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Sunday Recap

What a day! Sometimes I have to just pinch myself to make sure I am not living a dream. But each time I take a hunk of skin it HURTS! So I guess that means I am awake. I still can't believe God lets me be part of this, I am loving it!

Here is how things washed out from Sunday:
Attendance - 430
Offering - close to $6000.00 and that is a 5th Sunday
Joy Class - 25
Decisions to follow Christ - 3

Yeah Baby! Can't wait for what God will do next.

Also let me challenge you now for Easter Sunday. Attendance Goal - 500

Weekly Updates & Reminders

I am very thankful for the rain; however, it feels like every time I send out a weekly updates email it has been raining. So, once again, I am wishing y’all a Happy Wet Friday!

Joy Class-You are not too late to sign up for the Joy Class on Sunday at 5:30 p.m. If you are interested in learning more about Fellowship Church, please respond back to this email and I will add your name to the list.

Fellowship Connection-Remember if you are a current Facilitator or Host Home, you are invited to attend an Appreciation Luncheon and Meeting immediately following service on Sunday. Also, if you are interested in leading a Small Group for the Summer Semester, you are invited as well. Just let me know to add you and your family to the list.

Baptism-Our next baptism will be held Sunday, April 12th (Easter Sunday). If you have recently became a Christ follower or haven’t been baptized yet, please email me and I will get a time for you to come and video tape your testimony.

Youth-If you are interested in volunteering to help with the Youth, please email Nate at nathan.mattox@yahoo.com

Baldwin Clean Up Day-If you are new to Fellowship Church, you may not know about Baldwin Clean Up Day. This is our way of giving back to Baldwin. We host the event here at the church, people from all over the community; as well as the Ladies from Lee Arrendale come and we pick up trash from the roadways of Baldwin. You can choose between helping cook and serve, litter pick up and cleaning up after the event. Tony has already told us that we should be expecting at least 100 ladies from LATC. This is a great ministry for our community. The event will be Saturday, May 2nd.

A major announcement that has just been added to the calendar: Dave Ramsey will be hosting a Live Town Hall Forum on April 23rd at 8 p.m. Fellowship Church has become a host church to show live feed of Dave talking about today’s economy and answering questions anyone has.

I hope everyone stays dry and be careful on the roads today,

Amanda

Town Hall for Hope-Dave Ramsey Event

About the Event

When is the event?
April 23, 2009

8:00 p.m. EDT

Fellowship Church will be hosting a live feed.

For More Information go to our website at www.myfcb.org

What is Town Hall for Hope?

Town Hall for Hope is your opportunity to sit down with people in your community for a nationwide town hall meeting led by Dave Ramsey. Thousands of venues across the country will host the event, broadcasting Dave's live presentation. In the opening half hour, Dave will offer straight talk about the economy, recession, foreclosures and more. He'll carefully explain where we've come from, where we are now, and what we should be doing with our money during this time. Then, Dave will spend an hour answering your questions live!

We'll take questions by phone, email, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and more! Check out our Get Involved page to see all the ways in which you can join in the conversation! And remember, this is a free event!

You might not believe it!

Sunday will be fun! The Circus Elephant is arriving. Wear your red shoes and buckle up as Fellowship Church continues the series "The Elephant in the Room". The pass several weeks have hit the subject square in the head. I know many times I need to be presented with the truth, even if it hurts. The gossip series was very timely. On Thursday staff meeting Craig shared the message. This was different than what had been planned earlier and that afternoon I knew another reason why. I had gone for a hair cut and the person cutting shared with me their distaste for gossip and being hurt in the church. (No names given.) I was then able to share the short version of the message and meet someone who wasn't sure if a Church existed that would be bold in the subjects that have been taught over the past few weeks. Pray for this Hair Stylist to come and see a Church does exist that will be bold in following Christ and love all that come.

Updates and Reminders

There are quite a few updates and reminders this week.

Joy Class-If you are interested in learning more about Fellowship Church and how to become a member here, we invite you to our next Joy of Membership Class on March 29th at 5:30 p.m. here at the church. We will be serving a meal and providing child care for you as well. Email me back or sign up at the Guest Services Counter on Sunday.

Fellowship Connection-We would like to invite all present Facilitators and Home Hosts to a luncheon immediately following worship on March 29th. Please let me know if you are planning on attending.

Also, if you are interested in leading a small group for the Summer Semester, you are invited to the luncheon on March 29th. Following the meal, we will be having a short meeting to discuss our plans for the upcoming semester.

Youth-We are in need of workers to help with the vision of our new Youth Ministry. If you are interested in volunteering or would just like more information, you can email Nate at nathan.mattox@yahoo.com

Baldwin Clean Up Day-It’s hard to believe but it is that again. This year’s clean up day will be held on Saturday, May 2nd. If you would like to help, please email me or sign up at the Guest Services Counter.

Another new member of the Fellowship family

Name: Maya Danielle

Born: Wednesday, March 11th at 4 p.m.

