Volume 16, Issue2

February 25, 2019

The Pastor’s Desk 1

Missions News 1

From the Editor 2

Miscellaneous 2

Wise Cracks 2

From Peter’s Desk 2

The Mail Box 3

ASBC Happenings 3

Word Search 3

March 2019 Calendar 4

ASBC Schedule of Events 4

The Recipe Corner 5

Crossword Puzzle 5

Youth Salad Luncheon 6

VBS - Summer-2019 6

ASBC Youth Happening 6

Singing Men of South Texas 6

What Must I Do to Be Saved? 6

Inside this issue:

Special Points of Interest:

• Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

• Sunday Worship Service 11:00 a.m.

• Choir Rehearsal 5:30 p.m. Sanctuary

• Bibles Drills - Sunday 6:00 p.m. Fellowship Hall

• Sunday Evening Service 6:30 p.m.

• Bible Study/Prayer Meeting Wednesday-Sanctuary 6:30 p.m.

• ASBC Youth Group 6:30 p.m.-Fellowship Hall 6:30 p.m.

Baptist Church

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” John 14:27

Peace. It all begins by being saved, but that is only the beginning. As a believer, you will re-member the peace that initially came with your salvation. You very likely recall, as well, drifting from the Lord and having your peace leave you. So often I tell you and remind you that you must stay fresh in the Lord to maintain your peace. “Peace give I to thee. Peace give to thee, not as the world gives but as I “Jesus” gives.

As we go day by day, I urge you to spend time with the Lord. Do so by filling your mind with Godly thoughts . . . the music you listen to, the movies you watch, all of this plays an important role in your life. If you try to hold onto things of

T h e Pa st o r ’s D e s k

the world that seem to bring pleasure, you will lose your peace.

Fill your life with Godly things and thoughts! Stay in the word of God and talk to and listen to the Lord throughout the day. Stay fresh in the Lord. When you realize that you have failed Him, simply stop and ask Him to forgive you and then strive to walk with Him day in and day out.

You will find at first that it will be difficult, but persevere. Don’t give up when you fail. You will fail. I can assure you of that, but always remember that God has a plan for “YOU” and do everything you can to be in the absolute center of His will!

Love to each of you!

~ Bro. Hollas

Missions is more than just giving of our financ-es. God invites us to join Him in His work…that means giving of ourselves and our time.

When we give of ourselves we are most like Jesus. Giddings State School is a ministry that Pete Tompkins leads every month. He drives a team of volunteers to Giddings to share the story of Jesus’ love with young boys who have been imprisoned. These boys have few visitors and seldom receive letters. Many are aban-doned by their families.

Recently it was time to make the journey to Giddings and Pete was not feeling well. He began to make excuses for not going. God be-gan to whisper, “I have been faithful to you, will you be faithful to me?” so he unwillingly decid-ed to go but questioned why tonight? The clos-er they came to the prison, the more tender his heart and feelings grew.

Approaching the meeting area, he saw that only one boy had chosen to participate. Pete asked the young man to join him. Immediately the boy began pouring out his hurt and pain. He

M i s s i o n s N e ws felt so lonely, unloved and abandoned. He needed to talk with someone one-on-one and God sent Pete. As they prayed togeth-er Pete thanked God for sending him to Giddings State School that night and he knew why God would not allow him to stay home. This young man needed to hear about Jesus. He thanked Pete over and over again for coming and taking time to listen to him. Even though his family had abandoned him, he realized that God loved him completely and unconditionally.

Yes, the young man was blessed, but Pete was blessed more than words can ex-press. Being obedient to God’s plan, in spite of our feelings, brings great joy . . . to Jesus, to others and to yourself!

Let’s all be more faithful in giving ourselves and our time to serve Jesus. Let’s belong to what God is doing beyond ASBC.

~ Nelda Hoffman

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According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary, a promise is a declaration that one will do or refrain from doing some-thing that is specified. Mothers frequently promise to give their children a treat for cleaning their room or for behaving in the grocery store. When the child does what was asked but the mother does not fulfill her promise, the child loses faith in promises.

In the “good old days”, a promise was made with a hand-shake. The deal was made and the promise was seldom bro-ken. Today when a person buys something like a house, it takes half a ream of paperwork and at least a dozen signa-tures for the deal to be made. Even then, the deal is broken when the payments are not made.

At a wedding, the bride and groom pledge (promise) to love, honor and cherish each other until “death do us part” yet the divorce rate is approximately at 50% in America today. The promises made at the wedding do not always last.

