2BC May Monthly | April 30, 2017 | Worship Guide and Newsletter

STUDENTS

South Dakota Missions Experience High School When: June 18-23 Who: Completed 8th-12th Grades Cost: $100 – Scholarships are available Register on The Hub in Forms

Graduate Recognition | Sunday, May 14

Sunday, May 14, is Graduate Recognition Day where we recognize high school graduates in the 11:00 a.m. worship. We will also list the names of college, technical, or grad school graduates in the Weekly on that day. May 9 is the last day to register graduates to be included in the Weekly. Email Charles at csmith@2bcliberty.org with your name, school, and degree/program to be recognized in this way.

Registration for South Dakota Missions Experiences and Beach Camp Open We have many exciting opportunities coming this summer! Now is your chance to register for our South Dakota Missions experiences and Beach Camp in Florida.

Middle School When: June 26-30 Who: Completed 6th-8th Grades Cost: $100 – Scholarships are available Register on The Hub in Forms High School Beach Camp When: July 16-21 Location: Panama City, FL Who: Completed 8th-12th Grades Cost: $415 – Scholarships are available Register on The Hub in Forms

THIS WEEK @2BC Sunday, April 30

12:00 p.m. Green Team Luncheon | Student Room Financial Stewardship Committee 1:00 p.m. In As Much Ministry Volunteer Reception | Social Room 5:00 p.m. New Member Fellowship Dinner | Jason & Christy Edwards’ Home

Monday, May 1

10:00 a.m. Senior Adult Coffee ‘n Conversation | Social Room

Minister On Call: If you need to reach a minister when the church office is closed, call 816-781-2824 and follow the prompts. The minister on call will be notified of your need and return your call.

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April 30, 2017 The Kerygma

WELCOME TO WORSHIP! If you are a first-time guest, we invite you to complete a guest card from a pew pocket or the Friendship Register and drop it in the offering plate so that we may get acquainted with you. Also, text “Explore” to 816-355-4736. We would like to communicate with you via text and email with some brief informational messages over the next few weeks. Your information is private and will not be used for any other purpose than to keep you informed about 2BC. Please see an usher if you’d like a listening aid.

GETTING CONNECTED AT 2BC Each Sunday in the Welcome Center (just inside the Kansas Street entrance on Level 1), Our Hospitality Team is waiting to help you get connected. This may include finding a Bible study class, showing you where children and student ministries meet, or sharing the day’s activities and schedule. You may also enjoy a cup of coffee at the Welcome Center’s coffee bar and get to know others at Second.

MEDITATION Take a moment to prepare your heart for worship The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not from exegetes, theologians, and spiritual writers, but from sitting still in the presence of the living Word and beseeching Him to help me understand with my head and heart His written Word. Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of “knowing” Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

— Brennan Manning

Your Entire Family is Welcome!

Children’s worship bags, filled with books and activities, are available at the Sanctuary entrances. If you’d like an alternative for your children, childcare for birth through Pre-K is available on Level 2 at any point in the service. Our Welcome Center is also available for those with restless infants, and you can view the service on a monitor there.

ONLINE/SMARTPHONE GIVING In addition to placing your offering in the offering plate, you can give online at 2bcliberty.org/give or via your smartphone by scanning this QR code.

We have “online giving” cards in the pew rack that you can place in the offering plate to represent your gift if you choose.

WiFi Hot Spot: 2BC-Guest Password: 2bcguest#01 Church Phone 816-781-2824

Our Ministry Team Jason Edwards, Senior Pastor | Mike Lassiter, Assoc. Pastor, Community Care and Missions Connie McNeill, Assoc. Pastor, Administration and Discipleship | Charles Smith, Assoc. Pastor, Student Ministry | Gwen Phillips, Children’s Pastor | Ann Posey, Worship and Music Associate David Fulk, Interim Worship Leader | Don Brown, Interim Choral Director

who live and worship just a few minutes from our homes.

MISSIONS

Ed invites you to Table of Faiths. He would like to share with you the riches he has found. He will meet you at the door with tickets. You will be a guest of HateBusters. Ed will introduce you to Yahya, and to lots of other friends of other faiths. Attenders will eat together.

