2243 Burbank Avenue (Corner of Rose & Burbank)

FAITH MISSIONARY BAPTIST

CHURCH BULLETIN

July 24, 2011

2243 Burbank Avenue (Corner of Rose & Burbank)

Nashville, TN 37210

Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship Services 11:00 a.m.

Evening Worship Services 6:00

Church Website: http//www.faithchurchnashville.com/

Pastor: Elder Barry Armour 615-822-4681– 615-812-6204

Pastor Email:

Music Director: Bro. Bert Lanier

Sunday School Supt.: Bro. Terry Parker

Clerk: Bro. Billy Clemons

God With Us Women’s Fellowship

August Meeting – Tuesday, August 16, 2011, 6:30 p.m. Speaker: Mrs. Connie Dunn

We look forward to having you all with us! God Bless.

Cindy Clemons.

DILLON’S PREACHING SCHEDULE

Dillon will help in Hendersonville Missionary Baptist Church’s Revival August 4-7, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Other Helpers: Bro. Luke Spurgeon and Bro. Wesley Woods

REVIVAL NEWS

The last that we heard, there have been 5 saved at Beckwith and amd 10 saved at :Lafayette in the last 3 weeks, including 5 saved in their Revival.

REVIVALS & CHURCH EVENTS OF FAITH CHURCH AND SISTER CHURCHES

Gateway Missionary Baptist Church – 2514 Lakeland Dr., - Revival beginning Sunday, July 24, 7:00 p.m. Pastor: Elder Jeremy Sisk, assisted by Bro. John Buck.

Gateway Missionary Baptist Church - 2514 Lakeland

Homecoming – Sunday, July 24 with dinner following 11:00 services. Homecoming services in the afternoon.

McFerrin Missionary Baptist Church – 431 W. Old Hickory Blvd. Madison, TN. Revival beginning Sunday, July 24, through Friday, July 29. Day services 11:00 a.m. and night services at 7:00 p.m. Pastor: Elder Johnny Carver, assisted by Elder Ron Spurgeon and Elder Luke Spurgeon.

Mt. Juliet Missionary Baptist Church - 1426 S. Mt. Juliet Rd., Mt. Juliet, TN. Revival beginning, Sunday, July 24. Pastor: Elder Phillip Church. Helper N/A.

Knob Springs Missionary Baptist Church – 372 Hiwassee Rd., Lebanon, TN. Revival beginning, Sun. July 24, 6:00 p.m. on Sunday and 7:00 p.m. Mon-Sat. Pastor: Eld. Jimmy House, assisted by Elder Junior Dickerson.

REMEMBER IN PRAYER

Tracey Armour’s grandmother passed away in the last day or so. Her name is Evie Gammon. She is also the sister of Ms. Ezma Trapp and the aunt of Brenda Lanier. She had been in a nursing home in Jamestown. She will be at Alexander Funeral Home in Lafayette. Arrangements are incomplete as of now.

Remember this family in your prayers.

Pray for Mary Jo’s grandson, Jesse. He needs a testimony of salvation. Pray he will be able to come to church more frequently.

Continue to remember in prayer Cindy Clemons two uncles who are seriously ill.

James Gregory’s brother-in-law lost his grandfather recently. Remember this family in your prayers.

Andy and Paul Davis, grandsons of Jean and Don Langford, are on their way, Andy to Iraq and Paul to Afghanistan. Andy has already arrived in Kandahar. Remember them in your prayers.

Brenda Lanier’s mom, Mrs. Eza, is still having conflicting doubts about her salvation. Remember her when you pray.

Bro. Rusty Dunn visited last Sunday and requested prayer for someone who came to his home asking for prayer for his health problems. And those of his family members.

James Parker has had to have a biopsy of a place on his lip. He will hear from this very soon. Please remember him.

BIRTHDAYS, WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES OF FAITH FAMILY (July 24 – July 31)

Bert Lanier – July 27 - Birthday

Cindy Clemons – July 29 – Birthday

Casey Schichler – July 30 – Birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ALL!

Gateway Missionary Baptist Church – 2514 Lakeland Dr., - Revival beginning Sunday, July 24, 7:00 p.m. Pastor: Elder Jeremy Sisk, assisted by Bro. John Buck.

