169 Center Avenue Sumrall, MS 39482 Phone (601) 758-4738

Fax (601) 758-3762

Website: www.fbcsumrall.org

Email:

office@fbcsumrall.org

Philip Cooper, Pastor

Email: philipcooper@fbcsumrall.org Phone: 601-516-0790 (cell)

Phillip Butler, Minister of Music & Education

Email: phillipbutler@fbcsumrall.org Phone: 601-758-3129 (home) ~ 601-516-0699 (cell)

Student Ministry Naomi Nichols, Interim Youth Ministry Coordinator

Email: students@fbcsumrall.org Phone: 601-325-5677 (cell)

June Bourne, Church Secretary Carla Cook, Financial Secretary

Email: junebourne@fbcsumrall.org Email: carlacook@fbcsumrall.org

Tim Etheridge, Maintenance

Email: timetheridge@fbcsumrall.org

OPPORTUNITIES FOR MINISTRY THIS WEEK: Sunday (AM) 8:45 Sunday School 10:00 Morning Worship (PM) 6:00 Evening Worship - Children’s Musical 7:00 Adult Choir Practice Wednesday (PM) 5:15 NO FAMILY MEAL: Meals will resume Wednesday, January 8, 2013. 6:00 Celebrate Recovery Preschool Choir (ages 4 & 5) - (Preschool Bldg) Children’s Choir (1st - 6th grade) (Upstairs over FLC) 6:30 Youth Christmas Party (FLC) 7:00 Prayer Meeting Mission Friends (ages 4 & 5) - (Preschool Bldg) RA’s & GA’s (1st - 6th grade) (Upstairs over FLC) 7:15 Adult Choir Practice (Sanctuary) Friday (AM)10:00 SBK Christmas Program (Sanctuary) (PM) 7:00 Friday Night Bible Study (home of Lucille Lott)

The Church Office Will be closed Tuesday, December 24th - Wednesday, January 1st.

Lamar County Schools & Sumrall Baptist Preschool will dismiss at noon on Friday, December 20th. Classes will resume on Tuesday, January 7th.

Volunteers - December 15, 2013

NURSERY WORKERS:

AM-BB Tina Cooper, Joel & Kerri Lofton, Mitchell & Kristi Raynes

AM-TOD(1) Justin Winburn, Richard & Jennifer Broom

AM-TOD(2) Justin & Brittany Hawkins, Dale Logan

PM-BB & TOD Robin Douglas, Jim & Marilyn Sumrall, John Carley

USHERS TODAY: Darvin Sibley, John Williams,

Pat Peterson, Tim McNeil

PRAYER PARTNERS: Morning, Jan Gunter

Evening, Joy Conerly

CHILDREN’S CHURCH: Brandy Boyer

3-YEAR OLD EXTENDED SESSION: Amy Hester

ANGEL PATROL volunteers for the month of December are Jim & Peggy

Goodwin 601-758-1900 or 901-848-0235.

Sermon Notes

Isaiah’s Christmas Message Isaiah 7:14

I. A Supernatural Birth (Isa. 7:14)

A. The Method of the Birth

B. The Meaning of the Birth

II. A Supernatural Person (Isa. 9:6-7)

A. Eternal King

B. Wonderful

C. Counselor

D. The Mighty God

E. The Everlasting Father

F. The Prince of Peace

III. A Supernatural Work (Isa. 53:4-6)

WORSHIP ETIQUETTE - Our worship service is a time when people make life-changing decisions that affect their souls for eternity. We want the service to be a meaningful experience for all in attendance. Therefore, we ask that you please honor these requests:

-Turn off all cell phones and other devices. -Visit the restroom facilities prior to the start of the service. -If there’s an emergency requiring you to leave, exit to the rear, quietly. -We provide a nursery with loving volunteers for 0-3 years and a children’s service for 4 year olds. Ask a member or usher for directions to our nursery.

