BELLEVUE HI-LIGHTS Bellevue Baptist Church 5925 Price Rd. Macon, GA 31220 (478) 477-7058

www.bellevuebaptist.org December 2017

Rev. Jim Duggan…..….………...…..……Senior Pastor

Rev. Harry Graves…………..…..……….Music Minister Joshua Funderburk………………….Minister of Students Ms. Lisa Oliver …………….………. .Preschool Director

Mrs. Peggy Webb ……….……………Church Secretary Ms. Nita Ard ………………..……. Financial Secretary

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Ho-Ho-Ho and Merry Christmas!! The BBC Fundraiser Committee is

already looking forward to 2018 events. As you decorate for the holidays this

year, please donate to our 2018 Holiday Shoppe, any holiday decorations that

you no longer use. Decorations must be “like new”. Please leave your holiday decorations in our library. We will accept donations from now through

Jan. 31, 2018.

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1

6:00pm--Celebration Choir Rehearsal

2

6:00pm--Celebration Choir Rehearsal

3 9:45am--Sunday

School

11:00am-Christmas

Musical

6:00pm--Christmas

Musical

4 12:00noon-- International Missions’ Luncheon

5

6 6:00pm--Christmas Dinner & Lottie Moon Silent Auction 7:00pm--Celebration Choir Rehearsal

7

8 9

10 9:45am--- Sunday

School

11:00am--Morning

Worship Service

5:00pm-- NO Evening

Bible Study

11 6:30pm--Joyful Servants meet NO Men’s Ministry Meeting in Dec.

12

12:00noon-- Pathfinders’ Sunday School Christmas Party

13 6:00pm--Lottie Moon Silent Auction 6:00pm--Prayer Meeting & Bible Study, Youth, Preschool & Children 6:00pm--Celebration Choir Rehearsal

14 12:00noon-- KEENAGERS with guests Len & Carolyn Woodard Bring canned goods for the Food Bank

15

16

17 9:45am--

Sunday School

11:00am--Morning

Worship Service

5:00pm-- NO Evening

Bible Study

18 19

7:00pm--Baptist Young Women meeting

20 6:00pm--Lottie Moon Silent Auction 6:00pm--Prayer Meeting & Bible Study, Youth, Preschool & Children 6:00pm--Celebration Choir Rehearsal

21

22

CHURCH OFFICE IS CLOSED

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24 9:45am-- Sunday

School

11:00am--Morning

Worship Service

5:00pm-- CHRISTMAS EVE

COMMUNION

25 CHRISTMAS DAY NO SERVICES TODAY

26 27 6:00pm- NO WED. NIGHT SERVICES

28 29 30 9:00am--TAKE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS DOWN

31 9:45am--Sunday

School

11:00am--Morning

Worship Service

5:00pm--NO NEW

YEAR’S EVE

SERVICE

THE CHURCH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED FROM FRIDAY, DEC. 22ND UNTIL TUESDAY, JAN. 2ND. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY FROM BROTHER JIM & THE MINISTRY TEAM (HARRY, JOSH, LISA, PEGGY, NITA & JAN)

Joyful Servants, Monday, Dec.11th

at 6:30pm

Baptist Young Women, Tuesday, Dec.19th, at 7:00pm

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN ONE OF OUR GROUPS!

Men’s Ministry, Monday, Dec. 11th at 6:30pm

Thursday, Dec.14th, at 12:00 noon

ALL Seniors Are Invited! Bring your favorite covered dishes...

Invite a Friend & Join Us!

WEEK OF PRAYER FOR INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS (LOTTIE MOON) DECEMBER 3RD THROUGH 10TH

Dec. 3 Frankie Hendrickson, Linda Padgett & Bobbie Jespersen Dec. 10 Carolyn Marsh, Nita Ryle & Sharon Martin Dec. 17 Deborah Mathews, Lisa Ledden & Cindy Powell

Dec. 24 Dee Stalnaker, Mary Graham & Judy Ashley Dec. 31 Luann Stone, Vivian Shelton & Madge Ruff

