Church Picnic 2011
Posted on August 30th, 2011
On August 28, we had our annual church picnic. This year, it was held at the Gee Price Center of the Fuqua School. We were blessed with a beautiful day, and we had over 100 members, guests and college students attend. Many thanks to Penny Huskey and the Social Committee for organizing the picnic!
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2011 Pictorial Directory
Posted on August 17th, 2011
As a part of our 175th anniversary celebration, we will be publishing a new pictorial directory! All members, regular attenders, college students and even friends and relatives who are not church members are invited to have portraits made during the week of September 12-16. High Bridge Photography, owned by church members Daniel and Melissa McLemore, will be taking the portraits and assembling the directory. Thank you for your participation and inclusion in this directory!
MAKE-UP Dates for Pictorial Directory Portraits, September 17 and 30, 2011
We have scheduled two pictorial directory make-up days for those who were not able to schedule during last week. The dates are Tuesday, September 27 and Friday, September 30, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Click here to schedule an appointment for an individual or family.
You will receive one free 10 x 13″ portrait of your entire family. Only one sitting and one free 10 x 13″ portrait per family.
No charge for the sitting and no purchase is required. However, you will have an opportunity to purchase extra pictures and packages.
Preparing for your Portrait Session:
- Plan an hour for your session to include: Check-in, Photography and Portrait Viewing and selections.
- Plan to arrive 20 minutes prior to your scheduled appointment. This will allow for check-in and any last minute preparations.
- Try to schedule sessions with small children early. Try to avoid scheduling your appointment during naptimes and meal times.
Portrait products will be available for purchase after your session and make nice gifts and keepsakes. We do accept all major credit cards, checks and payment plans are available.
What to Wear:
Decide on the tone and style of your family’s portrait. Formal clothing will provide a traditional look or you may choose a casual look to best fit your family’s style.
- Clothing – Solid, coordinating colors are best. Avoiding busy patterns helps to maintain a timeless look and is less distracting. Make sure you are comfortable – whether it’s casual or formal.
- Hair and Make-up – Avoid cutting your hair or changing your hairstyle right before your session. Apply your make-up as you would normally with special attention to your eyes, as they are the focal point of a portrait.
Posing for the Camera:
- You are encouraged to have fun at your session. We want to capture the real you!
- Feel free to bring anything meaningful with you to your session. Props such as special toys, books, musical instruments and more are encouraged to personalize your portraits.
- Notify your photographer of any special requests and we will do our best to accommodate you.
- Generational portraits are allowed and encouraged. Feel free to invite grandparents or other family members and loved ones to join your session for an additional pose (even if they are not church members).
- Remember portraits make wonderful gifts. We also offer a full selection of portrait greeting cards and other gift items such as ornaments, canvases and blankets.
Other 175th Anniversary Information
For more information about our 175th Anniversary, please visit our Anniversary Celebration page on our website!
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10/16 – 175th Anniversary
Posted on August 15th, 2011
“Happy 175th Anniversary, Farmville Baptist Church!”
November 25, 2011, is the 175th Anniversary of the founding of Farmville Baptist Church.
To celebrate this occasion, the church will be having an Anniversary Reunion Celebration on Sunday, October 16.
You are cordially invited to
Farmville Baptist Church’s
175th Anniversary Reunion Celebration
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Continental Breakfast/Social at 9:30 a.m.
Worship Celebration at 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary
Reunion Luncheon at 12 noon in the Fellowship Hall
Anniversary Program and Festivities to end by 2:00 p.m.
This page contains the latest updates and announcements regarding our anniversary celebration! After the jump, click the links on the Table of Contents to go to section you want to visit.
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Back to School Event
Posted on August 6th, 2011
Farmville Baptist partnered with FACES (our local food pantry), the Youth Empowerment Center, and Minister Pamela LaRue to sponsor a Back-to-School event this morning to feed a hot breakfast to over fifty students and then escort them to the Youth Empowerment Center for a anti-bullying program. Afterwards, all the students received school supplies to help them with the beginning of school this Wednesday. This was truly a community effort! The following churches and businesses contributed school supplies and back packs to this event: Apostolic Faith Church of All Nations, College Presbyterian Church, Farmville Baptist Church, Farmville United Methodist Church, Farmville Presbyterian Church, Hampden-Sydney College, Heritage Baptist Church, Mt. Pleasant/Beulah/Mt. Harmony United Methodist Churches, Reclaiming Our Lives Ministry, St. James Orthodox Church and Wal-Mart. We are so thankful that these churches and businesses partnered together to make this event possible!
