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The Newsletter
Courtland Baptist Church
August 2015
Mission: To Witness, Minister,
and Serve in Jesus’ Name!
Tommy Speight, Pastor
Pastor’s email: [email protected]
Ginger Presson, Church Secretary
Linda Sutton, Organist/Pianist & Choir Director
Christine Norton, Nursery Coordinator
Cathy Moore, Nursery Personnel
Church Office email: [email protected]
Website: www.courtlandbaptist.org
757-653-2945
Where Will You Serve?
Each year about this time we begin the
process of locating people who are willing to
serve the Lord through His church.
The Bible tells us we are all gifted by
the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is at work
within us. So the question is - WHERE &
HOW WILL YOU SERVE? Look over the list
on the following page & check at least one
place where you would be willing to serve &
turn it in.
1 Peter 4:10
As each has received a gift, use it to serve
one another, as good stewards of God's
varied grace, whoever speaks, as one who
speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as
one who serves by the strength that God
supplies—in order that in everything God
may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To
him belong glory and dominion forever
and ever. Amen.
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Opportunities For Service 2015-2016
_____KIDS ON A MISSION – Sunday night children’s
ministry
_____AUDIO VISUAL Committee – Assist with
_____ Children
soundboard, power point, and recording.
_____KITCHEN/MEALS Committee – Responsible for
_____WMU
kitchen upkeep and supplies and preparation of meals and
_____AUDIT Committee- once yearly audit our church
Shut-in deliveries.
books.
_____ Youth
______ Handbells
_____LOUISE STORY SCHOLARSHIP Committee
_____ BAPTISMAL Committee – Responsible for setup and
Coordinates and recommends distribution of scholarship
administering of baptismal services.
funds.
_____Women’s Ministry
____ MEMORIAL Committee – Responsible for the receipt
_____BBA Representative- represent our church at quarterly
of memorial gifts and proper notification of such gifts
associational meeting
_____ Music Ministry
_____MINISTERING TO THE LOST – Reaching out to
_____ BENEVOLENCE- Committee –Preparing food
needs of unchurched individuals
following funerals
_____ Discipleship Training
_____ MINISTERING TO NEW CHRISTIANS – Helping
_____ BUILDING & GROUNDS Committee –
with Christianity 101, help with assigning mentors
Coordinates/provides upkeep and improvements to church
building and grounds.
_____NOMINATING Committee – Responsible for
_____ VBS
identification and monitoring for fulfillment of church
_____ C.A.R.E. - Making contacts through cards, phone
positions.
calls, and prayer
_____NURSERY – minister to babies and toddlers during
_____Fruits of Our Hands
service times.
_____ CHILDREN’S ADVISORY Committee – Plan and
_____PRAYER Committee – To pray for the congregation
coordinate children events. (Through grade 6)
and ministry of our church, prayer chain, special prayer
_____ CHILDREN’S CHURCH- to assist or help in
groups.
Children’s Church
_____RESOLUTION Committee –Send copies of
_____COMMUNION Committee – Responsible for setup
resolutions to the family of deceased members.
and preparation of the LORD’S supper.
_____ Thanksgiving Bags & Turkeys
_____GREETERS/USHERS – to welcome people to
_____VAN Committee – Responsible for upkeep and
worship and take up offering in the second service.
maintenance of church van.
Sunday School
_____HISTORY Committee – Responsible for the keeping
_____YOUTH ADVISORY Committee – Plan and
coordinate Youth events. (Grades 7-12)
and recording of the church’s history and events.
_____Nursery
_____HOSPITAL CLOSET/SHUT-IN – visit & minister to
those in the hospital or shut-in & maintains hospital closet
_____ Preschool/Kindergarten
_____KEENAGERS- minister to Senior Adults
_____ Adults
Name ____________________________________
Address _________________________________
Phone ______________email_________________
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Newsletter -In an effort to save money on
postage, we want to reduce the
number of newsletters we mail
out. You can receive one in
color on line before everyone
else gets one in the mail!
Please make sure the office has
your current correct email. We
want to also send the newsletter to those who want
to receive it (snail mail).
