THE WLBC BULLETIN

West Lynchburg Baptist Church

April 22, 2012 Volume 2, Issue 16

The church with heart in the heart of the city.

Just Around The Corner...

But God loves us for who we are his children. Our deeds of service show our love for God in return; they dont earn his love. When we become sick or disabled, God doesnt count us worthless and dispose of us. He keeps loving us and brings others near to True love After being a team for six years, minimally sighted Graham Waspe and his guide dog Edward suffered the loss of Edwards vision. Very soon, Graham received a new guide dog, Opal, but he didnt give Edward away. Instead, Opal now leads them both and they all share strong bonds of love. Does God love us for the ways we serve him? When we can no longer carry out the tasks weve long done, will God love or approve of us less? We seem to believe so, judging by how we keep track of our good works and those of others.
*It does not matter if you served in actual war, just in a branch of the service during the Vietnam conflict. All photos w/ info need to be turned in no later than May 6 and can be picked up from the church office after May 25. May 27, 2012 is the Vietnam Veterans Recognition Sunday. Vietnam Veterans we need a picture of you in uniform.

In this issue:
Just Around The Corner The Week at a Glance

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4 5 6

Music, Members and Missions

Somethings Old Somethings New Deacon of the Week +

serve not only him but us as well. Like the retired guide dog, may we rest in that loving care.

Staff Info

Staff Member on Call April 2022 Vance Matthews 910.814.7200

Need to know: Your Name Branch of Service Years served

Wednesday April 25 MENU Country Style Steak/Gravy

Scalloped Potatoes

Biscuits Peas/Carrots Cobbler

The Week at a Glance

Christians have great cause for laughter on a daily basis. We can laugh because we know that no matter how much tragedy we see or may suffer personally, we have the assurance that God can turn it all around and bring great good out of evil. The proof of that, for Christians, is Jesus resurrection. Charles Ferrell
Sunday, April 22 9:00 AM 9:15 AM 9:45 AM 11:00 AM 11:00 AM 4:15 PM 5:00 PM 5:30 PM 6:15 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM Monday, April 23 6:30 PM Tuesday, April 24 8:00 AM 11:30 AM 1:30 PM Wednesday, April 25 5:15 PM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:45 PM 6:50 PM 7:30 PM 8:50 PM
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1 Instrumental Ensemble Library Open Sunday School KIDS In Worship Morning Worship Sanctuary Bells Womens Bible Study: James Kingdom Kids Chimes Kingdom Kids Bells TeamKIDS...Preschool age 35 TeamKIDS......Gr. 16 EDGE Student Worship Evening Worship Business Meeting

A Special Note To: Members For Next Saturday April 28 @ 7pm We need volunteers to help with the Coffee/Dessert portion of the Oksana Nelson event. Needs:
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Marjorie Jones Circle 1 Walk to School event S.W.A.T. NO Amazing Grace Fellowship
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Desserts Hostesses Help Cleaning-up Please let Mary Shepherd or Amy Hassenpflug know if you can help. Mary: 352-9036 Amy: 993-2348

Family Night Supper Preschool Music Time 4yrsKind. Music Makers Gr. 13 Young Musicians Gr. 46 EDGE (Gr.7-12) Disciple Making (Bible Study/Prayer) Mission Friends Ages 4 & 5 Royal Ambassadors Boys Gr.1-6 Girls in Action Gr. 1-6 Highest Praise Sanctuary Choir Praise Team Rehearsal Bermuda Cruisearrival time to load luggage YARD SALE (til 2pm) IMPACT: College/Young Adult Bible Study

Friday, April 27 5:40 PM Saturday, April 28 7:00 AM 7:00 PM

Music, Members and Missions

Welcome
Those folks that dont regularly come, but came to church on Easter...send them a note and tell them how nice it was to see them. That extra effort makes a difference to someone who may feel like an outsider. Praise The Lord w/ Song

April 22 Morning Songs

#510 Firm Foundation #456 How Firm a Foundation #342 The Word #432 Speak, O Lord #344 Ancient Words #631 Fill My Cup, Lord #462 Well Work Till Jesus Comes

Condolences
Please pray for & extend sympathy to: Russ Minerich & family, in the passing of his mother. David Gallop, in the passing of his brother.

as of Wed April 18
Lynchburg General: NONE Virginia Baptist: NONE

Hospitalized

http://lifewayworship.s3website-us-east1.amazonaws.com/ HymnalPreviews/

1 John 3:8 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and truth.

April WMU Project Pure Water Pure Love See the GA/RA display at the Yard Sale on April 21 & buy some bottled pure water.

Dont Miss Your Chance to Bless and Be Blessed...The Needs are Many
The Fruits of Your Labor and Love Last summer, WLBC, as well as other churches, worked hard collecting and donating used Sunday School literature, religious books, various needed items and monetary donations to help Rev. Godstime and his teachers in Nigeria.

Donations Given So Far Annie Armstrong: $4,077.43 Pure Water Pure Love: $67.00
Oksana Nelson

And what the teachers wanted most were dry erase boards. So we collected money to help purchase some, as seen in the top left photo. Thank you for giving so that others can spread the Good News of our Savior and can have what they need to teach the children well.

Saturday 4/28 WLBC @ 7pm

Coffee/Dessert afterward

Senior Adult Spring Banquet

Friday, May 11 6:00 PM

SOMETHINGS OLD SOMETHINGS OLD SOMETHINGS OLD SOMETHINGS OLD

SOMETHINGS NEW

April 217am til 2p

Help us raise money for our kids to go to Centri-KID Camp!

(Fellowship Hall) Tickets are $10 pp Available in office or Adult IV & V S.S.

