First Baptist Needville
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Deacon Prayer
Ralph Derickson
Welcome –Student Pastors Ethan and Sara Hoover
I Will Call Upon the Lord
Scripture Reading
Romans 10:14-17 (CSBBible)
Blessed Be the Name
Great Things
Let Your Kingdom Come
Series: The Gifts of the Spirit
The Speaking Gifts
Pastor Jeff Kluttz
Commitment Song
Just As I Am
Announcements
Parting Song
The Family Prayer Song
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Sunday9:30 am Bible Study for all ages 10:30 am Fellowship Breakfast 11:00 am Worship 6:00pm Deacon Testing/Business Meeting
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Monday1-3 pm Women's Bible Study
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Tuesday8:30 am First Academy
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Wednesday5:00 pm Supper (by reservation) 6:00 pm CLUB 3:16 and FUSION 6:30 pm Zechariah
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Thursday8:30 am First Academy
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Friday 6:30 pm Ladies' Game Night
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Breakfast at 10:30 on Sundays
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Pastor Jeff Kluttz |
We wish you the warmest welcome to First Baptist Church and are glad you have chosen to worship with us today. Our continual prayer is that our services will glorify God through his worship and the preaching of his word.
As our guest, we ask you to consider filling out a Connect Card. We’d love to know you were with us today and share a gift with you if possible. Likewise, please browse the FBCN Web App using the menus above. Through this app you can learn about our ministries, interact with us and even catch up on sermons from earlier in our schedule that you may have missed. We stream our services each week and archive them after a few months. It’s likely that you joined us in the middle of a series, but all earlier contents are available if you wish to catch up on our current study. Our app is also a permanent point of contact through the same Connect Card. If you make a decision, have a prayer request, or otherwise would like to interact with us, please feel free to submit a card with your request.
FBC Needville is oriented toward the historic understanding of the five-function church mission. Discipleship, Evangelism, Fellowship, Ministry, and Worship are the heart and soul of our practice as we orient ourselves toward these essential functions regularly. We have teams of faithful and dedicated workers serving in each of these ministry focuses year around. We also hope that you will find us a welcoming and friendly church. We’re truly glad you are with us and will do whatever we can to make our ministry to you worth your time and involvement.
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Rick Branan |
For you are my hope, Lord God,
my confidence from my youth.
I have leaned on you from birth;
you took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is always about you.
I am like a miraculous sign to many,
and you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is full of praise
and honor to you all day long.
Psalm 71:5-8 (CSBBible)
Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including "Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873.
Mary Louise VanDyke
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
what a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning,
safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Written by E.A. Hoffman
Y’all know I love the “Andy Griffith Show.” I especially enjoy the episodes with the Darlings and Ernest T. Bass. In one show, Ernest T. was trying to interrupt the marriage of his beloved. At the start of the ceremony, Andy and the Darlings sang “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.” That scene always comes to mind when I sing this song.
E.A. Hoffman had a much different mindset when he wrote this hymn. His focus was on the arms of God. The psalmist had hope and confidence when he leaned on God. In fact, we can find refuge in God’s arms. A refuge is a safe place. The world often crashes in on us. Finances, family, and jobs are all sources of stress for most of us. Yet, dealing with those stresses we have, as Hoffman wrote, “blessed peace with my Lord so near.”
Jesus reminds us in Matthew, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest . . . for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Lean on Him!
Just pondering . . . Bro. Rick
April 2025
27 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
Deacon Testing/Quarterly Business Meeting (6:00 pm)
28 Women's Bible Study (1-3pm)
30 Regular Wednesday schedule
May 2025
2 Ladies' Game Night
4 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
5 Women's Bible Study (1-3pm)
7 Regular Wednesday schedule
11 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
Mother's Day - Deacon's Cooking
12 Women's Bible Study (1-3pm)
14 Last Spring Wednesday
17 Spring Work Day
18 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
19 Women's Bible Study (1-3pm)
21 Summer Wednesday Schedule
25 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
26 Memorial Day
28 Summer Wednesday Schedule
30 Men's Prayer Breakfast
Deacon Events
The church has nominated two new deacons for testing:
David Graham and Isaiah Torres
The church body will test them to be deacons on
April 27 at 6:00 pm
We will celebrate a Deacon Ordination on
May 4 at 11:00 am
We will have a
"Get to Know Our Deacons Lunch"
following the service
Please sign up to bring Salads, Soups, and/or Sandwiches
Wednesday Menu Board
April 30
Salad
Baked Ziti
Ice Cream
May 7
Salad
Quality Leftovers
Ice Cream
Blessing Box Ministry
We now have
A NEW BLESSING BOX
(Food/Prayer Pantry)
Thanks David!
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Have Food
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Need Food
Take Food
Please feel free to donate
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For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in. “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Matthew 25:35 and 40
-Woman’s Ministry Team
Today’s Topic: The Speaking Gifts
Bold: Series Title Red: Special Emphasis
Highlight: Lord’s Supper
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Series: The Gifts of the Spirit
April 27 - The Speaking Gifts
May 4 - Deacon Sunday
May 11 - The Call to Use Our Gifts (Mother's Day)
Anyone can activate our Prayer Chain: For your needs and the needs of others, simply call anyone on this list to activate the prayer chain.
PRAYER CHAIN Updated 4/10/2022
FULL NAME PHONE NUMBER
Bev Altimore 832-465-3101
Randy & Gale LaCoe 979-793-5967
Mary Martinez 832-757-2226
Leanne Bourgeois 832-595-7344
Judith Moeckel 281-615-4891
Dolores Woody 972-242-1951
Steffany Kluttz 281-928-7496
Connie Cahajla 281-813-8807
Marilyn Foraker 979-292-6475
Jeff Kluttz 713-516-5994
Rick Branan 281-239-5391
Mildred Moeckel 713-240-0232
First Baptist Church NeedvilleJanuary – December 2024Budget 2024 YTD $240,538 Income – Jan-Sep $285,541 Expenses – Jan-Sept $233, 785 Net $ 51,756 |
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The 2024 Fourth Quarter Giving included several end of year gifts helping the church close out 2024 in the black. Praise the Lord! Please continue to generously support the ministries of our church.
The Stewardship Team reinvested the CD using monies from our special funds. The interest earned for 2024 was $4,979.
Praying for our church has started showing real tangible benefits – God is putting it on people’s hearts to step up to meet the demand of His church in unprecedented ways. Multiple members are giving specifically to funds that are meaningful to them. In addition to traditional funds supported - like STCH, Youth, and Ukraine Relief - new funds receiving support include Meals, Bereavement, Lights, Local Projects, Piano Fund, Breakfast, and Outreach. At least two new ministries of the church have been newly enacted – the Blessing Box and the Women's Ministry – both which reach out to our community. We encourage all Members to find a ministry or need of the church and participate in fulling that mission, either thru volunteering or thru financial support.
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