Fee Fee Baptist Church

Author: Jim McMahon

  • Music Musings, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2026

    God Sings

     

    “The Lord, your God, is in your midst, a mighty One who will save.  He will rejoice over you with gladness.  He will quiet you by His love.  He will exult over you with loud SINGING.”

    …ZEPHANIAH 3:17

     

    Do you ever wonder how much God loves you?

     

    Remember God takes delight in us and His love quiets us.  It is a beautiful gift.  We can’t earn it.  All we have to do is accept God’s gift of love and when we do, He rejoices over us with singing!

     

     

    Consider joining our Choir This New Year

     

    Choir offers a wonderful opportunity for spiritual growth and shared goals with other singers.  It’s a chance to use your musical gifts to glorify God and serve your church family.

     

    There is no audition process.  Our choir is made up of singers with varying levels of experience.

     

    Our choir meets on Monday evenings at 7:15 and runs for an hour.  Show up and we will be happy to welcome you.

     

  • Bible Study & Outreach, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2026

    Don’t forget to pick up your Bible Reading bookmark for January through April.  We just finished reading the New Testament in chronological order and we have another new way to study scripture together this year.

     

    You will read important passages in the Old Testament on redemptive history and then read about their fulfillment in the New Testament.  For example, we will start with the creation of all things by the Triune God and then see the work of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit working together to bring salvation to mankind and holding all things together in the New Testament.

     

    Make a commitment to be engaged in Bible study this year.  We have small groups that meet on Sunday morning at 9:15, groups for everyone on Wednesday nights at 6 and a few small groups that meet during the day during the week.  Gloria can help you with any questions.  Make today the day you commit to begin to be grounded in God’s word.

    Outreach

     

    Our next big event is the great chili cookoff.  But if that has become commonplace to you, we have added a new dimension this year – mac & cheese.  Now you can not only talk smack about your chili but can add your GOAT mac & cheese.

     

    Start refining your recipe because we will meet in the gym at 5:30 pm on Sunday night, February 22, for some serious judging and eating .

     

    Bring your kids and grandkids and invite your friends and neighbors.  The playroom will be open and gaming stations with games like Mario Cart will be set up. Mark your calendars now and get ready to show your skills!.

     

  • Prime Time, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2026

    Happy New Year! I am loving hanging out with the Senior Adults and being their director. What a fun bunch! If you haven’t been part of this fellowship, please come with us. You will find signup sheets with info on our events in the coffee café.

    December 11 We had the opportunity to eat at Das Bevo and to see Christmas lights. Great food and great fellowship!

     

    Thursday, Jan. 15 we will visit the World Chess Hall of Fame and eat lunch at the Kingside Diner. I hope you will come! You can even take a chess lesson! Learning, fun AND food! What could be better? We plan to leave church at 10am.

     

    In February/March we will do projects for MO Baptist Children’s Home and St. Andrew’s senior center. More details on that in the February Forerunner.

     

    If you haven’t participated in any event with this group, it’s time for you to check this out; and, of course, bring a friend. We always want to be in the business of inviting friends to be part of this great fellowship at Fee Fee Baptist Church!

     

    Watch for more details on all of these events. You will find information and signup sheets in the café so we know how many to plan on. I look forward to serving with you!

     

    May your New Year be filled with peace and a closer walk with Jesus!

     

  • A Word From Senior Pastor, Britton Carter, Vol. 66, No. 1, January 2026

    Looking Forward to 2026

    I love the start to a new year. It’s an opportunity to reflect on the past twelve months and to establish habits and commitments for the future. As I reflect on the past twelve months at Fee Fee, the growth I have seen in our church excites me. In addition to numerical growth, I have also seen people grow in their faith in Christ, their confidence in the gospel, their understanding and application of Scripture, and their boldness in sharing the good news with lost people around them. All of the positive developments I have seen in 2025 make it hard to turn the page to 2026.

    The good news is that God is just getting started at Fee Fee. Over 200 years in, and God is still just getting warmed up. And I firmly believe 2026 will be even better than 2025. However, if 2026 is going to be better than 2025, then three things need to happen:

    1. We need the Holy Spirit to develop within us a profound consciousness of God’s presence and an abiding commitment to the power of the gospel;
    2. We need the Holy Spirit to convict men and women in our community of sin and draw them into a saving faith in Jesus;
    3. We need the members of Fee Fee—each and every one of us—to be faithful in God’s call to connect people to the gospel.