BELLEVUE BAPTIST CHURCH invites our ladies to their

2014 Annual Women’s Conference... “Praise” on January 23rd at

6 p.m. Tickets are $10 ($2.00 of each ticket will go to Breast

Cancer Research) and can be purchased through the church office

at Bellevue Baptist Church. 601-264-7699.

December 15, 2013

Presented by:

FBC Sumrall Sanctuary Choir

Sunday, Dec. 22nd @ 6 p.m.

Christmas Fellowship immediately following in the FLC. Bring your

favorite finger food!

ANGEL PATROL VOLUNTEERS: If you are interested in serving on Angel Patrol for 2014,

please sign the sheet in the Church Foyer. If you have questions, please see Glenda Cody.

FRIDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY & DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING will not meet for the remainder of December.

OUR CHRISTMAS EVE SERVICE will meet Tuesday, Decemer 24th at 8 p.m. We will be observing the Lord’s Supper. Come join us for this special service celebrating Jesus’ birth.

Prayer Meeting WILL NOT meet on Wed. Dec. 25th or Wed. Jan. 1st! There WILL NOT be any preschool / children’s / or youth activities on these nights. Have a safe and Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Why Give to the LMCO? Southern Baptists’ faithful giving undergirds the thousands of missionaries sent from our churches, through the International Mission Board, and all the single, eternal purpose: making disciples in the name

of Jesus. This is what it means for all of us, together to be TotALLy

His. In a recent year 1,400,000 individuals heard the Gospel for the first time. More than 266,000 new believers were baptized and more than 24,000 churches were started.

Church Goal $21,000 / Received to Date $3,874

Morning Worship

Welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastor Philip Cooper

Fellowship . . . . . . “Let There Be Glory and Honor and Praises”

Prelude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A Pulpit Point of View . Lottie Moon Christmas Offering Video

Call To Worship: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sanctuary Choir

Scripture & Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Dr. Dorman Laird “Isaiah 7:14”

Worship in Music: Hymn 94 . . . . . “Angels, from the Realms of Glory” . . . . . . . Hymn 93. . . .“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” . . . . . . .

Worship through Giving: (Children’s Church - 4 year old exit)

Message in Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jarrod Hester

Message from the Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Pastor Philip Cooper “Isaiah’s Christmas Message”

Invitation Hymn 281 . . . . . “Speak to My Heart” . . . . . . . . . . .

Ministry Opportunities & Budget Vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Benediction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Josh Williamson

Postlude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

“Happy Birthday Jesus”

Presented by: Our Preschool & Children’s Choir

This evening @ 6 p.m.

Reminder: Prior to the Musical - Preschool choir will meet in the preschool

building at 5:30 p.m. & Children’s choir will meet in the gym at 5:30 p.m.

Upward Basketball: First Practice: Monday, January 13, 2014;

First Game: Saturday, January 25, 2014; Awards Celebration: Monday, March 3, 2014; We need lots of volunteers… Coaches, Referees, Prayer/Devotions, Concession Workers, etc. Please see Jeremy Patterson to sign up. If you would like to help sponsor a child please make your check payable to FBC Sumrall & indicate on your check “upward sponsorship”.

Hard Copies of the “Winter Newsletter” are available in the

church foyer. If you would like to be added to the email list,

please email your request to junebourne@fbcsumrall.org.

Thanks!

Instant Church

Directory

Our church pictorial directory is available for download on your smart phone with a FREE app! If you have any questions please call the church office at 601-758-4738.

A Note

from Your Financial Secretary: Please remember that all contributions to be counted for 2013 must be turned into the church office by:

Sunday, Dec. 29th.

Youth Christmas Party, December 18th, 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. in the FLC

D-Now Weekend: January 10th - 12th… Cost $35 (Please sign up asap)

No Youth Activities: Wednesday, December 25th & Wednesday, January 1st.

Merry Christmas The Church Office will be closed

December 23rd—January 1st

Happy New Year