Gateway Missionary Baptist Church - 2514 Lakeland Dr.,

Homecoming – Sunday, July 24 with dinner following 11:00 services. Homecoming services in the afternoon.

Mt. Juliet Missionary Baptist Church - 1426 S. Mt. Juliet Rd., Mt. Juliet, TN. Revival beginning, Sunday, July 24. Pastor: Elder Phillip Church. Helper N/A.

REVIVAL NEWS

The last that we heard, there have been 5 saved at Beckwith and amd 10 saved at :Lafayette in the last 3 weeks, including 5 saved in their Revival.

That’s very encouraging.

FAITH’S NEWEST MEMBER

Ian Herlein’s Baptizing July 17, 201

Ian Herlein, Our Newest Member and Bro. Armour

The Herlein Family

In the Spotlight…… Faith Family Member ….Last Week: Joyce Parker

In the Spotlight…THIS WEEK. FAITH MEMBER

Our Faith member moved with her family from the country to Nashville when she was in the fifth grade. She was a graduate of Central High School where in her junior year she was invited into the National Honor Society. She worked as a secretary and file clerk for the Nashville Bible House and Music City Song Crafters.

She was saved as a young girl and attended Faith’s mission when it had its first meeting in a tent on Glenrose Avenue. She joined the church after it was organized in 1957.Her children were all saved and some of her grandchildren under the influence of Faith Missionary Baptist Church.

She met her husband at Faith.

This member is very talented in crafts and loves to read, sew, cook and works in any other craft that’s handy!

Do you know this young lady? We’ll see next week.

DO RE MI SINGING CAMP PICTURES OF PARTICIPANTS

Here is our shaving cream fight at Do Re Me. You can tell by the pictures that all of us did not participate!! It’s got kind of hard to tell who was who after awhile but if you look closely you will be able to figure it out. Take a moment to notice the “Pastors Son” is the one with the Mohawk!! And our sweet quiet Kristy smacking Zack right in the face with a hand full! Note the method of clean up. A very cold hose pipe spraying very hard right at your face!! Bro. Michael Holton was trying to keep it out of their eyes. He had NO mercy! Fun Fun TIMES!! (Submitted by Cindy)

Skylar, Makayla & Kristy Parker (?)

Alyssa & Friend

Zach

Dillon

Kristy Socks It To Zach!

Skylar

Zach, Youf Mohawk is Great!

A Sheep In the Midst of Wolves – PART 2 (Continued From Last Week)

Sermon Delivered by Elder Rick Jones, Missionary to Jamaica, Preached at Faith Baptist Church in 1997

We are living in a religionized world. Everybody has got religion some form of religion, but not everybody has got salvation, brothers and sisters, and not everybody knows that. And, listen, we are not only living in America where the religion has swept the land by storm. For the last six months I wrote Bro. Eugene Porter, Editor of the Macedonian Call, trying to give an update on our work in the last six months that we have been on the Island of Jamaica. Although our work has been ongoing for the last two years, I mentioned to him what God had shown me out of the 10th Chapter of Luke where that Jesus was sending out the seventy, two by two. He instructed them that He was sending them out as a sheep among wolves, and that’s been the scripture that describes the last six months on the Island of Jamaica – a sheep in the midst of religious wolves. He goes on in another place and warns them of false prophets that would come to you in sheep’s clothing and, brothers and sisters, we have them in America today and He was warning them then and He’s warning you today about them. And so, as a sheep in the midst of wolves, that’s what we’ve been like on the Island of Jamaica and that word “wolf” stood out to me. I’ve been relating this to a number of churches where I have been invited to come. I wanted to know the nature of a wolf. I somewhat knew the nature of a sheep and command for me was not to go and preach a message with an angry tone or with the attitude of, “I’m right and you’re wrong.” But Jesus said, “I’m sending you as a sheep in the midst of wolves. You’re to be wise as serpents, harmless as doves. (Matthew 10:16) I believe that what Jesus was trying to tell them is to “be like I am.” And what was Jesus? He was a compassionate Savior, a compassionate man. He was a man of great compassion, brothers and sisters, and when He preached, He preached with compassion. He preached to the lost with compassion. He rebuked the Pharisees with compassion. There was always love in His voice, even to those whom He considered to be false teachers. He had a love and compassion for them to come to know the truth. The nature of a wolf, as I defined that, was that it was an intelligent, social animal and that it communicated with others by yelping, growling and they work together in a pack to devour their prey, and I thought, that’s exactly the description of the religious proselytes that I’ve been involved with on the Island of Jamaica.

