Volume 44 Issue 6

March 21, 2013

Please Note…

No Family Night Supper / Programs

Wednesday, March 27

Senior Pastor

Rev. Ryan P. Tucker

Church Address:

1240 Russell St

PO Box 637

Orangeburg, SC 29116

Phone:

803.536.1545

Fax:

803.536.2270

Website Address:

www.fbcorangeburg.org

Office Hours:

Monday-Thursday

8:30 am-5:00 pm

Friday

8:30 am-12:00 Noon

First Baptist News

Palm Sunday Worship Services

Sunday, March 24

8:45 & 11:00 AM

The Children’s Ministry would like to invite ALL

children to participate in the

Processional Waving of the Palms

for both worship services. Please meet in the vestibule

15 minutes before each service begins.

Maundy Thursday Service

Thursday, March 28

7:00 PM in the Sanctuary.

Easter Sunday Worship Services

Sunday, March 31

8:45 & 11:00 AM

Everyone is invited to bring fresh flowers to put

in the wire that will be wrapped around the

cross on the front lawn.

Also, a continental breakfast will be available

between worship services.

Sunday, March 24

8:45 AM

Nancy Walker, Faye Fogle

11:00 AM

Infants / Creepers / Ones:

Billy & Connie Varn

Twos / Threes:

Joe & Dotty Strickland

Fours:

Jim & Candace Holstein

Worship Care Workers

PLEASE NOTE… You need to call in your

Wednesday night supper reservation(s). To

avoid excess of food left over, amount of

food prepared will be based on reservations

received on the Family Night Supper reser-

vation line. Reservation must be called in

by 10 am on Mondays!!

Family Night Supper Line

Reservation #: 803-531-4138

Wednesday, March 27

NO Family Night Supper

Wednesday, April 3

Menu: Italian Night!

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Sunday, March 31

8:45 AM

Alice Walker, Nancy Walker

11:00 AM

Infants / Creepers / Ones:

Bettis Bryant, Homer & Barbara

Felder, Debbie French, Mary Raymond

Twos / Threes:

Glenn & Shelley Barr

Fours:

Brian & Leigh Ann Newsome

March 22-24

Rev. Joel Campbell

C) 803-646-9000

March 29-31

Rev. Ryan Tucker

C) 803-707-2132

As always, the ministers may be reached

at the church office (536-1545) during

business hours.

Weekend Minister On Call

Please Note...

There will not be any Wednesday night

programs / Family Night Supper on

Wednesday, March 27.

However, the choir will still have

rehearsal.

Save the Date….

CDC Spring

Kiddie Kloset

Sale

April 4, 5, 6

Details: TBA

FBC 2013 Directory Inserts

are now available. Inserts are placed at the entrances of Mid-

dleton Street; McClain Bldg; Education

Bldg and Church Vestibule. You may also

pick up a copy from the FLC. Please take

one copy per family unit. Thanks!

To All Church Members: The housekeeping and maintenance of the First Baptist Church buildings and properties are critical to the church’s identity and its witness within the community. The buildings and properties belong to God and we should all be good stewards of what God has blessed us with.

The main purpose of the maintenance program at the First Baptist Church of Orangeburg is to identify, prioritize, and schedule all housekeeping and maintenance needs on a routine and preventive basis. The housekeeping consists of those tasks that keep First Baptist Church facilities attractive, clean, neat, and safe. The maintenance consists of routine duties and preven-tive methods to keep all equipment operating properly and preserve the buildings and properties of the church.

To accommodate facility use, room request and setup, and work request for maintenance repairs that maybe needed, a work request and a room setup forms have been developed to assist administrative staff to respond to your request and needs. If you have a request, please come by the church office and complete a work request and/or room setup form. Your request at that time will be reviewed and given to the appropriate staff level. God has en-riched all of us in so many ways; especially, with the facilities we have here at the First Baptist Church. This is just one part of the overall ministry we can all participate to help preserve and utilize good stewardship of what God has blessed us with here at the First Baptist Church of Orangeburg.

R. Dean Felkel

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Vacation Bible School 2013

Save the Dates:

June 10-14, 2013

Downtown Campus

9:00 AM to Noon

"Colors of New England

Fly-away"

8 Days/11 Meals:

7 Bkf. 4 Dinners

Highlights: Boston, Woodstock, Quechee Gorge,

Stowe, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Factory, Rocks Estate,

North Conway, Lake Winnipesaukee Cruise, Kancama-

gus Highway, Boothbay Harbor Lobster Dinner.

