Fee Fee Baptist Church

Author: Tara Smith

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 19

    I’m looking forward to eating fried chicken with you at Pere Marquette on Thursday, September 30! The bus will leave church at 10:00 a.m. We will eat our lunch and then go outside and sit on their patio and play games. Please bring a card game, dominoes, or anything else you would like to play. I’m sure it will be a beautiful fall day! And invite a friend to come with us!

    A deposit of $100 is due on Friday, October 1, for our trip to the Amana Colonies. Please email me at gloria@feefeebc.org to let me know if you will have a roommate, or if you want to have a ticket for the play at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday night. The cost for the play is $32. When I have this information, I will be able to tell you your total cost. If you plan on having a roommate, your cost before food is approximately $150.

    I also want to thank each one of you for your faithful contributions to our backpack ministry and to our dinners at Loaves and Fishes. These ministries are not only help people, but they show the love of Jesus to our community.

  • Music Musings – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Are you ready for our September Playlist?

    Well, I hope so, because I have found some terrific music for your listening pleasure! This month you have the benefit of hearing two pieces by my favorite singer, David Phelps. I will begin and end with his music, for he is in a category all his own.

    Simply David Phelps

    Brethren, We Have Met to Worship

    David Phelps

     

    Christian Country

    No Turning Back

    Tommy Brandt

     

    A Capella Gospel

    I’ll Meet You in the Morning

    Jehovah Shalom A capella

     

    Multi-National Classical Crossover

    Amazing Grace

    Il Divo

     

    Indie Worship

    And Can it Be (Die for Me)

    Daniel Dorfsmith

     

    Up-and-Coming Christian Artist

    Dare to Believe

    Efralot

     

    Southern Gospel

    How Beautiful Heaven Must Be

    Gaither Vocal Band

     

    Contemporary Worship

    Jireh

    Elevation Worship and Maverick City

     

    Contemporary Christian

    Rebuilder

    Carrollton

     

    Indie Rock

    Seasons

    NEEDTOBREATHE

     

    Contemporary Christian

    Ruins

    Mandisa

     

    David Phelps – Just Wow!  In a class by himself!

    I Have Nothing

    David Phelps

     

    As always, this list reflects many different styles. They may not ALL be to your liking, but I’m certain many of them will bring you joy. Until next time! Here is the link for Ronna’s September 2021 Playlist:

    https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpdd9NDp5H-VBX-CHttCySjAX0EWhNsYt&feature=share

  • Chi Alpha News – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Fall 2021 Calendar

    Our 2021 Fall Calendar is now available in the Rafters! We are so excited for our events that we have planned for this semester! Not only will we have a ton of fun, but we also have quite a few opportunities to go out into our community and serve! So come on up to the Rafters and find out how you can get plugged in!

    Summer 2022 Mission Trip

    We will soon be announcing our summer 2022 Mission Trip destination! We are so excited for what God had planned for us going forward, but please continue to pray for our student ministry as we prepare to go and serve!

  • Bible Study Corner – Vol. 61, No. 18

    We are kicking off our Midweek activities on Wednesday, September 8. Everything starts at 6:00 p.m. and lasts roughly an hour. If you are not participating, you can still join any group. Adults can choose between Pastor’s Prayer Meeting/Bible Study (Dining Room) or Men’s Bible Study (FH) and Women’s Bible Study (C112/Zoom). Get connected through Bible Study!

  • Announcements – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Sympathy

    Our love through Christian sympathy is extended to

    … Carol Gollaher & family, on the passing of her husband, Wayne Gollaher, on September 6.

     

    Backpack Ministry

    Summer is over and that means the kids are back in school! While this is an exciting time for so many kids and parents alike, unfortunately a lot of kids go hungry once they head home for the evening or weekend. One of the more rewarding ministries at Fee Fee Baptist Church is our Backpack Ministry. This ministry provides a bag of easy-prep foods for school-aged children in our school district. We want to make it as easy as possible for these kids to eat a nutritious and filling meal when they aren’t at school. But we can’t do this without you, Church! We need donations of granola bars, snack crackers, macaroni & cheese, fruit cups, applesauce cups, canned pasta, single-serve snacks or meals, and other easy-prep meals. You may leave these items in the Donation Center in the section marked “Backpack Ministry.” Alternatively, you can have these items shipped from any big box store to the church:

    Fee Fee Baptist Church, C/O CHURCH OFFICE, 11330 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton, MO 63044. Thank you so much for your giving hearts!