Over the next few months, if you would like to
continue to receive the newsletter by snail mail,
please let the church office know either by E-Mail:
[email protected], or by dropping a
note in the offering or by calling- 653-2945.
Our deadline is October 1st, please contact the
church office by this time to continue to receive our
Newsletter. Thank you in advance for helping us
get the newsletter to those who would like to
receive it.
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Beginning July 18, we will have a
standing cleanup time every
Saturday from 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM.
This is a great time to come out and
get to know someone while serving
the church. I will post a list of items
that need to be addressed on the
secretary’s door. Please contact me at
[email protected] with any questions.
Thanks. Jason
Fowler
Pray For the Deacon Families of
Marvin Dodson:
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It is amazing what we can accomplish, if
we do not care who gets the credit. The
firefighter who holds the ladder is just as
important as the one holding the hose!
Mission Trip Report
We look forward to the mission report of our
team which went to Cherokee. They will give
their report, Sunday, August 2. We
commissioned them & prayed for them the
Sunday morning they left Courtland to begin
their journey.
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From The Pulpit
We will be continuing our study in the
book of The Ephesians.
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Bibles that are
falling apart,
usually belong
to people who
are NOT!
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more personal involved in practicing & sharing their faith.
Pray for God to send revival to our people. What God
has done before God can do again.
Are you in need of a renewed relationship with
God, an attitude adjustment, change in behavior, a closer
walk with Jesus? Take the steps toward Jesus and make
a fresh commitment & see what happens.
Revival
We rejoice in the spirit filled revival services we
held. For 3 nights, local pastors came &
proclaimed the word of God to us. Spirited
music inspired us, devotions motivated us. The
sanctuary had an abundance of people for each
service as the fire from heaven fell upon us.
The "services" were the beginning of a great
move of God.
Revival is the increased spiritual interest or
renewal in the individual, the life of a church congregation
or society for the things of God with a local, national or
global effect. This should be distinguished from the use
of the term "revival" to refer to an evangelistic meeting or
series of meetings. Revivals are seen as the restoration
of the people of the church to a vital and fervent
relationship with God.
The concept of revival comes from biblical
narratives of national decline and restoration during the
history of the Israelites. King Josiah helped bring revival
to Israel by reinstituted temple worship of Yahweh while
destroying pagan worship.
In the American colonies the First Great
Awakening came in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a
permanent impact on American faith. It resulted from
powerful preaching that deeply affected listeners (already
church members) with a deep sense of personal guilt and
salvation by Christ. Pulling away from ritual and
ceremony, the Great Awakening made religion intensely
personal to the average person by creating a deep sense
of spiritual guilt and redemption and relationship with
Jesus.
The Second Great Awakening began about
1800 and which reached out to the unchurched all across
America. The new style of sermons and the way people
practiced their faith breathed new life into the church and
believers in America. People became passionately and
emotionally involved in their religion, rather than passively
listening to intellectual discourse in a detached manner.
People began to study the Bible at home, and became
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The Witness Challenge
How did you become a Christian? Someone must
have invited you to church, talked about what
Jesus meant to them or you heard it is an event
like VBS, Sunday School, camp or worship.
Someone who loved you & cared deeply for you
made an effort to share Christ with you.
What someone did for you - pass along to
another. Someone you want to be in heaven
with, someone you want to experience the joy of
the Lord, someone you want to have Christian
fellowship with, we challenge you to share Jesus
with them.
How will they hear unless they are told? How
will they know unless someone tell them. That
someone is you! How many times have you
talked about Jesus this summer? How often have
you talked about what God means to you?
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18. You have to act more than you react.
19. You have to save more than you squander.
20. You have to care more than you ever have.
21. You have to love more than you ever have
Rob Gilbert
How to have a winning day!
If you want to win an election, you have to get more
votes than your opponents.
If you want to win a baseball game your team has to
score more runs than the other team.
Why Christians Need The Holy Spirit
Galatians 5:16-26
1- He helps us conquer our sin nature
2- He will help us follow God's guidelines in his word
3- He will produce Godly qualities in our lives
4- He will encourage us to seek God's approval
– not man's
If you want to lose weight, you have to burn off more
calories than you take in.
