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CURRENT SUNDAY SCHEDULE:
8:45 Media Library Opens
9:15 Sunday School
9:15 Vietnamese Sunday School
10:20 Deacons' Prayer Group
10:30 Worship Service
10:30 Vietnamese Worship Service
5:00 Youth Choir
5:45 Youth Snack Supper
6:00 Youth Group

WEDNESDAY SCHEDULE:
5:00 Library Opens
5:00 Children's Choirs
5:15 Church Family Supper
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5:15 Childcare Available
6:00 Announcements and Prayer
6:20 Mission Friends
(children age 4 - kindergarten)
6:20 Children's Missions Activities
(children in grades 1-6)
6:20 Youth Activities
6:20 Adult Study
6:20 Brass Ensemble Rehearsal
6:20 Handbells Rehearsal
7:15 Adult Choir Rehearsal

The Weather Report for Immanuel Baptist Church

From Our New Pastor, Steven Meriwether

When the church gathers to worship, it is likely someone in attendance is treading water. Their days are marked by loss, be that the loss of a loved one, job, or health. To stand in worship along with the singing congregation certainly creates much existential contradiction. While others sing songs of praise, that certain worshipper digs deep to muster the courage to offer the same. As I write my first article for the Bulletin, I am awash in such contradiction. The extraction from my community of fifteen years has begun. I am somewhat unnerved by myriad expressions of sadness.

Here is the rub. Paralleling the season of grief is an anticipation of things to come at Immanuel. Hellos await me in Nashville. The warm welcome you have extended through the many cards and notes engenders excitement. But I am here, and that is the contradiction.

The good/bad thing is that starting necessitates finishing. Who could say a pastor's work is ever finished? But there comes a time when he/she moves on and leaves the vineyard. I must relinquish to another the highly anticipated harvest of seeds already sown.

Your patience and recognition of my grief buoy me. I appreciate your prayers. The door of opportunity has swung wide; passing through it will necessitate courage. I recall the words President Lincoln wrote to a grieving mother—I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost.

By the grace of God I will arrive with the beginnings of such memories, and be ready for
"hello!"Steven