God has many promises in the Bible. One of God’s first prom-ises was after the flood. In Genesis 9:11 He promised to nev-er send another flood and gave the rainbow as a reminder of

F ro m t he Ed i tor - P ro m is es this promise. There have been floods in recent times when peo-ple were wondering if this promise was still true, but God’s promises are never broken.

One of God’s most outstanding promises is found in Genesis 22:16-18. God promised Abraham that He would make Abra-ham the father of many nations and that He would give him millions of descendants “like the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore”. In return, Abraham was to serve God faithful-ly and live a blameless life. God chose the Israelites to be His people. That promise continues today.

There were many times God made promises to His people in the Old Testament, but there were consequences for not obey-ing and serving Him faithfully.

The best promise that God made is found in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

In Hebrews 10:23 we read, “Without wavering, let us hold tightly to the hope we have, for God can be trusted to keep His prom-ise.”

February Business Meeting - The February business meet-ing was held on February 6th with Hollas Hoffman presiding as Moderator. The January business meeting minutes were approved as printed. Geri Kuester, Church Treasurer, went over the January Financial Report. Wanda Kaiser, Outreach Ministry Team Leader, reported that she is sending cards to visitors each week. Peter Wimberly reported that the Wednesday night ASBC Youth Group has had several new kids join. This is for 6th grade thru high school. There is Bible study, food, games and prizes. Christina Cherry re-ported that the Children’s Ministry is working on the Valen-tine’s Dinner to be held on February 14th from 6-8 p.m. The meal will consist of Grilled Chicken Breast, Italian Roasted Potatoes, Green Beans, Salad and Dessert. The tickets are $12 each. There will be a live auction and a silent auction. Auction items are needed. The proceeds from this fundrais-ing event will by used to help pay for children’s events throughout the year. Roberta Bittick reported that the Sing-ing Men of Texas will be here on February 21st at 7 p.m. Dwayne will be having supper and snacks for them. The March Fellowship Supper will be Italian. Dwayne Wise re-ported that a group from Gonzales will be here on March 31st for 5th Sunday Singing.

Magazines - Home Life, Mature Living, Stand Firm and Journey for Match are available on the table in the foyer.

New Members: By baptism: Robbie Caraway - 4892 SH 111-E, Yoakum, TX 77995 - 832-289-0210

By statement: Janice Caraway - 4892 SH 111-E, Yoakum, TX 77995 - 832-298-7706 Thomas Wayne Lester - 320 Suhr Lane, Yoakum, TX 77995 - 361-759-0152

Miscellaneous W i s e C ra c ks Choir - The choir is beginning to work on Easter season mu-sic. We will be working with area choirs to perform the “Hallelujah Chorus” at the community Palm Sunday service on April 14th. There will be a 5th Sunday Singing on March 31st. Please let me know if you have input for that service.

SMOST (Singing Men of South Texas) - Thanks to our won-derful church family for supporting the Singing Men of South Texas with your hospitality. You are the greatest. Thanks to all who cooked, served, and prepared food and helped with publicity, etc.

F r o m Pet e r ’s D e s k Summer is right around the cor-ner! I am defi-nitely not ready for the 100° weather, but I am ready for youth camp.

I am excited to announce that

we will be attending Student Life Camp at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Student Life puts on the best camp around.. Everything they do is high quality. From the camp pastor to the worship leaders, everything is done at a high level with the goal of leading students to Christ. Camp will be July 22nd-26th so mark it down on your calendar. The cost is $300, but don’t worry - we have fundraisers! The Salad Lunch is coming up on March 25th. More information will be coming out soon. Students and parents who work will be “paid” base on the number of hours worked to cover part of the cost of camp. Don’t let camp sneak up on you!

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T h e M ai l B ox Dear ASBC Family,

We send our heartfelt gratitude to you for your prayers before and after the birth of our grandson Luke. We know that God listens, hears, and answers our intercessory prayers. What was a very critical condition was administered by God’s heal-ing hands, and He gave us the answer we prayed for. Luke’s parents, Brad and Lyndsey, are eternally grateful for your love and prayers, and they give God the glory.

Luke and his family are now back home in California, and he is thriving at six weeks old!

Dwayne and Monica Wise

Members of Austin Street Baptist Church,

Just a short note to thank all of you for praying for me. I was deeply touched. I believe in prayer and I know I am in God’s healing hands.

Thanks again, Renita Ondrusek

Thank you for praying for our family. Austin Street Baptist Church holds a special place in our hearts.

The Family of Robert Jacobs (Joyce Wilkerson Jacobs, Janet Jacobs Absher, Randall Jacobs and Linda Jacobs Sternadel)

Dear Friends at Austin Street Baptist Church,

Thank you for thinking of me and praying for my healing. It brings me comfort to know that you care. The power of prayer is mighty, and it’s what I need most.