Dec. 3 Robert Abbott, Jimmy Ford, Doug Sutton, Carlos Tucker, Allen Kittle, Lester Johnson, Ernie Calanchi & Kay Murphy Dec.10 Robert Abbott, Jimmy Ford, Doug Sutton, Ernie Calanchi, Allen Kittle, Carlos Tucker, Lester Johnson & Kay Murphy Dec. 17 Robert Abbott, Ernie Calanchi, Jimmy Ford, Kay Mupphy. Allen Kittle, Carlos Tucker, Lester Johnson & Doug Sutton Dec. 24 Robert Abbott, Carlos Tucker, Jimmy Ford, Ernie Calanchi, Kay Murphy, Doug Sutton, Allen Kittle & Lester Johnson Dec. 31 Robert Abbott, Ernie Calanchi, Jimmy Ford, Allen Kittle, Carlos Tucker, Doug Sutton, Lester Johnson & Kay Murphy

Dec. 3--Yomani Scott Lucille Jones Dec. 9--Jim Duggan Dec. 10--Clyde Shelton Dec. 15 -- Faye Cranford Jerry Hendrickson Christopher Mullis Dec. 19--Tammy Elliott Judy Bradley Dec. 20 --Landon Toney Dec. 21-- Mack Harrison Dec. 24--Lamar Upchurch Dec. 28--Cindee Ashley

SERVING THE LORD THIS MONTH—DECEMBER

CHURCH HOUR Dec. 3 Vivian Shelton & Mary Donaldson

Dec. 10 Paula Piper

Dec. 17 Sandy Shelton & Sharon Martin

Dec. 24 Lisa Ledden

Dec. 31 Clyde & Christina Shelton

SUNDAY NIGHTS Dec. 3 Marcheta Myers

Dec. 10 Julie Norwood

Dec. 17 Lisa Oliver

Dec. 24 Lisa Oliver

Dec, 31 Lisa Oliver

CHIDRENS’ CHURCH

Donna Griffin Flowers for our Altar

Dec. 3--ILMO Brian Grimsley’s birthday, which is Dec. 5th, by Dean Grimsley Dec. 10---OPEN Dec. 17--ICO Landon Toney’s 8th birthday, which is Dec. 20th, by Randy & Annette Toney Dec. 24--IHO Lamar Upchurch’s 100th birthday, by his niece, Lucile Tomberlin Dec. 31--ICO Nina Menchew’s birthday, which is Dec. 27th, by her Dad, William Yarbrough DEACON OF THE WEEK

Dec. 3--Dec. 9 Ron Crews Dec. 10--Dec. 16 Robert Abbott Dec. 17--Dec. 23 William Yarbrough Dec. 24--Dec. 30 Arthur Henry Dec. 31--Jan. 6 Lester Johnson

********************************************************* Orders for altar flowers for our 2018 calendar are now being taken. Please call the office if you have a special

occasion you want to remember. Thank you.

Dec. 6--Robert & Linda Guest Dec. 12--Joel & Sky Buchhamer

MR. AND MRS. DOYL ELKINS REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR DAUGHTER

Mary - Margaret Elkins

to

Garrett Andrew Williams SON OF MR. AND MRS. JAMES WILLIAMS SATURDAY, DECEMBER THIRTIETH TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN AT FOUR O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON AT

The Belle House STATESBORO, GEORGIA

The World at large is much more receptive of Jesus than is America. As a matter of fact, missionaries around the world are winning souls to Jesus at a glorious rate. Leading the way is the Southern Baptist Convention’s International Mission Board. Southern Baptists deploy over 3600 missionaries who engage over 870 people groups around the world. In 2015, 1.9 million people heard the gospel as a result of the ministry of IMB missionaries. We started 6,138 churches on international fields accounting for 175,290 new believers and 15,058 trained pastors. As great as that sounds, we have yet to engage an estimated 3203 people groups with the Gospel. Not YET. But we are making great progress. YOU can make a difference through our yearly Christmas Offering for World Missions. This year, our Church Goal is to raise $3000 during the month of December. All of this offering will go directly to missionaries on international fields. Here are a few ways our offerings make an impact. $50 provides 25 cups of coffee in Mexico City for missionaries who meet with business people to share the gospel. $200 provides train tickets for six months of visits with Muslims in Moscow. $500 provides Bibles and videos to share the gospel in the heart language of refugees. $1000 provides sound equipment for the Jones family planting a church in Japan. $5000 provides a 3-week trip for a missionary family to access a hard to reach people group in Nepal’s mountains. All gifts, large and small, pool together for so many other opportunities for our missionaries to reach people for Jesus. This year, you will meet missionary friends of mine at our Christmas Banquet, Wednesday, December 6th. Sam and Mary Waldron were missionaries to the Philippines. They will be here to give us insight into the life of an international missionary. Brother Sam was the interim pastor at Pine Forest when I was a child. Much of my love for missions today comes from their stories of how God worked through them. Pray about what God would have you give during December. Also, clear your calendar for the Christmas Banquet on December 6th. Let’s play a role in making an impact for Jesus around the world.