Departure: October 11-18, 2013 Columbia Airport

Early Booking Cost: $2,699 PP Double til 4/11/13

$250.00 PP Deposit Due with Sign-up!

Call Bonnie @ 803.534.5434 to sign up!

Bonnie’s Bunch

Trips

Stewardship’s Corner

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 has brought

back the ability to withdraw from your IRA tax-free and

give it to charity for tax years 2012 and 2013.

The IRA Qualified Charitable Distribution allows IRA

owners who are age 70 ½ or older to take from tradi-

tional or Roth IRA and transfer the funds directly to a

qualified charity. The amount withdrawn counts to-

wards satisfying the IRS Required Minimum Distribu-

tion and is not taxable income.

The tax-free charitable IRA distribution provision is

temporary and will expire December, 2013.

Walking with God...

Enoch, Noah’s great-grandfather, lived to be 365. But he

didn’t die; instead, God “took him away” to heaven

(Genesis 5:24). The reason, according to the Bible, is

t h a t E n o c h “ w a l k e d w i t h G o d . ”

Such intimate communion with God, said Edward Grif-

fin (1770-1837), “is very fitly represented by two close

friends walking together, engrossed with each other, un-

mi n d f u l o f a l l t h e w o r l d b e s i d e s . ”

Griffin added: “When two friends thus walk together

they keep the same course, and thus are advancing to-

ward the same object. So the [person] who walks with

God is conformed to him in moral character. Benevo-

lence reigns.”

Good Friday?

At first glance, Good Friday appears to be a misnomer.

It seems inconsistent that the day of Christ’s crucifixion

should in any way be described as “good.” But that

seeming inconsistency vanishes when we understand

that the ancient meaning of good was “holy.” The word

holy is entirely consistent with the suffering and cross

that Christ endured for us.

Hence, Good Friday is also know as Holy Friday.

FIRST BAPTIST NEWS (USPS 194-520)

Published Bi-Weekly by First Baptist Church

1240 Russell St Orangeburg, SC 29115

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at Orangeburg, SC 29115

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We extend our deepest Christian sympathy

to the family of Hazel Smoak; to Betty Black

& family in the death of her husband, Julian

W. Black, Sr.; to Janice Carr & family in the

death of her mother, Zelda Hoyle.

Gifts Received In Memory Of… Julian W. Black, Sr.

ASI & Barb & Co & Ironlogix, Tom & Carole Bonnette, Harry & Bettis Bryant, Harold & Virginia Davis, FBC Chancel Choir, Merritt & Faye Fogle, Billy & Ann Glover, Ben & Harriet Hare, Guy & Linda Lirby, Conrad & Nettie Martin, Norman & Shirley McLean, Melicue & Hazel Metts, Leslie & Avie Phillips, Henry & Burley Rutland, Billy & Brenda Sanford, Thomas & Peggy Ses-sions, Jr., Harris & Pam Steppe, Earl & Peggy Summers, Chester & Esther Tomson, Lila Wactor, Barbara Welch, Robert & Susan Yoakum

Laurence Cuttino

Norman & Shirley McLean

Rudolph Dean

E.C. & Lester Rutland

Virginia Holley

Danny & Kathy Overstreet

David Lee

James & Elaine Hawkins, E.C. & Lester Rutland

Hazel Smoak

Sara Gombert, Barbara & Sam Mitchum, Sr., Sam Mitchum, Jr.

In Honor Of…

Guy & Linda Kirby (50th Wedding Anniversary)

Bettis & Harry Bryant

IN REMEMBRANCE

Hazel Smoak

Joined First Baptist…………….…..July 22, 1945

Died……………………...…………..March 6, 2013

IN REMEMBRANCE

Julian Wallace Black, Sr.

Joined First Baptist…………….....April 29, 1951

Died…………………………..…….March 11, 2013

IN REMEMBRANCE

Zelda Hoyle

Joined First Baptist….……..September 21, 1958

Died………………….………..…….March 19, 2013

Pray for our Members in the Hospital +Regional Medical Center, Orbg, SC 29118

Kathy Chaplin

Lexington Med. Ctr., Lexington, SC 29169

Dave Garrison