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FAITH MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH BULLETIN October 9, 2011 2243 Burbank Avenue (Corner of Rose & Burbank) Nashville, TN 37210 Sunday School: 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship Services 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship Services 6:00 p.m. Church Website: http//www.faithchurchnashville.com/ Pastor: Elder Barry Armour 615-822-4681-615-812-6204 Pastor Email: [email protected] Music Director: Bro. Bert Lanier Sunday School Supt.: Bro. Terry Parker Church Clerk: Bro. Billy Clemons Deacons: Bro. Jimmy Hicks Bro. Bert Lanier Bro. Don Langford Bro. James Quinn

Grace Missionary Baptist Church (Hendersonville) God With Us Women’s 323 Old Shackle Island Rd. Hendersonville is having Fellowship a Chili Cook-off and Cup Cake War on Saturday, September – Tuesday, October 18,, 2011, 6:30 p.m. October 29. This event is a fundraiser to benefit Speaker – To be announced. Sister Sarah Olonde’s school in Kenya. Message from Cindy Clemons We look forward to having you all with us at our next meeting! If you need to speak with me you can email Grace Missionary Baptist Church (Gallatin)– 2200 me at [email protected] or call 615-642- Block of Long Hollow Pike – Meeting at Ocanna Community Center Bldg. Gallatin, TN Revival – 2533. May God Bless you all. Sister Cindy Beginning Nov. 2-6. Bro. Josh Gregory, Preacher. Nearest crossroad is Upper Station Camp Creek Road- REVIVALS & CHURCH EVENTS OF FAITH Nearest big open crossroad is Station Camp off 386 CHURCH AND SISTER CHURCHES (Vietnam Veterans’ Parkway. From Nashville, exit onto Big Station Camp, turn left, go to end of the road, turn Faith Missionary Baptist Church TENT REVIVAL – left onto Long Hollow. Go down about 1 mile and 2243 Burbank Avenue, Nashville, TN - October 7-9, building is on left with a huge sign out front that says 2011. Lunch and activities will be planned for Ocana Community Center Building, (Exact location will Saturday midday. More information will be be forthcoming.) forthcoming,

Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church – Bible Study 5208 Nolensville Rd. – Wednesdays Sept. 7:00 p.m. CHRISTMAS PROGRAM PRACTICE Participants will be practicing every Sunday Faith’s tent revival following service. Please let Cindy Clemons know if We had a good number of visitors for our you wish to participate. Cindy would like for all who Tent Revival this week , We had several visitors can to participate. Just let her know if you wish to from sister churches. The Hackett Sisters sang for participate. us, along with Dillon and Grace, one of our frequent visitors who has a beautiful voice. We enjoyed this very much. REMEMBER IN PRAYER Also, one of our visitors was Antwan from Brenda Lanier is going to have to have knee across the street. Bro. Dillon reached Saturday replacement in the near future. Pray for Brenda and morning and Antwan was very troubled by his also her mom during this time. message and gave us information that he thought the sermon was especially for him. He said he was Jimmy Hicks requested prayer for his mom. She is lost and the church had prayer with him. Please do not doing well at this time. Remember her when you not fail to pray for Antwan that he will seek the Lord pray. till he finds Him. We also had a good number from our church Mary Jo’s sister is in need of prayer. She may be neighborhood this year, including Dale, who visits making decisions regarding her living arrangements. frequently, and Ms. Dee Gaskin! Ms. Dee is a very well-known songwriter and lives in our church Ian’s father is improving and has been up some. neighborhood. As a prolific and noted songwriter, Continue to pray for his complete recovery. Dee has been nominated for several awards including the Dove. Her song “Come Morning” Betty Coon’s brother, Carl, who lived in Alabama, received the Singing News Magazine’s Fan Award passed away this past week and memorial services song of the year in 1979. The Singing News also will be on Sunday, October 9, with visitation declared “Come Morning” as the Song of the Decade beginning at 2:00 p.m. and the memorial service for the 1980s, as recorded and performed by the Rex beginning at 3:00 p.m. at Anthony’s Funeral Home in Nelson Singers. She also wrote “The Sun’s Coming Hartsville, TN. Please remember his family when Up In The Morning.,” and many more. Dee Gaskin you pray. songs have been recorded by a vast array of artists such as Governor Jimmy Davis, the Hopper’s, the Virgil Shoulders continues to have significant Singing Americans, the Dixie Echoes, the Speer breathing problems. He was able to attend the tent family, the Florida Boys, the Kingsmen, Wendy revival meeting outside, but this seems to affect his Bagwell and the Sunlighters, the John Hagee family, breathing, being outside. We hope the Inspirations, the Isaacs, the Nelon’s, the Virgil’s breathing will improve. Primitive Qt, the Lewis family, Jeff and Sheri Easter, the Perry’s, Karen Peck and New River, the Ruppe’s, Barbara Shoulders’ brother is not doing well. She Barbara Fairchild, Marty Steward, the Freeman’s, requested our prayers on his behalf. Vern Jackson, Walt Mills, the Bishop’s, Ralph Stanley, the Wilburn’s, the McKamey’s, the Singing The trooper in West Tennessee who was recently Echoes, and many more. shot was connected to Mayrene Quinn’s family. What we were very glad to hear from her was her Pray for this family. experience of salvation. She was saved as a 16 year old girl at an old-time Missionary Baptist Church Gary, my son, is still doing okay since being meeting. She said she had not heard preaching like released in the hospital. He cannot have very much she heard Friday night in a very long time. variety in food, so he is not gaining any weight back. He has lost quite a lot of weight. Pray for him when We were very glad to have ALL of our you can. visitors. We hope they will all return to worship with us. Terry Parker got ill right after Sunday School last week and had to go home. I understand he had stomach problems and we are glad he is much better now.

