way that you
can help with any of these functions, or have any questions about them, please
call Ruth Spencer at 536-3412.
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LIBRARY NOTES
The church library now has
over 250 CD’s (mostly classical music) available for you to borrow and enjoy at
home. We certainly appreciate this generous donation from Carrie Ahearn.
Also, a number of videos and
DVD’s from the collection of Don DeLooza have been donated to the library by
his son, Tom.
As always, thank you to the
many church members who continue to share and donate new books to our
collection – most recently; Erma Mullins, Judi Gibbs, Evelyn Emerson, Milly
Bloomquist and several JOY Circle members.
Come, browse, and borrow.
You are bound to find something to suit your interests. Please, remember to
sign out what you borrow on the clipboard on the table. If you have any
requests or suggestions for additions, please let me know.
Does anyone know the
whereabouts of Bad Girls of the Bible, by Liz Curtis Higgs?
OTHER NOTES
A BIG THANK YOU
to those who contributed
food for the
sandwiches for the ABMEN’s
Conference and to Erma and Diane who
helped make them. They were
really appreciated and enjoyed.
~ Kathie Lawrence
A Note from Suzie
Willson; VBS Director
I’m sending a Jerusalem
Marketplace full of thank yous to all staff members, helpers, material seekers,
donations and prayer givers, for helping with our 2008 Vacation Bible School.
Once again with all of your input our project was a great success. A special
thank you to our church secretary, Peggy Smart, whose enthusiastic help, ideas
and flexability (even last minute drama part) was another vital key to our
success. God Bless You All!
Send A Note
Sharon Brink, a former
member of our congregation, who moved to Texas has expressed how she misses FBC
and it’s people. If you would like to correspond with Sharon and her family you
can write to her at:
Sharon Brink
2401 Monte Carlo Drive
Arlington, Texas, 76015
Stewardship
A small town had one bank and
three churches. Early one Monday morning, the bank officer called all three
churches with the same request: “Could you bring in Sunday’s collection as soon
as possible? We’re out of one-dollar bills.”
~ Joyful Noiseletter via Rev. Dean Jurgen
An Atheist in
the Woods
An atheist was walking
through the woods.
“What majestic trees!”
“What powerful rivers!”
“What beautiful animals!” He
said to himself.
As he was walking alongside
a river, he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look. He
saw a 7-foot grizzly charge towards him. He ran as fast as he could up the
path. He looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.
He looked over his shoulder
again and the bear was even closer. He tripped and fell on the ground. He
rolled over to pick himself up but saw that the bear was right on top of him,
reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
At that instant the Atheist
cried out, “Oh my God!”
Time stopped.
The bear froze.
The forest was silent.
As a bright light shone upon
the man, a voice came out of the sky.
“You deny my existence for
all these years, teach others I don’t exist and even credit creation to a
cosmic accident.” “Do you expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I
to count on you as a believer?”
The atheist looked directly
into the light, “It would be hypocritical of me to suddenly ask You to treat me
as a Christian now, but perhaps You could make the BEAR a Christian?”
“Very Well,” said the voice.
The lights went out. The
sounds of the forest resumed.
And the bear dropped his
right paw, brought both paws together, bowed his head and spoke:
“Lord bless this food, which
I am about to receive from thy bounty
though Christ our Lord,
Amen.”
Signs and Wonders
Sign outside Covenant
Moravian Church, York, PA:
“Seasons change. God
doesn’t.”