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Tags: Back to School, breakfast, children, food pantry, school supplies
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Happy 175th Birthday, Farmville Baptist!
Posted on August 1st, 2011
Pastor’s Column, published in The Informer (FBC Newsletter for August 2011)
“Happy 175th Anniversary, Farmville Baptist Church!” November 23, 2011, is the 175th Anniversary of the founding of Farmville Baptist Church. To celebrate this occasion, the church will be having an Anniversary Reunion Celebration on Sunday, October 16. On that day, we will have a special worship service followed by a reunion luncheon — and everyone is invited! We will ask former pastors and staff to participate in worship, and we hope that former members will also come back for this joyous event!
An anniversary steering committee has been assembled consisting of Sandy Yeatts, Penny Huskey, Peggy Cave, Cindy Cave, Gene Watson, and Jim Davis, and they have already met to begin organizing and planning. Each member of the steering committee is in charge of one aspect of the celebration, and your participation and help in any of the following areas is greatly appreciated!
- Sunday morning worship—Sandy Yeatts
- Luncheon afterwards—Penny Huskey
- History and historical artifacts—Peggy Cave
- Publicity and communications—Cindy Cave
- Contacting former members and alumni—Gene Watson
- Cleaning and preparing the building—Jim Davis
Furthermore, we will have a new 175th Anniversary Celebration Pictorial Directory made. See below for more details.
Finally, as several church members have mentioned to me, while celebrating a 175th anniversary is wonderful, we should not use this occasion to just focus on the past. We should use this event to launch us into our future. Therefore,
throughout our anniversary year, we will have periodic gatherings not only to celebrate and remember God’s faithfulness to us in our past, but also to dream and discern God’s future for us in the next twenty-five years! What a wonderful way to approach this milestone, and I look forward to what God will do during our 175th anniversary year!
Yours in Christ, Michael
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8/28 – Church Picnic
Posted on July 14th, 2011
You are invited to attend our annual summer church-wide picnic on Sunday, August 28, 3:00 to 7:00 p.m.
This year, the picnic will be held at the Gee Price Center of the Fuqua School, 605 Fuqua Dr, Farmville, VA – (434) 392-4131.
The church will provide a meat dish and bread. Please bring casseroles, vegetable side dishes, salads and desserts to share. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m.
The swimming pool is available at $8 per person; $5 per person for 15 or more. Twilight rate $5 per person after 4 p.m. Lifeguard on duty till closing at 7 p.m.
See you at the picnic!
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School Supplies Collection
Posted on July 14th, 2011
On Saturday, August 6, from 8 a.m. to around 11:00 a.m., we are organizing a “Back-to-School” event for the children of the clients of FACES. On that day, we will provide a hot breakfast at Farmville Baptist from 8 to 9:30 a.m. for these children.
After finishing their breakfast, the children will head over to the Youth Empowerment Center (315-0248) where Jackie Ghee and her staff will lead a workshop on parental involvement in our local schools and the prevention of bullying.
Afterwards, back packs will distributed to the students containing school supplies that they will need for the upcoming school year.
Here’s how you can help!
1) In the coming weeks, please donate back packs and school supplies (see below the jump for a list of needed supplies) directly to the Youth Empowerment Center. The deadline to receive these items is Wednesday, August 3. We are expecting around 100 children.
2) Help with the breakfast and with chaperoning the children on Saturday morning, August 6, 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
3) Pray for this event!
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July 10-14, VBS
Posted on May 26th, 2011
Dates: Sunday through Thursday, July 10-14, 2011
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.
Who: children age 3 to completed 5th grade
Cost: FREE
Avast, me hearties! Vacation Bible School fast approacheth. Mark yer calendars fer a most excitin’ “High Seas Expedition”. AARRGH!!
REGISTER HERE
Click on this link to register for our VBS!
The adventure shall commence on Sunday, July 10, 6:00 to 8:15 p.m., and will conclude on Thursday, July 14th. It’s open to kids age 3 through 5th grade, and it is free!
