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LABC
1610 W. Lane Ave.
Columbus, OH 43221-3925
OUR STEWARDSHIP
August 30, 2010
“I will be loyal to Lane Avenue Baptist Church and uphold it with my Prayers, my Presence, my Gifts, and my Service.”
By Our Presence
Sunday School Enrollment 235
Sunday School Attendance 117
Morning Worship (8:30-36/10:45-71) 107
By Our Gifts
Weekly Budget 9,200
Weekly Offering 7,008
Offering YTD 246,165
Budget Goal YTD 324,312
By Your Service
DEACON OF THE WEEK
August 29
Jeff Ortman
September 5
Ted Sawyer
September 12
Doug Owens
September 19
Peter Wassenaar
September 26
John Wilkerson
October 3
Ray Cross
EXTENDED CARE/NURSERY SESSION WORKERS
September 5
8:30 a.m. Alison Carpenter
10:45 a.m. Melanie Eggleton and Melissa Ford
September 12
8:30 a.m. Debbie Williams
10:45 a.m. Megan Bibbey
September 19
8:30 a.m. Rhonda Fullerton
10:45 a.m. Carolyn and Tanner Flowers
September 26
8:30 a.m. Jim and Aimee Jeffers
10:45 a.m. Kathy and Ginny Nicholson
October 3
8:30 a.m. Sonny and Debbie Oliphant
10:45 a.m. Sally and Kira Reed
Teller Schedule
Nancy Cheek/Wade Thorson September 5
Sue Crego/Carolyn Flowers September 12
Walter Herbst/Dick Omohundro September 19
Walter Herbst/Dick Omohundro September 26
Debbie DeWilde/Linda Omohundro October 3
LEADER DEADLINE—The next mailed Leader will be typed on September 13. All articles for that issue should be submitted by Friday, September 10.
Wednesday, September 1
6:00 p.m. Building Use/Properties Committee Mtg.
6:30 p.m. Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, September 5
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service
Monday, September 6
The Church Office will be closed for the Labor Day holiday.
Wednesday, September 8
NO Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Saturday, September 11
9:00 a.m. Church Planning Meeting @ Nicholsons’
Sunday, September 12
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
9:30 a.m. Breakfast Preschool/K-6 SS Classes
10:45 a.m. Worship Service (1st Grade Recognition/Teacher Commissioning)
2:00 p.m. Meet at Traditions
3:00 p.m. Finance Committee Meeting
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training (resume)
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (Michael) (resume)
Tuesday, September 14
9:15 a.m. Women’s Bible Study – Library
Wednesday, September 15
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me (resume)
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs (resume)
6:30 p.m. Business Meeting/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, September 19
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service
2:00 p.m. YA Service @ Sunrise Assisted Living
4:00 p.m. Deacons’ Meeting
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (Reed)
Monday, September 20
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Cook for Stowe
Tuesday, September 21
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Cook/Serve for Stowe
Wednesday, September 22
7:00 a.m. “See You at the Pole”
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs
6:30 p.m. Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, September 26
8:30 a.m. Worship Service (Lord’s Supper)
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service (Lord’s Supper)
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (Flowers)
Tuesday, September 28
9:15 a.m. Women’s Bible Study – Library
Wednesday, September 29
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs
6:30 p.m. Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, October 3
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service
2:00 p.m. Meet at Traditions
4:30 p.m. Church Council Meeting
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (Anderson)
Wednesday, October 6
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs
6:30 p.m. Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, October 10
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (Peck)
Tuesday, October 12
9:15 a.m. Women’s Bible Study – Library
Wednesday, October 13
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs
6:30 p.m. Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, October 17
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service
2:00 p.m. YA Service @ Sunrise Assisted Living
3:00 p.m. Finance Committee
4:00 p.m. Deacons’ Meeting
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (TBA)
Monday, October 18
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Cook for Stowe
Tuesday, October 19
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Cook/Serve for Stowe
Wednesday, October 20
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs
6:30 p.m. Business Meeting/Prayer Meeting
Sunday, October 24
8:30 a.m. Worship Service
9:30 a.m. Sunday School
10:45 a.m. Worship Service
6:00 p.m. Adult Discipleship
6:00 p.m. Youth Discipleship Training
7:15 p.m. Youth Snack Supper (Flowers)
Wednesday, October 27
6:30 p.m. Jesus and Me
6:30 p.m. GAs and RAs
6:30 p.m. Bible Study/Prayer Meeting
Pastor’s Column
We are at the threshold of a new church year. We are about to gear up for new opportunities for learning and service. The nominating team has been diligently at work and has all the teaching posts filled. Thank God for willing workers! September 6 marks the celebration of Labor Day.
