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T h e N e w s l e t t e r

S t a f f

Dr. Dumas A. Harshaw, Jr., Pastor

Ms. Vicki Currie

Dr. Linda Gunn-Jones, Editor

Articles for the May 2012 Newsletter are due in the

church office by Monday, April 16, 2012. No articles will

be accepted after this date. You may now submit your

articles to vcurrie@raleighfirstbaptist.org.

U p c o m i n g E v e n t s

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Mailing Address:

P.O. Box 27771

Raleigh, North Carolina 27611

Physical Address:

101 South Wilmington Street

Raleigh, North Carolina 27611

First Baptist Church…..

Your Point of Contact For The Kingdom of God

April

1 PSALM SUNDAY

WAKE INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK

2 Missionary Circle

5 Senior Ministry

6 GOOD FRIDAY—Office Close at 12 noon

7 Women’s Fellowship

Men’s Fellowship

8 EASTER SUNDAY

9 Christian Education Ministry

Executive Trustee Board

12 Senior Ministry

16 Trustee Board

19 Senior Ministry

CCICI Board Meeting

21 Greeters

22 SHAW UNIVERSITY DAY

23 Deacons Ministry

26 Senior Ministry

28 200th Anniversary Golf Tournament

May

3 Senior Ministry

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

5 Women’s Fellowship

Men’s Fellowship

7 Missionary Circle

10 Senior Ministry (Speaker Activity)

12 Shaw University Commencement Ceremony

13 MOTHER’S DAY

FBC Ushers Meeting

14 Trustee Executive Board Meeting

Christian Education Ministry

17 Senior Ministry

CCICI Board Meeting

21 Trustee Board

Health Ministry

Prayer Ministry

22 PAC Meeting

24 Senior Ministry—Member Activity

26 Laymen’s League

28 MEMORIAL DAY—(OFFICE CLOSED)

31 Senior Ministry—Business Meeting

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Reflections 2

Prayer Ministry 2

Happy Birthday 2

Women’s

Fellowship 3

Missionary

Circle 3

Upcoming

Events 4

First Baptist Church 101 South Wilmington Street

Raleigh, North Carolina, 27601

Newsletter

April 2012 Volume 13 Issue 4

The Calvary Road

~Roy Hession

BROKENNESS

We want to be very simple

in this matter of revival.

Revival is just the life of

the Lord Jesus poured into

human hearts. Jesus is

always victorious. In

heaven, they are praising

Him all the time for His

victory. Whatever may be

our experience of failure

and barrenness, He is

never defeated. His

power is boundless. And we,

on our part, have only to get

into a right relationship with

Him, and we shall see His

power being demonstrated

in our hearts and lives and

service. His victorious life will

fill us and overflow through

us to others. And that is re-

vival in its essence.

If, however, we are to come

into this right relationship

with Him, the first thing we

must learn is that our wills

must be broken to His will.

Theme for 2012:

“Theme: “Celebrating the Past,

Claiming the Future”

We live by faith, not by sight.

~2 Corinthians 5:7

Celebrating 200 Years

1812—2012

WORSHIP TIMES

8:00 a.m. Worship Service

Sunday, April 1, 8

Music: Ward-Ingram Gospel

Choir

Sunday, April 15

Music: Adult Choir

Sunday, April 22, 29

Music: Praise Team

11:00 a.m. Worship Service

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Holy Communion

Music: Senior Choir

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Music: Senior Choir

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Music: Senior Choir

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Music: Shaw University Choir

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Music: Male Chorus

200th Anniversary Activities

April 28, 2012

“Golf Tournament”

9:00 a.m.

Hedingham Golf Club

April 29, 2012

Gospel Concert has been

rescheduled to a later date

to be determined.

From Spirit to Spirit To be broken is the begin-

ning of revival. It is painful,

it is humiliating, but it is the

only way. It is being “Not I,

but Christ,” and a “C” is a

bent “I”. The Lord Jesus can-

not live in us fully and reveal

Himself through us until the

proud self within us is bro-

ken. This simply means that

the hard unyielding self,

which justifies itself, wants

its own way, stands up for its

rights, and seeks its own

glory, at last bows its head to

God’s will, admits it’s wrong,

Sunday Morning Worship Experiences

gives up its own way to Je-

sus, surrenders its rights

and discards its own glory…

that the Lord Jesus might

have all and be all. In other

words, it is dying to self and

self-attitudes.

~Yours in Christ

Pastor

Dumas Alexander Harshaw, Jr.

Twenty-three Chris-

tians on a mission

from God

With

fear

and

trem-

bling,

they

did trod.

On bended knee,

they sought the Lord.

How they must have

prayed for divine

strength.

Undying love for

God ran full length.

No turning back,

giving more than the

tenth.

Doing all they could

to progress,

Resting, praying

and working under

duress,

Every day deter-

mined to do their

best.

Doubting never,

P a g e 2 F i r s t B a p t i s t C h u r c h

they continued to

work

Yet never once their

work they shirked.

Each day a new

venture

or prob-

lem

lurked.

