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Going Backwards garet Becker (her song “The Hunger Stays” is spot- on). While listening to music, I would often reflect, Last Friday afternoon, I decided pray, and write in my journal. These were holy it was time to tidy up my office times. here at our church facilities. I have been working out of this Of late, I’ve gone back to this practice of listening space for almost a year and a half now. So, things to once popular music and reflection while engaged were a bit cluttered. Once I had talked myself into in a task of some sort. I am not the same person I tackling this task, I decided I needed a bit of com- was in the early 1990s. I am more mature, wiser, pany to help offset the mundaneness of the job. I and more knowledgeable about the Bible and the then pulled up Pandora from the web. Pandora is a historical development of our faith. However, there website that enables you to request the type of mu- is much I like about that guy, in his early twenties, sic you want to listen to via creating channels. On hanging out in a dark video production suite. He this occasion, I created a new channel – a Keith had a passion for Christ and an enthusiasm for the Green channel – to go along with others I had cre- church that, unfortunately, time often dulls. That ated in the past. Green, who died in a plane crash guy had a strong desire to see people come to faith with two of his small children in 1982, wrote and in Christ for the first time. All in all, he was an sang Christian music. okay guy.

As an undergraduate student, I majored in com- Sometimes it is good to go backwards. It is good to munications studies - radio, television, and photog- recreate a time in life when the flames of faith raphy were my areas of concentration. For two burned brightly. And then, while we are in the summers, I worked at Windy Gap - a Young Life past, do our best to bring those flames back with camp in Weaverville, NC. During my first summer us into the present. I was the assistant video technician. This position served as an internship towards my degree. The In Christ, second summer, I returned as the head video tech- Trey nician.

Each week the video department produced a fif- teen-minute video of the campers and the various Worshiping Together activities they participated in during the week. July 8 2018 Once we were done with filming and editing, we 11:00 am then made copies to sell in the camp store. We had 7th Sunday after Pentecost the ability, in the editing bay, to make ten copies Dedication of Jesse James Freeman at a time. So, it took the better part of an after- noon to complete the job. While I was making cop- The Bench ies, I would listen to Christian music that was pop- 2 Samuel 5:1-10 ular at the time - artists such as , Rev. Dr. Trey Gilliam , Amy Grant, , Worship Choir: The Sanctuary Choir Keith Green, and my favorite, Mar-

July 2018 First Baptist Church of Ahoskie

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10a Women On 9a Christian Mission (WOM) INDEPENDENCE 1p WOM Women’s Job Groups 2 & 4 DAY Group 5 Corps 7p WOM Group Office Closed (CWJC) 3

8 6th Sunday after 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pentecost 3:30p Staff 3p CWJC Board 1p WOM 9a CWJC Meeting Mtg Group 5

15 7th Sunday after 16 17 18 19 20 21 Pentecost 3:30p Staff 9a CWJC Meeting

NC Baptist All-State Youth Choir: July 15-22

22 8th Sunday after 23 24 25 26 27 28 Pentecost 3:30p Staff 6p Edith Freeman 9a CWJC Meeting Class Covered Dish Dinner

29 9th Sunday after 30 31 Pentecost Sunday Schedule Wednesday Schedule 3:30p Staff 9:45a Sunday School 6:00p Adult Bible Study Meeting 11:00a Worship 6:00p Christ’s Kids (Grades 1-6)

July 1, 2018 Weekly Need $ 8,555.00 1 Cleo Mitchell 14 Nancy Freeman Weekly Offering $ 9,747.29 3 Ed Copeland, Sr. 16 Jessica Brinkley Difference $ +1,192.29 5 Sandra Hassell 21 Jeremy Roberts 6 Ernie Evans 21 Ben Woodard YTD Needs $ 222,430.00 8 Brian Outlaw 23 Eddie Allen YTD Offerings $ 210,445.54 10 Ruthie Daniels 23 Ruth Ward YTD Difference $ -11,984.41 11 Spencer Matthews 27 Trey Byrum 11 Kari Pierce 29 Vicky Overman YTD Global Missions Offering $ 6,055.01 11 Gretchen Zoch 30 Susan Copeland 12 Harriet Byrum 31 Kerrae Joyner Thank you for your generous gifts! 13 Sophia Byrd SERVING IN THE LOVE OF CHRIST Week of July 8 - 14 Week of July 15 - 21 Minister on Call Minister on Call Rev. Dr. Trey Gilliam, 398-7321 Rev. Anita Thompson, 395-0061 Deacons on Call Deacons on Call Nancy Freeman, 287-9104 Jamie Burns, 332-9461 Margaret Winn, 309-1495 Brandon Zoch, 862-5510 Extended Session - July 8 Sunday School at Creekside Care - July 15 Birth-Age 2: Jean Parker, Debbie Rawls, & Genesis Class Lou Riddick Extended Session - July 15 Ages 3-5: Alex & Sarah Grace Britton Birth-Age 2: Jerri Harrell, Susan Early, & Ushers - July 8 JoAnn Herring Heath Britt, Tim Frei, Alan Myers, L. Taylor Ages 3-5: Susan Copeland & J.C. Doughtie Rose, Lane Slachta, & Peggy Springfield; Ushers - July 15 Balcony—Keith Rawls & Andy Woodard Carolyn Arrington, Lanie Byrum, Lee Byrum, Sound System - July 8 Duck Harrell, Nat Riddick, & Edgar Swain, Jr. Frank Britt Balcony—Patricia Hughes & Isabella Woodard Floral Offering - July 8 Sound System - July 15 Jeffery & Rita (Myers) Bula; Alan, West, & James Early Mary Myers Floral Offering - July 15 Home Delivered Meals - July 9 Bill & Debbie Magette Bill & Susan Earley Home Delivered Meals - July 16 Food Pantry - July 6 Penny & Frank Rose Jim Daly Food Pantry - July 20 Vicky Overman & Melanie Byrum

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