Weight: 8 lbs

Height: 21 1/4 inches

Lee Arrendale Worship

I am still in amazement and wonder from Saturday night. I cannot begin to put in to words the experience of worshiping with 800+ ladies who are not afraid to let loose and get down. My ears were still ringing Sunday morning.

Let me thank each and every one of you who came out and loved on these ladies, danced your heart out for them, held up your life stories in cardboard testimonies and were not afraid to get real for these ladies. Thank you for giving them the opportunity to experience communion for the first time in years. Craig said this morning that a lady came up to him and thanked him for bringing in the Lord's Supper because she had not been able to experience that in the 16 years that she had been incarcerated. The kind words, hugs, smiles, tears, and prayers did not go unnoticed.

I wanted to share with you a letter we received already from one of the ladies from Saturday.

"Mr. Howerton,

I thank God for you and Fellowship Church. A lot of churches come here and the messages are from the Word but there's a much needed freshness your pastor brings. He is REAL and I am so thankful.

My request is that if at all possible, would FC consider coming once a month. I believe they will be used to birth real revival here.

Again, thank God for you and the work He does in you and your church family that extends to us.

May grace, peace and God's love continually cover you.

Respectfully,
Jennifer Kelly"

I cannot thank y'all enough for everything Fellowship Church continues to do to impact this community. I am so blessed to be a part of such a church family. Thank you again.

Inpending World Calamity

Got your attention did I? I wanted to share my thoughts about the recent prophecy as given by David Wilkerson, author of the best selling "The Cross and the Switchblade".

It seems Pastor Wilkerson got a "word" from God concerning a "great calamity" that will cause event the godliest among us to shutter. Although he does not mention specific's such as dates and exact locations, he does go as far as mentioning NY City and the surrounding cities. Then the calamity such as fires and riots will spread across America and the world. He tells us to prepare by stockpiling a 30 day supply of non-perishable food, hygiene items and other important needs.

So what do we do with this? Not sure, but I can tell you how I am responding:

1. Why now, certainly things are not well, but I have seen in my lifetime people (Christians) exploit difficult times. It is because Christians do this that so many do not believe. I am not suggesting that this is the case with David Wilkerson, but the timing seems suspect.

2. I am not one that believes the Judgment of God will come on the just. I believe the rapture of the church (or second coming of Jesus) will take place and then the Tribulation period where God's judgment falls on those left behind. In my personal understanding of scripture I can't find where God will bring this judgment to the church. This does not mean that some of God's blessings have been removed and being removed, that is certainly evident in the resent collapse of our financial markets.

3. Why would the "godliest" of us be caused to shutter in fear. The Bible tells us that God does not give us a spirit of fear. In my lifetime I have seen many so called end times prophesies come and go, each time causing fear and confusion. The Bible clearly teaches that God is not the author (source) of confusion. We should all remember that Satan is the one who comes to cheat steal and destroy.

4. Why would God tell only David Wilkerson? Why do we not hear a resounding cry coming from all corners of the Church? In the OT God spoke to Israel through prophets, this was possible primarily due to the fact that Israel was one nation of people who were centrally located. Following Jesus' death and resurrection the church is scattered all over the world. I am not sure God uses Prophets to proclaim his message. God can certainly do whatever He wants to do, but I just don't see it.

One final thought: David Wilkerson is a person I respect and admire as a great man of God. I remember reading the Cross and the Switchblade and it have a profound impact on my life. I can't solidly say that he is wrong, I am just not ready to buy in. God calls us to live everyday as if it were the day Jesus would return. If we live that way then even if calamity comes, God is still Lord of my life and in control. I know He cares for me and would let nothing happen in my life that would harm me. So my response is to live like I live everyday and keep tell as many as I can about the life changing message of Jesus Christ.

The Goal - if Jesus is coming soon, let's get up a load.

'Til next time, CL

Saturday Night

WOW! Have you folks encouraged our staff this week. There re 60+ folks going to minister to the ladies at LACI. WOW! I am praying that we will continue to be stretched as we spend time with the ladies and staff of LACI.
A reminder on times the bus is leaving
Band and setup 12:30
Singers 3:00
Everybody else 5:15

See you there.

Weekly Updates & Reminders

Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday. Don’t forget to spring forward your clocks before going to bed Saturday night. We wouldn’t want you to be late for the 9:15 service!

120 days for $120,000 ends next week (3/15). We would like to encourage you to help with the debt retirement. With everyone participating, we can put ourselves in a position to follow God to our next level.

If you are attending worship at LASP on March 14th, be sure that you turn your forms into Stan on Sunday. Also, if you are doing a Cardboard Testimony, make sure you email what you would like to say on your cardboard to Stan as well.

Our next Joy Class has been scheduled for March 29th at 5:30 p.m. If you would like to attend, please email me back (amandaanderson@windstream.net) or sign up at the Guest Service Counter on Sunday.

If you would like to help cook or serve at the Little League Opening Day Ceremonies on March 20th, please email me (amandaanderson@windstream.net) or sign up at the Guest Service Counter.

