Last Weekend

Decisions for Christ

Joseph Syrowik

Special Events
1,239 1,730 2,969

Worship Attendance
September 15 & 16
Saturday Night Sunday 9:30 a.m. Total

Baptism

Transfer of Letter
Jo Martin

Financial Stewardship
2012-2013 Operating Revenues July 1, 2012 - Sept 16, 2012
$1,354,776

Bible & Life Attendance

September 15 & 16
Saturday 5:00 p.m. Saturday 7:30 p.m. Sunday 8:15 a.m. Sunday 11:00 a.m. Home Groups Total 34 847 78 821 211 1,991

Budget

$1,323,440 ($31,336)

Actual

Variance

Debt balance as of Sept 16 $7,304,573 Deacon of the Week September 24 - 30 Telly Alvarez & Ed Heim
If you need assistance, please call the church deacon hotline at 800-732-9573. For Spanish, call 601-6051.

Next Week
Wednesday Family Meal
Meal for Sept 26 (4:45 p.m.-6 p.m. in the Fellowship Recreation-Gym) Baked Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes, Salad, Veggie, Dessert
Tickets may be purchased at the Lighthouse Cafe during regular business hours or at the door for $6 each or $25 for a family (immediate family residing in home). Alternate ` choices include grilled chicken breast, hamburger, pizza, or a grilled hot dog.

We are kicking-off a new semester beginning this Sunday, Sept 23 at 6:00pm in Room DC121 with a dinner featuring our Senior Pastor, Dr. Hayes Wicker. Tickets are $5.00 and may be purchased at the Bookstore or Media Ministry window. Training and outreach will begin on Sunday, Sept 30 from 5:00pm-7:45pm in DC121, and continue through Sunday, Nov 4. You will learn the presentation of the gospel as you experience a variety of visitation settings. Childcare must be pre-registered. You may obtain your childcare reservation at the Preschool Rotunda in the Education Building before and after all worship services. For more details, please call Linda at 596-8600 x280.

Discovering First Baptist Church Naples

This dinner seminar has been rescheduled for this Thursday, Sept 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Center. It is led by Senior Pastor Hayes Wicker and is for those who are new to First Baptist Church, those who want to join the church, or those who would like more information about our church and ministries. Please RSVP by this Wednesday, Sept 26 at 4pm by calling 596-8600 x679. Please make your childcare reservation separately by calling 596-8600 x360.

Saturday, September 22
5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 7:30 p.m.

Weekly Schedule

Dr. Wicker on the Radio

You can hear Dr. Wicker every day at 1pm on 91.5 Kingdom FM. Dr. Wicker is also on WSOR 90.9 FM at 8pm on Sundays.

Touch Points

Sunday, September 23
8:15 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 4:45 p.m. 6:20 p.m. 6:25 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 8:00 p.m.

Bible and Life Groups: Various Rooms on Campus Worship Service: Worship Center Bible and Life Groups: Various Rooms on Campus Bible and Life Groups: Various Rooms on Campus Worship Service: Worship Center Bible and Life Groups: Various Rooms on Campus RefresHer Womens Ministry: Worship Center (east side) Family Meal: Fellowship Recreation-Gym AWANA: Education Building Band of Brothers Mens Ministry: Chapel RefresHer Womens Ministry: Worship Center (east side) Choir Rehearsal: Choir Room High School Ministry: Student Center Middle School Ministry: Family Life Center-Gym Orchestra Rehearsal: Worship Center

There is a guest reception in the Commons following the Saturday night and Sunday morning services. Please come meet Pastor Wicker.

Guest Reception

For more information about any of our ministries, please visit our church website at and like us on Facebook at

Tuesday, September 25

www.fbcn.org

Wednesday, September 26

www.facebook.com/FirstBaptistChurchNaples.
3000 Orange Blossom Drive, Naples, FL 34109 Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Church Receptionist ............................................................. 597-6057 Enter ext. # for direct connection .......................................... 596-8600 Lighthouse Bookstore ........................................................... 449-4488 First Baptist Academy Naples .............................................. 597-2233 24-Hour Prayer Line ................................................597-PRAY (7729) Church Email .............................................................FBCN@fbcn.org

First Baptist Church Naples

**Other events this week include: Outreach Evangelism, Resonate, Project 56, Praise Kids, Annas Tea, Discovering First Baptist Church Naples, Celebrate Recovery, and Grief Share. Please see our weekly schedule at www.fbcn.org/weeklyschedule.