One of our church neighbors has recently lost a 27 year old son. The family is devastated. Remember this family in your prayers. barn singing gospel sings and we would stop WE HAD SOME FUN TOO! playing and listen to him. At the house Mrs. Jewel The Tent Revival was great this year. We had Cliburn was ironing Mr. Melvin’s white shirt, but I games in the afternoon on the parking lot for the never saw him wear a white shirt as white as that children and adults also—those who were able. one looked to me that day during his lifetime. Shannon Clemons devised a scavenger hunt and the teams were divided, men and women. Two “cripples”(Billy, with his hip replacement and Enduring Faith Barry Armour with his shoulder problem)were by Anonymous heading up the winning team. The men won, but there was talk of “cheating.” I think they sorta blocked the passageways for the ladies. I've dreamed many dreams that never came true, Everyone had a good time, it seems. I've seen them vanish at dawn, But I've realized enough of my dreams, thank God, To make me to want to dream on. AN EXPERIENCE OF SALVATION I've prayed many prayers when no answer came Sister Sarah Olonde –Kenya, Africa Though I waited patient and long, I greet you all in the name of Jesus. My But answers have come to enough of my prayers name is Sarah Olonde. Jesus saved my life. To make me keep praying on. In 1989, January, on 21st, I had the ____. I went out with a friend of mine to a home fellowship I've trusted many a friend that failed, somewhere. I just went there to mock the Christians And left me to weep alone, who do pray when they cry. I did not know that But I've found enough of my friends true blue, Jesus had a purpose for me to go there, but things To make me keep trusting on. changed. When I went there I found myself a sinner. The preacher talked about the Adamic sin because I I've sown many a seed that fell by the way was not drinking, I was not that drunkard person, so For the birds to feed upon, I knew about the sins we usually talk about, but I But I've held enough golden sheaves in my hands was lost. After hearing the word of God, the word of To make me keep sowing on. good tide to my heart, I went to God. No one called me. I hear of people being called, “Come to Jesus.” I've drained the cup of disappointment and pain No one invited me to Jesus. I went alone. It was me And gone many days without song, alone. I was not even shameful because Jesus had But I've sipped enough nectar from the roses of life spoken to me and told me that I’m a sinner and if I To make me want to live on. don’t repent that day, I would go to hell and I feared going to hell. God saved my life and I am very proud to say that I am saved and I’m longing to see MATTHEW 22:32-40 “I am the God of Jesus one day. Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the Sister Olonde is the wife of Bro. Tom Olonde in dead, but of the living. And when the Kenya Africa, a missionary in this country. The multitude heard this, they were astonished above was transcribed from My Salvation at his doctrine. But when the Pharisees Experience website. I apologize if there is any had heard that he had put the Sadducees misinterpretation/ There was one word above that to silence, they were gathered together. could not be determined. The one of them which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, An Experience of Salvation Master, which is the great commandment Louise (Meador) Keen, Westmoreland, TN in the law? Jesus aid unto him, Thou shalt Taken from “The Experience of Salvation” love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, I was saved in August, 1940, just after the revival at and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. Rocky Mound Baptist Church. It was at Cross This is the first and great commandment. Roads School house during recess while we were And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt playing “church”. One schoolmate was the love they neighbor as thyself. On these “preacher”. She had been saved during the revival two commandments hang all the law and so she was telling an excellent experience to us. I the prophets.” had been to the altar a time or two so she touched the hearts of three of us girls with her talk. All of us were saved that day. I remember everything was so bright and beautiful. We went across the road to Mr. Oscar Cliburn’s house; he was a good man all children loved. He would walk from his house to his TIDBITS FROM “ECHOES FROM THE BIRTHDAYS, WEDDING HILLS” ANNIVERSARIES OF FAITH FAMILY (OF Tennessee) by J. Harold Stephens (October 9 - 16)

