February 26, 2015

Church Leadership
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.
Church Office:
785/843.0020, ext. 201
[email protected]
www.firstbaptistlawrence.com
Rev. Matt Sturtevant
Senior Pastor, x.202
[email protected]
Rev. Cheryl Harader
Associate Pastor of Adult Spiritual
Formation, x.204
[email protected]
Cody Knapik
Intern for Youth Spiritual Formation,
x.205
[email protected]
Amelia Lawson
Intern for Childrens Spiritual Formation
x.205
[email protected]
Jenny Purvis
Office Manager, x.203
[email protected]
Jim Davidson
Chancel Choir Director
[email protected]
Evelyn Falen
Organist
[email protected]

Ottawa Concert Choir at FBC

Thursday, March 5
Hear the Concert Choir from Ottawa
University in concert at First Baptist
on Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. Dr.
Dong-Hyun Son, the conductor, recently finished his D.M.A. at Kansas
University. His wife, a concert pianist
in her own right, is the accompanist.

Preparing for Worship

March 1, 2015
Worship at 8:30 & 11:00 a.m.
The second Sunday in lent
Our Father in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name

Rev. Matthew Sturtevant

Scripture: Matthew 6.9-15

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 1: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name...
March 8: Your Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven...

Holly Grassy
Bookkeeper, (785) 917-9622
[email protected]
John Pauls
Moderator
[email protected]
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!

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

160 Years of Food, Fellowship, and Faith

To celebrate our 160th Birthday, we are
compiling an up to date church cookbook. We want this cook book to reflect
who FBC is right now, in 2015, so we
want to include as many people as possible. People of ALL ages. The cookbook
will feature all the typical categories in a
cookbook but check out some of the new categories we will
include: art, food memories, and creative writing. **To submit your recipes just look for the forms in the back of the
sanctuary, the church office, 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!!

Box of Justice
This week Justice Matters wraps up research on the specific
problems we will address at the Nehemiah Assembly on
May 7th. The housing committee will seek solutions to the
lack of affordable housing. Regarding children's concerns,
we will seek to prevent and restore the affects of childhood
trauma. We move forward as we investigate the problems related to mental health.
Blessings,
Justice Matters, http://www.justicemattersinkansas.org/

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!

Lenten Bible Study

Our Lenten noon-time study has begun on

Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The topic

Remember in Prayer
Sherry Ulasien, whose father Richard Connell passed away
this week. Services will be March 7 at Park Hill Christian Church in Kansas City, Missouri.
International Ministries Missionaries: Scott & Aphiwan
(Tan) Coats, serving in Thailand
Regional Minister: ABC of Los Angeles: Dr. Eduardo
Font, serving in Glendale, California
Local congregation: Victory Bible Church
You are invited to send prayer requests to:
(E-mail coordinator) Betty Colbert, [email protected],
(Telephone Prayer Chain) Hazel Nitcher, 843-5302, Annie
Merriam, 841-1384, or Judy Stuart, 856-1782, or
The church office: 843-0020
[email protected]
Address update:
Vera DeMott: Neuvant House, 1216 Biltmore Dr., Lawrence, 66049. 856-7900
Youre Invited!
Wedding Ceremony of Meredith
Holladay & Zach Walker
Friday, March 6, 2015, 3:30
p.m. Village Presbyterian
Church, 6641 Mission Road,
Prairie Village, KS
A brief reception will be held in the Friendship Hall
immediately following.

is Women of the Passion. Bring your own lunch,

and come for a time of study and discussion.

The Wednesday night adult studies (after supper)

provide the opportunity
to experience a variety of
spiritual practices, one
(or more) of which you
might find touches your
soul for years to come.
We hope to see you!

American Baptist Youth (ABY) next gathering:

March 1
5:00 p.m. Games
5:30 p.m. Chupper

Childrens Corner
Sanctuary of the Cinema Junior

March 8: Horton Hears a Who, 12:15 p.m., lunch provided.

Vacation Bible School is coming!

June 8-12, 2015. (Evening hours)

6:00 p.m. Lumos

6:25 p.m. Breakout
7:25 p.m. Benedicon
7:30 p.m. Dismissed
See you all Sunday!!

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.

First Baptist Church

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

Sunday Morning Volunteers

Life of the Church

Sunday, Mar. 1
8:30 a.m.Worship Service
9:30 a.m.Sunday School
11:00 a.m.Worship Service
5:00 p.m.ABY/Chupper
Tuesday, Mar. 3
All dayPrimary Elections, RWR
Wednesday, Mar. 4
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. 5
7:30 p.m.Ottawa Concert Choir, Sanct.
Friday, Mar. 6
12:00church office closed in afternoon

March 1

Nursery 9:30 a.m.Amy Munsterman

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

Looking Ahead:
March 8Sanctuary of the Cinema, Jr.

Membership Ministry announces:

Pictorial Directory Distribution Day!

Sunday, March 22
8:0010:15 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 810:15 a.m. After that, directories will be available for
pickup in the church office.

Wed. dinner
March 4
6:00 p.m.

FBC Book Club

Our March selection is Redeemer by
Randall Balmer. This book is a biography of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of
the United States. A copy is available at
the Lawrence Public Library. The meeting will be on Tuesday March. 17 at 7:00
pm at Bob and Sandy Heacocks home , 3007 Trail Road.
The First Baptist Book club reads a wide variety of works including
fiction, non-fiction, biographies, memoirs, and poetry. Members
suggest the books to be read. If you love books, please join us!

By the Numbers...as of Feb. 22, 2015

GENERAL OPERATING
Weekly Receipts:
$6,884.45
YTD Receipts:
$44,041.96
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
Weekly Receipts:
$6,938.00
Cumulative Giving:
$373,431.50
If you would like more detailed financial information, please
contact our bookkeeper at [email protected], 917-9622.
Thank you for your generous giving. Your generosity helps to
make our many ministries possible.