Fee Fee Baptist Church

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  • Music Musings – Vol. 61, No. 8

    Summer Concerts Beginning Soon – Summer Concerts have been scheduled, and again as last year, they are not scheduled back to back as in previous years. Here’s a look at each one:

    May 16 – Ken Davidson – Ken is a music missionary and co-founder of Heart Sounds. This organization exists to encourage the development of worship music through training native musicians, especially in countries where Christ followers are restricted or persecuted.

    June 6 – Kingdom Players – Kingdom Players is a drama group from Lee University. They present skits based on the Bible. The skits are humorous and/or dramatic.

    June 27 – Timothy and Hosanna Noble – Timothy Noble is a piano virtuoso who has been a part of our concert series for about 7 years. His new wife, Hosanna, brings her vocal talent and playing violin.

    July 11 – Charles Graham – Charles is a Gospel singer who has visited Fee Fee dating back to his college days. Charles has attracted many friends worldwide. His singing is powerful, as is his testimony.

    August 1 – The Lesters – The Lesters are a mainstay for the annual Fee Fee concerts. The family has shared the Good News of the Gospel through song for over 90 years. The present ensemble is a trio comprising of Brian, Jonathan, and Bailee Lester. This trio represents the third and fourth generations of the Lester family.

    Make plans now to attend these concerts and get the word out to friends and neighbors. As always there is no charge for these concerts, but a love offering will be taken for each concert artist. Reserve your seats online at https://feefeebc.org/summerconcert/.

  • Family Front – Vol. 61, No. 8

    AWANA Club Awards night is May 19 at 6pm. Plan to come and see what our kids have accomplished!

    Church-wide movie night in the courtyard is Friday, May 21. Bring a blanket and/or lawn chairs and your own drinks. We will provide popcorn.

    July 26-30 is VBS Wilderness Escape from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. We will need tribe leaders to lead the children and preschoolers. We will also need Israelite Tent Hosts where kids will learn desert life in the Israelite camp through various crafts and skills like: sandal stitcher, butter churner, weaver, and musician. Celebration, Moses Tent, and Recreation leaders will also be needed. Doesn’t it sound like fun? It will be and you won’t want to miss being a part of it!  Contact Kathy (kathy@feefeebc.org) for the part you want to play to introduce kids to this unique way to see how God guides and provides. Next month we will have available supplies that will be needed for this event, so stay tuned!

    Sports Crusader Basketball Camp is also July 26-30 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. We need your help for this camp to be successful. We will need housing for this college team that includes bed and breakfast. We will also need some gift cards or cash for meals during the week. If you or your Bible Study groups can help with these needs, please contact Kathy (kathy@feefeebc.org) or 314-739-1525. Thank you for your generosity! Please be in prayer for the workers, the children who will attend, and the Sports Crusaders who will lead the basketball camp.

    Registration for VBS and Sports Camp will be available on our website this month. There will be a limit to registration for both events, so register early.

    Fee Fee Baptist Church, you are always so generous with your gifts of supplies and monies when children’s ministry has a need. THANK YOU for providing those gifts. You are a generous people. We are blessed!

  • Community Connection – Vol. 61, No. 8

    Blood Drive, May 14 – Our next Blood Drive with the American Red Cross is on Friday, May 14 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. It’s recommended that all donations be scheduled ahead of time. You can go to the Red Cross website (www.redcrossblood.org) and use the Sponsor Code “FeeFeeBaptistBridgeton” to find our drive and schedule your donation. You can also call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767). The drive will be held in the Family Life Center. Everyone donating can drive around to the back of the church and park in the lot by the gym and enter through the gym doors. On the blood drive page on the church website, you can find some helpful info about donating, including who can donate and how to donate. If you have any questions about this, please contact Andrew (andrew@feefeebc.org).

    Upcoming Mobile Markets – Free groceries are still being given out every other Monday! Could you use some free groceries? Or do you know someone that does? Then have them come through our parking lot on Monday, May 3 from 10:00 a.m. until noon (or until the food runs out). We ask that you have space in your vehicle for the food items and that you not leave your vehicle during the distribution. We are also signed up for Mobile Markets with St. Louis Area Foodbank on May 17 and June 14 (but NOT on Memorial Day, May 31). You can contact Andrew if you have any questions or would be interested in volunteering.

  • Bible Study Corner – Vol. 61, No. 8

    It’s an exciting time at Fee Fee as Bible Studies on Sunday morning begin to return in-person.

    Other classes are in the decision making process and I will let you know as soon as info becomes available.

    Additionally, both Men’s and Women’s groups continue on Wednesday night from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The women will begin a new study on April 21, in person and on Zoom. You are welcome and encouraged to join at any time!

     

  • Announcements – Vol. 61, No. 8

    GOAL EXCEEDED! $14,513

    (OUR GOAL $13,000)

     

     

     

  • Chi Alpha News – Vol. 61, No. 8

    Summer Blast

    Signups for Summer Blast are officially posted and up in The Rafters! Make sure you sign up soon because space is limited for this event. Summer Blast will take place June 4 & 5 and will cost $15/person. Make sure you invite your friends because they will not want to miss out on this amazing weekend! Here is a quick look at the schedule for that weekend:

     

    Friday Night (6:00 p.m. to10:00 p.m.) – Live Concert, yard games, outdoor movie, bonfires, hot dogs, & S’mores.

