THIS WEEK AT FBC SKIATOOK ATTENTION! SC=South Campus WRC=West Rogers Campus “HOLIDATES” TO NOTE! SUNDAY, November 27 8:00 am—Ensemble Rehearsal As we approach the holiday season we will have activities and 8:30 am—Prayer Time (WRC) schedule changes we don’t want you to miss as you plan for 9:00 am—Sunday School Small Groups (SC & WRC) Bro. Heath Tucker, Lead Pastor your trips, visitors and events! Watch for more info coming! 10:30 am—Worship Service (WRC) > November 27: Deck the Halls Night-Decorations & Fellowship 5:00 pm—Youth “LIFE” Series (SC) > December 4: ChristmaSing with the church family 5:00 pm—Futures Team Mtg. (WRC) 6:00 pm—Deck the Halls Fellowship (WRC) Sunday, November 27, 2016 > December 11: JOY Christmas Program TUESDAY, November 29 > December 18: Angel Tree Wrapping Party 6:30 am—Prayer Time (WRC) > December 24: Christmas Eve Service (5:00-6:00 pm) WEDNESDAY, November 30 Join us today for the > December 25: Christmas on Sunday! 6:00 pm—Youth Café start of a new sermon (Dec. 25 & Jan. 1 we will have worship only, no Sunday School) 6:25 pm—AWANA Clubs (WRC) series on Paul’s letter to 6:30 pm—The Front Porch (Youth Bible Study) (SC) Titus, 6:30 pm—Financial Peace University (WRC) each 6:30 pm—Praise Ensemble Rehearsal (WRC) you, t But as for 6:30 pm—Adult Prayer Meeting (WRC) ith THURSDAY, December 1 t accords w “Titus” 9:00 am—First Moms (SC) wha * Sundays d doctrine. soun 10:30 am The Gospel Reso unds! Paul West Rogers Campus STEWARDSHIP

Due to some office staff being out for the holidays, financial numbers for * Titus 2:1 (ESV) 11/20/16 were not available at print time. A report for 11/20 and 11/27 will appear in next week’s newsletter. COME FELLOWSHIP WITH US TONIGHT AS WE Week of Prayer: Dec. 4-11 Pick up a LMCO Week of Prayer guide at the Welcome Center. To give to the LMCO you can use a regular offering envelope or Sign up today for online give online. Just designate it for “World Missions.” giving! Go to fbcskiatook.com NOVEMBER 27 6:00 PM / WRC

and click the We’re going to spend the evening decorating the WRC for Christmas and Online Giving tab. “sprucing up the place” for all of the guests we’ll be welcoming over the holidays for church services, the JOY Christmas program, the Christmas On line app available through your App Store under “EasyTithe.” Parade and Santa’s Workshop, Christmas Eve by Candlelight and more! We will also need a handful of helpers to meet at about 2:00 pm today to get SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4, everything set out and ready to go for the 6:00 crew. So if that time works better for you, please let Bro. Scott or Heidi Gerard know this morning. 4:00 PM (WRC) CONTACT US First Baptist Church Speaker: Bettsy Yarbrough Scott Neighbors Landon Warren Sheree Jordan 940 W. Oak Skiatook, OK 74070 (918) 396-1565 Tickets $5 available now in church office Executive Pastor Pastor of Director of For e-mail addresses for staff members see our web site at: Worship Student Ministries Childhood Ministries See Sheree Jordan for details www.fbcskiatook.com CONTACT BRO. HEATH TODAY! Tonight @ Skiatook FBC … MEMBERSHIP CLASS: This fall we have expanded our kids’ worship through 3rd grade so we are looking for additional volunteers who are willing to work a rotation. The DECEMBER 4 CALLING ALL more workers we have the fewer & shorter the shifts will need to be. If you • Are you looking for a church home? didn’t sign a volunteer card already and would be willing to serve, please • Would you like to know the basic beliefs contact Sheree Jordan or Anni Nix. YOUTH! of FBC Skiatook? NEW BIBLE STUDY 4 YOU! • Would you like to know what the mission and ministries of FBC Nov. 27: 10:30 am (WRC) Skiatook are? Today @ 5:00 pm Babies: Barbara Bewley & Lexie Stewart Then we would invite you to join us for a membership class...even if you’re SC Sanctuary 1's & 2's: Amy Schuler & Girls just investigating the possibility of joining. We will meet on Dec. 4 during Sun- 3's & 4's: Lindsey & Joel Eisenhauer day School at 9:00 in the South Campus sanctuary and continue thru lunch K5-3rd: Mary Ann Phillips provided at the SC at the gym. We dismiss by 2:00. Dec. 4: 10:30 am (WRC) Babies: Craig & Tonia Watson LAST CALL! ALARM CODES NEEDED! 1's & 2's: Bailei Losey & Audean Landis 3's & 4's: Tricia & Adam Cook We’re ready to enter security codes this week K5-3rd: Mandy & Brian Earp for the WRC. So, if you are in the habit of carrying a key to the WRC, please …

