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Emory Baptist Church eNewsletter
Pastor's Pen
Bro. Richard Piles, Pastor
April is here! Please find your place of ministry and service!
First, Sunday, April 6, is Friend Day in Sunday School and our Morning Worship Service. I encourage you to be intentional by inviting a friend to join you at EBC on this day.
Second, Saturday, April 12, is our Block Party. It will be from 4-6 PM, and will include free food, games, inflatables, and an Easter Egg Hunt.
What do we need from you? Invite your family and friends and neighbors and coworkers, and be there to meet and get to know our guests.
Third, Sunday, April 13, is Palm Sunday, and our Celebration Choir will share their Easter Music. We will also take the Lord’s Supper on this Sunday.
Fourth, on Friday, April 18, we will have our Good Friday Worship Service at 5:30 PM. We will sing about and meditate on the cross and what Jesus’ death means for us.
Fifth, on Saturday, April 19, at 10 AM, we will have a Neighborhood Blitz where we will put door hanger invitations on the homes immediately around the church and in your neighborhood. These invitations are for Easter Sunday.
Finally, on Easter Sunday, April 20, I hope you will join me for our 9:15 AM Sunday School and our 10:30 AM Easter Worship Service. Help us meet our goal of having 500 family members, friends, coworkers, and neighbors hear the gospel!
Choir Corner with Chris
Bro. Chris Henderson, Minister of Music and Senior Adults
Happy Spring, EBC! The weather is warming up, the fish are biting, and the wind has finally calmed down.
Ministry at EBC will be busy in the month of April, especially EBC’s Music Ministry. The Celebration Choir is gearing up and getting very close to sharing our Easter Music Presentation “Then He Rose” on Palm Sunday, April 13th, at 10:30 AM. The Choir has been working very hard over the last several weeks and I’m excited to share this declaration of Christ’s victory over death and the grave with you.
Choir, remember that we have 2 rehearsals left when this Newsletter releases. We will meet at 5:00 PM on Sunday, April 6th and have our final rehearsal on Saturday, April 12th from 1-3 PM. Thank you for all of your hard work thus far.
On April 12th from 4-6 PM, we will be having our annual Easter Block Party. See Bro. Ronnie’s column for more information on how to be involved in reaching our community through this ministry opportunity.
On April 18th, we will have a Good Friday service to recognize Christ’s sacrifice on the cross for us, and while we will leave there feeling the burden of our sins that our Lord bore for us, we will meet again on Sunday, April 20th to celebrate the Resurrection and God’s eternal plan of salvation coming to full fruition. I hope you will plan on joining us with your families for Easter.
Student Ministry Spot
Ronnie Witt, Minister of Youth & Education
The past few weeks, Rains ISD has resumed five-day-a-week classes. Additionally, all the spring sports are in full swing: track, baseball, softball, golf, and tennis! So, it’s a pretty busy time of year. But, we are also pretty busy gearing up for the end of school and the beginning of summer.
I hope that you will help with the Neighborhood Block Party on April 12th. We will have inflatables for the kids to play, but we want you to invite your neighbors, bring friends, AND for you to have some fun. We need cooks and helpers to prepare food. And we need help setting up, monitoring, and packing up the inflatables. But, we really want most of you to play games and intentionally meet and visit with people who come to the event. Block Party is designed for other people to interact with our people and to have fun together. So, please make it a priority to come and participate in this outreach event. Bring your favorite yard game or even card game and join the fun.
We have sign up sheets on the board in the foyer hallway where you can sign up to serve on one of the service teams. We plan to host the event on the northeast corner lawn beside the children’s building. Block Party is the Saturday before Palm Sunday, so you can invite friends and family to join us for the special worship services that following week.
Thank you to all those who have signed up to help with VBS already. If you have not signed up, we still need YOU! You can go to vbs.emorybaptist.org to find out about the theme for 2025, Magnified, and to sign up to work in the “VBS Worker Interest Form.” If you’re a crafty person, keep your eyes open for upcoming decoration days where we can help put together some great decorations to use in our VBS!
Cecily Kirby, Director of Preschool Ministries
Sonbeam Day School
Bible Story of the Month:
Noah’s Ark
Memory Verse of the Month:
I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. Genesis 9:13
Important Dates:
April 3rd: Four year old’s tour the elementary
school
April 12th: EBC’s Easter Block Party
April 17th: Sonbeam Easter Egg Hunt
April 22nd: Graduation pictures for our 4 year
old classes
April 27th: Sonbeam Sunday
OPEN ENROLLMENT
HAPPENING NOW!
Please continue to pray for our ministry, staff, students, and their families.
Nursery Rhymes
(4) NURSERY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED ON EASTER SUNDAY!
A Real Easter Bunny…
Has big ears that are quick to listen
(James 1:19)
Has no voice for complaining or arguing (Phil 2:13)
Has quick feet to go tell others about Jesus (Matthew 28:18-20)
Has big eyes to look carefully and choose what is good (1Thessalonians 5:21)
Is gentle, kind-hearted, and forgiving (Ephesians 4:32)
Reveals hidden things to little children (Matthew 11:25)