February 2013 Volume 24 Issue 2

Community Family Comedy Night featuring

Ventriloquist

Gene Cordova

Wednesday, February 27 6pm

This is a free event for the community and is

appropriate for all age groups.

Invite your friends and family!

Gene Cordova and his cast of characters lead you through a Gospel Adventure full of fun and laughter to deliver the life changing good news of Jesus Christ. Adults and children are captivated by the dynamic and hilarious perspective that Gene brings to favorite Bible

characters and stories. Through ventriloquism, illusions, comedy, colorful balloon twisting, audience participation and high-energy antics, everyone shares in this exciting adventure.

Gene has done conferences for Macy’s, Carnival Cruise Lines, Microsoft , Alaska Airlines, the city of Seattle and the Brooklyn Tabernacle.

I am more excited about the upcoming sermon series than any other I've ever preached! The ser-

mon series teaches us about everyone's predicament of sin, God's responses of grace and the church's call and life as "The Grace Place." The messages could be life-transforming and church

awakening, not because I wrote them but because they are God's eternal truths. If you as an individual or we as a church embrace these truths by living them, then God will be glorified and we will be blessed.

I ask you to preview the sermon series below and pray for our worship for the next three months. I pray you will invite and challenge your friends and family to come worship with us for this series. They will be inspired

by testimonies, music, and His life teaching.

The Grace Place

Everyone's Predicament February 3 Chained to the Past

10 Taking the Hard Fall 17 You Don't Have to Hide

24 The Test of True Repentance God's Response of Grace

March 3 The Cleansing Power of Forgiveness 10 Saying Sorry...Again!

17 Will God Ever Use Me Again? 24 Celebration Choir Musical

31 What about the Really Bad People? April 7 How Do I Overcome My Sin?

The Church As The Grace Place April 14 A One-and-Done Church: Judgment vs. Discernment

21 The Christ-like Principle of Accountability 28 The Wounded Healer

God our Father, help each of us to understand our predicament of sin and what that does to us. We are right with you as we confess our sin before Your holiness. Would You help us to be true recipients of Your grace,

reflecting the change of our becoming more like Jesus? Because of Your grace, will You cause us to be a people of grace? Would You change our collective hearts to become a "Grace Place?"

Steve Boyd

Pastor’s Pen

February 1 Exodus 7-9 February 16 Leviticus 11-13 February 2 Exodus 10-12 February 17 Leviticus 14-15 February 3 Exodus 13-15 February 18 Leviticus 16-18 February 4 Exodus 16-18 February 19 Leviticus 19-21 February 5 Exodus 19-21 February 20 Leviticus 22-23 February 6 Exodus 22-24 February 21 Leviticus 24-25 February 7 Exodus 25-27 February 22 Leviticus 26-27 February 8 Exodus 28-29 February 23 Numbers 1-2 February 9 Exodus 30-32 February 24 Numbers 3-4 February 10 Exodus 33-35 February 25 Numbers 5-6 February 11 Exodus 26-38 February 26 Numbers 7 February 12 Exodus 39-40 February 27 Numbers 8-10 February 13 Leviticus 1-4 February 28 Numbers 11-13 February 14 Leviticus 5-7 February 15 Leviticus 8-10

Chronological Bible Reading Plan

If you do not have a Bible at home, we have several adult and children’s Bible’s in the church library. We also have multiple sets of the Bible on tape.

February Birthdays 1 Nem Meas Chhan, Carolin Hunter, Frank Stewart 2 Rob Kennedy 4 Bethany Griffin, Jeff Kute 6 Bill McCubbins 9 Dick Griffin, Lydia Phillips, Matthew Young 10 Hope Hawes, Jill Sowder 11 Brent White 12 Haylee Renfro 13 Larry & Tammy Baker, Myssi Goldsmith, Jack Trumbo 14 Jennie Chiba 17 Abigail Griggs 19 Doug Shelburne 21 Jeff Logue, Lana Sageser, Janell Swigert 22 Charlie Wallace 25 Dale Kramer 27 Kipp Moore

Don’t see your birthday? Let

us know and we will add you.

COLONIAL HALL VALENTINE FELLOWSHIP

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 6PM

Please contact Shirley Ragan at 445-2645 if you can help by making Valentine or heart-shaped treats.

Did you know?

We have over 40 men aged 13–50 who are meeting to play basketball every Sunday. These recreational activities provide a great outreach

to our community! Thanks to Chris Rogers for his leadership!

Sundays at 1pm

Age 13-30 1-2:30pm

Age 30+ 2:30-4pm

Pictorial Directories Update

We have had some challenges

managing the new software in

regards to the pictorial directories.

