Text Box:   Text Box: First Baptist Church EDITION OF The Baptist Record Church Offices: 20144 Pineville Road, Suite B Mailing Address: P. O. Box 338 Long Beach, MS 39560 228-864-2584, Website: www.fbclb.com Text Box: March 6, 2008 Text Box:   OUR GOD REIGNS! Text Box: Total Annual Budget             $835,869.00 Budget to Date Needed          $346,964.20 Budget Received to Date       $352,662.83   March 2008 Budget as of 3/31/08                   $  78,855.55 Budget Rec. as of 3/02/08          $  22,124.34   His Church Rising Totals           $648,135.08 Tennessee Disaster Relief       $  6,291.10 

Text Box: Hey Youth,                  Well, our first Sunday of cross sales was a complete success. We sold all 78 of the crosses we had out in the hall. I want to say thanks to everyone that purchased one and we really do appreciate it. Those of you that said you would help sell-you’re not off the hook. Mr. Dave Bethea said he would bring a few more next week. We will have a workday Saturday so wear old clothes and meet at the annex at 8:30. We will have at least 2 groups going to two different locations. What a blessing it will be to get back to doing God’s work and sharing the joy of Christ.                  Guys, Bro. John informed me that he will need some males in the choir to do some drama parts. That means that you won’t have to sing. Please consider joining the youth choir. Remember, it’s your youth group, take control.                  We will be going to the movies Friday night. Please bring just enough money to buy food and drinks. We will meet at the annex at 7:00 pm, don’t be late. Hey, bring a friend.                  Remember, students will need to submit all questions for the pastor no later than “Nite Life” each week. If you did not get a yellow card, you can submit your question on regular paper. Don’t put your name on it; just your grade and your question.                  You guys have a great weekend! Scott

Text Box: Heart to Heart What Do Our Missionaries Say About the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering?    The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering each year provides salary support for me as the director of the Lao School of Ministry so I can provide Biblical training courses for Lao pastors and leaders in their native language. We currently have over 100 students and have 3 more sites wishing to begin our training. We give God all the glory when these trained pastors and leaders then produce healthy and productive churches for church planting that reach many precious souls in their community for Christ. —Thira Siengsukon, Church Planting Missionary, Missouri    Your giving through the AAEO helps us to buy Bibles in the Inupiaq language to give out to the Eskimo people in the Arctic of Alaska, which are given out all the time. Thank you for your giving.—John T. Forrester, Church Planting Missionary, Kotzebue, Alaska    I know of at least 21.5 million reasons to give to the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions! That's the number of people we are praying will find a church home in our community. Without funding through the Annie Armstrong offering, we would never have started a church in the heart of New York City! - Gregg Farah, Church Planting Missionary, New York City    The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering helps me be available to minister to 10,000 international seafarers from 70+ countries each year.—Jim Putman, Church and Community Ministries Missionary, The Seaman’s Center, Freeport, Texas    Let’s give sacrificially in support of these and more than 5,000 other North American missionaries at work as partners with us who faithfully share the gospel daily across our continent. Your gift of any amount has a tremendous impact upon our ability to bring people to faith in Christ.       See you Sunday in worship! Bro. LaRue

Text Box: The Preschool Choir will be singing this Sunday, March 9. I look forward to being blessed by their joyful sounds!   Exciting News: We have just received a wonderful gift for our new facilities! A family has given a brand new seven foot Kawai Grand Piano for use in our new building. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this gift and what it will mean to the ministry of our church for many, many years to come. I am once again humbled to see how God continues to work on our behalf. I give Him the glory for this gift becoming reality, and it is beyond all that I might have imagined three years ago, or even six months ago! The piano itself will be delivered later this year, just in time for our first service, around mid-July. To God be the Glory!   HeartSong Youth Music Camp is “ON” again for 2008! Dates are June 23-27, on the campus of William Carey University in Hattiesburg. More information will be available at Youth Choir this Sunday. Deadline to sign-up is April 6, and a $50 deposit is needed.   Youth Choir: “THE LIFESONG PROJECT” Work continues on “The Lifesong Project,” our spring musical, on Sunday at 5 pm. I hope to see all members on Sunday afternoon, and, bring a guest with you!

Text Box: Our Church Goal: $7,000 Received to date: $1,156

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Text Box: Brenda’s Notes . . .                  Did you see the obituaries on Saturday?  I know that you are probably not like me and that is the part of the paper that you read first.  Jerry thinks that I am very strange to do that – but I think that he is strange to read the comics first.  Anyway - There was a notice of the death of a wonderful saint of God, Gertrude Ross. She was 91 years old.   I did not know her, but I can’t wait to get to heaven and meet her.  Her notice read: “She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Biloxi and began teaching Sunday School from the time she was 16 years old.  She remained working in the children’s department as the class secretary until her death.” I called the Minister of Children at FBC Biloxi, Peggy Brock, to ask about this wonderful woman.  She said that they were really going to miss her.  She had worked up until 2 weeks ago.  She had called in and said that she had a little cold and thought that she did not need to be around the children.  It turned out to be pneumonia.                  I want this lady to be an example for me and you.  Yes, she had quit actually teaching several years ago, but she did not quit working for her Lord.  We also have several in our church that are not quite that old but are still teaching.  I want to be like that.  Do you?  Maybe you say that you have done your time.  I personally don’t know if that is true.  I do not think that God will keep you here if He is through with you.                  We have many areas of service that are in need of someone called by God.  Please be in prayer for where He wants you to work.  Soon there will be a survey for you to fill out.  You need to be praying now for where you will sign up.  Let us go and work together for our Lord.