Hollins Road Baptist Church 3502 Old Mountain Road Roanoke, VA 24019 www.hrbc1@.com Phone 540-362-9569

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Deacon News ......................... 2

Business Meeting .................. 2

Fellowship/Social ............... 2/3

Ladies/Men’s Events .......... 2/3

Library News……...……….....3

Church Family News ............. 3

Mission Opportunities .......... 4

Sunday School News ............ 5

Children’s Ministry ................ 5

Youth Events ......................... 5

Discipleship Opportunities...5

Stewardship News ................ 6

Volunteers Schedule ............. 6

Jan/Feb Calendar .................. 7

Jan/Feb Birthdays ................. 8

Rev. G. Mark Washington Pastor

Rev. Charles Doyle Pastor Emeritus

Tim Young Minister of Education &

Family Life

Greg Capito Interim Minister to Students

Robert Mullins Children’s Pastor

Janet Washington Music Minister

Brenda Tilley Pianist

Debbie Young Sunday School Secretary

& Sexton

Rebecca Lierman Financial Secretary

Tonya Smoot Secretary

“News For Growing and Serving Jesus”

From the Pastor. . .

Happy New Year…and welcome to 2019! Another glorious year lies before us to minister in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Why is Hollins Road Baptist Church here? To share the love of Jesus with everyone we can and help them Connect with Him…Grow in Him…and Serve for Him! Church family, this is our mission and purpose for being here! As wonderful as “church” is and our “fellowship” is…it is not about us…it’s about them, oth-ers! Over the past several years, we have been witnessing a cultural shift in our country…people (even many church members) are not coming to church like they used to come. And people, especially the younger generation, are getting harder to reach! So what are we going to do to reach them? It really comes down to us talking to our family members, friends, people we work with, people we recreate with and our neighbors about the Lord! And invit-ing them to come to church!

As you know we are working hard to put up a digital sign to reach our community: 1) To let them know what is going on at Hollins Road Baptist with the invitation to come and 2) To share the Word of God (by putting up Bible verses). Of course, we must never forget that we are supposed to be DIGITAL SIGNS TOO…as we work…recreate…and go!

So my challenge to you: will you dedicate yourself to be a great DIGITAL SIGN for the Lord in 2019? Someone may just become LIT UP (come to Christ) because you do!

Happy New Year…as we let our light shine…Connecting with God…Growing in God…and Serving for God!

Pastor Mark

Staff Anniversary

Congratulations to Tim Young who will celebrate his 22nd Anniversary on January

5 serving on our Church Staff! Tim began serving as our Youth Minister back in 1997

and now serves as our Minister of Education and Family Life. Tim we appreciate you

and your ministry with us!

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Greg Capito (540) 890-8830

Sterling Broyles (540) 992-3432

Tommy Firebaugh (540) 977-4686

Richard Jennings (540) 342-8056

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Sunday, January 6, 2019 and

Sunday, February 3, 2019 10:30 am Worship Service The Lord’s Supper

Please note that we will break for CARE for the

winter months and resume in March.

From Our Parish Nurse Ministry BP Check—January 13 & 27, February 10 & 24

Blood pressures will be taken in the kitchen across from the

Fellowship Hall before Sunday School begins. Bring any

questions about your medications or health concerns.

Outreach News

Sunday, January 20

6 pm

We will hold our quarterly business

meeting in the Fellowship Hall.

Joyful Servants

Our next meeting will be Saturday, January 19 at 6:00 pm

and February 16 at 6:00 pm in the Fellowship hall.

Happy New Year!

We decided at the December meeting we would not meet

again until March 5 due to the cold weather.

We already have a program planned, so please plan to “Bring

a Bag lunch” for that day. We will decide as a group what will

be our dues for the year since we do have money left in the

treasury.

Thank you again to Mable Hudgins for her generous contri-

bution towards the Christmas meal.

If you need to reach me, please email me at office@hrbc1.com

or call me at the Church from 9-3 Monday—Thursday at 540-

362-9569 or at home at 540-366-2008. Feel free to leave a

message.

Remember, this is NOT my meeting, it is OUR meeting.

Hope to see you all there. Prayerfully, Tonya

The Deacon’s meetings will be Monday, January 7 at 7:00

pm and Monday February 4 at 7:00 pm.

New Church App

Interested in using our Church App for your iphone or Android phone. Go to your itunes App Store or Google Play to download today and start using it to stay in touch, get news, Bible Reading, Call to Prayer, online giving, Events and much, much more!

Search for MyChurch App, download it. Once it’s down-loaded, search for Hollins Road Baptist Church. Once you select it, then each time you select “MyChurchApp,” it will automatically open up our Hollins Road Baptist Church App. Let Pastor Mark know what you think about it…and offer any suggestions!