Although it has been a learning

process we are ready to print the

directories. A few things to note:

As part of the church family you can

print your own directory through the

CCB site.

Directories will be given first to those

who do not have access to a computer.

Directories will be printed quarterly to

allow new guests and attenders to be

added.

You can add or change your photo at

any time through the CCB site.

Pictorial directories will include

personal contact information at the

end. Both directories are based on the

church family who currently worship

with us. This is not a church

membership directory and will not

include absentee or inactive members.

We congratulate the Mike Moore family on the successful adoption of Robbie & Josh!!! “… and anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf is welcoming me.”

Matthew 18:5

Moore Kids More Love

Kid connection is excited to sponsor an elementary school outreach on Wed, Feb 27th. We are hosting ventriloquist and come-

dian Gene Cordova. The wit and humor Gene brings to the stage keeps adults of all ages laughing while the ventriloquism, com-edy, illusion, and balloon sculpting hold the attention of the children. Gene is a true storyteller for all ages. He has a wonderful Christian heart and provides clean family entertainment all across the country as a featured entertainer for many national Chris-tian conferences, as well as Carnival Cruise Lines and Microsoft, just to name a few. He will be presenting a program entitled “Bullies to Buddies” at Simpsonville and Painted Stone Elementary schools that day and will be at SBC that night with an amazing and entertaining gospel presentation. The show is free, so bring all of your friends and family!

It’s time to begin making plans for Summer camp! There are only 50 spots and they are filling fast so get your deposit in today. We will be going to camp at Crossings for kids at Cedarmore in Bagdad, KY. Crossings for Kids, is a fast-paced, Christ-centered, kid-friendly camp for kids who have completed grades 3-5 during the 2012-13 school year! The dates are July 22 – 25 and the cost is $250. A $75 non-refundable deposit will be due February, 10

th. We will also need one chaperone for every five kids.

Chaperones attend free.

We have begun practicing for the kid’s musical to be performed during the morning worship service on Sunday, March 10th. The

kids are learning the music during Kid Worship, AWANA and Adventure Club time, so every kid can be a part. The Sunday eve-ning practices are for drama and technical workers. The practices will be held on Sunday evening at 5:30 each week for the nine weeks leading up to the play with a dress rehearsal on Saturday, March 9

th. With so few rehearsals, it will be necessary for all

characters to be present at all rehearsals leading up to the performance. We also need parents to build sets during rehearsals beginning February 3rd. Be sure to order your $5 t-shirt this week for the performance.

I have a special announcement for those adults who are located at Painted Stone Elementary. We are going to have a teacher and staff prayer and Bible Study time each Wed from 6:45 -7:15 am in the library. There will be coffee and breakfast treats for

you to enjoy also. Shari Thompson

Entertainment provided by Entertainment Essentials at entessentials.biz Jewelry design by Susan Fenton Catering provided by Brent White Photography available from Eric Bland & Angela Wisley

This is a formal dance intended for girls 3rd grade and above. Cost: $15 per person Tickets available in Shari’s office. Includes speaker, dinner, dancing and daughter’s gift. Menu: Chicken Cordon Bleugrass green bean almondine, rice pilaf, garden salad, dessert and beverage .

Wednesday Family Meals February 6 Lasagna, salad, bread and drink

February 13 Pancakes, sausage or bacon , milk or juice.

February 20 Sloppy Joes, French fries, dessert, drink

February 27 Chili, hotdogs, drink Children $2 Students and Adults $3 Family $10

Crossings Kid’s Summer Camp June 22-25

Cost $250

Non refundable $75 deposits are due February 10.

CHILDREN’S MINSTRY

Sunday, March 3 Lunch 12pm Race begins at 1pm Order your cars now! Please sign up at the Welcome Center if you can help with the race, prepare/serve food and to indicate how many will be joining us for lunch.

Children’s Musical Fish Tales

Sunday, March 10

Our children are working hard on their lines and

music! We need to borrow a few items to help with set

decoration:

Fishing nets Bait buckets

Plastic or wooden fish Blue tarps

Stringers to keep our fish fresh in the water. Wood to build a dock

Items can be taken to Shari’s office. Please label everything to ensure it’s return.

Nursery Ministry

The best way to make a great impression on

our new guests with young children is to have a

fully staffed nursery with warm, friendly faces.

We have several openings for new faces during

both Worship and Sunday School. You can

serve once quarterly, once a month or as a

substitute-whatever your preference. Couples

and high school students are welcome! Please

contact Patty Wentworth at 655-7269 or fill out

the tear-off sheet in the bulletin to join the team.

