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By the grace of God, the Philippi Baptist Churchshall Embrace, Model , and Share the love of Godthrough Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit

Philippi Baptist Church 107 Church St. Philippi, WV 26416 (304) 457 -3206

Catch us on the radio live every Sunday morning at 10:30a.m. WQAB 91.3 FM

E -mail: [email protected] Website: www.pbcwv.net 107 Church Street Philippi, WV 26416 (304)457 -3206

Jon Villers, Pastor

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Inside this Issue

Pastors Message...2 Birthdays3 Anniversaries...3 Prayer requests...3 Family News...4 Schedule...5

Bible Study.5 Tid bits...6

Union Assoc...6 Getting to know...7

August 2012


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School is here!

It is time to pray for all our returning teachers and students! Elementary, Middle School, High School andCollege classes will soon be in full swing! I thank God everyday for the dedicated teachers and professors that have invested in my life down through the years. We are very much a product of the teachers we have

encountered.

Philippi Baptist is blessed to have educators from every level represented in our congregation. It is also aprivilege to have students represented from every level of academia as well! From our Preschoolers to ourpost -graduate students, the church is richer for all their connections to us!

I was encouraged to attend a town hall meeting in the Barbour County Courtroom this past week. It wassponsored by Alderson -Broaddus College and Philippi Main Street. We were presented with a greatopportunity ahead of us as we will see unprecended growth in the student population at A -B College thismonth and projected for the next three years after! When you have to build resident halls with 400 newbeds and then will need that much space in three years from apartments off campus in Philippi, those aregood problems to have!

This is an opportune time for Philippi Baptist Church to be the people of God in these times of great growh.We are thankful of the foundation we are able to build upon and are excited about the next chapter in thelife of Philippi and Barbour County. Dr. Shearer faced similar circumstances when he was called to thehelm of A -B in the early 1950's. He recognized the need to build for growth by providing faculty housingas well as student apartment opportunities.

We have the great privilege of connecting with the new faculty, staff and students to let them know thereis a community of faith that would welcome their presence and participation. One of our first places toextend this welcome is the Battler Fair coming up on August 18th! Our Board of Christian Education willbe giving more details of how we can be present and introduce ourselves to 460 of our new neighbors!I am so pleased that the founders of this church has always made our relationship with the college communitya high priority and that we get to continue to build those bridges for the Kingdom in the coming years!

We will be offering a college age Sunday School Class and need folks to be on a rotation basis with PeterVlasic for this ministry to succeed! Please prayerfully consider your ability to mentor this young generationfor Christ!

Shalom,

Pastor Jon


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August 2- Marsha Smith

3-Terry Denniston 4- Debbie Mulneix 4- Michele Moore 8- Jennifer Kines 8- James Steele 9- Filip Vlasic

10- Andy Walker 12-Caitlin Davis 12-Carol Yount 13- David Kidd

14- Andre Brown 17 -Shirley Jacobs

19-Clarence Wright 20- John Prusa

22-Germaine Whitman 22- Dawn Scheick

24- Linda Davidson 24- Dean Mulneix

29- Karen Ketchem

31- Denver Gaydon

5- Dean and Linda Davidson 7 -Chuck and Dawn Scheick

10- Allen and Mary Withers 11-Gerld Fogg and Beth Longo 22-Gary and Donna Smith 2-Terry and Linda Wilfong 23- Dick and Linda Hepler

25- Dick and Priscilla Wonkka 26 - Everett and Jody Sperry

28-Skip and Carol Ervin 31- Bill and Kim Klaus

Please Pray for:

B College faculty,aff and students, enny Poling Bowers,eather Browning, ee Beuckman, hyllis Crites, alph Crites, asey Cleavenger, illy Coontz, udrey Cross, ernitia Dadisman, ecky & Mikelmore,

Maria Eye, m Friend, arl Gant,

ane Gibbons, oe & Beverly Gouer, he Hinkle Family, m Lockhart, alph Mace,

hristina Maddy, onal Matthews manda Means, loria Miller, onna Moore,

Michele Moore, r. Jennifer Parks, renda & Gary Price,

Margaret Salimi, ohn Scott, aley Sinsel,

osh Spriggs, ean Westfall,

Please remember in prayer members of our church family who havefaithfully attended downthrough the years, but areunable to do so at the pre-sent time: Otilia Franke: (Mansfield Place) Blair & Pearl Marks, Dr. Shearer, Mary Tamulitis,

Vangie Shaffer:(Mansfield Place) Germaine & Austin Whitman, Unspoken requests for family members,unsaved people,community concerns, joband home loss, financialdifficulties. Also, in need of prayer:Our national, state, and

country leaders andofficials. Please pray for Victims of crime, war and violence throughout our

country. Pray to protectmilitary personnel andtheir families throughout

the world and thoseserving our country:Tim Jenkins,Chris Mossburg,Major Kris Wood and

Captain Aaron Cross


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August 17th - MoveIn at ABAugust 18th Battler Fair August 25th Family Game Night September 29th Family Game Night

ANNUAL CHURCH PICNIC AUGUST 26th

Philippi City Pool & Pavilion

Beginning at 9:30am with a one -room Sunday School

Worship Service at 10:30am

Pool will be available until 1:00pm

Church will provide hamburgers and hotdogs

Please bring additional food and drinks

BRING YOUR OUTDOOR GAMES AND YOURE NEIGHBORS!


