April 2017

Volume 13, Issue 4

Inside this issue:

Pastor’s Corner 1

A Message from our Assoc. Pastors

2 –3

What’s Happening in SBC Youth Group

4

Worship Ministry 5

SBC Kidz 6

Church Calendar &

Birthdays

7

Hodge Podge 8

Special Points of Interest:

∗ Secret Church 4/29

∗ Easter Sunday Schedule 4/16

∗ 5th Sunday Breakfast Fellowship 4/30

∗ Youth / Swaders Outing 4/5

∗ Youth Camp—Parent/Camper Interest Meeting 4/9

∗ Hope Alive in Me - A Praise & Worship Easter 4/9

∗ SBC Kidz CentriKid Camp Info

∗ Vacation Bible School 2017

∗ April BOP’s Luncheon

the Lord that we guard our hearts and minds from the influence of un-godly people. There is so much mischief and sin in which we can easily be-come entangled. Don’t go there! Don’t live that way! The Body of Christ was designed by God to be a witness of His love for people and His hatred of sin. The Church is to function as one body with many different parts. I cannot begin to describe to you what it feels like to spend my time serving the body and walking with godly people while de-lighting in the Word and ways of God as given to us in His Word. Suffice it to say that it is a life that is filled with joy, peace, contentment, purpose, and strength from our Heavenly Father for each step. I hope you know what I am talking about because you are experi-encing it too. God bless you as you serve the Lord Jesus and His Bride – the Church.

Devotedly,

Pastor Rober t

Dear Smyrna Family,

Welcome to the second quarter of 2017. As an-other year rolls along, I find myself thankful for the privilege of walking this path with you. This past week I found myself standing with many of you as you walked through val-leys of sickness and even death in your families. It was an honor to sit with you in your homes, hospital rooms, and businesses where we went before the Lord together to seek mercy, comfort, and peace in the storms of your lives. For so many of you, your faith encourages me and often keeps me going through my own struggles for faith at times.

Some may think it morbid or a little crazy to cherish those moments when I get the honor of sharing and sometimes simply remind-ing you of God’s precious promises found in His Word. But it is an honor and even a joy to walk with you to the gates of heaven to encourage you to let that precious loved one go into the loving arms of our Savior or to help you trust God with the future as it unfolds. It is sometimes gut wrenching to see the tears flow down your hurt-ing faces, faces that I have grown to love dearly, but I always stand knowing that God loves you deeply and His grace will be suf-ficient (2 Cor. 12:9). Let me share a passage with you that encourages me as I try to encourage you to

Pastor’s Corner hold on and to fight for faith. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction,…For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abun-dance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. Our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our suffer-ings, so also you are sharers of our com-fort” (2 Cor. 1:3-7)

As you keep reading in that section of Scripture you will find that Paul does not deny that the suffer-ing is real, intense, and even life threatening. This comfort is not a result of denying the pain or pre-tending that you are so spiritually strong that you are “fine.” This is comfort that comes from the Lord in the very heart of your terrible suffering while you fight for faith.

I couldn’t help but think I was writing the first para-graph of this entry that I used the words walk, stand, and sit. The con-text was walking, standing, and sitting while ministry was taking place in service to the Lord and His body – the church. Contrast that with what we read in Psalm 1. In that beautiful Psalm we are told not to walk with the wicked, not to stand with sinners, or sit with scoffers. Friends, this is an admonition from

“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work

of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain .” 1 Corinthians 15:58

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A Message from. . . Aaron Bobo, Assoc. Pastor

Happy Spring church family!

I'm so thankful for the warm weather and beautiful flowers and I'm sure you are as well.

This month contains many exciting days and events with it in the life of our church. One of those events is Secret Church 2017. This year's theme is a crucial one as we will be studying and learning about the reliability and authority of the Scriptures. Dr. Platt always does a wonderful job of preparing a great out-line every year and I'm sure this year will be no exception.

As we talk about the Scripture, we must acknowledge that every person must decide what they believe about its authority and reliability in their own lives. Unfortunately, many folks (even believers) have cho-sen to allow other mitigating factors to dictate what they believe. Indeed, entire denominations have abandoned the true teaching of the Word in order to fit in with the prevailing ideology of the culture, and each of these groups have experienced great decline or even extinction.

This is because the truth found in the Bible is what brings life! Church family, our hearts desire as pastors is for our church to be firmly rooted in the Bible. We believe that faithfulness to teach and stand on the Scriptures is our calling as believers and that God will bless our congregation as we trust in Him!

With that in mind, I want to encourage each of you to register for Secret Church so that we can grow to-gether both in our knowledge of the Word of God as well as our conviction that it is true.

You can register online at smyrna1897.org, as well as at the registration table in the foyer or by calling the church office. Registration costs $6 which covers your study guide for the evening. We will begin at 4pm on Saturday April 29th and run until around 8:30 pausing for a fellowship meal around 6pm. The church will provide the meat and drinks and each family is asked to bring a side and/or desert. Childcare is offered free of charge as well!

Devotedly,

Pastor Aaron

Email:

assocpastor@smyrna1897.org

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Singing His Praises, Melodie & Brad

A Message from…the Worship Ministry. . . .

