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November 2020 SAM 2020 YEAR-IN-REVIEW OUR GOD IS A BIG, BIG GOD! There’s a story out right now that one 87-year-old gentleman was asked if these Covid times have been especially challenging for him. He responded no, that he’d been through polio, diphtheria, Vietnam protests, and more. He said: “I choose not to see the world through the printed headlines. I see the world through the people that surround me. See the world and realize that we love big. Then create your own headlines.” We started 2020 with the new SAM logo “SAM, Serving the Great I AM.” We had great expectations for the new decade of Roaring 20’s. 2020 has November 2020 been quite the lion with quite a roar for sure! We’ve all suffered illness, loss, I pray that out of his glorious disappointment and change – no one has been untouched by COVID. In our ministry, we’ve had to do things differently; we’ve had to be creative and riches he may strengthen you with minister in new ways – the “new normal.” And, we have! We’ve made our power through his Spirit in your headlines. Our stories are all about loving God big and loving one another big! God has blessed us BIG! inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Our inaugural SAM Leadership Team over the last three years has served well, most especially this year! I cannot thank them enough! While Eddie And I pray that you, being rooted Stovall, Gail Stewart and Suellen Edmondson have as of September rotated and established in love, may have off their respective leadership roles, they will continue strong in our SAM ministry. We will begin introducing you to our three new Group Leaders in power together with all the Lord’s this issue of our SAM monthly newsletter, starting with Diane Poole. Susan holy people, to grasp how wide and Hornsby and Bill Bowser will be introduced in the December and January issues. long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that As we look forward to 2021, I’ve challenged our SAM Leadership Team to dream big! COVID is not over; neither are the challenges. We must continue surpasses knowledge—that you to serve our Father wherever, whenever and however He leads us. At this may be filled to the measure of all time of Thanksgiving especially, I couldn’t be more grateful to our Heavenly Father, more proud and thankful for all of you, and more excited about 2021 the fullness of God. Eph. 3:16-19 and what God has in store for us. Seasoned Adult Minister: Bob Smith Let me close with a Jewish prayer of gratitude Diane Bowser shared with us SAM Assistant: Debbie Arrington after her heart surgery in late September. SAM Newsletter Editor: Judy Bryant Newsletter Design: Stephanie Entrup “Shehecheyanu” Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the This newsletter is prepared and emailed universe, Who has kept us alive, sustained us, monthly by and for 55+ adults of First Baptist and enabled us to reach this day. Church Trussville, Alabama. Suggested information to be included in an upcoming SAM newsletter may be emailed to sam. [email protected]. Printed copies will be available at the church Welcome Center and Events Center. Elsie Kay is the headline for Vickie and me! TOTALLY COMMITED TO YOU LORD HIS GRACE … For You Alone are Holy; You Alone are Worthy Listen on YouTube.com / Song of Moses/The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir CLICK HERE Diane Poole, her husband John, and 19-year-old son Andy have been members at First Baptist since 2013. Diane retired from her position as executive director of the Trussville Area Chamber of Commerce last year after serving for 11 years in that role. She is now doing consulting work around the area. Diane is an active member of the Trussville Rotary Daybreak Club, an international service organization which locally has about 50 members. She is the oldest of four children, which explains why she can sometimes be ‘bossy.’ :-) The four are very close and consider each other some of their best friends. Diane is a proud UAB alum and holds a double major in marketing and management. She enjoys spectator sports, and her favorite teams are UAB, Auburn, and whatever team Andy plans for. She is an amateur photographer and enjoys what is becoming Diane Poole, a lost art: sending cards and letters to friends. COMMIT Group Leader FBCT Seasoned Adult Ministry “SAM” (ages 55+) began about 3 years ago a new leadership structure within the senior adult ministry. The structure follows our FBCT Purpose. You can find our church’s Purpose published in full on the FBCT website. In September our inaugural SAM Group Leaders rotated off their three-year terms. SAM Leadership Team as of September 2020: SAM Team Leader …. Steve Penuel SAM Team Secretary …. Debra Roberts Commit to God …. Group Leader, Diane Poole Worship, Missions, Travel Know His Ways …. Group Leader, Susan Hornsby Bible Study, Education Group, Communication Do His Work …. Group Leader, Bill Bowser Care, Service, Events Ex Officio and Support Members SAM Staff …. Bob Smith SAM Ministry Assistant …. Debbie Arrington SAM Newsletter Editor …. Judy Bryant SAM Financial Officer …. Anita Aaron THE ROAD OF LIFE At first I saw God as my observer; my judge keeping track of the things I did wrong, so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when I die. He was out there sort of like a president. I recognized His picture when I saw it, but I didn’t really know Him. But later on when I met Christ, it seemed as though life were rather like a bike ride, but it was a tandem bike, and I noticed that Christ was in the back, helping me pedal. I don’t know just when it was that He suggested we change places, but life has not been the same since. When I was in control, I knew the way. It was rather boring but predictable…It was the shortest distance between two points. But when He took the lead, He knew delightful long cuts, up mountains and through rocky places at breakneck speeds…it was all I could do to hang on! Even though it looked like madness, He said, “Pedal“! Dennie & Luanne Lovin I worried and was anxious and asked, “Where are you taking me?” He smiled and didn’t answer, and I started to learn to trust.I forgot my old life and entered into the adventure. And when I’d say, “I’m scared,” He’d lean back and touch my hand. He took me to people with gifts that I needed, gifts of healing, acceptance, and joy. They gave me gifts to take on my journey, my Lord’s and mine. And we were off again. He said, “Give the gifts away; they’re extra baggage, too much weight.” So I did, to the people we met and I found that in giving I received, and still our burden was light. I did not trust Him, at first, in control of my life. I thought He’d wreck it; but He knows bike secrets, knows how to make it bend to take sharp corners, knows how to jump to clear danger, knows how to fly to shorten scary passages. And I am learning to shut up and pedal in the strangest places. And I’m beginning to enjoy the view and the cool breeze on my face with my delightful constant companion, Jesus Christ. And when I’m sure I can’t do anymore, He just smiles and says, “Pedal.” -Author Unknown 1821 – 2021: 200 YEARS By Sandra Bearden In February, just as COVID-19 was making its way into our lives, Sandra Bearden began writing historical pieces for our newsletter as FBCT approaches our 200th anniversary in 2021. She will continue into next year with these most informative and interesting articles. What a legacy of faithfulness this church has handed down to us. Trussville Brothers Helped Pioneer Birmingham Medical History If you’ve lived in the Birmingham area awhile, you may have benefited from specialists affiliated with the University of Alabama at Birmingham. UAB has long been recognized as a leading research and treatment center for many diseases, and its scientists now serve on teams developing cures and treatments for the coronavirus. Among medical pioneers who founded this important institution were two physicians born in Trussville—John Daniel Sinkler Davis and William Elias Brownlee Davis—sons of the Dr. Elias Davis from Trussville whose life ended during the Civil War battle of Petersburg in August 1864.(See story in October SAM newsletter.) John, a toddler when their father died, and Elias, then still a baby, were reared by their mother, Georgiana Lathem Davis, in Trussville, then a tiny rural hamlet. We can imagine life for the young widow was difficult, and that she received both practical help and moral support from family and friends who were members of the church which later became First Baptist-Trussville. We can surmise that church members as well as their mother and other family influenced the boys’ development, too. John was baptized into the fellowship at the age of 11, and Elias was baptized as a teenager. Both boys attended schools in Trussville, later studying in institutions in the United States and Europe. John followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps, studying with tutors, in school at Montevallo, and graduating from the Medical College of Georgia.
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