First Baptist Church Of Rock Island

3020 30th Street

Rock Island, Illinois 61201

309-786-2617

Pastor Janet L. Waychoff

web page: www.fbcrockisland.com

E-Mail address: fbcori@mediacombb.net

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Bible Study: 9:30 A.M.

Worship Service Begins at 10:30 A.M.

First Baptist Church Of Rock Island
3020 30 th Street
Rock Island, IL 61201
United States
ph: 309-786-2617
revjanabc@gmail.com

The Bapstist Beacon

Birthdays

Robert Minard, April 1st

Kenedi Young Villarreal, April 16th

Peggy Tobins, April 23rd

GREETER FOR THE MONTH :

Lorraine Comer

PEOPLE TO REMEMBER:

Doris Pells,Iowa Masonic Health Facilities, 2500 Grant Street, Bettendorf, IA 52722, (Don’t put room number on mailing’s) Room 110

Marlene Rogers (Randy Rogers’ Mother), Amber Ridge Memory Care, 221-11th Avenue, Moline, IL 61265.

Welcome to Our Church

We had 13 guests visit last month.

Sunday School

Thank you, Bev, for helping out in our children’s ministry and serving delicious breakfasts to our children and others that are hungry! On certain Sundays, after Sunday School, they visit the Good News (!) store and spend their hard-earned Good News $’s! Kathy teaches our children. If you have a child that is interested in attending, please let Pastor, Kathy or Bev know. After class, the children are fed in the Fellowship Hall! Word is out that children of all sizes love Bev’s eggs and sausage!

Wedding Announcement

Pastor Janet officiated at the wedding of Matthew and Dawn Aimone on Saturday, March 24th. Congratulations!

(See our Facebook Page for a photo.)

Council Meetings

COUNCIL MEETING will meet on Sunday, April 22nd, 12:00 P.M. – Noon

Children's Moment

Egg-stra facts

• Although Easter eggs were once part

of pagan spring festivals, they’ve

become Christian symbols of new

life. A cracked-open shell also

represents Jesus’ empty tomb on

Easter morning.

• The early Christians of

Mesopotamia began staining eggs

red in honor of Jesus’ blood shed on

the cross. Red eggs remain part of

Greek Orthodox celebrations today.

• For Lent, some families used to

give up eggs and dairy, so they

prepared a pancake feast on Shrove

Tuesday, the day before Ash

Wednesday

. They solved the egg surplus by

hard-boiling them in various broths,

which led to colored eggs.

• In medieval times, churches held

“egg-throwing” festivals. The priest

threw a hard-boiled egg toward the

choir boys, who tossed it back and

forth. When the clock struck 12,

whoever was holding the egg got to

keep it.

• In some European countries,

children go from house to house to

collect Easter eggs.

• Each year, the PAAS Dye Co. sells

more than 10 million egg-coloring

kits, which consumers use to

decorate 180 million eggs.

• The tallest chocolate Easter egg

ever produced weighed 16,000

pounds — more than an elephant!

A Special Thank You

Rev. Janet Waychoff,

I want to thank you for letting us

have my Mom’s “90th” Birthday

Celebration at the Church. Bev was

so helpful and my Mom was so

happy, I think it was so much nicer

than she ever expected. I am so

thankful that she found a

Church home that is so warm and

loving.

God Bless You!

Love,

Margie's Daughter, Karen

Easter Lilies

Thanks to all who have helped provide

Easter Lilies for the Church Sanctuary.

NAME IN HONOR Or MEMORY Of

Tammy Dickerson Uncle Dale

Jim & Kathy Remley Loved Ones

Ray & Sue Bollaert Loved Ones

Terry Bolte (2) Mom & Dad

Loved Ones, Harris, John Olson

Pastor Janet Waychoff Mom & Dad

Easter Is Eternal Truth

If Easter means anything to modern

man, it means that eternal truth is

eternal. You may nail it to the tree,

wrap it up in grave clothes and seal

it in a tomb. But truth crushed to

earth shall rise again.

Truth does not perish. It cannot be

destroyed. It may be distorted. It has

been silenced temporarily. It has

been compelled to carry its cross to

Calvary’s brow … but with an

inevitable certainty, after every

Black Friday dawns truth’s Easter

morn.

