Welcome To Our Website
As Senior Pastor and on behalf of the family of the First Baptist Church, I want to thank you for visiting our website. At the First Baptist Church, we believe God calls each of us to be engaged in a passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. There is no higher calling than to seek the Lord with all your heart, and in so doing, to glorify Him. We welcome you to join us in this pursuit. The fact that Jesus died for our sins, was buried, and then rose from the grave is our fundamental belief. He lives today and stands ready to give abundant and eternal life to all those who repent of sin and place their faith in Him. We invite everyone to receive Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord.
What a joy it is to introduce you to our church! At the First Baptist Church, our doors are wide open to people from all backgrounds, regardless of where they are on their spiritual journey.
One of life’s most beautiful words is ‘family’. At the First Baptist Church, we take seriously the Bible’s teaching that Christians are the family of God and therefore brothers and sisters in Christ. As a “family of faith” we seek to worship and serve God, share the good news of the gospel message, and provide the spiritual environment necessary for the believer’s spiritual growth.
In short, you will find us to be a God centered, caring community of individuals who are excited about having the opportunity to extend to you the same love, hope and joy we have received from the Lord. We extend to you a cordial invitation to join us this coming Lord’s Day as the family meets to draw near to God through prayer, thoughtful contemporary songs, traditional hymns and inspiring relevant messages from God’s Word. After the worship service we linger over refreshments, so please take a moment to get to know us better. God bless you.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Pastor Keith Axford
Announcements
The sermon from May 13th. is posted. This sermon, as well as previous sermons, can be played back from the Website.
- Sunday – Sunday School classes for ages 3-5, 6-8, 9-11. The Nursery is available for children aged two and younger.
- Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. – Midweek service: Praise and Worship, Bible Study (Guardrails with Andy Stanley) and Prayer. Everyone is invited to attend.
Please also Note:
- More helpers needed in the nursery! Please see Donna.
- Sheets are needed for the White Cross bandages project: white or colored, plain or printed, cotton, polyester or flannelette, flat or fitted, in reasonably good condition, minimum "pilling".
- The latest newsletters from our missionaries, Calvin & Susanna Hohn and Yuri Nakano, have been posted on the notice board.
- Help yourself to the June/July/August issue of Our Daily Bread, available on the entry table.
- The grass-cutting schedule is ready for your signature! Many thanks to our good neighbor, Hank Branconnier, for cutting and trimming last week.
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Church Services:
- Wednesday Evenings - 7:00PM
- Sunday Mornings - 11:00AM
Children's Ministry - for ages 2-11 during service time. All children welcome to attend. The Nursery is available for children under two.
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Of Note
Our New Church Building
Here are two video presentations:
- Our Old Church - a view of our current building with a few video clips of a Sunday morning and pictures of the clutter and lack of space
- Our New Church - Our vision for the future
Click here to go to a page allowing you to view them.
FCSS Smoky Lake
We partner with FCSS Smoky Lake in welcoming newcomers to the community. Anyone wishing to contribute promotional literature and/or gifts from his/her business, please see Michelle.
News from Cheryl Hoople
Recovery Ministry
yugoministries
Click here to see latest letter
Click here to see a tribute to the life of Rod Hoople
Click here to download pledge form and donate now
Consolacion Baptist Church in the Philippines
The second floor on the church is nearly finished. What a difference we can make when we reach out to others with our offerings! Click here to see more
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Events
- Wednesday – Pastor Keith will be conducting Pastoral Care Services at Bar-V-Nook (9:00 a.m.), the Auxiliary (10:00 a.m.) and the Nursing Home (10:45 a.m.). All are welcome to participate.
- Next Sunday, after church – WMF meeting (postponed from May 6) at the home of Tegan Scharff. Ladies, please bring lunch for coffee time after church, followed by the meeting at Tegan’s. All ladies are welcome.
- May 28, 5:00 p.m. – Information Meeting at the church regarding a Daycare Co-op in Smoky Lake. Starts with a potluck supper.
- June 8-9 – Community Clothing Swap at the church.Please bring your donations of gently-used clothing for men, women and children, no later than June 5.
- June 10 – "Lost and Found" Quartet from Calgary
- June 17 – Cheryl Hoople from YUGO ministries
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Regularly Scheduled Worship Times:
- Wednesday Evenings at 7:00 PM
- Sunday Morning at 11:00 AM, including Sunday School for the children
Church Family Notices
- Watch for postings of importance in this space
Building Project
Quote of the week
Renewal is rooted in faith, not in resolutions! They are made for New Year's and forgotten on an average of thirteen days later, say the surveys. Faith is the result of a decision about Christ. I cannot make a new me or a new you, but Christ can make you new and me new, as well, if we decide for Him.
Frank Harrington
Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the New Year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. Maltbie Davenport
Recent Discussion Points
Back to the future… or the end of the road?
Neo-Marxist ideology has Christianity in its sights.
Aug 17 2017 - Michael Kirke
A British Conservative government minister, Justine Greening, says that gender is virtually meaningless by proposing to let adults come in off the street and change it at will. “Pronoun Committees” on campus warn, “If you fail to respect someone else’s gender identity, it is not only disrespectful and hurtful, but also oppressive.” Does anyone hear an echo, “Committee of Public Safety”?
From there it was but a short step to the guillotine. Mozzilla’s CEO was removed from the company he founded because he privately supported traditional marriage – and that was also disrespectful, hurtful and oppressive. It certainly was for him – but that didn’t matter. A Google engineer is the latest casualty of the thought police because he expressed an opinion of doubtful orthodoxy.
This is just a very small sample from a long catalogue of seemingly mad events which are taking place around us. But they are not mad. They are the result of a cold, calculated dogma that has pervaded our culture.
We are, in truth, not a million miles, not even a few hundred miles from the nightmare of Stalinist Russia, where to write an opera (Prokofiev), compose a symphony (Shostakovich) or pen a novel (Pasternak) which was out of synch with the ideology of the State would reduce your career to ashes and even endanger your very life.
Is there anyone out there prepared to defend mankind from this self-destructive ideology? Yes there is, perhaps too timidly yet, but the principles are sound and if this onslaught of injustice persists then surely the perennial voice of reason will be heard loud and clear.
For seventy-plus years Marxism was a political force in the Soviet Union, backed up by a lethal totalitarian state. In that time the one enemy which it constantly singled out for annihilation was the Christian religion. Wherever Christians were found the grotesque regime’s apparatus first sought to corrupt them. Failing that it sought to crush them.
After soviet Russia led the way a handful of Eastern European followed under its tutelage – or its tanks. China and some Asian countries then joined the monstrous regiment and in the fifties and sixties of the last century the ideology made a largely unsuccessful attempt to subvert Latin America.
Eventually, bearing within itself the seeds of its own destruction, the states which embraced it began to crumble and fall. But to the very end Christianity remained its perpetual enemy and number one target for persecution and extermination. Even in the last decade of its hegemony it sought to assassinate – and almost succeeded – the Vicar of Christ on Earth.
Why was this so? Why should the followers of a peace-loving prophet from 2000 years ago be such a threat to what at first sight might be described as just one more attempt to solve the problems mankind faces in organising this world to meet the daily needs of its inhabitants?
Click here to read the article online (be sure that you do): MercatorNet
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