Wow! Summer is officially HERE! We have already been busy with cookouts, mini-vacation, and getting ready to gear up for a busy busy time at church!!
June starts our youth month, which is kicked off by Graduation/Promotion Sunday. Always a fun day! The Pastor has a special theme each Sunday this month pertaining to the youth of our church, with the last Sunday of the month being the finale,and extremely awesome might I add! We will also introduce some changes this month along with promotions...new sunday school classes, new teachers, new wednesday night programs....(Patch the Pirate, YAY!!)Oh..and the preacher starts his first day as a FULLTIME pastor on June 11!!!!!!!! The Lord has allowed us to enter into the fulltime ministry, for which we are excited,yet nervous, and grateful, yet humbled! Our church family has rallied behind us and supported us 110% in this endeavor, and with their help and of course with God leading the way, we are going to make LBC the best church we possibly can!( I personally think it's already the best church around ;) I'm so excited about how it's growing, and how people are on fire for the Lord. We have people wanting to do things, wanting to work, and stay busy for the Lord. We have ministries popping up all over the place!! We have recently put into place a care team,which has been constantly in motion since the start about a month ago...we have a maintenance team that will hopefully be in motion SOON because the good Lord knows it's needed!!!!!!! We have folks interested in starting a senior ministry, we have people working with our youth, our kids, young adults, you name it and it seems we have people wanting to do, or are already doing it! It's amazing, and I just hope that the Lord allows it to continue.
July is also a very busy month...the busiest for us by far. We have VBS seeing June out and welcoming in July, our big 4th of July Bang on the Sunday evening of the 4th, kids camp in Cameron SC, teen camp in Arkansas, AND LBC's Second Annual Camp Meeting. We have some neat things lined up for the camp meeting this year and the Pastor and I look forward to being able to devote more time to it this year, making it even better than last year, which was a huge success.
August our people (anyone interested) gear up for Summerfest. Last year was our "Prayerfest at Summerfest". We had a tent and passed out tracts and invited people who didnt already have a church home to church, and we gave away 2 bikes. This was the first time that a few of our kids had ever actually put a tract in someones hand. This took courage for them, because if we are honest, it's not easy when you witness to someone for the first time! We were so proud of our kids. We will need volunteers for this again this year, so if you are interested, or if you filled out a commitment card to help with this, get ready!!
September 19th is our Homecoming....and we are thrilled to be here to be a part of it!! This will be a very special day for LBC.
This is of course not everything that will be going on this summer....we always have special events popping up...but listed these just to give you an idea of some of the highlights of the summer.
We are looking forward to it!! We have great people at Liberty....people that want to serve their church and community and as long as this continues, we are bound to keep seeing souls saved as the Lord blesses our efforts!! That's what it's all about-seeing peoples lives changed for eternity...salvation!
The photo to the above right is us at Coastal Light Ind. Baptist Church in Charleston, SC where Brother Meredith Sears is the pastor. We had the priviledge of joining them on Memorial Day Sunday where they had an awesome service dedicated to the military and public servants. He even recognized my hubby as a police officer and presented him with a new testament that was purchased at Ground Zero in New York. We pray for God's blessings on this church and Bro. Sears' family, as this pastor truly has a servants heart and loves the Lord with all of it. We look forward to visiting with them on our next trip to the beautiful city of Charleston!If you are ever in that area, we highly reccommend that you visit them. Great preaching from the Word sure to bless you ...it would definitely be a blessing to them!! We believe that even on vacation, God should still be top priority, and whats 2 hours of your trip? NOT ENOUGH!!
