Publishing Schedule Friday

- The Tidings - The Call - The Worship Guide

Information due by 9:30 a.m. Tuesday

- The Tidings Printed at 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday - The Call

Printed at 2:00 p.m. Thursday

- The Worship Guide Printed at 10:00 a.m. - The Sunday Call Printed at 2:00 p.m.

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Wednesday, December 12 MIDWEEK 4:00 p.m. Library is Open 5:30 p.m. Serving Line Opens 6:15 p.m. Young Musicians/Tone Chime Choir - Room 100 Angel Choir - Room 106 Wednesday Youth - Rec Hall Worship - Hicks Hall 7:00 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal - Room 310 Thursday, December 13 11:30 a.m. Young at Heart depart Cedar Street Parking Lot 12-noon Young at Heart Christmas Luncheon - PV Country Club 5:45-8:00 p.m. Swing Band Rehearsal - Hicks Hall 6:30-8:00 p.m. Etsy Craft Group - Rec Hall 6:30-7:15 p.m. Beginning Youth Fencing (ages 12-18 years) - Gym 7:30 p.m. Advanced Fencing - Gym Saturday, December 15 8:00 a.m.-Noon Hillcrest Winter Farmers Market 6:30 p.m. Youth Christmas Party - home of the Lee’s Third Sunday in Advent, December 16 8:30 a.m. Finance Committee Meeting - Room 227 8:45 a.m. Library is Open 9:30 a.m. Bible Study for all ages 10:30 a.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal - Room 310 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship 5:30 p.m. Christmas Feast - Hicks Hall Tuesday, December 18 6:00 p.m. Whosoever Class Party - home of the Coleman’s 7:30 p.m. Beginning Fencing - Gym Wednesday, December 19 MIDWEEK 4:00 p.m. Library is Open 5:30 p.m. Serving Line Opens 6:00 p.m. YAC/Seekers Meeting - Parlor 6:15 p.m. Young Musicians/Tone Chime Choir - Room 100 Angel Choir - Room 106 Wednesday Youth - Rec Hall Worship - Hicks Hall 7:00 p.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal - Room 310 Saturday, December 22 8:00 a.m.-Noon Hillcrest Winter Farmers Market Fourth Sunday in Advent, December 23 8:30 a.m. Advent Breakfast - Hicks Hall 8:45 a.m. Library is Open 9:30 a.m. Bible Study for all ages 10:30 a.m. Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal - Room 310 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship Monday-Tuesday, December 24-25 Church Office Closed Monday, December 24 5:30 p.m. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service - Sanctuary Wednesday, December 26 No Evening Activities

Sunday - December 9, 2012

Sunday School Attendance Worship Attendance 1 Our Year-To-Date Stewardship

YTD General Fund Expenses

YTD General Fund Receipts Balance December 9, 2012 Receipts

109 131

$598,624 $571,077 -$27,547

$5,776

There are open dates on the calendar if you would like to furnish the Sanctuary Flowers. The cost is $50.00. Please call the church office at 661-1129 or e-mail: secretary@phbclr.com.

Wednesday Menu

December 19

Chicken Kavanaugh

Peas and Pimentos

Salad Bar

Cake

the Tidings

Our church partners with First Christian’s Food Pantry. Once again, we solicit your help for Christmas. While food goods are accepted gratefully, monetary gifts are preferred.

Purchases can be made from the Food Bank at significant savings. Turkeys will be provided two weeks prior to the

holiday, so any help you can give NOW would be greatly appreciated. Please indicate Food Pantry on your check or envelope. Thank you.

PHBC STAFF Dr. Randy L. Hyde, Pastor

rhyde@phbclr.com Rev. Jim Munns, Associate Pastor

Music and Administration jmunns@phbclr.com

Rev. Carolyn Staley, Associate Pastor Discipleship and Missions

cstaley@phbclr.com Mrs. Leann Broadway, Dayschool Director

lbroadway@phbclr.com Ms. Shelia Butler

Assistant Dayschool Director/Personnel Mrs. Linda Bruns, Organist

Mrs. Melanie Martin, Pianist Mrs. Pat Munns, Music Assistant

Mrs. MiDonna Miller, Secretary/Receptionist secretary@phbclr.com

Ms. Rebel McClenney, Bookkeeper bookkeep@phbclr.com

Mr. Michael Hammonds, Assistant Chef/Custodian Ms. Magnolia Sanford, Housekeeping

Mr. Stephen Porter, Chef

Christmas Feast “A Candy Cane Christmas”

Sunday

December 16 5:30 p.m.

