Weekly Update for Sunday, February 17, 2019
Trustee meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
Official Board meeting: this Sunday, 4:30 PM.
The church office will be closed Monday due to the Presidents’ Day holiday.
There is a sign-up sheet on the welcome center for a fellowship small group that will be meeting at restaurants. The McCammons will be facilitating. The first meeting will be Friday, March 1 at 6:30 at La Fiesta.
If anyone would like a giving number and envelopes, please contact the church office.
The ROC club needs 2 volunteers for Wednesdays, app. 3:15-5:00 PM. Please see Kim Collins if interested. Also, Kim needs greeting cards with pictures only on the front, no words. Small calendars with nice pictures will work as well.
The updated 2019 church officer lists are on the welcome center. Please disregard the previous copies.
Weekly Update for Sunday, February 10, 2019
There will be a brief deacons meeting today following the morning service.
Deacons meeting: Feb. 12, 6:30 PM.
Trustee meeting: Feb. 17, following the morning service.
Official Board meeting: Feb. 17, 4:30 PM.
New Beginnings
Recently I read again an article that described how our church began. I keep a file on the history of our church, and it contains various bulletins, newspaper articles and records from our church’s past. This particular article was written in 1963 by one of my predecessors, Reverend Dale T. Heinbaugh, for the 75th anniversary of our church’s founding. Reverend Heinbaugh was the pastor of First Baptist Church of Linton from 1960 to 1969. I shared this with our Sunday night crowd recently, but I thought it needed a wider circulation.
I had been told, and had told others, that our church was started in 1888 by the Olive Branch Baptist Church, which is just west of the Linton city limits. That is both true and not precisely true. What actually happened is told in the following excerpts from Pastor Heinbaugh’s article.
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There is information on the Operation Christmas Child at the Welcome Center and donation boxes are set up in the narthex for those who want to donate this year. The suggested items for February are hats, scarves and gloves.
Weekly Update for Sunday, January 27, 2019
Trustee meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
Deacons meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
Weekly Update for Sunday, January 20, 2019
Update: due to the Level 2 Travel Warning in Greene County, services this Sunday (January 20th) have been canceled. Pastor Dave will still be doing a service live at 10:00 AM on firstbaptistlinton.org/listen and WQTY 93.3FM as usual, so tune in from home if you can!
Also note: The church office will be closed Monday due to the holiday.
Weekly Update for Sunday, January 13, 2019
Special Business Meeting: this Sunday in the church sanctuary immediately after the morning service. The sole purpose of this meeting is to decide what to do with money collected for the roof debt which exceeded the amount we owed.
Trustee meeting: Jan. 20, following the morning service.
We want to thank everyone who donated poinsettias for Christmas, and those who set up and took down the outdoor Nativity, those who decorated the Bulletin boards, and everyone else who helped to make Christmas so special at our church.
Weekly Update for Sunday, January 6, 2019
Official Board Meeting: this Sunday at 4:30 PM.
There will be a Special Business Meeting held on Jan. 13 here in the church sanctuary immediately after the morning service. The sole purpose of this meeting is to decide what to do with money collected for the roof debt which exceeded the amount we owed.
If you would like a record of your 2018 giving, please sign up on the east bulletin board. If you have a church mailbox, your records can be found there. Otherwise, we will mail them to you.
One year Bible reading plans are available at the Welcome Center.