If you want to have a “winning” day, there are 21
The Perfect Church
“more thans” that you have to do….
1. You have to listen more than you talk.
2. You have to give more than you get.
I think that I shall never see
A church that’s all it ought to be:
A church whose members never stray
Beyond the straight and narrow way.
3. You have to smile more than you frown.
4. You have to think “we” more than you think “me”.
5. You have to agree more than you disagree.
6. You have to compliment more than you criticize.
7. You have to laugh more than you cry.
8. You have to clean up more than you mess up.
9. You have to be positive more then you’re negative.
10. You have to be fascinated more than you’re
frustrated.
11. You have to “walk the walk” more than you
“talk the talk”.
12. You have to be accepting more than rejecting.
13. You have to see the cup “half full”
more than see it “half empty”.
14. You have to help more than you hinder.
15. You have to believe in yourself more than
you doubt yourself.
16. You have to work more than you whine.
17. You have to do more than you don’t do.
A church that has no empty pews,
Who pastor never has the blues;
A church whose deacons always deak,
And none are proud, and all are meek.
Where gossips never peddle lies,
Or make complaints or criticize.
Where all are always sweet and kind
And all to other’s faults are blind.
Such perfect churches there may be,
But none of them is known to me;
But still I’ll work and pray and plan,
To make our church the best I can!
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Found in Billy Sunday’s Bible:
Twenty-nine years ago, with the Holy Spirit
as my Guide, I entered at the portico of Genesis,
walked down the corridor of the Old Testament are
galleries, where pictures of Noah, Abraham, Moses,
Joseph, Isaac, Jacob, and Daniel hung on the wall.
I passed into the music room of the Psalms
where the Spirit sweeps the keyboard of nature until
it seems that every reed and pipe in God’s great
organ responds to the harp of David, the sweet singer
of Israel.
I entered the chamber of Ecclesiastes, where
the voice of the preacher is heard, and into the
conservatory of Sharon and the lily of the valley
where sweet spices filled and perfumed my life.
I entered the business office of Proverbs and
on into the observatory of the prophets where I saw
telescopes of various sizes pointing to far off events,
concentrating on the bright and morning Start which
was to rise above the moonlit hills of Judea for our
salvation and redemption.
I entered the audience room of the King of
Kings, catching a vision written by Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John. Thence, into the correspondence
room with Paul, Peter, James, and John, writing their
Epistles.
I stepped into the throne room of Revelation
where tower the glittering peaks, where sits the King
of Kings upon His throne of glory with the healing of
nations in His hand, and I cried out:
All hail the power of Jesus’ name!
Let angels prostrate fall;
Bring forth the royal diadem
And crown Him Lord of all!
New Members
Gabby Staehling
5333 O’Kelly Drive
Suffolk, VA 23437
Margaret Jackson
23378 Grant Street
Courtland, VA 23837
Ellen Robinson
26517 E. Nottoway Dr.
Courtland, VA 23837
If you are one of the drivers for
our church vehicles, please stop in the
church office to sign the insurance form.
We will need your driver’s license
# and date of birth.
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Courtland Baptist Church
22265 Main Street
P.O. Box 148
Courtland, VA 23837
Non-Profit Organization
Permit #10
Postage Paid
[email protected]
757-653-2945
Christmas In August!!
“Covered Dish Supper”
Come one Come all for Fun ~ Food ~ Fellowship!
August 31st at 6:30 PM in the Fellowship hall
Speaker is Nancy Strachan from Rwanda Hugs (Chickens)
Prayer Request
Every Sunday's bulletin has a place for you to include your prayer requests. You
can tear the sheet off from the bulletin and place it in the offering boxes or plates.
These prayer requests will be printed in the following week's bulletin. We
encourage you to be faithful to pray for one another, intercede for your brothers
and sisters in Christ, bring your request before the throne of grace. Every one of
us at times has had situations we needed and asked for prayer from one another.
Let's do for others what we have asked others do for us.