Homecoming CLeanup

A clean-up day has been planned for August 3, 2024, at 8:00 AM to help prepare the church for homecoming. If anyone can help, please make plans to attend.

Attention Sunday School Classes: Plan to straighten up your classroom before homecoming. Don’t fear the dumpster; it can be your best friend.

Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Operation Christmas Child

To prepare for OCC, we will gather the following items over the next several months. A box will be located outside Nikki’s office.

June Items
Small Toys, Flip-flops,
Ball caps for boys, Socks

July Items
Tools that will fit in a shoe box,
School Supplies, Washcloths.

Preparing for Homecoming on August 25, 2024

On August 25, 2024, First Baptist will celebrate 135 years of ministry in the heart of Ashburn. As we prepare for this special homecoming event, we need your help. If you have the names and addresses of past members or staff, we could send an invitation to please get them to Nikki in the church office: email nikkibrewer@fbcashburn.com or 229-567-9320.

Giving as of July 30, 2024

Budget for 2024 . . . . . . . .  $339,423.00
Tithes Needed to Date . . . . $190,884.68
Received to Date . . . . . . . . $155,592.06
Needed for weekly budget . . .  $6,751.71
Tithes Received this week . . .   $3,579.80

MID-WEEK DEVOTION

Don’t forget to check out Brother David’s Mid-Week Devotion in the book of Psalms. They are uploaded each Wednesday on the sermon page.

From Our Family and Music Minister

What a great time we had this past Sunday during our Sunday School emphasis Sunday! We appreciate the hostess committee providing breakfast and Steve coming and leading our teachers through training and sharing about discipleship in the morning service. We also would like to thank our Sunday School teachers who spend so much time week to week preparing to lead us through Sunday School. However, even though we had a great time of teaching and worship, it really is pointless if the information doesn’t make it past Sunday.

As Steve was closing out his sermon, he mentioned that we all know one person who does not have a relationship with Christ. I’m sure that at the moment, we all had someone who came to mind. But was that person still on our minds when we sat down for lunch? When we see that person again, will we remember the commands Jesus gave us as He ascended into heaven? Will we give into fear and not share the Word of God with that person? 

If you have been attending church regularly, I am sure you have heard these questions multiple times. Therefore, if you are still ignoring them, ask yourself why. ­If you were walking by a pool and saw someone drowning, would you just watch and do nothing? Whether you could swim or not, you would do everything you could to save that person. Sure, we can argue that it is right in front of us. It is a person that we can reach out and touch. We can see life leaving his body. As a believer in Christ, shouldn’t someone’s spiritual death be more important than their physical death?

James writes, “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” (James 1:22. ESV). If a person thinks that he can hear and learn the Word of God and then go out and live like he wants, he deceives himself. Think about that text in the context of what Jesus says in the second greatest commandment: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39, ESV). We don’t want to go through pain and suffering. If we love our neighbor, why would we want them to go through the same thing? If we love God, we should love our neighbor; his/her salvation should burden our hearts.

As we reflect on what we discussed in Sunday School and into worship, we should intentionally share God’s Word. If we hear and agree with what Steve taught but don’t do anything about it, we are genuinely deceiving ourselves. We could quote the Bible from cover to cover and know what every verse states, but if we don’t put those words into action, confess our sins, and seek forgiveness from Christ, we are as lost as the day we were born.

Does God’s Word make it past Sunday in your life? When Monday comes, are you still thinking about that person who could die and not have a personal relationship with Christ? Don’t deceive yourself because it is more of a responsibility for you than for the pastor of a church to reach out. If God puts a specific person on your heart, He is calling you personally to reach out to them. Don’t ignore God because Sunday has passed; don’t deceive yourself and think someone else will do it. Let God control your heart and actions, and reach out to that person before it is too late.