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

Pastor Janet's E-Mail: revjanabc@gmail.com

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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

Birthday

Cookie McKnight, July 11

McKayla Villarreal (child), July 18th

Connie Anderson, July 20

Nick Fitzpatrick, July 23

Donna Peterson, July 23

Susan Holtz, July 27th

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 19 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!

Vacation Bible School

“DRIVE”

Our Vacation Bible School was held in June. Please see the pictures on our Facebook page.

2018 Graduates

Nick & Meggan Fitzpatrick – Brittney Fitzpatrick, Graduation from UTHS. Brittney will be attending Black Hawk College.

Elena Martinez, Graduation from Rockridge High School. Elena will be attending University of Iowa.

Gage Tittle, Graduation from UTHS. Gage will be attending Western Illinois University.

Miranda Bolte, Graduation from Geneseo High School. Miranda will be attending Black Hawk College.

Willis & Claudine Hurlbutt - Nathan Elsbernol, Graduation from Saint Joseph – Ogden High School. Nathan will be attending Parkland College in Champaign, Illinois.

Walter Wynes - Charli (Charlotte) Wynes – Graduation with a B.A. degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison. Charli will be going to Law School at the same university.

Graham Wynes – Graduation from High School in Janesville, Wisconsin. Graham will be going to the University of Wisconsin at Platville.

Tammy Dickerson & Family – Tora Dickerson Graduated from Preschool! Congratulations!

Savannah Rouse – Graduation from Rocky High School. Savannah will be going on to college.

Children's Carnival and Indoor Rock Gospel Concert

MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Saturday, July 14th, 12:00-1:45 P.M. Free Children’s Carnival & Food in West grassy area and Indoor Concert. Fun games and good food! Please come and bring friends, family and neighbors!

We need volunteers! Sign-up sheet in the narthex.

2:00-4:00 P.M. Indoors, Fellowship Hall

Sackcloth & Ashes is a nationally and internationally recognized contemporary Christian pop/rock band. Performers, Bobby Burns and Chad Hampton commented, "We have a goal with this music ministry and that goal is to have it actually BE a music MINISTRY, not just a band."

Special Music This Summer

SUMMER TIME SPECIAL MUSIC: Praise Choir Director, Linda, is requesting that anyone wanting to be part of the Special Music during the months of June, July, and August to let her know.

Congratulations

Terry Bolte, recognized as a 52-year member!

Children's Moment

A true friend

According to an Arabian proverb,

“A friend is one to whom one may

pour out all the contents of one’s

heart, chaff and grain together,

knowing that the gentlest of hands

will take and sift it, keep what is

worth keeping and with a breath of

kindness blow the rest away.”

That’s why it’s so important to have

Christian friends. We can share the

good and bad, confident that our

friends won’t judge us as a result.

Instead, true friends celebrate our

successes and encourage us during

disappointments.

As the Bible says, “A friend loves at

all times” (Proverbs 17:17, NRSV).

A Prayer for the 4th

Lord Jesus, thou who art the way, the

truth and the life; hear us as we pray

for the truth that shall make all free.

Teach us that liberty is not only to

be loved but also to be lived. Liberty

is too precious a thing to be buried

in books. It costs too much to be

hoarded. Help us see that our liberty

is not the right to do as we please,

but the opportunity to please to do

what is right.

—Peter Marshall, before the

U.S. Senate

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. Thank you for

repairing the leak in the

Fellowship Hall that so far has

worked

Special thanks to Robert

Morse for volunteering to drive the Church van and

pick up people!

Special thanks to Nick Fitzpatrick

for helping so much during our

Vacation Bible School week!!

Excellent job!

Special thanks to everyone that

helped in any way with our VBS

Week! You all are amazing!

Special thanks to Laura,

Robert Morse’s friend, who

donated a flat projection screen for

the back of the Church.

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 56 visitors to the webpage for the month.

Facebook

We have 36 Reaches and 109

Post Engagements for the month.

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Dates to Remember

July 1st, 10:30 A.M., Indoor

Worship Service & Picnic Inside

July 4th, Independence Day –

Church Office Closed

July 2nd-9th – Pastor Janet’s

Vacation

July 13th, Semi-Annual Reports due

July 14th, Saturday,

Saturday, July 14th, 12:00-1:45 P.M.

Free Children’s Carnival & Food

in West grassy area and Indoor

Concert. Fun games and good food!

Please come and bring friends,

family and neighbors!

We need volunteers! Sign-up sheet

in the Narthex.

2:00-4:00 P.M. Indoors, Concert Fellowship Hall

Sackcloth & Ashes is a nationally

and internationally

recognized contemporary Christian

pop/rock

band. Performers, Bobby Burns and

Chad Hampton commented, "We

have a goal with this music

ministry and that goal is to have

it actually BE a music MINISTRY,

not just a band."

Food Pantry

We received 14 food items

and $47 for the Food Pantry. Thank you! Please bring canned vegetables for the next month. Thank you for your support of this ministry.

Bev

"America the Beautiful"

Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)

wrote, edited and taught English in

her native Massachusetts.

Occasionally, she wrote hymns, too.

On a trip to Colorado, Bates was

greatly impressed by amber waves

of grain, fruited plains and purple

mountain majesties. She believed

that God had definitely shed his

grace all across this land. A visit to

the summit of Pikes Peak inspired

Bates to write her most
famous poem-hymn, “America the Beautiful.”

Bates also realized that patriotism

was an important part of America.

She was grateful for heroes “who

more than self their country loved

and mercy more than life.” She

wanted all Americans to realize

how God had shed his grace on

them and had crowned what was

good “with brotherhood from sea

to shining sea.”

Bates embodied the spirit of

thankfulness to God for all she had

experienced and been given.

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