The Messenger is a weekly publication of First Baptist Church 255 W. Central Ave LaFollette, TN. 37766 Phone: 1-423-562-7649

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• Sunday School Attendance:         130
  Tithes & Gifts                        $3,525.00
  Sympathy to John Franklin in the death of his brother Eddie Ray Franklin
  Valentine Pot Luck Lunch: February 12th after Morning Worship. Please bring a meat dish and your favorite side dish. Coffee and Tea furnished by the church.
  Please keep collecting Food City receipts through March 11th!The CCHS Art dept. appreciates it!
  Fellowship and scrap booking for all ladies Friday 17th - 6 to 9 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall. Please bring your favorite finger food to share.
  YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE: YOU are the church, and the success or failure of our church depends upon the part that you play in it.  This places this great responsibility squarely where it belongs.......upon YOU! - Yes, your attitude and the extent YOU participate in the program of your church determines its success or failure. - If you attend, pray, and visit for your church we will always have great crowds in the Sunday School and Church Training.  We will baptize every Sunday, and have new people joining the church. - If YOU are enthusiastic in boosting your church.  If YOU are loyal and dependable then the future of your church is assured. But YOU have a part that no one but YOU can fill.  Success depends on YOU.  YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. - [This was taken from the August 17, 1975 Messenger]
  Audio: We are trying to place the streaming audio of the Sunday Morning services on the web. Pleas check for the availability of these messages.
  The following is taken from a speech to the Constitutional Convention June 28, 1787 by Benjamin Franklin:  - "Mr. President, the small progress we've made after four or five weeks...is proof of the imperfection of human understanding.  "We seem to feel our want of Political Wisdom since we've been running all about in search for it. We have looked to Ancient governments which no longer exist.  And we've viewed modern states in Europe, but find none suitable to our needs.  In this situation groping in the dark for political truth, and hardly able to recognize it when we see it, how has it happened sir, that we have not once thought of appealing to the Father of lights to illuminate our understanding.
  
  "In the beginning of our struggle with Britain, when we were sensible to danger, we had daily prayer in this room for Divine Protection.  All of us must be aware of a superintending Providence looking over us.  Our prayers were heard - and graciously answered.  Have we so soon forgotten our Powerful Friend? - Or do we imagine we no longer need his assistance?  The longer I live, the more convinced I am that God governs in the affairs of men, and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it Probable that an Empire can rise without His Aid?  We have been assured in the sacred writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it."
  
  "I therefore move, that henceforth prayer imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberations, be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more of the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service"
  
  QUESTION ? If you had the only key to the church door, how many Sundays would people get in to worship?
         

  

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