Unity Baptist Free Fall Fun

Unity Baptist Free Fall Fun

2475 State Rt 22A North

Jacks Creek, TN  38347

 

Oct. 28^th at 6:30 p.m.

 

Cake Walk

Face Painting

Hair Painting

Lucky Ducks

Fish Pond

Balloon Lady will be here!!

 

We will not judge costumes this year, but you may wear non-scary costumes.

 

Chili and hotdogs start at 6:30 in the Fellowship Hall, games to follow in the Gym.

Fall 2011

 

Unity Baptist Church

Fall is here!  Time for all the fun that comes with fall!

Save these dates!

Sept 30^th Hayride (We leave the church at 6:30 p.m.)

Oct 1^st (Rainout date for the Hayride)

Oct 23^rd Pumpkin Patch Trip (Leaving immediately after church)

Oct 28^th Fall Festival (We will eat first at 6:30)

Nov 11^th (Talent/No Talent Show starting at 7:00)

Dec 18^th (Christmas Program)

 

Come join us for all this fall fun.  We will be going to Jane and Gleeman’s house for the hayride.  We will serve hotdogs and chili as usual.  We are leaving at 6:30 p.m.  On the Pumpkin Patch Trip, we will leave immediately after church.  We will eat lunch at McDonalds and then go to the Pumpkin Patch.  This is off of Law Rd. exit, Woolfork Farms.  You can check them out on the internet.  They have a petting zoo, corn maze, pumpkin patch, concessions and hayride. Our Fall Festival will be more food, games and cake walk in the gym.  Start practicing your talent or no talent for the show in November.  The karaoke machine will be there.   We have many opportunities for fall fellowship.  Transportation can be provided.

REMEMBER TO SHINE WITH THE LIGHT OF JESUS!!!!!!!!!!!

Summer 2011

Hello! What a great summer we have had! We started the summer off with Children’s Camp at Linden Valley and had a great VBS Big Apple Adventure! We are going to wind down the summer with a Back-to- School Swim Party at Kenneth/Gina Twyman’s house. This is for grades K-12. It is August 6th from 3-5 p.m. We will offer transportation. Please RSVP to Lisa Hopper. We will provide snacks. Please wear modest swimwear, (one-piece bathing suits or bring a tee-shirt to cover up).

August 21st-24th is our revival time. We hope you will make plans to attend. Bro. Frank Dorris will be our evangelist and Bob Wadley will lead the music Sunday through Wednesday night. After the revival, we will switch gears and plan for fun fall activities. We will be having a hayride, fall festival, stew sale and hopefully a trip to the pumpkin patch. Continue to pray for our 5 new Christians that were saved before and right after VBS. Pray for our children as they go back to school and remind them that school is their mission field.

June 2011

Summer is here!  I hope all of you are enjoying your summer vacation.  We had a great time at Camp Linden, in May.   I hope all of you that could go, had a good time as well.  The atmosphere was great, and we learned a lot.  I hope we can have even more to go next year.  June is going by fast and July will soon be here.  In July we will be really busy with VBS.  Please mark your calendar for these dates. Please begin to pray for our children who attend VBS, so that many hearts will be changed.  Also, please pray for the teachers, they work very hard!

 

 

July 13^th is VBS Kick-Off.  7:00 p.m. -8:00 p.m.  We will convert our playground into a New York City Park.

We have a real ice-cream truck coming to give special treats!

 

 

July 18^th is VBS.   5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.  Family Night will be on Friday at 6:00 p.m.  We will grill hamburgers and hotdogs.  Side items will be potluck.  Grab a cab and get ready for fun!  Around every corner of the Big Apple Adventure, we will learn how to step out in faith and connect with Jesus.   We will learn how to share the message of Christ with our world.

 

 

 

April 2011

April , 2011

Hello kids!  Spring is definitely here!  We have lots of activities to keep you busy this month.

