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A Word From the Pastor

This coming Sunday we will look into a passage that many of us learned as kids. John 6 begins with the story of Jesus feeding the 5000. In your study and quiet time this week, I want to ask you to read through the story several times, but I want you to focus in on verses 5-6. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?" But He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.

God is never at a lost for what to do next. Our situations never catch Him off guard. Unfortunately, He is many times the last place that we seek for help or answers. Just as Jesus tested Philip, He tests us, giving us the opportunity to be strengthened in our faith. This week in your quiet time, I would like to ask you to consider three questions. First, where are you being tested? Second, how is God seeking to strengthen your faith in Him? Finally, are there any areas in my life that I am not trusting Christ?

Our goal in life is to become more like Christ. The refining process at times can seem unbearable, but the outcome is worth everything we endure. I pray that as individuals and a family that we would be strengthened in our faith and become more like Christ.

Looking forward to Sunday!

from

FRONT STREET BAPTIST CHURCH

Monday, February 9th

3:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Presenting donors can enter a drawing for

Delta Airline Tickets.

Please bring photo I.D.

N. B. Mills February Teacher Treats

The second Monday of February is almost here! If you need assistance in delivering your treats to the school by Monday, February 9, please bring them to the Pre-school 5 Sunday School classroom on Sunday, February 8. Thank you for your help in this mission outreach!

Two-Day Missions Opportunity to Help Families in Substandard Housing

Our church will going on a missions trip to Red Springs Missions Camp on the 12^th of March. You can make a big difference in the life of a family living in substandard housing. We will be leaving the church parking lot at 6:00pm and returning to the church on Saturday night March the 14^th. Please sign up and list your abilities in home construction and maintenance. We will also need you to bring your tools to work with.

Areas of work include:

Carpentry
Electrical
Painting
Plumbing
Masonry

The cost of the trip is $15.00 per day. You will need to bring sheets and towels as well as other toiletries you require.

For more information about the camp, visit: http://www.ncmissions.org/Projects/NorthCarolina/RedSprings.aspx and http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/content/news/2008/06_18_2008/ne18062008red.shtml

If you are interested in going, please contact Keith Somers at ksomers@yadtel.net or contact the church office. We will send you a form that you must fill out.

February Young at Heart Meeting!

The February meeting of the Young at Heart will be on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. You will enjoy our program as well as our lunch, catered by Box Car Grille at the cost of $2.25 per plate. The menu this month consists of Chattanooga Steak-brown cubed steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, pinto beans, fruit salad, rolls, and tea. Join us for a time of fun, food and fellowship!

Barnabas Project

Love in Action

Saturday, February 7, 2009

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

NB Mills Needs Tennis Balls!

Would you be willing to donate your used tennis balls to NB Mills School? If so, please bring your donations to the 5-year-old classroom or give them to Norma Hellard or Judy Harwell.

Thank you!

2009 Offering Envelopes

The 2009 Offering Envelopes are ready to be picked up in the first floor of the educational building near the courtyard door.

Thank You!

2008 Contribution Records

The 2008 Contribution Records are ready to be picked up. They are located in the Fellowship Hall.

Thank you!

Medical Missions Trip to Honduras

Our church Is sending eleven people to Honduras in February to run a week-long medical clinic at a Baptist church in Choluteca, helping them to reach their community. The physical and spiritual needs are great in Honduras. We are working with the Honduras Baptist Convention in partnership with the NC Baptist Men. We have one doctor, five nurses, a pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, an interpreter, and two additional workers participating in this mission. We will be hiring a Honduran physician to work with us who will also help coordinate our efforts with the Honduran healthcare system. Additionally, we will be hiring two Honduran interpreters to help us with communication in the work of the clinic.

Each participant has been asked to cover their expenses with personal funds and possibly by raising support through friends and family. Each person is also contributing to additional costs of the trip.

This is where you can help out. The cost of needed medications and supplies to use in our clinic's pharmacy is over $2,500. We also have purchased Spanish New Testaments and other literature. In addition, there are expenses of hiring a doctor and two interpreters. All together, the expenses of the clinic (not including the expenses of the participants) are totaling over $4,500.

