It is with great joy that we con-gratulate our Pastor and First Lady Sylvia, on their 25th Anni-versary of service to God through Abiding Faith’s ministry. In Chapter 5 of 1 Thessalonians Paul admonishes us to "know them which labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; and to esteem them very highly in Love for their work's sake and be at peace among your-selves."

Their ministry to Abiding Faith has been faithful, consistent, de-voted, determined and diligent, and a blessing to so many lives. It is a tremendous blessing to reach this milestone of 25 years, but we encourage each other to gear up for another twenty-five years be-cause the best it yet to come!!

Pastor Morgan and Sister Sylvia, for the many souls that have been brought into the kingdom, as well as the thousands of transformed lives that have taken place at this vineyard under your leadership, we “esteem you very highly in Love”, and praise God for you!!Our prayer is that the next 25

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Abiding Faith Baptist Church 15376 Fondren Road

Missouri City, TX 77489 www.abidingfaithbc.org Bobby R. Morgan

Pastor Horace Price, Sr., Assistant and

Youth Pastor

“One Heart, One Soul, United in “One Heart, One Soul, United in “One Heart, One Soul, United in Christ Jesus!”Christ Jesus!”Christ Jesus!”

All Are Welcome!All Are Welcome!All Are Welcome!

WEEKLY WORSHIP

Sunday 9:00 A.M.

Sunday School 10:30 A.M.

Worship Service

Tuesday 9:30 A.M.

Intercessory Prayer

Wednesday 6:30 P.M.

Teacher’s Meeting—7:30 P.M. Praise & Prayer

8:00 P.M.

Adult Bible Study 7:30 P.M. – (Last) Wednesday

Mid-Week Service

Inside Thank you, Abiding Faith! Welcome, New Members

Celebration of Black History Children’s Church

Robert Morgan gets license to preach New Member Fellowship

Congratulations, Sterlings Snow in Mo City!

Happy Birthday, Pastor Kudos, Food Service Ministry

Congrats, Krystin! Installment of New Officers

Youth attend Black Panther Screening Youth Activities AFBC Responds

Faces Congratulations Deac. Hank Stewart!

Annual Church Ministry Theme: “Pleasing in His Sight”

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep [a]through the blood of the eternal covenant, even Jesus our Lord, 21 equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His

sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen. (Hebrews 13:20-21) NASB

years will be even greater than the past as we each “press forward” pur-posely focused on living lives that are “pleasing to Him”! We give glory to His Name!

Pastor and First Lady, Sylvia Morgan

Serving with gladness for 25 Years!Serving with gladness for 25 Years!Serving with gladness for 25 Years!

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Welcome New Members, Praise God!

Thank you, Abiding Faith Family! We asked, you responded— many sacrificially, and God em-powered! Our project began January 2017, and before the end of the year (August), the new sign was in place and function-ing!! Thank you so much for such willing spirits and com-radery! Some said it couldn’t be done, some said it wouldn’t be done, and some even said it shouldn’t be done; but here it is! Such a blessing from God almighty, using you, as willing agents! We give Him all the glory! Our new LED sign is tes-timony of how God can use a few (willing) spirits with a heart for God, to accomplish His purposes. Again, Abiding Faith Family, on behalf of our Pastor and the Marketing Team, we thank you, from the bottom of our hearts!

Carolyn Moore Felton Moore

Christopher Johnson

Stephaney Vandetta William Prather

Javion Brothers Makai Edwards Christopher Johnson

Joseph Clement

Robert Thomas

Abiding Faith family, please say hello to our new members and let them know how pleased we are to have them a part of our family!!

Celebrating Black History

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AFBC Gospel Chorus

The Gospel Choir will join with Heavenly Star Missionary Baptist Church’s choir for the Resurrection Sunrise Ser-vice on April 1, 2018. The final rehearsal for the event will be at Heavenly Star on March 29, 2018 @ 7:30 pm. The Gospel Choir Annual Day Celebration will be held on July 22, 2018. Our “renown” Gospel Choir continues to pro-vide music purposed to penetrate the hearts and souls of the people, to empower them accept Jesus as Savior and Lord, and to become disciples for Him.

