CALENDAR
Church Office: 706-245-9701 • Web Address: roystonbaptistchurch.org
Sunday, October 9
9:00 a.m.
Children’s Council Meeting
9:00 a.m.
Deacons Meeting
9:15 a.m.
Perk Up Café
9:30 a.m. CTM Library Open
11:00 a.m.
Morning Worship
12:00 p.m. Quarterly Business
Meeting
2:00p.m.
Kids and Families
Pumpkin Patch Trip
5:00 p.m.
Sunday Night Youth
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The Church Newsletter
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Royston Baptist Church
767 Church Street
Royston, GA 30662
Volume: 89
Monday, October 10
7:00 p.m.
House and Grounds
Meeting
Wednesday, October 12
5:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting
6:00 p.m.
Women’s Bible Study
Men’s Bible Study
CIAs
Mission Friends
Youth Activities
7:00 p.m.
Worship Choir Rehearsal
Thursday, October 13
8:30 a.m.
Staff Meeting
Friday, October 14
6:30 a.m.
Buddy Break in the FLC
You may have noticed some
things are different in the worship
service. Where have the formal
chairs gone? Who are all those
people on stage each week?
What are all of those instruments
doing in the service?
Sunday, October 16
*Youth Led Sunday
9:15 a.m.
Perk Up Café
9:30 a.m. CTM Library Open
11:00 a.m.
Morning Worship
4:00p.m.
Children/Youth Christmas Choir Rehearsal
5:00 p.m.
Sunday Night Youth
Wednesday, October 19
9:30 a.m.
Media Center
Council Meeting
5:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting
6:00 p.m.
Women’s Bible Study
Men’s Bible Study
CIAs
Mission Friends
Youth Activities
7:00 p.m.
Worship Choir Rehearsal
October 5, 2016
No. 18
For a long time the staff has been praying for God to bring
musicians to aid our wonderful choir. All of a sudden we have
new faces committed to playing and long time members who
feel called of God to serve. It has created new opportunities
in our worship service. We have room for a Gospel quartet,
complemented with multiple instruments. We have the
opportunity to sing praise music, led by a praise team. We
have the ability to bolster our choir with new voices and ways
to highlight them. And this is just the music!
We are also committing to more creative use of our screen.
Thanks to our Communication Manager, the quality of
background screens and the ability to play videos are now
available to us more regularly.
We are also committing to more Kairos testimonies. Every
other week we are hoping to have someone share a Karios
moment that fits with the 11:00 a.m. worship service for the
day.
Our children are present through song. We are looking for
creative ways to include our children into the life of worship
through song primarily, but also in other unique ways.
Be on the lookout for upcoming elements that are creative and
connected to what is going on in our world and for the people
outside the walls of the church.
GREAT FALL READING...
The Bracelet: A Novel by Dorothy Love in the Chris Tiller Memorial Library
It may seem like a lot has changed recently in worship, but each change is consistent with our desire to
change minds, hearts, and souls toward a closer more meaningful relationship with God through Jesus.
WEEKLY MINISTRY LEADERS
October 9
Deacon of the Week
Nursery Volunteers
October 16
Deacon of the Week
Nursery Volunteers
October 23
Deacon of the Week
Nursery Volunteers
John Herring
Kristen Harris
Jodi Davison
Brittany Myers
Larry Phillips
Jean Davison
Benet Berryman
Lisa Burrell
Kyle Westbrook
Vanessa Strickland
Melanie Westbrook
Jen Markert
ANNOUNCEMENTS
RBC Kids
Our children’s department needs you! If you would like to volunteer
in our nursery area and do not already serve there, please contact our
children’s minister, Teresa Phillips and let her know. There is a nursery
volunteer training session scheduled on October 16th at 3pm in the
FLC.
Operation Christmas Child
We will be collecting clothing and accessories for Operation Christmas Child this month as we work towards our goal of 150 shoeboxes!
A more complete shopping list is available at the church, but some
recommended items include sock, underwear, clothing, hats/gloves,
jewelry, sunglasses, and games/toys. Wow items will be collected for
2 weeks in November, but you may go ahead and bring those in this
month. A “wow item” is something that may be the child’s favorite
item they receive. These may include dolls, stuffed animals, cars, tools,
and balls. Please remember that our OCC boxes are small. If you want
to buy a larger item, please supply a plastic container for your gift. We
are so excited to participate in this ministry that changes lives around
the world!
