Georgia Avenue Baptist Church A Montgomery County Historical Site

12525 Georgia Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20906 Rev. Tim Bonner, Pastor

February 23, 2020

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

“Our mission is to bring people to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, and to membership in His church and His family; to equip and develop people into the image of the Lord Jesus, so that they can be on mission in His world in order to glorify His name.”

OUR VISION STATEMENT

“We embrace all people to lead them to the knowledge and saving grace of Jesus Christ and model His life and love.”

Phone: (301) 946-1331 - FAX: (301) 946-1333 Web: www.gabcglenmont.org - E-Mail: gabc@gabc.comcastbiz.net

Angela Clark - Minister of Youth Zelma Edwards-Organist Glenda Whitaker-Pianist

“ . . . The LORD is in His holy temple . Let all the earth keep silence before Him." Habakkuk 2:20 (NKJV)

Black History Month—Part II Order of Worship - 8:30 AM

Worship Leader: Doris Foggie

Sunday School - 9:45 AM (For Adults & Children)

Prelude Glenda Whitaker

Hymn Jesus Lifted Me

Scripture 2 Peter 1:10-11 Pastor Bonner

Prayer Austin Diggs

Prayer Response Thank You, Lord

Hymn No. 618 I’ve Got Peace Like A River

Welcome/Greeting Calvin Parker/So Glad We're Here

Announcements Pastor Bonner

Black History Part II I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me Doris Foggie

Hymn No. 615 When The Morning Comes

Offering Prayer Elizabeth Rivas

Offertory Worth Fighting For Praise Team

Hymn No. 668 Doxology

Message

The Unexpected Detour Acts 16: 6-10

Pew Bible Pages 1274-1275 Pastor Bonner

Hymn No. 629 Through It All

Benediction

Hymn (On Screen) Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing

Our prayer room is staffed by volunteers after the 8:30 AM and 11 AM services every Sunday. The prayer room is located by the upstairs restrooms. Please join us in the prayer room if you need prayer. Also, if you have a prayer need, please fill out a prayer card at the end of your pew, and place it in the offering plate, or tape your request at the beginning of the church service to the cross. It will reach the pastor and our prayer team, who will pray for you.

Black History Month—Part II Order of Worship - 11:00 AM

Worship Leader: Doris Foggie

Prelude Zelma Edwards

Hymn Jesus Lifted Me

Scripture 2 Peter 1:10-11 Pastor Bonner

Prayer Quintin Coleman

Prayer Response Thank You, Lord

Hymn No. 618 I’ve Got Peace Like A River

Welcome/Greeting Cyril Olufemi/So Glad We're Here

Announcements Pastor Bonner

Black History Part 1I Doris Foggie

Congregation Congregation

I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me

O Happy Day

Hallelujah CIA

Hymn No. 615 When The Morning Comes

Offering Prayer Elizabeth Rivas

Offertory You Deserve it GABC Choir

Hymn No. 668 Doxology

Anthem I’ll Just Say Yes GABC Choir

Message

The Unexpected Detour Acts 16: 6-10

Pew Bible Pages 1274-1275 Pastor Bonner

Hymn No. 629 Through It All

Benediction

Hymn (On Screen) Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing

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For Your Convenience And Added Spiritual Care Child Care

Child care is provided during the 11:00 a.m. worship service for infants up to age 2 in our nursery and for preschoolers, ages 3 to 5 in an activity room. An usher will escort you at your request.

If you need to meet with Pastor Tim, please call the church office to make an appointment.

You can now give online through our website

http://www.GABCGLENMONT.ORG Click

on the Give Online Tab on the Left, Click on

the Red Link Marked GABC Online Giving

Sick & Shut-In Onita Alexander- Home Joan Ascencio- Arden Courts of SS Janice Brown - Home Elizabeth Dujon- Bedford Rehab 144B

Millie Hollingsworth-Home Jimmy Kennedy - WV Lucille Ledbetter - Home Barbara Marvel - WV Natalie Massaquoi - Home Winnie Massaquoi– Home Donald Myers-Unknown

Freddie Perry - Home Iris Pettigrew - Home Richard Porterfield - Home Charlotte Rausch - Home

Please notify the Church Office immediately when there is illness or bereavement in your family.

