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By the grace of God, the Philippi Baptist Church shall embrace,model, and share the love of God through Jesus Christ by the

power of the Holy Spirit.

Philippi Baptist Church, Philippi, WV 26416 April 2011

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107 Church Street Philippi, WV 26416 (304) 457-3206 [email protected] Villers, Pastor

Lisa Dadisman, Secretary

The Baptist BridgeThe Baptist Bridge

Inside this issue

From the Pastor2

ABWM3

Board of Christian

Ed...3

Board of Missions

& Outreach...3

America for Christ

offering...4

All Jazzed Up About

Art4

Announcements...5

Getting to know...6

Prayer list7

Birthdays7

Anniversaries...7


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Christ is Risen! He is Risen Indeed!

In just a few weeks we get to make this proclamation that has withstood the centuries of time! The season of

remembering the suffering Jesus endured on our behalf is drawing to a close. I will be bringing the message for

the Community Lenten Service at noon on April 13th at the Philippi United Methodist Church. I would love tosee you come and share in that service with our other communities of faith here in Barbour County. On April17th we get to experience again the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday! We all proclaim

together, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!" (Matthew

21:9b) Then we enter into Holy Week, a time for following the Passion of Christ during his final days as a manhere on earth. I want to invite you all to join us for this very special time of the year! It is a great time to invite

your friends and family to come and experience this journey of faith.

At 6pm on Palm Sunday we will gather at Philippi Baptist Church with our sister congregations of the UnionAssociation. It will be a time of communion and prayer with our brothers and sisters in Christ from across our

tri-county region. At 7:30pm that same evening, there will then be a Concerto Concert with orchestra at A-B

with none other than our own Lindsey Bracey as one of the main features. I then want to highlight three otherHoly Week services that will be a worthwhile experience for you to participate: April 21st at 7pm, we will host

a Maunday-Thursday Service here at Philippi Baptist. Derived from the Latin word mandatum, meaning

"commandment," Maundy refers to the commands Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper: to love with hu-mility by serving one another and to remember his sacrifice. While we focus on Jesus' resurrection three days

later, this service places us at the Last Supper and ultimately reminds us of the betrayal that took place that very

same evening. April 22nd brings us to Good Friday - The Community Lenten Services at Philippi United Meth-

odist Church will meet for its concluding service at noon. That evening, all the Barbour County Community isinvited to a Cross Walk that originates at the Blue and Gray Park. Each of us will have a cross to carry as we

process across the covered bridge to the courthouse gazebo. We then gather for a time of prayer and contempla-

tion. We had over one hundred participants last year and I would encourage each of us to take this walk together

in recognition of the walk our Savior took for us!

Then we get to celebrate Resurrection Sunday up at the college on the back porch of Burbick Hall at 7am on

April 24th! Just as the ladies went early in the morning and found the tomb empty, we get to make that declara-tion anew again at this time! At 8:30am the diaconate will have an Easter Breakfast prepared for us as we then

prepare for our Easter Morning Worship at Philippi Baptist starting at 10:30am with an Easter Egg Hunt to fol-

low! We get to live out the truth that Jesus died for us so that we could live for Him!

I can't believe this is my second Easter Season at Philippi baptist Church! I count it a privilege to be here in this

community serving alongside you all. We are blessed to have folks that are so willing to share their talents and

gifts for God's Kingdom. Thank you for the continued support you give for the Campus Ministry we help lead a

Alderson-Broaddus College. Now more than ever, we need to help lead and guide these young men and womento an understanding of God's love and grace in the midst of the world's agenda that works opposite of such prin-

ciples. We are learning that it is difficult sometimes to speak the truth in love but it is what we have been calledhere to do! My prayer everyday is the prayer of peace the writer of Hebrews has given us to live by: " Now may

the God of peace, who brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood

of the eternal covenant, make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us

that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory for ever and ever.Amen" (Hebrews 13:20-21) May every day be viewed as an opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus to all

that God places in our path.

Chirst is Risen! He is Risen Indeed! - Shalom - Pastor Jon Villers


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ABWMApril 5 @ 7:00pm

Weirton Christian Center

Jane Digman

***

May 3 @ 6:00pm

Annual Womens Banquet

***June 7 @ 9:30am

Election of Officers

***(BIBLE BOOK OF THE MONTH)

Zechariah

***Announcements

On April 13, Pastor Jon will be speaking at noon @(PUMC) Lenten Service. We are asked to bring

(Soup, Sandwiches and Desserts)

Enough for 100 people. These items should be taken

to the United Methodist Church (behind library) by11:00 a.m. on April 13th. Thanks so much for your

help.

*April 17th-Palm Sunday Community Service @

6p.m. @ Philippi Baptist Church . Speaker Pastor

Jon Villers.

