First Baptist Church, Pendleton

P.O. Box 187

Pendleton, SC 29670

www.fbcpendleton.org

Church Phone: 864-646-3913 Address Service Requested

TEAM OF MINISTERS: Every member a minister

Frank Breazeale.. ....………..……………………….Organist

Steve Cureton……….……….……….…....Building Manager

Julia Day……..….…..….…...…………..Minister to Children

Tammy Gladson …………………......Interim Music Minister

Amy Kotewa ……………………..………………. Custodian

Courtney Krueger.……………………...………Senior Pastor

Jennifer McClung Rygg……...……………...Associate Pastor

Lana Thomas ……………….....…...Administrative Assistant

Diane Scott……....……….….…..Sr. Fellowship Coordinator

Becky Westmoreland……….………….…Financial Assistant

DEACONS

Our Deacons are ministers to the church and as such are available to

members and friends for ministry needs. Please call the deacon who’s

assigned by the first letters of your last name if you have a need.

A-Bo Dr. James Wood 654-3129

Br-Cl Dr. Wayne Patterson 654-4249

Co-D Peggy Carter 356-4390

E-G Kim Burgess 940-6902

H-I David Gladson 642-5039

J-Me Traci Baldwin 224-6497

Me-N Jane Massey 225-1845

O-P John Hayes 654-9540

Q-Sm David Boykin 261-3403

St-V Bruce Blackmon 653-0228

W-Z Grace Ammons 646-2935

Cell Phone: Senior Pastor Courtney Krueger, 864-933-4912

Associate Pastor Jennifer McClung Rygg, 864-760-7135

Pendleton Community Counseling Center: 1-888-293-7585

or 864-442-7585.

Join Us for Sunday Services

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

9:00-9:25 Coffee, Tea and Conversation in the

Fellowship Hall

9:30 - 10:30 Sunday School

10:45-11:45 One Convergent Worship service in

the Sanctuary

Activities vary on Sunday evenings. Please check the

monthly calendar for events.

www.fbcpendleton.org

Church Office Hours

Monday—Friday 9:00 am-1:00 pm

Our Newsletter

The newsletter is published twice a month. The calendar is

published once a month.

The next newsletter deadline is

May 25, 2015

Newsletter Vol. 42 Number 9 May 13, 2015

Catrin Ammons is graduating from the South Carolina

Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities and plans to

attend the University of North Carolina School for the

Arts. She will be pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in music with a

concentration of voice/vocal performance.

Brittany Avin is graduating from Clemson University with a

Bachelor of Science in Genetics with a minor in Science and

Technology in Society and a Bachelor of Science in

Biochemistry. She is also this year’s recipient of Clemson’s

Norris Medal. Brittany will be attending John Hopkins

School of Medicine to pursue a PhD in Cancer Biology

through their Biochemistry Cell and Molecular Biology

Program.

Lorena Blackmon will graduate in September from Thomas

Edison State College with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Mark Breazeale is graduating from Clemson with a

Bachelor of Arts in German and International Trade.

Sarah Krueger is graduating from Pendleton High School,

and plans to attend Western Carolina University to study

criminal justice. She will be in the Honors College.

Lauren Schultz is graduating from Pendleton High School

and plans to attend Anderson University to major in

kinesiology and theater.

Lorena Blackmon

Sarah Krueger

Catrin Ammons Mark Breazeale

Lauren Schultz

Brittany Avin

The Personnel Committee is pleased to announce that Tammy Gladson will be our Interim Minister of Music.

She began her duties with us on May 10th. Tammy is no stranger to music, having majored in Music educa-

tion in college and no stranger to serving at FBCP, having served as our interim Minister of Music from 2007-

2009. We welcome her enthusiasm, her team spirit and her desire to help us worship God through music.

Pastor Courtney Krueger credits her with taking him through “Associate Pastor School” as he developed a

strong working relationship with her during the time he was also preparing for a new staff model. He is

enthusiastic about serving with her again. As you will see in her letter, she is asking for prayers, patience, and

participation from all of us. May her ministry with us enable all of us to sing God’s praise and do God’s will.

Welcome, Tammy!

Dear Church Family,

First of all, I’d like to let you know how much I appreciate your overwhelming response to the duet Caitlynn

and I sang Sunday, and how much joy it brought us to share that holy experience with you, our church family.

The Holy Spirit was surely moving in this place!

As we enter this time of transition, I want to also share with you how excited I am by the opportunity we have

as a church family to discover and discern God’s will for worship at First Baptist Pendleton, and to create a

style of worship all our own. It would “delight” me to see a time in the near future where we no longer refer

to elements of our worship as “contemporary” or “traditional”, but rather where we embrace varied and

diverse means of worshiping Our Lord as a unified body of Christ. I pray for this unceasingly and invite you

to do the same. In the next few months, you will probably see that we will be trying various things or doing

things a bit differently than may have previously been done. Some of these may succeed in enhancing our

worship experience, and some of them may fail. Please be patient and prayerful, and ultimately, God will

make his will known.

I also would like to take this opportunity to personally extend an invitation to any of you that have ever

thought about singing in the choir or assisting in our praise and worship group to join us on Wednesday nights

at 7:30 p.m. in the choir room. Come give it a try and see what God has in store for you and FBCP. Just

think! . . . You could be an integral part of the revelation of God’s plan for this church! Never know until you

try…

With Much Love and Thanksgiving for you all,

Tammy Gladson

Welcome Interim Minister of Music

Tammy Gladson

Interim Minister of Music

Monday, May 18, 11:30 am -

Ladies' Lunch at Something Special in

Pendleton

Saturday, May 16: Youth Practice for

Youth Sunday 1:30 pm

Saturday, May 16: Youth Trip to

Downtown Greenville 3 pm – 8:30 pm

May 16: Parenting Seminar and

Breakfast, 9am

May 20: Nursery/Preschool Meeting,

6pm

May 20-27: Appreciation Station in FH

May 24: Children’s Council Meeting,

4pm

Wayne and Cheryl Patterson are sharing with the kids (grades 1– 6) about Hands on Mission projects in the community. The kids learned about handicap ramps that teams from our church build for people in our community. The kids even got to build their own miniature ramp!

Senior Fellowship is “Sweet Sixteen” this month. This ministry has been enjoyed by members of our

community since 1999, and we’re still going strong!

Hi-Liners from the Jo Brown Senior Center in Anderson came to teach our seniors how to line dance.