Join us this Wednesday for supper at 6 PM in the fellowship hall. 

Tonight’s Guest Speaker, Deborah Manning
Area Coordinator for
Operation Christmas Child

Menu for Family Night

Taco Casserole, Corn Niblets, and ChocoFlan

OCC Prep NIght

Anyone that can help, we will be preparing on Monday, November 11th, at 4:30 PM
for Wednesday’s OCC Packing Night. If you can help, please meet with us in the Family Ministry Building.

Wednesday, November 6th , 2024, 7:00 PM

All ladies are welcome to join our WMU  group.
Monday, November 11th
1:30 PM

Meet in Bill Hardin SS Class Room

The guest speaker this month will be Diane Saylor from Shepherd’s Pantry.

On Sunday, November 17, the Happy Class invites you to join them for a lunch social
at ABAC Donaldson Dining Hall. We will take the bus and return to the church around
2:30 PM. Cost is around $11.00. For more information or to sign up, see Jonathan
or Sue Mastrario.
 

Operation Christmas Child Relay Center

We need smiling faces to help volunteer for the Operation Christmas Child Relay Center. If you can help, please contact Jonathan or Sandra Harris.

Key Fobs

If your key fob needs reprogramming, please see Nikki in the office Monday – Friday from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Giving as of November 6, 2024

Budget for 2024 . . . . . . . .  $339,423.00
Tithes Needed to Date . . . . $271,854.00
Received to Date . . . . . . . . $226,535.62
Needed for weekly budget . . .  $6,751.71
Tithes Received this week . . .   $4,620.00

MID-WEEK DEVOTION

Remember 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 Pastor

I hope you are planning on attending this year’s Harvest Banquet.  Rev. Jason Jones, Pastor Wellness Catalyst with the Georgia Baptist Mission Board will be bringing God’s Word in our worship service.  Our Host and Hostess committee will prepare the meal.  The Finance Committee will be providing the desserts.  It is always a special day.

Why do we have Harvest Banquet?  On the surface there is the obvious reason for the day.  Harvest Banquet provides extra funds for the church to operate. 

Harvest Banquet began almost 30 years ago to help the church through a very tight financial period.  In order to make it through that time, the church stopped giving to the cooperative program (the means through which Southern Baptists support missions).  The church felt convicted about this and began looking for a way to “catch up” on what they had not given.  The idea of a special banquet was proposed.  The event provided funds to make up what had not been given to missions.

The church then decided that the banquet should become an annual event to safe guard against budget short falls.  The Harvest Banquet account helps cover times when offerings are low or when expenses (often repairs) exceed money on hand.  This not only covers those problems but provides a safeguard for the missions offering.  After that first Harvest Banquet the church never again wanted to be slack in its missions’ contributions. 

On a deeper level, Harvest Banquet is a time of expressing humble thanksgiving unto God.  The Harvest Banquet offering which is beyond and separate from our normal offering is a statement that we recognize that everything we have has been given by the Lord.  It is a time of thanksgiving for God’s lovingkindness.  This is why it is called “Harvest Banquet”.  We look at the wonderful harvest God has given and give thanks.

Harvest Banquet is also a time of faith.  When we give to God, we not only thank Him for His promise for today we are also trusting Him to provide for the future.  When we give, we are committing ourselves to God’s care.

This Sunday will be a special day for us.  Yes, there is the obvious aspects of receiving an offering.  But, behind that offering is a time of meeting with our Lord.  It is a time for us to humbly thank and trust our wonderful Lord.