Pastor's Passage
Pastor’s Passage
Yup. Let’s start inviting people to come by. Most folks need a place to go for Christmas - how about getting them familiar By the time you receive this the Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat with us before then? We have a great message to share… not because we are high falutin’ with our speech, but bewill have already happened. Half of our Autumn outreach is cause the Word is sharper than any two-edged sword in exdone. Two more events (the Family Movie Night on Nov 7th, istence today. Invite them to come hear the hope of Jesus. and Friend Day on Nov 8th) are about to be underway. My Friend day is an excellent time to reach out and invite peoprayer is that you have participated so fully in these activities, ple. We’re going to collect info at Fall Fest and Trunk or Treat and invited those in your sphere of influence to come have to invite them. We need you to do your part, and here it is: some fun with your church family, that you feel the personal Each person who attends our church needs to find one perownership of all of the events. Remember - Church is not a son….Yes, only one person to bring to church on November building, it’s the people. YOU are the people, therefore YOU 8th. If you have more, fantastic. If you can’t find one…then are the Church at Thaxton Baptist. Righteous pride is a good you need to come to my Apollos class in January to learn thing. Being proud of your family for reaching out with God’s love in the form of the Gospel is good. Inviting people to hear a how. :) I know you can do this. Yes, it may be a stretch for some…but it’s just one. One person who can hear the only Biblical message on Sunday so the Holy Spirit can move in message that saves. I guarantee it, I’ll be preaching it from them is good. Being so proud of your Church that you can’t help but say to everyone you come in contact with, “You ought the pulpit on the 8th. Bring them…just that one, and see what to come by and hear what we’re about. What are you doing this God can do. Sunday? I’ll meet you in the parking lot (not inside) at 10:15. Do In His service, you know where we are? 460 and Penicks Mill Rd. See you Pastor Mark there.” Since ‘64
TBC STUDENTS
TBC Kids
Thanksgiving Serve
Final preparations are underway for our Christmas Program in December.
Sunday, November 22– 4:00-6:00 pm Deliver Baskets—Wednesday the 25th
Each Wednesday Night we gather for fun, fellowship and singing!
Dates to Remember: Dress Rehearsal
Mark your Calendars in December! Christmas Serve Saturday, December 12
Winterfest December 30—Jan. 1
Saturday, December 19 from 9-11 am Worship Center Performance Sunday, December 20
10:30 Worship Service
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS TEAM SCHEDULE Nov. 1
Nov. 15 Nov. 22
Team 11 Bernice Leftwich & Judy Danby Team 12 Jimmy Cundiff & Carl Saunders Team 13 Jim Hedrick Team 14 E.L. & Karen McGuire
Nov. 29
Team 15 Libby Dickson & Gail Wilcher
Dec. 6
Team 16 Cliff Overstreet & Dack McKinney
Dec. 13
Team 17 Bill Shepherd & Greg Wood
Dec. 20
Team 18 Randy & Dina Krantz
Dec. 27
Team 19 John & Melody Dooley
Nov. 8
*Women’s Ministry Meeting on Monday, Nov. 2 at Carol Patterson’s home from 6-8:30 pm.
November 1 8 AM
Join the Thaxton Baptist men for prayer breakfast in the Café. It’s a free, hot breakfast, fellowship and prayer leading up to Sunday School. The breakfast is open to all men.
POTLUCK LUNCHEON
Thursday, November 5 @ Noon
Join the Young At Heart for a potluck *Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, Noluncheon in the Café. If you are “young at heart”, bring a dish and vember 15 at 8 AM in the Café. enjoy great food, fun and fellowship! All women are invited!