Save these dates:

April 9^th Prayer Walk   (Sign -up sheet in the sanctuary)

April 16^th 2:00 p.m.    Egg Hunt  (Dr. Huggins will do the Resurrection Eggs) Come help us celebrate that Jesus Lives!

April 16^th Project GPS will be carried out.  (God’s Plan for Salvation) We will be doing a door-to-door Gospel distribution & Easter worship invitations, delivered to every home in our community.  We need lots of help for this: a sign-up sheet is in the sanctuary.

April 20^th This is the last day to sign up for Children’s Camp.  We can’t add names to this list after this date.  (Sign-up sheet in the sanctuary)  We are excited to be going to Camp Linden this year, on May 13-14.  I have information packets if you are interested.  You can also get information from the website www.journeycamps.org.  This is a Christ-centered, Bible-based camp, and I encourage all children to go.

April 20-22 Youth-led Revival .  God has really blessed us with great youth at our church.   In the last month we have had 8 youth saved! God is good! Mrs. Wendy Coady is doing a great job with them.

April 24^th Easter Sunday and our High Attendance Sunday.   Our  Children’s Choir will be doing the special music on this morning.  They will be doing The Old Rugged Cross with handbells.  We practice for this every Sunday night @ 5:30.  There is still time for any kids to practice, who would like to participate.

May 13-14 Children’s Camp @ Camp Linden.   We will leave after school on that Friday. We have many opportunities to serve in the coming weeks!!  I look forward to seeing you at Unity!

Lisa Hopper

March

Hello guys ! It is already March! I think we are stealing some of April’s showers.
We are going to be doing an Easter Special with the hand bells. We will start practice on Sunday night, March 20th at 5:30. We will practice for 30 minutes and have class for 30 minutes. We will continue this until Easter. We will be having a Family Fun Night on March 26th at 5:30 p.m. Please bring finger foods to eat. We also want to have a Karaoke-Talent-No -Talent Show that night. Please sign up! We will also start our RIFA food drive. We will be taking up donations that night.

Typical Needs in the RIFA Soup Kitchen:
Commercial size canned vegetables (6 per meal)
Commercial size canned chili or stew
Home baked desserts
Powdered drink mix
Mashed Potato Flakes
Sugar
Plastic Forks
Paper towels
Napkins
Hot dogs, ground beef, deer meat, shredded pork or beef, breaded cutlets

RIFA also does a Snack Backpack Program to provide children with kid-friendly food to take home on Fridays. Schools have provided identification of children who have little food on the weekends.

Typical Needs for the Snack Backpack Program:
Microwave Popcorn
Raisins, Peanuts
Canned peaches or pears
Easy Mac or canned pasta meals
100% fruit juice (individual pkg)
Peanut butter and crackers
Breakfast bars

We are also beginning to pray for our VBS this year! We will be studying the Big Apple. It is going to be the week of July 18th. We are also signing up volunteers. We would love to have more parent involvement this year. Remember, if you need a ride to church, call 731-608-7500. See you there!

January 2011

January, 2011

Hello guys and gals! Did you all have a good Christmas break? I was so proud of the ones who participated in our Christmas Program. You all did a great job! I have heard so many good compliments on the performance. We would like to use the bells again for Easter, and are in the process of ordering music for that. January 17th is Martin Luther King day, and we would like to go back to Savannah to bowl and eat pizza again. (Sign up sheet on the table) We would need to leave the church absolutely no later than 10:00 a.m. January 30th, after church we are going to have a lunch, and sing at Briarwood Nursing Home at Lexington. The residents there love to see guests, and I think it is a wonderful mission opportunity. February 6th is Souper Bowl Sunday; more information on this will come later. Feb 19th we will have Children’s Missions Day in the activity building. We will learn more about missionaries and make cards for shut-ins and soldiers. There is a possibility we may make some fleece blankets for the shut-ins also. I hear we may get snow in the next few days, so enjoy it! See you at church!

