Fee Fee Baptist Church

Category: Kathy Scott, Senior Adults & Care Ministry Director

All of Gloria Fox’s Forerunner articles for Prime Time.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 24

    I am writing this Forerunner article to you before Thanksgiving, but you will not be reading it until after. Even so, I am going to go ahead and tell you what I am thankful for anyway.

    Today I am very sad. I lost a good friend to COVID a few hours ago and a friend lost her mother today. If I were not a Christian, this would be an overwhelming day of loss. It is always sad for those of us when we lose a loved one, but I am thankful for the assurance I have that both are home safely with Jesus.

    I am also thankful for each of you who are proud to call yourself senior adults. God has brought us a long way and given us a lot of wisdom along the way. I hope that you are pouring your life into some younger person to encourage them and help them to grow spiritually.

    Finally, I am thankful that our paths have crossed, and I get to serve you and serve alongside of you. I hope you were in the recent testimony service and got to hear Samson’s testimony about serving in your local church. I have read the Bible from cover to cover many times and, no matter what the translation, I have not run into the word retirement. We may not be able to go out and build houses or load sandbags but we all can serve in some way. Find a way to serve others in the church and in the community.

    I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and shared with your family what you were thankful for this year. While Thanksgiving is a wonderful reminder to be thankful, we have things to be thankful for each and every day. Tell the LORD each day how thankful you are for His goodness to you.

    “I will thank the LORD with all my heart,

    I will declare all your wondrous works,

    I will rejoice and boast about you;

    I will sing about your name Most High,”

    (Psalm 9:1-2 CSB).

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 23

    Thanks to those of you who went with me to serve at the St. Louis Area Food Bank last week. It was great to serve alongside you as we pursued the good of our community. I am planning on having the Prime Timers serve at least two times a year. I hope you will join us next time! I would also like to hear from you if you know of any other service opportunities that we might participate in. There is no mention of retirement in the Bible and we need to continue to serve the LORD until we go to see Him face to face!

    We have a good group signed up to go to Old Town St. Charles for Christmas on December 4. Please sign up if you are going. Lunch will be at Lewis and Clark’s, followed by watching the parade and meeting a Santa representing every nation. There are bonfires, freshly baked cookies at Grandma’s Cookies, carolers, carriage rides, and a variety of shops to visit. The bus will leave church at 10:30 a.m. for lunch at 11:00 a.m. at Lewis and Clark’s. It will certainly put you in the Christmas spirit!

    Speaking of Christmas spirit – we need to remember the greatest gift the world has ever received. We give gifts to others because God gave us the gift of Jesus. Our annual Angel Tree is a great way to share the love of Jesus (see details below)!

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 22

    I’m looking forward to a good group of you going with me to the Missouri History Museum on Wednesday, November 17. This is a FREE event, and we will see the display of St. Louis Sound. After the museum, we will go to Zia’s for lunch.

    Please sign up in the Connection Center and invite your friends! The bus will leave at 10:00 a.m.

    On Saturday, December 4, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. we will traverse to Christmas Traditions in downtown St. Charles. Unfortunately, we were only able to get a reservation for 10 people at Lewis & Clark’s as they are not seating large groups during the Christmas season. It would be beneficial if 2 to 4 of you would get together and make your own separate reservations at Lewis and Clark, so we could all be there together.

    After lunch, we will go out and see all the variations of Santa from different nations and watch the parade. There is also great shopping, fire pits, hot chocolate, and carriage rides! The signup sheet is in the Connection Center.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 21

    Greetings from beautiful downtown Branson, MO! I’m enjoying a little getaway before the Amana Colony trip. We have a good group going who confirmed their reservation by October 1. Each of you will be getting an emailed itinerary when I get back, but I can tell you that we will be leaving on Thursday, October 21 at 7:30 a.m. The bus is full and so is my car, so I had to turn away several because of no additional bus driver!

    Our next adventure is Wednesday, November 3. We will have lunch at Cracker Barrel and then go serve from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the St. Louis Area Foodbank. I hope you can join us in pursuing the good of our community!

    Then on November 17, we will be eating at everyone’s favorite place in St. Louis…Zia’s! But before you get to eat, we will go to the History Museum to look at their display on the sounds of St. Louis. It is a display of the music, stars, and history of musicians in St. Louis. I can’t wait to see Tina Turner!

