12/2 Tammy Coleman

12/2 Barbara Dowdy

12/3 Dale Klein

12/4 Pam Gannon

12/4 Tony Meyers

12/5 Marilee Dufendach

12/5 Charlie Gannon

12/6 Stephen Elliott

12/6 Dennis Spry

12/7 Barbara Branson

12/9 Jean Cooley

12/13 Ray Prigodich

12/14 Neal Putman

12/16 James Hyde

12/16 Jean Wilson

12/20 Milo Macko

12/21 Huc McCall

12/22 Joan Moss

12/25 Natali Alegria

12/26 Sonny Guenther

12/28 Marilou Santiago

12/29 Trish Chambers

12/29 Bill Kallas

12/31 Noah Adams

12/31 Ted Sakelarakis

Church Events

December 18 - AWANA Christmas Party

December 19 - M&Ms Lunch

December 21 - Men’s Breakfast

December 22 - Celebration Choir “Song

of Bethlehem”

December 24 - 5pm Christmas Eve

Service

December 24-25 - CHURCH OFFICE

CLOSED

2019

First Baptist Church Fairfield Glade

130 Towne Centre Way, Crossville, TN 38571

931-484-6927 www.onhisrock.org ffgfbc@onhisrock.org

Dr. Doug Elders - Senior Pastor 931-202-2998

December Birthdays

New Faces

The Messenger

Nick & Trish

Chambers

Christopher Pitts

Huc McCall

Ronnie & Carla

Lockard

For up-to-the-minute

information, make sure to

check out the Church

Website.

www.onhisrock.org

Dr. Doug Elders

Senior Pastor

Robert McTurnal

Pastor of Discipleship and

Students

Kristie Isaacson

Worship & Music Leader

Jeremy Cole

Children’s Ministry Leader

12/14 Dennis & Margie Spry

12/22 Arnold & Mary Higgins

12/26 Joel & Linda York

12/29 Bill & Blanche Putnam

12/31 Allan & Anneta Deal

The Pastor’s Two Bits...

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! This year, we will again cele-brate the Advent season as we anticipate our cele-bration of the coming of the Christ Child. This year’s advent sermons will focus on the ‘songs’ of Christmas; some of the great poetic proclamations made during the events leading up to and just after Jesus’ birth. The choir’s music presentation is titled, The Song of Bethlehem. I am looking forward to worshiping through the Christmas season.

The four Sundays of advent help us reflect on the hope, peace, joy, and love that Jesus brought to the world. In Him, each of those are offered as part of a spiritual completion, so to speak, to humanity. Our hope of Heaven and eternity with God are complet-ed in Him. Inner peace in a struggling world are made available in Him. Personal joy, even in trou-bled times is available in Him. And maybe best of all, the greatest of these is the endless love of God available in Him.

In Him...

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB) The Christ-mas season is a promise of newness. New life, new love, new faith... In Him. It’s a great way to start your Christmas celebration... in Him.

- Pastor Doug

P.S. THANK YOU! for giving toward the IN FAITH offering in October. We received over $52,000 of our $100,000 goal. Although we didn’t meet the goal, we still took a significant bite out of our debt. I hope you will remain committed to paying off the debt as soon as possible.

Youth Notes – December 2019

December? Seriously? Already? Didn’t we JUST put away Christmas trees and wreaths and

things like a week ago? Wow…Ok, well, hello December! As I write this, the youth are looking

forward to Hearts on Fire Conference in Pigeon Forge as well as the Annual Christmas party

event. It’s been a great fall! We have seen our numbers increase, a rise in participation and a

heightening of excitement about the ministry overall. Obviously, there is always more work to

do – there are more kids to reach, our current youth that are here must continue to grow and

mature, and as always, more fun to be had! As we look to the new year, there is a Super Bowl

Party to think about, a possible winter retreat, as well as our annual fundraiser dinner (stay

tuned)! Thank you for your continued support and prayers for this vital ministry!

Going ‘til He Comes,

Pastor Robert

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Upcoming Events…….

The Celebration Choir will present this years Christ-

mas program “The Song of Bethlehem” on Decem-

ber 22nd during BOTH worship services (9 and

10:30. Don’t miss this powerful Christmas

message!

There will be a Christmas Eve ser-

vice at 5pm here at the church. It

will center around the lighting of

the Christ Candle

The Church Office will be closed

CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY.

But never fear!!! We will be back Thurs-

day, December 26th.

Men’s Breakfast is December 21st at

7:30am. There’s plenty of food for eve-

ryone!! Bring a friend.

AWANA Christmas party!!

December 18th at

5:30pm.