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Summer Conversations
Posted on May 26th, 2011
Pastor’s Column, published in The Informer (FBC Newsletter for June 2011)
Summer is finally here and when I think of summer, I often have in mind a slower pace of life punctuated by opportunities for family and friends to get together for food and conversations. It is in this spirit that I would like to host a series of “conversations” held one Sunday each month during the summer. These conversations will be on various topics and will target different segments of our population, (and will consequently be held at varying times), but everyone is invited to attend. My hope is that this will give me an opportunity to listen to the concerns of the congregation and to hear new ideas for ministry, service and worship.
One topic of conversation that has come to my attention is the question of unbaptized children receiving communion during worship. On Sunday, June 5, I would like to invite all the parents of our children to talk about this in the Fellowship Hall at 9:45 a.m. I will briefly present our church’s current policy regarding communion, and I would appreciate input from our parents and others regarding this issue. Muffins and juice will be served.
In the month of July, I would like to engage in a conversation about our senior adult ministry. This conversation is tentatively scheduled for Sunday, July 17, after the worship service in our Fellowship Hall. A light lunch will be served as we talk about how Farmville Baptist might better minister to and with our senior adults in the months ahead.
Finally, I hope to have another conversation on Sunday August 21, at 9:45 a.m. in the Fellowship Hall. In this conversation, I would like to hear from the congregation what needs they see in our community, and how we might be able to meet those needs. In the coming months, I hope you will keep your eyes and ears open to the needs of our community that are not being met so that you can contribute to this conversation.
In some ways, these conversations are a continuation of the Pastoral Evaluation Surveys that were taken in April. I want to thank those forty folks who took the time in filling out the survey and to Jay Lynn for administering it. Starting in June, the results of the survey will be made available through the church office for anyone who requests it. Copies of the results will also be available on Sunday mornings for members to pick up.
Finally, thank you for your prayers, cards, food and other expressions of your care following my uncle’s death. I really appreciate your ministry to me during this time. I am grateful and blessed to be your pastor!
Yours in Christ, Michael
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Faith Coaching
Posted on May 7th, 2011
Pastor’s Column, published in The Informer (FBC Newsletter for May 2011)
Several weeks ago, I attended a four-day training course on Christian coaching at the Hollifield Leadership Center in Conover, NC. When we hear the word “coach,” we often think of a person who trains athletes or directs athletic teams. But the coaching instruction that I received is designed to help people gain clarity and focus in moving forward in their Christian faith and life. A coach engages in conversations with people and listens carefully to their concerns, goals and dreams. Unlike counseling, which assumes dysfunction on the part of the client and focuses on the past, coaching assumes health on the part of the person being coached and focuses on his or her future action plans. Unlike a mentoring relationship, which relies on the knowledge and experience of the mentor, coaching relies on the knowledge, experience and resources of the person being coached.
Coaching provides great benefits. It orientates around a person’s strengths and not weaknesses. It provides clarity and focus regarding one’s personal goals and objectives. A coach does not give answers, but asks powerful questions to help people discover and achieve their God-given potential and purpose. And as they discover answers and solutions to their problems, it inspires confidence in their ability to make intentional progress in achieving God’s plan for their lives.
I am attracted to faith coaching as one (but not the only) important tool for pastoral ministry, because it frees me from having to tell people what to do! Coaching honors the image of God in people and it trusts that the Spirit of God continues to dwell and speak to each person regarding his or her life. If you ever feel a need to have a coach to take you from one stage to another in your life, I would love to have an opportunity to enter into a coaching relationship with you! In the meantime, let me ask two coaching questions for you to consider: Where are you now, and where does God want you to be? How can you plan the steps to get to where God wants you to be?
In other matters, I want to thank the Rev. Cheri Wise for filling the pulpit on Sunday, May 1. I will still be in Dallas, TX with my family as we attend the memorial service of my uncle, the Rev. Johann Yang. Cheri is the director of the Baptist Campus Ministries at Longwood and Hampden-Sydney, and I’m excited that you will have a chance to hear her preach. At the end of the service, we will also recognize Sara Thompson for her service here as our ministry intern. I hope you will plan to be in worship that day!
Yours in Christ, Michael
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