If you would like to help us reach Honduras with the good news of Jesus Christ through this medical clinic, you may make a contribution to the clinic's expenses by simply marking Honduras Missions on your check made out to the church. Or, click this link to make a donation online: http://fsmissions.info/Donation.html.

Any donation you make will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Your Honduras Medical Missions Team

Walt & Linda Meadors, Kim Mayberry, Beverly Wright, Wanda Stutts, Linda Blakely, Lynn Baynes, Jackie Swope, Paulette Deal, Kinnan Johnson, Kenny Lamm

Need help in capturing images of
your missions trips to share and inspire?

This workshop is for you!!

A four-hour workshop on video and photography in missions
coming Saturday, February 14th at Front Street Baptist Church,
led by 25-year veteran photographer, corporate video producer,
and former television director, Paul Liggitt.

Click here for more information

Sponsored by the South Yadkin Baptist Association,
the Baptist State Convention of NC,
and the Front Street Baptist Church Missions Ministry.

Children's Sunday School

(Grades 1 - 5)

Children's Sunday School (grades 1-5) begins in the fellowship hall with worship promptly at 9:05 am. Children will be dismissed from the Fellowship Hall by 9:15 to go to their classrooms. If you arrive later than 9:15, please take your child to their classroom.

Parents: PLEASE keep in mind that ALL children need to be picked up by 10:15 to attend worship. Our teachers need to have time to get to the sanctuary, choir, nursery, and other ministry areas. Thank you!

Opportunity for Giving

David and Robin Rankin are going through the process of adopting two more children from Ethiopia. The Ethiopian government requires anyone that is adopting a child to provide some humanitarian aid for children in their country. We have an opportunity to give items to help these children. These are the items that have been requested:

� Huggies Snug & Dry Diapers, sizes 1, 2 and 3.

� Huggies Natural Care Wipes - Unscented.

For more information, please contact the Rankins. There is a container marked "Ethiopian Aid" in the missions collection area where you may drop off your donations.

News and Announcements

Do you have news and announcements for Sunday Morning? If so, please send them to: news@frontstreet.org or call the church office by Thursday morning of that week. We will insert your announcement into our slide show presentation before the service begins. Please be sure to include any clipart or photos.

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Attention Young at Heart!

Your $58.00 deposit for the April 6 - 8, 2009 Fort Caswell Trip is due by February 20.

If you are planning to go on this trip, sign-up sheets are on the bulletin board outside the church office.

Also, you need to pay Kathy your $38.00 for the May 8, 2009 trip to the Barn Dinner Theatre as soon as possible, so we can go ahead and make the reservations.

For more details, please see John Wright.

Cross Connection Youth Ministry

NEXT WEEK:

Wednesday, February 4: Youth Group, Meet in the Youth Room, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, February 8: Youth Group, meet in the Youth Room, 5:30 p.m.

Wednesday, February 11: Youth Group, Meet in the Youth Room, 6:30 p.m.

February is Kleenex Collection Month for N.B. Mills School

This month, we will be collecting Kleenex for N.B. Mills School. We will not be collecting items for Teen Challenge as previously published. Teen Challenge has relocated outside of our area. We do plan to continue financially supporting them at least through the remainder of this year. However, due to their new location, we will discontinue any monthly missions collection items for them.

Any items you may bring in intended for Teen Challenge will be donated to the South Yadkin Baptist Association to help needy families. Thank you for your faithfulness in missions!

Kenny

Prayer Requests

Thank you all for praying each week for our prayer requests. Please take the time to review the list below, pray for the requests on it and advise the church office via e-mail at info@frontstreet.org if a request should be removed or if a request should be added.

Prayer Requests:

Pray for the safety of our men and women serving in the military and the families of those serving.

For Our Church:

Renewal and Awakening.

For God's vision and direction.

For Church Members:

Karrigan Gooden.

Visit Karrigan's Web Page

Holland Blohm.

Visit Holland's Web Page

Randy Morrison, recovering from severe burns.

Pauline Campbell, diagnosed with breast cancer.

