THE HERALD

May 1

Baby Dedication-Sandwich potluck

May 8

Happy Mothers Day-Bear Collection

No Evening Service

May 10

Women on Mission– 9:15 am

Sr. Adult Game Day-1:30 pm

WMU Spring Mtg & Salad Supper– 6:00 pm

Disaster Recovery Trailer on Display at 5 pm

May 12

FBC Hosts BSM

May 14

Churchwide Garage Sale– 7am-1 pm

May 15

Lord’s Supper -am service

May 16

Church Council– 4:30 am

May 18

CIA Kids Badge Ceremony

May 19

Jolly Elders Luncheon– Noon -Fellowship Hall

May 21

Deacon’s Meeting– 8:30 am

Judson Group– 9:30 am

May 25

Last ESL for the summer

May 28

AMP in the Street

May 29

Men’s Breakfast– 8:00 am– Fellowship Hall

VBS Volunteer Luncheon-Noon

No Evening Service

May 30

Happy Memorial Day– Office Closed

First Baptist Church, Galveston

May 2016

Children practicing their balancing skills in Chapel.

(Above and left )

AWANA children

playing giant

tic tac toe. (Left) Welcome!

Our newest

member

Forrest Waddill.

(Left) Zach

Massey

leading

music at

Winning

Weekend.

(Above right) Rev. Keith Tomlin-

son preaching at Winning Week-

end (Left & Below) Enjoying a

bit of Island time.

After a prayerful sendoff, 6 Children and

Youth leaders went to the

Orange Conference in Atlanta.

Judson

Group

First

Responders

appreciation

Lunch.

Over 100

meals were

served!

May 1st, we dedicated and celebrated seven

young families through baby dedication.

Nathan’s Notes

Angie’s List

“Life is better

Connected.”

As a church we believe that relationships are

extremely important. We believe that in relationships

all people are known and can be known that some-

thing magical happens. Perhaps this is partly why

the first miracle of Jesus occurs at a Wedding. Jesus

takes a basin of water and turns in to excellent wine

so that the celebration of relationship can keep going.

The most important part of relationships is not to do

everything exactly right but rather to do it well.

Every relationship regardless of whether it is a mar-

riage, a close friendship, or serious dating relation-

ship is a place where conflict can and will exist. The

key of relationships is not conflict avoidance but ra-

ther conflict management.

This is where we as the church have a responsibility

to each of you as you do life in relationship to others.

The church is to help you learn how to be in relation-

ship with people better. That is why we are having a

Relationship Enrichment Weekend.

I want to encourage you to take time to learn to do

relationships better. Mark your calendar for Saturday

July 30 and plan to join us for this exciting day. Tam-

my Zwarst is a licensed therapist and a does counsel-

ing from a distinctly Christian perspective. This

means that she is uniquely suited to help each of us

learn to do relationships more like Jesus would have

us to do them.

I would encourage you to take the time to attend this

Saturday seminar I promise you that your life will be

enriched and your relationships have the potential to

be much better than if you don’t get involved. Rela-

tionships are the most important thing that we have

in life and having the tools in our tool belt to know

how to do them well is extremely important.

If you think you can do conflict in relationships bet-

ter, or if you think you can learn to be a better com-

municator this time of enrichment is for you. Please

give it some thought and remember the only thing

you can control in any situation is you, so why not

work on improving the one thing you can control.

Be on the look out for more information and get in-

volved and join us as we discover what it means to

live well in relationships.

Blessings,

Nathan

BABY DEDICATION

As you have already noticed in other parts of The Herald, this past Sunday was baby dedication. As

everyone knows, this is my favorite service of the

year, I have the privilege of holding all of our new

babies and showing them off to the congregation.

This service always brings out entire families to

show pride and love for the new family member. I

ask that you pray for each of these families. They

need our prayers and support as they follow the

Biblical imperative, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6). Babies are blessings! They

are also responsibilities! Never cease to pray for

them and their families.

MAY & JUNE ARE FULL OF OPPORTUNITIES

Our baby dedication service the first of several op-

portunities that fill our schedule for the next sever-

al months. To name them in order is a challenge,

but I will try. Mothers' Day is this Sunday, after

that will be graduate recognition (if you know any

graduates whether high school, college, medical

school, etc., let us know), followed by honoring the

residents and their families, youth camp, children's

Vacation Bible School, Fathers' Day, Fourth of July,

Relationship Enrichment Weekend, etc. As you see

there are many ways you can be used in the minis-

try of these. My prayer is that we stay faithful as

we "seek the welfare of the city" in these final

months.

THANK YOU

I want to personally thank you for those of you who

were so faithful during our Renewal Weekend. It

was a great weekend to be with Keith Tomlinson

and Zach Massey. Keith and Zach were used by the

Lord to touch many of our lives in new and wonder-

ful ways. I also want to thank Nathan and Angie

for picking up the slack in so many areas before and

during the weekend.

As many of you who know, I had a minor medical

procedure this past week and spent the week recu-

perating. Your phone calls, texts, visits, and pray-

ers are greatly appreciated by Sherry and me.

Please keep praying for me as I pray for you.

I Love You,

Bro. Ray

Baby D - Church and Family Event

Seven young families joined us for our Baby dedica-

tion and celebration event., May 1, 2016

The purpose of this event was for parents to make a

commitment to lead their child into a growing

relationship with their heavenly Father.

This was a milestone moment for these families!

It’s our hope that this dedication is the beginning of a

relationship that spans the life of these children. We

hope to inspire parents to invest in the things that will

matter most to their child’s future because as parents,

they’ll play a significant role in the spiritual journey of

their child and we’ve invited them to include us, the

local church.

Orange – what it’s given our church

We have a comprehensive plan beginning at

birth for kids and families.

We’ve established a community, through

relationships that gives every child a

place to connect their faith.

Keeping parents in our ministry while en-

gaging them to synchronize the home

with the church.

We’re working towards a plan that mobiliz-

es elementary aged children to get ac-

tively involved in personal ministry.

The Orange curriculum leads kids to won-

der, discovery and passion by engaging

their senses to discover their heavenly

Father.

Jumpstart – a discipleship program for kids

and families designed to help them on

their spiritual journey.

A strategy of the church partnering with

families.

Leading the next generation,

Angie

AMP It Up! group praying before heading

to Winter Jam

The Amp it

Up! group

using their

service skills at

the Ironman Race

at Moody Gardens.

At the Pleasure Pier after the Lock-in