Silent Auction This Sunday

Dear SBC Family,

As you already know this Sunday morning is a Celebration Service out on the south lawn at 9:00.  However, it is also the final day for bids on our SILENT AUCTION.  The bidding will open at 8:30 am and the items will be outdoors.  When the Celebration Service is concluded around 10:00, you can view the items and if you desire, make your final bid as you make your way toward the brunch.  The monies will be collected and winners announced sometime during the eating time.  A note of clarification; all of the monies raised for these items will go towards the ministry of The Pines, the orphanage in South Africa that our ministry team will be going to this fall.  They will not be used for individual expenses.  Thank you for your involvement in this worthy ministry.

I also want to remind you that this is a Friend Day this Sunday as we encourage you to invite your unsaved friends and family.

See you Sunday-LW

Pastor Pat

Tonight and Sunday

Dear Church Family,

Pastor wants to remind you that our missionaries to Portugal, Cal & Joyce Voelker, will be with us tonight during the prayer meeting. Please plan on coming to hear how the Lord has blessed them this year in their missionary field at their school.

We hope you are planning on coming this Sunday morning for the OUTDOOR CELEBRATION SERVICE AT 9:00. It will be followed with a brunch. We would like each family to bring a “brunch item” – whatever you like to eat at a brunch in the middle of the morning! Stu will have scrambled eggs, drinks, plates and silverware. Bring your food into the fellowship hall when you first come and then join the church family on the south lawn. If you have lawn chairs, please bring them or blankets on which you can sit and eat. Pray for wonderful weather and a great worship time together. There will not be any children’s church for the 1st through 3rd grade, but the other two younger groups will meet in the church.

There are no Sunday school or Community Groups or service Sunday night.

See you in the yard, Lord willing,

Judy

Ava Johnson

Happy 15 month birthday Ava (one hour early)!

Ava and I have officially been home for an entire year! Besides one night in the hospital and few other nights here and there, we have been HOME! How GREAT is our God!

We are also going on vacation next week for the first time since Ava’s been born. At least this is the first vacation where doctors, hospitals, and sickness are not involved (God willing!). We are so excited!

Ava is loving summer and we are loving it too! Ava is changing so much lately. She now weighs over 16 pounds (yes, you read correctly) and is getting tall and looking more and more like a toddler. She’s learning the ‘Itsy Bitsy spider’ and can now get down from sitting all by herself (without falling backwards). I don’t think she will ever crawl (even though she could if she wanted to), keeping her hands free is just too important to her. Honestly, it’s just fine with me that she’s not walking or crawling. She gets around just fine and I get to have a ‘baby’ for that much longer. She’s still content sitting and playing on my lap (most of the time) and I love that. She has about 10 teeth and we are looking forward to her eye-teeth coming in all the way. Poor thing has been teething for about 3 months straight.

She’s taking little baby steps in her eating. She took a couple tastes of chocolate pudding the other day voluntarily and when I say tastes, that means she got a little on the inside of her lips and swallowed it without gagging or throwing up. Yep, it’s a slow process and the steps are small, but we get excited over EVERY one!

Thank you for your continued prayer and encouragement!

Rejoicing day by day!

Been Farmin Long?

Pat Nemmers
AM Service

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Nate and Maam Beckman – June 2007

Dear Praying Friends,

Greetings from Ohio. We arrived home on May 5, and the last month has gone by very quickly. Sorry that we have not communicated earlier, but we have been without a computer up until just two days ago. We have wanted to keep you all updated on everything that is going on, but without a computer it is sort of impossible to tell you all we do not have a computer, if you know what I mean.

We praise the Lord for all that He has done and is doing in our lives, especially for the opportunity to serve both Nate’s mom and dad during this time. Mom is fading gradually day by day. Maam and I are helping to take care of Mom, so that my dad can do his best at keeping up with his own job requirements. It has been our honor to be able to serve in this way.

As far as her condition goes, Mom is very weak and can no longer stand or walk on her own, so we help her get around, help in feeding her meals as
well as whatever else she needs to do. The intense treatments that she had and the heavy medications that she currently takes have affected her ability to speak and her memory. She does very little talking now, but there are many times that we can tell she would like to say something. She cannot really get it out anymore.