Thank you again, and please don’t stop praying.

Kindest regards, Kim Reeves

Dear Friends at Austin Street,

Thank you so very much for your prayers and the Prayer Sheets from December 5th and 19th. Thank you to my special friend Diane Greer for asking for your church’s prayers. Thank each and every one who signed the Prayer Sheets! Your prayers are such a comfort to me, and I know personally that prayers are answered.

My right hip replacement surgery has been postponed due to elevated liver enzymes and an enlarged bile duct. I am to undergo further endoscopic procedures on February 28th. My January 7th endoscopic ultrasound showed a normal pancre-as - and that’s an answered prayer!

Thank you so much for your continued prayers!

Debbie Van Eaton

Thank you for your kindness, thoughts, and prayers.

Dana Weber & family

Austin Street Baptist Church,

Thank you for all the prayers. They were greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Mike Mader & family

A S BC Ha pp e ning s

We had a fantastic turnout at our February 17th blood drive! The South Texas Blood and Tissue Center collected 22 units from us and reported that they will be able to help 66 patients with those units. We appreciate everyone who supported the blood drive in any way. Please mark your calendars for the next ASBC blood drive on June 23, 2019.

~ Meredith Hairell

The guest speaker for L.I.F.T. on Jan-uary 26th was Tammy Hartmann from Victoria. She followed the theme for the meeting of “Guided by the Spirit” by using G.P.S. (God’s Positioning System) for her inspirational theme. For God’s positioning system, there is His Perspective - the way He wants us to look at the world; Positivity - focus on the positive and encourage each other; People; Promises - claim

God’s promises; Plans and Purposes - be flexible and be prepared; Prayer - critical to have two-way communication with God; and Peace - knowing you are in God’s will. Tam-my shared how G.P.S. helped her through her battle with lymphoma and the treatments at M.D. Anderson. All those in attendance were blessed by her sharing her story.

The next L.I.F.T. will be held on March 30th at 9:30 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. For more information about L.I.F.T., contact Ann Knowlton at 361-649-0708.

W o r d S e a r c h - F i r s t F r u i t s

Blessings, Cheerful giver, Christians, Church, Contributions, Deuteronomy, Exodus, Firstfruits, God, Hebrew, I Corinthians, II Chronicles, , Ingathering, Israelites, Leviticus, Lord, Moses, Nehemiah, Nisan, Offerings, Omer, Passover, Pesach, Plentiful, Produce, Sow, Tabernacle, Feast, Weeks Feast, Wheat Harvest

Most of us can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

B i r t hdays , An nive rsa r ie s , Event s

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March - 2019:

• 3rd - Church Council - 4:30 p.m. - Fellowship Hall

• 6th - Fellowship Supper (Italian Theme) - Business Meet-

ing - 6:30 p.m. - Fellowship Hall

• 10th - Daylight Savings Time Begins

• 10th - Men’s Prayer Breakfast - 8:00 a.m. - Fellowship Hall

• 25th - Youth Salad Lunch - 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. - Fellow-

ship Hall

• 30th - L.I.F.T. - 9:30 a.m. - Fellowship Hall

• 31st - Deacons’ Meeting - 4:30 p.m. - Conference Room

A S BC S ch e du le o f Eve nts

March 2019 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2

Clint & Stephanie Lerch

Jeanette Hughes

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Byron Humphreys Jim & Cynthia Cardiff

Pat Jahn Ed Bennett

10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Kurtis Howell Willie Moses

Mark & Pat Jahn Joel & Dana Johnson

Jayla Morris

17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Christina Cherry Keaton Helweg Lorraine Steinmann

24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Sheron David Jon Jordan Wanda Kaiser

31

• 31st - 5th Sunday Singing - 6:30 p.m. - Sanctuary

April - 2019:

• 7th - Lord’s Supper - Morning Worship Service

• 10th - Fellowship Supper/Business Meeting - 6:30 p.m. -

Fellowship Hall

• 14th - Easter Community Service - 5:30 p.m. - Holy Cross

Lutheran Church

• 21st - Easter Sunday - No Evening Service

• 24th - Deacon Family Ministry Luncheon - Noon - Fellow-

ship Hall

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T h e Re c i p e C o rn e r

Spaghetti Sauce from Linda Cooper

1 lb. hamburger meat 1 6-oz. can tomato paste 1 6-oz. can water 1 8-oz. can tomato sauce 1 can crushed tomatoes 1 small can mushrooms 1 medium onion, chopped 1 tsp. oregano 1 tbsp. lemon juice 1 tbsp. chili powder 2 tbsp. brown sugar 1 clove garlic, chopped fine (or 1/8 tsp garlic powder) 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

1/8th tsp. pepper 1 tsp. salt

Brown hamburger meat and onion. Drain off grease. Add sea-sonings and liquids. Simmer about 1 hour. Serve over cooked spaghetti or mix in with cooked spaghetti.