Men’s Prayer Breakfast Sunday, Nov. 1 @ 8 AM
Women’s Ministry Meeting Monday, Nov. 2 from 6-8:30 PM
Young At Heart Potluck Luncheon Thursday, Nov. 5 @ Noon
Family Movie Night Saturday, Nov. 7 at 5 PM
Business Meeting Wednesday, Nov. 11 @ 6 PM
Women’s Ministry Prayer Breakfast Sunday, Nov. 15 @ 8 AM
Youth Soup & Sandwich Fundraiser Sunday, Nov. 15, after Worship
Volunteer Fair Sunday, Nov. 15
Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes are due Sunday, Nov. 15
JOURNEY INTO MISSIONS
By Don Slusher
feet. Although we were just a few degrees south of the equator the mountain air was crisp and fresh. As darkness closed in, the temperature began to drop. We Where Eagles Soar: were taken to our spartan but clean rooms. The beds were small and hard and the bathrooms were ventilated by windows that had no glass in them. The cool mounRomans 15:20 (NIV) It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where tain air would become cold mountain air at night which dropped the temperature Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. in our unheated rooms. Fortunately, there were heavy blankets to keep us warm I realize Paul is speaking of the act of evangelizing in this verse but I have thought made from the wool of the alpaca or llama. We soon learned that the temperatures of it as possibly being a bit of an exciting challenge for Paul to go into regions that seldom rose above eighty degrees during the day and never would drop below were unknown by his contemporaries. Can you imagine telling someone about Christ freezing. This made for ideal growing conditions for the many farms prevalent who had never heard of him and seeing their eyes light up as the Holy Spirit begins through out the area. Farmers would plant crops high up on the slopes of the working in their life. Today almost all of the world is aware of Christ although there mountains on some farms that were so steep that we wondered how the land could are still pockets of peoples who have not been exposed to the gospel. As mission opeven be worked. On occasion we would see farmers working the land using a portunities have presented themselves to me over the years, I have always been excit- team of oxen. I don't recall ever seeing any kind of mechanical equipment such as ed to go where few have gone before. Chota, Peru is such a place. We were by no tractors. means introducing the Quechua Indians who lived there to the teachings of Christ. There were already well established functioning churches. As usual in any Latin As the days went by and as we worked at the construction site many times I American city, Catholicism was prevalent. However, our team was the first outside would take a break and simply stand in amazement at the high mountains that surgroup to have gone into this region of the Andes in the last forty years or so. Most of rounded the valley that Chota lay in. The sky was always a deep blue and the the inhabitants had never seen a North American and possibly had not heard the eng- warmth of the sun always soothed aching muscles. Just simply an idyllic land lish language spoken before. We, of course, were a bit of a curiosity to the local inhab- where eagles do indeed soar. itants and were treated extremely well. Looking back to Romans 15:20 the last part of the verse mentions not building on someone else's foundation. Being a construction/evan-gelical team it was exciting to go to the work site and lay the very first bricks on the seminary that we were to work on and then to go to different churches where each of us could give our testimony and even have the opportunity to deliver the message at times. Worshiping with our fellow believers in their homeland and in a language that is mostly unfamiliar to us, and hearing favorite hymns being sung in that same language always brings a special joy. We had arrived in Chota late in the evening just as the sun had gone down and darkness was closing in. The elevation of Chota was a little over eight thousand
Next month …................... Worshiping With The Quechua
Sunday
1 1: Joe Salyer 2: Ed Nickols 3: Wyona Johnson & Tony Hurt 4: Chris Preston 5: Mike Martin 8: Jordan Dooley & William Johnson 10: Anna Laura Simpson 11: Evelyn Overstreet & Sheila Tapia 12: George Lawhorn 13: Schree Hiatt & Earnest Bobbitt 14: Jake Catron 15: Calvin Arrington, Brittani Bowen & Shirley Burnette 17: Alivia Brown 18: Heather Pinion 19: Kelly Witt 20: David Grant (2002) 23: Gloria Shelburne & Lisa Sayers 24: Gloria Sloss 25: Janet Ellis, Stewart Grant & Richard Frank 26: Brandi Brown 27: John Briscoe 29: David Grant 30: Linda Hearn & Christy Witt
8 AM Men’s Prayer Breakfast
2
8
Invite a Friend to Church Day! Recognition of Veteran’s Day
9
15
16
8 AM Women’s Ministry Breakfast In Café 11:30 Volunteer Fair 11:30 Soup & Sandwich Youth Fundraiser
22
Tuesday
Emphasis
11/29—12/6
Wednesday
6-8:30 pm Women’s Ministry Meeting @ Carol Patterson’s home
10
Thursday
5:30 Dinner 6:30 Bible Study, Youth Group & TBC Kids 7:30 Choir Practice
5 Noon—
11 Veteran’s Day
3 Election Day 4
Friday
Saturday
TBC Students FN Lights
7
12
13
14
19
20
21
28
Young At Heart Potluck Luncheon
6
5 PM Family Movie Night
5:00-6:00 Dinner 6:00 Business Mtg.
