Tim Martin Minister to Students

Students

The 2020 Mission Trip to Memphis has been cancelled .

To ensure you are getting the lat-

est news from the Student Ministry

group, you can do the following:

Text: FBESTUDENTS

to 94090

Standard message and data rates

may apply.

Live streaming with Tim on the “Sincerely God” series continues each Wednesday night

at 6:30 p.m. View on Facebook under FBE Bunker or First Baptist East View on FBE’s website www.firstbaptisteast.com under Sermons & Specials View on Instagram page under FBE Bunker (comes in parts)

Falls Creek 2020 Tentative Schedule

July 15-18 Stay tuned for more details!

Non-Profit Organ. U.S. Postage Paid

Permit #123 Lawton, Oklahoma,

73501

May 5, 2020

www.firstbaptisteast.com

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED

3302 SE Lee Blvd., Lawton, OK 73501

Worship Services Set to Resume May 17!

9 a.m. & 10:55 a.m.

It will be worship only for the time being!

Social distancing will be in affect, so you will be ushered to your seat and a limited

number of people will be seated! Child care will be dependent on our state moving to

Phase 2 of the reopening of public places. There will be no children’s church at this time.

First Baptist East Church

3302 SE Lee Blvd.

Lawton, OK 73501

580-355-6190

OUR SERVICES

Live Worship Begins May 17 at 9 a.m. or 10:55 a.m.!

Watch our Sunday morning services online on our Facebook page

(First Baptist East Lawton) at 10:55 a.m.

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Children & Families

Kevin Slough Pastor to Children & Families

www.firstbaptisteast.com

If you are unable to attend our on-campus worship services you can watch them on our First Baptist East Lawton Facebook page on Sunday mornings (9 a.m. or 10:55 a.m. beginning May 17). At this time, we are not having any evening on-campus services. You’ll want to check the

FBE Children Facebook page weekly on Wednesday evenings for a short lesson from Kevin.

Cross Timbers (June 29-July 2)

We are awaiting an announcement about our week at Cross Timbers which is supposed to be made by their staff on May 18. Once our week is confirmed we will make registration forms available and the parent meet-ing will be held. Please watch our Facebook page (FBE Children) for up-

dates. https://www.facebook.com/FirstEastChildren/https://twitter.com/FBE_Children

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A Word About Online Giving

Recently we have been encouraging our mem-bers to try online giving. It’s easy, simple and fast for you. Simply go to the church website or sign in to your Realm account. On the website, click on the “Give” button and follow the in-structions. If on your Realm account, click on “Giving” and follow the instructions. At this time we do not accept debit or credit cards. If you desire to give in person, you may drop it in the plate (when worship resumes), drop it by the office (Monday-Thursday - closed during lunch hour) or mail it to 3302 SE Lee Blvd, Lawton, OK 73501.

Facebook Devotions Continue to watch devotions from the Psalms done by our staff members. The devotions are on Wednesday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday and will conclude on Tuesday, May 12. Check out these devotions on our church Facebook page!

Things to Remember When You Return There will be no bulletins available. Check the screens for announcements and

other outlets such as social media and our texting service for information

There will be no formal greeting time during the worship services

Our maintenance staff has been working diligently over these past few weeks to make sure things are clean - our preschool rooms have been thoroughly cleaned for the time we resume child care

Social distancing should be practiced at all times - you will be encouraged to go to the parking lot for fellowship and conversation

From the Pastor It has been awhile since all have been to-gether in worship. But things are changing. We are seeing businesses starting to open and on May 17 we will open for worship. I am looking forward to having people sitting in the pew chairs when I preach. I am looking for-ward to your smiling faces. I hope you will be with us on May 17. Let me share what is happening on that day. We will have two worship times - one at 9:00 a.m. & one at 10:55 a.m. They will be identi-cal in music and message. When we come, we have to still take precautions. This will be a no touch area. We will not have a fellow-ship time. Every other row of chairs will be

marked off and we need to leave three chairs between every family. Your family can sit together. We are going to ask you to let the ushers seat you this first week so we can see how its going to work. I know this is totally different but be patient as we try to follow the guidelines of our city. There will be no other activities until further notice. If you are struggling or have some needs, please let us know. We look forward to see-ing you May 17.

Sunday is Mother’s Day. Since I will not see you except online, let me wish each mother a spe-cial blessing for Mother’s Day. You are a blessing to your family and to your church. God Bless you. —Bro. Doug

Doug Passmore Pastor

Education

Connection Hour is our primary strategy to connect people to Jesus, His truth, His

mission and His community.

Trey Smart Minister of Education

Music

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For Your Information

Ministry Outside Sundays

Zach Foley Minister of Outreach & Mobilization

4.6 billion - that’s the number of people living in a country with restricted access to missionaries, meaning to gain access to the country you have to offer a specific skill set that their country could benefit from. 55,000 - that’s the number of people who die DAILY within those countries, who have likely never heard the name of Jesus. 3 mil-lion - that’s the number of churches needed in those countries to spread the gospel. Hearing all of this, you have to wonder, why did God allow us to live in the country we live in? Why did God allow us to get the specific skill sets through education, training, etc.? Is it really so we could have our best life now and so we could enjoy the comforts of this world because we’ve “earned it”? What if your gifting, training, and skills were given to you for the glory of God (Romans 12:1)? The realities of the world we live in and the truth of the gospel forces us to ask the painstaking question: what am I using all of the things God has given me for?

