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Sign up continues for our
Personality Profile studies
which will help you learn
where you you might best use your spiritual gifts to serve
on one of the FBC Thomaston Global Focus Mission Teams.
Come learn how you are spiritually gifted and how your
personality interacts with those gifts.
- Round #2 August 31, September
7, 14, 21, 28 5:30-7:00 pm
- Round #3 November 2, 9, 16,
23, 30 5:30-7:00 pm
- Sign up as well for any of the
ministry events in our Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria & Ends
of the Earth areas.
- There are a lot of great
opportunities to serve our Lord through
hands-on ministry.
- Sign up is located on board
outside Sanctuary on piano entrance close to the church
office.
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Regular
Worship Services
Sundays:
8:30
and 10:55 am
6:00 pm
Wednesdays:
5:30 pm Fellowship Meal
6:30 pm Refuge (Students)
6:30 pm Bible Study
6:30 pm Boys on Mission, GA's, Mission
Friends
Sunday
School
9:40 am
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TV Ministry - Prayer Ministry
The Sunday worship service can be seen live each week at 11:00 am on
local channel 10. The Wednesday night service can be seen on
the following Tuesday night at 7:00 pm also on local channel 10.
Also during the 10:55 Sunday worship service
you are invited to call 706-647-7889 and a member of the FBC prayer
ministry will be happy to pray with you or relay your prayer request
to any member of the staff or the FBC e-mail prayer ministry.
If you
are interested in joining the TV ministry or Prayer Ministry in any
capacity call the church office and volunteer. 706-647-7889 |
GLOBAL UPDATE
MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL
May 17
August 16
November 15
MIDDLE GEORGIA FOOD BANK
May 29
July 17
October 16
GEORGIA BAPTIST CHILDREN’S HOME
June 14
August 2
September 20
JERUSALEM MINISTRY
June 21
SAMARIA TRIP TO MISSISSIPPI
October 10—17
ENDS OF THE EARTH TO COLON, PANAMA
November 7 –15
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The "On Mission" Commission Church by
Ann McDaniel
It all started over two thousand year
ago, with one person and eleven followers, then twelve. Jesus
ministered primarily by his teaching and preaching of the gospel,
urging men to repent and come to him to find rest. He commissioned
the twelve to "witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the
Ends of the Earth." The task being so difficult and
terrifying, Jesus, as a master strategist, trained them to be with
him so that eventually they might be well equipped to go out to
preach also. And, in Acts 4 we are told "that the
number of believers now reached a new high of about 5,000 men."
The Great Commission is a
personal calling to step out in faith and spread the Gospel.
It is faith in action! Christians who
obey this command enrich their own spiritual lives forever. It
could be spreading the Gospel to a neighbor next door, a friend at
work, or moving to another country to reach people who are lost.
It could be sharing with less fortunate people across town or
spreading the Word in a town an hour away. Wherever we go, we
are compelled through obedience to share the Gospel.
Our journey with Global Focus will
enhance existing programs, create new ministries, utilize the
uniqueness of each member's gifts, and coordinate the efforts of
each activity to maximize the spreading of the Gospel. The
Southern Baptist Convention has joined in partnership with Global
Focus to strengthen and empower its churches in missions.
The Acts 1:8 challenge is an
opportunity for First Baptist Church to commit to a comprehensive
mission strategy in our community (Jerusalem), State (Judea),
Continent (Samaria) and the world (Ends of the Earth). To
"witness in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Ends of the Earth" is
God's call to each of us. Revolutionary action is necessary
for us to meet this challenge.
Global Focus stresses mobilization as a process of
spiritual transformation that ultimately begins with Biblical truths
that we accept in our heart as believers, a philosophy of life and
ministry that we believe with out intellect and implementation that
we accomplish with out actions.
Global Focus defines personalization as, "The process
of helping believers discover their role and fulfill their purpose
in God's global kingdom by using their gifts, abilities, and
resources to advance God's global cause, which is gathering
worshippers unto Himself.
We look around us and see so many people with various
talents and abilities but never really think about how these gifts
can be unified for a strategic purpose. What God makes us to
be determines what he intends us to do. The key
to knowing God's will for our lives is to understand the purpose for
which we were created. This is the personalization evaluation
that will help us be successful in meshing our many gifts as a
congregation to fulfill Acts 8:1, Jesus' last recorded words to the
church. The mission is unique, purposeful, and urgent.
As a believer in Jesus Christ, where has he called
you to go? Who has God put in your heart to share the gift of
salvation? What small or large steps can you take, with the
knowledge that Christ will be by you side, to "witness in
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the Ends of the Earth" ?
Note: Information used to write
this article was taken from Global Focus resource manuals and
literature with update edits from the original article written by
Ann in July of 2007.
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