Greetings everyone! Merry Christmas and I hope everyone had a wonderful

Thanksgiving and that the Lord blessed you with a great time amongst fami-

ly and friends. Seeing as this is my first time writing in this newsletter I want

to thank everyone for giving me the amazing opportunity to come and serve

at Bellevue Baptist. It really is with great joy that I worship with you all and

I feel truly blessed to have this chance to work, serve, and fellowship with

such a God loving and God fearing congregation.

Coming up during this busy holiday month we are going to spend

our first Wednesday night putting up Christmas decorations. We will spend

the evening of December 6th decorating the youth room with our Christmas

attire followed by our lesson continuing the series about missional living.

Later in the month we will have our Youth Christmas party. If you want to

participate in the gift exchange make sure to bring a wrapped present not

exceeding ten dollars. We will have drinks and snacks provided. The party

will be Wednesday the 20th of December during normal church hours.

We will continue our series on missional living throughout Decem-

ber. As we've already read in James 2, we see that some of the major road

blocks in living a missional life are the prejudices that we come across daily.

These prejudices and the favoritism that we play is in direct disobedience to

God's command to love our neighbor. James 2:1 states “My brothers, hold

your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ without showing favoritism”.

We should actively be fighting the sinful nature that leads us to that favorit-

ism. Despite whatever our friends might think of us, or the way we might be

treated because of it, we are representatives of Christ. We cannot represent

Him correctly when we are unwilling to talk to someone because they look

different, come from a different background, or even speak a different lan-

guage. Our jobs as Christians is to live a life glorifying to God because ulti-

mately all glory belongs to him. I want to encourage everyone as we go

throughout our day to shed our selfish desires and to attempt to live a life

that would resemble the life led by Christ; one that can only be done by the

help of the Lord and by a faith in Him. Pastor Jim defined faith as “an active

trust in all that God has said concerning his person, promise, and precepts”. I

pray that we trust that God will have our backs despite whatever we encoun-

ter in this world so long as we are living a life that is glorifying to Him and

because of that faith we can live a life of everyday missions in the hopes of

spreading the good Gospel of Christ.

Josh Funderburk

AN ATTIDUDE OF GRATITUDE – NOW THAT’S THANKS-GIVING! We all have much to be thankful for . Patti and I are no different. We had a new granddaughter this year and the week-end before Thanksgiving we had a wedding, and added to our fami-ly a new son-in-law and 3 ready-made grand children to boot! As you can tell, it’s been a very busy November for us. We are grateful to our Lord for His every provision and His hand that always guides. We pray your Thanksgiving gave you many reasons to re-flect and to give thanks to our Heavenly Father in this special sea-son too! Our Celebration Choir has been working very hard to prepare our

Christmas musical, The Greatest Story Ever Told. We’re beginning our Christmas season with 2 great presenta-tions this Sunday, December 3rd, dur-ing our Morning Worship at 11:00 and again at our Evening Worship at 6:00. You’ve heard it announced and now’s the time to be sure that first, you’re here, and second, you invite someone to come and be a part of one of these services. You are our best ad-vertisement. People will come be a part of something you invite them to, espe-cially if you’re excited about it. This is a wonderful collection of new and tra-

ditional songs alike. You will not only hear the message through song, as sung by our choir, but enjoy the sights of the Christmas season through our video presentation. Please come and bring your friends and family. Join us as once again we celebrate the story that never grows old. It’s Christmas – the birth of Jesus, Emmanuel – God with us, our Savior and King! IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT 2017 IS COMING TO A RAPID CLOSE! Another year has come and is just about gone and our Lord Jesus has been with us all the way. As we look to the New Year ahead, may we continue to trust in Him and bring Him glory in and through our lives in all we do. Patti and I wish you, our Bellevue Church Family, a most mer-ry Christmas and the best, most blessed, New Year to come! God Bless You! Bro. Harry