February Birthdays

2/2 Judy Monzey

2/4

Brooke Collins Megan Ingram Hawa Jalloh Asha Richards

2/6

Elizabeth Dujon Ibrahim Garba Ebby Mukabwa

2/19 Michel Mulumba

2/21 James Morton

Our Record 02/16/2020

Sunday School 90

8:30 a.m. Worship 28

11:00 a.m. Worship 128

The weekly budget need is $6,534.38.

On Sunday, 02/16/2020, the budget need

WAS NOT met.

Van funds received to date have totaled $13,669.98

2/22 J Andrew Redd

2/24 Onita Alexander

2/25 Wilhelmina Davis

2/26 Nicole Gregory

2/27 Isaiah Limontas Gynantrian Watson

2/28

Mischler Joseph Iris Pettigrew Philip Shadid

Announcements

Chrisma Food Drive, the next food distribution will be March 21. 2020. You must call 301-458-7472 or 202-427-2816 to register.

A Challenge To The Congregation A challenge has been made to the congregation to donate $2.00 every Sunday to-ward the van fund. Please continue to pay your regular tithes and offerings. It may just mean something as simple as one less hamburger at McDonalds or one less cup of coffee. We need about $35,000 dollars to be able to look at purchasing a van.

Attention VBS Workers! Training for VBS will be held on February 29, 2020 at First Baptist Upper Marlboro. We do need a headcount ahead of time as we must preregister. Please see Beatrice Gray or Angela Clark if you are willing to serve in VBS this year. VBS Dates are: Kickoff– July 25, 12 PM, VBS- July 27-31 6 PM to 9 PM, VBS Graduation– August 2, 6 PM

There will be a Children’s Department meeting for Teachers and Parents on March 1 after

the 11 AM service. All parents are encouraged to attend this important meeting.

Handbells Handbell players there will be rehearsal at 6 PM on March 11, 18, 25 and April 1.

See you then. Zelma

Disability Ministry

Meeting Agenda for March 14, 2020

1. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Training

2. Annual Autism Speaks Capital National Walk 3. Conferences/Upcoming Roundtable discussion on the theme: "The Foundation of the Church,

Spiritual Beliefs, Christians' Attitudes toward Persons with Disabilities" Disability intersects all aspects of human life and affects all ages.

We invite you to join us on March 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM in Coleman Hall. We solicit your precious support to succeed. If you want to help GABC Disability Ministry activity, please contact Jeannette Kah Le Guil.

Please consider giving $1.00 a week for the Disability Ministry. Be sure to put your name on the envelope with Disability Ministry written on the envelope.

Please see the insert about the Congregational Town Hall

today after the 11 AM service.

Youth Ministries • Youth Bible Study - Wednesdays, at 6:45 p.m. Our Bible study topic for February will be on Faith. Our

first DCD on faith is called Down By The River. This will be followed by a Bible study on What Faith Means To You. Please join us.

We will not have Bible Study during the month of March, and will resume in April.

• Youth Lock-in– Canceled due to lack of participation in the Wednesday evening Bible Study.

• Parents and guardians: please encourage your youth to come to church and youth Bible study so that we can help them grow and mature as disciples.

Children’s Corner PARENTS! PARENTS!

Please remember our,” Children’s Department TOWN HALL MEETING”, immediate-ly following the 11 AM worship service, Sunday, March 1st, 2020. As seen in letter

below, this meeting deal primarily with our children. Please make every effort to attend.

Dear parents of the children of Georgia Avenue Baptist Church,

The year 2019 went by so fast, and if that was not enough...guess what? We just finished the first month of 2020. Please do not be anxious, we have surprisingly good news for you.

Like any other progressive institution, we have reviewed our children’s department policies. So many things have changed, some for the better or worse. Our teaching styles have changed, eating habits, lifestyle, but most important of all the changes is our communication. Our children have in the palm of their hands, a little device, yes, the cell phone, that brings the world to their palm.

We would like to invite you to a Town Hall meeting, Sunday, March 1st immediately following the 11 AM service. Please come to meet a team including: Pastor Bonner, Angela Clark, Juan Ri-vas, Beatrice Diggs, Laura Mbeng, Doris Foggie, Petrina Annan, and Sylvia Bernard. All are dedi-cated to help you train up a child in the way he should go. We would like to hear your thoughts on training and raising Christian children.

