The First Baptist Stewardship/Property Management Team will be hosting a Spring Work and Clean Up day on Saturday, May 11th. Volunteers are invited to sign-up online or at the Welcome Desk so we can plan ahead for the jobs and tasks that need accomplished. Any helpers are welcome as there are a variety of things needing our attention! Come and be part of the spring cleaning!
The First Baptist Mission Team continues to plan and offer several "hands - on" mission opportunities in 2019. Among the opportunities coming up are the following: Adopt a Highway/Road-side Cleanup (We've adopted a stretch of Marr Road between National Road and 25th St in Columbus to keep clean. The first cleanup dates is set for Saturday, April 6 at 9:00 a.m.) New Song Children's Home Work Days (April 26 and 27 - a team will go out to New Song in Brown County to help with a variety of projects) Indian Creek Baptist Camp Work Days (May 17-18 are the dates [...]
A Women's Grow Group titled Entrusted, a Bible study on II Timothy by Beth Moore will meet on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. beginning on Tuesday, May 14 and continuing through June 18. This group will meet at First Baptist and be led by Missy Zimmerman. You can sign-up online or at the Welcome Desk at FBC. Here's a bit more information about this study opportunity: Join us if you want to: • Support and encourage other believers in Christ, as they in turn encourage you • Realize you've been entrusted with the gospel and the gift to serve • Discover why mentoring [...]
The Changing Church: Finding Your Way to God's New Thing is the title of a new book co-written by Pastor Dan Cash and Dr. Bill Griffith. Released on April 1, 2019, this second book the author's have collaborated on, comes from their work together with the Men of Faith Friday morning Bible study group. This book addresses the change all churches are facing in life and ministry today. It does so from a biblical and sociological perspective, tracing eight great paradigm shifts in the history of God's people, and inviting the reader to reflect on how those shifts have things to teach [...]
Children ages walking through 6th grade are invited to join us at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 20th for this year's Children's Easter Egg Hunt and related activities. Come share in hearing the Easter story, making an Easter craft for your family, and hunting the colorful eggs of Easter. Join us! We'd love to help you celebrate Easter weekend!
The Season of Lent climaxes with Holy Week, from Palm Sunday through Easter. This year you are invited to join us for the following special times of worship: Palm Sunday Worship - April 14 at 9:30 a.m. We remember Jesus' Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem with the waving of palms and shouts of Hosanna! Maundy Thursday Service - April 18 at 7 p.m. A service of Communion and Tenebrae to commemorate the Last Supper and darkness of Jesus' last hours Community Good Friday Service - April 19 at Noon Sponsored by the Ecumenical Assembly of Bartholomew County Churches, in The Commons downtown [...]
We will be offering three Spring Grow Group sessions on the study The Revolutionary Power of the Lord's Prayer. The study will begin the week of April 28th with groups meeting on Sunday, during 2nd Hour; on Monday evening and on Wednesday evening (both of these hosted in member homes). The book The Revolutionary Power of the Lord's Prayer by Alice Burnette Greene, is this year's American Baptist Reads book of the year, The Revolutionary Power of the Lord's Prayer offers today's Christian disciples new understanding of the potency and power this significant prayer delivers and the transformative effect it can have for sharing God's [...]
Men of Faith Announces Spring Study The Men of Faith bible study group, which meets on Fridays at 6:15 a.m. in the private dining room at the Four Seasons Retirement Community (1901 Taylor Road, Columbus 47203), will begin a new four session study on April 26. The title of this study is "Thorny Questions." We will explore the scripture (2 Corinthians 12:1-10) where Paul talks about his "thorn in the flesh" and expand on that by looking at other thorny questions of faith and life. All men are invited to join the Men of Faith group. The beginning of a new [...]
