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Sunday, January 8, 2017
Breakfast With Bishop An Imagine More Breakfast for Our Seniors and an opportunity to say Thank You. Iconic actress Cicely Tyson suggested we don’t simply stand on the shoul-ders of our Elders, but we stand on their backs as the “fruit” of the labor and faithfulness. Our Seniors are invited to attend this breakfast of appreciation, inspiration, information, and fellowship with discussion topics including Health and Wellness, Legal Issues, and Continuing the Legacy. Mark your calendars
for Saturday, January 21st at 9am in the Multi-Purpose room at 154 Winters Lane. Please RSVP to the Church Office at (410) 747-3417.
We had an awesome day of worship on our last Christmas at 154 Winters Lane. Singing, dancing, and as always, excellent preaching! We captured some moments from that day on our website, be sure to check them out.
Our Final Christmas at 154
Christian Ed classes resume THIS WEEK!!! Learning Matters at MSBC, and there’s still time for you to register!! Spiritual Gifts, Effective Prayer, Wellness Academy courses, W.I.F.E., Zumba and more! Course Descriptions as well as Registration forms are available in the lobby, and on our website at: http://msbcministries.org/christian-education-winter-spring-sessions.
Christ ian Educat ion
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Reminders
Wednesday in the Word resumes on January 25th!
Men’s Locker Room is still on break, stay connected to your
Playbook! See everyone in Worship!
Remember Wednesday Morning Devotional Calls at 6:00am, 1-712-432-0900, Code 672527
Wednesday In The Word
Each Sunday, the team will be in the lobby between Solomon’s Corner and the Kitchen after each service to hand out barcode tags to all members. The barcode tag will serve many Check In purposes: Church School, Children’s Discipleship (Wednesdays), Greater Praise, Wednesday in the Word and Large Group Meetings (Women In Prayer, Men’s Locker Room, Christian Ed, Diaconate, As-sociate Ministers, etc.)
Barcode Tags
The men of Morning Star invite brothers to Get In The Game for Men’s Day 2017. Some planned activities include Men’s Consecration on January 24th, a Man Cave Game Night,
Men’s Breakfast on February 4th, and a behind the scenes look at the Ravens Stadium! Find out more at the Huddle information sessions following each worship service today in the Chapel.
Men
Do you have a wedding date on the Church calendar for 2017? Are you engaged? Thinking about
getting engaged? Want to be engaged? Plan to Attend the MSBC Wedding Seminar & Expo!! Important information will be shared about having your wedding at Morning Star and offsite wedding requirements. You will be able to learn about various Ministries designed to help you along in your Marriage journey. You will also meet the MSBC Wedding Ministry Consultants for Information, Vendors, and Lots of Love on Satur-day, February 4th at 11am. RSVP to Deaconess Robbin Brown at (410) 747-3417.
Photographers, Caterers, Stylists, Make-up Artists, DJ’s, and More can showcase your services for FREE at the Wedding Expo on Saturday, February 4th at Noon. Please contact Tina Gilliam at [email protected] or (410) 921-1413, and be sure to send your information enabling you to showcase your services!
MSBC Wedding Seminar & Expo
Have you joined the church between November and January? You are invited to a New Member’s Brunch on Sunday, January 29th at 1:30pm in the Multi-
Purpose Room. Please RSVP to the Church Office at (410) 747-3417.
New Member’s Brunch
The Women’s Ministry will meet for Prayer on Monday, January 23, 2017 with a theme of Prayer Matters. The Women will be picking back up with the teaching from Fervent by Priscilla Shirer. Barcode Check-In will be available!
Women In Prayer
R e m e m b e r o n Tu e s d a y s w e a r e F a s t i n g f r o m S p e n d i n g a n d P r a y i n g f o r
3 0 0 N e w T i t h e r s I t ’ s T i m e To I m a g i n e M o r e ! !
Sunday, January 8, 2017
1. Sign in to In Fellowship with your Email Address and Password
2. Click Your Giving 3. Select Individual or Household 4. Under the Year, verify it is 2016 (or 2015) 5. Click Download Statement 6. Open your document 7. Print
VOLUNTEER VIDEO EDITING and GRAPHIC DESIGN—The MSBC Marketing Ministry is looking for support for our Marketing efforts. If you can help, please contact Dr. Anthony Brown at [email protected] or Minister Johnnie Miller at [email protected] .
Looking for Convenient, Affordable, Quality Childcare in the Catonsville—Randallstown—Woodlawn area? Your search is over!
