JANUARY 2018 NEWSLETTER

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Upcoming Events

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Children’s Ministry

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Vine Student Ministry

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Missions

Mailbox Bible Club

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Church Plants, Young At Heart

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Men’s and Women’s Ministry

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Trail Life

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Birthdays

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New Members

Connect With Us at CLBC

Happy New Year

“You crown the year with Your goodness. Your ways

overflow with plenty.” Psalm 65:11

Wishing you and your family God’s richest

blessings in 2018. We hope you will join

with us each week at CLBC to strengthen

your relationship with our Lord and Savior.

January 1

Church Office will be closed. New Year’s Day.

January 3

Regular Wednesday’s Schedule will resume.

January 5

Movie Night at the Vine for students

January 7

Jamaica Organizational Meeting in the Family Life Center

January 12 - 13

YEC at the Charleston Municipal Auditorium. Sign up in the Vine Center.

January 21

Capon Bridge and Florence, South Caroline Organizational Meeting in the Family Life Center

January 23

Precept Women’s Bible Study: II Thessalonians “So You Won’t Be Deceived About His Coming “ Jan Howard facilitator. Serious will begin January 23rd at 9:30 am to 11:30 am, Room 203 will last 6 weeks. Cost $10.

JANUARY 2018

UPCOMING EVENTS

CHILDREN’S

BIBLE FELLOWSHIP Sundays: 9: 00 AM and 10:30 AM

Family Life Center

KIDS OWN WORSHIP MISSION FRIENDS KIDS ON MISSION

Sundays at 5:30 PM

Family Life Center

AWANA’S

Wednesday’s at 6:00 PM

Family Life Center

“For even the Son of man did not come to be served,

but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many”

Mark 10:45

God has blessed us with yet another new year. We

pray that this new year brings you a deeper relation-

ship with God as you serve Him and share Him with

others. This new year provides new opportunities for

you to serve Him as you serve and minister to those

around you. Set an example for your children by serv-

ing Jesus. Better yet, get them involved in serving

Him as well.

We could use servants in the following areas:

Sunday Mornings:

Substitute teachers for the 9:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Bible fellowship hours

A Teacher for the 3-5 year olds class during the 10:30

a.m. service during the time our current teacher is out

on maternity leave

If you are willing to serve in Bible Fellowship contact

Crystal Reynolds at 389-3324.

Wednesday Evenings:

TNT Verse Listeners

Bus Driver

If you are willing to serve in AWANA contact Shadd

Kennedy at 553-5092.

We could also use someone to do paid childcare on

Wednesday nights during choir practice. Please con-

tact Crystal Reynolds at 389-3324 if you are willing to

serve in this position.

JANUARY AWANA SCHEDULE

January 3 Balloon Bash Night

January 10 Normal Club Night

January 17 Popcorn Night

January 24 Normal Club Night

January 31 AWANA SuperBowl Night

Mission Friends/

Kids on Mission

Please come join Mission Friends/Kids on Mission!

We meet every Sunday even-ing at 5:30 p.m.

In January, Mission Friends with learn about Ryan Seane Rice, missionaries in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans is a unique city. It is a large city, but it is broken up into smaller communities which are very different. The Rices’ neighborhood is in the oldest community in New Orleans. Connect Church of Algiers, the church plant in which the Rices serve, meets needs to developing partnerships in their community. They partner with a local elemen-tary school by helping with special events and maintenance. Another partner is an apartment complex where the church family serves by offering financial literacy programs, free health fairs, Bible studies, and Bible clubs for children. They also reach out to their community through block parties and festivals.

5 FUN FACTS ABOUT THE MISSIONARIES

Ryan and Seané Rice met one another while they were in school at Dillard University in New Orle-ans. They’ve now been married 11 years.

Mr. and Mrs. Rice have four children, Ryan, Jr., Brayden, Reagen, and Bailey.

Mr. and Mrs. Rice love to try new and different res-taurants in New Orleans.

