The First Baptist News

9:00 a.m. Choir rehearsal

10:00 a.m. Worship Service

11:00 a.m. Reception for Graduates

11:20 a.m. Sunday School

11:30 a.m. Youth Car Wash

2:00 p.m. Graduation Reception for

Erica Van Brakle

7:30 a.m. Fun & Fit Over 50

9:15 a.m. “God Is Closer than You Think”

12:30 p.m. Esther Circle

7:30 a.m. Fun & Fit Over 50

6:15 p.m. Wednesday Night Dinner

6:45 p.m. Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Softball - Bye Week

10:00 a.m. Charles Schad Visitation

11:00 a.m. Charles Schad Memorial Service

5:30 p.m. All-American Youth

6:00 p.m. G.R.O.W.

7:00 p.m. “Stepping Up”

7:30 a.m. Fun & Fit Over 50

9:00 a.m. Senior Net

Classes will resume in the fall.

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10:00 a.m. Worship

11:00 a.m. Reception for Graduates

11:20 a.m. Sunday School

"Catching the Wind”

Acts 2:1-21

Pastor Bayes, preaching

As one travels north on Interstate 39, one can see an array of wind farms. The

wind is a powerful energy source. Now wind farms are being developed to

capture the power of the jet air stream. Can the church catch the wind—the rush

of a powerful wind from God?

Health Tips from the Parish Nurse

Protect your brain with a book. Turning a few pages

keeps your mind sharp for life. It’ s not science fiction: Cozying up with a

good book shields your brain from decline. Researchers theorize that

bookworms develop a brainpower reservoir that is tapped when

disease or aging threatens their gray matter.

Debbie McGlothlen Lurene Ladd

682-5491 274-2865 691-2054

half-hour or so at the Hines School Carnival, Thursday,

Volunteers are needed for the ticket table, snow cone

machine, cotton candy machine and also for setup in the

afternoon and takedown after the event. There will be two

people at each position.

Please call or e-mail Karen Pilgrim

(kpilgrim@comcast.net or 686-5951) if you can help in

this fun event!

Devotions by Orvillene Jones

Program by Thelma Hopwood

Picnic

Dessert - Delores Swigart

Discussion Leader - Pat Sheikh

By Khaled Hosseini

Leader - Happy Dean

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You are invited to a reception for Erica Van

Brakle (Ashburn) to celebrate her graduation from

Central Baptist Theological Seminary with her Masters

of Divinity. It will also provide an opportunity for her to

thank you for supporting her through this process.

A memorial service will be held at

11 a.m. May 22 at First Baptist Church

of Peoria, with visitation before the

service, at 10 a.m. and Rev. Garland

Criswell will be officiating.

Charles was born July 22, 1907, in San Francisco, CA.

He married Elisa M. Lee Knops on June 14, 1930. They

were married 64 years. Elisa died in 1994. Charles and

Elisa joined First Baptist Church on June 9, 1957. Charles

died April 1st, 2008, in Florida. He was 100.

We will be planting annuals in the church

courtyard on Saturday, May 17th, 9:00 a.m. to

11:00 a.m. Anyone who is interested in helping please call

Nancy Crawford @ 691-6647.

flowers, and words of encouragement I received when I had

my surgery and now my recuperation at home. I am fortunate

to be a member of FBC.

I would like to thank Jim & Beryl Fredell, Paul Phillips and his

kitchen crew and all the wonderful servers who made our

annual Dartball Awards Banquet a great success. Thank You !

Thank You !

In addition to thanking all who expressed concern for me in

numerous ways during my recent several surgeries, I want to

thank those in our Church responsible for establishing our

Parish Nurse Program. It is truly a blessing for our

congregation.

Thank you and bless you for being so

nice, so thoughtful, and so good at

remodeling our home!

What incredible people we met on this journey of remodeling

our parents home. We never knew such SPECIAL people existed.

Thank you again!

Cliff Hopwood and Bob Trotter thank everyone who helped

had about 35 people who helped. We painted the inside of the

house, installed new flooring in the kitchen and bath, installed

two entrance doors and two storm doors, installed new panels

on the bathroom walls, installed a new handicapped toilet,

vanity and top, installed a handicapped ramp, washed

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DANCING WITH THE STARS?

Congratulations to Gene and Justteen

Wolstenholm upon the birth of their

granddaughter, Laela Renee Merano, born on

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 in Chatham, IL. The

proud great-grandparents are Justin and Pat

Wolsteholm.

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SPRING 2008

18 Car Wash

25 No Meeting

01 Picnic

13-15 Mission Trip

to St. Louis

AB Women's Ministries will bring their

congregation May 18 & 25 with a display in

Fellowship Hall. The right tool in the hands

of people in need is the mission of this

Church World Service program. It allows

communities far and near to meet immediate

needs and gain self-sufficiency. Ordinary things -- things that

we often take for granted like blankets. . education…clean

water …garden tools… seeds -- can make a world of

difference for people devastated by tragedy, as well as those

working to build better life for their families and their

communities.

Consider this --

Hoe, shovel, and rake $ 15

4 CWU Blankets $ 20

20 5-gallon water jugs $ 30

Small water tank &

emergency pump $ 50

First Baptist Church will provide assistance to the victims who were devastated by

the cyclone in Myanmar. We will receive the One Great Hour of Sharing Offering

during the month of June. The offering is part of an ecumenical offering taken by

more than 70 countries around the world.

relief grant to help with relief and recovery in Myanmar, where Cyclone Nargis

struck on Saturday. The grant, funded by One Great Hour of Sharing, was

requested by Rev. Stan Murray, area director for Southeast Asia. The initial funds

According to media reports, Nargis struck on May 3, in a low-lying delta region of

this Southeast Asian country, with winds of up to 120 miles per hour. News

account give estimates of at least 10,000 deaths, with another 3,000 people

missing and 100,000 people displaced. In a country with a population of nearly

55.4 million, the cyclone struck a region in the southwestern tip of the country,

home to 24 million people.

" Myanmar has tremendous historical and current importance to American

Baptists," said Murray. "Formerly known as Burma, our mission agency began with

the work of the Judsons in that country. Today, we are still partners with the

Myanmar Baptist Convention, and work with many ethnic groups from Burma who

are refugees seeking to make a new life in the United States," Murray said. He

added that International Ministries has not been able to make contact with its

partners in Myanmar, but hopes to do so very soon and get better assessments of

the immediate and long-term needs in the country for relief and recovery.

You can provide disaster relief for Myanmar by designating your gift to the One

Great Hour of Sharing. You can make your designation in the following way: