COMMUNITY

FREE CHURCH
WEEKLY
Thursday 10/2
Worship Practice 7:00pm

Saturday 10/4
Basketball 8:30am

Sunday 10/5
Christian Education 9:30am
Womens Study Group
Jeremiah Study
Jr and Sr High School
Childrens Church 10:45am
Worship Gathering 10:45am
Read Haggai 2:10-19 to prepare!
AWANA! 6:00pm
Monday 10/6
Womens Bible Study 9:00am
1&2 Thessalonians
Martial Arts - Free
See Bob Tompkins!
BSF Mens Group 6:45pm
First Baptist Church, Savoy
Community Group 7:00pm
Eichstedt Home
Everyone is Welcome!
Tuesday 10/7
BSF Womens Group 9:10am
First Christian Church, Staley Rd
Community Group 7:00pm
Wright Home
Schifo Home
Everyone is Welcome!
Wednesday 10/8
Student Ministry 6:00pm
6th grade through High School
the Gospel of John with
Pastor Jake Barrett
October 10/1
On September 28th, we celebrated the outward
proclamation of the inward transformation in the lives
of Trinity Reeves and Tate Survance through baptism.

As I mentioned after we nished baptism and prayed
over the parents, this public proclamation is also the
invitation to the church to walk along side them in
love, helping to draw them closer to God.
Please pray for Adi, Franklin, Julie, and John as they
continue to walk closely with their children.
CELEBRATION


Tables and stools will be added.
Specic tasks that need
to be done:
-Remove trim.
-Remove wall paper
border.
-Pull up existing carpet
-Scrape and coat concrete
oor.
- Prep for painting.
Paint ceiling and walls.
-Lay down tile splash at
front door.
-Lay down new carpet
squares.
-Assemble tables and
stools.
-Replace scripture above
sanctuary entryway doors.
Can you help in a specic
way in one of these tasks?
Please see Jim Sackett.

In the next week, facilities will be sharing a
schedule of opportunities to help work on
the foyer remodel. If you can paint,
remove wallpaper, pull up carpet, or install
carpet and tile, they would appreciate your
help.
Facilities is hoping to start the project on a
Monday, and nish by Saturday for an
exciting reveal on Sunday morning.
It is the desire of the facilities team to start
working small projects that will make a big
impact each month in Gods house. These
include the foyer, retiling the bathroom
and kitchen oors, and looking at our
nursery needs.
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In order to make these possible, we need
your support in serving. Keep a look out
for a project calendar coming soon.
Carpet and Tile selected for
the project
Fall cleanup, October 18th. We will start at
9am with donuts and bagels, a to-do list
that needs to happen inside and out as we
prepare for Fall, a slew of wedding events,
and the Fall Festival. Please come out and
help clean up the grounds. There will be
jobs of all shapes and sizes for everyone!
We will have work scheduled from
9:00am-12:00pm.
Do you have a passion to see the world changed for the
cause of Christ, both locally and globally?
Are you interested in what we do as a missions team or
have some ideas how we can have an even greater
impact?
The Missions Committee will be meeting Thursday,
October 9th at 7:30pm. Here we will discuss the vision for
our push into local missions, as well as some global
opportunities like supporting the Old Congo Town First
Baptist Church in Liberia.
Please consider attending this meeting even if you are not
sure missions is your cup of tea. More than a few times
God has used an informational meeting to spur a type of
passion in the hearts of men and women to serve Him
faithfully.
Aaron and Darin Christman
are super excited about
AWANA!


