Middle School Retreat Info

Middle School Retreat
Those registered for the Fall Middle School retreat will leave the church at 4:00 PM on Friday, November 2nd. We will return at approximately 1:00 PM on Sunday.

Here is your packing list:
Bible
money for 2 fast food meals out
one snack food for sharing
personal medicines and directions for taking
sheets for single bed or sleeping bag games (cards, Monopoly, etc.)
pillow
toiletries
towels
money for snack bar or P/X souvenirs

Appalachian Outreach Part 3

Here's the final movie in our trilogy. Enjoy.

Mum Fest Success

Thanks to all who helped to park cars during the Mum Fest. We raised $1,485 plus one IOU for $5.00. Check out the photos. The photo link is on the right side of this page. Sorry that there are no photos at Robinson Stith lot.

Appalachian Outreach Video Part 2

Enjoy part 2 of Todd Price's video. What's your favorite part? Tell us all in the comment section and tell us what time it occurs on the counter.

Appalachian Outreach

Check out Part 1 of our Appalachian Outreach Video made by Todd Price. This is a fun look at our week of missionary service in Jefferson City, Tennessee. There will be 2 more parts added to our blog in future days, so keep checking back.

Questions that Haunt Me

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?


What disease did cured ham actually have?


How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on luggage?


Why is it that people say they "slept like a baby" when babies wake up like every two hours?


Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?


Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?


Do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?


Why did you just try singing the two songs above?


Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him for a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?

Answers to the above questions would help me to sleep better at night.

Just wondering...How do you use your cell phone?

I’m curious…for everyone that has a mobile/cell phone, how have you used your phone in the last 30 days? (phone calls, texting, email, web browsing, games, instant messaging, listening to music, watching videos, or something else?) What do you use it for the most?

And the bonus question…How many hours a day would you guess that you use it?

Click on comment and let me know. Remember, no last names.

Video of FBC Youth

A local reporter from WCTI-12 caught this video of high school students from First Baptist Church on their way to school. It seems that the students had just left a morning devotional at Bojangles. Check out Matthew 25:31-46 to see what the devotion was all about.

Help Needed CROP Walk 2007

August marked the 60th anniversary of CROP--the community hunger appeal of Church World Service--and the beginning of the fall CROP Hunger Walks season, in which tens of thousands of people in communities across the U.S. will sacrifice a few hours (and a blister or two) to raise money and show solidarity with impoverished people struggling to become self-sufficient. The CROP Walkers' motto: We walk because they walk!

This Sunday, October 7th, New Bern will be holding its annual walk. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds raised will go to help Religious Community Services soup kitchen and emergency food pantry. Our youth have been asked to prepare and operate a water station in front of our church. We need several of you to help give out water. You need to be on the front steps of the church at 3:00 PM. I hope that you can come and support this wonderful mission project.

FBC Mission Story

I received a great story in my e-mail yesterday from Arnie and Mary Lou Harrell and a recent mission project that they have been doing with some refugees from our church. I thought that you may be interested in reading. Please be in prayer for the family mentioned in this story. Also be in prayer seeking ways for God to use you today.

"It's been a wonderful day. The clock alarmed at 6:30am. We were up and dressed at 8am. The Chin people were ready to go when we arrived and we left New Bern at 8:30am. The baby, 12 months, and his mom and dad sat on the back seat. Sang and Sai sat in the second seats and Arnie and I in front, I drove. We stopped in Kinston at McDonalds and they had breakfast.

Then we drove straight to Durham, arriving there at 11:30am. We parked in the parking building and when we started into the hospital we met two nurses in the elevator. We asked how to find the sick baby nursery, and they gave us directions. Before we left the area, one of the nurses came back to us, said she worked there, and would take us to the nursery. She came in and showed us what we had to do to check in. I told her the Lord sent her to us. I think she was getting off work and on her way home...

When they went to the window, and Arnie told them who they were, the lady said "thank the Lord that you are here". They had not been able to get in touch with the family at all. None of the phone numbers that they had were correct. A nurse came in and said that she was the baby's nurse. This little boy was born on August 16th, three months too early. He had a rupture in his bowl and had to have surgery, had respritory difficulty, among a lot of other problems. He weighs 2 pounds, 7 ounces. His mother is using a breast pump and was saving her milk. It should have been frozen, but she didn't know. He is now being fed with an IV.

After we had been there a while, they connected with an interpreter on the phone, and they were able to ask questions of the parents. Arnie and Sang were in the room with them. They were in there for over an hour. Sai was tending to the older baby and he had two naps in the waiting room. I was amazed at how many people were coming and going to see their baby. It was about 5:30pm when we were ready to go. It broke my heart to have to take his parents away.

Arnie drove us to Selma where we saw a Chinese Restaurant and we stopped. Arnie and I had only eaten a piece of toast, so we were hungry. They had a nice buffet and we all ate plenty. As we were leaving, our cell phone rang. I thought it was Lauren, but it was the Chaplain at Duke Hospital. Arnie had tried to get in touch, but she was not in her office. So, he left a message with the nurse about the baby. When she talked to Arnie, she had already been to the nursery and prayed for the little boy. She said he was beautiful, and that she would go every day and say a prayer for him. They talked for a while and we got in the van. Soon we were on our way home.

It was 8;30pm when we got to New Bern, and dropped off the families. The baby was sleeping, and I know he was exhausted. Everyone was, but it had been a wonderful day. We came home, fed our animals, and now Arnie is putting the finishing touches on the Sunday School lesson. Mary Lyn has found a Bible online and thinks it is in their dialect. She is printing our lesson, The Rich Young Ruler, and tomorrow we will see if they can read it.

It's time for bed, tomorrow is another busy day."

Mary Lou