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Monthly Meeting He needs to get a security code from you and December 1 / 9:00-11:00 am get you on the contact list for some basic South Campus Sanctuary instructions and future updates. Following the meeting we will have Christmas lunch with our children and child care volunteers. MINISTRY TEAM MEETINGS For more information contact Mary Ann Phillips or Sheree Jordan FUTURES TEAM MEETING Today @ 5:00 (WRC) ALL HANDS ON DECK! Please mark your calendars for Friday, Dec. 9, as we will again be hosting the community-wide MEN’S & WOMEN’S MINISTRIES “SANTA’S WORKSHOP” at the WRC after the Chamber’s annual Christmas FIRST LADIES / FIRST MONDAY parade. Our small group ministries will be hosting December 5 @ 6:30 pm the craft tables and we will need an army of MEN’S CHRISTMAS BIBLE STUDY volunteers to help with greeting, cookies, set REGISTER NOW ATATAT up, clean up, etc. If you can help or have questions, December 8 @ 7:00 pm see Sheree Jordan or Bro. Scott. More details in next week’s newsletter. http://fbcskiatook.com/ministries/youth/ , , Information RE: Southern Mission Zone of Taxco Be in prayer today as our third mission team is finishing up their trip to Taxco and Sept. 26-30 visiting with our missionary and church planter, Giovanni. On the back of this insert Missionary Giovanni Yanick Escobar Hernandez you will find an update from Giovanni. Following is some information on Taxco to help you as you pray for the people there and for Giovanni’s work. I thank God that I found grace in His eyes and He allows me to serve First, the “Chamber of Commerce” pitch… Him by planting a church in Taxco. I am thankful for the Baptist Church of Taxco de Alarcon , Mexico's silver capital, is a charming colonial town nestled in Skiatook, Oklahoma for its obedience to God and your service to Him. the mountains of Guerrero state between Mexico City and Acapulco. The town's Sept. 26th, Mrs. Elvia, the local rental owner, upon finding out that I did winding cobblestone streets and whitewashed houses with red tile roofs, and its impressive Santa Prisca cathedral all combine to make Taxco a picturesque town. not have a bed to sleep on, rented me a room inside her home, where I Those interested in purchasing silver will find the greatest selection here. had the opportunity to share the message of salvation and the reason why In 1522, the Spanish conquistadors learned that the inhabitants Taxco paid we are here. tribute to the Aztecs in silver, and they set about conquering the region, and setting Sept. 27th, was a day of preparation for the Installation worship. In the up mines. In the 1700s, Don Jose de la Borda, a Frenchman of Spanish descent, afternoon I picked up the chairs the Gethsemane Church had loaned me arrived in the area and became very wealthy from silver mining. He commissioned as well as speakers and a small pulpit. Later on I met the pastor Heath the baroque Santa Prisca Church that is the centerpiece of Taxco's zócalo. Tucker and the brothers from the Baptist Church of Skiatook, Oklahoma. I The town's silver industry later experienced a lull until the arrival of Willam Sprat- took them around the place, we spoke and prayed. ling in 1929, who opened a silver workshop. His designs, based on pre-Hispanic Sept. 28th, in the afternoon I visited Victor Gomez and Cesar Gomez, art, became very popular. He trained other artisans and is thought to be responsi- ble for Taxco's reputation as the silver capital of Mexico. two brothers who are unsaved, that have a paint store near the house. I ———- shared with them the reason why I am here and I invited them to opening From other sources you get perhaps a more realistic view of the