As a child, Seané Rice loved going to VBS and Sun-day School. She says her favorite thing as a child was hearing the stories in the Bible, espe-cially the stories about Jesus.

Mr. and Mrs. Rice’s greatest joy in life is reaching, loving, and pointing people to Jesus.

PRAYER REQUESTS FOR THE MISSIONARIES

Pray that the Rices will be able to reach out to fami-lies in the community, especially those with chil-dren and teenagers.

Pray that the Lord will raise up more leaders to help and serve in the local church.

Pray that church members will share the story of Je-sus with their friends and neighbors.

Pray that the Rices will continue to grow in their love for serving others in the name of Jesus.

Pray that the Rices will be strengthened to fulfill the ministry God has given them in New Orleans.

January 12-13

YEC

February 4

Super Bowl Party

June 25-29

Summer Camp

$300

We will be organizing a parent meeting in Janu-

ary.

Please be on the look out for that information.

YEC sign up is in the Vine Center.

Charleston Municipal Auditorium

We will stay overnight at the church.

Leaving the church at 5pm on Friday

Cost $25

DOWN THE

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WORLD

Reach316 meets on Sunday afternoon at

3:00pm. You can go to

www.reach316.org to let us know you

are coming and to complete any follow

up information about any recent visits

you have made. We are encouraging

Bible Fellowship classes to get involved

and send representatives each week to

be a part of these outreach efforts.

JANUARY

FOOD

PANTRY NEEDS Coupons are needed!! Please bring any unused newspaper coupons for food and toiletry items and place them in the grocery cart in the Family Life Center. Thank you!

JELLY

CANNED MEATS(TUNA,CHICKEN, POTTED MEAT,TREET,SPAM)

CANNED TOMATO PRODUCTS

(TOMATO PASTE, WHOLE TOMA-TOES, TOMATO SAUCE)

Mailbox Bible Club

The last line of a quote by Charles Sell concerning the

world’s greatest need is “Our greatest need was for-

giveness, so God sent us a Savior.” The main purpose

of the Mailbox Bible Club (MBC) is to help people

come to a saving knowledge of Christ. Twenty-three

individuals have let us know they have made a pro-

fession of faith in 2017 .

Another goal of MBC is to help people gain in their

knowledge and understanding of God’s Word. Stu-

dents have completed and returned 5,600 lessons to

us in 2017, and twenty adult students completed eve-

ry adult lesson in the program (65 lessons). We also

have been able to award 197 Bibles this year to those

who have completed their first series of lessons.

While it may seem that a Mailbox Bible Club may be

primarily for children, 298 of our 417 active students

are adults.

This month we have begun to see an influx of post-

cards from the backpack giveaways. We have re-

ceived 171 postcards, mainly with names of children

who are requesting to receive Bible study lessons.

We are glad that people are concerned about others

and through the year have given us 1,575 names of

people they would like to receive Bible studies. We

look forward to another productive year in 2018.

Upcoming Opportunities

January 7th Jamaica Organizational Meeting.

January 21st Capon Bridge and Florence, South Carolina Organizational Meeting,.

Florence to OM Ships will be April 2nd-7th.

JANUARY 11, 2018

Cross Lanes Christian School Luncheon

Meet in the church parking lot at 10:30 am.

Music and message at 11:00 Lunch at 12:00

We will return to the church at approximately 1:00 pm.

FANTASTIC NEWS FROM CHURCH PLANT - NEW HEIGHTS CHURCH

Remember the church plant that had its beginning in Milton, WV known as New Heights Church? This church has now grown to three campuses. We praise God for His continued work as those members in the Huntington/Milton area reach out to “Grow God’s Forever Fami-ly.”

During the month of December at New Heights Church, eighteen people took membership, and one new baptism was celebrated between all three campuses.

At the Huntington campus a member who is a recovering drug addict has partnered with a women's recovery home, first known as the ARK, and plans to open their doors in January to minis-ter to this great need in the Huntington are.

