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Second Bapt ist Church exists for the Glory o f God by, “Loving God, Loving Others, and Making Discip les.” May 2016
SECOND THOUGHTS Staff:
Chris Moore Sr. Pastor [email protected]
Allen Thomas
Youth Pastor
Gabe Duron
Minister of Music & Administration
Jennifer Briscoe
Children’s Ministry Leader
Joe Marek
Financial Secretary
Phoebe Johnson
Office Manager
May Deacon’s On Call
May 1st
Gary Garland 979-900-6521
Art Hammers 979-482-0482
May 8th
Mike Hayes 979-215-9164
David Kelley 979-849-8439
May 15th
Leon Parson 979-849-5153
Gayle Snedecor 979-849-7387
May 22nd
Brad Briscoe 979-236-5606
Don Brooks 979-849-8746
May 29th
Randy Smith 979-285-5506
Bill Wallace 979-417-8250
Life Verse May
Life Verse: James 4:17 (ESV) So whoever
know’s the right thing to do and fails to do
it, for him it is sin.
Music Camp
Please join us at the Brazoria County National
Day of Prayer
Thursday, May 5th at the Brazoria County Historical
Museum Lawn.
A free sack lunch will be given to the first 200
attendees beginning at 11:30 am
National Prayer will be held for 12:00 pm to 1:00
pm. Our country needs our prayers more than ever, please come out
and join us if you can.
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NOTES from the Minister of Music
Do you have a special ministry event you’d like to announce?
Send your special event information to Pastor Gabe at [email protected] and we’ll make sure your event is promoted on our ‘BIG SCREEN’ on Sunday mornings! Please submit your information no later than Thursday of the preceding week.
Dear Church Family and Friends,
Last week in my message I referred to a few of the words from Leonard Rav-
enhil (1907-1994)on Why Revival Tarries. I would like to share the rest of
the story with you. Bro. Ravenhill said,
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not pray-
ing is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The
pulpit can be a shop window to display one's talents; the prayer
closet allows no showing off.
Poverty-stricken as the Church is today in many things, she is most
stricken here, in the place of prayer. We have many organizers, but
few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many sing-
ers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few
tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few interces-
sors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail every-
where.
The two prerequisites to successful Christian living are vision and
passion, both of which are born in and maintained by prayer. The
ministry of preaching is open to few; the ministry of prayer-the
highest ministry of all human offices-is open to all. Spiritual ado-
lescents say, "I'll not go tonight, it's only the prayer meeting." It
may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past
experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against
God's people praying. Modern Christians know little of "binding
and loosing," though the onus is on us-"Whatsoever ye shall
bind...” Have you done any of this lately? God is not prodigal with
His power; but to be much for God, we must be much with God.
This world hits the trail for hell with a speed that makes our fastest
plane look like a tortoise; yet alas, few of us can remember the
last time we missed our bed for a night of waiting upon God for a
world-shaking revival. Our compassions are not moved. We mis-
take the scaffolding for the building. Present-day preaching, with
its pale interpretation of divine truths, causes us to mistake action
for unction, commotion for creation, and rattles for revivals.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop
praying, and a praying man will stop sinning. We are beggared and
bankrupt, but not broken, nor even bent.
Prayer is profoundly simple and simply profound. "Prayer is the
simplest form of speech that infant lips can try," and yet so sub-
lime that it outranges all speech and exhausts man's vocabulary. A
Niagara of burning words does not mean that God is either im-
pressed or moved. One of the most profound of Old Testament
intercessors had no language "Her lips moved, but her voice was
not heard." No linguist here! There are groaning’s which cannot be
uttered."
Are we so substandard to New Testament Christianity that we
know not the historical faith of our fathers (with its implications
and operations), but only the hysterical faith of our fellows? Prayer
is to the believer what capital is to the business man.
Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of
anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the
most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our accent is
on paying, theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is
taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!
In the matter of New Testament, Spirit-inspired, hell-shaking, world
-breaking prayer, never has so much been left by so many to so
few. For this kind of prayer there is no substitute. We do it--or die!
Taken from Why Revival Tarries, by Leonard Ravenhill. Copyright 1959, Leon-
ard Ravenhill. Published by Bethany House Publishers.
Lord, make us a praying people in Jesus name, Amen.
PC
From Your PC
Calling ALL Instrumentalists!
Are you proficient at playing an instru-
ment? Are you interested in joining the
Worship Ministry to use your gifts to honor
the Lord? Contact Pastor Gabe today to
see how you can get plugged in to the Wor-
ship Ministry here at SBC
The Sanctuary Choir Wants YOU! If you’ve been thinking about joining this group of singers, now
is a great time! We meet on Sunday afternoons at 4:45 in the
sanctuary. For more information, contact Pastor Gabe by
email at [email protected] or by phone at 979-849-
7220.
Fifth Sunday Worship
We hope you’re making plans to join us on May 29th for our Fifth
Sunday Worship! Our Sanctuary Choir, Children’s Choir, & Youth will
combine to present a special anthem during our morning worship
service.
Men’s Choir for Mother’s Day
Calling all Men! On May 8th, we will fill the choir loft with
a Men’s Choir, in honor of Mother’s Day. Men, make
plans to meet us in the sanctuary that morning at 9am
for rehearsal. We’ll go over the order of worship & re-
hearse our special music for that morning! See you
there!
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AWANA meets
Wednesday from 6pm
Catechism Class Sunday Nights at 6
June 26-July 1
Cost: $325
Sign up today!
