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Vol. 66 Friday, December 2, 2016 no. 48

Financials from 11-27-16

Sunday School Attendance Worship Attendance

89 121

$5,596.00 $8,969.88

Designated Offering Total Capital Improvement Youth ($200 IHO Jimbo Watson) Fountain City Ministries

$350.00 $50.00

$200.00 $100.00

Overall Total for the Week $5,946.00

Budget Received for the Year Budget Required for the Year (Week 48) +Over/<Under> for the Year

$385,087.04 $430,554.24

<$425,457.20>

$4,535.00

DECEMBER

Capital Improvement (year to date giving)

Budget Received [Budget Requirement for the Week]

This Week at Smithwood:

Sunday, December 4, 2016 8:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting—Conference Room 9:00 a.m. Library Opens 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship Service

6:00 p.m. No Service

Wednesday, December 7, 2016 5:30-7:30 p.m. JustLead Children’s Activities 6:00 p.m. Bible Study 6:30-7:30 p.m. ASSEMBLY (Youth Bible Study) 7:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, December 8, 2016 6:45 p.m. Veterans’ Writing Group

Prayer Concerns:

Prayer Line — Call Lynn at 661-5726

CP & Betty Tudor, Bill Fletcher, Terry Lynn, Donald Raby, Allen Hutchison,

Sharon Phillips, Bill & Liz Roberts, Michelle Henry, Harold Bryson, Violet

Tudor, Donnie Beeler, Sue Beam, Katherine Loy, Etta Sands, family of Starr

Hutchison, family of Pansy McGhee, Phil Fluri, Rhonda Cecchin, Rodney

Henry, Alvin Frye, Kim Garrett, family of Emma Walker, Gatlinburg.

Names will remain on the list for 3 weeks unless otherwise notified that the

name should remain on the list for a longer period of time.

December 2 — Dennis Fair December 7 — Cheryl Rodgers

Sunday AM, December 4 — Ephesians 2:14-16; Isaiah 9:6-7

“God’s Gift of Shalom”

Sunday PM — No Service

Wednesday, December 7 — Matthew 2

“Conflict with the Kingdom of this Age — Part 1:

A Star and the Magi”

For accuracy on your 2016 year end

Charitable Giving Report, please be

sure all offerings for calendar year

2016 are dated on or before De-

cember 31, 2016. Thank you.

Church-wide Mission Project In November and December we have the opportunity to share in the Club 180 Mission Trip by collecting hy-giene and food items. Jimbo Watson and the Mission Team from Smithwood Baptist will be taking these sup-plies to Club 180 when they go on the Mission Trip the

last week in December. Some examples of food items that are needed are peanut butter, crackers, canned vegetables, soup, etc. Crockpots would also be appreciated. Thanks for your participation in this im-portant project as we strive to be on mission with Christ in the world!

Please join us these next weeks as we celebrate the Christmas season with opportunities to worship

through music, giving and fellowship.

Carols and Classics Sunday, December 11th at 6:00 pm

Our sanctuary choir, accompanists, soloists and children’s choir will be joined by Knoxville Symphony players to present beautiful and worshipful

carol arrangements, Christmas anthems, and choruses from MESSIAH.

Service of Lessons and Carols Sunday, December 18th at 6:00 pm

This beautiful worship event will include communion and will be in place of our normal Christmas Eve Service.

Christ is Born Sunday, December 25th at 10:45 am

Christmas morning celebration in worship. A very special, warm, family worship time with church family and the entire community.

This is one of the best times all year to invite neighbors and friends to come visit and worship with you.

To the saints at Smithwood:

Thank you all so much for your kind words of encouragement, apprecia-

tion, and affirmation as we left Smithwood to move to our new assign-

ment in Wilmington, NC. We deeply appreciate each expression, wheth-

er through a spoken word, a card, or a gift. The “Mayberry” sendoff

with the ensemble singing “good old 14A” and Sammy Sawyer as Bar-

ney Fife was wonderful! We will always cherish our time with you, and

look forward to hearing about the wonderful ways that God will work in

and among and through his people at Smithwood. Keep on loving God,

loving people, and making disciples! May God continually bless and

empower you to bear witness to Christ as you proclaim him through

both word and deed and to live as his people in the world.

Grace and peace,

Mark & Jo Ann Gaskins

New contact information:

Personal Church

Mark & Jo Ann Gaskins Temple Baptist Church

312 Wimbledon Ct 1801 Market Street

Wilmington, NC 28412 Wilmington, NC 28403

Mark’s cell: 910-232-2101 Phone: 910-763-3351

Jo Ann’s cell: 865-438-6526 markegaskins@templebaptist.us

Email: markegaskins@yahoo.com

This Week’s Guest Preacher, Dr. David Crutchley

Dr. Crutchley is originally from South Af-rica and is the Dean of the Religion Divi-sion and a Professor of Religion at Car-son Newman University. He has also taught at Southwestern Seminary and Southern Seminary, as well as being a guest speaker and lecturer in numerous educational international settings. Dr.

Crutchley previously served as both interim pastor and pastor at Smith-wood, where he is dearly loved. He and his wife, Carol, reside in Jeffer-son City, Tennessee, along with their granddaughter. They also have two sons, Russ and Matthew.

We welcome him warmly and enthusiastically to Smithwood once again.

LOTTIE MOON 2016 CHRISTMAS OFFERING Our Goal: $14,000

Week of Prayer — December 4-11

Starting in 1888, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® was established to empower the international missions efforts for Southern Baptists. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (LMCO) provides critical funding for Southern Baptists’ international missions efforts. An annual goal is set by the WMU Executive Board in consultation with the International Mission Board’s executive staff, allowing Southern Baptists to send and equip missionaries around the world.

The offering is named for Lottie Moon, a missionary to China whose letters pleading for mission support still resonate today. She died Decem-ber 24, 1912, after living a life of total sacrifice to God and the people of China.

Your giving enables missionaries to be sent to make disciples and multiply churches among unreached peoples and places for the glory of God.