demographics, worship. Afterwards we had the Installation worship, a moment when God history and economy of Taxco. strongly touched my heart and confirmed my calling. After the Installation Taxco's development indicators are fairly good relative to other towns and cities worship and a delicious dinner, I returned home where I spoke with Mrs. in Mexico. As of 2010, only 38% of residents aged 15 and over lacked a basic Elvia. The Holy Spirit touched her heart, and we prayed for her with my education (including 17% who did not finish primary education), and approximately friend David Galicia. She accepted biblical discipleship. 6% of residents aged 15 and over were illiterate. Approximately 87% of homes had Sept. 29th, I said good bye to the brothers from the Baptist Church of refrigerators, and 51% had washing machines. Only 8% of homes lacked piped Skiatook, Oklahoma and few hours later my friend David Galicia. I returned water, and 5% had a dirt floor. Silverwork and tourism are the mainstays of the economy. Mining is no longer a to the house and visited with a man named Jesus, who repairs bicycles major employer in the city as the last major mining operation closed in 2007 due to and motorcycles in the neighborhood. He introduced me to a friend of his the depletion of reserves and labor problems. Most commercial activity related to named Sergio de la Rosa, an event organizer for extreme bicycling. I be- silver is the production and sale of silver jewelry and goods. Streets in the town are came friends with both of them and I encouraged them to pray and to fol- filled with silver shops. The city has been named one of Mexico's "Pueblos Mági- low biblical discipleship. In the afternoon I visited a rehabilitation center cos" (Magical Towns) due to the quality of the silverwork, the colonial constructions named CRREAD, where I shared a song and my testimony. That night and the surrounding scenery. upon arriving home, I had the first discipleship with Mrs. Elvia sharing with Located on a major toll road, Taxco has two long-distance bus stations but no her who Jesus Christ is. airport. Transport within Taxco is generally on foot, by taxi, or by "" or Sept. 30th, gave a summary of remembrance for the neighborhoods of "combis"—converted Volkswagen vans that serve as minibuses. The city of Taxco lies on very rugged terrain and has steep, irregular streets. The Zapata and Zacazontla. Afterwards I returned to visit with Victor Gomez streets are also narrow and generally lack sidewalks, making them picturesque but and Cesar Gomez having a deeper conversation and they shared more dangerous. Most are paved with dark stones, adorned with lines, pictures and mu- about their lives. I prayed for them. Afterwards I went with pastor Samuel to rals of white stone. Some pictures in the street are from the Zodiac and meant to the Box Mission, where I met with the children and showed support to the indicate certain business activities in times past. One example is the sign of Taurus class. near the Church of Santa Prisca, which used to indicate the area of butcher shops. These have been very productive days in regards to the atmosphere of Corn is a staple of food in Taxco. Common dishes include and . the people. Recognizing that with work and continuous prayer I can be led Dishes distinctive of Taxco include jumiles (a type of stink bug) prepared in tacos by God. or moles, fiambre, cecina natural (a cured meat), plum and bean , and a Please pray for the following: Mrs. Elvia, Jesus, Sergio de la Rosa, drink called berta. Basketball is the most popular sport in Taxco. In the city of Taxco, there are Victor Gomez and Cesar Gomez, my girlfriend Alethia, my family whom I public basketball, volleyball, and tennis courts, as well as soccer fields. miss, and for my personal life that God renews every day, for my strength Holy Week in Taxco involves 10 elaborate processions of 1.5 miles each, be- and that He will always allow me to evangelize. tween Palm Sunday and Easter, which have gained international fame. These commemorations date back to at least 1622.