We are assisting this ministry by feeding for three Fridays in May - May 8, 15 and 22. A generous donation has allowed us to be able to cover almost all of our needs to take care of the number being fed. If you have any further questions, please con-tact Holly Wells at 580-695-2595. Thank you to everyone who helped in the month of April and during the upcoming days in May!

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Harry Ross Minister of Music

Periodicals

Available in

Church Office Copies of Home Life, Parenting Children and Parenting Teen-agers as well as devotion mag-azines for kids for April and May are available for you to pick up in the church office.

With Sympathy… The pastor and church family ex-tend Christian sym-pathy to Destini & Trenton Hennes-see in the death of their grandmother.

Memorial Contributions We have received memorial contributions to the An-nie Armstrong Mission Fund from Mike & Jan Williams in memory of Charlotte Mullen and Velta Hair.

Annie Armstrong Offering Total:

$6,262.95 Thank you for your faithfulness to give to this offering that as-sist our North American Mis-sion Board in church planting and evangelism in the United States and Canada.

Monthly Recap April Average Attendance

Connection Hour Average Attendance N/A

Discipleship Average Attendance N/A

April Monthly Giving $ 98,908

Monthly Budget Requirements $ 116,180

Year to Date Budget Receipts $ 403,124

Year to Date Budget Requirements $ 464,720

April BFHG $ 1,685

BFHG Year to date $ 6,454

April Additions 0

By Baptism 0

By Letter 0

By Watchcare/Statement 0

BLESS THE LORD, O MY SOUL!! Psalm 103:1 says, “ Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name!” When we sing, we engage our mind, will, and emo-tions. ‘All that is within us’ is involved. The natural result is that our emo-tions and spirit can be lifted (if we’re singing uplifting music) or discour-aged-it depends so much on the content of our song. At a time when our hearts might be discouraged or stressed due to these unusual circum-stances, let me encourage you to intentionally take the time to sing songs of praise to the Lord. You just might find your heart soaring with joy as you glorify God. Give it a try-you’ll be glad you did!

Ways To Reach Out to People During This Time While the pandemic has halted activities at church, it has not halted the church. There are still ways God can use you to make a difference for the Kingdom of God! Here are a few sugges-tions you might consider:

Continue to be on the lookout for people moving in and out of your neighborhoods.

Invite people to watch our live stream of the services and if they feel comfortable to at-tend one of our two services beginning May 17.

Start talking to people when walking in the neighborhood (use social distancing!) or when you go out to pick up food or run other errands.

Make a video of your personal testimony and share it on social media with a message of how to contact you or contact our church office.

Put together a care package of some kind (cookies, etc.) and pass out to 10 or 12 of your neighbors with a note on how they can watch our services.

Consider starting your own Bible study using Zoom with people that do not attend!

When will

Connection Hour

Resume? The easy answer is we do not know! We will do it when it is safe to meet in groups (probably without social distancing) and when we believe it is safe for everyone to be togeth-er. Like everything else we want you to feel com-fortable and safe!

Mother’s Day Offering Traditionally during this time we usually receive the Moth-er’s Day Offering for Oklahoma Baptist Homes for Children and Baptist Village Communities (senior adult care). For 2020, this offering has been postponed, but if you want to give during the month of May, you can still do so by desig-nating your gift “Mother’s Day Offering.” These two organizations are extensions of your ministry to your local community and across Oklahoma. These minis-tries touch thousands of lives in the name of Christ and provide help in ways that could be difficult, if not impossible, for a single church to provide.

At the current time no weekly activities are being held. Watch for when some of our ministries may resume. Worship begins May 17!

NEW DATE! July 27-31

9 a.m.-12 noon Your help is needed!

With the change of our dates, some of our volunteers that had been enlisted cannot serve. If you were not available in June, but could volunteer on this new date, we need you! Contact Trey, Linda or Kevin if you would like to help in the outreach event of the year for our church! The faculty meeting will be at a date to be determined. If you have not picked up your literature, you can drop by the church office and do so.

The Best Way to Stay

Informed

Stay up to date on schedule changes and information by signing up for our texting service. It is the quickest way to stay informed, in addi-tion to our Facebook page. It is easy to do! Just text one of the following words to 94090 and you will be signed up for that group and you will receive texts that go to everyone, also. You can opt out of receiving texts at any time and it is possible, depending on your cell service, that message and data rates may apply. Use the following to join one of the groups: fbestudents (student ministry) fbechildren (children’s ministry) fbechleader (Connnection Hour volunteers) fbechoir (adult choir) fbemen (men’s ministry) fbewomen (women’s ministry)