Upcoming ScheduleThursday & Friday,

November 22-23Offices Closed

Sunday, November 258:40AM Service in

the SanctuaryWednesday, November 28

No Family NightNovember 29, 30,

December 1, 2Singing Christmas

TreeSunday, December 2

8:40am Service in the Sanctuary

Wednesday, December 5 Christmas

Traditions, Symbols and Chrismons.

Where did they come from and what do they

mean?Led by Wayne Ham

Wednesday, December 12Christmas Around

the Worldsponsored by the Children’s Ministry

Wednesday, December 19No Family NightMonday, December 24

Christmas Eve Services

3:30pm & 6pm

“Hearts United in Loving God, Sharing Christ, and Serving Others.”

The

November 23, 2018 • Vol 69, No. 46 • Fayetteville, NC

November 25A Forgiving God

Psalm 51:1-13

Wednesday, November 216:15pm | Sanctuary

Lord’s Supper

Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service

Snyder’s goal: 1500 Collected: 1265

Thank You!

“Hearts United in Loving God, Sharing Christ, and Serving Others.”The Bell • November 23, 2018 • Page 2

No Family Night - November 28Family Night will resume on December 5 with Wayne Ham speaking on Christmas Traditions, Symbols and Chrismons. Where did they come from and what do they mean? No Children’s Activities. On December 12 - Christmas Around the World, Sponsored by the Children’s Ministry

2018 Singing Christmas Tree Dates

All Nations Rise

Thursday, November 29, 7:30pmFriday, November 30, 7:30pm

Saturday, December 1, 4pm & 7:30pm

Sunday, December 2, 4pm & 7:30pm

Ticket InformationAll tickets have been distributed.

If you would still like tickets, click the link on our website (www.snydermbc.com) and

follow directions to be put on the waiting list. If you have tickets you do not need, call the 1-800 number listed on your ticket so

they can be redistributed.

Tickets will be honored up until 4pm or 7:30pm (start time). We will seat people without tickets after the program begins (4pm or 7:30pm) as long as seating is

available.

A Message from JoyOn Sunday, September 20, 1970, I arrived in Fayetteville with my husband of a little over 24 hours! Bob had to serve four years in the Air Force after law school and he was sent to Pope AFB. It was our intention to move back to Tallahassee after those four years. But, God had other plans for us. We soon began to look for a church home. After visiting several churches, we were riding down Bragg Blvd one Sunday morning and had the radio on WFNC. Snyder’s service was being broadcast. We both said that it sounded like a church we needed to visit. We visited the next Sunday and we are still here nearly 50 years later! That very first Sunday, we felt that “sweet, sweet spirit “. Our pastor at the time, Dr. James Cammack, was one of God’s jewels and he and his wife Judy mentored and loved all the young couples in our church at that time. Little did I know what blessings God had in store for us. We began to feel God leading us to stay here after those four years. Bob was required to take a second Bar Exam, so this was a big step of faith for us. God did not let us down.

Wayne Ham had come that same year and Bob Haynes came in the summer of 1971. Wayne did not waste time coming to our little apartment and asking me to teach first grade choir. Bob wanted to start a youth choir and asked for my help. And so we were off and running! I am so grateful to Bob for taking a chance on this little Mississippi girl in giving me the opportunity to be the church pianist for Snyder. God has given me more opportunities and blessings to honor Him through music than I could ever have imagined. I have served with three Ministers of Music, Bob Haynes, Larry Dickens, and Richard Suggs plus several interims and each brought new blessings to my life.

45 years is a long time to serve in one place, but every year has been a blessing. The Snyder congregation is one of the most loving that I have ever known. Over these nearly 50 years, this loving group has stood by our family through a number of hardships, never judging, always loving. A number of friends offered the ultimate gift of life in 2007 when I needed a kidney transplant and I will be eternally grateful to each of them and to Sara Barefoot who was the “winner”. I truly owe my life to her---a friend who freely risked her life for me. But, as God tells us, to everything there is a season. I have felt for a good while that God was telling me it was time to step down. I argued with Him for a while, but I truly believe it is time. I know that God is not finished with me yet and that He will provide other opportunities for me to share His love through music. Sunday, December 9th, will be my last Sunday as Snyder’s pianist. I will continue to be the Director of The Snyder Music Academy, so I will be around. I thank my family for supporting me unconditionally and never complaining when we were not able to just spontaneously take off for a weekend. Four Sundays a year have to be planned very carefully! I thank each of you in our congregation for your love and support over these past 45 years. I love each of you! Joy Cogswell

“Hearts United in Loving God, Sharing Christ, and Serving Others.” The Bell • November 23, 2018 • Page 3

TRIP TO CHARLOTTE OPERATION

CHRISTMAS CHILD PROCESSING CENTER

On Thursday, December 6, a Snyder bus will take 25 volunteers to Charlotte to work at the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas Child Processing Center. If you are interested, there is a sign-up book in the Gathering Hall which was displayed October 26 or call the Church office. The bus will depart at 6:15am; the work hours are 10:00am-4:00pm.There are various jobs such as working on an assembly line, taking boxes out of shipping cartons and removing money, inspecting boxes for inappropriate items and replacing with filler items, taping boxes and re-packing boxes in shipping cartons. There are also sit-down jobs such as folding t-shirts which are donated to be used as filler items. It is a busy, wonderful day of seeing thousands of ShoeBoxes on the journey to that precious child....who’s name God already knows.Diane Alabaster, Snyder’s OCC Project Leader (910) 485-8422, www.SAMARITANSPURSE.ORG/OCC