We do appreciate your prayers on Mom’s behalf, and ask you to keep it up. Please pray that God will continue to mold Maam and me, so that we can
be the encouragement to my parents that they need. Please continue to pray for Dad also. We have been here for a month, while he has been taking care of her at this level for close to a year now. Dad is extremely tired in every way. Pray that God will watch over and protect him. It is amazing how God gives His Amazing Grace just at the time we need it most. It has definitely been God’s grace that has sustained Dad during this time.

Originally we planned to leave Thailand at the end of July; so when the call came to hurry home to be with Mom and Dad, we had to really get into gear packing up our house, tying up loose ends, paying bills ahead for a year, and turning the ministry back over to our coworkers, Ed and Darlene
Weber. It was one of those situations where when we sat down in our seats on the plane we said to one another, “Hope we didn’t forget anything.”

It was a blast filling in for the Webers in Kabinburi while they were on furlough. God did a lot of great things during that time, and it was not easy saying goodbye to people we love. Please continue to earnestly pray for the new believers in Kabinburi. Pray for their growth and that God will continue to do His work in that needy area.

Please also pray for the Webers. They are dealing with some overload. After we left, our short termer, Amanda Simmers, also went home. Also another Thai girl who worked with us in the ministry decided to leave. The ministry went from having four teachers to having two teachers, Ed and Darlene. Darlene is also pregnant with their third child, due in September/October. I know they would appreciate your prayers.

Thank you for all you do for us. Please continue to pray for Maam and me. We need it. Pray for strength . . . physical, emotional and spiritual. We will continue to do our best to keep you informed on what is going on.

Yours In Christ,

Nate and Maam Beckman
Baptist Mid-Missions, Thailand

Nel Wolfe Funeral

We want you to be aware of the homegoing of Nel Wolfe, one of SBC’s former “first ladies.”  Her husband, Everett, was the Pastor of SBC from 1963 until 1969.  They had seven children and you may have know some of them.  Their son, Jim Wolfe passed away several years ago from cancer.  He had directed the FBBC chorale for many years.  Former member, Twila Nilius was Everett and Nel’s daughter.  The services and visitation for Nel will be at the Ankeny Funeral Home at 10:30 on Wednesday.  One hour prior to that, 9:30-10:30 will be the visitation.

Ralph Bills Funeral

Pastor announced to us on Sunday about the death of Daniel’s school friend’s father, Ralph Bills.  Pastor Nemmers has been asked to conduct the service.  It will be at Hamilton’s on E. 6th and Lyons on Thursday at 2:30.  The visitation is Wednesday from 6-8:00, also at Hamilton’s.  Austin Hoff, son of Ralph, attends many of our youth group activities.  Please be in prayer for Austin and other family members as Pastor ministers to them.

We would also like to ask if there are any of you that would like to work in the Coffee Cove on Sunday mornings?  Several of the current workers are going to be gone for the summer and Scott & Brooke Shrum are in need of more help.  There will be a training session on Monday night, the 25th at 6:00 for all current and new workers.  Pizza will be provided for you that evening.  If you would like to help on a rotating basis, please contact the Shrum’s at brooke_jacobs@hotmail.com or call 963-0592.

Grow Up

Pat Nemmers
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VBS Program

Dear SBC Family,

It has been another outstanding week of VBS here at SBC. Heading into the last night we have had 17-20 professions of faith in Christ! Lord willing, this will produce some great follow-up. God was even working in our nursery. This requires a bit of explanation. Two nights ago Laura Pollak and Natalie Bowman shared their testimonies with the other workers. One young helper, Elizabeth, a ninth grader from Saydel High School acknowledged that she did not have a testimony. She does now! Laura and Natalie had the joy of leading Elizabeth to Christ before the evening was over. Please be in prayer for our final evening of VBS. We will cap it off with a live feed conversation with Brian Niehoff, missionary with The Pines Orphanage in S. Africa. He will have with him some of the orphans who will talk to the kids here at VBS. We have a crazy finale planned at 8:00 followed by root beer floats for everyone. Love to have you come. You won’t be disappointed you did.

In Christ,

Pastor Pat

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