Fee Fee Baptist Church

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  • 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!

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 14

    Calendar Change

    Hope you celebrated the great freedoms we have in America and in Christ over the 4th of July. Thanks to all of you who served and who helped secure these freedoms.

    Our next event is a trip to the Churchill Museum. As I was checking their website for costs, I discovered that it was not open yet. When the pandemic shut them down, they took the opportunity to remodel and do some updates.  The grand reopening is the weekend of July 31.

    Consequently, we will switch our trip to the St. Louis Science Center to July 26 and go to the Churchill Museum on August 9. Hopefully this doesn’t mess your schedule up too much. Thank you so much for your flexibility as we get back out and enjoy fellowship together.

    Science Center Details

    On Monday, July 26 we will leave the church at 10:00 a.m. Tickets for the Mummies of the World exhibit are $16.95. The OmniMax theater price is $8.95 to see Into America’s Wild. We will go to Pappy’s for lunch – yum!

    My apologies to those of you who will be serving in Vacation Bible School and will not be able to attend. Thanks for serving our kids! Don’t worry – there will be more Prime Time activities to come!

    Free Market & Backpack Giveaway

    I would encourage you to support our annual Free Market on Saturday, August 7. Bring new or gently used clothes, furniture, appliances, or anything else to be given away to our community from in our parking lot on this Saturday morning.

    We are also collecting backpacks and school supplies to be given out that day to kids in our community. You can drop off your donations at church in the Donation Center, catty-corner from the Connection Center. You can also just donate money for this cause to Kim in our financial office.

    This effort is a great way to “pursue the good of our community.” I hope many of you will sign up to be a part of the Free Market and be a blessing to our neighbors!

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 13

    We have some great events planned for the next quarter.  Put this list on your fridge, sign up, and don’t forget to show up if you sign up.

    Saturday, July 10 – 6:00-9:00 p.m. Summer Social — Watermelon, homemade ice cream, and table games.
    Monday, July 26 – 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Churchill Museum in Fulton with lunch at Bek’s.
    Monday, August 9 – 10:00 a.m. Mummy exhibit at the Science Center and lunch at Pappy’s.
    Wednesday, August 25 – 10:00 a.m. Guest Speaker from the Department of Aging and lunch with sandwiches and salad.
    Thursday, September 9 – 9:00 a.m. Day trip to Casey Illinois to see “Big Things” and lunch at Whitley’s Whimsies.
    Thursday/Friday, September 30 – October 1 Overnight trip to the Amana Colonies. Price to be determined!

    Hope you can join us for these great activities! Sign-up sheets will be in the Connection Center. If you sign up but cannot attend, please let me know. If this is an in-house event, it effects the amount of food we buy. If it requires the use of a bus, it effects the number of busses and bus drivers. I would really appreciate accurate information so I can plan accordingly.

    It is so encouraging to see more and more of you showing up each week. We were meant for connection with each other and study of Scripture.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 12

    Our next event is at the church on Tuesday, June 22 at 11:30 a.m. We will have sandwiches and dessert in the Dining Room followed by the movie, Ruby Bridges. This movie is the “true story of one little girl whose strength and dignity during the racially charged 1960s helped changed history.” The cost for lunch is $6.00.

    The senior council met a few weeks ago and planned activities for July, August, and September. I still need to verify all the dates, but I can promise you a Saturday evening of games, watermelon, and homemade ice cream; a trip to the Churchill Museum in Fulton; guest speakers; a trip to Casey, Illinois; and the Amana Colonies. Details will be in the next Forerunner.  For now, put these two July events on your calendar:

    • Saturday, July 10 at 6:00 p.m. we will enjoy homemade ice cream, watermelon, and games! Bring your favorite game and we will provide the food! Cost is $5.00.
    • Monday, July 26 at 9:00 a.m. we will leave for a day at the Churchill Museum in Fulton. Cost for the Museum is $9.00, $3.00 for bus ride, and buy your own lunch.

    Are you having a great start to the summer? Hope you are getting back into the habit of coming to church and Bible Study each week. It is so good to be connected in corporate worship and studying together. In keeping with our mission of building our lives on Jesus and pursuing the good of your community, I hope your class is finding ways to minister in our church and community.

  • Prime Time – Vol. 61, No. 11

    I hope you will join us on Friday, June 11 for our trip to the Missouri National Veterans Museum and Memorial. The bus will leave at 10:00 a.m. First, we will eat at Stonie’s Sausage Shop and then head over to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the museum. We should be back at church about 4:30 or 5:00 p.m.

    The next event in June is lunch and the movie, Ruby Bridges. This is the story of one family’s bravery in the face of desegregation in the south in 1960. Ruby was 6 years old when she entered an all-white school accompanied by her mother and armed Federal Marshals. Our lunch will include sandwiches and dessert. The cost is $6 for lunch. The movie is free!!

    The council has some great events planned for the next quarter! We will go to the Arch; Casey, Illinois; the Churchill Museum; and do an overnight trip to the Amana Colonies. Details and dates will be in the next issue of the Forerunner.

    Hope you all are challenging yourself to build your life on Jesus by reading through the book of Isaiah with us. There is a lot of God’s judgement, but it always promises the hope of the coming Messiah.