Hicks Hall

FEAST TICKETS are on sale through Wednesday. You may also call the church office at 661-1129 to reserve tickets.

Adult $6 Child $4

Advent Breakfast Sunday, December 23

8:30 a.m., Hicks Hall

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I just re-read a piece written by my friend Bill Leonard. Some of you will remember Bill – may even know him – since he has preached here before on several occasions. Bill is just about the most insightful Baptist historian around these days, and always brings a unique perspective to the Christian life. I offer a portion of his thoughts for your consideration. He cites the journal of a fourth century Spanish nun named Egeria who visited the Holy Lands in the year 394. She writes of her experience in visiting Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity and says, “I was fortunate enough to be granted permission to pass through the underground passage in the outer north wall into the very cave itself.

By what words, with what voice, can I describe it? That manger too wherein the babe wailed is better honoured by silence than by imperfect speech. In this little nook of the earth the Founder of the heavens was born; here He was wrapped in swaddling clothes, beheld by shepherds, shown by the star, adored by the wise men. And as I knelt there ... with mingled joy and tears.” Leaving the church for the “village” of Bethlehem Egeria found that “the ploughman ... sings Alleluia,” the “perspiring reaper diverts himself with chants” and the “vinedresser sings … the songs of David.” She concluded: “I was so uplifted, so that the evening came before I was aware of it.” Returning to Jerusalem on Jan. 6, she began Epiphany by confessing: “After we had rested from the fatigue of our devotions on the night before, we all gathered at eight o’clock in the Great Church which is in Golgotha.” Bill then makes a compelling case for creating our own kind of Christmas fatigue, not based on frenetic shopping or party participation, but like Egeria, from our Advent devotions. Musing on Black Friday, as opposed to Good Friday (Bill refers to “mobs of people trampling, fighting, cussing each other”) he offers a proposal for the postmodern church (that’s us, in case you didn’t know it)... “Let’s give up on ‘the Christmas Season.’” What does he mean by that? “Let’s admit,” he says, “that the mall-mobbing, gift-obsessing, economy-benefitting, culture-Christmas that begins with Black Friday, continues on Cyber Monday, and culminates in the disillusion of January refunds has won the day. Accept that as a socio-economic reality, but let’s not confuse the Christmas Season with faith, for God’s sake.” Okay, then. What are we left with? Bill suggests, “Let’s run from current culture-bound public forms of Christmas (including carols on the mall sound system), and embrace the season of Advent as fast as we can. Let’s make Advent – the four weeks of prepping for Christ’s ‘coming’ into the world – the contemporary church’s witness against the current Christmas Season hype. Many churches do that already, but let’s all get serious about it.” “So let’s all take the pledge,” Bill says. “For Christians, nobody gets to Christmas without going through Advent. Nobody reads the phrase ‘and she brought forth her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger’ (Luke 2), who hasn’t previously read Mary’s prophetic warning: ‘the arrogant of heart and mind God has scattered, but the humble have been lifted up; the rich sent away empty, but the hungry have been filled with good things’” (Luke 1). That may not encourage us, just yet, to shred our credit cards. But it may get us thinking about what this season is about, don’t you think? As I said, for your consideration.