Something new on the horizon!!! The Music Ministry will sponsor a Musical Workshop on Saturday, September 29, 2018, from 9am to 1pm. The clinicians for this workshop will be our Musicians/Directors. This will be a first for Abiding Faith. We solicit your prayers for the success of this new adventure. Additional information is forthcoming. Harold Simmons, Contributing Journalist

Children’s

Church

“It has been over 2000 years since Jesus taught, performed miracles, died and resurrected; and here we are still talking about it. Why? Because someone shared the story! We are the feet of Jesus!”

~~Joyce Blackshire, Director of Youth Department

Robert Harlan Morgan, second son of Pastor and Lady Sylvia Morgan, accepted his calling on New Year’s Eve 2017. He preached his first sermon in February. (Minister) Robert was supported by many of his friends, class mates, former teachers, family, and Church family. Rob-ert is married to Stef-fanie Morgan, DDS and they live in Missouri City, Texas.

Robert Morgan delivers 1st Sermon

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Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Ralph and Ritha Sterling, who were married in March. We wish them much happiness and togetherness in the Lord for many years to come!!

Robert Morgan

New Member Fellowship New members were given the right hand of fellowship (right), in February at our New Member Fellowship luncheon. If you didn’t get a chance to shake their hands and welcome them to our family, please do so at your earliest convenience. Make them feel welcome and that they are a part of our wonderful family here at Abiding Faith!! Welcome New Members!!

Snow in Missouri City,

Texas! August 2017

To those whom we love. . .

To our sick and shut in, we pray God’s healing and restoration for you and those who have lost loved ones, that He will grant you strength, peace, and comfort as only He can. Please know that our prayers, thoughts are reaching out to you in love. We are only a phone call away. Please let us know if /how we can help.

Installation of New Leaders

2018-2020

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AFBC Leaders celebrated our Pas-tor’s 69th birthday in January at our Annual Leader’s Conference! Happy 69th! We know you had a great birthday, Pastor Morgan!!

Kudos to our fabulous, fantastic, phenomenal, wonderful, accommodat-ing, hard working Food Service Staff. Thank you for always living up to our expectations with your selections and your service. Keep it up!! We appreciate you!! Left to right: Debbie Allen, Sylvia Harian, Beulah Hart, Leona Thompson, Jacqueline King, Dorothy Johnson, Margaret Jones, and Rose Gibson. Missing “from” action: Yvette Logeman and DeLois Woodard.

Kudos to our Food Service Team!

Krystin Edwards-

Judges UH Black and

Gold Pageant

Congratulations to Krystin Edwards for being selected and serving as a Judge for the University of Houston’s Black and Gold Pageant. If you will remember a few years back, Kryssi was herself, a participant in, and winner of this Pageant.

Crawfish Boil,

April 28,

2018,

12noon—5:00

P.M.

April 14, 2018 - Stafford City-Wide Clean Up The youth of Abiding Faith will participate in this annual event on Saturday, April 14th from 9:00-1:00. It's a great opportunity to get out

into the community for fel-lowship and fun. All you can eat lunch, drinks, and des-sert will be provided. Con-tact Joyce Blackshire if you need additional information.

GPG and YMC Enjoy Black Panther Screening

Congratulations Terry Johnson

O’Neal!

Congratulations to Terry Johnson O'Neal, daughter-in-law of Patricia O'Neal, who will receive her Associate degree of Science in Medical Billing and Coding from the Ultimate Medical Academy in Tampa Florida in April. Congratulations and many good wishes to Terry on this remarkable accomplishment. We wish her many successes!

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Crawfish Boil, April 28, 2018, 12noon—4:00 P.M.

God’s Precious Gems (GPG) & Young Men for Christ (YMC) enjoyed the screening of Black Panther courte-sy of Wanda Johnson Anderson and the ladies of the Bay Area Houston Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta. A grand time was had by all. Thank you, ladies, for reaching out to our youth!!