Easter Eggsplosion is Saturday, March 30. We are needing individually wrapped candy donations that will fit in an egg. We also need egg stuffers. to “ check out” some empty eggs and return them full. Candy donations can be taken to the Mission Cove.

We had a wonderful Christmas season in 2012, beginning with Dinner Theater which had an impressive number of chil-dren and adults involved this year. It was a wonderful experience overall, with a large number of guests coming to have a good time, eat some great food, and hear the gospel. We also had the largest choir that I’ve seen since I’ve been here, filled with wonderful people! It was incredible! Many thanks to all of those people who helped put it together and serve!

The choir took a break for a while after the heavy commitment of dinner theater, but we resumed this month and are getting ready to usher in the Easter season with a Palm Sunday musical called “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine.” I pray that grace permeates this place and us as His church.

The Missions Leadership Team has been working to discern where we, as a church, should focus our missions efforts in 2013, and now that the holidays are behind us, we will be meeting again to secure dates that we can release to the church. We know that our Student Minister Jon and the student ministry will be taking a group to Tegucigalpa, Hondu-ras in the summer, and we will be doing some work in eastern Kentucky as well as locally in the Shelby county area.

More details about international trips will be forthcoming.

We also want to increase our involvement with Disaster Relief with the KBC. Ken Hyde and others have had a huge presence with this group over the years and as we continue to have disasters all over the country in one way or another, we would love to have people trained to go and be agents of love and assistance wherever needed. You’ll see more in-formation about this as we finalize training dates.

With Phil and Darlene Noble onboard with our local missions leadership, we are hoping to see SBC reach out in 2013 in ways we have not before. We plan to meet with the leadership of local ministries as well as leadership from other churches in our area to discern how we can better work together to minister to people and get the gospel out there. There are many people in our area who need the gospel and a touch of grace, and we’ve been commissioned to be the takers

and the goers. Let’s make 2013 a year to remember and celebrate! Matt Garner

Adult Choir We are preparing for our Palm Sunday presentation with the

Max Lucado-inspired musical Grace, More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine. If you enjoy making a joyful noise, please consider

joining us! We meet every Wednesday at 6:15pm in the Fellowship Hall.

CARE & INVOLVEMENT MINISTRY How does our Care & Involvement Ministry work to close the “back door” of the church? By getting people involved in the life and ministry of the church family. We have seen that happen with the huge success of the Ladies Night Out ministry. As of January 21 we had 33 women signed up to simply enjoy a meal together. What’s important is that these women are a mix of regular members, new guests, new members and some who have never participated in any other church event. Just one hour spent in fellowship with one another could open the doors to many new strong relationships. Carrie Vail leads this ministry. Current plans are to meet quarterly so keep you eyes open for our April outing!

Our Discipleship classes this year have been the best attended ever in the life of the church! Why? Because people invited their friends to learn with them!! Studying together and sharing what God has done and is doing in your lives breaks down the walls we put up to make us look better than we actually are. Discipleship brings an openness and honesty to these small group classes because participants begin to feel a closeness to one another.

You are doing a great job ministering to one another in these avenues! The challenge now is to do the same in our Sunday School classes. I invite you to share the praise that we have a total of 82 people enrolled in this semester’s classes.

Financial Peace 10 Experiencing God—both classes 41

Read the Bible for Life 13 Revelation 18

MISSIONS

I want to share with my church family how God has been working in my life and ask for your prayers con-cerning His call on my life. I am sure many of you know about my great love for missions and my heart for the people of Honduras. During a mission trip in April last year working for World Gospel Outreach, I was offered a position working as a counselor at the orphanage.

This would be a full-time permanent position. It would entail me giving up my home, my car, my job and life as I know it to serve the Lord in a position that is not paid but is supported by a stipend from sponsors who share in your vision to serve the Lord. I have been praying for several months and in the last month it seems that God is indeed opening doors for me in this direction. My first interview with the Director of the orphanage by phone went very well; she feels I am an excellent candidate and is recommending me for the position. If all goes well with the application process, I will go to Honduras for a second interview and to see what the job entails in a hands-on setting. The final step upon returning home is to pray for one week. Since this decision is life-altering this could be the most important week of my life thus far.

