UPCOMING EVENTS

Mon., Aug. 3: Valirie Payne circle will meet at 11 AM at Vi Brown’s home. Kay Culpeper circle will meet at 1 PM in the Pine Room. Thur., Aug. 6: Ruth Kersey circle will meet at noon in the Pine Room. Bring your lunch. Sat., Aug. 8: Men’s Breakfast, 8 AM. Please call church office with your reservation.

Tues., Aug. 11: Finance Committee meeting at 6:45 PM. Church Council meeting at 7:30 PM.

Wed., Aug. 12: Music and Mission planning meeting at 6:30 PM. Business Meeting at 7:30 PM. Fri., Aug. 14: Deadline for Angel Food orders. Sat., Aug. 15: Men’s Fishing Trip to Deltaville, VA. Tues., Aug. 18: Happy Agers will travel to Natural Bridge area. Meeting at 8 AM.

Sat., Aug. 22: Angel Food distribution at 10 AM-Noon at Orange Assembly of God. Volunteers are needed and greatly appreciated.

Tues., Aug. 25: Deacons –Birthday card addressing, 7:15 PM. Deacons Meeting, 7:30 PM.

PRAYER CONCERNS

Africa Mission Team; Robert Morris and family; Bobby Seal; Doris Samuels; Bart Daniel; Cathryn Brown; Carolyn Rogers; Bob Boyles; Ritta Brown-ing; Johnny & Jeanie Altman; Kevin Crane; Hidmore & Margaret Walton; Rick Wheeler; Helen Hutcher-son; George Shifflett; G. I. Johnson; Missy Moubray; Kathryn Higginbotham; Patricia Wagner; Josephine Shuler; Mary Palmer; Dan Hager (Bill Hager’s brother); Margaret Bruce (Shirley Reynolds’ sister); Michael Payne (Martha Payne’s son); Mary Heine-mann (Ann Mallory’s sister); Andrea Shell (Ray Ezell’s mother); Elaine May; Bendall Boyd (Barbara Ezell’s father); Mary Carothers (Ted & Genie Ca-rothers’ daughter-in-law); Gary Kopjanski; Michelle Throckmorton; Bobby Hewitt (Judean Hines’ aunt); Bill Short (Judean Hines’ uncle); Judy Ipock; Am-ber Burke (sister of Cody Grannis); Barbara J. Gil-more (Pam Lawson’s aunt); Caleb Shifflett (friend of Brandon Lawson); C. J. Sutphin (grandson of James & Erline Arthur); Molly Keeney; Bill Proctor; Catherine Proctor; Louis Chisholm (Brenda Morris’ father); and Carrie Clawson.

The Orange Baptist Chronicle is published monthly by the Orange Baptist Church, P. O. Box 167, 123 W. Main Street, Orange, VA 22960 (USPS 0767-2600) Telephone #540-672-2996, Fax #540-672-0943; email address: obc@obcva.org Second Class postage paid at Orange, VA.

STEWARDSHIP - June

Unified Budget

Receipts $ 17,854.64 Disbursements $ 22,804.49

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. Anthony DeMello (1931-1987)

Orange Baptist Chronicle for August 2009

A glorious heritage, a glorious future

OBC welcomes new members!

Welcome Anderson and Katy Wilkerson, son-in-law and daughter of Rick and Karen Clore. They celebrate their 2nd wedding anni-versary this month. They are in the process of moving from Fred-ericksburg to Orange. Anderson graduated from C.D. Hylton High School, Woodbridge, in 1999. He is a security officer at Mary Washington Hospital. He enjoys writing music, singing, soccer and martial arts. He joins us by statement of faith saying, “I haven’t had a home church in almost 20 years. I’ve been a lot of different places but none of them were what I was looking for. Everybody is friendly and inviting at OBC. I feel welcome here.” Katy graduated from Stafford High School in 2001. She is a hair-dresser with Outlooks for Hair in Fredericksburg. She teaches

Cosmetology at Spotsylvania Career and Technical Center. She enjoys music and playing softball and vol-leyball. Katy says, “We have been searching for the right church that suits both of us since we got married. We’re very excited about having people our age in the church who are so friendly.”

ATTENTION BOYS AND GIRLS

School is back in session soon and so is MUSIC and MISSIONS! The Lord loves you! Please come and praise Him in song and learn about and help those in need through missions around the world as well as right her in Orange. We’re planning to have some great fun and new surprises so we NEED YOU!

YOU ALL COME!

September 9th at OBC 5:30 Dinner $$ Affordable 6:00—6:45 Pre-school—Grades 3—Missions Grades 4-5—Music Grades 6-12—Music 6:45—7:30 Preschool—Grades 3—Music Grades 4-5—Missions Grades 6-12—Missions Childcare available for workers. Planning meeting Aug. 12th at 6:30 PM.

We would like to thank all for their prayers while Justin served his tour of duty in Iraq. Justin Garrett and family

BOOK CLUB ANYONE?

Orange Baptist Church is organizing a faith-based book club-The OBBC-Orange Baptist Book Club. We will meet on Tuesday, Septem-ber 15, 2009, at 7 PM, in the church of-fice. Come join us for monthly discussions on varied titles and topics. Our first book is The Shack. Call Gwen Taylor @540423-1569 or mtnkamper@hughes.net, if questions.