If you haven’t had a chance to come upstairs and tour the new office space, please take a moment Sunday to have a look. Everything has came together so well. We would like to thank Daniel and Rodney for their hard work and dedication. Also, thank you to Steve Newell, James Nix, and Chris McConnell who came in on their own time and installed the heating and air. If I missed anyone I apologize and thank you too!

See yall Sunday!

Weekly Updates & Reminders

Good soggy Friday!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week.

The Elephant has arrived! Sunday brings a great change to Fellowship…not only the fact that we are now going to 2 services (9:15 & 11 a.m.), but Craig’s new series, The Elephant in the church, will also begin.

We have the following important updates and reminders for you this week:

1) 120 days for $120,000 ends March 15th. To date, we are just shy of $20,000. We would like to encourage you to help with the debt retirement.
2) If you are interested in attending worship at Lee Arrendale State Prison on March 14th, Stan will be holding another meeting after church on Sunday. Just meet him at the front and he will give you the necessary information needed.
3) If you are ready to take the next step at Fellowship Church, we will be hosting our Joy Class on March 29th at 5:30 p.m. here at the church. Please email me if you are interested in attending.
4) Daylight Savings Time begins next Sunday, March 8th. Don’t forget to spring your clocks forward before going to bed so you won’t be late for church!
5) If you are interested in becoming involved in any aspect of Children’s Ministry, please email Nate at nathan.mattox@yahoo.com.

We look forward to seeing every here Sunday bright and early!

No one left Behind part II

It has been an exciting start to my week. I was reminded Sunday how fragile life really is!! My previous blog was centered around the thought that everyone mattered to God so they should matter us us.

My daughter was working at a local department store. She was assisting a 86 year old patron trying to find an item on an isle when this lady passed out in her arms. Little did she realize but this lady was having a massive heart attack and dying in her arms. (sounds far fetched but it really happened)

While the paramedics were attending to this sweat lady trying to revive her, my daughter and some employees closed the isle to give these professionals room to work. While they were standing there a man walked right past them but was quickly stopped. The situation was explained to him that the isle was closed while the paramedic's tried to revive this lady and bring her back to life. His response was "i only need one item and I will get it really quick" W.O.W.

How insensitive we have become as human beings when someone lay dying on the floor and all we can think about is what we need. Life became so insignificant because this man was not connected personally to lady lying on the floor.

But is that not the church today? People are dying all around us and all we can say as we step around them is "i only need one item and I will get it quickly" Are we moving at such a fast pace that people really don't matter. Their spiritual life is on the floor in front of us and no one has the time to hook them up to the spiritual defibrillator (God's Word) "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God".

Can I encourage you to stop and look around you this week. See who is spiritually on the floor and show them the life source "JESUS" and lets get people hooked -up. Here is a question I was asked many years ago by my mentor "how many lost people am I currently involved in their lives" If we are not careful we can look around us and all we will see is the same old Christians that we have been hanging around for years!!

PEOPLE MATTER TO GOD

Until all have Heard

Pastor Robbie

Told you so!

Hey Fellowship Church.

Wow what a day on Sunday. Can you believe we had 405? That blew me away. I arrived at 6:30 am on Sunday (yes, that early) and really was preparing for a small crowd given the fact that the weather was BAD, low 40's and rain, some snow.

As people began to arrive I thought maybe, then you kept coming and coming and pretty soon we had a full building.

Let me first off tell you how much I appreciate the Fellowship family for responding and attending the 9:15 service. By doing so you opened up room for 205 people to attend the second worship at 11:00. THANK YOU!

Also let me point you to the Wiki page I told you about last week. When you type in smart see what comes up under people. Told you so! And you laughed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

See ya Sunday and let me remind you to invite someone who doesn't attend church this week.





Click this image for Smart

Sunday

Did y'all see the elephant? If you didn't...I honestly think you should have your eyes examined!!! From peanuts all over the floor to medieval princess to Robin Hood to the Elephant in the Room...Fellowship Church pulled out all the stops yesterday and all I can say is THANK YOU! Each of you never stop amazing me!!! Despite the down pour of rain, the decreasing temperatures and the threat of snow, y'all came out and boy did GOD show out again. We had 193 in our first 9:15 service with a total of 405 for the day!!! The baptisms were amazing. Each of their testimonies shows if we invest in that one person, their whole lives can be changed.

During the next week, I hope you take a chance to invite that one person who has been weighing on your heart recently.

I hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed week! Love yens

Sunday Set List

March 1, 2009

My Savior Lives New Life Church

Mighty King of Love New Life Church

(Great Job Celeste and Praise Team)

Came to My Rescue Hillsong

From The Inside Out Hillsong

First dual service day!

193 in the 9:15

200+ in the 11:00

4 Baptisms

LACI Day is growing, please bring back forms this Sunday March 8

Please bring your testimony pages so they can be prepared

Friday Night March 20 you are need for cookout for the Habersham Little League Opening Day Ceremony, location Habersham Central High

Children's Area is looking good, castle and knight theme

The costumes we great (Natein Hood)

Peanuts in the floor, Nutz

Hope I don't have Elephant duty....

Thank You Fellowship Church!