Contemporary Worship – 8:15 a.m.

Blessed Be the Rock

I Don’t Know Why Jesus Loved Me

Advent Celebration—Light of Hope

Welcome and Fellowship

Your Great Name

Offering

Great I Am

Message—Joel Samuels

10,000 Reasons

Announcements

Presentation of Decisions

Traditional Worship – 10:30 a.m. Prelude

Call to Worship—Call to Light—Sanctuary Choir

Scripture: Isaiah 7:14

Hymn of Advent—O Come, O Come Emmanuel (#245)

Advent Celebration—Light of Hope—Sanctuary Choir

Narrators: Tim Hays & Monica Martin

Welcome

Congregational Praise—Arise Shine (#241)

Congregational Praise—Emmanuel (#243)

Offertory Hymn—Our God Reigns (#372)

Offertory

Message in Song—Precious Lord, Take My Hand—Men’s Quartet

Message—Joel Samuels

Hymn of Invitation—I Have Decided to Follow Jesus (#602)

Announcements

Song of Celebration—Arise Shine (#241)

Postlude

November 27

Tony Cornelius Larry Paul Pack Tom Maddox Tommy Mason Eddie Allen Mac McCord Jeff Wolford Hugh McCulley Steven Crosthwait Gideon Ewing Adam Bunch Jeff Yancy

December 4

Randy Jones David McPeters Brad Bruce Dick Ruhlman Joe Boyd Vinyard David Pollock Neil Christopher Sammy Harris Bill Collins Tom Parsley Ron Dutton Torrey Whitaker

HOW TO JOIN OUR CHURCH FAMILY

By Baptism: For one who has accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior and desires to obey

Christ by being baptized by immersion.

By Letter: For one who is saved, has been baptized by immersion after being saved

and is a member in good standing of another Baptist church.

By Statement: For one who has been saved and baptized by immersion after being

saved, but is not a member of another Baptist church.

Come forward during the invitation at the end of the worship service and tell the pastor

that you want to become a member of FBCG, and we will take care of the rest.

Welcome to First Baptist Church

Whatever your need, whatever your reason, welcome to First Baptist Church of Guntersville. We know that He has a purpose for bringing you on this special day, to this special place. We hope you feel a genuine (welcome) as you share with us in this worship experience. As a church family, we have a clear vision of what God wants this fellowship to do: “to know Christ and to make Him known.” True worship is our spiritual priori-ty and loving people is our spiritual privilege.

» Please complete the guest information card, located in the front of your pew, and place it in the offering plate when it is passed during the offering time. We will respect the personal nature of the information that

you share.

» CDs are available of this morning’s message. You may obtain a copy

by contacting the Church Office.

» If you have made a personal commitment to God regarding your relationship with Him and/or this church, we encourage you to come forward during the invitation following the message to share this deci-

sion with our church family.

» Our offering time is an extension of our worship. As our guest, you are welcome to worship with an offering, but please do not feel obligat-

ed.

» Should you need help, please see one of our ushers. They’re ready

to help you or get whatever help you may need.

» Wednesday evening activities begin with Family Supper at 5:00 p.m. and Bible Study/prayer service for adults at 6:30. A variety of activities

are provided for children & students as well.

WEEKLY NEWS AND INFORMATION

November 27, 2016

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,

and the government will be on his shoulders.

And he will be called Wonderful Counselor,

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of

Peace.”

-Isaiah 9:6

this week @ fbc week of November 27, 2016

Sunday

Contemporary Worship 8:15 am

Sunday School 9:15 am

Traditional Worship 10:30 am

Wednesday

Family Night Supper 5:00 pm

Library Opens 6:00 pm

Youth Worship 6:30 pm

Children’s Activities 6:30 pm

Prayer Service Adults 6:30 pm

Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal 7:00 pm

Praise Team Rehearsal 8:00 pm

The staff is ready to help you in any way possible. If you would like prayer, an answer to a question, or personal ministry, please give one of these caring Christian leaders a call. They’re ready to make a difference in your life!