HAPPY AGERS, HAPPY AGERS HAPPY AGERS! HAPPY AGERS! AND GUESTS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18TH WE ARE GO-ING ON A SAFARI! WE CAN TAKE A MAXIMUM OF 35, INVITE SOMEONE, BRING GRANDCHILDREN GOOD CHANCE FOR OTHERS TO KNOW ABOUT HAPPY AGERS, WE CAN ALWAYS HAVE MORE HAPPY AGERS! WE ARE GOING TO VIRGINIA'S ONLY DRIVE THRU ZOO IN VIRGINIA—SAFARI PARK, NATURAL BRIDGE. THE DRIVE IS THREE MILES OF ROADS; SEEING 1000 ANIMALS; FEEDING GIRAFFE, BISON, ELK, CAMEL, OSTRICH, ETC. NO WALKING UNLESS YOU WANT TO VISIT THE SAFARI VILLAGE AFTER THE RIDE. MEET AT COUNTRY COOKIN' PARKING LOT AT 8:00 AM. BRING A BAG LUNCH AND YOUR BEVERAGE. WE WILL PICNIC IN THE PARK. PLEASE, PLEASE LET DORIS SHUMAKE, 672-4139 OR CORNELIA CRAUN, 672-4705, KNOW "YES" OR "NO." CALL NOW!!! COST IS $14.00 PER PERSON, PAID TO DORIS IN CASH OR BY CHECK IN THE EXACT AMOUNT. THE AMOUNT OF GAS MONEY NEEDED DEPENDS UPON THE NUMBER GOING.

Happy Agers: Mark your calendar for our September event—Note weekday change! WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 10:30 AM WE ARE GOING TO RIVERSIDE DINNER THEATER FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT. PLEASE PAY DORIS "NOW" $15.00 PER PERSON DEPOSIT TO RESERVE YOUR SEAT. THE BALANCE IS DUE BY SEPTEMBER 1ST. TOTAL COST IS $44.15 PER PER-SON, TAX AND GRATUITY ARE INCLUDED. NO MONEY IS NEEDED FOR GAS.

Nursery Helpers for August Aug. 2 Barbara Ezell & Pam Lawson Aug. 9 Vicky Schafer & Brian Horne Aug. 16 Janet Pendleton & Mayira Cluff Aug. 23 Doris & Buddy Shumake Aug. 30 Samantha Reynolds & Page Hayes

DEACONS FOR MONTH OF AUGUST

Vicky Schafer 672-0890 Victoria Gardner 672-4059 Alyce Blisick 672-1758 Patricia Salyers 672-5401 Barry Jacobs 672-4098 Pam Carpenter 832-3617

CHOIR MEMBERS ENJOY PICNIC

Sunday, July 19th the Chancel Choir members and their families spent the afternoon at the home of Brian, Meador, Sheridan and Reese Horne for a picnic, games and fellowship. Pictured L-R: Alan Miller, Dotty Bradley, Matt Ander-son, Barbara Muller, Meador Horne, Ashley Anderson and Joshua Anderson.

GOSHEN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION MISSION TRIP Banner made for South Africa’s Grass-

land Church

This banner for Grassland Baptist Church (the church our planter Benford has been working with) will be hand delivered by our team leaving July 27 and com-ing back Aug. 12. Please be in prayer for these team members: John Miller, Director of Missions; Bob Houck; Jim Graham; Barry Jacobs; Roger Jacobs; Craig Jacobs; Lillian Cox; and Hubie Jewell. Not pic-tured are Kelly and Calvin Taylor, Bob and Shirley Foster. The Fosters will remain in South Africa for a total of four months. The team will be building a stor-age unit which will be used for Sunday School room, pastor study, and storage for equipment. The team

will also be present for the dedication of the tent we purchased for them to use for worship until their own building can be built. Part of the team will be used for evangelism during the day and revival services during the evenings. Please re-member to pray for the family to sell us the land needed to build our shack church on. Remember we are still receiving funds for the land purchase and permanent church construction. (Article and picture from the Goshen News, August 2009)

Girls attend Camp Crossroads! Jenna Burke, Jillisa Burke, Melissa Mullins, Katie Simpson, Anne Cluff and Ellie Daniel (pictured) along with Dorothy Cluff and Janet Mullins (not pictured) loaded up in the church van Monday, July 20 through Sat-urday, July 25 to attend the week long camp at Camp Crossroads. Thank you to Don Schafer and Tim Mullins for driving us to and from camp.

BAPTISMS AND CHURCH-WIDE PICNIC SUNDAY, AUGUST 30

4 PM

Mark your calendar! We will gather at Craig & Becky Jacob’s for the baptisms of Gary Powers, Janet Walker and Montana Shifflett in Beautiful Run creek. We will celebrate their baptisms with a church-wide picnic. The church will provide the hamburgers, hotdogs, paper products and beverages and the membership is asked to bring a dish and/or dessert to share as well as folding chairs, tables or blankets. Map with directions will be available in the vestibule.

Gary Powers Montana Shifflett Janet Walker