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The Good Word Central Baptist Church of Westerly, 16 Elm Street, Westerly, RI 02891 THE GOOD WORD Carrying News of God’s Work into the Community and World September 2014 Volume 7 Issue 9 Worship With Us At Central Baptist OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD God uses Operation Christmas Child to touch the lives of children living in dire conditions in over 130 countries . Worship Service 9:30 AM Fellowship Hour 10:30 AM Brian Gerbutavitch has led Central Baptist’s partici- Fall schedule begins : pation in this mission outreach for the past two September 7 years and is again supervising it for year number Sunday School 9:00 AM three. Each year Brian has increased his quota of Worship 10:30 AM Fellowship Hour 11:30 AM shoeboxes to fill and for 2014 he is aiming for 200. HOW TO Each month particular CONTACT US items are suggested for Church Office: e-mail donation. For the month of [email protected] September “toys” are sug- Telephone : [401] 596-4929 gested. Also previous Newsletter submissions: e-mail suggested items can be [email protected] donated at any time . Pastor : e-mail [email protected] It costs approximately $7.00 per box to Website: http://www.cbcwesterly.org make it possible to deliver each packed (To see the newsletter shoebox to a child thousand of miles away. in color go to our website) That is $1,400. for the 200 filled boxes CBC plans to send. Brian is available in Fellow- ship Hall after worship service on Sundays and will gladly accept donations for this mission outreach. Church Meetings Please consider “buying a box” for $7.00 September 3 7:00 PM Board of Missions Suggested Donation Items for Shoeboxes: 7:00 PM Board of Deacons September 10 Hair ribbons Colored pencils Notepads Lip balm Hacky sacks 7:00 PM Board of Trustees Barrettes Pencil sharpeners Stickers Emery boards Beach balls Bangle bracelets Erasers Self-inking stamps Wash cloths Legos Necklaces Pencil case Solar powered Nail clippers Jump ropes September 12 Hand mirror Crayons calculators Small plush animals Paddle balls 5:00 PM Bd of Christian Ed Hats Pens Combs Tennis balls Yo-yos T-shirts Rulers Brushes Rubber balls Small cars September 23 Sunglasses Glue sticks Soap Whiffle balls 7:00 PM Church Council Purses Safety scissors Toothpaste Jigsaw puzzles Hard candy lifesavers Coloring books Toothbrush Finger puppets Pencils Colored markers Hand wipes Silly Putty Page 2 Central Baptist Church of Westerly CHURCH STAFF NEWSLETTER TEAM Rev. Dr. Cal Lord, Jr., Pastor Tiffani Kaminski—Editor Lynn Dowding, Music Director Suzanne Vanaman Cindy Capizzano, Administrator Dot Marra Paul Arnold, Custodian Cindy Capizzano Lennie Ballesteros, Custodian and Church Office Hours A host of other contributors Mon—Friday, 9:00 AM—1:00 PM Friendship Circle All Church Pot Luck Supper NEEDLEWORKERS September 15—5:00 PM Bring a dish to share First and Third Monday Higgins’ Cabana 9:30 AM We meet at Nancy Balentine’s home 35 Spruce Street, Westerly Wednesday, September 3 - 5:30 PM Newsletter Deadline Last Name A - C Main Dish Articles for The Good Word , D - G Dessert are due the H - L Vegetable 15th of the month. M - Z Salad Please submit articles as a Wednesday, October 1 - 5:30 PM WORD document if possible. Last Name A - C Salad Come join us. e-mail all articles to: D - G Main Dish We can teach you to knit, quilt, embroider, crochet, etc . Suzanne Vanaman H - L Dessert [email protected] M - Z Vegetable LUNCH WITH CAL The Book Club will resume on Come join us the second Sunday, September 14 with the Wednesday of each month at selection "The Robe", by Lloyd A Men’s Bible Study is held 12:00 noon in Fellowship Hall C. Douglas. A few copies of the Tuesday mornings in the for a social lunch with Pastor book are available in the church Parlor 8:30 AM. Cal. All men are welcome. office for $13.00 each . Bring a bag lunch. Coffee, tea and YARD SALE Come dessert will be provided. To Benefit Central Nursery School join the On September 13, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, choir! rain or shine, there will be a yard sale in the church parking lot. Table rentals are $20.00 each. If you would like to rent a table please We are getting ready for call the church office (401) 596-4929 or Pat another year of leading Rhodes (401) 377-2033. the worship and singing. Pat will also be in Fellow- September 6 Our first rehearsal will be ship Hall following Sunday 8:00 AM Fellowship Hall on Thursday, September 4 Chief cooks: Skip Terwilliger morning worship