MONTHLY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF PILGRIM REST BAPTIST CHURCH

JANUARY 2016

We currently have one combined worship service at 10am on each Sunday. Our 8am and 11am Sunday worship services will resume Sunday, February 7. Sunday School will resume at 9:30am on February 7 as well.

Bible Study will resume January 6, on the first Wednesday. Please join us at 12 noon or 7pm.

Also, please be aware that the administrative office will be closed from Thursday, December 24 through Friday, January 1.

Each year we begin our year by offering to God a first fruits offering. Nehemiah 10:35 says we obligate ourselves to bring the first fruits of our ground, and of the first fruits of every tree, year by year, to the house of the Lord. The first fruits offering is a faith declaration of the good things to come. To offer up the first fruits at the beginning of the year is to say, God, I believe that you are going to provide a bountiful harvest for me this year. Each year, testimonies have been given about how God has blessed as a result of the first fruits. You can sow your first fruit offering anytime during the month of January online or at any of our regularly scheduled worship services. Special offering envelopes will be available in the foyer.

"In those days, I, Daniel, had been mourning for three entire weeks. I did not eat any tasty

food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the

entire three weeks were completed." Daniel 10:2, 3

"So I gave my attention to the

Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with

fasting…" Daniel 9:3

Join us for our 2016 Daniel Fast January 2 through January 22. Brochures containing fasting

parameters and scriptures for each day are available in the

foyer and on our website.

PRBC members are asked to choose a prayer partner for the ENTIRE MONTH OF JANUARY. It's easy as 1, 2, 3!

1. Choose someone you will commit to pray with regularly. Share phone numbers and figure out times to connect to pray together at least WEEKLY. Please choose a prayer partner who is NOT IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD. Let's get to know someone new through prayer.

2. Complete the Prayer Partner Form TOGETHER with your partner.

3. Be obedient, faithful and diligent to pray on the phone or face to face often.

*PRAYER FORMS ARE LOCATEDIN THE FOYER*

KC3 will resume January 17 for both Sunday and Wednesday fellowships. On Sunday mornings dismissal for children, kindergarten through 6th grade, will be at the same time that we greet our guests. KC3 children can meet a member of the ministry at the fountain before the fellowship hall where they will be escorted to classroom F. We ask that a responsible adult retrieves each child after service. If you were unable to attend our Meet-N-Greet, please find out what you’ve missed from a member of our ministry team! We have an exciting 2016 in store for our children!

Annual Warm Hands Warm Feet -

We are still collecting hats, gloves, scarves, socks, etc. to keep the children in our

community warm this winter. You can drop off your items in the BLUE bin in the

Fellowship Hall.

Are you seeking a more personal and rewarding involvement in the worship service? Are you

seeking a warm, friendly and welcoming environment?

What about “reserved” seating? Or free voice lessons? If so, then the Voices of Unity (VOU) is the

place to be. Membership has its advantages.

The VOU is seeking new members. If interested, please contact the VOU leadership team at

vou5200@gmail.com or join us any Thursday this month at 7:00 p.m. here at the church. We are

saving a “seat” just for you!

Our Men's Fellowship is on the 2nd Monday of every month at 7pm in the Fellowship Hall. Join us Monday, January 11, for Food, Fellowship, and Fun in Jesus Christ.

PRBC’s Male Chorus will rehearse at 7pm on Monday, January 18. ALL MEN are asked to come together for practice.

Statements will be handed out in Classroom D on Sundays. Please see the schedule below. If you would like your contribution statement sent to you via e-mail, send your request at anytime to

Myprbc.statement@comcast.net.

There will be no First Friday Fellowship in

January. FFF will resume in February. Come

out and enjoy an evening of growing and

laughter with your fellow sisters in Christ on

February 5, 2016 at 6:30pm.

Date Time Last Name

1/10/16 9:30 - 9:50 AM Immediately after 10 AM Service

N - Z

1/17/16

9:30 - 9:50 AM Immediately after 10 AM Service

A - M

1/24/16 9:30 - 9:50 AM Immediately after 10 AM Service

All

Calling all high school students! Are you ready for COLLEGE? Do you know what you're looking for? Do you know what questions you should be asking? Do you know what money is out there for you?

CIA Teen Ministry wants to help you get these answers and others!

Grades 8th-11th, join us on Saturday, Feb. 6th from 10am-12pm in the CIA Room for our 2016 College Prep 101 Workshop! **Lunch will be provided** Also, don't forget to join us for youth Bible study beginning Wednesday, January 6 at 7pm. We will begin our Life Choices series and you don't want to miss it. Join us as we learn how to resist temptation and how to stand up for our faith.

As part of the Go-Ye Ministry, ROTR ministers to

the residents of Grand Haven Living Center and

East Lansing Health Care Center with prayers,

songs and God’s Word. If you’d like to share

your gift of service we have an opening for you.

Join us on:

1st Sundays @ 3pm at Grand Haven Living

Center, 3145 W. Mt. Hope Avenue, Lansing

2nd Sundays @ 3:30pm at Northwind Health

Care Center, 2815 Northwind Dr. (behind IHop

Restaurant), East Lansing

We minister every month, if it does not conflict

with PRBC services elsewhere. Contact Rev.

Stoudamire at wstoud11@yahoo.com; Sis.

Sharron Allen at shayshayallen@gmail.com; or

Margaret Lee at ms_annlee@yahoo.com for

more information.

The new member class will resume January 2016 with an updated format

and new requirement. Per the November 2015 by-laws, all new members are required to complete the V.I.P. (Very

Important People) class prior to becoming a full-fledged member of

Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church. Until this requirement has been met, new

members cannot serve in any ministry or vote in any elections and on all questions

submitted to the church.

The new requirement applies to all adults 18 years of age or older who joined Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in 2015,

including reinstated members. If you did not complete a V.I.P. class in 2015, plan to

attend now. The class starts Sunday, January 10, at 8:30 a.m. in Classroom E.

Course materials will be provided.

ABOUT US 5200 Pleasant Grove Rd, Lansing, MI 48911

Office Hours: Mon.-Fri. 10am – 4pm

(The office is closed for major holidays)

Phone: 517.882.8012

Fax: 517.882.6690

Website: PRBCLansing.org

Email: office@PRBCLansing.org

Facebook: http://facebook.com/PRBCLansing

Twitter: http://twitter.com/pilgrimrestbc

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Morning Worship Service: Sundays @ 10am

Christian Education: Will resume Feb. 7 @ 9:30am

Bible Study: Will resume Jan. 6 @ 12 noon and 7pm

Please check the announcements for changes to service times

For Transportation

Please Call

517-775-7504

Prayer, Bereavements, & Benevolence

In an effort to better serve you, the Deacon for the Week should be contacted in the following cases:

All benevolence requests.

All intercessory prayer requests.

All notices of deaths, illnesses or hospitalizations.

For the Deacon for the Week please call:

517-775-7503