And please let the church office know if you are using this app now. We now have to pay $14.95 each month to use it so we want to be sure it is being used!

WHIP will meet on Saturdays, January 12

and February 9 at 9:30 am. This is a time of prayer for

women. If you have questions and/or need more infor-

mation, please contact Merlina Kratt (467-0302). We’d love

to have more women be a part.

**SUNDAY SCHEDULE

(unless otherwise noted)

9:30 am ...................................................... Sunday School

10:30 am ................................................ Morning Worship

10:50 am ..................... Kingdom Kids & Children’s Choir

6:00 pm……………………………………..Evening Worship

*WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE (unless otherwise noted)

5:30 pm..…………..................................................Family Meal

6:10 pm ………………………………………………………..AWANA

6:30 pm…………………………Prayer Meeting/Adult Bible Study

6:30 pm ....................... Youth Bible Study & Youth Hanging Out

7:30 pm ............................................. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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Lord’s Supper

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7:00pm Deacon’s

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Adult Volleyball

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Wed. Schedule

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9 9:30 am WHIP

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BP Taken

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5:30/6:00pm FDC

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Newsletter Info Due Adult Volleyball

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Wed. Schedule

14 15 16 6:00 Joyful Servants

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President’s Day

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Newsletter to Printer

Wed. Schedule

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BP Taken

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Wed. Schedule

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 New Year’s Day

Church Office closed

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Lord’s Supper

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7:00pm Deacon’s

Mtg.

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Adult Volleyball

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Wed. Schedule

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Bible Reading

Recognition

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5:30/6:00pm FDC

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Adult Volleyball

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Wed. Schedule

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6:00pm Business

Mtg.

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Wed. Schedule

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6:00pm Ministry Grid

Training

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Adult Volleyball

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Wed. Schedule

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January

*WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE (Unless otherwise noted)

6:00—7:30 pm .............................................................. AWANA

6:30 pm ............................. Prayer Meeting/Adult Bible Study

6:30 pm .................... Youth Bible Study/ Youth Hanging Out

7:30 pm .......................................................... Sanctuary Choir

*SUNDAY SCHEDULE (Unless otherwise noted)

9:30 am -------------------------------------------------- Sunday School

10:30 am ------------------------------------------------------------ Worship

10:50 am ---------------------------------------------------------- Illuminate

4:30 pm ------------------------------------------ Discipleship Classes

6:00 pm ----------------------------------------------- Evening Worship

February

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Those Serving in the Month of January *

Sunday - Jan 6 Noah’s Helpers: Cindy Perdue & Katie Mullins

Angela Duffy, Holly Duncan, Shana Linthicum

Greeters: Freddie Young, Tom & Reva Stanley, JoAnn

Aldrich, Mary Beth & Jorden Childers

Becky Lierman, Andy Childers

Sunday - Jan 13 Noah’s Helpers: Ryan & Crystal Fields

Brooke & Rachelle Basham

Greeters: Freddie Young, Tom & Pat Bratton, JoAnn

Aldrich, Sandra Austin

Sunday - Jan 20 Noah’s Helpers: Kathy Mathis & Sandra Austin,

Kim Newman & Suzanne Barnett,

Greeters: Freddie Young, Jon & Karen Green, JoAnn Aldrich,

Sherry Francisco

Sunday - Jan 27 Noah’s Helpers: Judy Clark & Melissa Kiser

Merlina Kratt, Byron & Christine Lawson,

Lisa Milliron

Greeters: Freddie Young, Bud & Freida Sarver, JoAnn

Aldrich, Ronnie & Gail Blanchard

Those Serving in the Month of February *

Sunday - Feb 3 Noah’s Helpers: Cindy Perdue & Katie Mullins

Angela Duffy, Holly Duncan, Kris & Allison

Stump

Greeters: Freddie Young, Tom & Reva Stanley, JoAnn

Aldrich, Mary Beth & Jorden Childers

Becky Lierman, Andy Childers

Sunday – Feb 10 Noah’s Helpers: Ryan & Crystal Fields,

Debbie Broyles & Linda Melton

Greeters: Freddie Young, Tom & Pat Bratton, JoAnn

Aldrich, Sandra Austin

Sunday – Feb 17 Noah’s Helpers: Kathy Mathis and Sandra Austin

Kim Newman and Suzanne Barnett,

Greeters: Freddie Young, Jon & Karen Green, JoAnn Aldrich,

Sherry Francisco

Sunday – Feb 24 Noah’s Helpers: Marianne Reynolds & Judy Clark

Merlina Kratt and & Sherry Francisco

Greeters: Freddie Young, Bud & Freida Sarver, JoAnn

Aldrich, Ronnie & Gail Blanchard

* Linda Hamblin - Substitute

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Budget Offerings .................... $32,026.84

Mortgage Debt Retirement ..... $1,880.00

Rental Deposit ..........................$500.00

Balance in Checking as of 11/30/2018..

