March
7
“The Visible Word”
Heb. 2:8-12
March
14
“Listen to the Word”
Heb. 2:1-4
March
21
“Word of Power”
Heb. 2:14-18; 3:1
March
28
Palm Sunday
Heb. 9:11-14
April
1
Maundy Thursday -
Service of Shadows
Communion
Heb. 12:1-3
April
4
Easter Sunday
Celebration!
Spring
Tea to be Held at WBC
A
Spring Tea will be held at WBC on April 17th at
2:00pm sponsored by the WBC Women’s Lit Group.
Ticket prices are $10 / adult and $6 / children
ages 6-10. This
event might not be suitable for children younger than
6 years of age. With
the price of your ticket, you will enjoy a fun
afternoon with a
luncheon cooked by our very own Steve Sommers
as well as a couple of
performances.
First, the youth will be doing a fun fashion
show on “Designer Crosses”.
Second, Pat Kachel's will be the guest speaker.
Her ministry is called “I Love To Tell The
Stories.” Women’s Lit Group has
chosen from her many programs, a presentation
"that paints the portraits of three amazing
Christian women
authors: Corrie ten Boom, Jane Austin and
Lucy Maude Montgomery. With humor and historical
commentary,
listeners will be inspired by these
heroines of heaven."
Mark your
calendars now and plan to come and join us in
this new and wonderful event.
"Shop
With SCRIP"
“SHOP
WITH SCRIP” is
a new fundraiser for WBC Mission Trips! It
permits us to make money through your normal every day
purchases for groceries, gas, clothing, etc. without
you spending one penny more that you normally would.
Copies of the listing of the hundreds of
participating stores and their percentages are
available in the church library. We are
accepting orders on the first and third Sundays of the
month.
Thanks for helping make our future
mission trips possible!
Adult Education
Opportunities
Sundays @ 10:50am
Classics
Class - The
Classics class will be starting on forgiveness,
“Drop that Rock!”
Bring a bible and pencil to class.
Teacher:
Lee Cummins, Rm #4
Novels
- Supporting
Actors on the Biblical Stage. We will
'review" people in the Old Testament who played
key roles in the lives of main characters in the
biblical saga, contributing to their success.
Such supporting cast members are Araunah, Abigail,
Eleazar and Benaiah.
Teacher: Wayne Ramsden, Rm #5
SEARCH
COMMITTEE UPDATE
A Note from the Search Committee
Your Search Committee has
been on a journey which began last January, when the
Transition Team turned over to us the information they
had gleaned from the congregation regarding our
church’s character and priorities.
We took this information and transferred it in
detail to the ABC’s pastoral candidate forms.
The material was then entered into the national
ministerial database.
This enabled us to find those pastors who were
open to a move and whose strengths most closely
matched our priorities.
Throughout this process
we have been acutely aware that only six of us were
charged with the awesome task of representing some 200
people. At
each step we have prayed that the Lord would make very
clear to us, the person He had in mind for our church.
While we waited for pastoral profiles to arrive, we
assembled packets of print and media materials to be
used as an introduction to our congregation.
In April we received from
the ABC approximately 40 profiles of pastors who
matched our priorities and would be open to a move.
An initial letter was sent to ones whom we
selected. In addition, we received personal
recommendations for two other pastors, and began
contact with them.
It should be mentioned here that at each step
in the process, the committee was in agreement, which
we felt was confirmation of God’s guidance.
We are all very different, but God has used
each of us as we have brought our contributions to the
committee.
We agreed to conduct
phone interviews with three candidates and we came
away from that experience feeling that any one of the
three was a strong possibility.
We continued to pray and before we could
arrange second interviews, one of the three men called
us to say that he felt the Lord was leading him to
remain in his present pastorate.
After second interviews
we still felt very positively about the two remaining
candidates, and began to plan for a visit to each of
their churches. After
phone conversations with several committee members,
where additional concerns were expressed, one of the
candidates withdrew his name, leaving us with one.
Bob Klatt and Paul Nelson visited his church in
October and had a very positive visit.
It is interesting to note
that our candidate’s initial response to our first
inquiry was, “I have not entertained the possibility
of moving at this time, so I would need to be
convinced that this was the Lord’s leading.”
Now, he and his family are eager to visit with
us and have opened themselves up to a call.
God has led both them and us in our journey and
we, as a committee, are pleased to recommend the
candidate for the position of pastor at
Woodbury
Baptist
Church
.
Your
Search Committee:
Margie Castro, Bob Klatt, Paul Nelson, Kylee
Sandquist, Jeri Williams, Carol Windham.