Indulge me as I use this column for a prayer.
Heavenly Father, beyond space and time, yet deep within our hearts, we approach you in awe and love. We offer our prayers to you because you have given us minds to think and tongues to speak. We are all-too-aware of the mystery of life. Yet, you invite us to learn. We cannot imagine that our world is a mystery without meaning, a process without a point, a universe unable to be understood. Stretch our minds as we live and pray, O God, to know you and your world more fully.
We offer our prayers to you because you have given us hands to labor. We are grateful for the men and women before us who have given us by their labors a strong and vibrant country. The passion to make has driven the industrial and the technological revolutions that have made our country free and strong. Strengthen our hands, so that we may follow the example of our Lord, who said, “My Father is still working, and I also am working.”
We offer our prayers to you because we have suffered. We have been beset with sickness, troubled with confusion, and experienced bereavement. Help us to learn that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint. Our hope is in you, the God of all mercy, the God of all comfort.
We offer our prayers to you because we have sinned. We have failed you and others by foolish passions and vain ambition. Seeking our own way, we have found ourselves in a wilderness. May your Holy Spirit convict us of our need for you and turn our hearts back to you. Give us hearts that love you and one another.
So, take our minds and think through them, take our hands and work through them, take our tongues and speak through them, and take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen.
I look forward to seeing you Sunday.
Pastor Wayne
YOUTH AND EDUCATION NEWS
ADULT DISCIPLESHIP TRAINING
CRAZY LOVE: Have you ever wondered if we’re missing it?
It’s crazy if you think about it. The God of the universe — the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and e-minor — loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We go to church, sing songs, and try not to cuss.
Whether you’ve verbalized it yet or not . . . we all know something’s wrong.
Does something deep inside your heart long to break free from the status quo? Are you hungry for an authentic faith that addresses the problems of our world with tangible, even radical, solutions? God is calling you to a passionate love relationship with Himself. Because the answer to religious complacency isn’t working harder at a list of do’s and don’ts — it’s falling in love with God. And once you encounter His love, as Francis Chan describes it, you will never be the same.
Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
Join us on Sunday evenings, starting on September 12th at 6:00 p.m. for the "Crazy Love" book study. Discover more about the book at www.crazylovebook.com. Brian Harper will facilitate this challenging ten-week study in the church library. Books are available for $9.00. Contact the church office or see Brian on Sunday to reserve your copy.
YOUTH DISCIPLESHIP: Parents’ Help Needed
Youth Discipleship begins on Sunday evenings starting September 12th; at 6:00 p.m. Parents are asked to provide Snack Suppers that will be served following the Discipleship Study. Please contact the church office or me to be added to the Snack Supper calendar, or sign up in the church foyer.
In His Service,
Tracy
LABC Craft Show
Saturday, November 6th, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Booth registration now being accepted. (Forms are available on table in front of Church Office.)
All proceeds go to the 2011 Youth Mission Trip.
Contact Cindy Peck with questions.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My name is Rachel Szczepinski and I am the newly appointed College Director at Lane Avenue Baptist! I am excited to be serving with a church that is passionate about God and has a vision to reach out to college students! I graduated from Ohio State in 2006 with B.A. in Comparative Cultural Studies, and felt called by God to college ministry. For the past 4 years I have been serving with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Ohio State.
College is a crucial time for young men and women. They face challenging choices in an environment that assumes God is irrelevant. My desire is to see students and faculty transformed by Jesus, campuses renewed by the gospel and work changers developed.
