Easter Egg Hunt Filled with Fun

Strider Drum was intent on filling his basket at the annual Egg Hunt after church on Sunday.

At the count of 3, children took to the church yard after Easter services and filled their baskets with dozens of eggs.  Preschoolers had their own area and they quickly gathered eggs to the delight of parents and other church members.  The "golden eggs" were found by Siler Messer (preschooler) and Reid Brown (school-aged children).  They will be receiving gift certificates for ice cream from Jack the Dipper.  Each child received a bag full of candy thanks to all those who contributed to the "Easter Bunny Box" in the Loving Kindness Room.  

Men’s Breakfast

A men’s breakfast will be held on Saturday, April 29 at 8:00 a.m. in the Mission Fellowship Center.

Book Buddies Continues April 18

The Book Buddies reading program began on Tuesday, April 11. Thank you to Linda Minor, Tonya Lloyd, Millie Proctor, Orion Hess, Cindy Sanchez-Tehran, Andrew Beck, and Cheryl Beck for attending the “Meet and Greet”. The K-3rd grade 1st Explorers visited the Children’s Library and selected a book (or 2 or 3) for their adult Book Buddy to read to them. The next meeting of the Book Buddies will be Tuesday, April 18th, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Other reading dates are May 2, May 16, and May 30. 

If you couldn’t make the first meeting, don’t worry. Come to the April 18th meeting and start reading!

Recipes Appreciated!

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!

Join Us for Worship!

Join us for worship on Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. in the sanctuary! Also join us for Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. for all ages!

The CDC recommends that you wear a mask indoors.
Maximize protection from the Delta variant and prevent possibly spreading it to others.

Our worship service will be streamed online at firstbaptistsylva.com.

Send Us Your Prayer List Updates

fbcsylvapray@gmail.com 

Add this email address to your contacts list on your devices so that our staff and Pastoral Care Team can learn of your prayer requests as quickly as possible. And yes, you may still contact the church office directly at 828-586-2095 to share your prayer concerns, as well.

Easter Surprise Cookies

This is the recipe for the cookies that Cheryl used in the Children’s Message on Easter Sunday.

Ingredients

COOKIE:
2/3 cup sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
48 jelly beans

GLAZE:
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
5 to 6 teaspoons milk
1 1/3 cups sweetened flaked coconut
Food color, if desired

Instructions

Heat oven to 350 degrees F.

Combine all cookie ingredients except flour and jelly beans in bowl.  Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until well mixed.  Stir in flour until well mixed.

Shape rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into 1-inch balls.  Place 1 jelly bean in center of each ball making sure candy is covered with dough.  Place cookies 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.  Bake 15-18 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.  Cool completely.

Combine powdered sugar and enough milk for desired glazing consistency in bowl;  stir until smooth.  Tint coconut with food color, if desired.  Dip tops of cookies in glaze;  sprinkle with coconut.  

Tip:  To tint coconut, divide coconut evenly among desired number of small bowls.  Add 1 to 2 drops of one food color to each bowl.  Mix with fork until color is evenly distributed.

–Provided by Cheryl Beck

Easter Surprise Cookies

Click here to download a printable version.

Provided by Cheryl Beck

Heck-Jones Mission Offering

The GA’s handed out envelopes and information on the Heck-Jones Mission Offering. If you have not returned your donation, please do it as soon as possible by placing the envelope in the offering plate on Sunday or leaving it in the office with Janice. The WMU office in Greensboro uses these donations to be self supportive of Cooperative Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union. The staff uses these funds to help with education for the churches in NC. They do a wonderful job!

Youth Newsletter

Click HERE to view the spring youth newsletter!

Learning, Sharing, Listening, Growing

TONIGHT, April 12 at 6:00 PM 
in the Gathering Place Room

Join us for a season of discovery as we learn how our personal narrative has shaped and influenced our lives. With the help of the enneagram and the book, The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self by Ian Cron, we will learn the joy of knowing that God helps us write a new and healthier story to live by. This multi-week experience will serve as both an introduction and enrichment to the enneagram as a tool for better understanding ourselves in relationship to the world around us.

The care team will continue to meet on Wednesday evenings at 6:00. NOTE: This coincides with the Enneagram study that Dr. Mathis is leading at the same time. Adults can attend the study while their children are making the visits.