The Morning Star Baptist Church Community Daycare and Learning Center
Our Community Daycare and Learning Center serves approximately 60 preschool children ages 2 to 5 years old. The Center operates year-round Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Children are placed in groups according to age and ability. The curriculum includes devotion, progressive lesson plans and age-appropriate activities. The Center serves breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks, and schedules daily rest periods on small cots for the children. Staff are trained and knowledgeable about developmental stages and the needs of pre-school children.
Schedule a tour and bring your child – we would love to meet them. Call us at (410) 744-2685 $20.00 Application Fee (non-refundable) $160.00 - 2 Years Old $150.00 - 3-5 Years Old/Non-members $140.00 - 3-5 Years Old/ MSBC members only
Department of Social Services subsidies are gladly accepted.
Year End Contribution Statements Contact Lisa Nettles at
[email protected] for assistance.
View the InFellowship tutorial for assistance, register for InFellowship, or pick up instructions
in the lobby.
MSBC Y.E.S. Ministry presents
2017 Black History Program “Lest We Forget”
If you are a youth and interested in participating in the
Black History Program, please contact:
Ms. Elise Green at (443) 204-3885, [email protected],
Deaconess Latisha Smith at [email protected], or
Mr. Jasper Watkins at [email protected]
Rehearsals will be held every Tuesday beginning January
10th at 154 Winters Lane at 6:30pm.
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Classes are held at 6665 Security Blvd, Baltimore, MD 21207
They resume on Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 (6:30pm—8:00pm) in Classroom 114
Every 4th Saturday (9:00am—12:00pm) in Classroom 100. (New member’s classes for children are on Saturdays only from 11:00am—12:00pm.)
Register for your classes.
View the InFellowship tutorial.
Register for InFellowship.
New Members
Minister Lois Blue, Brother Ronald Carroll, Sister Rose Coleman, Brother Daniel Day, Jr., Sister Ida (Jean) English, Sister Christine Gray, Sister Edith Hardy, Sister
Lillian Jackson, Sister Barbara Johnson, Sister Beverly Lofton, Mother Mary Manokey, Sister Marian Mar-salle, Deaconess Loray Mooring, Deaconess Annie Ray, Sister Waline Rogers, Sister Catherine Shaw, Sister Allison Simpson, Deacon Ezekiel Thornton, and Sister Aileen Wilson.
If you or anyone in your family are sick, desire prayer, sick visit, or Communion visit, please call the church office at (410) 747-3417 so that we may be available to you and your family. Also please call if there is death of a family member.
Sick and Shut In
It is not too late for you to submit your pledge as we IMAGINE MORE for our new building. Fill out a pledge card located in the pew holders to make your pledge. After pledging, you can honor your pledge in service with cash, check, or credit card, or you can give at anytime through InFellowship or Txt2Give.
The Office of Marketing has implemented a NEW series on our
website called What I’ve Learned. MSBC Members and Friends
are invited to share some of their “life lessons” in an array of areas.
The goal is to inspire, encourage, and challenge readers to think
and reflect as they navigate the journey The Lord has designed for
them. We welcome your brief responses regarding what you’ve
learned in a number of areas. Please keep in mind all submissions will be reviewed and ultimately posted
on our website. When submitting your information to [email protected] please attach a photo-
graph and a brief 2-3 sentence bio regarding who you are! Also, feel free to add a category or two. Submis-
sions are available on the website now!
Sunday, December 11, 2016
365 Days of Prayer
Dear Heavenly Father, We come to you as humble as we know how. We bow down before you and reverence your Holy name. You are great and greatly to be praised, from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same. Your power is undefeata-
ble and your reign is never-ending. We thank you for every trial and every struggle you have brought us to and through. Thank you for every stumbling block that you have allowed us to overcome. We thank you for every door that you have opened and every door that you have closed. We thank you for the power and the worth of prayer. We thank you for protection, as we go from day to day. Thank you for the cross at Calva-ry, for loving us so much that you gave your only begotten son to die for our sins. Thank you for forgiving us of all of our transgression. Bless us, oh God, that we may always be quick to forgive others. Thank you for the example of forgiveness. We fall short, day after day, minute after minute, and yet you still forgive us and make provision for us. There is no comparison to your love. We love you!
Please bless the children of this world, who are not our future, but they are our today. Help us, as adults, to lead them in the path of righteousness. Bless the pastors, all over this nation, that they may lead your peo-ple with sensitivity to your Holy Spirit. And please bless those who serve in your Kingdom. Help them to ob-tain and retain the right focus in serving your people. Lord, we bless you and thank you for answered pray-ers. It is in Jesus name that we pray and give thanks. Amen!