I Just Cant Keep It To Myself

In my first pastorate, I knew very little about preaching and even less about how to pastor a church. After all, I was only 20 and not even majoring in Bible in those college days. As a brand new pastor, I began a program of Witnessing Training and Visitation in homes. However, Everette Carroll, a godly layman in my home church, had taken me out on Friday evenings for a number of months in his El Camino. He did not know the term discipleship Dr. Hayes Wicker or on-the-job-training, but he was passionate about the fact that witnessing was more caught than taught. I Senior Pastor listened to him share the gospel to countless hitchhikers as we cruised around Phoenix, purposely looking for those who would need a ride and would be a captive audience. In that first church, the University Baptist Church, I led a young man to Christ. In a few days, he exclaimed, I just cant keep it to myself! Like the Gerasene Demoniac, who was delivered by Jesus, he wanted to go home and tell what great things God had done for him (Mark 5:19). The compulsion of love, which Paul described in 1 Corinthians, is always a motivating desire for the Christian (2 Corinthians 5:14). How, if we love like Christ, can we not tell people how to miss Hell and make Heaven? Please come to a special dinner this Sunday evening. I will be speaking and we will hear testimonies of those who have been involved in our Outreach Evangelism program in the past. Come and kick the tires of our ministry of training, fellowshipping, and going to where the lost can be found. Learn how you can gain confidence with simple approaches and learn the essential scriptures of the gospel. Develop a strategy for talking to anyone, anywhere about the Good News. Your attendance is not necessarily a commitment, but I believe that you will catch the same zeal which I received from Everette Carroll, way back in the 60s. After all, Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Each of our Bible and Life Groups should be represented in our Outreach Evangelism program. I encourage you to talk to others in your class and come with a partner! People will know the truth of this scripture when we share: Christ died for all, so that we who live might no longer live for ourselves, but for Him Who died and rose again on our behalf (2 Corinthians 5:15).

The Hidden Person of the Heart Book Launch and Author Signing - Meet the authors and purchase your devotional. Special price of $10 on Saturday, Sept 22 and Sunday, Sept 23 in the Commons (outside the Lighthouse Bookstore before and after BLGs). FBCN contributing authors: Alana Faircloth, Kim Hayes, Carleen Heath, Jennifer Patterson, Renee Pigg, Patti Rigley, Sonya Stearns, Sarah Taylor, Janet Wicker, and Kristin Yeldell. Compiled and edited by Janet Wicker. Missions Kiosk - Good News Club is a weekly after school program that presents Bible lessons, Bible memory verses, songs, missionary stories, prayer, and snacks each week. Central to the club is the sharing of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Many volunteers are needed to comprise the teams that volunteer at the elementary schools. Please visit us in the Missions Kiosk this weekend, or call the Childrens Ministry Office at 596-8600 x350 for more information. LCT Nativity Sign-up - Come to our table in the Commons before and after worship services this weekend Sept 22 & 23. For more information, see our website at www.fbcn.org/lct2012. Resonate - 7th-12th grade student choir begins this Sunday from 5:00pm7:30pm in the Student Center. Project 56 - Our childrens choir program for those in 5th & 6th grade will begin on Sunday, Sept 23 at 5:00pm in Room DC220. Call Tina at 596-8600 x229. PRAISEKIDS - Our childrens choir program for pre-k through 4th grade will kick-off on Sunday, Sept 23 at 5:00pm in the Education Building. Contact Gordon at 596-8600 x641.

This Weekend

Mens Ministry - Join our Band of Brothers this Wednesday, September 26 as we study the Authority of Jesus Example at 6:25pm in the Chapel. Annas Tea - This ministry of the deacons wives to the widows of our congregation will feature FBA School Spirit, and Diana Vanderhoff giving a testimony on Monday, Sept 24 at 1:30pm in Room WC117. Sign-up in the Fellowship Hallway, or call Vada at 596-8600 x268. First Baptist Academy - FBA is hosting a Christian College Fair on Tuesday, Sept 25 from 1:30pm-2:30pm in the Commons. In the last 4 years, 3545 colleges have participated in each tour. Please consider bringing your juniors and seniors to this fair. They will have the opportunity to meet college admissions personnel and gather information about Christian colleges. Email scrain@fbalions.org with any questions. High School - Saw You @ the Pole Worship Celebration at the Beach is Wednesday, Sept 26 from 6:30pm-8pm at Lowdermilk Beach. Be at the Student Center by 5pm if you need a ride (we will return by 9pm). Route 56 Engage Retreat - September 28-30 for all 5th & 6th graders at Camp Gilead. Price is $100 (includes Engage binder and t-shirt). Please register online at www.fbcn.org/msm. HSM@Home - Beginning October 3rd. Details coming soon.... Healing the Heartbreak of Abortion - Without question, abortion can be one of the most traumatic experiences in a womans life. Surrendering the Secret, beginning in October, is a powerful 8-week study that helps hurting women find the path to healing through honest, interactive Bible study. You will be encouraged and supported as you allow God into rooms of your heart that may have been sealed for too long. Its time to heal. All you need is to be willing. He wants to set you free. Please call 596-8600 x284 or email sts@fbcn.org to begin your healing journey. All contact is confidential. 2013 Deacon Nominations - Nomination forms for 2013 Deacons are now in the turnstiles in the Commons, Church Foyer, and Fellowship Hallway. Please fill out any nominations you have and turn them in by October 7. Car Care Volunteers Needed - Car Care could use your help on October 27. We need hundreds of volunteers to service over 200 cars and people, and most importantly to share the love of Jesus with them. Pick up a registration card in the Commons or register online at www.fbcn.org/carcare.