Sylvia Bernard

Memory Verse: Sunday, February 23, 2020 Proverbs 3:5 (KJV) Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding Lesson February 23: “Esther Helped Her People” Esther 2:2-18; 3:8-13; 4:5-17; 7:1-10; 8:1-17

Weekly Children’s Activities: Children’s Choir: Wednesdays 7 PM to 8 PM Children in Action: 2 PM to 4 PM Sunday School: Sundays 9:45 AM God Bless You, Sylvia, Elizabeth, Carla

Wednesdays

11:00 AM Adult Bible Study

6:45 PM Youth Bible Study (No study in the month of March)

7:00 PM Adult Bible Study, Children or Youth Choir

8:00 PM Adult Choir Rehearsal

Saturdays

8:00 AM Men’s Meeting, Meets 4th Saturday

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Every Third Saturday Partnering with Chrisma Foods

2:00 PM Children in Action

Sundays

2:00 PM

ESL

Bel Pre Nursing Home (2nd Sunday Of Every Month)

After 11 AM Service Women’s Missionary Union (3rd Sunday of Every Month)

Deacon of the Week Feb 23 Elizabeth Rivas

Deacon of the Week Mar 1 Amos Walker

Ushers

Florine Shoffner Norma Hanna

Eleanor Clark Rebecca Johnson

Jean Rochford-Molineaux

Diane Butler Norman Plummer Ophelia Acolatse

Gilbert Mbeng Cardell Foggie Christopher Chiatoh

Edmund Bernard Jacqueline Kittrell Philip Shadid

February 23 After 11 AM service Congregational Town Hall

February 26 8:00 PM Cantata Choir Kickoff

March 1 After 11 AM service Children’s Department Town Hall

March 2 7:30 PM Deacons Meeting

March 7 & 14 12 PM Women’s Choir Rehearsal

March 11 8 PM Women’s Choir Rehearsal

March 14 10 AM Disability Meeting

March 20 7 PM Usher’s Meeting

March 22 Sunday School High Attendance Day

Attention Parents: Just a reminder, you must sign your children in and out for

Sunday School, CIA, Children’s Choir, VBS and other children’s ministries.

Sunday School

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. (Mat. 28:19-20, NKJV) There is a need for Sunday School teachers. Teachers are needed from Nursery to Adult classes. If you have a desire and feel committed to teaching God’s word, please see Valentine Nchinda, Angela Clark or Bonnie Bonner.

Join us in one of our Sunday School Classes at 9:45 AM.

If you need a ride to church or Sunday School, please follow these steps: 1. Call your Sunday School teacher. He/she will try to arrange a ride.

2. If you are not enrolled in Sunday School, call your deacon. He/she will try to arrange a ride.

3. If your Sunday School teacher or deacon can’t arrange transportation, then call the church office. The office manager will contact one of our members and see if pickup is possible.

Georgia Avenue Baptist Church Purpose Statement The purpose of the Sunday School of Georgia Avenue Baptist Church is to REACH the lost with the good news of Jesus, TEACH the Bible to change

lives, and CARE for people through prayer, ministry and fellowship.

Agape (Women Ages 61-74) Room 103 Teachers: Doris Foggie, Toni Simmons

Faith-Ruth (Women Ages 75+) Room 205 Teachers: Ruth Williams, Norma Hanna

Younger Men (Ages 46-60) Coleman Hall Teacher: Quintin Coleman

Lydia’s Ladies (Ages 46-60) Room 206 Teachers: Marie-Yolene Limontas, Beatrice Ayokhai

Inquirers (Men, 61+) Room 101 Teachers: Cardell Foggie

Mount Sinai (Men & Women Ages 25-45) Room 203 Teachers: Godlove Nyicho, Laura Mbeng

Word Dividers (Men & Women, Ages 46+) Single & Married Room 102 Teachers: Helen Corrothers, Garpue Barchue

Vessel (Ages 17-24) Room 204 Teachers: Juan Rivas, Agnes Ekunseitan

Youth (Grades 7-10) Room 201 Teachers: Patricia Wood, Jamar Biscoe Substitute: Austin Diggs

Children II (Grades 3-4) Room 106 Teachers: Jacqueline Nah, Beatrice Diggs

Children III (Grades 5-6) Room 105 Teachers: Sylvia Bernard, Grace Tinife Carla Blackmon, Louisa Nchafe

