Please Pray For…

Carlton Pritchett at Memorial, Nell Peddicord at Doswell House, Connie Brodrick at The Haven, Lucille Hott at The Hermitage, Doris Alexander (Fay Brown’s sister), Bill & San-dra Blackburn, Amy Boles (James & Carol Boles daughter), Amy Bowles (Eunice Bowles granddaughter), Norman Bowles, Dale Boyers (Alice Bridges’ brother), Jeanne Bradley, Donald Bray, Jr., Robin Brightwell, Florence Brown, George & Bessie Bryan, John Bryant, Joyce Burgess, Eugene & Ortygia Carnette, Jeff Carr, Earl Carver, Tim Cates, Jim Cher-ry, Nancy Chittum, David & Janice Culver, Opal Dalton, Nan-cy Damron, Howard & Jean & Andrew Davis (Mary Kay Win-n’s family), Chuck Davis (Ray Davis’ son), Chuck & Margaret Davis & Family, Amy Dixon, Rick Doggett, Roxanne Eliott (Jim Wright’s granddaughter), Marvin & Margaret Ferguson, Aaron & Danielle Fisher, Diane Fleming, Jean Foster, Lyle Foster (Peggy Etheridge’s,(Sr.) father), Bill Gagnon (Bonnie Hughes’ friend), Linda Gerhardt, Mary Greenwood, Keith Harmon, Melvin Harver, Ward & Peggy Hildreth, Johnny Howell, Ann Johnston, Dot Jones, Dick & Charlsie Joyner, Cecil & Rae Keel, Paula King, Paige Kinser’s mother, Bryan Lane, Olive Litwinowicz, Will & Audrey Long, Sam Loving, Howard Lynch, Thomas Martin, Jenny McCullers (Sarah Lamphiear), Karen Monger, Patrick Olmstead (Robert & Bet-ty Olmstead’s grandson), Robert & Betty Olmstead, Shirley Pasowicz, Freddie Pendergraph, Lisa Phillips, J.L. Pitts, Ed-win Power (Margaret Davis’ father), Carlton Pritchett, Dick & Linnea Sandstrom (Bill & Sandra Blackburn’s friends), Ruth Anne Sawyer (Norman & Betty Bowles’ daughter), Bob Schneider, Audrey Stevens, Don & Ruth Stewart, Ruth Tate, Jim Taylor, Marvin Thomas (Martha Long’s brother), Kitty Thompson, Doris Tucker, Taylor Turner (Doris Metz broth-er), Daniel Washington (Deborah Steele’s grandson/Audrey Goode’s great grandson), Bill White, Vickie White (Anita Blackwell’s sister), Jean Wildbore, Vera Williams, Bonnie Winn (Gloria Talley’s sister)

Counting Team April 16-Jim Dalton, Marrian Mills, Norman Bowles April 23-Brian Brown, Terri Beck, Mike Rosser

Opening & Closing April 16-Steve Hester April 23-Thomas Fisher

Deacon of the Week April 16~Chuck Jackson~615-5403

Stewardship Report ~ April 9, 2017

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Timothy N. Madison Pastor Brenda Brown Minister of Music

Mechanicsville Baptist Church 8016 Atlee Road

Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111 www.mechanicsvillebaptist.org

Office phone - 746-7253 FAX - 746-0749

Dwight Hedges Associate Minister to Students

Jackie Broaddus

Child Care Director 746-7732

Crosswalk Attendance Sunday School Attendance Worship II Attendance Regular Offering E-Giving Weekly Budget Needs Designated Funds Total Offering Roof Funds Available Annie Armstrong Offering

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128 $7,208.00 $1,505.00

($10,969.00) $170.00

$8,883.00 $47,742.94 $3,287.00

Church Pictorial Directory

Photography dates ~ May 5 & 6 New dates will be added ~ Please check the website later this week!

You can make your appointment online by clicking on the link on our church website www.mechanicsvillebaptist.org

From the Home page you will be directed to the sign-up link. If you do not have access to a computer, there will be someone in the FLC and church

foyer to help you sign-up April 16 & 23.

