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Sunday, January 18 8:15a Contemporary Worship 9:15 Breakfast 9:45 Sunday School 11:00 Traditional Worship 4:30p Celebration Choir Rehearsal 4:30 Children’s Choirs Rehearsal 4:45 Youth Discipleship 6:00 Evening Worship Monday, January 19 5:45p Handbell Rehearsal Tuesday, January 20 Wednesday, January 21 7:10a Youth Devo/Breakfast-FBC 5:30p Bible Drill in Faith Factory Women of Grace Rehearsal 6:00 Deacon Prayer Time 6:15 Faith Factory 6:30 Adult Bible Study/Youth Worship/Celebration Choir Follow Me Bible Study-F217 7:45 Praise Team Rehearsal Thursday, January 22 9:30a Happy Feet 10:00 By the Book Bible Study - F217 12:30p Low Vision Support Group Friday, January 23 10:00a Song, Scripture & Sustenance 12:30p Noon Prayer Time January 18, 2015 First Baptist Church, Douglas, GA Worship - 8:15 a.m., 11 a.m., and 6 p.m. Sunday School - 9:45 a.m. HAPPY FEET NEWS Security Duty - January 18 8:15 a.m., S.S., 11 a.m., 6:00 p.m. & Wednesday Jerald Guthrie, Reggie Gilliard Brian Dubberly Extended Care 8:15: Clay & Leann Smith, Ron & Julee Brooke Lewis, Amanda Scholten, Anna Grace Scholten, Robert & Heather Preston 11:00: Stacy & Diane Roberson, Amanda Minix family, Lisa Williams 6:00: Paid Workers SUNDAY SCHOOL TOTAL IN SUNDAY SCHOOL 493 TOTAL S.S. ENROLLMENT 921 Contacts 53 OUR GIVING Weekly Budget Needs $28,163.19 Given This Week $27,225.47 YTD Budget Needs $56,326.38 YTD Budget Given $42,928.47 Special Offerings: Balance of Designations/Week $828.00 Storehouse Fund Given/Week $370.00 YTD $415.00 Missions $995.00 Missions YTD $1,160.00 Benevolence $250.00 LAST WEEK’S REPORT 1/11 GET THE LATEST NEWS ON FACEBOOK firstbapstchurchdouglas LISTEN ONLINE hp://cdouglasga.sermon.tv/ Live at 11:00 AM Sundays & archived FOLLOW US @FBCDouglasGA ON THE WEB www.cdouglas.com CHURCH STAFF Shep Johnson, Pastor [email protected] John Butler, Assoc. Pastor (Education & Administration) [email protected] B.J. Holliday, Minister of Music and Worship [email protected] Mike Clements, Minister to Students [email protected] Doug Wasden, First Academy Headmaster [email protected] Diane Roberson, Preschool and Children’s Director [email protected] Peggy Hurd, Family Ministry Center Director [email protected] Rhonda Saeed, Ministry Assistant [email protected] Antoinette McKinnon, Pastor’s Assistant [email protected] Trish Payton, Financial Secretary [email protected] Arnie Bowers, Facilities Manager [email protected] Aline Littleton, Custodian Bruce Bassett, Maintenance Hunter Latham, Night Custodian Michael Ingram, School Custodian THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR 6 1-21-15 Wednesday Night Supper Menu Hamburgers French Fries Corn & Salad Bar Cake Children & Youth Ministry 2 Education 2 Missions 3-4 Music 5 Traditional Service Order of Worship 5 Weekly Calendar 6 Place of Service 6 Inside this issue: The Grapevine is a weekly publicaon of First Bapst Church, Douglas, GA, located at 124 Gaskin Ave North. The church phone number is 912.384.5598. From the Grapevine... Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina, was founded by Methodists and Quakers in 1838. Today it is regarded as a premier private research university with a worldwide reputation. Recently Duke was in the news because according to WRAL.com, “The university announced plans [last] Tuesday for members of the Duke Muslim Students Association to start the three-minute weekly call or chant, known as adhan or azan, on Friday afternoon.” The broadcast of that weekly call to prayer was to be made from the Duke Chapel tower. The Duke Chapel is, of course, an historic place of Christian worship. Can you imagine a mosque in Iran or Syria playing “Amazing Grace” from one of its minarets on Sunday mornings as a gesture of kindness towards the Christian community? Of course not. No one questions the right of anyone in this nation to worship as he or she chooses. The First Amendment guarantees us of that freedom. But for Duke University to broadcast a Muslim call to prayer from the Duke Chapel tower would be a great insult to that institution’s Christian heritage and its Christian students and faculty. Quoting further from the WRAL.com article: “The [original] decision caused a national furor, with Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Rev. Billy Graham and the head of the international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, posting on his Facebook page that followers of Islam are ‘butchering’ people who don’t share their beliefs and urging Duke alumni and supporters to withhold donations.” “In a Thursday interview with WRAL News, Graham refused to back down, even for those Muslims who have condemned radical Islamic actions.” “‘I don’t feel I owe an apology to anybody. I think Duke University, they owe an apology,’ he said. ‘They’re the ones who owe the apology to Christian students and the ones who donated money for the chapel.’” “Michael Schoenfeld, Duke’s vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Thursday that the call to prayer would take place in a quad outside the chapel.” “‘Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant, and welcoming campus for all of its students,’ Schoenfeld said in a statement. ‘However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.’” Duke officials backed down. The Muslim group will still be able to exercise their religious freedom and issue their call to prayer, but not from the Duke Chapel Tower. There is a powerful message in all of this. Christians spoke up and prevailed. This was not a matter of religious freedom or intolerance. This was about an insult to the Christian faith made by a University originally established to advance the Christian faith. No thoughtful individual could come to a different conclusion. But the good news is that Christians stood up and spoke up and it made a difference. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 16:13 (NASB95), “Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.” Let us recommit ourselves to stand up and speak up for the sake of Jesus Christ who was lifted up on a cross that we might have eternal life. Bro. Shep Join us for a Happy New Year Wishes Life is like this cider, it’s sweet, so warm and nice. But in its perfect mixture lies a bit of tart and spice. With warm wishes from First Baptist Church Happy Feet. Come and be a part of this ministry on Thursdays at 9:30 in the old social hall. Flowers The flowers placed in the sanctuary today are to the glory of God and in memory of Gran Schofield, Merle Parker, Tom Parker, Paul Parker and Stuart Hutchinson by the Schofield and Parker families. Friday, January 23 10AM—2PM Tickets are $5 and are available before and after Sunday School at the FMC Welcome Desk and Outside the Old Social Hall. For more details see page 5 Christian Sympathy We extend Christian Sympathy to Mr. Leland Mullis upon the passing of his wife, Betty Mullis. Please keep this family in your prayers. We extend Christian Sympathy to Winnie Vaughn upon the death of her brother, Allen Buchan. Please keep her family in your prayers. SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS TRAINING Saturday January 31, 2015, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Room F217
