Personalize.Celebrate.Mobilize.

August 2009

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

SPRINGDALE & THE CHURCH

PINNACLE HILLS

Acts 1:8 Celebration

September 18–23

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August 2009

The all season is one o my avorite times o theyear or many reasons. Let me share with yousome things that I am looking orward to in the next month ortwo as we move into the all season.Football season is back. Let’s ace it, there is no better time o the year with Friday night ball games, Saturday mornings on thecouch watching ootball, and Sunday NFL games. I love it all.SportsCenter during the late summer is lled with baseball andsoccer highlights … oh my. Late summer is like the time leadingup to your wedding day. It stinks, it is hard to be patient, andyou are longing or the day to come. That is my lie rom aboutMay–July as I wait or ootball season.I love the cool all weather. The all inNorthwest Arkansas is beautiul as we seethe trees change color. I love bundlingup or Friday night games and thenspending my Saturdays indoors watchingcold weather games. (I am wondering i Ihave an addiction to ootball…) Hayrides, Thanksgiving, replaces … oh, I love the all. Thanksgiving is only a ew months away.Growing up with amily out o state, wereally didn’t build a lot o traditions aroundChristmas. Instead, Thanksgiving was the holiday that we builttradition around. Surprise … surprise … this holiday or the Floydamily also revolves around ootball. For many years we woke upon Thanksgiving morning, headed out to our local high schoolstadium or morning practice beore the playo game, camehome and ate Thanksgiving lunch, ell asleep watching ootball,then attended a bonre/pep rally or the Friday night game. Thisis one o my avorite days o the year. Food, un, ootball, and theFloyds … great combination.But all also marks a new beginning. Kids start a new schoolyear. Teams start new seasons. I like new beginnings. I like theopportunity God gives us to start resh. I encourage you to takeadvantage o this new beginning. So oten we may think, “Well,next year I’ll ocus on this or that. I’ll do a New Year’s resolutionto cover that.” Take advantage o the new beginning o all. Isthere some discipline you need to start again? Is there a prioritythat you have let all by the wayside? Do you need to start reshin your walk with God? Maybe you need to reconnect with yourchurch. Use the all as an excuse to start resh. Biblically, we don’teven have to wait or the all. The Bible tells us that God’s merciesare new every morning. (Lamentations 3:22–23)Let me encourage you to take advantage o this new beginningin the all in a ew dierent ways. First o all, use the all as anopportunity to re-engage with our church. The kids are back in school, businesses are cranking back up, and we all get back into our normal routines. I encourage you to make the WorshipService and Connection Group a part o your weekly routine.Come weekly to join together with the Body o Christ to worshipGod and hear His Word preached. Then, connect with a smallergroup o people in a Connection Groupto build relationships and study the Bibletogether. Maybe you’ve never made yourway into a Connection Group … remember,the all is a new beginning! Kicko orConnection Groups will be on August 23. Take the all—yes, pun intended—and joinwith a group o believers in a similar stageo lie as you.September 27 will also serve as a newbeginning o our 10:55 a.m. WorshipService at our Springdale Campus. BradleyNoblitt will be leading in worship each Sunday and the preachingwill be a mixture o me twice a month, Pastor Floyd via simulcast/video at least once a month, and other sta members. As theMarines say, we are looking or a “ew good men.” We would saywe are looking or “150 dedicated men and women” who willcommit to make this service a success so we can reach morepeople with the gospel. We have set out three expectations o the 150: (1) Attend three Sundays a month, (2) Actively participatein a Connection Group, and (3) Commit to serve. We will takeall the people interested in the 10:55 service and choose 150o them who will be committed to these things. So whichevercampus you attend, could it be that God is calling you to joinalongside us in reaching more people through starting andgrowing this service? This is open to people rom Springdale andPinnacle Hills who may live south and want to attend somewherecloser to where they live. For more inormation, go to www.bcs.net/1055 or e-mail us at 1055@bcs.net.

A message from Nick Floyd, Associate Pastor/Preaching Assistant

I Can’t Wait for the Fall

August 2009

is available to view onlineat www.fbcs.net or www.churchph.com.

“I like newbeginnings. I likethe opportunityGod gives us tostart fresh.”