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Well, that was a fast summer! Now that it’s September, I’m looking forward to pumpkin spice everything. Incidentally, I really, really like anything pumpkin if you’re in to baking.

    Since we moved the trip to the Amana Colonies to October, we are going to go to Pere Marquette on Thursday, September 30. A sign-up sheet will be in the Connection Center, right behind the coffee café.  We will eat their famous fried chicken and then go out onto their wonderful patio and play games. You could also go for a hike if that’s your thing. It will be a wonderful time of fellowship outside as we see God transitioning us to fall. Hope you will join us! Even if you haven’t joined us before, this would be a great trip to try us out. This is a tradition for the Prime Time group as the food is spectacular and the setting is gorgeous.

    I hope you are keeping up with our reading plan in the first five books of the Bible. It is so good to look at the patriarchs and see that they were men just like us. They made mistakes, they didn’t tell the truth, they sometimes doubted God, but God loved them anyway. He loves us too. And He wants us to choose to love Him back. I hope your relationship with God is growing continually, and reading scripture every day will certainly help that.

    By the next Forerunner I will have a definite price for our trip to the Amana colonies. It will require a deposit so that we can make sure that our costs are covered. Join us for this trip; it will be a great adventure!

  • Family Front – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Impact Week

    Impact Week is coming up September 12-18. Perhaps you and your family plan to meet a need in your community? Clean out gutters for a neighbor? Take cookies to police or fire stations? Pick up trash in a local park?  There are lot of small projects you can do as a family that make a BIG difference in people lives.

    Midweek Activities

    Wednesday, September 8 we will begin our new church year for midweek activities, with AWANA for kids from 6:00-7:00 p.m. There is something for ALL ages: Puggles for ages 0-2; Cubbies for age 3-pre-K; Sparks and TnT for K-3rd grades; and the new mission-focused program called Kids in Action for 4th and 5th grade LIVEWIRES. If you could give just 30 minutes of your time to listen to our AWANA kids recite their verses, that would be so helpful for them. And parents, there are Bible Study options for you as well: Bible study and Prayer with Pastor Zach; Men’s Bible Study; and Women’s Bible Study. We would love to have you join!

    Trunk or Treat

    Put Trunk or Treat on your calendar for Sunday, October 31, from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Be thinking about how you want to be involved: have a decorated trunk, help setup and clean up, greet people, or face paint.  Of course, we will be collecting a TON of candy starting October 10. There will be an area to deposit your candy donations. Let’s BOOOO-tifully meet and serve our community !

    Ministry Opportunity

    We are in need of people who are willing to serve their church! We need loving caring workers for preschool care during worship. Please let me know if you can serve our families in this way.  As always, thank you for your willing heart to serve.

    “Give praise to the only God. He is our Savior. Glory, majesty, power, and authority belong to him. Give praise to him through Jesus Christ our Lord. Give praise to the One who was before all time, who now is, and who will be forever. Amen,” (Jude 1:25).

  • Community Connection – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Impact Week Celebration, September 19

    At the end of Impact Week we want to celebrate! So, we’re going to have a unique Impact Week Celebration on Sunday, September 19. We will have one worship service at Redemption Ranch (77 Redemption Rd., Winfield, MO 63389) at 11:00 a.m. Then we will have a free lunch followed by an afternoon of fun! Some fun things to do there include hiking, canoeing, swimming, volleyball, yard games, board games, and more! This will be a great day of fellowship and celebration of all that God has done in the past week. Sign up for lunch in the Connection Center at church or by contacting the church office (314) 739-1525.

    Upcoming Mobile Market Dates

    Anyone in the community is welcome to drive through our Mobile Markets on the following Mondays from 10:00 a.m. until noon (or whenever we run out of food) to have FREE groceries put in their car!