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Childrens volunteer watch and teach calendar for August

Sarah Cobb will be hosting a 12 week Precept Bible Study entitled, How to Stand Firm When Tested, at her homebeginning Tuesday, Sept. 11. Mary Ann Weller will be leading the study. Class runs from 1:00 3:00 each Tuesdayafternoon. For more information, contact Sarah at: 457-3467 or Mary Ann at 457 -5044. Books for the class needto be ordered by August 20th. Wed love to have you join us!

ABWMBook of the month: Samuel

August 5 August 12 August 19 August 26

Nursery Wanda Steele James Steele

Christie Allen Need Volunteer

Rebekah Hicks

Cheryl Wolfe Allison Villers

Wee Church Cheryl andAbby Blankenship

Koreen Villers Bobby Villers

Tom Dadisman Pete Ferguson

Heather Cottrill Hayden Cottrill

Junior Church Sarah Ferguson Pete Ferguson

Kelly Bracey Lindsay Bracey

Chuck Ervin Carol Ervin

Sara Poling Eddy Poling


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Union Association Summer/Fall Cluster Services 2012 August 5 - Summit Park Baptist Church - Pastor LarryFleming, Speaker7pm

September 30Annual MeetingElkins First Baptist ChurchPastor Jon Villers,Speaker Registration 2:30 -3pmreports will be given by BCM, ABWM, Mis-sions, and othersDinner will follow along with a love gift for the meal.

October 7 - Point Pleasant Baptist Church - Pastor Bruce Hoffman, Speaker

November 4 - Union Baptist ChurchPastor Chris Mullett, Speaker7pm

December 2 Flemington Baptist ChurchPastor Alan Rosenberger, Speaker 7pm

All offerings will go to the General Treasurer of the Association.

If you have any questions regarding these meetings, please call Roger Delaney,Chairman of Discipleship, Union Association, at 304 -842 -5149.

-(Letter received from a family that is part of the drama team that came to our church the lastweekend of July. ) Dear Pastor Villers

I want to thank you, your family and your church family for having our Drama Team this pastweekend. We all truly enjoyed it. Its always good to be in Gods presence. As for Jordyn, Justinand myself, we certainly wouldnt mind coming back! Not only did we enjoy your company, butyour town was just plain cute. Jordyn would definitely like to come back to check out the collegeand Justin would like to come hang out with his new friend, Bobby.

Thank you all again for inviting us all and welcoming us into your PBC family with open arms.We certainly enjoyed being with Gods family so much.

Jennifer McCormick


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He Knew Daniel Boone!

NOTE: We digress this month and will do so occasionally in order to profile a few membersof the cloud of saints that surrounds us. Information from this particular profile was gath-ered from various sources including Robert Morgans biography of Daniel Boone, in which

Morgan mentions Peck at least twenty times.

Yes, this manJohn Mason Pecknot only knew Daniel Boone but wrote a book about him.In fact, Peck was a prolific writer, not only of history but of Native American culture and thegeography of the middle west. And, according to Henry Vedder, who wrote A Short Historyof the Baptists in 1907, Other men have lived longer [Peck died in 1858 at age 66]; [but]few have lived lives more useful or that have left greater results.There has been no greater man in the history of American Baptists than John Mason Peck.

Born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1789, he was raised in a Congregational family but joined aBaptist church in 1811 and, under the influence of another great American Baptist, Luther Rice, he became interested in missions, particularly on the western frontier of the UnitedStates.

In 1818 Peck took his wife and three children 1200 miles by covered wagon to St. Louis,where he organized the First Baptist Church. Supported by the Massachusetts Baptist Mis-sion Society at the rate of $5.00 per week, Peck also founded a seminary which later becameShurtleff College. In 1832 he organized the American Baptist Home Mission Society for

people of the frontiersettlers, Native Americans, and slaves. To encourage emigration tothe west, Peck wrote a book titled A New Guide for Emigrants to the West. According to rec-ords, Peck met and interviewed Daniel Boone at length in 1818two years before Boonesdeath --, and Boone heard Peck preach on several occasions. In his 1847 biography of Boone,Peck said that the frontier hero was deeply spiritual and had developed the habit of contem-

plation. He described Boone as a peacemaker, diplomat, reluctant Indian fighter, and in-strument of Manifest Destiny. Peck reported that Boone regularly attended Baptist services when he was visiting his daugh-ter in North Carolina. When a preacher named James Welch asked Boone if he hadexperienced a change in your feelings toward the Saviour, Boone replied, No sir, I alwaysloved God ever since I could recollect.

The same could certainly be claimed of his evangelist biographer. In his forty years of minis-try, Peck founded 900 Baptist churches and saw 600 pastors ordained and 32,000 membersadded to the churches. He is buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

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