HUSBAND OF ONE WIFE In the course of electing some new deacons an old bachelor was nominated for the office in a rural mountain church. One of the brethren expressed a degree of opposition when he said: “The Bible says that a deacon is to be the husband of one wife, and pore ole Beecher ain’t got narry one.” Wyatt Lester – October 9 – Birthday CONTACT MADE Katie Lester – October 11 - Birthday We have all but completely departed from the practice of church discipline. There was a time Happy Birthday, Wyatt and Katie! when the monthly Saturday afternoon Church Conference was devoted largely to the matter of disciplining unruly members. Many interesting DO RE MI FALL FESTIVAL stories could be told along this line. In the earlier days of this country there was the account of the OCT. 14 -15, 2011 women of the church who were being disciplined for seeking too many of the comforts of this earthly life. It developed that they simply wanted to have a fire in the building during the winter months. Reunite with your Do Re Mi friends and meet A husky giant of a young man was delegated new ones with a weekend of fun, fellowship to wait on a fellow member who was reported as and singing! having been drunk on New Year’s Eve. The Friday will include: free time for fellowship, accused was aware of the charge and the food Pizza, andSinging around the LATE assignment. He was out in a field when he saw the NIGHT BONFIRE! investigator coming, and he picked up the only rock in sight. Soon the two were in a fight to the finish, Saturday will include: games for everyone, and it did look like they would kill each other in the breakfast, lunch and chili supper, an afternoon struggle. Finally, the one commissioned from the of singing your favorite songs (beginning at church got the upper hand of the accused, and 3:30), and an evening hayride! completely subdued him by physical force. In the next Church Conference the report was called for, Dorms open at 2:00 p.m. Friday. To stay in the and the brother arose in sonorous and pious tones dorms plus all four meals -- $35.00. st to say: “I MADE MY CONTACT, AND GOT Register and pay by October 1 and pay only RESULTS.” $28.oo. Not staying in the dorms: Meals are $5.00 each. My Last Visit with Sgt. Alvin York Do Re Mi River Retreat, 275 Cedar Bluff Road, Hartsville TN. For details please see For many years it was my privilege to know the enclosed flyer, contact Key Dillard, 615- Sgt. Alvin York, the hero of World War I from Pall 890-0288 or Barry Witcher, 615-666-5837 or Mall, Tennessee. Many legends have been built visit www.doremigospelmusicacademy.com around him. I visited in his home while his dear old Thank you and may God bless you, mother was still living. Shortly before he died, I Barry Witcher, Festival Chairman visited him in a Nashville hospital, and had prayer [email protected] with him. He said to me, “Preacher, I had rather COME AND BRING A FRIEND! have the prayers of God’s people than to have all that the doctors can do for me here.”

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Bulletin Committee: Joyce Callis [email protected] Susan Coon– 773-5250 ; Betty Coon- 773-5250 [email protected] Jean Langford-758-7431 Langford @tds.net Lisa Parker-274-2783 [email protected]