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Friday, December 5, 2014
In This Issue
Students @ Milledge
Advent & Christmas
Christmas Caroling
Advent/Christmas Decorations
Commission Baptist Church
Save the Date
Personal Message
Volunteer Opportunity

Downstairs decorations provided by Pat Britton.

Students @ Milledge


Youth Christmas Reverse Progressive Dinner!
All youth, 5th-12th grades, are invited to join us on Saturday, December 13th from 5-9pm for a reverse progressive dinner and scavenger hunt. The schedule is below.


5pmMeet at MABC and divide into teams
5:15pmSet off on stage 1 of scavenger hunt
5:45pmMeet at the Sosebee's house for DESSERT!
6:05pmSet off for stage 2 of scavenger hunt
6:45pmMeet at Adrian Parr's house for MAIN COURSE!!
7:15pm
Final stage of scavenger hunt
7:45pmMeet at Lucy Bell's house for APPETIZERS!!
8:15pmStill at Lucy's house: white elephant gift exchange and finalize scavenger hunt
9pmReturn to MABC for parent pick up

You'll need to bring a wrapped gift (something you already have at home and don't want or need anymore!) and be ready for fun! We need parent drivers so please let Ginny know if you are willing to host a group in your car.

Children's Feliz Navidad Christmas Party!
Sunday, December 14th from 5-7pm, all children and their families are invited to the Christmas party at MABC. We will have a taco bar for supper, play lots of fun games with children and adults, and enjoy a Christmas snack making contest as well. Here is our schedule:

5pmEat Supper
5:30pmChildren's Christmas Game
6pmFamily Christmas Games
6:30pmChristmas snack making contest

Please let Ginny know if you will attend so she can know about ordering food.

Advent & Christmas Sermon Series

We invite you to experience comfort and joy in a very special worship service series for Advent. Each service in the 4-part series focuses on a selected portion of Isaiah 40 that captures one of four specific aspects of the comfort Christ comes to bring-peace, pardon, presence and power. December 7th (Pardon of Christ) our Christmas Cantata of Hal H. Hopson's Sing Noel!. 


 

Click HERE to see our entire Advent/Christmas Season Schedule.

Churchwide Christmas Caroling...


Sunday, December 14th from 3-5 pm ALL members of Milledge Avenue Baptist are invited to come and go Christmas Caroling. We will be traveling in groups, visiting church members in their homes, and singing Christmas Carols. This time will be one of fellowship and also thinking of others this Christmas season--a new family tradition to begin! Please make plans now to attend. Call Ginny with any questions.

Comfort and Joy: A Remembrance of Christmas Past...


The Decorations Team interpreted the Advent Theme Comfort and Joy with a Remembrance of Christmas Past. Starting with red velvet bows and lanterns, we chose the simplicity of pine boughs and evergreens, punctuated with lighted pew poles adorned with holly and ivy. Both the lanterns and pew candles reflect "the light that shines in darkness." Red poinsettias carry the theme also, reminding us of the legend of the Christmas poinsettia and loved ones honored and remembered. The Gathering Room tree, resplendent in red berries and poinsettia blossoms, is sprinkled with ornaments purchased more than 20 years ago. The children's "Jesse Tree" in the McBride Room celebrates the prophecy of the Messiah "out of the stem of Jesse," from the house and lineage of David.

Nativities placed throughout the church call our attention to the Peace, Pardon, Presence and Power of the risen Christ, born a babe in a lowly manger on that Holy Night.

We appreciate the efforts of our church staff, Manuel, Carrie, Ginny and Edward, in their many acts of inspiration and support, along with Bob Duncan's shepherding of the Advent wreath. From the group who gathered Thanksgiving week to put up the Chrismon tree to the groups gathering to Deck the Halls and the Jesse Tree, we thank you sincerely.

Decorations Team Members Jennifer Allen, Pat Britton, Wanda Culpepper, Sandra Heard, Carol Lester, Tommie Mullis, Becky Odom, Sue Rogers, Debbie Waters, and Joan Humphries dedicate our work to the Glory of God and our team member Emily Gunnells, who tied red velvet bows while attending Joel's bedside.

Helping Commission Baptist Serve Liberia...

 

We'll have a special love offering at the end of our worship service on Sunday. These gifts will to to Commission Baptist Church to help feed those in Liberia who are in need of help.

Date Savers
   
 
December 6Parent's Day Out
December 7Christmas Cantata
Singing Around the Chrismon Tree
MABC Family Dinner (visit from Santa)
December 8Finance Team Mtg
Deacon Christmas Party
December 13Churchwide Christmas Caroling
Children's Christmas Party
December 19Wassail & Wafers @ the Mullis Home
December 24Christmas Eve Service
December 25 & 26Church Office Closed
December 28NO Sunday School
January 1Church Office Closed
 

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Food 2 Kids

 

Donation Item for December is GRANOLA BARS!!!

Interfaith Hospitality Network

 

Here is a great four page article in the monthly newsletter of The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship about Baptist congregations that are engaged with IHN. You can click HERE to read it. 

