God didn’t promise Days

without pain

Laughter without sorrow

nor

Sun without rain BUT HE DID PROMISE

Strength for the day Comfort for the tears

AND

Light for the way

Opportunities for Worship and Ministry SUNDAY, January 29 *Sunday School………………………………………………………….9:45 am *Worship……………………………………………………………….11:00 am Youth Check Your Text for Sunday Night Event MONDAY, January 30 Aerobics in gym…………………………………………………………9:00 am TUESDAY, January 31 WEDNESDAY, February 1 Family Night Supper..…………………………………………………..5:00 pm RAs, GAs and Mission Friends.………………………………………..6:00 pm *Adult Bible Study in Burch Hall……………………………….……..6:00 pm Wednesday Night Live for Youth……………………………………...6:00 pm *Sanctuary Choir Practice in the Choir Room……...………………...6:50 pm THURSDAY, February 2 Aerobics in gym………………………………………………………… 9:00am * Nursery Provided

Video Ministry January 29

Eric Stone Children’s Worship Ministers for January 29

Preschool: Kevin & Nan Phillips Children: Nicole Kicklighter

Deacons for the Week for January 29 through February 4 John Cook, 423-4450, Todd Cook 424-0034

Ushers for January John Cook, Jim Womack, Steve Mitchell, Bob Mutchler,

David Evans, Bob Chandler, Clay Cook, Farise Taylor, Brad Dent, Nate ilson, Allen Brown

Tellers for January

Bob & Nancy Mutchler, Vickie Tharp, Debbie Casper Christian Kitchen Volunteers

Monday, January 30—Vicki Harris, Bill Bailey Tuesday, January 31—Carolyn Hackler, Hal Wiley

Members in Care Facilities Brookdale (Macon): Myra Fountain

Harris House (Fitzgerald): Bob Chandler Heritage Care (Ocilla): Bobbie J. Harper

John Wesley Villas (Macon): Bernice Hageman LifeCare (Fitzgerald): Rosemary Griffin, Louise Guardia

Palemon Gaskins (Ocilla): Jackie Harden Shiloh Personal Care Home (Ocilla): Virginia Hughes, David Tipton

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SUPPER—February 1

Tossed Salad, Spaghetti, Meat Sauce, Garlic Bread, Tea, Brownies

Sunday Morning At First Baptist Church

“ Just a cheap magician’s trick”

Exodus 7 : 8-13

Dr. Jerry Mahan

Sunday Evening Activities

Youth check your text for Sunday night event

Looking Ahead

Young at Heart MEETS

At Noon This Monday

January 30th

In Burch Hall

February 5th

SOUPER BOWL SUNDAY

Bring a Canned Good

and a $1

For The Christian Kitchen

Teddy Bears Needed

See Inside Article

Church Staff Directory

Pastor……….………………………………………………………Dr. Jerry Mahan

Minister of Music, Youth & Children ...……...………………...……...Blane Jacobs

Administrative Assistant……………………...……………………….Janice Morris

Special Assistant to the Pastor……………….…….…………………..Bailey Miller

Housekeeping………………………………………………………...Antoinette Hill

Custodian……………………………………………………………..Gene Mullinax

Church Organist……………………………………………………...Barbara Jacobs

Church Pianist………………………………………………………….Susan Spivey

Nursery Coordinator……………………………………………….Amanda Renfroe

Food Services Director…………………...……………………..Betty Jean Dorminy

Food Services Assistant……………………………………………Martha Williams

Contact us at 229-423-4367 or by email at fbc@fbcfitz.com.

You can also check out church information and activities @ www.fbcfitz.com.

First Baptist Church P. O. Box 367 (402 S. Merrimac Drive) Fitzgerald, GA 31750

Presort Std. Non-Profit Org. US Postage Paid

Permit No. 2 Fitzgerald, GA

31750

Our Stewardship Review January 15 through January 21

Budget Required YTD………………………………………..…..……$221,595.29

Budget Received YTD……………….…………...…………..………..$255,665.81

Weekly Budget Required …………...…………………………………$ 11,662.91

Weekly Budget Received …………..………………………………….$ 8,581.00 Designated Funds Received: (Lottie Moon)…………………………..$ 263.75 (Parks Missionaries)……………………$ 10.00

Lottie Moon Donations to Date: $7,975.85

First Baptist Church is a loving and caring Christian community seeking to extend the open hand of God’s grace to meet the physical and spiritual needs through worship, Education, ministry, fellowship and spiritual nurturing.

Prayer Concerns

Marianne Bryant Barrs, Hank Braddy, Katy Ruth Branch, Bill Brown, Lynn Bryant, Benita Carswell, Deanie Cleghorn, Kristin Cook, John Cook, Myra Fountain, Louise Guardia, Jimmy Herod, Blake Johnson, Jim Martin, Johnnie Moorhead, Don Morris, June Morris, Melba Ott, Alan Sims, Betty Sims, Tracy Smith, Chuck Spinks, Danny Stone, David Tharp, Virginia Watson

