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September 16, 2021 • Vol. 44, Issue 37
Welcome
Dr. John Bryan
Sunday, Sept. 19 begins his position as
our interim pastor as we enter this important
time of transition for Belvedere First Baptist
Church.
Dr. Bryan serves with the GA Baptist
Convention/Mission Board/GA Baptist
Foundation, He has served 13 church as
interim pastor in the past 20 years.
Moreover, he continues to serve the Lord
through Marketplace Ministries - Chaplain
serving businesses as a caregiver,
counselor and advisor, he is a
contributor to the Key Word Ministry -
Radio and internet video devotionals
(daily) - Key Words For Living -
Facebook.
Let’s be faithful to pray for Dr. Bryan
and serve along side of him as we
continue the work the Lord has given
us to do.
Our Mission: We exist to obey Jesus Christ by
continuously reaching out to create relation-
ships and share Christ’s story in order to make
mature disciples.
421 Edgefield Road | PO Box 8168
North Augusta, SC 29861-8168
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then God provided a way to gave Isaac back
Dorothy Posey, Church Secretary
ryan@belvederefbc.org
Ryan Greene. Min. of Music & Youth
to Abraham...and the rivers of living waters
By faith Abraham, when God tested him, of- began to flow out from him to bless all the
fered Isaac as a sacrifice. Hebrews 11:17 nations of the earth just as God had prom-
ised. As we face our times of great trial, may
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Your Church Staff
In Genesis 22, we come to the story of we be willing out of obedience and faith in the
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are continuing as follows:
Abraham’s greatest trial in his long journey of Lord God to give away what we have so long
faith with God, “Take your son, your only son treasured. You see, God’s gifts to us are of
Worship - 10:30am
Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of no value unless we are willing, if necessary,
on Sunday
Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offer- to lose them so that God may reign without
ing upon one of the mountains of which I rival in our hearts. Abraham’s story is the
shall tell you.” (v2) Can you imagine what a record of every man, woman, and child
blow this was in Abraham’s life? He must whose life has ever counted for God. When
have been most bewildered, “How could God God means more to us than anything, when
ask me to take the life of my most beloved we love the Lord our God with all our heart,
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son, the heir of a great nation that was prom- our soul, our strength and our mind, and we
are even willing to give up the very gift that
ised to me?” Yet, God’s test was to determine
God has given, then through resurrection
if Abraham’s confidence is in his son Isaac,
or in God who gave him his son. I would im- power we become the gift that blesses every-
agine that Abraham wrestled with the “why” one we touch.
as many of us have done so in difficult times
of life. He also must have wondered, “How
can I have the strength to do what God has
told me to do?” Yet when morning comes,
Abraham is resolute in his obedience to God.
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I am afraid that all too often we are inclined to
excuse ourselves from hard things and to
rationalize our way out, relieving the pressure
and avoiding the unsettling challenges before
us. At the heart of it, we have great difficulty .
taking hold of our doubts and apprehensive
feelings and responding with, “I am going to For our weekly service recordings
obey God!”
Where did Abraham find the strength to
carry through on this fearsome task? How
did he make his way toward the mountain Pulpit Supply
when every fiber of his being was wanting to
run away? The answer is found in Genesis Sept. 19, 2021
22:5, “He said to his servants, ‘Stay here with
Dr. John Bryan
the donkey while I and the boy go over there.
We will worship and then we will come back
to you.’” Though he had had no record or Pray & Go
experience with resurrection, I believe that Team Schedule
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Abraham had walked with God long enough
and through so very much, that he had come Sept. 19, 2021
to trust that God would be faithful to keep his Freddie & Betty Holton
promise that through the lineage of Abraham Rebecca Pittman
and now Isaac a great nation would come.
Scott & Evie Wilk
Abraham believed in the resurrection! When
Abraham trusted God and gave Isaac to God
Laura Arthur & Keith Head
 Weekly Ministry Opportunities Stewardship Report
Sunday, Sept. 19 Shoeboxes are Week of: Sept. 12, 2021
9:15a Sunday School available!! Teens Reserved Unto True Holiness
Weekly Needs $6,281.00
10:30 Worship/John Bryan - Interim Due Nov. 15, 2021 Weekly Tithe $5,510.89
4:00p Outreach-Pray & Go Needs/Date $232,974.75
5:45 Small Group (J.Baker) YOUTH - Sunday School @ 9:15am Offering/Date $203,324.80
Tuesday, Sept. 21 Youth Building
6:00p CMONA Annual Mtg @ St. (Online giving included this week)
Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church CSRA Worship Center Missions #8025 $.00
Wednesday, Sept. 22 116 Wilde Drive, NASC Janie Chapman #8050 $325.00
6:30p Praise Team/Choir Rehearsal Yard Sale, Bake Sale, and Games Annie Armstrong #8040 $20.00
(Sanct.) BBQ Plates -available 11:00a - 2:00p FYI! Home Bound Meals #5454 $20.00
Thursday, Sept. 23 Oct. 2nd - 7:00a - 3:00p Memorial #8005 (Fetterhoff) $30.00
7:00p ESL Class (Rm 109) Lucy Pearson Class
Their goal is to raise money for a Meets in 1st classroom behind the
Sunday, Sept. 26 Meeting Place for a Church in India
9:15a Sunday School Sanctuary
Teachers: Mary Head & Kathy Britton
10:30 Worship/John Bryan - Interim 12 members - present on Sept. 5
4:00p Outreach-Pray & Go Members In Service
5:45 Small Group (J.Baker) Adult Coed Class - Room #112
CMONA’s Annual Mtg Teacher: Gary Hartley Welcome Team
6:00pm - Sept. 21 8 members present on Sept.12
Everett and Linda Gregory
@ St. Bartholomew’s
Frank Buck/Victory SS Class
Trunk & Treat Episcopal Church Teacher: Betty Holton Safety
It’s time to start collecting candy for this Dinner is being provided by St. Room #110 John Baker, Mike Durham
years Trunk N’ Treat. Please drop your Bart’s - please contact 12 members present on Sept.12
Sound & Multimedia Team
donations off by the church office. CMONA @ 803-279-5771
By 5p on Friday, Sept 17th John Baker/Phil Solesbee Class Scott Wilk, Michael Goodridge
to let them know how many Room #109
5 members present on Sept. 12 Deacons-On-Call
are planning to attend.
We are allowed up to five Youth - Youth Bldg. David Armstrong / 803-341-0599
delegates. Teacher: Ryan Greene Gary Hartley / 803-426-1495
5 members present on Sept.12 Mike Gee / 803-279-4795

Children - 1st - 5th grades Extended Session

Volunteers are needed for the Fall Festival
Season of Prayer for State Missions,
Missions Education and Kingdom
ADVANCE in South Carolina
www.JanieChapmanOffering.org
September 12 - 19, 2021
Our Goal: $2,500.
Given to date: $1,578.85
(Oct. 1, 2020 - Sept. 12, 2021)
Needed to reach goal: $921.15
Teachers: Evie Wilk, Gail Willem Sun., Sept. 19
Please sign up! 3 members present on Sept.12
Sunday School & Worship Service
4’s & 5’s Carolyn Rhoden, Lee Westmoreland
Teachers: Fran McCormick & Laurel Mead
Sympathy 1 member present on Sept.12
Our heartfelt prayers are extended Nursery
to the Brown family in the loss of Teacher: Carolyn Rhoden
their loved one. (Jennifer Evans - 2 member present on Sept.12
Kayla Brown’s mother, Kayla is
Kyle’s wife, & Steve and Jane’s TOTAL: = 48
daughter-in-law).