Contact Allen for more
information
VBS Volunteer Meeting Sunday, May 15 at 4pm
Even if you haven’t signed up to help yet, please come!
What we still need:
Age Group Helpers
Registration Helpers
Craft/Missions Helpers
Game Leaders/Helpers
Follow-up Team Leader/Helpers
Youth Fundraiser
May 15, 2016
Food, Silent Auction & Dessert
Auction!!
Come support our students for
MissionLab.
Senior Recognition Sunday
May 29th Congratulations Seniors you did it!
Now we want to recognize you. You will
be receiving information in the mail for
the ceremony and luncheon after-
wards. We are so excited for you and
your family. Please contact Allen for
more information about this special
day!
Baccalaureate Service
4pm AHS Auditorium
SUNDAY NIGHTS
@ 6:00
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GOAL AMOUNT: $125,000
Total Given in April
$ 854.00
Total in the Bus Fund: $-8,075.24
Church Communication:
We want you to be ‘in the know’ of church events and prayer needs, so you can put your gifts & talents in service to Christ. Each week the church sends email messages with news items and updates. Send an email to [email protected] and you will be added to the distribution lists for communication.
Average Sunday School attendance for
April: 121
DEACON’S NOTES
May 1st Deacon Meeting
Our worship services can now be viewed online! Visit us at www.yoursecondfamily.org
to view our weekly worship services and sermons from Pastor Chris. If you’re on Vimeo, you can find us at
www.vimeo.com/yoursecondfamily.
Attention Line Item Stewards!
A reminder for Line Item Stewards & Ministry Team Lead-
ers: If you are planning a fundraiser, Bible Study, or other
event where money will received by the church, please
contact Financial Secretary Joe Marek or Pastor Gabe at
the church office to let us know about your event. We can
help you plan & prepare! Also, please remember that we
are currently under our Spending Control Plan. During this
time, all ministry expenses require pre-approval from the
Budget & Finance Committee.
The Biblical Counseling Center is now ac-cepting counselees! If you are interested in receiving counseling, visit the church website at www.yoursecondfamily.org and click on the ‘Counseling’ tab to complete the necessary forms and find more information. There are also form packets available in the church foy-er. If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call Jennifer Briscoe at the church office. Please continue to pray for this ministry.
Upcoming Business Meetings
1.) Special-Called Business Meeting
on May 22nd
2.) Regularly scheduled Business
Meeting on June 26th.
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F I N A N C I A L R E P O R T :
April 2016
Tithes: $ 45,961.30
Monthly Budgeted Needs:
$ 53,385.10
1
Church wide
breakfast host-
ed by the
Deacons
Deacon
Meeting
2
3
4
Ladies Bible
Study 1 pm
Resolving Every-
day Conflict
Study
6-8pm
5
6
7
Men’s Breakfast
G.R.O.W. Team G
8
Mother’s Day
Baby
Dedication
Baby Bottle
Boomerang
begins
Men’s Choir
9
10 11
Ladies Bible
Study 1 pm
Resolving Every-
day Conflict
Study
6-8pm
12
13
14
G.R.O.W. Team R
15
VBS Volunteer
Meeting
Youth
Fundraiser
16
17
18
Ladies Bible
Study 1 pm
Resolving Every-
day Conflict
Study
6-8pm
19
20
Church Garage
Sale
21
Builders Class
Cookout
G.R.O.W. Team O
Church Garage
Sale
22
Church Council
Family Ministry
Luncheon
Special Called
Business Mtg
23 24
25
Ladies Bible
Study 1 pm
Resolving Every-
day Conflict
Study
6-8pm
26
27
28
G.R.O.W. Team W
29
30
Office Closed
31
May 2016
Sunday Schedule
9:30 Sunday School
10:40 Morning Worship
4:45 Choir Rehearsal
6:00 Evening Worship
S.N.O.T.
Children’s Discipleship
Wednesday
Schedule
6:00 Prayer
Meeting
Youth
AWANA
**Attention Line Item Stewards**
We are still under our Spending Control Plan at this
time. All budget expenditures require pre-approval
from Budget & Finance Committee. Please send
funds requests to [email protected].
1817 Shanks Road
Angleton, TX 77515
www.yoursecondfamily.org
Second Bapt is t Church
979-849-7220
979-849-9762 (fax)
Loving God, Loving Others, Making Disciples
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Make plans now to join us for our Valentine’s Banquet o
We will be having a church-wide garage sale May 20 and 21 in the gym. We will also sell and deliver
BBQ plates on Friday, May 20. The funds raised will be used to support the three ladies who are
headed to Bulgaria in June for a mission trip to help with a camp for special needs children.
If you have stuff to donate, we would like for you to go ahead and put a price on it. If you can wait,
please bring it up that week, beginning May 16. If you need to get rid of it sooner, we have a room set
aside in the children’s building for collecting items for sale.
We also need lots of help! We will need lots of folks to:
Help us price items and set up during the week
Help us work the sale Friday and Saturday mornings
Help prepare the food Thursday evening
Help prepare plates Friday morning
Deliver plates to places of business
Cook brownies
Please contact Jennifer at the church office, or Anne Smith if you are willing to help, or need more
information.
Attention all men of ASBC please join us for our
men’s breakfast on
Saturday, May 7th at 8:00 am
Please join us for our
Church-wide breakfast,
hosted by the deacons on
Sunday May 1st in the gym.
Please don’t miss out on
this opportunity to fellow-
ship with your church
family.