March 5, 2015

Church Leadership

Preparing for Worship

Our ministers and lay leaders are available

to answer any questions you may have to
help you connect with the ministries of
First Baptist Church.

March 8, 2015
Worship at 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.

Church Office:
785/843.0020, ext. 201
office@firstbaptistlawrence.com
www.firstbaptistlawrence.com

The third Sunday in lent

Your Kingdom come, your will

be done on earth as it is in
heaven...

Rev. Matt Sturtevant

Senior Pastor, x.202
matt@firstbaptistlawrence.com
Rev. Cheryl Harader
Associate Pastor of Adult Spiritual
Formation, x.204
cheryl@firstbaptistlawrence.com
Cody Knapik
Intern for Youth Spiritual Formation,
x.205
cody@firstbaptistlawrence.com
Amelia Lawson
Intern for Childrens Spiritual Formation
x.205
amelia@firstbaptistlawrence.com
Jenny Purvis
Office Manager, x.203
jenny@firstbaptistlawrence.com
Jim Davidson
Chancel Choir Director
jamesrdavidson@ku.edu
Evelyn Falen
Organist
edfal13@gmail.com

Rev. Matthew Sturtevant

Scripture: Luke 11.1-4

The Strangest Prayer

Lenten Worship Series
March 1March 29
We pray the prayer together every Sunday.
Many of us know the words by heart. Yet, the
prayer taught to us by Christ is anything but
domesticated or tame. John Dominic Crossan
calls the Lords Prayer the strangest prayer
and names it as a revolutionary and radical set
of words, in Jesus context as well as ours.
This Lenten season, a time set aside for prayer and preparation for the celebration of Easter, let us re-examine these words and discover together their radical
call upon our hearts and lives:
March 8: Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven...

Holly Grassy
Bookkeeper, (785) 917-9622
grassyclan@att.net
John Pauls
Moderator
jphawk@yahoo.com
Buddy Langford
Custodian

March 15: Give us today our daily bread...

March 22: Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us...
March 29: Save us from the time of trial...
Easter: April 5: For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen!

The Mission Summit is Back!

KU Ensemble in Concert

The American Baptist Churches, USA Mission Summit (the conference formerly
known as the Biennial) is returning to
Overland Park this summer (June 26-28).
The Mission Summit is a time of encouragement, celebration, worship, and fellowship, and a wonderful opportunity to experience the diversity of the American Baptist world beyond our own
walls. We have a special opportunity here in Lawrence to experience this encounter so close to our own community, and it is not to
be missed!
Our church is an official sponsor of the Mission Summit, meaning
that members of our congregation do not need to pay the full registration price to register for the event. In order to register, please go
to www.americanbaptists2015.org. Registration as a full participant
throughout the event will cost $40.00, and will afford the opportunity to participate in all of the plenary sessions, worship events, and
mission conversations. Meals and some pre or post-events have an
additional charge. More information is available in the church office. Again, this is a wonderful opportunity to have just outside our
doorstep! Sign up today!

A Wonderful Sandpaper Moment!

As our Spiritual Formations Ministry reminded us as a part of our
Five Points series last year, ours is a Church of the Holy Sandpaper. Like sandpaper in the hand of a woodworker, it is only by rubbing and occasionally scratching do we become re-created and beatified. Likewise, it is not by playing nice and avoiding hard conversations that we experience God re-making us, but in the honest, vulnerable, real dialogue of faith and life.
I thought that Dr. Molly Marshalls sermon on Sunday was a wonderful sandpaper moment! Her words on interfaith conversation
were striking and bold. And they merit further conversation.
Thus, you are invited next Sunday, March 8, to a special adult Sunday
school session to share your responses, questions or thoughts. Perhaps you were rubbed the wrong way, or
maybe her words scratched an itch that
you have had for a long time. If you would
like to further discuss, please come to the
Judson room at 9:30, Sunday, March 8. Lets
do more than scratch the surface together!
Pastor Matt

at First Baptist Church

March 15 - 3 p.m.

Kiowa Ensemble (L-R) Congcong Chai, Mickayla

Chapman, Margaret Lambie, Man Wang

Kiowa Ensemble recently received third prize

in the Enkor Chamber Music Competition and
they have won the state and division levels of
Music Teachers National Association String
Chamber Competitions. On March 21st, they
will compete at the MTNA National Chamber
Competition. Our own Margaret Lambie is the
flautist! She is an undergraduate of Hastings
College in Nebraska and a flute masters student under Sarah Frisof. The group is coached
by Scott McBride Smith and Michael Kirkendoll. Mickayla Chapman is a junior studying
clarinet with Stephanie Zelnick, Congcong Chai
graduated from Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and is a piano DMA student with
Jack Winerock, and Man Wang received her
degrees from Capital Normal University. She is
a violin DMA student under Veronique
Mathieu.

Easter Flowers
If you would like to purchase a plant to decorate the sanctuary on Easter, please fill out a
form and place in offering plate or contact the
church office no later than March 29. Forms
are also available throughout the building and
in Sunday School rooms.
Or by e-mail: Jenny@firstbaptistlawrence.com

Box of Justice
8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Worship
This Sunday:
First Baptist Justice Matters network ministry commissioning in both worship series.

Building Reconstruction Update:

Things are progressingan exact date to begin floor
work should be soon!
Month of March: flooring installed in Youth room, Sunday
School and additional rooms, hallway, and probably kitchen (this is the most tenuous space, given the special process for flooring.)
April 5: Celebrate Easter in our current sanctuary.
April 6 through Memorial Day: renovation in sanctuary area,
including narthex and Judson room. (Temporary sanctuary will be set-up in Roger Williams Room. Congregational and community activities will continue to take
place, but with a more limited space.)
By Vacation Bible School (June 8), we will be ready to worship in our new space!
June 14: celebration of completion of the construction,
and celebration of 160 years of ministry and worship of
the First Baptist Church of Lawrence!