(Note: At my house, the meat sauce and spaghetti have to be served separately since Lisa likes more sauce with less spaghetti while Brandon prefers more spaghetti with a small serving of sauce.)

ACROSS

1 Sends by post 6 Attention-Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (abbr.) 10 Misery 13 In a foreign land 15 See ya! 16 Make a mistake 17 Noisy, like an old house 18 September (abbr.) 19 ____ Jima 20 Swerve 22 Harpooned 24 Biblical weeds 27 Heed 29 Bored 30 Car rental agency 31 OT book of prophecy 32 Objects of false worship 33 Facial twitch 34 Tussle 35 Compass point 36 See 8 Down 41 Downwind 42 Dummy 43 A name of God 45 Talk 48 Not his 49 Writer Bombeck 50 Stuff 51 How Judas betrayed Jesus 52 Saucy girl 53 Cry of joy 55 Always 57 Samuel’s mentor 58 Not ins 60 Odors 64 Day after Sunday 65 Tried and ____ 66 Themes 67 Poached food 68 Otherwise 69 Dig

DOWN

1 PC type 2 Abridged (abbr.) 3 Wrath 4 Five ___ and three fishes 5 For goodness ____! 6 American Cancer Society (abbr.) 7 Type of fuel 8 Joyful 9 Pamper 10 Creep 11 George ___ (“War of the Worlds” author) 12 Eats away 14 Tint 21 Bird perch 23 Helped 24 Make lace 25 Tel ____ (Israel city) 26 Costa ____ 28 Other than 31 Summer month 32 Institution (abbr.) 34 Blessed are the ____ 35 Snaky fish 37 South American animal 38 Scandinavian language 39 Ventilates 40 Sweet potatoes 44 Summer month 45 Plot 46 Programming language 47 Allaying 48 Suspension 49 Continent 51 Ridged surface 52 King when Jesus was born 54 Memo 56 Value-added tax 59 Perceive 61 1/1000 inch 62 Air Cushion Vehicle (abbr.) 63 South-southeast

from “Christian Bible Reference Site, www.ChristianBibleReference.org”

Answer January Crossword Puzzle

The freeway is quicker, but the back roads are more interesting.

Romans 3:10 As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 10:13 For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.

What Must I Do To Be Saved?

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1308 East Gonzales Street Yoakum, Texas 77995 Phone: (361) 293-7300

Fax: (361) 293-6898 E-mail: austinstreetyoakum@att.net

Website: austinstreetbaptist.org

The family of God that prays and cares for each other!

AUSTIN STREET BAPTIST CHURCH

Pastor: Hollas Hoffman Editor: Linda Cooper

@Austin Street Baptist Church

A S BC Ha pp e ning s

ATTENTION YOUTH

Wednesday Night Happening

Bible Study,

Free Food, Games and Prizes

6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

ASBC Fellowship Hall

YOUTH SALAD LUNCH-EON - March 25th - 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. in the Fellow-ship Hall. It is dine-in or take-out. The tickets are $8 each and can be purchased

from our youth or in the church office. Please help provide salads for the luncheon - there is a sign-up poster in the foyer. Help is needed on Saturday from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.; Sunday from 2:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m., and on Monday from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Contact Roberta Bittick at 361-772-8600 about being a volunteer.

The Singing Men of South Texas were a blessing to everyone Thursday night. There were approximately 285 folks in attendance mak-ing it a FULL house. The group led in worship with 14 songs in a variety of worship styles. The di-

rector, Larry Danks, Minister of Music at Trinity Baptist Church in Kerrville, did an outstanding job. Most of the men are music ministers in churches around South Texas.

The Singing Men of South Texas formed in 1975 and is one of six groups that comprise The Singing Men of Tex-as, sponsored by the Baptist General Convention of Tex-as.

Prior to the evening performance, the men were treated to a fish fry in the fellowship hall. Bro. Dwayne provided the fish and ASBC volunteers fried it along with French fries and hush puppies. The Kitchen Com-mittee was hostess for this event.

L.I.F.T. (Ladies in Fellowship

Together)

Saturday, March 30th

ASBC Fellowship Hall

Come & Bring a Friend

Refreshment and Door Prizes

For more information, contact Ann Knowlton at

361-649-0708

S i ng in g Me n of S o u t h Texa s