................................................ $12,698.11

A STEWARDSHIP MOMENT

If you have an event, announcement or information you would like published in the MAR/APR newsletter, submit your article to the secretary by February 12th. Email: office@hrbc1.com or call the Office: 540-362-9569

www.hrbc1.com

Stay informed by using our Church website! You can use the

“Prayer Needs” tab at the top to keep up each day with ur-

gent prayer needs in our church family.

Different ways you can give to your church:

1. Check or Cash when the offering plate is passed or in

your Sunday School (Bible Study Class)

2. Online through our church website (www.hrbc1.com)

3. Through our mobile app (see article in this newsletter

with details re how to get our mobile app)

Ministry Grid Training

We have a wonderful opportunity coming to us in January, everyone

from our church ministry volunteers to our church staff. We have sub-

scribed to Ministry Grid, an online training plan that is customizable to

fit every need for training in the areas of ministry that we are called to

serve in. From parking lot attendants and greeters to Sunday School

teachers, Deacons, and staff, we will be able to offer training to all of our

folks to serve and minister to others. We can even design personal train-

ing opportunities for individuals to go through, at their own pace, to

help them grow.

In Ephesians 4:11-13, Paul states that the role of church leaders is

“equipping the saints for the work of ministry.” The result, he says, is

unity and maturity. Training, then, is essential to both the design and

health of the Church. This is what we hope to accomplish during 2019 in

our church, people who are equipped for the ministry of the church and

who will Connect, Grow, and Serve.

We will be having a Ministry Grid introduction on Sunday, January 27 at 6:00 p.m. This will be an opportunity for you to learn more about Ministry Grid and how God can use this to better equip each and every one of us to better serve Him. Please mark this date on your calendar and make plans to be a part of what God is and will be doing through His people here at Hollins Road Baptist Church.

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Lenore Burger and family in the death of Charlie Burger

Chris Terrell and family in the death of Chris’s mother, Lottie Rose Terrell.

Security/Safety: Please note that we have a

group who are patrolling our church campus

each Sunday for security and safety during Sun-

day School and Worship.

Nicaragua Mission Team

Dec. 29-Jan. 5

Pray for our Mission Team as they minis-ter in Somotillo, Nicaragua who are dis-tributing food in villages to so many hun-gry and share the Gospel: Sterling and Debbie Broyles, Julia Parker and Joey Icenhour. Pray for their safety, ministry there, health and safe return on the 5th.

Adult Volleyball

Our 2019 Winter season gets underway on Tuesday, January 8TH. The HRBC team won the 2018 Fall league champion-ship. Congratulations team! If you would like to play on our team, please let Janet Washington know as soon as possible.

Church Family,

Once again, thank you just doesn’t seem to be adequate enough for all the love and support that you have shown to our Food Pantry Ministry this year. Your many food donations and monetary support and the encouragement, love, and prayers are very much appreciated. I want to personally thank you all from the bottom of my heart for all that you do for our food pantry and for our community. If it were not for your support we would not be able to serve the multitude of people that we do . Again, thank you so very much!

In Christ, Debbie Young

Fellowship Team

The Fellowship Team would like to thank those who partici-pated in our first ever Cookie Exchange on November 29! It was a sweet evening of fellowship. Dozens of cookies were donated to the Rescue Mission as well as bags of sugar, brown sugar and spices. The Rescue Mission was very grateful! We look forward to hosting this event again next year.

Deacons Fundraiser

Sunday, February 3

Our largest fundraiser of the year is coming up in February

on Super Bowl Sunday.

We will be having a Soup-A-

Thon again and we appreciate everyone’s support. - by donations

Food Pantry Report

This past year (2018) was a busy year for our Food Pantry Ministry. We provided food for 211 families, feeding over 680 people throughout the year. We also fixed 75 Thanksgiving food boxes, feeding 246 people and 76 Christmas food boxes to feed 278. We certainly want to thank Debbie Young for the great job she does heading up this ministry and we thank eve-ryone who has supported the Food Pantry Ministry through-out the year.

Inclement Weather Policy

Please check the church

website, Facebook and

answering machine for

any cancellation information.

(Also Channels 7 & 10).

2018 Contribution Statements

These statements will be ready by the end of January. (If you

itemize deductions on your income taxes, you must have this

info before you file your taxes).

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Kroger Charitable Donation Program

Please note: You have to re-register your Kroger Plus Card each year! So if you have not already done so, please do!