6:30 Bible Study, Youth Group & TBC Kids 7:30 Choir Practice
23
17
18 5:30 Dinner
24
25
27
ALL ACTIVITIES CANCELED
Office Closed
4-6 PM Thanksgiving Serve—Student Ministry
29 Lottie Moon
2: Brad & Emily Stevens
Monday
30
31
6:30 Bible Study, Youth Group & TBC Kids 7:30 Choir Practice
November
November 1 S.S. Greeters
November 8
Greg Wood & Dack McKin- Jimmy Overstreet & Mike Marney tin
Robbie Catron, Jake Catron, Jim Hedrick, Greg Wood, Jimmy Overstreet, J.D. Smith, Greeters Mike Martin & Stewart Grant
Ushers and
November 15
November 22
November 29
David & Faye Grant
Gail Wilcher & Cindy Lawhorn
John & Melody Dooley
John Dooley, Ron Brown, Dack McKinney, Matt Saunders, Lisa Sayers, Norris Fulton, Jim Hedrick & Libby Dickson
J.D. Smith, Greg Brown, David Norcross, Teresa Norcross, , Chuck Wheeler, John Dooley, Wesley Overstreet & Scott Smith
Ron Brown, Robbie Catron, David Dack McKinney, Greg Brown, DaGrant, Stewart Grant, David Grant, vid Norcross, Teresa Norcross, , Tucker Grant, Will Grant & Mike Chuck Wheeler, John Dooley, Martin Wesley Overstreet & Scott Smith
Van Drivers
Bill Shepherd
Bill Shepherd
John Dooley
John Dooley
Bill Shepherd
Clean Road
Jane Grant
Teresa Norcross
Ralph Patterson
William McKinney
Jim Hedrick
Deacon in Prayer
Ed Nickols
Cliff Overstreet
Dennis Overstreet
Jimmy Overstreet
Mick Overstreet
Infant, Walker & Toddler Workers
Infants: Anna Carrico & Allen Hayes Walkers: Jenny Krantz & Nancy Yates Preschool: Krystal Hullette & Norris Fulton
Children’s Worship
Margaret Sperrazza, Dina Krantz & Ralph Patterson Power Point: Greg Brown
Traci Jefferson, Melody Dooley & Zana Smith Power Point:
Becky Lugar & Robbie Catron Power Point:
Jean Fizer, Kelly Smith & Julie Waldron Power Point:
Becky Lugar & Robbie Catron Power Point:
W/C Greeters Parking
Ralph Patterson & Mike Martin
Ed Nickols
Dack McKinney & John Dooley
Tony Fisher & Jimmy Overstreet
Ralph Patterson & Mike Martin
Worship Time Greet-
Stuart Byrd
Jimmy Overstreet
David & Faye Grant
Libby Dickson
Dack McKinney
Infants: Emily Stevens & Kelly Harmony Walkers: Angelina Smith & Jessica Gonzalez Preschool: Billy Smith
Infants: Kim Tolley & Janet Linger Walkers: Traci Jefferson & Margaret Sperrazza Preschool: Melody Dooley & Jordan Overstreet
Infants: Pam Sheppard & Lisa Sayers Walkers: Libby Dickson & Barbara Bauer Preschool: Judy Danby & Becki Robertson
Infants: Cindy Lawhorn Walkers: Norris Fulton Preschool: Judy Danby & Becki Robertson
Invite a Friend to Church Day
Nov. 8
Soup & Sandwich Youth Fundraiser (after Worship) Nov. 15 Family Movie Night Saturday, Nov. 7 Concession Stand opens at 5 pm—hot dogs, popcorn & drinks available for a small price Movies begin at 6 pm “Fireproof” for adults in Worship Center & “Big Hero 6” for children in the Children’s Worship Center
The youth are having a soup and sandwich fundraiser on Nov. 15th following worship service. We are raising funds to off set the expense of Winterfest the students are attending in Dec. For a donation you get soup, sandwich, dessert and a drink. And have the youth serve you!