National Collection Week is November 14-21 and WE NEED YOUR
HELP! There will be a sign up sheet on the bulletin board for you to
pick a time to help receive shoeboxes from local families and churches.
RBC is a collection center this year which means we will be receiving
more boxes and needing more prayers, hands, and feet! There will be
a brief training session in early November to ensure a smooth week.
More information will be coming regarding the church-wide packing
party scheduled for Wednesday, November 16th.
FROM OUR MUSIC MINISTER
Dr. Deborah Herring
There is excitement in the air with the coming of cooler fall weather, colorful leaves and the holiday season approaching. I hope
you all have been enjoying the colorful changes in our worship services as we have many
new talents in the congregation and we are putting those talents into use for God’s kingdom.
These changes require quite a bit of extra time for many of us. I’d like to begin with thanking
our pianist, Beth Chitwood for being so flexible and spending many extra hours beyond her
normal commitment to work with the instrumental team. The praise team members, band,
and choir have all spent additional time both in rehearsals and outside rehearsals preparing for
Sunday worship. We are all blessed to have such wonderful, hard-working musicians who serve
with joy and give sacrificially. We have three different teams interchanging and this can be quite
complicated to administrate at times, but through patience and God’s grace we are all learning
together. We’d like to thank all of you for your encouragement, especially to the new members.
Psalm 89:1 says, “I will sing of the lovingkindness of the Lord forever; to all generations I will
make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth.” May we continue our legacy of making worship
meaningful to all generations.
Blessings to all,
Deborah
Psalm 113:3 “From the
rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the
name of the LORD is to be praised.”
Susan and I spent last Saturday with a mile long
to-do list. Jokingly, I added some things: golf,
nap, and relax on the beach. These things were
never going to happen as the list loomed. But at
the end of the day, all the items were checked off
the list and the work was done.
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Each of us spend our hours, days, and inevitably our lives doing the
things that make life happen. We put up dishes, sweep the front porch,
take family to the doctor, and pay the bills. These are not “fun” tasks;
they are responsibilities that must be accomplished.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,
Robert Hayden has a poem I want you to reflect on this week as you live
life and check things off of your to-do list. Those Winter Sundays express
the sentiment well of living out the responsibilities of life through the eyes
of a son now grown. Pay close attention to the last two lines, because in
those lines is the treasure of service unnoticed.
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
God too calls us to clean, to care unseen, to thankless jobs in His
vineyard, and to tasks that aren’t “fun.” But too in those austere and
lonely offices, we serve God. Be Mission-Minded even in the austere and
lonely offices this week.
Rev. Jonathan Barlow
Calling All Volunteers!
Community Missions needs you to give of your time Saturday, October 8th!
Please sign up to help at our Royston Baptist Booth at the Royston Fall Festival! We have 1 1/2 hour time
slots. If you can’t be there on the 8th, please donate pre-packaged goodies
to pass out (example - mini chip bags, Little Debbie snacks, etc).
The sign-up is on the missions bulletin board next to the media center!
UPCOMING SERMONS
October 9
Who Decides the
Mission? Who Should?
Luke 6:12-13, Acts 13: 1-3
Happy Birthday
Uriah Russell
10/04
Delores Lindsey 10/07
Joneal Reeves
10/08
Zadie P. Gaines 10/09
Agnes Pilgrim
10/14
Sierra Stark
10/16
Willie M. Ayers 10/17
Judi Hillis
10/18
Kandler Berryman10/19
October 16
“What’s OUR
Mission?”
Acts 16:6-10
Elizabeth B. Hart 10/20
Linda York
10/24
Helen Brown
10/26
Sue Greenway
10/26
Juanita Harris
10/27
Suzanne Johnson 10/28
Sheila Moncrief 10/29
Matthew S. Lindsey10/30
October 23
What is Success in
Mission?” Acts 19:6-10, 23
Ephesians 4:1-5
Happy Anniversary
Mr. & Mrs. Eric Burrell
Mr. & Mrs. Andy Myers
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Norman
10/15
10/15
10/18