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Volume 19 May ISSUE 5
A Mother is the only one who can divide her love among 10 children and each child still have all her love.
is Sr. Adult Day with a meal for them served by our Youth.
Let our Seniors know what their Faith, Leadership, and Godly Legacy
mean to us. We are blessed to have them as our Parents, Grandparents,
Great Grandparents, Friends, but mostly, Loved Ones! Seniors please know
you are so appreciated, respected, and much loved! Pray for all our Seniors
at SLBC. Please sign-up so we can get an accurate meal count.
Graduate Recognition. please sign up or call the church office so we can recognize you during the morning Worship Service on Sunday, May 19th. God bless your future endeavors! Jer. 29:11
A special recognition gift will be given to Mothers during our morning worship. No PM worship service, or activities. Honor Your Mother! “Mothers”-Beautiful, Beloved, Blessed of God!
Memorial Day, is observed on the last Monday of May to honor
the men and women who died while serving in our country’s armed
forces. It originated following the Civil War and became an official
federal holiday in 1971. It became the “unofficial” start of summer
vacation season, while Labor Day marks its end. No
Evening Worship/Activities May 26th. Pause to Remember
Sharing Love
Because of Christ
SLBC Purpose
...to glorify God by
making disciples who:
intentionally devote themselves to their own
spiritual growth,
joyfully celebrate
knowing Christ through
corporate worship,
faithfully connect
with others for
fellowship and
accountability, actively
participate in the
ministry of the church
and purposely invest
their own time and
resources in order to
reach and disciple
others in obedience to
the great Commission.
Sunday Worship
10:30 AM
Sunday School
(For All Ages)
9:30 AM
Evening Worship
6:30 PM
Wednesday
Bible Study 7:00 PM
Everyone Welcome!
A special reminder to mark your calendars for our
VBS beginning June 17-21 (6-9 PM). Kids, get
ready for amazing encounters with Jesus! Call
Susan Bishop 414-9817 if you have questions or
to let her know if you can volunteer in any way.
We possess the most powerful weapon within ourselves to
approach God’s Mercy Seat at any time of day, the Power Of
Prayer. How awesome! This day is set aside to pray for our
Country and its Leaders, for our Churches, its leaders, and for
each other. Please take time to pray and offer thanks, not only on
this day, but every day. Give God thanks for this privilege.
A Mother’s Prayer-Thank you Lord for bringing my children into my life. Help me
guide them and teach them through example to lead lives of wisdom and strong,
loving faith. Please let them learn to serve You always in thought and deed. And re-
mind me Lord to always be there for my Family as You are always there for me. Amen.
Sr. Adults will meet on the last Thursday, May 30th
at 11:30 AM, and also, throughout the Summer. Hope
you can come join us for fun, food, fellowship, and
trips too! Walter Brown, Ministry Leader.
Christian Sympathy to the families and friends of: Bertha Foster and Joyce Goodwin. Weep but briefly
for your loved ones as they enter into the Kingdom of God, for they shall possess a joy and peace that is
unattainable on God’s earthly realm. Rather, rejoice in their everlasting and total happiness, for their
eyes have seen God and are being led throughout Heaven by Jesus!
You can teach someone better with your life actions rather than with your lips.
Food Pantry: Food items collected through
May will be used for the Connie Maxwell
Children’s Home June Food Drive. Your donations are so
appreciated!! Beryl-WOM/WMU
My Mother's “Dollar”-Matt. 22:21-Then saith He unto them, "Render therefore unto Caesar the
things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's." I was a very young boy in the fourth grade when I
received my first lesson in returning to God that which is His. To this day I remember it so well. My Dad had past away at age
39 and Mom was left to raise five kids ranging from 6 to 16. She had to go to work to try to make ends meet and keep her
children together. We had very little but always enough. The lesson I remember is Mom giving our last ten dollars to the church
as an offering. It had to take a lot of faith for her to do that because ten dollars would pay our rent for the month. A few days
later some people came to our door and gave Mom forty dollars. Mom's act of obedience was the modern version of the
widow's mite when she gave all she had. God wants our willingness to be obedient and He will always meet our needs. Mom is
gone now, but her lesson that you can never out give God lives on inside me. I can look back over my life and clearly
see how God has always been at work in it. Even in the tough times when I thought He had forgotten me, He was
there, and I know He still is. What a great God we serve. Mr. Jerry- Finance.
Thank You SLBC for the 50 health kits you provided for
migrants distributed by Lex. Bapt. Assoc. WOM/WMU
Greetings in the name of Jesus! May is coming shortly. For me it is a month with many milestones. In May, I
will have another birthday. I’ve had enough of them that the number doesn’t matter anymore. Also, Susan and I
will celebrate our fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mother’s Day is coming and it will be number seventy-two to celebrate with
my Mom; she will be ninety-nine in June, and to celebrate with Susan, the mother of my two terrific sons. I have two grand-
children with May birthdays as well.
All of these milestones cause me to stop and think of just how much God has blessed me. Truly, I have little to complain
about. When I do complain, and I do, it is usually unwarranted. I say again, God has been good to me! There is little in my
life that I would want to change. God gave me his Son to die in my place and give me life. God gave me the right family to
be born into. He gave me the right wife to be paired with for a life time. If He let me pick out two men to be my sons, it
would be the two I have. All of this and then the amazing love that has been shown to Susan and me by all of the brothers and
sisters in Christ that God placed in our lives.