    Invite your friends and neighbors to go with us. It’s a good way to connect with others and bring them to Jesus.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 20

    Happy Fall y’all! This is my favorite season of the year. I love the cooler weather and the beauty of the trees as they change color. I love to hear the crunch of the leaves as I walk through them along the street. Have you thanked the LORD lately for the beauty of his creation? Make it a habit to end your day by thanking the LORD for 5 good things that happened each day. God loves His people to be thankful!

    On October 11 we will be showing the Sight and Sound Theater’s production of Esther. Sandwiches, chips, and ice cream will be served at 11:00 a.m. followed by the movie. Cost for lunch is $6.

    Get out your calendars and update it with more upcoming events. Invite some friends or those who haven’t been to church for a while to come with you. A personal invitation is very powerful.

    October 21-22     Amana Colonies (Overnight trip)

    November 3        Lunch at Cracker Barrel/Serve at St. Louis Food Bank

    November 17      History Museum (St. Louis Sound) and Zia’s

    December 4         Lunch at Lewis & Clark’s Restaurant and St. Charles Christmas Traditions

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 17

    Summer is speeding by. Soon our days will be filled with school schedules, football, and the Cardinals in the World Series. Hope you have enjoyed summer as much as I have!

    In the meantime, I’ve been working on our fall activities. We have had to change our date for the Amana Colonies because of a date conflict for our bus driver/guide. The dates are now a Thursday and Friday, October 21-22. While there we will attend a play, Ole and Lena at Cafe Chaos, a musical comedy. We will also visit antique shops, restaurants, and museums that will be within walking distance of our hotel. It looks like show tickets are $32.50, transportation will be $40 and your hotel room with be $50-$60 based on double occupancy. In other words, the trip will cost you less than $150 if you have a roommate, plus whatever you purchase and eat. The hotel I’m looking at does have a fridge in each room for snacks and drinks. There will be a sign-up sheet so I can purchase show tickets and reserve rooms. Please indicate if you want your own room or if you will have a roommate.

    Cancelling our original date gives us an open date at the end of September for another event, so I’m looking at Aires and Pere Marquette as possibilities. More of that in the next Forerunner.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 16

    Summer is quickly passing us by. I’m so thankful for the cooler weather this week and I’m sure you are too. Our summer schedule of activities is winding down, so if you have suggestions for what to do this fall, please let me know.

    Our next activity is Adult VBS and I am leaning toward a study of Elijah, because Elijah’s dependence upon God seems very relevant for today. But you will have to come to find out! Join us August 23-26, (Monday-Thursday) from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. We will have snacks, and hopefully some music, and a great time of fellowship and Bible Study.  We will go out to lunch together on the last day after our study. Hope you can attend and bring some friends.

    In September, we will do a day trip to Casey, Illinois to see all the BIG things. Check out their website, www.bigthingssmalltown.com, if you are wondering what this is. As usual, you will need to sign up. We also have the trip to the Amana Colonies, which is an overnight trip from September 30 through October 1. Our bus driver and guide for the trip might have a conflict on those dates so we might need to change the dates. I will have definite info and pricing in the next Forerunner. Thanks in advance for your patience as details are being worked out.

    Have you started reading through the Pentateuch with us? By the end of next year, we should have read through the ENTIRE Bible together! We would love for you to join a T-group or the Grounded Bible Study group on Sunday morning if you would like to talk about what you are reading! Pick up your reading plan in the Welcome Center or download from our website.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 15

    Don’t forget to sign up for our trip the Churchill Museum in Fulton, scheduled for Monday, August 9.  I have arranged a tour for us at 12:30 p.m. We will eat lunch when we get there at Beks, https://www.beksshop.com which is supposed to be one of the best restaurants in Fulton. You can check out their menu beforehand by going to their website.

    The bus will leave the church at 9:00 a.m. and each person will be charged $5.00 for transportation. Lunch is on your own and the senior price for museum admission is $10. Don’t forget to sign up!

    Our event originally planned for August 25 has been cancelled, so instead we will be having Adult VBS. It will run August 23-26, from 9:00 a.m-11:30 a.m. Mark your calendar, invite some friends, and plan to attend!