First Baptist Church

Fitzgerald, Georgia

Believe Hope Encourage Persevere

YOUTH NEWS!—- WNL CHANGES! Like I announced last week, we are going to try something NEW at WNL for a few weeks and see how it goes. We will NOT be playing volleyball for a few weeks after devotional. Instead we will allow the youth to hang out in the youth room until 7:15pm if they want to. They can

continue to fellowship, get drinks and play games. This is an OPTIONAL time! Youth who wish to leave after the devotional should be finished around 6:45pm. ALSO.. Summer Youth Camp Sign Up is NOW OPEN. Our Dates are set for May 21st-25th and we are planning to spend a day at the Magic Kingdom this year during camp, so your DEPOSIT MUST BE PAID ON TIME! TOTAL COST will be announced soon. A $100 Deposit PER PERSON MUST BE PAID BY FEBRUARY 26th! Please make sure you sign up ASAP. I Can’t Wait! THE AREA OF MUSIC: Each week as we gather for Worship, the music is always inspiring and uplifting. I hope you make every effort to attend each week. This Sunday morning the choir will sing a special and the Orchestra and Handbells will play with the hymns. The rehearsals for Handbells and Orchestra will resume in a few weeks. See You Sunday!! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Sanctuary Flowers The flowers in the Sanctuary on Sunday, January 29 are dedicated to the glory of God and His precious love for us.

New Sunday School Class Began on January 8 If you have been looking for a Sunday School Class to join there is a new Adult

Sunday School Co-Ed Class that started January 8th in the Chapel.

Reception for Ted & Diane Kandler As most of you know, Ted Kandler is retiring as of January 31 as our Area Missionary. The Ben Hill-Irwin Association is planning a reception for him and Diane on Sunday, January 29 at Arbor Baptist Church. The time is from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm and will be located in their social hall. Ted and Diane have certainly been a wonderful presence in our Church as well as in the Association for the last five plus years. We appreciated all the roles that they played, (Teacher, Preacher, Leader, Friend, Adviser) around First Baptist as well as the other churches of the area, and our Community. Please take this opportunity to go by and speak to them and let them know how much they are loved and will be missed.

THANKS SO MUCH!

The GA Girls would like to thank the members of First Baptist Church for your

support of the lollipops for Lottie Moon fund raiser. Because of your generous

gifts, the GAs raised $263.75 for Foreign Missions. A special thanks to our GA

leaders who work so hard to teach and lead this wonderful group of girls.

BRING YOUR CANS TO CHURCH Let’s celebrate the Super Bowl with “Bring Your Cans To Church Sunday” on February 5th. Make sure that every time you visit the grocery store, you pick up an extra can or two to donate to the Christian Kitchen. There is ALWAYS a NEED so Let’s Do Our Part and BRING AS MANY AS YOU CAN! Let me en-

courage you to also DONATE AT LEAST $1. Let’s make this our BIGGEST SOUPER BOWL EVER!

Sunday Mornings and Wednesday Nights PARENTS!! If you do not have your child involved on Sunday Mornings and Wednesday Nights, they are missing out! We have the best Sunday School, Children’s Church and Mission Groups Anywhere…. DON’T MISS IT!

THIS WEEK FOR FBC KIDS... Sunday, January 29th

9:45 Sunday School /11am Worship & Children’s Church Wednesday, February 1st

6pm-6:45pm– Mission Friends, GA and RA Groups Meet Mr. Blane & Ms. Bailey

Senior Adult Ministry Our next Young at Heart is this Monday at 12 noon. The Host Group for January is Norma Prince, Melba Mitchell, and David and Shirley Malcolm. Our guest speaker will be Brandy Elrod from the Arts Council!

We are planning on going to DJ’s on Thursday, February 9th for supper! You can sign up in the Chapel or by calling the church office!

Jerry’s Scripture for Sunday

Exodus 7:8-13

8 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Phar-

aoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aa-

ron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Phar-

aoh,’ and it will become a snake.”

10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake. 11 Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the

Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: 12 Each one threw down his staff and it be-came a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. 13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said.

Please Consider Volunteering!

We are still in need of volunteers to help

lead our Children’s Church for our

Pre-School age group on Sunday

mornings. We have a committed group

of about 25 adults who are on a rotation

but they are asked to do lead 4 times a

year. With the elimination of our Nursery

Volunteer list, we were hoping some

would volunteer to help with Children’s

Church so that our current workers would not have to serve

so often. A NEW volunteer lists will begin in April so if you

would consider helping us, please contact Blane, Bailey or Ni-

cole Kicklighter. Thanks for your consideration.

Teddy Bears Needed

The Mission Friends are collecting Teddy Bears to give to the Fitzgerald Police Department for children they come in contact with. During the RA Pinewood Derby on February 15, please bring a standard size Teddy Bear or Stuffed animal as your admission to the Derby. You can also bring them by the church office anytime and we will get them to the Mission Friends. Thanks for your help with this mis-sion project!

SUNDAY SCHOOL & WORSHIP Please continue to make Sunday School and Worship a WEEKLY priority for you and your family. There is a Sunday School class for the youngest to the oldest member and everyone in between. Come worship with us and be inspired and challenged by Jerry’s sermons. The music is always uplifting and the fellowship is a blessing. See you this

Abundance Ministry

The Abundance Ministry continues to function for the Lifecare residents all because of God’s blessings and YOU. The snacks that you provide are a means for some that have no money in which to buy extras when their room and board is paid from their checks. Thank you for keeping this ministry going. Drinks, Individually wrapped Snack Cakes, Crackers, Vienna Sausage, Gum, Chips and Cookies are some of the items that you can bring. If you do not shop, you are welcome to donate money and someone else will do the shopping for you. Just mark your check or envelope for the Abundance Ministry.