There was much need for benevolence assistance during the Christmas season. New Heights helped as many families as they could. In December, 45 church families sponsored 45 kids for Christmas.

Bre Hogsett

Pastoral Assistant

Church Planting Growing God’s Forever Family

Men’s Ministry

PRAYER BREAKFAST

January 20 at 8:00 am

Family Life Center

All men are welcome and encouraged to join us for breakfast and a time of fellowship and prayer in the Family Life Center.

Please contact Kennon Chambers at kicham.1973@gmail.com or call (304) 767-1441 with any questions or if you are willing to help prepare the break-fast.

Women’s Ministry

When you think of January many words may come to mind...beginning, fresh start, do overs, goals, a new year, hope, and so much more. It's the first month of a new year. It's exciting and full of hope! Many of us will set goals to im-prove our lives in this up coming year; exercise more, lose weight, make job changes, get financially organized, over-come a fear, and the list goes on and on. What if instead of, or in addition to, setting our normal physical, material goals, this year we, CLBC women, set spiritual goals; read our bibles more, spend more time in prayer and fasting, focus on biblical living, strive to put God first in EVERYTHING, spend more time getting to know our fellow sisters-in-Christ and helping each other, strive to be the neighbor, mother, and wife God calls us to be. Now, I know we all try to work on these areas throughout the year, but this is a chance to really start the new year off right... FOCUSED ON GOD! I hope you will join us in this chal-lenge to make the women of CLBC spirit-ually stronger and more focused on God in 2018. It's going to be a great year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR

“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matthew 6:33 KJV

Troop WV-1454

Cross Lanes Baptist

Church

102 Knollwood Road

Cross Lanes, WV 25313

Meetings: Thursdays at

7:00 pm

Phone: 304-808-1454

Email:

wv1454@gmail.com

Facebook: wv1454

Twitter: @wv1454

“One generation will de-

clare Your works to the

next and will proclaim

Your mighty acts.” Psalms

145:4 (HCSB)

Wishing all of you a very Happy Birthday!

January 21

Rob Entenmann

January 22

Chrystal Legros

Bennett Cowley

January 25

Jeff Johnson

January 27

Andrea Lockhart

Kim Morgan

Mikaylah Moore

Evelyn Cornell

Erica Putman

January 28

Willa Covert

Wayne Higginbotham

Sean Legros

January 29

John Burgess

Marty Douglas

Brandon Governale

Karen Nichols

January 30

Kingsley Reynolds

Chase Kirk

January 1

Patricia Hammond

Monica Dobbins

Joey Hess

January 2

Sharon McClanahan

Dakotah Shamblin

January 3

Tawnia Murphy

Nancy Akins

January 4

John Smith

January 5

Zachary Hiser

Paul Jopling

Suzy Kemper

January 6

Lewis Little

Michelle McElfish

January 7

Sylvia Lawson

Krista Barnette

Ian Hiser

January 8

Bruce Knell

January 10

Gracyn Lockhart

January 11

Tate Johnson

Nick McDonald

Susan McClanahan

January 12

Jocelyn McDaniel

Hunter Phares

Adam Moore

January 14

Gordon McClanahan

January 15

Megan Eggleston

January 16

Robyn Bennett

January 17

Jennifer White

Diana Kirk

January 18

Daniel Rainey

January 19

Amy Johnson

January 20

Jeffery Long

Emma Rolfe

Kay Roberts

Annette Carpenter

www.crosslanesbaptist.org

For more information or to be removed from our email list please contact the church office at: info@crosslanesbaptist.org or 304-776-3154.

Visit http://vimeo.com/clbc/channels and search for Cross Lanes Baptist to see Sunday morning services. You can search iTunes Podcasts for CLBC to download services as well.

connect with

By Baptism:

Megan Eggleston and Deloris (Dee) Wilder

Please Extend a Warm

Welcome To Our Newest

Members of CLBC….