Emmanuel Baptist Church

February 13, 2024

EBC Family,

This Sunday after the morning service is our Annual Chili Cook-off which is an opportunity to showcase your chef skills. This year we are using this event to highlight our EBC Mission Trip to South America. Pastor Craig will share about the trip during the morning service and our college students will help host the meal and clean-up afterwards. I’d encourage you to pray about how God wants you to financially support our Mission Team. The cost is $3,000 per person so your contributions will be very helpful to those who feel called by God to go.

One other thing about the Cook-off, let me encourage you to leverage these church-wide fellowship meals to build relationships with other members that you don’t know as well. Sit at a table with someone who isn’t in your Grow Group, or eat your chili and then migrate from table to table making conversation as you go. God has made us Family through the work of Jesus, but it won’t feel like Family unless you do the work of building relationships with others. A fellowship meal is a great time to make a new friend!

I’m grateful to belong to God’s Family at EBC,

Pastor Clint

Top Songs for EBC in 2023

Every week at Emmanuel Baptist Church is a new opportunity to glory in the goodness of our God. It is a privilege to guide our church family as we sing songs that teach our minds the truths of God and thrill our hearts with His faithfulness. I am thinking about many different considerations each week, and it is interesting to see what emerges at the end of a year of Sundays.

Here are just a few of the considerations that inform each week’s service:

• What is the theme of the sermon text?

• Are these songs biblical, pastoral, and missional?

• How are we praising God for His character?

• How do these songs lead us away from sin, and towards Christ?

• What new songs do I want our congregation to learn?

Prayerfully considering questions like these helps me arrange 4-5 songs each week for our church to sing together. In 2023, here are the songs we sang the most:

EBC Top 10:

1. Christ Be Magnified – Cody Carnes

2. His Mercy is More – Matt Boswell

3. Build My Life – Housefires

4. Come Thou Fount – Robert Robinson

5. 10,000 Reasons – Matt Redman

6. Firm Foundation – Cody Carnes

7. Jesus Paid It All – Elvina Hall

8. King of Kings – Hillsong

9. Lord, I Need You – Matt Maher

10. Oh But God – Worship Initiative

Top Hymns

1. Come Thou Fount

2. Jesus Paid It All

3. Glorious Day (One Day)

4. How Firm a Foundation

5. How Great Thou Art

At EBC, we sang 112 songs total over the course of the year. Of these, 62 are recent contributions, and 10 are what I would call “modern hymns.” Fifty were taken from the rich tradition of Christian hymns. I never want us to lose sight of the songs that our church has been singing for generations. Our top song in 2023 was Christ Be Magnified. What an appropriate song to top the list! I pray that Jesus was magnified at Emmanuel Baptist Church in 2023, and that we continue to magnify him for decades ahead.

Pastor Craig

We Need You!

The 2024 sign up sheet for the Welcome desk is out! We need volunteers to welcome families for Sunday morning service.

Sign up at the Welcome Desk today!

Ministerial Alliance in Need of Paper Sacks

Gary Bell who runs the Ministerial Alliance Food Bank is in dire need of paper sacks.

The MA Food Bank assisted 19 families last week! Their paper sacks go quickly.

If you would like to donate paper sacks please bring them to the church office.

Worship Center

Please help us keep our Worship Center looking its best and only bring water inside. No other food or beverages. Thank you for understanding!

Women's Retreat

Hi Ladies! I would love for you to join us as we go, get filled up, hear Jen Wilkin teach, be refreshed, so that we can come back and pour out into our homes and church. Make sure when you register to click "in person" and mark that you're with Emmanuel Baptist Weatherford. Please let me know you registered so I can get our group organized to travel to Falls Creek and back together. Do not hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions. I hope you will join us for this special weekend!

In Him,

Meridith Jackson

919-619-5852

Women of The Word Bible Study

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Carey Carter is leading Jen Wilkin's Bible study, Women of The Word upstairs in the Youth Wing on Sunday evenings. We will learn how to systematically study the Bible in a way that develops your relationship with God and His truths.

Books are provided.

Ladies Coffee Talk

February 13

7:00pm - 8:00pm

Upstairs in the Student Wing

Annual EBC Chili Cook Off

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EBC Family, bring your best chili and compete for 1st place!

February 18 following morning Worship Service.

Meetings

2/17

Tech Team Training -10:00am

(Training for current team members and anyone interested in joining)

2/18

Daycare Committee - 4:30pm

Bless Committee - 5:00pm

Finance Committee - 5:15pm

Pinewood Derby Race

February 21st @ 6pm

Last Week at a Glance

Sunday, February 11, 2023

Budget Offering

Last Sunday .................................... $ 6,652.50

YTD Budget ......................................$ 55,488.24

YTD Budget Received ......................$ 58,987.86

This Month New Building

Receipts This Week ....................$ 200.00

Received This Month ..................$ 550.00

Attendance:

Grow Groups: 108

Family Worship: 121

Sunday Servants This Week

Preschool Care

Lennie Otey

Molly Hollingsworth

Lead Usher

Bernard Boeckman

Welcome Desk

Volunteer Needed

Deacon of the Week

Richard Metscher