Thaxton Baptist Church
Thaxton Baptist Church P.O. Box 32 P.O. Box 32 1067 Penicks Mill Road Thaxton, VA 24174 [email protected]
Thaxton, VA 24174
[email protected]
Operation Christmas Child Start filling shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child! Choose boy or girl, age group
Nov. 15.
Non Profit Organization U. S. Postage Paid Thaxton VA 24174 Permit No. 2
2-4, 5-9 or 10-14 and fill with appropriate gifts, donate $7 online for shipping, begin praying for the child that will receive your gift. If you wrap the shoebox, make sure you wrap the box and lid separately. Bring your box to the Welcome Center at TBC on or before
We Give Thanks
Our Father in Heaven, We give thanks for the pleasure Of gathering together for this occasion. We give thanks for this food Prepared by loving hands. We give thanks for life, The freedom to enjoy it all And all other blessings. As we partake of this food, We pray for health and strength To carry on and try to live as You would have us. This we ask in the name of Christ, Our Heavenly Father. --Harry Jewell
Yup. Let’s start inviting people to come by. Most folks need a place to go for Christmas - how about getting them familiar By the time you receive this the Fall Festival and Trunk or Treat with us before then? We have a great message to share… not because we are high falutin’ with our speech, but bewill have already happened. Half of our Autumn outreach is cause the Word is sharper than any two-edged sword in exdone. Two more events (the Family Movie Night on Nov 7th, istence today. Invite them to come hear the hope of Jesus. and Friend Day on Nov 8th) are about to be underway. My Friend day is an excellent time to reach out and invite peoprayer is that you have participated so fully in these activities, ple. We’re going to collect info at Fall Fest and Trunk or Treat and invited those in your sphere of influence to come have to invite them. We need you to do your part, and here it is: some fun with your church family, that you feel the personal Each person who attends our church needs to find one perownership of all of the events. Remember - Church is not a son….Yes, only one person to bring to church on November building, it’s the people. YOU are the people, therefore YOU 8th. If you have more, fantastic. If you can’t find one…then are the Church at Thaxton Baptist. Righteous pride is a good you need to come to my Apollos class in January to learn thing. Being proud of your family for reaching out with God’s love in the form of the Gospel is good. Inviting people to hear a how. :) I know you can do this. Yes, it may be a stretch for some…but it’s just one. One person who can hear the only Biblical message on Sunday so the Holy Spirit can move in message that saves. I guarantee it, I’ll be preaching it from them is good. Being so proud of your Church that you can’t help but say to everyone you come in contact with, “You ought the pulpit on the 8th. Bring them…just that one, and see what to come by and hear what we’re about. What are you doing this God can do. Sunday? I’ll meet you in the parking lot (not inside) at 10:15. Do In His service, you know where we are? 460 and Penicks Mill Rd. See you Pastor Mark there.” Since ‘64
TBC STUDENTS
TBC Kids
Thanksgiving Serve
Final preparations are underway for our Christmas Program in December.