Are there any changes I would want to make in my life? Yes! All of them have to do with my life and attitude toward
God. Surely, I wish I had been more faithful to Him. I wish I would have used the abundant and eternal life that He has given
to me to do more for Him and more to advance His kingdom. In reality He gives so much to us and asks so little from us.
Read Matthew 25:34-40. He also said, “If you love me, obey my commands.” God gave us His son to die in our place, He
forgives all who truly believe and He gives us eternal life. Weigh what He has done for us and given to us, with what He asks
of us, and we will truly see how blessed we are. All I can do, all you can do, is to ask ourselves daily, how can I be a blessing
to God today. Even then we have to ask His help to be that blessing. God bless you, we love you all! Butch
Thanks for helping us exceed our $1,200 goal!
RTD: $1,766-100% will be used for Missionary support.
Much thanks to our Grounds keeping crew
for all their hard work; and special thanks
to Nicholas & Dakota Bishop and Charles Tisdell for the
retention pond clean-up and hauling off of debris.
Congratulations to our very own Beryl Bledsoe as she assumes
role as VP of the Executive Board of WMU program! You make
us so proud Ms. Beryl!
Special Thanks to everyone who helped with the Easter Egg
Hunt! Appreciation for all the donated cupcakes, candy, & plastic
eggs. A great success due to God’s blessings and all our awesome
volunteers. We thank you so very much! Tonya Williamson and
Dottie Sharpe, Ministry Leaders.
Thanks so much for your donations towards the
unexpected expense for the three retention pond
inspections. Received $1,310 for the 5th Sunday offering!
Church Members: Our Bus Ministry has need of CDL
drivers! If you feel led and are interested, please contact
Toby Spires-(260-1404). Thanks so much!
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1
2
Joe Larned
3
Donnie Griffin
4
Gary Elliott Jeanette Ferguson
Faye Hunter
Kelsey Willis
5
Nathan Davis
Jacob Tedder
6
Dakota Bishop
Landyn Oakley
7
Amber Parker
8
Savannah Bustle
Renee Goff
9
Treina Risher
10
Brittany Penninger
11
Sharon Bailey
Brooklyn Bishop Dawn Humphries
Kimber Murray
12
Anna Richburg
No PM Service
13
Brian Bishop
Marion Steele
14
15
Diane Conyers
Nunnie Zeigler
16
Daniel Long
Dawnte Robinson
17
18
19
Graduate
Recognition
20
21
Cathy Kyzer
Madison
Schumacher
22
Butch Powell
23
24
Linda Ebron
Christine Golda
Luke Long
25
Chester Keisler
Carol Martin
26
Don Miller
Ryan Rentz
No PM Service
27
Pause...and
Remember
28
Elaine Cato
Susan Howell
29
30
Elizabeth Boykin
Jamie Harlin
31 Charles McCurdy
Doug Wooten
2019
Never Look down on someone unless you’re helping them up! Truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to!
Sunday Schedule Sunday School
9:30 AM
Morning Worship
10:30 AM
Evening Bible Study
6:30 PM
Awana Clubs
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Choir Practice
(2nd & 4th)-4:45 PM
Wednesday Schedule
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Food Pantry
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Bible Study
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Team Kids
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Youth Bible Study
On-Going Activities
WOM/WMU Last Tuesday 10:00 AM
Sr. Adults Lunch/Meeting Last Thursday 11:30 AM
Deacons Meeting 2nd Sunday 4:00 PM
South Lexington Baptist Church
116 Brevard Parkway
Lexington SC 29073 (803) 957-8285 office@slbchurch.com
www.slbchurch.com
Return Service Requested
NON-PROFIT ORG.
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P-A-I-D Lexington, S C
Permit No. 184
2019
Pastor: Butch Powell E-Mail: pastor@slbchurch.com
Deacons: *Primary Deacons for Month of May
Brian Bishop 414-9831 Marty Griner 605-9972
*Chester Keisler 662-6695 *Ron Matthews 312-3036
Toby Spires 260-1404 Marion Steele 609-6115
Secretary: Betty Frick Finance: Jerry Frick
Thru April 21st . . (16 Weeks)
Budget Required-$111,699
Receipts - $101,795 Expenditures - $102,565
Designated-$18,420 Annie Armstrong-$ 1,766
E-mail or sign up to receive offering envelopes, It helps us
post your contributions more efficiently. We appreciate
you using them! Mr. Jerry-Finance.
Excerpted from 2010 Newsletter by Mrs. Bertha Foster, who went home to be with Jesus recently… How Sound is
your Tabernacle? As I was studying during my devotional time, I thought about how God called the Israelites to
build the Tabernacle. They were to use only the finest materials of gold, silver, and acacia wood and curtains woven
of fine linen with no pieces but one fine length for each curtain. Why? Because God’s very presence would dwell
there. How is your tabernacle? Do you keep your mind and body a fitting place for the Lord to dwell inside your
heart? Is it pure? Is it filled with clean and loving ways? Does your mind think and stay filled with things of God or
things that you would not want God or your Pastor to know about? Do you give of your best to provide the Lord God
a safe and lovely place to receive your worship? Do you give Him your best or do you give Him what is left over
from all of your other activities? Ex. 35:22 says, “The people came, both men and women, those who had a willing
heart and brought...”. Do you bring to the Lord willingly or grudgingly? We all must have necessities of life: shelter,
food and clothing for the body, etc.; but do we pile on more and more bills to be paid for things that we simply have
to “have”? When we have paid the bills, do we give to God from what’s left or did we give to Him first? Examine
your priorities today and see if God approves of your “Tabernacle”. Suggested reading 2 Cor. 5:1-4; 2 Peter 1:11-14.
Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.
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