August 15, 2021
"While You Wait; Jesus Saves"
Jeremiah 29:1-12 | Dr. Randy Ashcraft

Often we see the “in-between times” in our lives as wasted; lost opportunity. If we are not careful we will treat these “waiting” periods as unimportant and miss out on the growth God intends in such days. Where are you these days? What are you waiting for, and more importantly, what are you missing “While You Wait”? 

Welcome to online worship with First Baptist Church. Let us join hearts together as we honor our Lord, Jesus Christ with our worship today.
A Message to Stay Strong

What would a letter or postcard from Jesus say to us? As we listen to the letter to the church at Pergamum, we can see what Jesus might be saying to us. Revelation 2:2-17
Where are you these days? What are you waiting for? And more importantly what are you missing “While You Wait”?
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God desires to have a relationship with you! He has given us ways to know Him better through His son, Jesus Christ. Knowing God and having faith in Jesus is a personal and individual decision for each person. We would love to talk with you and help you begin or deepen your faith journey.
God of wilderness and water, your Son was baptized and tempted as we are. Guide us through this season, that we may not avoid struggle, but open ourselves to blessing, through the cleansing depths of repentance and the heaven-rending words of the Spirit. Amen.
40 Days of Prayer
Thru September 11

You are invited to walk the labyrinth in person from 10am-3pm Monday - Friday downtown during the 40 Days of Prayer. This is a time to pray with one heart, one mind and one voice as a congregation as we discern and prepare for the calling of our next pastor and the next chapter of ministry in First Baptist’s story. Over these 40 days we will have: 

  • Daily Prompts, inviting us to pray for our Pastor Search Committee, our next Senior Pastor, and for ourselves and our church.

  • A Prayer Labyrinth, in the upper level of the Connector Building downtown, set aside as a place to walk and pray and commit this search process and ourselves to God.

Not Sure How to Pray Using a Labyrinth?
If you would like to learn how to pray using a labyrinth, Jayne Davis and Melissa Sutton-Seng will be offering brief instructions at four different times next week:  

  • Sunday, August 15 – 9:15am, 11:15am
  • Tuesday, August 17 – 6:30pm (Meet at the parking lot entrance to the Connector Building.)
  • Thursday, August 19 – 6:30pm (Meet at the parking lot entrance to the Connector Building.)

Stop by to learn more about this ancient practice and how it might add to your own times of prayer.
Letters to God
In the courtyard in front of the church on Market Street is a mailbox marked letters to God. In it you will find cards titled, Dear God, on which you can write your letters to God and leave them in the mailbox when you are done. There are also cards in the Connector Building and at the entrances to the sanctuary. While the letters will be removed periodically and ‘sent’ to God, you are welcome to read those still inside the mailbox when you leave your own. For each letter that you read, be sure to offer a prayer on the writer’s behalf and then return the card to the mailbox. 

It is our prayer that a passersby will notice the mailbox and write their own letters to God.
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