The Memorial Baptist Church G r e e n v i l l e , N C

Volume 41 Issue 8 August 2017

August 2, 2107: Street Fair Ministry Information Session at 6:30 pm

August 6, 2017: Begin Collections for Water, Toiletries, etc

September 16, 2017: Set Up Tent at Pitt County Fair Grounds

September 17-24, 2017: Serve Meals and Minister to Carnival Staff

September 24, 2017: Tear Down at Pitt County Fairgrounds After Lunch

Associate Pastor of Music and Worship Arts SEARCH UPDATE

The search team continues to receive applications and hold conversations with those chosen to move forward in the process. We have held some initial interviews and continue to interview interested candidates. We ask that you continue to pray for us, the candidates, and our church as we discern God’s will. We will continue to update you on our process as we move along toward finding our next Associate Pastor of Music and Worship Arts.

The Search Team

2017 Street Fair Ministry

If you are available to help or have additional questions, contact Griff or Terri Avin.

Va c a t i o n B i b l e S c h o o l 2 0 1 7

Thank you to everyone who participated and helped with VBS this year. A special thank you to the Sunday School Classes which prepared the meals and to Publix for donating 500 cookies each night of VBS.

Average Nightly Attendance—Children 96

Average Nightly Attendance—Helpers 90

Bill Brown August 6 — 12

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Bettie Dew August 20— 26

756-5330

Wayne Hanks July 30—August 5

321-6643

Bob Speight August 13 — 19

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Johnny Brady August 27—September 2

756-6259

Volunteers Needed for Children and Youth during Sunday School, Children’s Choirs, and

Wednesday Night Activities

Contact Abbi if you are available.

Welcome New Members! Kids Day MISSION POSSIBLE

August 9 Dropoff: 7:45—9:00 am

Pickup: 5:30 pm Each Event Cost: $15.00 per child

Bring money for lunch and a swimsuit. Sign up by August 7.

Jim and Dru Harris joined TMBC on July 16, 2017, by transfer of letter from First Baptist Church, Gastonia, NC.

Help Fill the Choir Loft When: Sunday, August 6 Who: EVERYONE What: Easy Hymn Arrangements Where: Music Suite at 10:30 am on Sunday Morning

Boyd Media Center News The Young Readers’ Challenge is off to a great start with many enthusiastic children participating. Everybody is excited! It’s not too late for any upcoming 1st – 6th grader to join in the fun. Please come to the media center for entry forms.

Thank you to those who have recommended books and Bible studies and who have donated books to the media center. The collection keeps growing better and better! Here are a few of the most recent additions:

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist Godric Newberry Honor Book Wolf Hollow (reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird) New York Times’ Best Seller Serafina and the Black Cloak Eugene Peterson’s Run with the Horses: The Quest for Life at its Best The Treehouse, series popular with children and Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most by renowned religious scholar, Marcus Borg.

Recommendations for the media center may be sent to mmchesson@yahoo.com. The catalog may be easily accessed through the church website, www.tmbc.org, or catalog.tmbc.org. Come check out Boyd Media Center!

Special Contributions

The Progressive Class has donated Coach Tony Dungy’s Quiet Strength and its accompanying Bible study for men, Discover

God’s Game Plan, to the Boyd Media Center in memory of Kemp Ewing, husband of Terese, father of two daughters, and son-in-

law of Demi and Sue Mack. This book selection is fitting for Kemp’s career and character.

The Progressive class has also donated A Fistful of Heroes: Christians at the Forefront of Change in fond memory of Frank

Saunders, who joined TMBC in 1961. Frank, a former professor who always liked to learn more would have enjoyed this book

about 18th and 19th century reformers and liberators.

Thank you, Progressive Class, for your caring and thoughtful gifts to the Boyd Media Center in memory of these loved ones.

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August Attendance

July

2 July

9 July 16

July 23

Sunday School

102 130 134 146

Worship 131 145 155 145

MEMORIAL MATTERS!

In Our Prayers A new prayer list begins the first of each month. Call the church office if you would like to add or remove someone from the list.

Doris Nicholson, Darlene Riddle and

Sue Appel (Diane Brady’s friends)

Olivia Tesh (Pat and Kathryn Tesh’s great niece)

Rhett Barrett (Nancy Harris’s great-nephew)

Tonya Godwin (Tony Godwin’s sister-in-law)

Nancy Brown Harris Fred Dew (Harold Dew’s brother) Luther Thomas (Rebecca Aiken’s son) Jim Darden Cassie Earley (Coral Whichard’s niece) Mert Carawan (Kay Godwin’s aunt) Brenda Edwards

(Cindy Asbell’s mother) Corey Byrum

Mandy Messerli Howard Robertson Susan Ingram Brenda Swanner

(Pam Williams’ mother) Russell Gurganus (Kay Godwin’s father) Joanna (sister of Griff Avin’s coworker) Robbie Withington

Homebound/Shut-Ins Iva Edwards Mary Mann Norman Little Ethel Donovan Linda Parker

Happy TMBC Anniversary Kay Godwin

Thank you for 16 wonderful yearS in the

preschool!

Mission Possible Kids traveled to the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center in Chapel Hill and the Marbles Kids Museum in Raleigh on July 19.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first of two church workdays. The second is scheduled for Saturday, July 29.There are jobs for all ages and abilities.

Youth Summer Mission Trip to Atlanta

Budget Update 7.24.17

Act Receipts YTD as of 7.24.17 $326,570

Budgeted Receipts as of YTD 7.24.17 $347,108

Difference-Over/(Short) ($20,538)

Act Receipts - July 2017 YTD $326,570

Act Receipts - July 2016 YTD $307,030

Difference-Over/(Short) $19,540

Act Receipts- July 2017 YTD $326,570

Estimated Disbursements - July 2017 YTD $310,557

Difference-Over/(Short) $16,013

CBF Deacon Training Worship Led by Eddie Hammett

Saturday, September 23, 2017 The Memorial Baptist Church, Greenville

9:00am - 12:30pm

Deacon Ministry That Matters explores what’s involved in BEING an agent of transformation IN, THROUGH, and AS church. What’s involved in reframing church function around hope, healing, reconciliation, restoration in a 21st century world? How might deacons lead the way?

All current and ordained are encouraged to attend. Cost: $15.00 per person

August at a Glance August 1 Kay Godwin’s 16th TMBC Anniversary August 2 6:30 pm Street Fair Ministry Information Meeting (Truthseekers

Classroom) August 6 10:00 am Connections Class August 8 10:00 am WMU (Torchbearers Classroom) August 9 7:45 am—5:30 pm Children’s Mission Day August 13 Fill the Choir Loft Sunday August 16—August 23 Haiti Mission Trip August 20 Youth Trip to Kinston Wood Ducks Baseball Game August 21 7:30 pm Administrative Group Meeting August 27 Promotion Sunday, Blessing of the Book Bags, and

Young Readers’ Challenge Reward Presentations August 27 4:00 pm Quarterly Church Conference and Ice Cream Social August 28 TMBC Preschool Teachers Return to TMBC and

Pitt County Schools Resume August 31 4:00—6:00 pm TMBC Preschool Open House