July Kids Across America The mission of Kids Across America is “to build Christian leaders by encouraging, equipping, and empowering urban youth and their men-tors through camping and ed-ucation”. Their vision is: “Transforming urban youth to impact their communities for Christ.” Our youth have the opportunity to experience

this empowering “venue” in July. July is quickly ap-proaching and there is much excitement! There were several members that in-quired about sponsoring some of our youth. Pay-ments are currently being collected, and if you would like to help one of our youth get to Missouri, please con-tact Joyce Blackshire at 713.367.8687 or Kennon at

AFBC Men’s

Prayer

Gathering!

November, 2017, marked 7

years that AFBC Men of

Faith, along with our pas-

tor, have met every-other-

Friday to pray for the needs

of our church, our commu-

nity and our nation, and

each other. So, if you have

not been a part of this very

special gathering, please

mark your calendars. They

will meet this Friday, March

30, 2018, and every-other-

Friday morning, at

5:00 A.M.

Fill the room, brothers, and

watch God move mightily!

“Rivals under one” roof is what one headline read. Last year, as a result of the mold cleanup/remediation, Willowridge students intertwined with their rival Marshall High School, and approxi-mately 1,400 Wil-lowridge students were added to Marshall’s en-rollment. However, in spite of some concerns about this temporary “marriage” it appears that they pretty much

“lived in harmony” since the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year, with no major incidents. As a proactive measure, however, faith leaders came together to discuss ways to promote unity between the rivals and one measure included soliciting volunteers f rom surrounding churches to monitor lunch breaks on a daily basis. Abiding Faith joined in this effort and

volunteers, including our Pastor, were rou-tinely scheduled to sup-port the effort. Our Pastor spoke of this as an opportunity for Abiding Faith to part-ner with our Fort Bend

Abiding Faith responds to

the Call

Faces. . .

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Community and be a “light”; both in our community and the high schools. The ‘tenure’ has now end-ed as Willowridge students have re-turned “home”.

During Rob’s Sermon

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Abiding Faith Baptist Church

15376 Fondren Road Missouri City, TX 77489

Phone: 281.437.9595 Fax: 281. 437.4597

E-MAIL newsletter@abidingfaithbc.org

Newsletter Team

Senior Editor/Advisor Pastor Bobby R. Morgan

Editor & Producer delores banks-scott

Distribution Pamela Simmons

Proofreader

Earnestine Stewart

Contributing Photographers

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Gilbane, Inc., is an international builder and

developer of some of the most highly visible

projects domestically and internationally.

Our own Deacon Hank Stewart, after 30

years, retired recently from his position as

Southwest Superintendent at Gilbane Devel-

opment Company. “Deacon Hank”, pictured

on the right. at his recent retirement party,

explained: “I was working for another company

on a project just outside of Galveston, and Gilbane

took over the job”. “It was actually a pretty intense

“complicated job”, he continued, “sixteen stories, offices and conference area. Gilbane asked me to stay on and I’ve been here ever since.”

“Hank” would work on many even more “intense” and award-winning jobs at Gilbane, one being the Iver Johnson Builders of the Year Exon Mobil project. “I was the senior superintendent in charge of infrastructure work”, he reminisced at the dinner. “It was the largest project in the company’s history at the time. We had miles of underground utilities, bridges, and parking structures. It was just an awesome project”.

Deacon “Hank” says accepting Gilbane’s offer was the best decision he’s ever made (next to mar-

rying Sister Earnestine). It’s been a pleasure to work with so many wonderful people and family

members. Asked what advice he’d give to employees just starting their careers with Gilbane,

Hank answered, “If you are willing to work hard, be loyal, a good teammate, and keep learning, you’ll

have no regrets. I never did.” Congratulations, Deacon Hank, now you can come to Sunday School!!

Congratulations, Deacon Hank Stewart, on your Retirement!