Pre-School & Kindergarten (Ages 3-5) Room 100 Teachers: Angela Clark & Ginny Watson Substitute: Ivonette Destine Extended Care: Toni Simmons, Cynthia Gould, Cordelia Joseph

Children I (Grades 1-2) Room 104 Teachers: Felicia Nchinda, Beatrice Gray Extended Care: Petrina Annan

Nursery (Ages 0-2) Room 107 Teachers: Bonnie Bonner, Maria Statom Extended Care: Janice Clark, Alma Thomas, Laura Mbeng, Marcia Richards, Maryam Garba, Massel Andemel, Elizabeth Rivas, Estelle Memadji

Escuela Biblica Dominical Peniel (Adult) Handbell Room Teachers: Esperanza & Carlos Barrios

“An Unexpected Detour” Acts 16:6-10

Background

• Paul was ready to go to the next region that God wanted his team to evangelize

• After the Spirit forbid them from going several places, Paul had a vision from a “man from Macedonia” pleading with him to come there and help them

Why Was There A Detour?

• Paul intended to go other places, but all these verses tell us is the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them to go there

• God detoured them twice because He had other plans for where they must go When Does God Detour You?

• You fervently ask God to reveal His will and are open to obeying it

• There is an urgent need you can meet (Macedonia needed ministry); you are already busy doing God’s work

How Can You Spot A Detour?

• Your plans fail—nothing is working out

• You don’t have “peace that surpasses all understanding” (Phil. 4:7)

• God opens an unexpected door Application

• God sometimes says “no” to something to say “yes” to something better

• Accepting “no” from God requires faith; God may not reveal “why” right away; you must continue to work and pray

God took Joseph on a detour through prison to fulfill his dream. He took Moses on a detour

through the desert before He called him to be a leader. He will allow detours from fulfilling your

dreams and plans the way you want. He will stop you in order to get you

to His intended destination. Never forget that a detour in your life doesn’t mean

you won’t get where God wants you to go. Sometimes, it just means you’ll get to His destination at a different time

by taking a different road.

I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me 1. I'm gonna live so (live so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, Anytime! (anytime) I'm gonna live so (live so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, (my Lord) Anytime! (anytime) 2. I'm gonna work so (work so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, Anytime! (anytime) I'm gonna work so (work so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, (my Lord) Anytime! (anytime) 3. I'm gonna pray so (pray so) God can use me anywhere, Lord Anytime! (anytime) I'm gonna pray so (pray so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, (my Lord) Anytime! (anytime) 4. I'm gonna sing so (sing so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, Anytime! (anytime) I'm gonna sing so (sing so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, (my Lord) Anytime! (anytime) 5. I'm gonna shout so (shout so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, Anytime! (anytime) I'm gonna shout so (shout so) God can use me anywhere, Lord, (my Lord) Anytime! (anytime)

O Happy Day Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) When Jesus washed (When Jesus washed) Oh, when He washed (When Jesus washed) When Jesus washed (When Jesus washed) He washed my sins away (Oh, happy day) Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) (Repeat) He taught me how (He taught me how) To watch and fight and pray Watch and pray And live rejoicing every day Every day Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) When Jesus washed (When Jesus washed) Oh, when He washed (When Jesus washed) When Jesus washed (When Jesus washed) He washed my sins away (Oh, happy day) Oh, happy day (Oh, happy day) (Repeat)

VBS 2020

Building On The Love Of Jesus shows kids the foundation that lasts. As kids explore a world of concrete and cranes, rivets and rebar, bulldozers and backhoes, they will learn to build their faith on Jesus as they uncover the truth that He who began a good work will be faithful to carry it on to completion.

VBS Kickoff July 25, 2020 12 PM - 3 PM

VBS July 27-31, 2020

6 PM - 9 PM

VBS Graduation August 2, 2020

6 PM

Please see Beatrice Gray, Angela Clark or Juan Rivas if you are willing to serve this year.

Training for VBS workers will be held on February, 29, 2020, 9 AM to 1:30 PM at First Baptist Upper Marlboro. We need a headcount by 4 PM February 24 for pre-registration. You will not be given a meal unless you pre register.

A Challenge To The Congregation

A challenge has been made to the congregation to donate $2.00 every Sunday toward the van fund. Please continue to pay your regular tithes and of-ferings. It may just mean something as simple as one less hamburger at McDonalds or one less cup of coffee. We need about $33,000 dollars to be able to look at purchasing a van.