Sunday, November 22– 4:00-6:00 pm Deliver Baskets—Wednesday the 25th
Each Wednesday Night we gather for fun, fellowship and singing!
Dates to Remember: Dress Rehearsal
Mark your Calendars in December! Christmas Serve Saturday, December 12
Winterfest December 30—Jan. 1
Saturday, December 19 from 9-11 am Worship Center Performance Sunday, December 20
10:30 Worship Service
BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS TEAM SCHEDULE Nov. 1
Nov. 15 Nov. 22
Team 11 Bernice Leftwich & Judy Danby Team 12 Jimmy Cundiff & Carl Saunders Team 13 Jim Hedrick Team 14 E.L. & Karen McGuire
Nov. 29
Team 15 Libby Dickson & Gail Wilcher
Dec. 6
Team 16 Cliff Overstreet & Dack McKinney
Dec. 13
Team 17 Bill Shepherd & Greg Wood
Dec. 20
Team 18 Randy & Dina Krantz
Dec. 27
Team 19 John & Melody Dooley
Nov. 8
*Women’s Ministry Meeting on Monday, Nov. 2 at Carol Patterson’s home from 6-8:30 pm.
November 1 8 AM
Join the Thaxton Baptist men for prayer breakfast in the Café. It’s a free, hot breakfast, fellowship and prayer leading up to Sunday School. The breakfast is open to all men.
POTLUCK LUNCHEON
Thursday, November 5 @ Noon
Join the Young At Heart for a potluck *Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, Noluncheon in the Café. If you are “young at heart”, bring a dish and vember 15 at 8 AM in the Café. enjoy great food, fun and fellowship! All women are invited!
Men’s Prayer Breakfast Sunday, Nov. 1 @ 8 AM
Women’s Ministry Meeting Monday, Nov. 2 from 6-8:30 PM
Young At Heart Potluck Luncheon Thursday, Nov. 5 @ Noon
Family Movie Night Saturday, Nov. 7 at 5 PM
Business Meeting Wednesday, Nov. 11 @ 6 PM
Women’s Ministry Prayer Breakfast Sunday, Nov. 15 @ 8 AM
Youth Soup & Sandwich Fundraiser Sunday, Nov. 15, after Worship
Volunteer Fair Sunday, Nov. 15
Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes are due Sunday, Nov. 15
JOURNEY INTO MISSIONS
By Don Slusher
feet. Although we were just a few degrees south of the equator the mountain air was crisp and fresh. As darkness closed in, the temperature began to drop. We Where Eagles Soar: were taken to our spartan but clean rooms. The beds were small and hard and the bathrooms were ventilated by windows that had no glass in them. The cool mounRomans 15:20 (NIV) It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where tain air would become cold mountain air at night which dropped the temperature Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else's foundation. in our unheated rooms. Fortunately, there were heavy blankets to keep us warm I realize Paul is speaking of the act of evangelizing in this verse but I have thought made from the wool of the alpaca or llama. We soon learned that the temperatures of it as possibly being a bit of an exciting challenge for Paul to go into regions that seldom rose above eighty degrees during the day and never would drop below were unknown by his contemporaries. Can you imagine telling someone about Christ freezing. This made for ideal growing conditions for the many farms prevalent who had never heard of him and seeing their eyes light up as the Holy Spirit begins through out the area. Farmers would plant crops high up on the slopes of the working in their life. Today almost all of the world is aware of Christ although there mountains on some farms that were