First Baptist Needville
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Deacon Prayer
Rush Pitts
Welcome –Student Pastors Ethan and Sara Hoover
Father’s Day Recognition
I Was Glad
Scripture Reading
1 Peter 3:8-12 (CSBBible)
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
Love One Another
The Bond of Love
Series: Church Function
Fellowship
Pastor Jeff Kluttz
Commitment Song
In the Garden
Announcements
Parting Song
Praise and Honor to the Father
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Sunday9:30 am Bible Study for all ages 10:30 am Fellowship Breakfast 11:00 am Worship VBS Room set up
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Monday - Friday8:30 - 12:00 VBS
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Wednesday6:00 pm FUSION 6:30 pm Zechariah
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Friday12:00 am VBS Carnival
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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 |
So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
Colossians 3:1-2 (CSBBible)
Johnson Oatman, Jr., son of Johnson and Rachel Ann Oatman, was born near Medford, N. J., April 21, 1856. His father was an excellent singer, and it always delighted the son to sit by his side and hear him sing the songs of the church.
Outside of the usual time spent in the public schools, Mr. Oatman received his education at Herbert's Academy, Princetown, N. J., and the New Jersey Collegiate Institute, Bordentown, N. J. At the age of nineteen he joined the M.E. Church, and a few years later he was granted a license to preach the Gospel, and still later he was regularly ordained by Bishop Merrill. However, Mr. Oatman only serves as a local preacher.
For many years he was engaged with his father in the mercantile business at Lumberton, N. J., under the firm name of Johnson Oatman & Son. Since the death of his father, he has for the past fifteen years been in the life insurance business, having charge of the business of one of the great companies in Mt. Holly, N. J., where he resides.
He has written over three thousand hymns, and no gospel song book is considered as being complete unless it contains some of his hymns.
Jacob Henry Hall
Higher Ground
I'm pressing on the upward way,
New heights I'm gaining every day;
Still praying as I onward bound,
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
Lord, lift me up and let me stand,
By faith, on Heaven's table land;
A higher plane than I have found;
Lord, plant my feet on higher ground.
My heart has no desire to stay
Where doubts arise and fears dismay;
Tho' some may dwell where these abound,
My pray'r, my aim is higher ground.
I want to live above the world,
Though Satan's darts at me are hurled;
For faith has caught the joyful sound,
The song of saints on higher ground.
I want to scale the utmost height,
And catch a gleam of glory bright;
But still I'll pray till Heav'n I've found,
Lord, lead me on to higher ground.
Written by Johnson Oatman, Jr.
Johnson Oatman, Jr. opens this hymn with the phrase, “I’m pressing on the upward way.” “Press on” is not a term we use much anymore. Webster defines the term as “to continue moving forward in a forceful or steady way.” I like that. Years ago, my buddies and I decided to climb Pine Mountain in the Guadalupe range out in West Texas. We loaded our packs and set off. Soon we could see the elevation rise in front of us and the series of switchbacks that would bring us to our campsite. There was no more flat ground, only climb, climb, climb. We had to press on. By the end of the day, I no longer looked up, but at my feet, one step at a time.
Our spiritual journey is like that. We run into obstacles and mountains, but we have to press on. Paul told the Colossians “to set our minds on things above.” If we focus on earthly treasures, we will get way laid. If we concentrate on our jobs, we get bogged down. We have to focus on Jesus: that is our goal, our desire. Just like climbing Pine Mountain, it is one step at a time always remembering why we’re climbing.
I heard a sermon one time where the preacher asked a series of questions like are your finances in trouble, is your marriage a wreck, are your kids a burden. After each question, he reminded the congregation to press on. We too need to press on for the cause of Christ in every aspect of our lives.
Just pondering . . . Bro. Rick
June 2025
15 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
Father's Day
VBS Set up
16-20 VBS
18 Summer Wednesday Schedule
20 VBS Carnival
22 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
VBS Pancake Breakfast and Gospel Sunday
23 Women's Bible Study
25 Summer Wednesday Schedule
26-28 Preteen Splash Camp
27 Men's Prayer Breakfast
29 Regular Sunday Morning schedule
Potluck Breakfast
Women's Conference Meeting
30 Women's Bible Study
June 16-20, 8:30 am - Noon
Finished K - 6th Grade
Carnival on Friday 6/20
VBS Sunday 6/22
Blessing Box Ministry
We now have
A NEW BLESSING BOX
(Food/Prayer Pantry)
Thanks David!
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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
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 – March 2025Budget 2025 YTD $51,750 Income – Jan-March $43,004 Expenses – Jan-March $61,056 Net $18,051 |
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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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