If you shop at Kroger and have a Kroger Plus Card (you can get one for free) and have not already registered (or re-registered) your card’s number in Kroger’s charity donation program, please do so now. This benefits your church in a great way! Our Church is registered with Kroger and our special number (Community Reward code) is 83689.

You can register or re-register in 2 ways:

Go to the Kroger website. Choose “Community Rewards.” Follow the instructions there to set up or use your log-in information to get into your account. Use the spe-cial code 83689 for Hollins Road Baptist Church.

Call 1-800-576-4377. Select the prompt for “Community Rewards.” You can then speak with someone and ask them to register or re-register your Kroger Plus Card to your church Hollins Road Baptist (83689).

How this works. Every time you use your Kroger Plus Card (for groceries, gas, pharmacy, purchasing gift cards, etc.) a $ per-centage is registered to Hollins Road Baptist Church. And then each quarter, they send a donation check to Hollins Road Bap-tist added up from all our members who’ve registered! This is a great way you can help our Nicaragua mission efforts. The money generated from this helps to pay at least one of our staff member’s way to Nicaragua. If you have any questions, contact the church office.

Online Giving

Now Available at

www.hrbc1.com

Have you considered giving this way each month? This is a great way to schedule your giving each month (or week)! It’s also a great way to give when you are not here!

You can set up a personal account which you can monitor. And you can give through your bank account (an ACH transfer) or a credit card. Or you can give as a “guest” without setting up a personal account. For more questions, contact Pastor Mark or our Church Secretary.

CIA (Congregations In Action)

We provide food to needy children each week at Monterey Elementary School. You can help us by providing snacks such as peanut butter crackers, individual macaroni and cheese, Ramen noodles, pudding cups, etc.

Digital Sign

10mm Pixel Pitch

(best quality)

3’ 2” x 7’ 4”

Want to reach our community for Jesus? We are seeking to

put up a Digital Sign to reach it! This is about missions and

reaching people! Do you want to grow? Do you want to

reach new people? The Lord can use a digital sign (this

evangelistic tool) to do so! Think about the ability to share

messages with our community about events we are hav-

ing…Community Block Party, special events like Live Na-

tivity, Hanging of the Greens Service, Trunk-or-Treat etc…

AWANA’s and Children’s events, Youth Events and other

special worship services…and inviting them to come! Think

about the ability to put up Bible passages that can speak to

people’s hearts! A digital sign isn’t “the end all” but it is a

great tool to use to reach our community!

As our Sign Team has researched digital signs and talked to

other churches, we have heard the following stories. “Half

the people we have reached over the past 2 years have

come to our church as a direct result of our sign.” From

several members who were not in favor of their church put-

ting up a sign but once they did: “Why did we wait so long

to do so?” From our Sign Team’s research, they have found

churches who have taken this step have seen them make a

difference.

To date we have now raised over $20,000. We need around

$10,000 more to finally accomplish this. Could you make a

generous gift to this important cause? It will make a differ-

ence for the Kingdom of God! You can use a blue envelope

and mark “Sign.”

We are close to finalizing a deal with a local company, and

the sooner we can raise the other $10,000, the sooner the

sign can be installed. For those who have already given,

thank you!

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Enrollment— 264 New Members— 0 Visitors— 22

Average Present Each Week — 133 Total Present — 533

Contacts— 109

Schedule

6:00 pm AWANA (ages 2 – 5th Grade)

6:30 pm Adult Bible Study /Youth Bible Study

7:30 pm Choir Practice

FROM THE CHILDREN’S PASTOR

Robert Mullins

Children's Pastor

Galatians 2:20

YOUTH

Bibles Read in 2018 and 2019 Reading Challenge

If you read your Bible through in 2018 (all the way, just the OT or just the NT), let the church office know. We will recog-nize everyone who did in our morning service, January 13. Also, take the challenge to read your Bible through in 2019. We have Bible reading guides at the Welcome Center and downstairs table. You can always find a good plan by Googling as well!

Sunday School Class/Small Group Highlight

We will be highlighting a Sunday School class or a Small Group Bible study group in our newsletter. We want to high-light the Guiding Lights class with this edition. The Guiding Lights class meets in the open area of our L. C. Hall Chapel every Sunday morning at 9:00; they begin their time together with some good, old fashion gospel music sing-ing. After that, their teachers, Joyce Blankenship and Red Johnson do a great job teaching the word of God. The Guid-ing Lights class is an adult class that welcomes people of all ages. They are some of the most loving and caring people who are always doing for others. We thank God for each and every one of the Guiding Light’s members. If you are looking for a Sunday School class to join, please visit the Guiding Lights.