THIS WEEK
Wednesday, December 5
Noon: Church Office Volunteers’ Christmas lunch, Fellowship Hall
6:45 p.m. Children in Grades 1-6 make gingerbread houses for SOUP recipients, Fellowship Hall
6:45 p.m. in Sanctuary – Focus on Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (Southern Baptist Convention).
Focus on CBF Global Missions will be Wednesday, December 19.
Church Office Schedule December 6 & 7: The Church Office will be open from 9:00 a.m. to
Noon Thursday and Friday, December 6 & 7, with our volunteers Susan Lark and Jean Geddings, during
our Administrative Assistant’s vacation.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9
Collins Children’s Home Meat Offering: During the first two Sundays of December, we’ll
collect money for our annual project to buy meat for the Collins Children’s Home. We work with a
butcher in Easley to provide an assortment of beef, pork and chicken for each cottage at the home. Write
your check to FBC Pendleton, indicate Collins Meat Offering in the memo block of your check, and give
it to Wayne Patterson (contact Wayne at 710-8239 or [email protected]) by Sunday December 9.
Angel Tree: Please return the gifts, wrapped and with the angel tag attached, to the church office
lobby by Sunday, December 9. Thanks for caring and sharing in Jesus' name.
2013 Budget Vote: The 2013 Proposed Budget was presented for discussion last Sunday.
Budget vote will be this Sunday, December 9, in both morning worship services. Copies are available on
the information table in the first floor hallway.
Youth Christmas Party is Sunday, December 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Christy & Marcus’ House.
Bring a gift (no more than $5) for the Gift Exchange. Youth parents and volunteers are welcome!
CHRISTMAS MISSIONS OPPORTUNITIES & EVENTS
Christmas Mission Opportunity: Operation Magi gifts are to be individually wrapped so that
each child has three packages with the appropriate star attached to the outside of the wrapped gift. Gifts
should be placed in Room 215 next to Courtney’s office by noon, Sunday, December 16.
Christmas Missions Offering: We are receiving offerings for Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s
Global Missions and the Southern Baptist Convention’s International (Lottie Moon) Missions. E-giving
for Christmas missions is also available at http://www.fbcpendleton.org/onlinegiving.html
Clemson Community Care needs for December: CCC needs these staples: juice, cereal,
flavored gelatin and pudding, flour, canned milk, peanut butter, pork and beans, rice and tomato sauce.
Pray for Pastor Courtney Krueger and the Rev. Jack Couch, who are teaching at the Gypsy
Smith School in Romania. Courtney returns to First Baptist Sunday, December 9.
Keenagers (Senior Adults) Monthly Meeting and Lunch is Monday, December 10,
at 10:30 a.m.
Ladies’ Lunch is Wednesday, December 19, at 11:30 a.m. at Seasons at the Madren Center.
To reserve a spot, contact Diane Scott at [email protected]
Children’s Christmas Party is Wednesday, December 19, at 6:45 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
Wednesday Night Dinner: Reservations/cancellations are due to the church office by 2:00 p.m.
Mondays so our volunteer cooks will know how much food to buy. (Late cancellations result in full
charge.) Serving line opens at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $3.50 for adults and youth, $1.50 for children (4-12) and
ages 3 and under eat free. First time is free. Take out is available. Pay at the desk on Wednesday nights
or anytime online at www.fbcpendleton.org (Online payment by card may take up to three business days
for approval.) December 5: Cook is Amy Braswell. Menu is pizza, salad bar, dessert.
December 12: Cooks are Jean Geddings & Carolyn Holbrooks. Menu for Church Family Christmas
Party is spaghetti with choice of alfredo or meat sauce, garlic bread, salad deluxe, variety of scrumptious
desserts, coffee, tea and lemonade. December 19: Cooks are Bruce & Barbara Blackmon. Menu is TBA.
December 26 & January 2: No meal, services or activities during Christmas & New Year.
Work It Out!
Conflict Resolution: A Work Out for the Worn Out
Sunday, January 13
All groups experience conflict – including churches!
People have different ways of dealing with conflict. Some
avoid conflict and navigate the tension. Some dive right in
and fight it out. Some manipulate, argue, or persuade.
Regardless of how we handle conflict, conflict can consume
our time, energy, and passion. But conflict can also fuel our
passion and increase our energy by introducing new
possibilities, shedding light on new perspectives, and
bringing about new opportunities.
This January, our church is going to take a Sunday afternoon
to Work It Out!
No, you don’t need your exercise shoes!
No, we aren’t going to tackle all of the hot button issues and controversial topics!
No, we aren’t going to attack one another!
Instead, we are going to work together to understand different ways of handling conflict.
Being part of community takes work. Understanding different perspectives takes patience. Listening to
one another takes time. This is part of our call as disciples of Christ – to take the time, the energy, and
the love to Work It Out! together.
Save the date, Sunday, January 13, from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., for Work It Out!
Dinner, a workbook, childcare and lots of new insights will be provided.
Registration will begin Wednesday, December 12.
“…Continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling…” Philippians 2:12
New School Year Wednesday Schedule begins January 9
5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
5:30 – 6:00 p.m.
5:30 – 6:15 p.m.
6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
6:25 – 6:30 p.m.
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
6:45 – 7:30 p.m.
7:30 p.m.
Youth Ensemble (choir room)
Prayer Service (sanctuary), Youth Praise Team (youth room)
Children’s Music Programs: Sing & Play (Ages 1 & 2),
Preschool Music (Ages 3-5), Music Makers (Grades 1-3),
Young Musicians (Grades 4-6)
Dinner served
Birthdays & Blessings, Announcements (fellowship hall)
NEXT (Youth), Nursery (2 and under)
Adult Bible Study in Co-Ed D Classroom (Room 306)
Children’s Mission & Bible Study Programs: Missions Explorers (Age 3),
Mission Friends (Ages 4 & 5), Planet 56 (Grades 5 & 6)
Grades 1-4: RAs & GAs first Wednesday/Bible Thrills
meets following Wednesdays
Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal (choir room)