to take and Alan Caval reservations . at 7:00 p.m. Newcomers who like to sing are wel- All men are welcome. Reserve your come . Bring your buddies! table now. Central Baptist Church of Westerly Page 3 PASTOR CAL’S CORNER Dear friends, It has been a good summer but I am ready to get back to work. We’ve got some great things planned for the coming months. On September 7th we kick off our annual Rally Day celebration in morning worship with a series of sermons titled, “The Hope That Emerges From The Darkness.” We will be exploring the great themes and memorable stories in the five books of Moses in the Old Testament. Worship moves back to the 10:30 am hour and our choir returns to lead the singing. We will celebrate the Lord’s Supper on that first week and set off for another great year of worship and service in our church. Our theme for the church year 2014/2015 will be - Know The Bible, Know God. We will be using the outline of the book, The Story, to preach our way through the entire Bible in the next year. The Story is the Bible, God's great love affair with humanity, condensed into 31 accessible chapters, The Story sweeps you into the unfolding progression of Bible characters and events from Genesis to Revelation. Using the clear, accessible text of the NIV Bible, it allows the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible to read like a novel. And like any good story, The Story is filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, romance, and redemption---and this story's true! Get your copy of The Story in the church office for just $6.00 or download it onto your Kindle or iPad from an authorized retailer. We will also have some Accompanying Bible Studies . They will give us a chance to dig a little deeper into the texts that were presented on Sunday. In Sunday School the Parlor class get us rolling by talking about these great Biblical narratives during the 9:00 a.m. hour. We will also offer two other follow along studies. I’m calling these “Monday afternoon and evening leftovers.” You will get an opportunity to ask questions, discuss the themes and explore the topics with the Pastor. They will meet on Monday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. and Monday night at 7:15 p.m. Although we will be using a study guide to help us explore the topics, the meetings will be organized in such a way that people will be able to pop in and out as their interest and schedule allows. (Study guides are avail- able in the church office for $8.50.) The other big event for September is our “Back to Church Celebration & All Church Barbecue” on Sunday, September 21, 2014. We hope you will invite your friends to join you for Sunday, worship and then to stay for the Barbecue. It will be very much like the VBS barbecue. It will include good food, lawn games, fun things for the kids, music and a dunking booth where you will get a shot to dunk the pastor and other church celebrities. It will be fun for the whole family. We have post cards for you to hand out or mail to your friends. It is going to be a great day as the picnic runs from right after church until 2:00 p.m. Finally, I am looking for volunteers who are interested in developing our tech ministry as we move forward with our plans to upgrade our audio visual capabilities in worship. I am looking for people who want to explore the ways we can use it to enhance our worship experience. I covet your input. We are going to meet on Tuesday, September 16 th at 6:00 p.m. If you want to be involved but cannot make the meeting, please shoot me an email. Thanks. I look forward to seeing everyone as we come together for a brand new season of ministry together. Be blessed, Cal Page 4 Central Baptist Church of Westerly Board of Trustees After taking the summer month of July off, your Board of Trustees had many fall projects to consider at their August meeting. The most significant of these is to select a bidder to do the parking lot crack sealing and coating. This project will need to be scheduled in late September, after the Church Barbecue. Ener- gy One will also clean the furnace and check out the heat traps in October, after the furnace is turned on. Atlantic Elevator, our new service contractor, will also be repairing our chair lift and certifying our elevator in the fall. We are consulting with several roofing contractors to get bids to do the Sanctuary roof. This information will be used when we meet with the Champlin Foundation to secure our roof grant.
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