Eileen Eldridge
Daniel 6:10—But when Daniel learned that the law had been signed, he went home and knelt down as usual in his upstairs room, with his windows open towards Jerusalem. He prayed three times a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God. (NLT)
When we talk about the book of Daniel, we often share the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and the fiery furnace. Or, the parallel story of Daniel in the lion’s den. When we refer to the story of Daniel being placed in the lion’s den, we typically rejoice at how God saved and delivered him out of the lion’s den un-harmed. However, we often skip over what happens before he is cast into the pit of lions.
We all know the story - jealous rivals, unhappy about Daniel’s elevation to a high office, trick the king into signing a decree that they think condemns Daniel to death. King Darius orders everyone to worship and pray to him; and only him. Daniel refuses to compromise, does not obey the new rule, and continues to worship and pray to God; and God alone. Daniel stood firm in his faith and prayed with passion to God, just as he’d always done. He prayed three times a day, without ceasing.
Daniel didn’t wait until he was in the lion’s den to pray. He was routinely and consistently on his knees every day, praying to God. Showing gratitude and being thankful for God and his grace. We are instructed in 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Colossians 4:2, Philippians 4:6-7, and encouraged in so many other scriptures in the bible to pray without ceasing and devote ourselves to prayer.
Just like Daniel, shouldn’t we all be faithful and consistent in prayer? Not just soliciting him for what he can provide; but simply acknowledging him for who he is in our lives. Seeking his face and his guidance in all things. Daniel gave thanks in all circumstances, stayed joyful and patient in affliction, and God delivered him. Old church would say that he was on praying terms with God. Are you?
There’s 24 hours in a day. How much of that day will you devote to God?
Prayer matters!
365 Days of Prayer focus for January is “Prayer Matters” “Pray without ceasing” (NKJV) —1 Thessalonians 5:17
Cynthia Tims
Sunday, December 11, 2016
365 Days of Prayer
Ephesians 6:18—And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of pray-ers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. (NIV)
Heavenly Father, your word says to pray without ceasing “I Thes 5:16-18” Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. We thank you for the provisions you have bestowed upon your people. We thank you for fellowship in the body of Christ. Let us always pray for each other, the Pastor, First Lady and Family. As we continue to pray for our Seniors, our young adults, and children. Father we continue to thank you for the Vision coming to past so that we your people can build and rebuild lives and stronger communities. Father let us continue to pray in the spirit that your will be manifested in our lives. “Phil 1:4” In all my prays for all of you, I always pray for Joy, Love, Peace and Humility in 2017. Let us continue to pray for our Nation, our Country and those in Political offices. Lord we are VICTORIOUS and not DEFEATED. Deuteronomy 28:13 We are the HEAD and not the TAIL. We your people are expecting and looking towards Great Expectations to expand the Kingdom for your glory! AMEN
Deaconess Loray Mooring
Psalm 139:23-24— Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in
the way everlasting. (NIV)
Father, I give you my heart, my soul, and my life. I dedicate my whole being to You, and You alone. I give you my fail-ures and my successes, my fears and my aspirations. Please, search my heart. Let my thoughts and my motives be pure and justly in your sight. You O Lord, know me through and through; remove the unclean ways in me that do not honor you, that I might be pleasing to You.
Father, fill me with your love and your Holy Spirit, I pray; enable me to do the tasks set before me. Lead me into the Your everlasting way. Wherever I go, whatever the challenge, I pray that You will always be there, guiding me com-pletely. Father, from my rising in the morning to my resting at night, O Lord, be near, surrounding me continually with Your love.
I look forward to this new year and new season with joyful anticipation to what You have planned for me. Thank you for becoming Lord of my life and the very center of my joy...Amen!
365 Days of Prayer focus for January is “Prayer Matters” “Pray without ceasing” (NKJV) —1 Thessalonians 5:17
Psalm 19:14— May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. (NIV)
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Dear God, the almighty, the omnipotent and omniscient one: I come humbly before you and confess that I have made mistakes, and I realize that I am not perfect.
I just want to say thank you. I thank you for allowing me to see another day and to praise your mighty name. I thank you for your listening ear because you know my needs before I speak a single word. I thank you for daily sustenance, and I thank you for everything.
Please help me to grow more as a Christian so that I may share the good news, help bring others to Christ, and live my life in right accord. These things I ask in your name.
Amen
Gayle Westmoreland
Minister Beverly Ragler