(Network House fund-raiser) Each package contains: a tea bag, hot chocolate, candy, & a homemade cookie, brownie & muffin. * Each packet is attractively wrapped and only cost $5.

Stay-at-Home Tea Party Packets

SOMETHINGS NEW

WLBC members have been asked to walk with TC Miller kids, parents & teachers to school from our Parking Lot.

Fellowship Hall MAY 5 9am 2pm * Sign-up on the bulletin board: someone will call you to set appointment time.

Please fill-out a W.B. Insert or call the office to order... then pick them up in the lobby on May 13.

The 3rd Annual Spring WLBC Motorcycle Rally SaturdayMay 12, 2012 Meet at WLBC Cost: $20 will benefit
Operation Christmas Child

SOMETHINGS NEW

April 24 Tuesday 8am *Fill out W.B. insert to volunteer.

Womens Ministry Event

Teacup Garden Party

(Bring a teacup) Fellowship Hall *Sign-up; Child Care upon request; & Donation toward

May 12 -- 11:00am

Register at 9:30am Roll Out at 10am *Lunch provided upon return to church Sponsored by FAITH Riders motorcycle ministry of WLBC

SOMETHINGS NEW

Save-the-Date
Sept 2829, 2012 @ Eagle Eyrie

Serving, Laughing, Playing & PrayingBecause WLBC Members Live Life With Hope
Deacon of the Week: Joe Mayberry 434.237.2664

Knights in Japan
March 2012 newsletter
March 11, 2011 started in a hurry. My friend and I needed to take my son, Kenji, a few hours away for a routine MRI. After the predicted amount of time had passed a nurse entered the hall and said the MRI was finished but they needed a little more time. [Then] the floor began to move and walls swayed to the degree that people lost their orientation and had difficulty standing upright. Tremors were measured in Russia and China. Japan had moved nearly 8 ft. closer to the US. The Earth was so impacted that it shifted between 4 and 10 inches on its axis. We were told my son needed emergency brain surgery. Massive tsunamis began to crash the country and eat men, machines, crops anything it encountered for 6 miles. In one area the wave was the height of a 10 story building. The sea attacked more than half of the country and the first domino fell to began nuclear meltdown.

Pictured: Joe & Edith Mayberry

Joes Deacon Families Brenda Arthur Kathy Brooks Thomas & Barbara Brown Robert & Elaine Floyd James & Lila Howard Michael & Natalie Howard Ray, Tina, Lauren & Meagan Millard James & Patricia Newman Jim & Wendy Shearer William & Julie Thornton

Another childrens hospital was devastated by flood waters and we needed to go home to allow for our childrens hospital to take in more kids. We waited for the emergency surgery, from home. Within a day all the supplies at any store were basically gone in the north. People were huddled in emergency shelters with no food, no water, no electricity, no heat source and only the clothes they were wearing when they ran from the sea. The survivors were beginning to die. Some of our teammates had been working with us but their home was in Sendai, one of the hardest hit areas. Several of our students also are from this area. Ration limits were set on goods and fuel. Rolling blackouts for several hours were announced to go into effect. My son needed an oxy-

gen machine to breathe, we needed electricity. For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things(*) 2 Corinthians 2:15,16 Who is adequate for these things (*) 500,000 people were displaced, around 16,000 were dead and more than 3,000 are still missing today. Who is adequate for these things (*) Only God. God plans to use the Christian as a pitcher of Him to be carried wherever He places them to be poured out on the people He surrounds them with. The need was great and our resources limited. We began to pray about what God wanted us to do. Then, we were contacted by Thomas Terrace Baptist Church and told that a special offering had been collected for these needs. God had provided! God showed how He was supplying for those He wanted us to reach. We were simply His fingers and fingers by themselves are small. But you, dear church, are part of the wrist that is part of an arm that was part of the WHOLE body of Christ with the very Spirit of God running in the veins. Whether in Asia or the USA or anywhere else on the globe the body of Christ is one; we are never alone nor are we ever powerless. We prayed then began to look at where and how God wanted us to pour. God allowed us to find ways to access some gas burners and portable gas cans, packaged milk that didnt require refrigeration, diapers and a few more things. Then our friends stocked their house as a mini- command center. Our students formed teams and provided weekend meals for evacuees. We listed and stocked our church and a local house for evacuee housing. Our teammates in Sendai are still doing Bible studies and other outreaches. We eventually went into the hospital and had an extended stay where I got to reach and love other moms. Funds were sent to help care for families who were now homeless due to nuclear meltdown. Little by little God began and continues to heal broken hearts and shattered lives. Just this past weekend our team helped with a Franklin Graham conference in which around 400 chose to follow Christ. Now a year later, the people havent forgotten but they are beginning to smile again. Lives are being rebuilt. The Lord sat as King at the flood; yes the Lord sits as King forever. Psalm 29 :10

Pray for Missionaries: The Knight Family (Japan)

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On mission to reach people for the family of God.

STAFF

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Dr. Robert Putt, Pastor rputt@wlbc.org Cell Phone: 434.841.6886 845.4600 EXT 15

Rev. Randy Kent, Minister of Music & Senior Adults rkent@wlbc.org Cell Phone: 434.665.6880 845.4600 EXT 13

Vance Matthews, Minister of students vmatthews@wlbc.org Cell Phone: 910.814.7200 845.4600 EXT 14

Pam Anderson (Financial) Nancy Johnson (Administrative) Phyllis Lane (Organist) Jeanne Kent (Pianist)

panderson@wlbc.org njohnson@wlbc.org lanesk@aol.com kentsnforest@msn.com

Contact Us Anytime

Office Email:

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