Promotion Day

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This coming Sunday is a big day at First Baptist!! It is Promotion Sunday for our Sunday School classes. I know many of you won’t be promoting to a new class but for many of our children there will be a sense of excitement as they get to move to a new class and have a new teacher. Along with the children getting the opportunity to move to a new class there are several other changes taking place of great significance.

Since 1956 (with the exception of a couple of years) Bobbie Mosley has been teaching children in our church during the Sunday School hour. That is over a half century of teaching!!! This will be the first year in a long time she will not be teaching in our 2 and 3 year old department. Thank you, Miss Bobbie, for all of the years of service you have given to our church and our Lord! You have made an eternal difference in many lives.

Stacy Johnson has been teaching the TEAM class for several years. He has decided it is time to take a break. Keith Scharnhorst will be stepping up to take over the teaching in this class. Thank you, Stacy, for the time you have put in to make the TEAM class what it is today!

Shelly Allen will begin a new class for young ladies. This class will focus on the daily needs of ladies. I am excited about the opportunity this class brings to reaching a new group of ladies who are not currently active in Sunday School.

No matter what class you are in, I hope you will make Sunday School a priority. One of the ways we can stay connected with the two service format we now have is being in Sunday School. As we begin a new Sunday School year, if you are not a part of a class, I hope you will take this Sunday as an opportunity to get involved!

On a totally different note, I want to encourage you to be praying for our Building Task Force Committee which had its first meeting last week. This group of people have been charged with the task of examining our current building space and looking towards the future in what our needs will be. There are great things in store for us as a church, but we must be in tune with God’s plan for it all to work out properly and in His time. Please pray for John Akers, Georgeann Allen, Bill Lyle, Kenneth Montgomery, Bill Pannell, Vicki Ricker, and Keith Scharnhorst in the coming days as they go about their work.

I know summer time is upon us, but I hope you will continue to be faithful to our activities and opportunities of worship. God is up to something great in this place and I hope you will be faithful in being a part of everything He is doing.