Floral Cross We will be placing the floral cross in both worship services

on Easter Sunday. Please bring a cut flower of your choice to be placed on the

cross prior to each service.

SAVE THE DATE! Sunday ~ June 4

The Calendar Sunday - April 16

8:30 a.m. Crosswalk 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11:00 a.m. Worship II Monday - April 17 11:30 a.m. AA Meeting Tuesday - April 18 10:00 a.m. Keenage Club-MichieTavern 6:15 p.m. Worship Team Wednesday - April 19 11:00 a.m. Bible Study & Prayer 5:30 p.m. WNS-Barbeque 6:00 p.m. Youth Parent’s Mtg, Youth-412, Pre-School Choir, School Age Children’s Act. 6:15 p.m. Business Meeting 6:45 p.m. Mission Friends 7:00 p.m. Adult Choir Thursday - April 20 6:30 p.m. Missions Dev. Team 7:00 p.m. Endowment Team Friday - April 21 4:30 p.m. Youth Retreat thru Sunday 3:00 p.m. Ladies Ensemble Retreat thru Sunday

Regular Offering Sunday, April 9, 2017

$8,713.00 Needed to meet our budget

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Business Meeting Wednesday ~ April 19

6:15 p.m.

CHURCH-WIDE INTERGENERATIONAL MISSION

TRIP August 14-19, 2017

Nickelsville, Virginia Sign-up by May 1

Forms are available in the church office.

Contact Mary Kay Winn for more information.

Save the Date! Mechanicsville Baptist Church

40th Anniversary October 14 & 15, 2017

Rev. Charles Morrison, former Associate Pastor at MBC, will be our guest speaker.

The Anniversary Team is asking the church for prayer as they make plans for this

exciting weekend!

Retirement Celebration for the Reverend Dr. Steve Allsbrook

Sunday ~ April 23, 2017 Cool Spring Baptist Church

Dover Semiannual Meeting & Celebration

Registration opens at 2:30 p.m. Meeting begins at 3:00 p.m.

You are invited to join us for a retirement celebration honoring Dr. Steve Allsbrook. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP

by April 12 by calling the Dover Office at 550-1980.

If you wish to give Steve a personal card of congratulations, a basket will be available

at the meeting. You can also mail letters to the Dover office, or submit a message

online. The letters will be placed in a book. Letters need to be received by April 12.

Thank You… “Mechanicsville Baptist Church, Thank you my friends for the kindness, cards, phone calls, Pastor Tim and all others, for your love for me and my family. I am grateful and thanks to all.” Love, Joyce Wallace & Family “To my MBC Family, I would like to thank you for the kind words, warm hugs and cards for my retire-ment celebration on Sunday. Thank you also for the cards, flowers and the gift from the church. For the last 11 years it has been my ministry to serve God with you. Each of you have a special place in my heart and it will remain that way.” God Bless You All!

Martha

Use of Church Vans

Please note there is a new policy concerning use of the church vans.

Debbie Turner is now in charge of scheduling the use of church vans. There

are new sign-out/checklist forms to be placed in the vans and filled out before

leaving the premises and upon returning.

Paul Hovey writes in his devotion The Last Word:

The simplest meaning of Easter is that we are living in a world in which God has the last word. On Friday night it appeared as if evil were the master of life. The holi-est and most lovable One who had ever lived was dead and in His tomb, crucified by the order of a tyrant without either scruples or regrets. He who had raised the highest hopes among men had died by the most shameful means. A cross, two nails, a jeering mob of debauched souls, and a quick thrust of a spear had ended it all. Those hours when His voice was stilled and His hands were quiet were the black-est through which the race has ever lived. If Caesar could put an end to Jesus, then no man could ever dare aspire or hope again. Hope, in such a world, could be nothing better than a mockery. Then came Easter morning and the glorious word: “He is risen!” And evil’s triumph was at an end. Since that hour when Mary in the gar-den first discovered the staggering fact of victory, no man whose heart was pure and whose labors were honest has ever had reason to fear or despair if he believed in the Resurrection.

Pastor Tim