    In recognition of those three needs, I want to invite you to join me in two initiatives. First, I want to invite you to join me in prayer and fasting in January, asking God to move in us and in our community this year. We will meet Sunday, January 4th, 11th & 18th at 5 pm in the worship center for prayer. We will also be fasting the last week of January; I invite you to give up something specific during that week and devote time to prayer, but I also invite you to give up food (if possible) for at least the last two days of January as we seek God’s power among us.

    Second, with nearly 100,000 people in a 10-minute drive of our church, we have a lot of ground to cover if we are going to connect lost people in our community with the unifying and life-transforming power of the gospel. To that end, our goal this year is to personally invite 10,000 people to join us in worship on a Sunday morning. That’s one invitation per week for each person in our church. Will you invite people to join us this year? If so, I’m excited to see what 2026 brings for our church and for our community.

    In Christ,

    Pastor Britton

     

  • Announcements, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2025

    International Food Pantry

     Donations  needed include

    Applesauce cups

    Pudding cups

    Granola bars

    Peanut butter

    Pasta noodles

    Pasta sauce

    Cookies

    Chili

    Beef jerky

    Canned fruit

    Oatmeal

    Next volunteer workday is January 10, 2026, 8:30 a.m. (off campus)

    For information or to make a monetary donation contact Dan Wallace at dlwallace4@yahoo.com or 636-312-5012.

     

    Coffee With a Cause

    During 2025 our Coffee With a Cause will go toward our Member Led Ministry, equipping members to connect others to the power of the gospel, and use their gifts for ministries that do the same.

    Angel Tree

     The Christmas Tree in the Welcome Center is our Angel Tree.  Each ornament has an item to be purchased for someone who needs a little help this year at Christmas.

    Your job is to find an ornament that lists a gift that you would like to provide for a child or adult.  Take the ornament from the tree and hang on to it.  Purchase the item listed.  If it is clothing it will indicate whether it is for a male or female and indicate the needed size.  Toys will indicate the age and whether the toy is for a boy or girl.

    After you have purchased and wrapped the gift, put the ornament with the gift need on the outside of your package, bring it to church and place it under the tree.  The gifts will be delivered to the families before Christmas.

    All gifts should be returned by Sunday, December 14 with the ornament attached to the outside.

    Alaska Mission Trip

    There will be an informational meeting on Sunday, December 21 immediately after church for anyone who might be interested in going to work with Reach 907 in Wasilla, Alaska. We will be doing a VBS for kids who have been through trauma.  The group will leave Friday, May 29 and return the morning of Saturday, June 6 on an overnight flight.  Come by and get the details and an application if you have interest in going.

    Week of Prayer and Lottie Moon Christmas offering 2025

    November 30-December 7 is our annual Week of Prayer for International Missions. This is a week that you can pray for our missionaries all over the world who are sharing Christ.

    Seven missionaries and their work will be highlighted. Pray for them and how you will support this year’s emphasis and goal of $32,000. Fee Fee will match the first $10,000 in donations this year.

    Last year we exceeded our goal. You are a generous people.  Let’s see what we can do this year. The Ingathering (an offering collected during worship) will be December, 14 but donations can be made throughout the month of December.

    December Calendar Changes

    The Church offices will be closed December 24th (noon) & 25th

    There will be no Wednesday night activities 12/24 or 12/31

    There will be no Sunday morning Bible study 12/28

     

  • Y.A. Collective, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2025

    Sunday mornings are a beautiful part of following Jesus. We gather to worship, open God’s Word, and be reminded of what’s true. But if that’s your only connection to church, you’re missing out on one of God’s greatest gifts—the community that helps us deepen and grow in out faith.

    Faith isn’t meant to grow in isolation. It deepens when we share life with others—through conversation, prayer, shared meals, laughter, and even hard moments. Real transformation takes time and trust, and that’s hard to build in just an hour on Sunday morning.

    That’s why discipleship through fellowship matters. God uses relationships to strengthen our faith and shape our character. So take a next step—join a Bible study, come to Young Adult Collective, find a mentor, or invite someone to coffee.

    The church is more than a place to attend; it’s a family to belong to. When you step into that family during the week, you’ll find that God works powerfully through ordinary friendships to make extraordinary change in your life.

