Life Support

The Email Newsletter of Green Acres Baptist Church

 

May 16, 2013

 

 

This Sunday Morning

May 19      

 

Celebration & CrossWalk Worship

9:45 & 11:15 a.m.

 

Finding HopeThis Sunday the Pastor resumes his teaching series, "1 Thessalonians: Finding Hope in a Hopeless World," with the message, "The Life-Changing Power of the Word of God," 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16.

You may find previous messages in the series in the Online Message Archives.

 

Sunday Morning Bible Study 
8:15 & 9:45 a.m.

Around Green Acres, the best place to find a group of folks with whom you can learn and grow is in Sunday Morning Bible Study, and, with the beginning of our new Gospel Project Study, now is the perfect time. If you'd like to check out your options, here is the link to the SMBS Guide, or you might enjoy trying the online Interactive SMBS Finder. But, whatever your source of information, the next step is up to you.   


Sunday Bulletin

Celebration Order of Worship

 

 

Pastor David D-Notes 

 

Pastor DavidTHIS SUNDAY GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY

to express a giant-sized THANK YOU to Lanette James for her eleven years of faithful service leading our Children's Ministry.  We'll be recognizing Lanette in both Celebration Worship services Sunday morning.   

 

IT'S OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE involved in our Children's Ministry that Lanette has done an amazing job. There are several words that come to my mind as I think about serving the Lord with Lanette: Caring, Positive, Stable, Creative, Loyal, Diligent, Thorough, Excellence, but most of all LOVE. She has demonstrated a love for Jesus and a love for children that can't be faked.

 

WE ARE GOING TO MISS LANETTE - and no pun intended - but this Sunday is "Miss Lanette" Sunday in preschool and children's Sunday School. Miss Lanette will be down in the Children's Welcome Area for much of the morning, so I hope you'll stop by and express your love and appreciation to her.  We will be praying for Lanette as she organizes the Children's Ministry at the North Campus of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas.

 

THE MONTH OF MAY IS GRADUATION 

for a lot of people. Whether you're graduating from high school, college, or graduate school, or kindergarten, you are to be congratulated. Here's my short-list of advice to high school and college grads: 

 

1. Life is all about relationships
- build them.

 

2. Any job is a good job

- work hard at whatever you do.

 

3. Strive for significance rather than success

- you can make a difference in somebody's world.

 

4. Never stop learning

- even when there's no degree to earn.  

 

5. Know the difference between joy and happiness

- happiness is only a thermometer, but joy is a thermostat.

 

6. Live below your means

- Give God 10%; Save 10%; learn to live on 80% of your income.

  

7. Keep your faith in God

- He is your source of true HOPE.

 

 

WOULD YOU LIKE TO walk where Jesus walked next February?  We're providing brochures and taking applications now for my next trip. If you're interested call Arlene at 903-525-1118 or stop by the Bethany Suite after worship on Sunday morning.

 

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Southern Baptist Convention is scheduled for June 11-13 in Houston. Our church is eligible to send 10 messengers. If you're interested in attending the Convention, please contact Arlene at 903-525-1118.

 

I serve a risen Savior!

 

Pastor David 

 

 

 

Just So You Will Know

Keeping Up With GABC  

 

Ken 2013AS LANETTE JAMES prepares to leave us this Sunday to assume her new role at Prestonwood Baptist Church, in Dallas, there is another staff member that I want to call to your attention. She will be ending her role at Green Acres at the end of the month, and although her responsibilities do not encompass the scope and size of our Preschool and Children's Ministries, she has been nonetheless vital in our ministry to another vital and unique group in our community -- our College Students.

 

Ellen WinegeartELLEN WINEGEART began her ministry at Green Acres back in 2000, as a part-time Student Ministry Assistant. In 2007, after considering all of the possible candidates for the then-open position of College Minister, it became increasingly apparent that she was the ideal person for that role. She has since proven that fact repeatedly.

 

HER "MATERNAL" GIFTS, combined with her caring heart, innovative spirit, and passion for reaching college students, not only with the Good News, but with the challenge of service, has allowed her to touch the lives and hearts of students, not only on the campuses of our Tyler colleges, but around the world.

 

AS SHE, AND HER HUSBAND GLEN, shared their life and home with the students, the students responded by following her on cutting-edge (and still somewhat-classified) missions endeavors in South America, in restoration and recovery efforts following multiple natural disasters here in the states, and in personal outreach on local campuses. As the students responded to her compassion, they complimented her efforts by inviting her to serve alongside of them as chaplain to several athletic teams at area schools.

 

ELLEN LEAVES US at the end of May to pursue her passion for helping young women caught in the trap of human trafficking (right here in East Texas), and to be increasingly flexible to follow that passion into other areas as God directs.

 

CHANCES ARE, unless you've had a student in the College Ministry, you will never be fully aware of all that Ellen has done; but if your student has been the recipient of her compassion, you will most certainly never forget.

 

ELLEN WILL STILL BE an active part of Green Acres. We wish her well as she explores exciting new, and unquestionably innovative opportunities for ministry.

 

Ken Warren 

Senior Associate Pastor 

kenw@mail.gabc.org  

 

 

Holy Land LogoHoly Land Reflections 

With the Pastor 

 

08.The Wilderness

The Wilderness

(Click on the image to view the video)

 

 

Food for Thought 

 

The North Face of God

- Ken Gire

 

When suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But he doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves. Instead, he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project - a mosaic that tells the story of redemption.

 

 

The Word for the Week 

 

Isaiah 64:8

- The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language     

 

God, you are our Father.
We're the clay and you're our potter:
All of us are what you made us.

 

In This Issue

This Sunday

Pastor David D-Notes

Just So You Will Know: Keeping With GABC

Video: Holy Land Reflections with the Pastor

Food for Thought

The Word for the Week

Just the Facts

The Summer Surveyor

Join the Conversation

 

 

 

 

Just the Facts

Sunday,
May 12

 

ATTENDANCE

Sunday Morning Bible Study
2,938

Morning Worship
5,679

 

GIVING
Weekly Budget Target
$265,889

Weekly Budget Receipts
$317,843

Weekly Building Fund Received
$25,886

Total Building Fund Received
to Date
$33,136,734

Building Fund Loan Balance
April 1

$6,021,025

 

 

The Summer Surveyor Magazine Online

Surveyor Shadow

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