We continue our beautiful Advent journey toward Christmas! Our church calendar is full of exciting opportunities to help us

celebrate, and we hope you will participate fully. Our Hillcrest Farmers Market is continuing through the winter

months, and we have 12 farmers and vendors on Saturday, plus two food trucks! It was like a summer day along our sidewalk, both in terms of the activity and the temperatures. You should come by and see and shop and welcome our neighbors to this ministry of our church. On Saturday, December 15th, we will have a sanctuary Open House! We will open our sanctuary doors and invite the shoppers at the market to walk in and see our beautiful church all decorated for Christmas. Let me know if you would like to come be a host for any part of the morning, 8 to noon. It’d be great to have someone tell a bit about our church and history, the banners, the Chrismon tree, and more. In the parlor foyer we would have cookies for all to enjoy. Let me know if you’d be willing to spend some time with us Saturday morning! What a great way to let visitors see what’s behind our doors, and to invite them to worship with us. Last Saturday, our newest member, Tammy Pannells, came to the market. We chatted and I found out that she joined our church as a result of the market! She came by to shop, picked up our bulletin, saw that we have women on ministry staff, and met our pastor Randy who visited with her about our church. Later she met Jimmie Lou at the door as a greeter, and made the connection with her hometown of Paragould. The rest is history! God is at work in our outreach along Kavanaugh every Saturday morning. We have much to look forward to in this season of anticipation and waiting. The Christmas Feast on Sunday, December 16th, our Advent Breakfast on December 23rd, and our Candlelight Communion Service on Christmas Eve. Will you invite friends to come with you to worship and Sunday School, and to any of these events? Often that’s all that’s needed: an invitation.

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Music Notes Last Sunday at 3:00 pm, the SonPower Choir sang for Woodland Hills Nursing Home. The Youth led the service with scripture readings, prayers, and a devotional. The service began with the singing of several Christmas carols in a medley. Following a devotional about Joseph, the SonPower Choir sang a music special titled "Joseph’s Lullaby". The closing prayer was given and the SonPower Choir led everyone in singing "Silent Night".

WELCOME NEW MEMBER!

Emily Jo Hasley 2501 Riverfront Drive, B208

Little Rock, AR 72202

Congratulations…to Ouida Cox on her retirement from the

Arkansas Electric Cooperatives following 63 years of employment.

Since 1968 Ouida has been editor of the former Rural Arkansas

magazine, now Arkansas Living. "Ouida's efforts to promote the

electric cooperative movement in Arkansas are beyond measure," said

Duane Highley, President and CEO. "Her loyalty to the cooperatives

and their members over the years is one of the reasons for the ongoing

success of Arkansas Living magazine and the Electric Cooperatives of

Arkansas." Tom Larimer, executive director of the Arkansas Press

Association, says, "Ouida Cox is an institution for journalism in

Arkansas." Ouida, your friends at PHBC are proud of you!

Response to our gift… We received the following from Alan Sherouse, pastor of Metro Baptist Church in New York City. Metro is serving as the “clearinghouse” for the gift we sent through CBF of Arkansas for Hurricane Sandy relief.

Randy: Catching up on some emails, and sorry to just now say thanks for these gifts. We received the second check today. This is a profoundly kind contribution, and we hope to be as deliberate in stewarding these resources as you were in collecting them. We're still assessing some of our longterm response strategy, but we should be able to share more about how the money will be used after the holidays. We're so grateful for the support of our friends. Blessed Advent to you and Pulaski Heights. Alan

“God With Us” Our Worship, the Third Sunday in Advent, December 16, 2012

Acolyte - Gretchen Allen

Deacons of the Week - Darrel Coleman Kelly Newberg

Greeters of the Week - Jimmie Lou Fisher,

Betty and Chuck Gardner, Melissa Moody, and Carol Powell

Extended Session Worker - Shelley Pate

“Hallelujah, Christ is Born” Young Musicians

“Were You There on that Christmas Night?” Leann Broadway and Carrey Reynolds

“Christmas Angels” The Sanctuary Choir

Children’s Church - Room 100

“Blessings” Isaiah 12:2-6; Philippians 4:4-7

Dr. Randy L. Hyde

The answer to the question on the Centennial bulletin board outside Hicks Hall follows: The ladies of the Pulaski Heights Baptist Ladies' Aid Society engaged in the following activities to make money to buy property for a new church: "tacking quilts (comforts), making aprons and hats, baking cakes, producing a musical, and having a bootie party. A total of about $38 was made in 1912.

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