     

  • Fee Fee Youth, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2025

    This holiday season, the youth group has much to be thankful for!  For starters, we are thankful for you, our church family, for supporting us at our Youth Trivia Night in November!  We were excited to revive this event, and we hope that you enjoyed the opportunity to gather with friends and family for a little friendly competition. We are also thrilled to have welcomed many new faces to both our Sunday morning and Wednesday evening Bible studies!   We hope to see this growth continue as our youth boldly invite their friends to church with them.

    Coming up in December, the youth on Sunday mornings will be working through the Bible study Praying for Keeps, and then, on Wednesday evenings, we will be continuing our walk through the book of Galatians.  Please be praying for the youth leaders as we go about teaching and working to build a strong sense of community within our youth group.

    Our final Wednesday night gathering for 2025 is December 17th!   This will be the night of our youth Christmas Party, complete with hot chocolate, a Christmas movie, and more!  If you are a middle- or highschooler, we hope to see you there!  Don’t forget to bring a friend!

     

  • Family Front, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2025

    The Christmas season is upon us! We are really looking forward to all of our events taking place here at Fee Fee: the Christmas program, Parents’ Day Out, and our Christmas Eve service. And I know my family is excited for all of our Christmas traditions: holiday lights & Ted Drewes, decoration of our house, gingerbread house creations, and fun family gatherings. It is so easy to get swept up in all of the busy activities and forget why we celebrate this season in the first place. I encourage all of you to take a moment with each activity and remember that we celebrate because Jesus chose to be born in incredibly humble circumstances so that he could fulfil scriptures and save us all. What an amazing event to celebrate!

    Honing in on our children’s programming, we have come a long way in just the last four months. We easily have over 20 new or re-imagined volunteers who have stepped up to fill the needs in our Fee Fee Kids’ ministry. I am incredibly grateful for this team of people. They love kids, take ownership of their responsibilities, and have servants’ hearts. With this amazing coverage, we have successfully re-opened our infant room for our littlest church attendees! Please let me know if you’d like to join this thriving team. We welcome new additions and are especially looking to add to our Kindergarten through 5th grade volunteers!

    Kids’ December Events

     

    • Parents Day Out on December 13th, 11am-3pm. Our parents and kids all love this event! It gives parents a lunch date or a chance to nap uninterrupted. The kids get a chance to shop for Christmas gifts for their families and have a great time with friends. Sign up for the event is in the coffee cafe. We are still looking for gifts that the kids can shop for in our little store and we would love a few more volunteers to help this event run smoothly.
    • Bake Sale on December 14th, before and after Sunday School in the Welcome Center. Come support our 4thand 5th graders and their fundraiser for Super Start weekend retreat in January!

     

  • Music Musings, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2025

    Save The Dates

    December 6 and 7 are the dates for our Christmas choir presentation.  Both performances begin at 3:00 p.m.  There are invitation cards in the Connect Center, foyer, and in the choir room.  Please feel free to hand them out to your friends and family.  The message and the music will be a blessing to all.

    What Child is This?

    One of the most beautiful songs from our music presentation is the carol, “What Child is This?”

    William Chatterson Dix, is the writer of this carol.  As a young man, William moved to Glasgow Scotland, where he pursued a career managing a marine insurance company.  However, his true passion was poetry.  Dix became very sick and was in bed for a long time recovering.  He had plenty of time to pray and read the Word of God.  From this experience his life was truly changed for the better.  He began to write hymns.  Three of these we may be familiar with today:  “As With Gladness, Men of Old,” “Alleluia, Sing to Jesus,” and “What Child is This?”

    “What Child is This?” was set to the ever-popular “Greensleeves.” written a full century before Dix’s hymn.

    What child IS this?  This is Jesus, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Who loved us so much that HE gave that we might have life eternal.  We look back at the manger, but ahead to the PROMISE!

     

  • Bible Study & Outreach, Vol. 65, No. 12, December 2025

    We have small groups for everyone on Sunday morning from 9:15 – 10:15. You can ask a First Impression Team member if you don’t know where you might fit in or you can contact Gloria.

    There will be no Bible Study on Wednesday, December 24 or December 31.  There also will be no Bible study on Sunday morning, December 28.

    Start watching at the end of December for the new Bible reading plan for 2026.  You can pick up a book mark in the Foyer or Coffee Café.