Ministries

Upcoming Events
Janets Summer Book Club Rescheduled - Janet has rescheduled her Summer Book Club meeting on Pilgrims Progress for Sunday, Sept 30 at 4pm-6pm in the Commons. Books are still available for anyone that would like to participate. For details, call Rae at 596-8600 x525. Register to Vote - Your last chance to register to vote in the upcoming presidential election is October 6 & 7 in the Commons. In the last presidential election, less than 50% of evangelical Chrisitans voted. Let your voice be heard. VOTE! Public Issues Committee - To find out how you can be part of this ministry that brings awareness of public issues to our congregation, please come to our next meeting Sunday, Oct 7 at 4:00pm in Room WC117. For details, call Ken Price at 200-0448. Pregnancy Resource Centers Annual Walk for Life - Saturday, Oct 13 at North Collier Regional Park. Register at www.PRCWalkforLife.org. Walker/ Team Check-In: 8am. Walk Rally/Start: 9am.

James MacDonald Vertical Church Tour

James MacDonald and the Vertical Church Band are coming to Naples for a night of window-rattling, earth-shattering, life-altering worship and teaching from Gods Word. Church was never meant to be safe. Or comfortable. Or predictable. Its meant to arrest our pride. To crush our selfishness. To carry our heartache. To comfort our affliction. Church is where we find community, express compassion, and engage in mission. But, without Gods presence, church fails. So lets make the change that changes everything. Go Vertical. Lets stop making church all about us. Prepare for a serious change in direction Monday, Oct 1 at 7pm. Event is FREE but you must register at www.jamesmacdonald.com/ verticalchurchtour or call 888581-9673.

News
Two Christian Movies Released - Last Ounce of Courage and Unconditional are both in local theaters now. Our Public Issues Committee highly recommends and supports these movies. For more information, see their websites at unconditionalthemovie.com and lastouncethemovie.com. Absent From the Body; Present With the Lord - FBCN member Ben ODell passed away on Sept 15. We express our sympathy to his wife, Betty, and the rest of the family. FBCN member Judson Hair passed away recently. We express our sympathy to his wife, Mary, his daughter, Anne Killilea, and the rest of the family. New Arrival - Jovany Luis Ramos was born on September 12, 2012 weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 19 inches long. Proud parents are Eduardo & Daisy, and big brother is Jonathan.

Preschoolers Learn by Watching You - Children learn by watching and imitating. They see and hear you telling them, Jesus loves you. They think about those words, and then they repeat what you said. They imitate what you say and what you do. Thats how they learn about Jesus. Come alongside ` preschoolers and tell them about Jesus. They will follow you as they learn to follow Him. Volunteers are needed on Saturday nights at 6pm or 7:30pm and Sunday at 9:30am or 11am. Call Beverly at 596-8600 x351 for details. FBA Help Wanted - First Baptist Academy is currently accepting applications for Middle School boys and girls basketball coaches and a Middle School boys soccer coach. If you are interested in coaching at FBA, please contact the Athletic Office at 597-2233 x622 or email cmurphy@fbalions.org. When Are We Going Back to Two Services on Sunday? - Beginning Sunday, Oct 28, we will resume our two worship services at 9:30am and 11:00am. Lighthouse Bookstore - 2013 calendars are now available. 2013-2014 28-month planners are here as well for $2.40. Planners begin with Sept 2012. Quiet Time Devotions 2012/2013 - Now on sale in our bookstore ($14.39 PK through teens; $15.99 adult).

Opportunities to Serve

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