Danny Johnson, recovering from back surgery.

Carolyn White, injuries from an automobile accident.

Margaret McGhee, health concerns.

Ida Beasley.

Mike Owens.

Justin Holt, as he recovers from a serious car accident.

Bobbie James, undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Visit Bobbie's Web Page

James Parker, health concerns.

Donald Martin, health concerns.

Hazel Estes, health concerns.

Carole Leischner, lung cancer.

Remember all of our Saints in Care and Saints at Home.

For Our Missionaries:

Norman & Debbie Cannada (NAMB - Charleston, WV)

Kit, Avery & Lucas Putrakul (New Tribes - Cambodia)

Rodney & Beth Love (Hearts of Love - International)

For Friends and Family of Church Members:

Libby Johnson, friend of Louise Caskaddon, serious health concerns.

Sally Spangler, friend of Sandy Boyer, serious health concerns.

Jessica Wentz, friend of Bobbie James and Kisha Clark, has stage 4 lymphoma.

Visit Jessica's Web Page
Hanna Holliday, friend of Bobbie James and Kisha Clark, has leukemia.
Visit Hanna's Web Page

Dave Talbert, area pastor, serious health concerns.

Debbie Funderburk, sister of James Funderburk, serious health concerns.
Vermell Bost, Dorothy Nesbit's aunt, health concerns.

Lisa Lathrop, Logan Buchanan's aunt , has leukemia and needs a transplant.

Nancy Lowrance's sister, Jane Wilson, serious health concerns.

Carl Smith, friend of Hazel Estes, serious health concerns.

Earl Bolen, father of Brenda Gardner, serious health concerns.

Pat Proctor's parents, Walter and Margaret Chaney.
Melissa Holmes' father, Phil Carlton, has cancer.

Betty Minton's sister, Nancy Mitchell (lives in York, PA), has lung cancer.

Angel Food Ministry

Orders for February 2009 will be

taken until Monday, February 16 until 12:00 p.m. and distributed on Saturday, February 21 from 8:30 - 10:00 a.m.

For more information about this ministry or to see this month's menu, please visit the ministry website:

www.AngelFoodMinistries.com

Birthdays

February 7

February 8 Margaret Cloer, Connie Austin, Melissa Stewart, Timothy Clendenin, Paige Fox

February 9 Joy Bradley

February 10 Brian Holland, Julie Hopkins, Roy Swicegood, Greg Waugh

February 11 Dylan Carter

February 12 Nancy Hayes, Kayla Seagraves

February 13 James Parker, Russell, Kay, Audra Harris

Family Concerns and Celebrations

IN THE HOSPITAL:

Iredell Memorial Hospital:

Leona York (room #306)

Ed McLelland (room #311)

Davis Community Hospital:

Betty Lippard (room #314)

SYMPATHY:

We extend Christian love and sympathy to Shelby Parker and Hilda Robinson in the death of their brother-in-law.

THANK YOU!

Dear Church Family,

I want to thank everyone for their prayers, phone calls and visits during Danny's surgery and convalescence. We are so fortunate to have such caring people in our lives. Special thanks to Marvin and Ralph for coming to be with me while Danny was in surgery.

I also want to say thank you to Marvin, Sandy and Tim for their many visits with Helen while she spent more than a month in Iredell.

Thanks, too, for our Sunday School class for their care and concern - not only for Danny and Helen - but also for my sanity as I dealt with the two of them during this period!

Love to All,

Lee Johnson

CALENDAR

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

No Senior Adult Choir Rehearsal

10:00 a.m. Honduras Missions Team Workday

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Youth Drama Scene Rehearsal

6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Children's and Youth Bible Drill

6:30 p.m. Finance Committee Meeting in the Sunday School Office

6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Celebration Choir Rehearsal

6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Missions and Music for Children K-6th Grade;