Lisa Hopper

Pastor’s Notes: Alligator Gar

Alligator gars are ambush hunters and may lie very still at the top of the water waiting for smaller prey to come within range of their deadly jaws.  They feed mainly on other fish but have been known to prey on birds, small mammals, turtles, and carrion. Alligator gars have been reported to attack duck decoys and eat injured waterfowl shot by hunters.  This gar, in particular, is capable of delivering a serious bite to fisherman or swimmers but there are no documented cases of attacks on humans.  All of God’s gars grow slowly and live, relatively speaking, long lives.  Females of the species reach sexual maturity around age 11 and may live to be 50 years of age; males mature around age 6 and may live over 25 years. They easily reach 6 ½ ft and weigh over 100 lbs.  Females are generally larger than males and have been reported at over 300 lbs. and 10 or more feet in length. The largest recorded alligator gar was taken from the St. Francis River in Arkansas (near Cathy’s old stomping grounds) during the 1930′s  and weighed 350 lbs.  Their eggs are poisonous, causing illness if consumed by humans. They have a highly vascularized (a good blood supply) swim bladder connected to the throat by a pneumatic duct.  By gulping air, gars are able to survive in water with very low oxygen levels, i.e. sloughs.  These characteristics provide the perfect design for living within slow moving rivers, reservoirs, oxbow lakes, bayous and bays.  However, due to dredging, dams, dikes, and levees  the large overflow floodplains that once existed have all but vanished in North America.  Consequently, populations of this magnificent fish have in recent times been on the decline over virtually all of its range.  For a number of years the Tennessee Wildlife resources Agency has been stocking alligator gar within the Hatchie and the Forked Deer river system in an effort to restore the balance that God intended these giant creatures to provide to the ecology of our river systems.  I applaud these efforts as I am certain that we are called to be stewards of God’s creation.  Genesis 7:3 makes plain God’s concern that the different kinds of animals would be preserved and Genesis 8:1 indicates that God had not forgotten Noah or the animals.  Just as Noah and his family were God’s chosen servants for the preservation of animal life during the time of the flood. I would argue that we too are to preserve and protect what remains of His creation in our day…even the alligator gar.

November 2010

NOVEMBER, 2010

Hello everybody!  What a wonderful time we had at the Fall Festival! Special thanks to all the hard workers!! I loved the fellowship that we had.  It is a nice time to look around at the beautiful fall colors that God has given us.  This month will be busy for most people.  We have Thanksgiving almost upon us.  I hope we will all remember to thank God for our many blessings.  I will be remembering my church family when I say my prayers!

We have received our new hand bells.  We will be playing two songs at Christmas.  I hope everyone will participate.  We will start practicing on Sunday nights (5:30) during the month of November.  I will be available to run the van, if needed.  Please call my cell phone before 5:00 p.m., so I can make arrangements to pick you up.

Weather permitting we may take a trip on November 20^th to Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo, TN.  You can check them out on the website www.tennesseesafaripark.com .

Hope to see you soon at church!!

Pastor’s Notes: Common Murre

The Common Murre or Common Guillemot (Uria aalge) is a type of bird known as an auk.  God gave them a circumpolar (around the poles of the earth) distribution and a sea-faring existence, occurring along the Arctic waters of the North-Atlantic and the North Pacific. Their flight through the atmosphere is quite fast but they lack the maneuverability they enjoy while “flying” under water.  They hunt at sea, really only coming to shore to establish colonial nesting sites on rocky ledges along the water’s edge. They have only one mate (monogamous) and mate for life.  The pair produces a single egg and, as they nest in densely-packed colonies (called loomeries), the eggs would most certainly be rolled over the edge was it not for the egg’s God-given design.  It tapers to a point on one end and any movement of the

egg simply results in its pivoting around that single point. Matt 10:29-33 says “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.”   It is comforting for me to know that God watches over and provides for all His creatures and that we are His most prized of all!

Dr. James Huggins

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