This year I will have a dual role, continuing to serve with InterVarsity and Lane Avenue. Some goals I have for this year:
- Increase the size of the current College group
- See students transformed by God’s Word and engaging in outreach to their campuses
- Lead students in integrating their faith into their studies and career decisions
- Foster creative partnerships between Lane Avenue and InterVarsity
Thank you for your support of college ministry! If you would like to know more about the ministry or are interested in volunteering in any way, please e-mail (rachel@lanechurch.com), Rachel Szczepinski
Current College/Career Group Events:
– Summer Small Group, Tuesdays @ 7:30 p.m., Ohio State Campus – RPAC Courtside Café
Join with InterVarsity students for a time of fun, fellowship, and Bible study!
Daily Prayer Meeting
Monday through Friday 6 -6:30 p.m., Ohio State Campus- Ohio Union main lobby
Each weekday students meet to intercede for campus and our not-yet-Christian friends!
PROMOTION SUNDAY
Preschool and grade school children will be promoted to their new classes on Sunday, September 12th. Breakfast will be provided for the preschooler and K-6th grade Sunday School classes. We will recognize first graders and also commission our teachers in the morning Worship Services on this day.
CHURCH WEB SITE
The youth group and church calendars, as well as live and recorded video of the church services are available at www.lanechurch.com.
MONTHLY BUSINESS MEETING
Our next Business Meeting will be on Wednesday, September 15th, at 6:30 p.m.
FYI
There is a website for the Reverend (Dr.) Johannes Christian, who recently spoke here at Lane Avenue. The website FaceofForgiveness.com, allows you to sign up for his mission e-newsletter. A confirmation e-mail will be sent to you and requires you to click on the link in the e-mail to begin the newsletter. You can also get a discount on 1-800-Flowers, with the password forgiveness.
-Michelle Morris
The Church Office will be closed on Monday, September 6th, in observation of Labor Day. Evening activities scheduled Wednesday, September 8th, have been cancelled.
WOMEN’S MORNING BIBLE STUDY
An invitation is extended to all LABC women to join us, as we begin our fall Bible Study on Tuesday, September 14th, at 9:15 a.m., in the library, with an informal introduction time. Our next Bible study will be “The Truth Project” produced by Focus on the Family. A synopsis: In a recent study, the Barna Research Group revealed a stunning statistic that continues to reverberate throughout the evangelical world. Only 9 percent of professing Christians have a biblical worldview. Because of this, today’s believers live very similarly to non-believers. A personal sense of significance is rarely experienced, we spend our money and time on things that fail to satisfy and we begin to wonder what life’s ultimate purpose really is. We are, in short, losing our bearings as a people and a nation. To counter this slide within the body of Christ, we are launching one of the most ambitious and powerful projects in the history of our ministry—Focus on the Family’s The Truth Project. The Truth Project is taught by Dr. Del Tackett. This study is the starting point for looking at life from a biblical perspective. Each lesson discusses in great detail the relevance and importance of living the Christian worldview in daily life. God continues to call ordinary people to make an eternal difference in our world. Bagels and coffee will be served. We will meet the second and fourth Tuesday of the month, at 9:15 a.m., in the LABC library. You may contact Christie Michael with any questions.
Exciting Children’s Activities Every Sunday and Wednesday beginning this Fall:
Beginning Sunday, September 12th:
· 8:30 & 10:45 Services – Preschool Children’s Church will resume.
Every Wednesday from 6:30 – 7:45 p.m. beginning September 15th:
- Jesus & Me – Preschoolers will learn more about Jesus through music, crafts, stories, and games.
- RAs & GAs – K-6th graders will learn about missions in RAs for boys and GAs for girls.
Beginning Sunday, September 12th:
· During 10:45 Service – School-age children will have the opportunity to worship during their own service. Preschoolers will still attend Children’s Church while K-6th graders will go upstairs to worship together.
Many volunteers are still needed.
FURNISHINGS FOR MISSIONARY KID (MK)
The son of an SBC International Mission Board (IMB) missionary couple will be arriving at OSU around September 9th, to begin work as a graduate student. Some suggested basic items follow, if you are able to help him furnish his apartment.
Small round kitchen table with chairs
Sofa and chair
TV stand
Desk and chair
Dresser
Bed
Table lamps or floor lamps
Linens
Dishes
Pots, pans, kitchen utensils, etc.
Please e-mail Faye Owens at (fowens@rrcol.com). Please advise Faye if you have other items you think may be useful. Thank you.
