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Our worship service will be streamed online at firstbaptistsylva.com.
Click HERE to view the spring youth newsletter!
Vacation Bible School will be here before you know it! The date for our community VBS is June 12-16. First Baptist is in charge of the set-up and take-down each day, the daily Bible story, and youth activities. Be thinking about how you can help with this very important summer event!
Each week we include a recipe in the Church Chimes and we hope that you are enjoying reading and trying them. You can add your favorite recipes to the Chimes by sending them to Cheryl Beck at cabeck@ncsu.edu. This is an ongoing WMU project.
Thanks for participating!
Our executive director, Karen Johnson, is retiring (again) at the end of May. We are so thankful for the time, energy, and love that she has poured into UCM in her years here. Her departure means that we are interviewing for a new executive director. If you know of anyone seeking work with a heart for ministry, please refer them to us!
The executive director position is permanent, part-time (30 hours per week). The director oversees all aspects of the food pantry, financial assistance programs, operational procedures, budgeting, etc., and supervises paid staff and our wonderful group of volunteers (about 40!). Applicants may submit a resume to chairucm1@gmail.com.
Scott McConnell and the Department on Aging are seeking volunteers to build another ramp. The date is Wednesday, April 12 with location and time TBD. Please call, text or email Scott if you are interested and available. Scott wishes to thank Arlin Middleton, Dennis Wilkey, and Gary Frye for their help with the last ramp.
United Christian Ministries is in need of pasta sauce, ramen, pancake syrup, applesauce (6-pack individual cups), and laundry detergent. To donate items, please drop them off at UCM’s building at 191 Skyland Drive. Thank you!
On March 7, Lorraine “Hattie” Lee was honored on her 96th Birthday by her daughter, Linda Minor, with a surprise party at Skyland! The residents were treated to birthday cake and snacks . . . and a concert by our own Linda Stewart, Charlie White and Stephanie Dickerson!
Be sure to join us on Sunday, April 2 at 10:30 a.m. for worship as our children invite us to wave palm branches and sing hosannas to Christ the King!
Join us for a service of remembrance on Thursday, April 6 at 6:00 p.m. in our church sanctuary. We will retell the story of Jesus’s last supper with his disciples, and we will prepare ourselves for the shadow of Jesus’s final journey to Calvary and his death on the cross.
We'll gather with our friends from the Methodist and Presbyterian churches at the pavilion in Bridge Park for a Sunrise Service. Please bring a lawn chair and a jacket as we hear the story about the empty tomb at first light on Easter Sunday.
Arrive at church a few minutes before Sunday School to help decorate our cross with freshly cut flowers and greenery from your backyard. Our celebration of the Risen Christ will commence at 10:30 AM, and our children will hunt for eggs in the playground immediately after worship.