Youth Group, Meet in the Youth Room; Wednesday

Night Small Group Studies

7:45 p.m. Governing Council Meeting in Pastor Tim's Office

7:55 p.m. Instrumentalist Rehearsal

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6

7:00 a.m. Men's Prayer Breakfast at Friendly Family Restaurant

6:30 p.m. Celebrate Recovery

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Barnabas Project

2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Youth Drama Rehearsal

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8

8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Library Open

9:00 a.m. Sunday School

9:00 - 10:15 a.m. New Member's Class - Week 2

9:30 a.m. Sunday School at Mision
Bautista Hispana

10:30 a.m. Worship Celebration at Front Street Baptist Church

10:35 a.m. Worship Service at Mision Bautista Hispana

3:30 - 5:30 p.m. Youth Drama Rehearsal

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Awana; Sunday Night Small Group Studies; Youth

Group, Meet in the Youth Room; CWA Leadership Team

7:15 p.m. Honduras Missions Team Meeting

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9

3:00 - 7:30 p.m. Blood Drive in the Fellowship Hall

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10

No Senior Adult Choir Rehearsal

11:00 a.m. Young at Heart February Meeting

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Youth Drama Scene Rehearsal

6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Children's and Youth Bible Drill

6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Celebration Choir Rehearsal

6:30 - 7:45 p.m. Missions and Music for Children K-6th Grade;

Youth Group, Meet in the Youth Room; Wednesday

Night Small Group Studies

7:55 p.m. Instrumentalist Rehearsal

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13

7:00 a.m. Men's Prayer Breakfast at Friendly Family Restaurant

6:30 p.m. Celebrate Recovery

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14

10:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Missions Video / Photography Workshop

Service Schedule

Welcoming Committee: M/M Kevin Gooden (SE Choir), M/M David Hare (SW Choir), M/M Jim Hawks (NE Front), Norma Hellard (NW Front)

NURSERY SCHEDULE - Sunday Morning Worship, February 8:

BABIES: Gaye Fox, Beth Charles and Robert Osland
ONE YEAR OLDS: Bob and Martha Howell
TWO YEAR OLDS: Leah Taylor and Manda Stegall
THREE YEAR OLDS: John and Shawna Wilson

NURSERY - OTHER SERVICES:

EVENING SERVICES, FEBRUARY 8:
(5:30 p.m.): Tammy Cantrell and Doris Swaim

WEDNESDAY SERVICE, FEBRUARY 11 (6:30 p.m.): Randy and Barbara Morrison and Kandice Trivett

SUNDAY MORNING WELCOME CENTER:
8:45 - 9:15 a.m.: Pauline Campbell
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Bob Howell and Bobby King

LIBRARY SCHEDULE:
Sunday: 8:30-9:00 a.m.: Brenda Funderburk 6:45-7:30 p.m.: Debbie Lang Wednesday: 6:00-7:30 p.m.: Barbara Morrison, Linda Meadors and Marcia Miller

USHERS FOR FEBRUARY:

AM: Gary Holland, Mickey McCollum, David Hare, Donald Shea, Matt Sharpe and Ralph Campbell

PM: Chuck Howell, Steve Somers, Terry Fox, Franklin Ivey, Wayne Mayberry, Kenneth Lippard and Sam Lowrance

DEACONS/PARKING LOT:
Saturday, February 7: Randy Morrison (704-872-5615) Hospital Visitation Saturday, Parking Lot Patrol Sunday PM

Sunday, February 8: Grady Pharr (704-873-8505) Hospital Visitation Sunday, Parking Lot Patrol Sunday AM

Ken Johnson, Sunday Morning Parking Lot Assistant

A LOOK AT THE RECORD


February 1, 2009:

Worship Attendance.............	381

Sunday School.........................................	289
Enrollment.................................................	685
Members Present.....................................	282
New Members..........................................	0
Visitors......................................................	7
Total Contacts.........................................	4

Tithes and Offerings:

Total Tithes and Offerings....................	$21,682.72
Budget Offering Required......................	$15,308.04
Budget Offering Received......................	$19,766.96
Designated Offerings..............................	$1,608.17
Other Receipts Received........................	$307.59
Budget Needs to Date............................	$336,776.88
Budget Gifts to Date...............................	$326,919.07

Building Fund Totals..............................	$11,013.50