Smart Lunch, Smart Kid 

 

If you'd like to give to this wonderful program, you can text LUNCH to 41444.

 

To keep up with Action Ministries and their programs, you can text ACTIONHERO to 51555. 

2014 MABC Deacon Ministers


Chester Sosebee, chair
John Allen
Sue Chapman
Rubielen Norris
Bruce Ferguson
Chris Taylor
Barry Coleman
Mike Daniel
Doug Gatchell
Will Marlow
Akinloye Ojo
Lonnie Varnedoe
Will Abney
Jan Bell
Lucy Bell
Suzanne Griffeth
   Deacon of the Week
Donna McEwan
Mark Sorrow  
VITAL SIGNS 

Weekly Offering and Attendance Report
  
Budget offering for Sunday, November 30th: $5,013.00 

Other Contributions:
Liberia: $325
Bldg Fund: $50
Flowers: $168
Handicap Access: $325
Christmas Music: $300
  
Total Weekly Contributions: $6,181.00
 
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November Budget offering to Date: $34,613.00
 
Monthy Budget Requirement:
$32,071

Balance to Date: 
$3,917.00
  
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Attendance:
Week of 11/30/14 
 
Worship: 136
Deck the Halls: 45
Read All About...
Children's Choir Blog...
Click HERE to find out what Laura Marlow and our children are doing.
Darryl Mathis' Blog...
Charity Bracewell's Blog...

 Click HERE to read what Charity is saying!

BWIM Blog...

 Click HERE to read about Baptist Women in Ministry! 

Scripture Readers Needed...
If you would like to volunteer as a Scripture Reader during our worship service, please let us know by emailing or calling the office.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE


 

Prayers for Our Family and Friends


 

(Please contact the church office to update the prayer list)


 

Church Family

Judy Snow, Joel Gunnells, Barbara Reid, Bill and Pat Edwards, Jimmy Godwin, Pat Britton, Chandler Griffin and his family, Louise and Irene Hill, Jean Johnson, Gayle McBride, Paul and Beverly Kormanik, Joel Gunnells, Florice Akin, Margaret McReynolds, Beth Duncan, Betty Weaver, Al and Eleanor Danielsen, and Peggy DeWeese.


 

Extended Family & Friends

Donald Daniel (father of Mike Daniel); Gene and Adrian Bowers (parents of Elyse Daniel); Mrs. Myrtle Chambers (mother of Debbie Waters); Evelyn Howard (mother of Chester Sosebee); Lee Baird Jackson (mother of Carole Sosebee); Mozelle Simmons (aunt of Darryl Mathis); Florice Akin (mother of Dan Akin); Carol Sartain (daughter of Lucille Sartain); Ron and Judy Clark (former members of MABC, Ron was recently diagnosed with cancer).


 

Global Mission Partners

We continually pray for our global mission partners: Commission Baptist Church in Monrovia, Liberia and Bethlehem Ministry in northern Haiti. May the Lord shine His light on Rev. Augustine Weah (Commission Baptist Church) and Father Bruno (Bethlehem Ministry) as they guide our brothers and sisters in Christ.


 

We offer condolences to Cecil and Judy Hammond on the passing of Cecil's brother, Julian Hammond. Cards can be sent to: 2001 Daniels Bridge Road, Athens, GA 30606.


 

Christian sympathy is extended to Howard and Rubielen Norris on the passing of their daughter-in-law, Jane Lynne Norris. Cards can be sent to: 2051 Wipporwill Road, Bishop, GA 30621. A gathering of friends and family for remembrance of Jane's life will be hosted on Sunday, November 16th, 2-4pm at the Day Chapel, State Botanical Garden of Georgia.


 

SERVING TOGETHER 
December 7, 2014

 

Deacon of the Week: Suzanne Griffeth

Worship Prep: Elizabeth Andress

Acolyte: Will Griffeth

Audio: Chester Sosebee

Greeters: Debbie Waters, Tim and Julie Graham

Door Opener/Closer: Jim Cunningham

Ushers: Kevin Chapman, Noah Chapman, Jim Cunningham, Carroll Humphries, John Waters, Peyton Bell

Nursery Coordinator: Sarah Pledger

Nursery during Worship:  Mary Boswell

Children's Church:  No Children's Church

Gathering Room Prep: Kevin and Sue Chapman

Planet 56/Inside Out Meal Provider: No P56/Inside Out...Christmas Event

CHURCH STAFF
  
Dr. Edward Bolen, Sr. Pastor, edward@milledge.org
Dr. Ginny Dempsey, Associate Pastor for Students, ginny@milledge.org 
Rev. Tom Eggleston, Minister of Music, tom@milledge.org 
Karen Byrd, Organist, karenfbyrd@gmail.com
Carrie Juarez, Church Secretary, carrie@milledge.org
Susan McCullough, Financial Secretary, susan@milledge.org 
Manuel Sanchez, Custodian, manuel@milledge.org