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If you are unable to volunteer on your specified date/time, please find

your own replacement and notify the Children's Dept. Coordinator

with your replacements name - THANK YOU for serving the

children of Smyrna Baptist Church!

April 2017

SS Nursery (9:40)

Nursery (10:45)

Toddler 1's & 2's

Toddlers 3's Children's

Church Check In (9:45)

Check In (11:00)

April 2

Peggy Turner & Brooke Bishop

Chena Crocker Panky Clark Rhonda Kester Cheryl Joyner Ashley

Perkinson Terri Driskill

Brandi Perkinson Catherine Crocker

Reagan Saye Gracie Saye Sierra Servis

April 9

Annette Perkinson

Alicia Dalton Shay Tench Brenda Olgers Mary Tucker Kim Davis Kalley Saye

Mason Wells Samantha Dalton Robert Tench Rebekah Servis Avery Tucker

April 16

Audrey Erdmann

Gina Perkinson Maggie Coleman Tia Wilson Ashley D. Jones

Ashley Bobo Angela Walker Lorraine Arnett

Kristin Rowland

Janet Tyler Mckenzie

Wilson Hope Lane

April 23 Heather Gordon

Brandy Barchanowicz

Tami Gibbs Candi Cornett Chuck Page Kalley Saye Pam Reynolds

John Gordon Sharon Long Donnie Gibbs Reagan Saye Alexis Page

April 30 Jordan Smith AHG AHG AHG AHG

Kim Sweat AHG Brad Smith

Smyrna Bapt i s t Church

Calendar of Events - 2017 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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@11am BMen Breakfast

8am

Finance Committee 545 pm

Youth - Swaders 5pm Awana / Youth

Mid-Week Worship Worship Ministry Practice

Wednesday, 4/12 @ 11am

Deacon’s Meeting 7pm

945 am SS & Youth Church 11am Worship Service Ordination Service

Busy Fingers Ministry Rm 121 / 930 - 12N

Busy Fingers Ministry Rm 121 / 930 - 12N

Busy Fingers Ministry Rm 121 / 930 - 12N

Newsletter Due Busy Fingers Ministry Rm 121 / 930 - 12N

American Heritage Girls Troop VA1897 6-8 pm

6:30pm

Awana / Youth Mid-Week Worship

Worship Ministry Practice

945 am SS, & Youth Church 11am Hope Alive in Me - A Praise & Worship Easter

American Heritage Girls Troop VA1897 6-8 pm

Prayer Service 630 pm 630 Easter Sunrise Service 700 Breakfast Fellowship 945 am SS, & Youth Church 11am Easter Service

Prayer Service 630 pm

Prayer Service 630 pm

Ladies Bible Study 10-12N

Ladies Bible Study 10-12N

6:30pm

Awana / Youth Mid-Week Worship

Worship Ministry Practice

1 Elsie Turner Leslie Ongchangco 4 John Dalgard Nichole Kidd Katherine Oakley 5 Hope Lane 8 Danny Keesee Dorothy Upton Terri Moore Hailey McCoig 9 Tami Cheely Finlee Bourlier 10 Amber Smith 12 Elton Stell

12 Howard Turner John Costley Jodi Jenkins Tracy Moseley Tia Wilson Brooke Bishop Mary Kate Tucker 13 Pam Reynolds Skylar Moore 14 Luke Costley Tyson Kester 15 Monica Shifflett Josh Mizzell 16 Stephanie Anderson

16 Huntus Duke Grace Barnhouse 17 Polly Bryant Lesly McBride 18 Lucas Servis Jonna Bowers Dexter Jones 19 Wayne Slayden Emory Lee 20 Elijah Servis Heather York 21 Rick Hairfield April Green Jaeda Rich

22 Jay Cates Robert Slone Kristin Rowland Krystal Smith Travis Elder 23 Kim Garrett Tiffany Brown Robert Elder 24 Floyd Crocker Kenneth Droddy Dan Upton, Sr. Michelle Taylor Racheal Tucker

25 Oaklee Bourlier 26 Alice Tuck 28 Lewis Jenkins Aimee Kennedy 29 David McAlpine Amy Mizzell Grayson Cheely Will Driskill 30 Donnie Gibbs Benjamin Costley

The Lord’s Supper

30

AHG Scout Sunday

Easter Monday

Church Office Closed

4/30 5th Sunday Breakfast Fellowship 4/30 Widow’s Luncheon

SBC Sr.

Singles Lunch

945 am SS, & Youth Church 11am Worship Service New Teacher SS Training Class begins

Personnel Committee Meeting 7pm

Fin. Com Mtg. 545pm

SPRING BREAK SPRING BREAK -- NO Wednesday evening Service/Activities or Thursday Prayer ServiceNO Wednesday evening Service/Activities or Thursday Prayer Service

Ladies Bible Study 10-12N

Ladies Bible Study 10-12N

Manna Ministry 10-2pm

Manna Ministry 10-2pm

AHG “Jesus is Our Guide” Camp

Sr. Adult Covered Dish Fellowship 5pm

Kitchen Committee needs some assistance please: When you use "something" from the pantry and there is none left, please write it on bulletin board inside the pantry so it can be purchased and replaced. Thanks, Lemuel Duke

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18971 Carson Road Dinwiddie, VA 23841

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purpose of building up a community of

fully equipped believers who give glory

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