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Weekly Update for Sunday, October 29, 2017

This Sunday at 6:00 pm, in honor of Reformation Day, we will be showing the film Luther: One Man’s Faith in God Launched the Greatest Revolution of All. The film is 2 hours long, there will be an intermission one hour into the film. Bring snacks to eat in the foyer during intermission!

Sunday evening, November 5, we will be suspending our normal evening service so that we might worship together with the other churches of the West Central Baptist Association. The annual association meeting will be held at Sugar Creek Baptist Church in West Terre Haute. It will begin at 4:00 pm. There will be break-out sessions, a meal will be served, and we will conclude with a worship service. We will meet at the church at 2:30 pm and leave by 2:45 pm.

Weekly Update for Sunday, October 22, 2017

  • October is packing month for Operation Christmas Child. The entire church is invited to a packing party on October 26 at 6:00 pm. We’ll have a light supper, so please RSVP at the Welcome Center. This is another opportunity to gather as a church family and work together for His purpose!
  • Most needed for Operation Christmas Child in October is the $9.00 shipping fee. There is a box for this in the foyer.
  • If you are a veteran and would be willing to carry a flag on Veteran’s Sunday, please sign up at the Welcome Center or contact the office.

Weekly Update for Sunday, October 15, 2017

  • Christian Education Board meeting: October 16, 6:30 pm.
  • Deacons meeting: October 17, 6:30 pm.
  • October is packing month for Operation Christmas Child. The entire church is invited to a packing party on October 26 at 6:00 pm. We’ll have a light supper, so please RSVP at the Welcome Center. This is another opportunity to gather as a church family and work together for His purpose!
  • Most needed for Operation Christmas Child in October is the $9.00 shipping fee. There is a box for this in the foyer.

Longer Than…

My wife and I got married on December 26th, 1976. She was 18, I was 20. (Sometimes people ask me, “Preacher, would you tell our kids they’re too young to get married?” And I always say, “I’ll talk to them if you want me to, but I don’t really have any higher moral ground here.”) Not long after we came to Linton in 1997, Rae Anne and I had our twentieth wedding anniversary. (Virginia Miller used to introduce Rae Anne by saying, “And here’s his little wife of twenty years.”) The thought occurred to me: “I have been married to Rae Anne longer than I lived before we got married.” And I took great satisfaction in that thought.

I entered the ministry in June of 1978, not long after I graduated from Bible college, serving a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma as their associate pastor and youth director. The next year I took my first pastorate in rural Indiana, and I’ve been pastoring Indiana churches ever since.

I had been in the ministry for 19 years when in the providence of God we came to Linton and you called me to be your pastor. That was on August 6th, 1997. As we walked through the process of getting to know each other, asking each other questions and praying for God’s guidance, for a time we really didn’t know how God would lead. When, somewhat to my astonishment, the deacons told us they would like to proceed to a church vote in view of calling me as pastor, Rae Anne and I agreed.Read More