—Donald H. Tippet

Raise Your Voice!

With happy voices ringing,
thy children, Lord, appear,
their joyous praises bringing
in anthems sweet and clear.
For skies of golden splendor,
for azure rolling sea,
for blossoms sweet and tender,
O Lord, we worship thee.
—William Tarrant

THANK YOU

Special thanks to those that volunteer especially on Sunday mornings to help with serving and help clean-up the kitchen before and after Worship Service.

Special thanks to those that bring in snacks for our Fellowship time after Worship Service! What a difference your help has made!

Special thanks to so many who help in ministry in so many ways! God bless you!

Special thanks to Robert Morse

for helping us do small jobs of

repair and maintenance around

the Church. Praise God!

Special thanks to Robert

Morse for volunteering to drive the Church van and

pick up people!

Special thanks, in advance, to Bob Minard for helping with the positioning of the tomb and the lighting for our special services

and drama skits!

The Joy of the

Resurrection

We Christians simply cannot get over the reality of the Resurrection. For us, the fact that God raised Christ from the dead proves that Christ’s way alone is God’s answer to the sins and horrors of the world. The truths Christ brought when he walked on Earth stand solid and irrefutable. The light he brought is the only light that never goes out for it is the eternal light of God’s glory.

Christ’s life is truly the clearest example of how God intends for us to live. Christ’s way is the way that makes the most sense for living on this earth. The true saints have proven that over and over.

The hope which Christ offers us is the only true and lasting hope. Ultimately, it is our only real assurance that life can be good and joyous for everyone. Read the words St. Paul wrote to the church at Rome and apply it to your own life: “Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life. For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (Romans 6:4-5, nrsv).

If that is not a tremendous cause for abiding joy, then what is?

FIND US ON FACEBOOK – We are

having problems placing

pictures on our webpage.

Pleace check out the

pictures on our Facebook

page.

Volunteers Needed

Church Volunteer Needs:

( Speak to Pastor)

Help with the 9:30 A.M. Children’s Sunday School.

Help bring people to Church, either in church van or own vehicle.

Our Web Page is an outreach tool that we have had for several years. Bev is our Web Master.

Bev updates the Page weekly and monthly.

We have had 61 visitors to the webpage for the month.

Facebook

We have 19 Post Reaches and 54 Post Engagements for the month.

If you would like to receive the “Beacon” newsletter by e-mail, and have not submitted your email address, please email the Church your email address. Your Beacon will begin by email at the next printing. Otherwise, you will still receive the Beacon by snail mail. If you wish to be taken off the mailing list, please let us know.

Dates to Remember

April 1st

8:00 AM Easter Sunrise Service (Indoors)

9:00-10:15 A.M. Easter Breakfast

9:45-10:20 AM Easter Egg Hunt

for Kids

10:30 A.M. Worship Service

April 2nd-8th, Pastor Janet’s Vacation

April 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th, 4:00-5:00 P.M. Praise

Choir Practice.

April 22nd, Council Meeting immediately following Worship Service at noon.

Food Pantry

We received 46 food items for the Food Pantry. Thank you! Please bring cereal and chicken noodle soup for the next month. Thank you for your support of this ministry.

Bev

America For Christ

Offering 2018

Most of us are able to keep clear in

our minds the origin and goal of Christian ministry. Its origin is in Christ, who gives spiritual gifts and gifted people to the church. Its goal

is the building of the body of Christ

in knowledge, faith and love. Notice carefully what the following verses teach us. God gives to the church spiritual leaders whose role it is to

equip saints for ministry.

The Apostle Paul echoes this truth

in Ephesians 4:11-13: “The gifts he gave were that some would be

apostles, some prophets, some evangelist, some pastors and

teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until all of us come

to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.”

The Lord Jesus Christ intends every member of the church to do the work

of the ministry. The intention of ministry is to build up each other’s

faith and love.

The American for Christ Offering reminds us that it is in our service to

the church and the community that many experience the Christ in us. I

am asking you to join me in giving generously to this year’s AFC

offering and help us to reach our

goal of $400. To Date: $160.

Pastor Janet

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