so steep that we wondered how the land could are still pockets of peoples who have not been exposed to the gospel. As mission opeven be worked. On occasion we would see farmers working the land using a portunities have presented themselves to me over the years, I have always been excit- team of oxen. I don't recall ever seeing any kind of mechanical equipment such as ed to go where few have gone before. Chota, Peru is such a place. We were by no tractors. means introducing the Quechua Indians who lived there to the teachings of Christ. There were already well established functioning churches. As usual in any Latin As the days went by and as we worked at the construction site many times I American city, Catholicism was prevalent. However, our team was the first outside would take a break and simply stand in amazement at the high mountains that surgroup to have gone into this region of the Andes in the last forty years or so. Most of rounded the valley that Chota lay in. The sky was always a deep blue and the the inhabitants had never seen a North American and possibly had not heard the eng- warmth of the sun always soothed aching muscles. Just simply an idyllic land lish language spoken before. We, of course, were a bit of a curiosity to the local inhab- where eagles do indeed soar. itants and were treated extremely well. Looking back to Romans 15:20 the last part of the verse mentions not building on someone else's foundation. Being a construction/evan-gelical team it was exciting to go to the work site and lay the very first bricks on the seminary that we were to work on and then to go to different churches where each of us could give our testimony and even have the opportunity to deliver the message at times. Worshiping with our fellow believers in their homeland and in a language that is mostly unfamiliar to us, and hearing favorite hymns being sung in that same language always brings a special joy. We had arrived in Chota late in the evening just as the sun had gone down and darkness was closing in. The elevation of Chota was a little over eight thousand
Next month …................... Worshiping With The Quechua
Sunday
1 1: Joe Salyer 2: Ed Nickols 3: Wyona Johnson & Tony Hurt 4: Chris Preston 5: Mike Martin 8: Jordan Dooley & William Johnson 10: Anna Laura Simpson 11: Evelyn Overstreet & Sheila Tapia 12: George Lawhorn 13: Schree Hiatt & Earnest Bobbitt 14: Jake Catron 15: Calvin Arrington, Brittani Bowen & Shirley Burnette 17: Alivia Brown 18: Heather Pinion 19: Kelly Witt 20: David Grant (2002) 23: Gloria Shelburne & Lisa Sayers 24: Gloria Sloss 25: Janet Ellis, Stewart Grant & Richard Frank 26: Brandi Brown 27: John Briscoe 29: David Grant 30: Linda Hearn & Christy Witt
8 AM Men’s Prayer Breakfast
2
8
Invite a Friend to Church Day! Recognition of Veteran’s Day
9
15
16
8 AM Women’s Ministry Breakfast In Café 11:30 Volunteer Fair 11:30 Soup & Sandwich Youth Fundraiser
22
Tuesday
Emphasis
11/29—12/6
Wednesday
6-8:30 pm Women’s Ministry Meeting @ Carol Patterson’s home
10
Thursday
5:30 Dinner 6:30 Bible Study, Youth Group & TBC Kids 7:30 Choir Practice
5 Noon—
11 Veteran’s Day
3 Election Day 4
Friday
Saturday
TBC Students FN Lights
7
12
13
14
19
20
21
28
Young At Heart Potluck Luncheon
6
5 PM Family Movie Night
5:00-6:00 Dinner 6:00 Business Mtg.