Lots of people, including my family, can't understand why I would be willing to give up everything I have worked for to go serve at an orphanage on a remote mountain in Honduras. My answer is simple: because Christ said so! He teaches to let go of self, that it is not about you, your family or your possessions but about serving Him. It is the duty of every follower to be the hands and feet of Christ on the mission field but some just feel it more than others. I am one of those. I would rather have nothing and have Jesus and serve Him in a mighty way than any of the comforts or possessions of this life. He is not asking of me any more than that of the original 12 disciples and it is His command for all followers to share the gospel. Rejoice with me, pray with me and I pray for your support. In Christ, Melissa Brendemuehl

DID YOU KNOW? Our Serve 60 Mission Team is now led by Phil & Darlene Noble. The Nobles recently returned to Simpsonville following Phil’s retirement in the Secret Service. One of their first goals is to help create a website that can be used by all Shelby County ministries and churches to monitor the many requests made by those in need. This site will enable all ministries to work together to meet those needs rather than each one providing help separately. We will be working with a variety of agencies: OPERATION CARE—This ministry provides a clothing closet, food pantry, women’s shelter, and emergency funds for Shelby County residents facing difficult times. OPEN DOOR OF HOPE—This ministry provides emergency shelter to men. It also offer programs to help men return to work, find housing and begin to support themselves once more. THE HAVEN— This is a new ministry to Shelby County women entrapped in the sex-slave industry. Is is sur-prising to know that Shelby County has hundreds of women who are being forced into prostitution? In the early stages this ministry is providing love, care and support to these women through meals and small gifts of flowers. Long-range goals include purchasing a home to provide emergency care for those who make the final step and overcome the fear that prevents them from escaping from this enforced life-style. Please be in prayer for founder and director, Angela Wisley, as she works to develop support from the community. Please also pray for Jo Baker and Melissa Brendemuehl who have joined the ministry team.

Does it seem possible that

entire Shelby County

families are living in their

vehicles?

It’s real.

AND you can help.

When disaster strikes, some of the first

to respond to help are Southern Baptist

disaster relief volunteers. Kentucky vol-

unteers can staff feeding units designed

to deliver thousands of hot meals on

short notice, move in with chainsaws to

help remove debris, do the dirty work of

helping families remove mud from

flooded homes and provide many other

disaster relief services.

Cost: $40 includes both Phase 1 and Phase 2 training, manuals,

lunch, background check, photo ID and cap.

Register online at kybaptist.org/training

or by phone (502) 489-3527.

TRAINING DATES

February 1-2 Hardinsburg Baptist

Church Hardinsburg, KY

March 8-9

First Baptist Church of Walton

Walton, KY

We are partnering with Operation Care to provide blan-kets free of charge to those if need. Blankets can be new or used and in good condition and can be any size including throws. Donations can be taken to the Mission Cove. Thank you to Pat Molidor for her leadership in this ministry.

MissionFest Fish Fry & Craft Show

Friday, March 1 5-8pm

Proceeds will benefit our

2013 Mission Projects

Your help is needed! Perhaps you cannot financially help someone

participate in missions or you don’t have the time allowed to go yourself. You can help others to

go by preparing desserts, serving the meal, setting up tables for the

meal and craft show, and even washing dishes.

A volunteer sign up sheet is

located at the Welcome Center.

DID YOU KNOW?

Bob Perkins is representing the Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief in a vision and prayer mis-

sion trip to Sub-Saharan Africa. The team of five men will meet with Southern Baptist missionaries and

national leaders in four or five countries to plan for ministry and relief when "secondary level" natural

disasters occur, such as earthquakes, floods, famines etc. A strong facet of this ministry plan would be

to train Christian nationals to respond and minister to their own countrymen. Please pray for Bob and

the team as they provide vision, leadership, and training to involve Kentucky Baptists in missions.

MISSIONS

Our Crafts for Christ team has made the commitment to serve the residents of Hometown Manor on a monthly basis. The group works together to prepare crafts for the residents and once a month visits them to assist in preparing the crafts. In December residents made Christmas ornaments and paper weights. In January they made bird feeders and began decorating a holiday tree. Each month the tree will be decorated with a themed holiday decoration. Crafts for Christ team: Susan Fenton, Darlene Noble, Linda Kerr, Mary Shin, Kitty Brady, and Michelle Whited.

Crafts for Christ meets every

Monday at 10am in the

Fellowship Hall. We invite

you to join us!

Working with: Loaves & Fishes Ministries, The Freedom Center, Club 180, Heritage Ministries in the Lynch/Cumberland area.

Job Detail: Construction, clothing ministries, food pantry organization

Cost: $30 per day per person SIGN UP AT THE WELCOME CENTER.

Eastern Kentucky

July 28-Aug 2

We are collecting adult and children’s vitamins for our student

Honduras mission trip. Adult Vitamin Goal: 18,000 Given to date:1,110 Children’s Vitamin Goal: 24,000 Given to date: 900

Donations can be taken to the Mission Cove. Please note: We are not accepting “gummy” vitamins.

