Teen Challenge of Southwest Florida

Sunday, June 29th at 11:00 A.M., the Men's group of Teen Challenge will be here to share music and testimonies of what God is doing in there lives. Kevin Cummings, the director of Teen Challenge for Southwest Florida will be our presenter. This will be an excellent opportunity for you to learn more about their ministry. First Baptist Church supports the men's group of Teen Challenge for Southwest Florida by giving $100 a month to their ministry through our Local Missions Program.

Everyone is invited to come to this special service this Sunday, June 29th at 11 A.M. After the service our College and Career Class will be providing lunch for the Teen Challenge group. I am grateful for the College and Career class and their willingness to prepare this meal.

Hope to see you this Sunday.

Vacation Bible School - Outrigger Island: Living God's Unshakeable Truth!

The Lord has truly blessed us this week at VBS. We enrolled 153 students and 58 workers for the week. On Tuesday we had 153 students present. We had 11 children come to know the Lord for the first time. Please pray for these children as they grow in the Lord.

The children gave $219.55 for missions through their offerings each morning. This money will go to help our missionaries in North America and across the world. I ask that you say a special prayer for our missionaries.

We would like to thank all the people who helped in VBS, who donated items for VBS and prayed for us this week.

Our dates for VBS in 2009 are June 15- 19th! Hope to see you there!

Mother's Day Offering

This past Sunday, we collected a special offering for the Florida Baptist Children's Home. We have collected $1,057.00 for this Mother's Day Offering. I would like to thank each person and family who contributed to this special offering for the Florida Baptist Children's Home.

Each year this church has participated in offering and I believe we have been bless by it. Just to think that we have helped a child through those young years and gave him Christian House parents to help him or her in their life is a blessing.

Please keep in your prayers the workers and children of the Florida Baptist Children's Home.

Florida Baptist Children's Home - Mother's Day Offering

The Mother's Day Offering is extremely important in Florida Baptist Children's Homes' ability to serve boys and girls who desperately need a Christian home, good medical care, nourishing food, proper clothes, and education. First Baptist Church of LaBelle has for many years supported this offering to the Children's Home. Sunday, May 11th in our Morning Worship Service we will take a special offering for the Florida Baptist Children's Home.
Please give generously to this Offering.

Judgement House - Revenge

The script this year is "REVENGE, When Rage Takes Control", a story, ripped from the headlines, of a young man who gets even with his school mates. Our first performance will be Friday, February 1st from 6:30pm to 9:30pm Our second performance will be Saturday, February 2nd from 6:30 pm to 9:30pm and our Third performance will be Sunday, February 3rd from 4pm to 8pm. Walk-ins are welcome, but reservations are recommended. You can make reservations by calling the church office at (863)675-2171 or on the church website. The program takes about one hour to go through. When you arrive to Judgement House you should go to the big white tent and sign in.

The purpose of Judgement House is to have people think about there life and where they will spend eternity. We make plans for all kinds of things in our lives but many people don't think about where they will spend eternity. We don't go to heaven just because we are good or because we treat people with respect. We go to heaven if we have prayed and accepted Jesus as our Lord. Please be in prayer for each person who goes through Judgement House and for the cast and the counselors who will talk with those who want to make decisions for Christ.

Gideon Speaker - Sunday, January 27, 2008

This coming Sunday, January 27, 2008 in our Morning Worship Service, we will have a speaker coming to share about the work of Gideons.

The Gideons International are an interdenominational association of Christian business and professional men who are members of Protestant, evangelical churches. Members are dedicated to saving the lost through personal witnessing and the distribution of God's Word in more than 180 countries around the world.

Having access to God's Word can lead people to faith in Christ, and those new Christians can then grow by studying their Scriptures and even use them to share their faith with others.

For this reason, Gideons focus on distributing complete Bibles or New Testaments. These Scriptures are printed in more than 80 languages and are either given directly to certain individuals or placed in selected public locations where large numbers of people who may be searching for answers will have the ability to encounter the Word of God.

Distributing complete copies of God's Word also . . .

Plants powerful seeds that God can use in His timing. (I Corinthians 3:6)
Allows people to read the truth for themselves. (John 8:32)
Provides a continuing witness when the Gideon is no longer present. (Hebrews 4:12)
Makes it easier for the people we reach to in turn reach others with the truth about Jesus. (II Timothy 2:2)
Makes it possible for new Christians to learn and grow through personal Bible study.
(II Timothy 2:15)
Areas of Distribution
Scriptures are distributed one by one by members of The Gideons International to these groups:

*Students in the 5th grade and above
*Prisoners and police, fire, medical and military personnel
*Anyone else Gideons witness to individually
*Scriptures are placed in certain locations, including:

**Hotels and motels
**Hospitals, convalescent homes, medical offices and domestic violence shelters
**Prisons and jails

Come this Sunday, January 27, 2008 and hear our Gideon Speaker

Christmas Cheer Boxes

All throughout this year we have shared with you different needs within our church. Each time I believe God has used people within our church to meet each one of those needs. As we come to a close of this year let me share with you another need. This year for Christmas we are need of help with our Christmas Cheer Boxes. We need food items, and money to buy items for the food boxes.

This year I'm seeing a great need for these boxes in our community. We have already received some request for these boxes and I hope we have enough food and money to purchase the items we need. We are finishing off a year where we have spent all of our funds designated for benevolence needs. We do not have extra money for this cause so we need your help. If you can donate food, please bring it to the church by December 16th and if you would like to give a cash donation, please give it by December 20th.

It's my prayer that we can give everyone who needs one a Christmas Cheer Box this year.

Florida Baptist Children's Home

In Fort Myers, Florida we have a Florida Baptist Children Home which houses 6 children presently. This home also watches over 37 children that are in Foster Care.

Our Mommie and Me Ministry is taking the lead this year to take care of these children for Christmas and they need your help. Our Mommie and Me class have plan to take care of the 6 children that live in the home in Fort Myers. We need your help with the 37 children that are in Foster Care. The social worker for the Children's Home has given us a list of the items the children would like for Christmas, some of these items are what we call basics need items. (Shoes, t-shirts, socks, etc) We would like to get each of these children a toy and some of there basics need items for Christmas. Since the needs vary we are asking for money so we can buy the things they need. If we could collect $800 we feel we could buy each of the 37 a toy plus meet some of there basics need items.

If you would like to donate to this cause, please bring your donation to office of First Baptist Church of LaBelle at 330 North Main Street LaBelle, FL. 33935. Please mark your gift FBCH Christmas Gift.

Thank You very much for your Help!