*No mid-week

service on April 20th.

*April 21st ,Maunday Thursday

Service

The Last Supper @ 7:00pm .

There will also be Communion.*

April 22,

Good Friday Community Services

12:00 noon Lenten Service @ Philippi United-Methodist Church. Speaker : Pastor Mike

MacAdam.

Cross Walk-Gather @ Blue & Gray Park @5p.m.

*

April 24, Easter Sunrise Service 7:00a.m. Burbick Hall Patio

8:30 a.m. Breakfast @ Philippi Baptist Church

Fellowship Hall

BOARD OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Family Game night has been temporarilychanged from March 26th to April 2

from 6-8. It will include all Easter activities.People can still feel free to bring games howev-er Easter games and activities will be provided.

It will be anEGGstra special family game night!***

Family Game night will resume its regular

schedule the last Saturday of the month starting

April 30th from 6-8pm.

***

Announcements

A-B College hand bells will be part of ourmorning worship service on April 10th.

***Church Council will meet April 3rd @

7:30p.m.

***Quarterly Business Meeting April 10 @

7:30p.m.

The Board of Trustees is planning a SpringCleaning Work Party for the church to be

held on Saturday, April 2nd from 9a.m.-12

noon. Linda Howell is the coordinator .

Please come to the Fellowship Hall to get

your assignment. We really need your

help with this project. Please keep this day

open for the church


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OUR GOAL TO REACHFOR AMERICA FOR CHRIST OFFERING

IS $1,200.Karen Young Gathering, A New Wave of Leadership

One of the greatest challenges young people face is fitting in. But that has begun to change for those who attendedthe Karen Youth Conference in Summer 2010 at First Baptist Church, St. Paul, Minn.

More than 600 Karen young people from communities around the nation gathered to share their Christian faith and ex-periences in adjusting to U.S. life. Some of them had been in America for only three months before the conference.

The Rev. Florence Li, national Asian coordinator, American Baptist Home Mission Societies, led the youth in the PowerCircle, an experiential learning exercise adapted from Eric Laws book The Bush was Blazing but Not Consumed. Partici-pants were instructed to link arms in a circle, while two standing outside the circle were to find a creative way to get into it.Several used great force to break through, while others tried to crawl into the circle or push against it to find the weakestlocation.

Participants compared this exercise with their experience of trying to fit in, especially at school. I tried very hard to getinto the circle but it is not easy, says 15-year old participant Aug Htoo. I want to fit in with my friends.

After the exercise, Participants suggested and discussed ways to fit in without compromising faith or using force.Karen Communities associate strongly with American Baptists because of the work of the Judsons in Burma more than

300 years ago. American Baptist Home Mission Societies has been actively resettl ing Karen and other refugees for over150 years.Through the America for Christ Offering, your support of the youth conference and other ministry with refugee communitiesdemonstrates your commitment to continue our legacy of touching lives and transforming people. For more informationabout Asian Ministries, please contact the Rev. Florence Li at [email protected] or visit www.abhms.org

Our America for Christ Offering 2011-Touching Lives, Transforming people-supports American Baptist home mission that

brings the healing power of Jesus Christs caring heart, serving hands, going feet and prophetic voice to churches andcommunities across the United States and Puerto Rico. Give generously today! Thank you!

All Jazzed Up About Art

On Saturday, April 9th, the Barbour County Arts and Humanities Council will be hosting an event ti-tled, All Jazzed Up About Art. It will be held from 6-8p.m. in the commons area at Philip Barbour High

School.

The event is intended to promote the arts in Barbour County .

There will be an art show by students from around the county, artists fromaround the county displaying their work, the A-B Jazz Band, door prizes, re-freshments and more. Several of the artists will have activities such as facepainting, demonstration and hands-on activities for everyone to try as theymingle and enjoy the evening. Please spread the word and also come out tosupport the arts in our county. There is no fee to attend, but donations arewelcome.


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Easter Lilly order time

6 single stem $9.008 double stem$17.5010 triple stem$25.00

6 tulips$7.50Taking orders until April 15th,2011

***Inaugural

Leonard LoBello Memorial SPAGHETTI DINNERThursday, April 7, 2011

11a.m.-7p.m.

Philippi Baptist Church107 Church Street, Philippi

Tickets:$7-Adults; $4-Children (12 and under)Delivery Available between 11a.m. and 4 p.m. and 6p.m.