Always

abound-

ing in faith and love

Respecting the will

of the Great God

above,

Reflections on the 200TH Anniversary of First Baptist Church

Happy Birthday! April Birthdays: 4—Anita Fleming , 6—Samuel Green, Dennae Harshaw 7—Dwight Dolby, Hazel Thomas, 8—George Flemming,

James H. Ward 9—Brittney McManus, Ronald Williams 12—Katherine McDaniel, Shelia Morris 13—Bruce Hagins, Shantelle

Hodge, Joanna Holley 14—Greg Cade, Jr. 15—Ricky Lee Newkirk, Ahmad Whitaker 16—Margret Wilson 17—David Faulcon,

Robert Nevels 18—Jarrett Cook, Melonie Marsh, Gary Vaughan 19—Brenda High-Sanders, Margaret Gamble

20—Maritza Hicks, Afton Alexis Mosley, Rev. Delores Steele, Reginald Sumner 21—Fern Hockaday 23—Yvonne Bridges

25—Junious Whitaker, IV, Cliffornia Wimberley 26—Dennis Branch 27-Marjorie Bines 28—Kristen Tucker 29—Nathaniel Bow-

man, Allan Lovett 30—Sylvester Fleming. If you are celebrating your birthday during the month of April and it was not

announced, please inform the church office and we will correct, accordingly.

Silently trusting in

the plan He wove.

First Baptist

Church, two

centuries old

Bearing fruit

that’s yet un-

told

Continuing

to bring lost sheep to

the fold.

~Elizabeth T. Clarkson

March 2012

Prayer Ministry Attitude

“The longer I live, the

more I realize the impact of

attitude on life. Attitude, to

me, is more important than

facts. It is more important

than the past, than educa-

tion, than money, than cir-

cumstances, than failures,

than successes, than what

other people think or say,

or do. It is more important

than appearances, gifted-

ness, or skill. It will make

or break a company…a

church…a home. The re-

markable thing is every

day we have a choice re-

garding the attitude we will

embrace for that day. We

cannot change our past…

we cannot change the fact

that people will act in a

certain way. We cannot

change the inevitable. The

only thing we can do is play

on the one string we have,

and that is our attitude…I

am convinced that life is

10% what happens to me

and 90% how I react to it.

And so it is with you…we

are in charge of Attitudes.”

~Charles Swindoll

A Thought for Meditation:

Prayer brings us peace,

prayer gives us power to

walk the Christian way;

Prayer links us with the

Living God; therefore, we

need to pray.

P a g e 3 V o l u m e 1 3 I s s u e 4

First Baptist Missionary

Circle Ministry celebrated

Foreign Mission Day

on Sunday, March 18,

2012. The 11:00

a.m. morning worship

guest speaker was

Rev. Dr. David E.

Goatley, Executive

Secretary-Treasurer

of the Lott Carey Foreign

Mission Convention.

Dr. Goatley referenced

Matthew 9:9-13 for his

sermon, “Ministry at the

Margins”. He was pre-

sented a check for

$2500.00 to support the

mission of Lott Carey. First

Baptist Church has a long-

standing relationship with

Lott Carey and continues to

work closely with them on

many natural disasters with

supportive monetary dona-

tions.

The Missionary Circle led

by Mrs. Doris Burke, Presi-

dent, in collaboration with

the members of the

ministry studies, plan

and organize mission

activities to meet the

needs of individuals

at home, in the com-

munity, the state, the

nation and the

world. Every First Bap-

tist member is encour-

aged to become an ac-

tive participant. The

Missionary Circle meets

the first Monday (after

the first Sunday of each

month) at 6:30 p.m. in

the Ward Chapel. You are

invited to attend.

Missionary Circle Ministry

“Communing With

God”

The Women’s Fellow-

ship during its March 3rd

meeting journeyed with

M. Craig Barnes, author

of Sacred Thirst, through

the discussion of

“Communing with God.”

There were several note-

worthy points as we em-

barked on this journey:

(1) We cannot make

things happen with God—

it happens according to

His will (2) Once we shed

all our expectations, the

vista is so wide (3) Com-

muning with God is not a

time for judgment, but a

time for loving.

The underlying premise of

this chapter is that we must

talk with God in our own way.

We know from Luke’s gospel

and from his writings in Acts,

the instructions of Jesus to

His disciples was upon His

ascension to—go wait for the

promise of the Father. It

seems that every important

thing in life comes after a

period of waiting. Waiting

reminds us that we, our-

selves, are not powerful

enough to make things hap-

pen, which is why we wait.

When we recognize this limi-

tation, our true self

emerges—in short, how we

wait tells God a lot about us.

When communing with

God, follow His instructions—

go to your upper room. The

upper room in the New Tes-

tament is a metaphor for a

place of spiritual intimacy. It

is a room of prayer which

exists in your own heart.

Whenever you pray, go into

that room and shut the door

and pray in secret to your

Father—the scriptures give

us the results. There needs

to be an upper room in every

Christian’s life, a place in

your heart, a place where

you are not distracted. This

is the place where you can

find the power of the Holy

Spirit. It is through this

power you can effectively

commune with God.

Meditative Thought: In

Psalm 139, we read what

King David thought of

God’s precious presence.

He wrote, “O Lord, You

have searched me and

You know me. You know

when I sit and You know

when I rise; . . .You are

familiar with all my ways . .

. If I go up to the heavens,

You are there” (vv1-3,8)

No matter what happens

to us, we have this assur-

ance: “God is our refuge

and strength, an ever-

present help in trou-

ble” (Psalm 46:1). Open

your eyes and your heart.

He is there

Women’s Fellowship

Mrs. Doris Burke, President

Pastor Harshaw and Dr. Goatley

Mrs. Mary Peebles, Vice President