    • September 27
    • October 11
    • October 25

  • Devotional Corner – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Taken from L.B. Cowman’s “Streams in the Desert,” Zondervan Updated Edition

    “I will build you with stones of turquoise,” (Isaiah 54:11).

    The stones in the wall said, “We have come from mountains far away—from the sides of rugged cliffs. Fire and water have worked on us for ages but have only produced crevices. Yet human hands like yours have made us into homes where children of your immortal race are born, suffer, rejoice, find rest and shelter, and learn the lessons that our Maker and yours is teaching. But come to the point of being used for this purpose, we have endured much. Dynamite has torn at our very heart, and pickaxes have broken and split us into pieces. Often as we lay disfigured and broken in the quarry, everything seemed to be without design or meaning. But gradually we were cut into blocks, and some of us were chiseled with sharper instruments until we had a fine edge. Now we are complete, are in our proper places, and are of service.”

    “You, however, are still in your quarry. You are not complete and because of that, as once was the case with us, there is much you do not understand. But you are destined for a higher building, and someday you will be placed in it by angelic hands, becoming a living stone in a heavenly temple.”

    In the still air

    the music lies unheard;

    In the rough marble

    beauty hides unseen;

    To make the music

    and the beauty needs

    The master’s touch,

    the sculptor’s chisel keen.

     

    Great Master, touch us

    with Your skillful hands;

    Let not the music that is in us die!

    Great Sculptor,

    hew and polish us; nor let,

    Hidden and lost,

    Your form within us lie!

  • A Word From Pastor Zach – Vol. 61, No. 18

    Church Family,

    In our last issue of the Forerunner, I wrote about our major local missions initiative, Impact Week. During the week of September 12-18, Fee Fee Baptist Church is having this local missions push for the third consecutive year. Over the course of this one week, our church is going to give hundreds of volunteer hours to different non-profit organizations and the city of Bridgeton. Our church has been serving this community faithfully for over 200 years, and I am praying that Impact Week will help us continue that tradition and let us be exposed to, and meet, many different needs around us. I want to encourage you to sign up to serve if you haven’t already.

    In addition to Impact Week, I wanted to take a moment to share with you something exciting that we are going to be doing to celebrate the conclusion of our week of local missions. We are going to have an off-site worship service and church picnic at Redemption Ranch on Sunday, September 19! Redemption Ranch is a Christian camp/retreat center about 40 minutes from our church in Winfield, MO.

    This retreat center has a great amphitheater where we will have a worship service, and then a covered pavilion where we will have lunch. There is a lake to swim in, hiking trails to walk on, a sand volleyball court, a disc golf course, gaga ball, a playground, and more! Our Athletics Committee and Children’s Committee are going to have different activities set up as well. We will also have the option of board and table games and cards in the shade.

    As we have been studying Acts 2 and the early church, we see that they devoted themselves to fellowship and breaking of bread. These last 18 months have been a trying time for all of us. After talking and praying with our staff and our deacon body, we all decided that doing a worship service and church picnic/fellowship at Redemption Ranch could be a great way to promote fellowship within our church family. I know that it is definitely abnormal to not have our worship service on our church campus, but we felt it was worth trying something different to really press into the idea of sharing a meal and sharing our lives with one another. I just want to encourage you to remember that the church is not a building. We can be the church and gather for worship and glorify God whether it is in our sanctuary or out at Redemption Ranch!

    I want to encourage you to do a few things leading up to this celebration Sunday. First, please be in prayer for our Impact Week and our celebration service at Redemption Ranch. We want to be the hands and feet of Jesus in our community and then we want to have true biblical fellowship with one another! Second, I want to encourage you to sign up, either in the Connection Center or online, to tell us you are coming out to Redemption Ranch. We definitely don’t want to run out of food, so please sign up by September 12 so we can make sure we have enough for everyone!

    Third, on our app and website is a list of “What to Bring” and other important info about our celebration service, or there are handouts in the Connection Center. Please make sure to get that information so you can be prepared for our special Sunday.

    For those of you who are unable to make it out to the ranch, we will have a special service online that will be available to view at both 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. on September 19.

    In Him,

    Pastor Zach