TONIGHT, May 24 at 6:00 p.m. Gathering Place Room
Join us as we continue a season of discovery as we learn how our personal narrative has shaped and influenced our lives. There is no C.A.R.E. Team. If you need childcare, please contact Cheryl Beck.
Pen Pal Event Planned for June 7
Pen pals—adult and children—please continue writing to your friends. Both groups love receiving mail from their pen pals.
On June 7, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., there will be a Wonderful Water Day to celebrate the Pen Pal Project. This takes the place of the carnival we have had for the last 2 years. You will be hearing more about it, but in the meantime, get your water clothes together for a fun-filled afternoon!
Hurray for Our Nursery Workers of the Week!
Judy Henderson and Mary Lou Millwood worked in the lively and fun nursery on Sunday, May 21.
Thank you to them for working together to create a good experience for the little ones.
Help is needed on May 28 in the nursery. If you are willing to spend an hour with our preschoolers, please let Cheryl Beck know as soon as possible. You will be blessed by working with these precious children.
There is still room on the schedule to serve “the least of these”
on Sunday mornings. It is a blessing to see their smiles and enthusiasm as you spend
time with our infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
Please contact Cheryl Beck (cabeck@ncsu.edu) if you would like to help.
Flowers for Sanctuary
If you would like to provide flowers in the sanctuary for Sunday morning services, please contact Gwen Messer at 828-506-8370, or Janice in the church office to be placed on the calendar.
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.
Giving the Jesus Way
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!
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!
Attending Wednesday Night Book Study and Need Child Care?
When you need child care during our Wedneesday night book study, please let Cheryl Beck know so she can make arrangements for this. The C.A.R.E. Team will not be meeting on Wednesday nights until later in the year.
The Hospitality Table After Worship Is Back!
Thank you to the Whites and McConnells who provided such a tasty slate of goodies and beverages this past Sunday. When we are hospitable, our congregation can become a church on the sidewalk after worship while munching on a cookie or sipping fruit punch. Click here and find a Sunday to host our Hospitality Table!
Mission Moment 5.17.23
My prayer with our women’s ministry has been wonderfully rewarding. We have eight Bible Study meetings every week, four on Mondays and four on Thursdays. I speak at many of them weekly. We always start our meetings with prayers.
I ask the 60 to 70 women present in that room about their prayer requests, and the requests start pouring in. They seek prayer for health problems, or for the ability to find a school for their children. They ask the Lord to open a door for work for their husbands or sons, or to reveal to them where their father or brother who was kidnapped can be found.
The prayer requests have been very hard sometimes—prayers that need a miracle. The Lord has always been gracious, answering our prayers miraculously.
In situations where some men get kidnapped and disappear from the face of earth, the Lord has answered the prayers of these women, their mothers and sisters, women from different religious backgrounds, but who believe in the power of the Lord Jesus.
We prayed for Aysha’s brother who was missing for more than six months. We prayed for him for over two weeks. At one of our meetings, Aysha, who is a refugee from Syria, shared with the women that her brother was found. They were able to locate him, they now knew that he was imprisoned, and that soon he would be released.
One of the most wonderful things about prayers is that the Lord answers.
Blessed be God’s name.
Pray...Give...Go.