Weekly Update for Sunday, March 17, 2019
Trustee meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
The C.E. board is planning the annual Easter egg hunt for Palm Sunday, following the morning service. Please see Anna Jackson if interested in helping.
Weekly Update for Sunday, March 10, 2019
Don’t forget to Spring Forward and set your clocks an hour ahead for Sunday morning!
Trustee meeting: March 17, following the morning service.
Weekly Update for Sunday, March 3, 2019
Daylight Savings Time begins Sunday, March 10. Please remember to spring forward and set your clocks ahead one hour.
The Christian Education Board is planning our annual Easter Egg Hunt for Palm Sunday following the morning service. More information will be available soon.
Virtue
I still miss Ginny Franklin. I still hear her feisty, playful voice in my memory sometimes. I’ll say, “Well, I’m trying.” … and I’ll hear her say, “Yes; you’re very trying!” Or I’ll say, “I’m going to go.” …and I’ll hear her say, “Go-right-ahead…gourd-head!” Virginia Franklin was the first person to make my wife and I feel at home in the First Baptist Church of Linton. She was a corker!
One Sunday after church, she took my wife and me out to lunch (again!). This time, we were joined by Max and Katie Slough. Max was the long-time pastor of the Glenburn United Methodist Church; I’d known him before, and we became reacquainted when we moved to Linton.
Sitting there over what was left of our lunch, I breathed a huge sigh and commented how tired I was after the morning’s services. Max responded, “Of course you are! You preached this morning; virtue has gone out of you, just like when Jesus healed.” He was referring to three references in the King James Bible: Mark 5:30, Luke 6:19 and Luke 8:46.
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Small groups are starting up again in March! Sign up on the sheets at the Welcome Center.
Kim Collins needs greeting cards with pictures only on the front, no words. Small calendars with nice pictures will work as well.
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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