Attention High School Seniors: College Ready Retreat We will be taking our high school seniors on a retreat to Wooded Glen, in Henryville, IN. This weekend will be focused on making you, “College Ready!” We will have small group Bible study, awesome food, and some team building games. This retreat will cost $50. The date of the trip is March 1-2. You will need to sign up and pay by February 10. You can go to Woodedglen.com to see the facilities.

True Love Waits: Over the next five weeks, our student ministry will be focusing on teaching our students

how to live a life of purity. We will use a True Love Waits curriculum that will help us tackle this pressing topic in the lives of our students. On February 24, we will end this study with a commitment time in the morning service. This will be a special time where our students can make a public commitment to live a life of purity before their friends, parents, and church family. We will also have a time for the parents and church to com-mit to supporting them. Please pray for our students as they take this Biblical journey over the next five weeks, and for the rest of their lives.

A HUGE D-Now Thank you! We had a very successful weekend thanks to some awesome parents, college students, and other volunteers. This weekend consisted of over 140 people being involved. We had seven host homes that housed the 77 students involved in the week-end. We fed people pulled pork, baked spaghetti, hamburgers and hot dogs, sausage biscuits, sticky biscuits, and countless desserts provided by many people throughout the church. We took 97 people to Perfect North on two school buses and

our church van. Our students spent over ten hours of this weekend in worship and small group Bible study. This weekend was so much more than some teenagers coming together to have fun and hang out. It was about seeking the Lord and ask-ing him for the boldness to “Follow Him.” The weekend would not have been possible without the help of countless adults who drove, took pictures, fed, brought desserts, served food, laughed, set up tables and chairs, decorated, cried, worshipped, painted, bought snacks, cooked, washed dishes, hung out, played games, printed things, registered kids, sorted t-shirts, printed checks, let people invade their home, vacuumed, took out trash, and so much more. I am so thank-ful to serve with adults that “get it.” They understand what it takes to see teenagers come to Christ. They understand that it takes a tribe to raise these children, not just one or two people. So if you helped out in any way this weekend, I want to say THANK YOU! Thank you for serving these students and investing in the Kingdom. God is up to something BIG! Jon Caranna

Student Texas Mission Trip | June 8-15 A $100 non-refundable deposit will be due Sunday, February 24.

Total coast is $300 per person. Payments can be made directly to Jon or placed in the payment box next to the elevator. Be sure to include your student’s name in the memo.

February 2013

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2

3 Lord’s Supper

9:15am Sunday School

10:30am Worship

1pm Hispanic Worship

1pm Men’s Basketball

4pm Deacon Meeting

5pm Super Bowl party

4

10am Crafts

5 6

9am Prayer Group

5:45pm Family Meal

6:15pm Choir

6:15pm AWANA

6:15pm Student

Ministry

7 6:30pm Revelation Class Coed Volleyball

8

4pm AHG

Imagine Kid’s

Ministry

Conference

9

Imagine Kid’s

Ministry

Conference

10

9:15am Sunday School

10:30am Worship

1pm Hispanic Worship

1pm Men’s basketball

5:30pm

KidMin play practice

Discipleship classes

Student discipleship

Kid’s Camp deposits

due

11

10am Crafts

12

6pm Colonial

Hall fellowship

13

9am Prayer Group

5:45pm Family Meal

6:15pm Choir

6:15pm AWANA

6:15pm Student

Ministry

14 6:30pm Revelation Class Coed Volleyball

15

No public

school

16

17

9:15am Sunday School

10:30am Worship

1pm Hispanic Worship

1pm Men’s basketball

5:30pm

KidMin play practice

Discipleship classes

Student Discipleship

18

10am Crafts

No public

school

19 20

9am Prayer Group

5:45pm Family Meal

6:15pm Choir

6:15pm AWANA

6:15pm Student

Ministry

21 6:30pm Revelation Class Coed Volleyball

22 4pm AHG

23

24

9:15am Sunday School

10:30am Worship

1pm Hispanic Worship

1pm Men’s basketball

5:30pm

KidMin play practice

Discipleship classes

Student discipleship

25

10am Crafts

26 27

9am Prayer Group

5:45pm Family Meal

6:15pm Choir

6:15pm

Family Comedy Night

6:15pm Student

Ministry

28 6:30pm Revelation Class Coed Volleyball

Simpsonville Baptist Church P.O. Box 56 Simpsonville, KY 40067

5pm

Bring a 2-liter per family, finger foods, desserts and board games.

Invite our new guests and your friends & neighbors.