If you are a Bible reader, you will know that Amos was a prophet from Judea and he went forewarning Israel. Now Israel had been warned to repent and return unto the Lord, but Amos came and his message wasn’t repentance but Amos came and his message wasn’t repentance what he said to the people of Israel was, “Prepare to Meet Thy God.” In other words, they would face God’s judgment. He forewarned them about an earthquake, and that’s the day we are living in today. “Therefore be ye also ready for the Son of man cometh in a day when you think not.” So, if you are here tonight, lost friend, and you think, “I’ll get saved tomorrow night,” my Bible teaches me that you don’t know whether you’ll make it tomorrow night. You don’t know. If the Holy Spirit is dealing with your soul tonight, today is the day of salvation. Paul warned in the Hebrew letter, “Harden not your heart, as the children of Israel did in the wilderness in the day of provocation,” (Refer to Hebrews 3:8, 15) and those that could not enter into his rest were those of unbelief, and , if you die tonight in unbelief, you will not enter into His rest. I have entered into the rest of God. I’ve been saved by the grace of God. I’m standing on the promise that God made me that I’m going to heaven to be with Jesus. As the Psalmist said, that he set his feet upon a rock. That Rock is Christ, and he said, “He established my going .” Come Monday morning, I’ll be going back to Jamaica but, listen, my goings have already been established. It was that summery night before my sixteenth birthday when I sought the Lord with a great heavy load of conviction. I shed many bitter tears and I sought and cried out with great apathy, “Lord, save me, I perish.” And brothers and sisters, He lifted that old burden, rolled it away, and put that peace that passes all understanding down in the depths of my soul and I’m counting on that experience to take me home to heaven tonight.

Now I want you to know, mine is not an emotional experience. Lots of people, including many of them in Jamaica. It’s their culture to search out an emotional experience, but I have been doing the best I can to convey to them that what you need to search for is a Spiritual experience. Now the Spiritual experience we’ve got affects our emotions. Did you know that it will affect your emotions? When you hear someone shout, they are not getting emotional, they are getting Spiritual. If you hear someone yelp and there’s no Spirit in it, then it’s emotion, but when you can feel your Spirit bear witness with their Spirit, you know that it’s a shout of the Spirit of God. So there is a difference between emotion and the Holy Spirit tonight. I’m glad that salvation is a Spiritual experience. I’m glad that we can feel the love of God in our hearts. I’m glad that it’s by the love of the Holy Spirit. Now the Epistles of John tells us that God is love and John also writes and records Jesus telling the Samaritan woman that God is a Spirit. Therefore, put two and two together, as the teachers told us in school, you’ve got Spiritual love and if you have ever been born of the Spirit of God, that’s what you’ve got in your soul. It’s like that old-time hymn, “Give me that old-time religion. Makes Me love everybody.” If you ever get a dose of that old-time salvation that I’ve got, I’ll tell you what it will make you do, it will make you love your enemies. It will make you want your enemies to be saved. That’s what it will do. It will cause you to have love in your heart for humanity. We need that love. Do you know what Jesus said, “How will the world know that you are my disciples? If you have love for one another.” (Refer to John 13:35) That’s how they’ll know. Do you

know what impressed me most as a sinner, under conviction, fighting with Satan, and fighting with God? Brothers and sisters, what impressed me most was the Holy Spirit that moved among the saints of God that was present there. You know why? A boy with basic logic and good common horse sense knew that they couldn’t do what they did. I knew that these adults wouldn’t get up there and cry. At that time I didn’t realize they were tears of joy. Let me tell you something, I was a lost man, but I felt the Spirit of God. Had I not felt the Spirit of God, I wouldn’t know I was under conviction, and I felt it in my heart. I was broken-hearted and the Bible says He heals the broken-hearted, and He healed me that night, and He put joy in my soul!