160 Years of Food, Fellowship, and Faith

Please help us celebrate the 160th
Birthday of First Baptist Church. We
are compiling a cookbook and wed
like your recipes. Look for a recipe
form in the back of the sanctuary, the
church office, online at the newsletter,
and in the Sunday school rooms. The
deadline to submit your recipes is April 1st, 2015....no
fooling!! So pull out your recipe box and find your favorites!!

Remember in Prayer
Travel safety for Cody Knapik and CBTS students traveling
to Myanmar (Mar. 6-16)
International Ministries Missionaries: Hermelinda & Jorge
Damasceno, serving in the United Kingdom
Regional Minister: ABC of Los Angeles: Rev. Jose Menendez, serving in Glendale, California
Local congregation: Lone Star Church of the Brethren
You are invited to send prayer requests to:
(E-mail coordinator) Betty Colbert, bchilder@ku.edu,
(Telephone Prayer Chain) Hazel Nitcher, 843-5302, Annie
Merriam, 841-1384, or Judy Stuart, 856-1782, or
The church office: 843-0020
jenny@firstbaptistlawrence.com
Address update:
Vera DeMott: Neuvant House, 1216 Biltmore Dr., Lawrence, 66049. 856-7900
Thanks & appreciation:
Dear FBC Friends, Im planning to move to Watertown,
Minnesota, and want to be sure youre aware. Over the
holidays my family and I decided I should consider relocating to be near my son Stephens family to share life
with my three grandchildren (8, 6, and 2). Ive found a
home in their neighborhood, and will be moving by the
end of March. I truly regret leaving my church family. So many of you have made FBC a place of welcome
friendships for me, as we worked and worshiped together over the past nine years. Some of you wonder
about my decision to leave for a much colder climate,
especially in the winter. As a church you have shown
Gods love to me in so many ways. Im grateful that
well meet again in an even better place. Until then,
grace and peace to each of you.
~John Jones

Childrens Corner
Sanctuary of the Cinema Junior

THIS SUNDAY: Horton Hears a Who!

12:15 p.m., lunch provided. Horton the
Elephant struggles to protect a
microscopic community from his
neighbors who refuse to believe it
exists. "A person's a person, no matter
how small."

Vacation Bible School is coming!

June 8-12, 2015. (begins at 6:00 p.m. for dinner)

American Baptist Youth (ABY) next gathering:

March 8
Looking Ahead: March 22, 9:0010:15 a.m. Biscuits & Gravy
Youth Fundraiser.

First Baptist Church

1330 Kasold Drive
Lawrence, Kansas 66049
785/843-0020
785/843-0021 (fax)
www.firstbaptistlawrence.com

Membership Ministry announces:

Pictorial Directory Distribution Day!
Sunday, March 228:00 to 10:15 a.m.
In conjunction with the next Youth fundraising event, Biscuits
& Gravy Sunday, you are invited to stop by the Roger Williams
Room to pick up your pictorial directory anytime between
8:00-10:15 a.m. After that, directories will be available for pickup in the
church office.

Life of the Church

Sunday, Mar. 8
8:30 a.m.Worship Service
9:30 a.m.Sermon Discussion, Judson Rm.
9:30 a.m.Sunday School
11:00 a.m.Worship Service
12:15 p.m.Sanctuary of the Cinema, Jr.
5:00 p.m.ABY/Chupper
Monday, Mar. 9
Church office closed
8:00 p.m.rebroadcast of FBC worship
(public access channel 99)
Tuesday, Mar. 10
2:00 p.m.Afternoon Womens group at
Perkins Restaurant
Wednesday, Mar. 11
11:30 a.m.Lenten Bible Study
6:00 p.m.Wednesday Meal
6:30 p.m.Sacred Music Academy
6:30 p.m.Evening Lenten Study
Thursday, Mar. 12
7:00Spiritual Formation Ministry mtg.
7:00Finance Ministry mtg.

Sunday Morning Volunteers

March 8

Nursery 9:30 a.m.Amy Munsterman

11:00 a.m.Amy Munsterman
Extended Care 11:00 a.m.-Kimberly
Sturtevant

Wed. dinner
March 11
6:00 p.m.

Staff Whereabouts
Cody will be traveling to Thailand & Myanmar, March 6-16
Jenny will be working from home Monday, March 9. Parishioners may call her there as
needed: 841-4556
Jenny will be taking some vacation time March 13-20

Attention Soon-to-Be Graduates!

For those FBC members who plan to further their education, you
may wish to apply for the Raber P. & Ruth B. Stringham Scholarship. Contact Jenny in the church office for more information.
~Deadline to turn in application is June 1.

Looking Ahead:
March 15Sanctuary of the Cinema, 6 p.m.
March 15Ku ensemble recital, 3 p.m.
March 17FBC Book Club, 7 p.m.
March 18No Wednesday meal

The rebroadcast of our worship services on the public access channel

99 has been moved to Monday evenings at 8:00 p.m.

By the Numbers...as of Mar. 1, 2015

GENERAL OPERATING
Weekly Receipts:
$5,566.90
YTD Receipts:
$49,608.86
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Weekly Receipts:
$1,593.00
Cumulative Giving:
$375,024.50
If you would like more detailed financial information, please
contact our bookkeeper at grassyclan@att.net, 917-9622.
Thank you for your generous giving. Your generosity helps to
make our many ministries possible.