Each Advent Season Snyder collects an offering that goes to different mission causes. We used to collect these offerings throughout the year, but combined them all together beginning in 2006. The Christmas Mission Offering begins Sunday, December 2, and concludes at the Christmas Eve Service. This year we have set the goal at $40,000. The offering will be divided between the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Global Mission Offering, the Southern Baptist Convention Lottie Moon Offering for Foreign Missions, the Annie Armstrong Offering for Home Missions, the Baptist Children’s Home offering and the Baptist Retirement Home offering. A couple of years ago we added the Fayetteville Family Life Center and last year we added the Friendship House. The Christmas Mission Offering is a perfect way to give a Christmas gift for Jesus. Much of the offering goes to help share about Christ all over the world. You may give at anytime during December by using your special offering envelope or by writing on your check Christmas Mission Offering.

Snyder’s Gift Catalog is Updated!

Looking for a unique gift this Christmas, Snyder’s Gift Catalog is your answer. The gift catalog contains many gift ideas that will benefit our 3 international partnerships. There are also some local giving ideas as well. You may purchase the gifts with cash, check

or even online giving, but you must accompany your payment with a gift card, so we know where to send the money. The gift catalog will help us continue to invest in the relationships of our partnership wtih Haiti, Kenya and Myanmar. The gift catalogs are available around the church and gifts may be purchased online.

PERIODICALSWEBSITE: www.snydermbc.comTHE BELL (USPS 549-180) is published weekly except Christmas and July 4 weeks by Snyder Memorial Baptist Church, 701 Westmont Drive, Fayetteville NC 28305. Tele: 910-484-3191. Periodicals postage paid at Fayetteville, NC. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to THE BELL, 701 Westmont Drive, Fayetteville, NC 28305.

Pastor’s Perspective

Of all of Jesus’ parables, the parable of the talents in Matthew 25 has been my favorite for many years. It reminds me that everything I have in this life is not mine. It has been given to me by a gracious God who expects me to be a faithful steward of all He has entrusted to me. The same God who bought me with the precious blood of His Son, Jesus. I owe Him everything. My life. My talents. My treasure. I find real purpose and a tremendous sense of fulfillment in serving a God who loves me, who has a plan for my life and a future in store for me. The parable tells me it doesn’t matter how many or what talents I have. I just have to be faithful with the ones He has given me. That I will one day see Jesus face-to-face excites me. While some may resent – or even ignore – our accountability to Him as our Judge, I am living for the day when I hope to hear from His lips, “Well done, John, you have been a good & faithful servant.” I thought about this parable as Joy Cogswell was announcing her retirement to the congregation on Sunday morning. 45 years serving the Lord as our pianist… and all that entails at a church that is known for its music. Adult, youth, and multiple children’s choirs. Performances and rehearsals. With this year’s Singing Christmas Tree, Joy will have played for all 40! When you consider all of the rehearsals involved, that is an incredible feat! Every June, she serenades the graduating high school class with a melody of songs they have sung during their years in youth choir. I told her last week she’ll never know this side of heaven the countless people she has blessed over the years. She does know I’m one of them. Joy is the epitome of a good and faithful servant. But there are two more qualities that I have always appreciated in her. One is her genuine humility. She does what she does so well without any fanfare. She does not like to be in the limelight. It warms my heart to see someone so gifted also so humble. The second quality is her spirit. Snyder has always been a warm church where God’s “Sweet, Sweet Spirit” is evident. It is because of the people who worship and serve here. People like Joy Cogswell. I am thankful this Thanksgiving for my friend and colleague’s faithful ministry among us and for all of you who make Snyder such a wonderful church family. See you Sunday! ~ John

Overseas: Aaron Ashley, Joshua Cook

Deacon of the Week: Doug Fulghum(910) 484-9070

Congratulations To:Drew and Amanda O’Quinn on the birth of their daughter, Elizabeth

Stewart, on 11/13/2018.

Christian Sympathy: is expressed to Jenny Bunn on the death of her mother, Emily

Privott.

Menu 11/28/18No Dinner

The Bell • November 23, 2018 • Page 4 MEMBERSHIPNovember 18

Resident Membership 1833

Number Additions to Date 25

Number Lettered Out to Date 0

Loss by Death 2

Moved to Non-Resident/Roll Rev. 10

Total Membership 1845

SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDANCESunday School 493

Fire Station 10

Total Attendance 503

WORSHIP ATTENDANCE8:40am Worship 292

11am Worship 423

Total 715

FINANCIAL REPORTas of 11/16/18

Total Budget Gifts 101,704.35

Amount Needed 2,894,278.95

Given to Date 2,444,462.30

Under Budget to Date 449,816.65

WORSHIP CARE VOLUNTEERS November 25

8:40am: Mary-Anne GreeneAlison Hermann

11am: Kerry WheelerAndrew or Jennifer Guthrie

Kathy Buccieri

MINISTERIAL STAFFSenior Pastor JOHN COOK

Minister of Worship GILES BLANKENSHIP

Church Administrator GERON GAMBILL

Associate Pastor BRUCE HERRMANN

Dir. of Children & Family Min. KAREN MCAMIS

Minister with Youth CRAIG MORRISON

Minister of Missions SUSIE REEDER

Minister of Music RICHARD SUGGS