We were made to see and savor
Godand savoring Him, to be
supremely satised, and thus
spread in all the world the worth
of His presence. To not show
people the all-satisfying God is
not to love them. To make them
feel good about themselves
when they were made to feel
good about seeing God is like
taking someone to the Grand
Canyon and locking them in a
room.
I love this quote by John Piper
from his book: Taste and See,
because it outlines a pathway
that lead us and others towards
God in a way that might glorify
Him. It paints for us the picture
that Psalm 34:8, Taste and see
that the Lord is good and Psalm
17:18, As for me, I shall behold
your face in righteousness; when
I awake, I shall be satised with
your likeness belong together.
While I love it, if I am honest, (if
we are honest, and I hope we
can be) can cause a low level
frustration, because it is far
easier read than done. Following
Jesus in such a way that brings
Him glory and points others to
Him is often and always a
challenge.
We will be challenged to walk
with a sense that He is in our
midst, because Jesus is alive.
Because yesterday is forgiven,
I can stand rm today, and
face tomorrow.
I think anybody who has ever
answered the call of the gospel
at one point or another has felt
challenged. This feeling that
your God-centered work is just
not producing what it ought to.
So, while standing in a place of
faithfulness there is just never
enough time or resources to
study, to pray, serve, or do what
youre called. Its a challenge.
You pour yourself into a thing for
weeks, months, years, and the
fruit seems so minimal. Then you
look back and see the grand
achievements of the past, and
your work feels so insignicant.
John Piper, addressing 12,000
pastors at Together 4 the
Gospel, spoke of the reality of
the challenge of gospel ministry.
Most of you have known the
discouragement of feeling that
what you are doing for Christ is
of so little signicance that feel
like you may as well quit.
On the day of our salvation, the
day we answered the call of the
gospel and got out of the water
proclaiming Jesus Christ as
Lord, we were like Isaiah who
said, HERE I AM, SEND ME!.
Inevitably though there may
come a season where we might,
in honesty, say, Here I am, Lord.
Please send someone else.
Paul afrms the challenge of
following Jesus in a very telling
passage from 2nd Corinthians:
For we were so utterly
burdened beyond our strength
that we despaired of life itself.
2 Corinthians 1:8
Paul says that the challenges
were so great, and the
opposition so debilitating, that
he despaired in being alive. He
likened it to a death sentence,
and described it as not just peril,
but deadly peril.
For most, that would be enough
to discourage and tempt us to
quit. To sidestep our calling, put
away our dreams, and put our
feet up because the challenges
just seem too great. Moses
experienced this in his own
calling when he asked God to
please send someone else.
(Exodus 4:13)
Now, that could be the end of
the story for Paul, but it isnt
because he has this particularly
powerful understanding of God:
Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies and God of all
comfort, who comforts us in all
our afiction. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
God could not comfort us equal
to afiction if He did not know
the opposition and the
challenges that we face. The
great truth is that God does
know, because He is with us.
Gods presence is the answer to
everything that opposes us.
From Joshua to Jesus, God has
promised to surely be with us.
This is His assurance that
whatever challenges we may
face, we never face them alone.
In addition, His presence is the
source of courage, the ability to
take heart, and not be moved by
fear. It is a source of strength
unlike any other, so much that
Paul would later boast in his
weakness that he might stand in
this kind of strength.
It is one thing to tell someone to
be strong, but it is quite another
thing to give them a solid
foundation from which to draw
their strength. What God has
told us in His word is that as
Christians the world will
attempt to rob us of the joy of
our calling. This is why Jesus
says in Matthew 16:33:
I have said these things to you,
that in me you may have peace.
In the world you will have
tribulation. But take heart; I have
overcome the world.
Jesus afrms that there will be
trouble, seasons where we are
opposed and challenged, but
take heart, or have heart,
because He has overcome the
world by His power for His glory
and for our joy.
Jesus is Alive!


How Do We Meet the Ongoing, and Growing Ebola Crisis?
Step One: PRAYER
With the hundreds of thousands that are
being affected right now with the ebola virus
our rst commitment to them is prayer. As
Christians we believe that prayer makes all
the difference in comforting, guiding,
leading, listening, and in loving. In prayer we
dont seek what is best in our hearts, but
what is best in Gods Kingdom for those
that we pray for.
Please join SIM (Serving in Mission) and
tens of thousands of Christians around the
world for a week of prayer starting
September 29th, as we ask God to bring
healing to those affected by the Ebola virus
in West Africa.
Since the outbreak began in early 2014,
more than 5,300 cases of Ebola have been
conrmed. More than 2,600 people have
died, and the crisis continues..
God is in control. Though this situation
seems desperate and frightening, we can
trust Him to intervene with loving care.
Please share this prayer effort with family,
friends and fellow believers by every means
possible.
Join us to pray . . .
o For the sick and dying
o For courageous health workers
o For grieving families
o For pastors serving their churches and
communities
o For government ofcials and decision
makers
o For all those waking up each day to the
devastation of Ebola
More information at: http://simeast.com/
index.php/en/
Step Two: ACTION
William K. Koffa, a pastor of Oldest Congo Town First
Baptist, Liberia will be traveling back to his home country
from Grand Rapids, Michigan in October 16th. He is looking
for churches that would be willing to help provide much
needed medical supplies to combat the outbreak. As always
the church has historically been the greatest to act by love in
the face of need. William, his congregation, and the people
of Liberia need our help.
How? As I mentioned already, pray rst. Then let those
praying hands be moved by God to be hands of action that
do something. Right now what we need are very simple
medical supplies that can be purchased at almost any local
store.
o Thermometers
o Hand Sanitizer
o Heavy Duty Plastic Gloves
o Plastic Disposable Hair Caps
o Disposable Face Masks
o Drinking Straws
o Energy Bars (Clif Bars, Powerbars, Granola Bars, ect)
o Bible movies on VHS
o Bible stories on audio tape cassette
o Christian story books
We will be collecting these supplies over the next two
Sundays (September 28th and Oct 5th). They will be sent
either back with William as he travels to Liberia in early
October, or via a container shipped through Healing Hands
(The organization Dean Ekberg serves with).
A special thanks to Dean Ekberg for informing us in very
practical and powerful ways, so that we can be actionable in
this epidemic.
Jesus is Alive!
On the next page is an informative article with rst person
account to help us understand what is happening in Liberia.