ALSO, SILENT AUCTIONSponsored by:

Mountain Hospice and Philippi Main Street

FOR MORE INFORMATION, DELIVERY OR ADVANCE TICKETS,CALL:

Tammy Stemple@ 304.457.3700-Ext.226Mike Elza @ 304.823.3922


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Living Legend

Everyone knows Dr. Richard Shearer, president of Alderson-

Broaddus College for just short of thirty-three years, the

youngest college president in the country when he began at age

30. Almost everyone knows that during his tenure, the enroll-

ment at A-B more than doubled and all of the buildings were

constructed except for the three present when he arrived, and

all three of those were rebuilt or remodeled. Many people al-

so know that after leaving A-B Dr. Shearer pastored Bridgeport

Baptist Church (twice, for a total of over six years, spent two

and a half years as director of the Foundation of Independent

Colleges, and served the United Hospital Center Foundation for almost two years.

Not everyone knows that Richard Shearer was the youngest of five children, two of whom

died in infancy/childhood. His parents, from Mill Run in the hills of Pennsylvania, were

farmers, his father later becoming a builder and a master of decorative painting.

Raised on a rented farm in Poplar Grove, a small town near Connellsville, young Richards

first job was the delivery of milk to neighbors. On the second day after Thanksgiving, hereports, we always butchered two hogs, and we raised and preserved all of our own food ex-

cept for sugar and flour. We loved and honored the land.

His Christian faith came naturally, for his parents loved the Lord, he explains. Theyworked out their grief over losing two childrenCarl to diphtheria and Merlene to meningi-tis--by helping neighbors and nurturing their remaining three.

After attending a two-room school for his first eight years, he went on to Connellsville High

School, where he met Ruth Mansberger, who was to become his wife and the mother of Dr.

Shearers three offspring and his colleague at Alderson-Broaddus. Several years after Ruthstragic death, he married Marilyn Erdman, whom he had met at the American Baptist Confer-

ence Center at Green Lake, Wisconsin.

Recruiting students and developing church relationships for A-B meant that President Shearer

had to be away from Philippi many week ends. We did everything we could, however, to

encourage students and faculty to attend local churches. At one time I asked our ministerPaul Cookhow many students were actively involved with Philippi Baptist Church, and heestimated three hundred. Of course, that was before so many commuted and before they all

had cars. Students back then just walked down the hill for church and then walked back up.

In his entry in Whos Who in American Education, Dr. Shearer stated his philosophy:

Education gives power, but it takes good religion to give it direction. His long leadershipof Alderson-Broaddus was living proof of that belief.


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Bor n in a pr il2- Christian Stull

2Allison Villers2Jody Sperry

4- Brenda Price

6-Sarah Caprio

6-Shirley Thorne

8-Walter Whitman

12-Valerie Minor

12-Anna Caldwell13-George Sommer

13-Tia Stevens

13-Tom Ketchem

15-Morgan Armstrong

18-Bryan DeLong

24-Lisa Dadisman

24-Mike Wells

25-Susan Markwood

27-George Davis

27-Tom Sites

28-Kim Klaus

28- Darlene

Waddell

10-Glenn&Jan Sweet

16-Ken&Darlene Waddell

17-Tim&Beth Miller

17-Randy&Michele Moore

20-Bill&Jeannie Mozley

25-Jim&Wanda Steele

A-B College faculty, staff and students,

Albert Carman,

Rev. Chester Bird,

Blaine Corder,

Bertsel Cathell,

Audrey Cross

The Family of Becky & Mike Elmore,

Jim Friend,

Otilia Franke,Carl Gant,

Jane Gibbons,

Joyce Kerr,

Greg , Kasey and Violet Mouser,

Brenda & Gary Price,

Jacob Scheick,

Dr. Richard Shearer,

Dorothy Shaffer,

Vangie Shaffer,

Major Kris Wood,

Unspoken requests for family members, un-

saved, person and community concerns,

those with job and home loss, financial diffi-

culties. Our national, state, and country

leaders and officials. Victims, the families

and friends of crime, war and violence

throughout our country. Military personneland their families throughout the world. Rel-

atives and friends of those serving our

country: Amanda Howard,

Tim Jenkins,

Chris Mossburg

Taylor Smith


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Philippi Baptist Church107 Church StreetPhilippi, West Virginia 26416

Nonprofit OrganizationU.S. POSTAGEPermit NO. 36

Philippi, WV 26416

Philippi Bapst's Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will parcipate in the Statewide cleanup eort

which is planned for Saturday, April 30, 2011. We will meet in the church basement at 9:00

AM that morning, and should have our 2.2 miles of highway completed by about 10:30

AM. For those who haven't parcipated in the past, please come in at 8:30 AM to view the

instruconal video. It is suggested that you wear work boots, long pants, a hat, jacket and sun

glasses as appropriate. Work gloves and blaze orange vests are provided. Children under 18

must be accompanied by an adult. Children must be at least 12 years old to parcipate. Free

gis will be

provided

to all volunteers.

Please see Craig Cobb, or call him at

457-467 if you have any quesons.

Thanks!!

Craig Cobb

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