    Saturday Night (9 AM – 9 PM) – Adrenaline Zone, Aloha Mini Golf & Shaved Ice, video games, dodgeball, AND MORE!!!

    Summer Dates

    Chi Alpha Summers – Every Wednesday – June 2-August 11

    June 4-5 Summer Blast
    June 6 Graduation Sunday
    June 15 Movie Night at FFBC
    June 26-July 2 Minneapolis Mission Trip
    July 9 Church Mini Golf Night
    July 23-25 DNOW
    July 26-30 Serve for VBS
    August 7 Paintball
    August 22 Youth & Family BBQ

  • A Word From Pastor Zach – Vol. 61, No. 7

    What a joy it was for us to celebrate our Resurrected Savior this past weekend! I am so thankful for the hope that we have in Jesus! It is remarkable to think that the same power that conquered the grave lives in each of us! I am praying that our church will continue to proclaim that truth to a world that desperately needs hope.

    Gallup released a study a few months ago that I found very telling concerning our need for hope. As you know, 2020 was an incredibly taxing year for all of us mentally. In fact, this poll by Gallup found that nearly every demographic group saw a decrease in their mental health from 2019 to 2020. It did not matter if you were male or female or married or single. It didn’t matter your race or your socio-economic status. It didn’t matter what political party you were affiliated with. It didn’t matter your age. Every single demographic saw a decrease in mental health except for one category.

    What was that category? Weekly religious service attendance. The only demographic that saw their mental health increase from 2019 to 2020 were those people who attended weekly religious services. Isn’t that remarkable?

    I think it says something profound about the need that we all have for Biblical community. We are not meant to live our lives alone. We truly need each other! We need each other for encouragement and we need each other for our own mental health!

    In the tenth chapter of Hebrews, there are a series of “let us” imperatives that the writer challenges us to do as a church:

    19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus— 20 he has inaugurated for us a new and living way through the curtain (that is, through his flesh)— 21 and since we have a great high priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. 23 Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering, since he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to provoke love and good works, 25 not neglecting to gather together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging each other, and all the more as you see the day approaching.

    Because of what Jesus has done for us, we want to draw near to God with one another. We want to hold on to our confession of hope. And we want to consider how to stir one another to love and good deeds. We do this by not neglecting to gather with one another!

    I know this past year has been crazy. We know this world needs hope. I want to encourage you to continue to gather with us weekly, whether in person or online, as we encourage each other. We are truly better together, church family! And not only are we better together, but according to this Gallup poll, we are healthier mentally as well!

    In Him,

    Pastor Zach

  • Devotional Corner – Vol. 61, No. 7

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

    Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so that he may see,” (2 Kings 6:17).

    This is the prayer we need to pray for ourselves and one another: “Lord, open our eyes so we may see.” We are surrounded, just as the prophet Elisha was, by God’s “horses and chariots of fire” (2 Kings 6:17), waiting to transport us to places of glorious victory.

    Once our eyes are opened by God, we will see all the events of our lives, whether great or small, joyful or sad, as a “chariot” for our souls. Everything that comes to us becomes a chariot the moment we treat it as such. On the other hand, even the smallest trial may become an object crushing everything in its path into misery and despair if we allow it.

    The difference then becomes a choice we make. It all depends not on the events themselves but on how we view them. If we simply lie down, allowing them to roll over and crush us, they become an uncontrollable car of destruction. Yet if we climb into them, as riding in a car of victory, they become the chariots of God to triumphantly take us onward and upward.

    There is not much the Lord can do with a crushed soul. That is why the Adversary attempts to push God’s people toward despair and hopelessness over their condition or the condition of the church. It has often been said that a discouraged army enters a battle with the certainty of defeat. Recently a missionary said she had returned home sick and disheartened because her spirit had lost its courage, which led to the consequence of an unhealthy body.

    We need to better understand these attacks of the Enemy on our spirit and how to resist them. If he can dislodge us from our proper position, he then seeks to “wear out the saints of the Most High” (Dan. 7:25) through a prolonged siege, until we finally, out of sheer weakness, surrender all hope of victory.

  • Announcements – Vol. 61, No. 7

    Congratulations

    Ben and Phyllis Hackney, are the proud grandparents of Murphy Caleb Rogers, born March 23, 2021 to Holly and Nathaniel Rogers.

     

  • Community Connection – Vol. 61, No. 7

    Upcoming Mobile Markets

    Free groceries are still being given out every other Monday! Could you use some free groceries? Or do you know someone that does? Then come through our parking lot on Monday, April 19 from 10:00 a.m. until noon (or until the food runs out). We ask that you have space in your vehicle for the food items and that you not leave your vehicle during the distribution. We are also signed up for Mobile Markets with St. Louis Area Foodbank on May 3 and 17 (but NOT on Memorial Day, May 31). You can contact Andrew if you have any questions or would be interested in volunteering: andrew@feefeebc.org.

    All Church Workday

    Saturday, April 24 will be our annual “All Church Work Day.” Put the date on your calendar so we can beautify our courtyard and flowerbeds. As you have probably noticed, some work has already started outside, but there is plenty more to be done. We will see you at 8:30 a.m. and should wrap up around noon. Bring gardening tools if you have them.