CHURCH OFFICE: 582-5141

Joel Samuels, Pastor ext 102

Charles Watkins, Associate Pastor ext 107

Johnny Beard, Minister of Education ext 110

Melanie Baker,

Director of Children’s Ministries ext 104

Ken Patterson, Minister of Music ext 108

Barbara Young, Secretary ext 101

Amy Fondren, Secretary ext 100

1000 Gunter Avenue, Guntersville, AL 35976 / 256.582.5141 / www.gvillefbc.org

Deacon Lock-Up Schedule November 2016

John Roper, Brain Harrell, Gideon Ewing

December 2016 Gary Gray, Richard Manley,

Lendell Glassco

TELLER COMMITTEE

11/27/2016 12/04/2016

Pokey Payne Pokey Payne

Greg Johns Greg Johns

Our people came – 11/20/16

FBC SS Total 320

Our people gave – 11/15 -11/21

Undesignated $ 24,524.00 BF & CTG 535.00 Other 3,695.15 TOTAL $ 28,754.15

Challenge to GrowChallenge to Grow

Loan Balance Citizens –$ 1,441,245.38

Monthly Need –$ 10,508.85

CTG Last Mth Rec –Oct –$ 2,995.00

CTG MTD (11/21/16) –$ 4,725.00

Nursery Worker Schedule 8:15 Service

Eva Tidwell, Linda Cole, Beverly Miller, Natalie Bradshaw, Blake & Sally

Campbell, Tracy Smith (desk) 10:30 Service

Eva Tidwell, Linda Cole, Holly Lane, Jaime Seymour, Caron Kirk, Caroline

Kirk

Bring your family to supper with us on Wednesdays!

Supper Begins at 5:00 pm!

1 Adult $ 5.00

2 Adults $10.00

1 Adult/1 Child $ 7.50

1 Adult/2 Children $10.00

1 Adult/3 Children $12.50

2 Adults/1 Child $12.50

2 Adults/2 Children $15.00

Family Cap $15.00

11/30/2016

Please check the

Church’s website

for this week’s menu.

Terrace Lake Bible Study - 10:00 am

November 28— Dick Maples

December 5— Duck Williams

The youth group is thankful for a supportive church family and Sunday school teachers!

* Sunday night student discipleship and parent class will go until Dec. 4th and resume after Christmas Break.

* Wednesday night Outflow starts this week!! Please send a few dollars each week with your child. The entire group will donate money and one group will go out into the community and prayerfully give it away.

Nov. 30th: Middle school boys and girls Dec. 7th: Sr High boys Dec. 21st: Sr High girls

* Youth Christmas party Wednesday, Dec. 14th at lodge. Everyone bring a 2liter drink.

DISCIPLESHIP ANYTIME...ANYWHERE…

Coming January 2017:

Experiencing God, with Jeff Renard Marriage Enrichment

LIFE

Marshall Manor Christmas Store

It is once again time for items for the Marshall Manor nursing home Christmas store. The residents love this project as they can come into our store and get two or three items to give their family. Please bring anything that's appropriate for this ministry

to the box across from the library marked CHRISTMAS STORE by December 5th. There is a list on this box of appropriate items. Thanks.

THE ALABAMA BAPTIST: CELEBRATING 175 YEARS OF TELLING THE STORY

Our church has a singular opportunity to become a member of The Founder’s Society

of The Alabama Baptist—underwriting the celebration of 175 years of leadership in

Baptist missions journalism. A beautiful pictorial book will recount the story of

Alabama Baptists and highlight our unique role in the founding of the Southern

Baptist Convention. Our church has a goal of $2,000 to help support this significant

milestone in our state’s missions outreach. Brother Joel has additional information

about the project. We need to reach our goal by December 1 in order to help our

church be a founding entity in preserving our Alabama Baptist history. We will also

be able to pre-order copies of this anniversary publication. See our bulletin board in

the hallway for details.

Calendar of Events

A Calendar of Events for the upcoming holiday season is now

available. Copies can be found on the table outside the church

office. The calendar is also posted on the church website.

The jail ministry will be putting together fruit baskets again this year. If you would

like to participate, we will meet Friday, December 16th at 8:00am in the

Fellowship Hall. It should only take about an hour to complete them. If you have

any questions, or would like more information, please contact Kevin Hawk at

256-302-2111 or khawk@factory-connection.com.

FBC Goal: $58,000.00

Received: $4,222.27

I want to thank everyone at the church for your prayers and cards and you weekly

information. I read it over and over. I am doing very well right now and I love all

of you and hope to see you all soon. God bless the people at First Baptist Church.

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Love to all,

Shirley Leslie

Orchestra Rehearsal—today at 3:00pm

Mature Adults

Saturday, December 10th, 11:00am. We will have our annual Christmas Brunch in

the Fellowship Hall. Ladies, please bring your favorite Christmas dessert. Please sign

up in your class room or call the office to make your reservations.