6:30 Bible Study, Youth Group & TBC Kids 7:30 Choir Practice
23
17
18 5:30 Dinner
24
25
27
ALL ACTIVITIES CANCELED
Office Closed
4-6 PM Thanksgiving Serve—Student Ministry
29 Lottie Moon
2: Brad & Emily Stevens
Monday
30
31
6:30 Bible Study, Youth Group & TBC Kids 7:30 Choir Practice
November
November 1 S.S. Greeters
November 8
Greg Wood & Dack McKin- Jimmy Overstreet & Mike Marney tin
Robbie Catron, Jake Catron, Jim Hedrick, Greg Wood, Jimmy Overstreet, J.D. Smith, Greeters Mike Martin & Stewart Grant
Ushers and
November 15
November 22
November 29
David & Faye Grant
Gail Wilcher & Cindy Lawhorn
John & Melody Dooley
John Dooley, Ron Brown, Dack McKinney, Matt Saunders, Lisa Sayers, Norris Fulton, Jim Hedrick & Libby Dickson
J.D. Smith, Greg Brown, David Norcross, Teresa Norcross, , Chuck Wheeler, John Dooley, Wesley Overstreet & Scott Smith
Ron Brown, Robbie Catron, David Dack McKinney, Greg Brown, DaGrant, Stewart Grant, David Grant, vid Norcross, Teresa Norcross, , Tucker Grant, Will Grant & Mike Chuck Wheeler, John Dooley, Martin Wesley Overstreet & Scott Smith
Van Drivers
Bill Shepherd
Bill Shepherd
John Dooley
John Dooley
Bill Shepherd
Clean Road
Jane Grant
Teresa Norcross
Ralph Patterson
William McKinney
Jim Hedrick
Deacon in Prayer
Ed Nickols
Cliff Overstreet
Dennis Overstreet
Jimmy Overstreet
Mick Overstreet
Infant, Walker & Toddler Workers
Infants: Anna Carrico & Allen Hayes Walkers: Jenny Krantz & Nancy Yates Preschool: Krystal Hullette & Norris Fulton
Children’s Worship
Margaret Sperrazza, Dina Krantz & Ralph Patterson Power Point: Greg Brown
Traci Jefferson, Melody Dooley & Zana Smith Power Point:
Becky Lugar & Robbie Catron Power Point:
Jean Fizer, Kelly Smith & Julie Waldron Power Point:
Becky Lugar & Robbie Catron Power Point:
W/C Greeters Parking
Ralph Patterson & Mike Martin
Ed Nickols
Dack McKinney & John Dooley
Tony Fisher & Jimmy Overstreet
Ralph Patterson & Mike Martin
Worship Time Greet-
Stuart Byrd
Jimmy Overstreet
David & Faye Grant
Libby Dickson
Dack McKinney
Infants: Emily Stevens & Kelly Harmony Walkers: Angelina Smith & Jessica Gonzalez Preschool: Billy Smith
Infants: Kim Tolley & Janet Linger Walkers: Traci Jefferson & Margaret Sperrazza Preschool: Melody Dooley & Jordan Overstreet
Infants: Pam Sheppard & Lisa Sayers Walkers: Libby Dickson & Barbara Bauer Preschool: Judy Danby & Becki Robertson
Infants: Cindy Lawhorn Walkers: Norris Fulton Preschool: Judy Danby & Becki Robertson
Invite a Friend to Church Day
Nov. 8
Soup & Sandwich Youth Fundraiser (after Worship) Nov. 15 Family Movie Night Saturday, Nov. 7 Concession Stand opens at 5 pm—hot dogs, popcorn & drinks available for a small price Movies begin at 6 pm “Fireproof” for adults in Worship Center & “Big Hero 6” for children in the Children’s Worship Center
The youth are having a soup and sandwich fundraiser on Nov. 15th following worship service. We are raising funds to off set the expense of Winterfest the students are attending in Dec. For a donation you get soup, sandwich, dessert and a drink. And have the youth serve you!
Thaxton Baptist Church
Thaxton Baptist Church P.O. Box 32 P.O. Box 32 1067 Penicks Mill Road Thaxton, VA 24174 [email protected]
Thaxton, VA 24174
[email protected]
Operation Christmas Child Start filling shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child! Choose boy or girl, age group
Nov. 15.
Non Profit Organization U. S. Postage Paid Thaxton VA 24174 Permit No. 2
2-4, 5-9 or 10-14 and fill with appropriate gifts, donate $7 online for shipping, begin praying for the child that will receive your gift. If you wrap the shoebox, make sure you wrap the box and lid separately. Bring your box to the Welcome Center at TBC on or before
We Give Thanks
Our Father in Heaven, We give thanks for the pleasure Of gathering together for this occasion. We give thanks for this food Prepared by loving hands. We give thanks for life, The freedom to enjoy it all And all other blessings. As we partake of this food, We pray for health and strength To carry on and try to live as You would have us. This we ask in the name of Christ, Our Heavenly Father. --Harry Jewell