SENIOR ADULTS

WOMEN ON MISSION No May Women on Mission meeting. In place of our Each of us has entered the Household of Faith through a May meeting some members will be attending certain door. Once inside we discover that many the Clay-Platte Association Spring Fling on Saturday, entered through other doors. In a world grown small, April 29, 2017. we mill around inside this Household of Faith, trying to find how we relate to one another. Until we know each BOOK AND A BUCK 2BC will be collecting other, “who's right” is the wrong question. Just as we Christian books and cannot speak a second language before we speak our Bibles to help fill a first, we cannot appreciate any faith until we first developing seminary embrace our own. library abroad. The Ed Chasteen, who has secured tickets for 2BC goal is to collect one members, says, “One of my very best friends, Yahya ton of “church” books Furqan, is a Muslim imam. We travel together. Do along with the money programs together. Visit in one another's homes. Know necessary to ship the books to the seminary. Bring each others families. He says he is a better Muslim donations to Mike Lassiter’s office. Please leave your because he knows me. I say I'm a better Christian name with your donation. because I know him.”

COFFEE & CONVERSATION Monday, May 1 | 10:00 a.m. | Social Room Monday, May 15 | Social Room Our Senior Adult Ministry hosts a twice-monthly Coffee & Conversation open to all. No reservations needed, just bring a MICHELE PECK IS RETIRING friend and your coffee Monday, May 22 | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | 650 Conistor St. mug! The first Monday After 30 years of dedication to teaching in Liberty, features donuts (bring a Michele Peck has touched countless lives, created dollar if you’d like some); dozens of life-long friendships and influenced the field of the third Monday, it’s education in numerous positive and creative ways. homemade treats.

Please join us in honoring this spectacular educator, coCHILDREN worker and friend for an open house party. RSVP to Children’s Music Program Patrice Clark pclark@liberty.k12.mo.us.

May 10 | 6:20 p.m. | Social Room SECOND SUMMER SYMPHONY 4th/5th Grade Handbell Ringers Sundays beginning June 4 | 8:44 a.m. |Sanctuary Music from the four children's choirs (age 3 through Second Summer Symphony begins Sunday, June 4 with rehearsal at 8:44 a.m. (yes, 8:44) 5th grade). in the sanctuary. Instrumentalists The Young Musicians (3rdentering 9th grade thru adults 5th) will share a timely are invited to participate every musical about how Sunday you are in town and technology can affect our come to rehearsal on the day God-given relationships. The you play for worship. Questions? musical is Unplugged: Dare Call Ann Posey 816 507 2744. to Disconnect

The Worship of God

COMING UP AT 2BC...

CHURCHWIDE SECOND BAPTIST GREEN TEAM April 30 | After 11:00 Worship | Student Room Are you interested in helping 2BC be a model and advocate for sustainable living and ecological justice?

The Green Team is sponsoring an after-church luncheon Sunday, April 30, in the Social Room for one hour to hear from the Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition of Kansas City that partners with Kansas City area congregations. Q & A will follow.

This luncheon is a step in forming a Green Team to help provide leadership and direction to possible environmental efforts. Anyone interested is welcome.

Fellowship of the Concerned, a non-profit, nondenominational organization promoting harmony and diversity in the Northland….serving the Liberty community since 1961. Guest speaker is Adrienne Garstag and special music is provided by Chris Foster.

Donations will go to the annual scholarship fund and to helping those in need in the Liberty area.

April 30, 2017

HISTORIC LIBERTY HOMES TOUR

Candlelighting

Saturday, May 6 | 11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Tickets $15 day of or $12 pre-sale Enjoy this rare opportunity to explore a magnificent collection of five amazing historic homes in Liberty.

Private home owners are generously sharing the character and charm of the past and the architectural heritage preserved in these homes. The tour benefits Fr. Mike is now pastor at St. James Catholic Church. St. Children’s Mercy Cancer Center. Tickets can be James is growing quickly and will probably be the largest purchased in advance online at give.childrensmercy.org/ Catholic parish in the Kansas City area within a few hometour or at Brant’s Clothing on the square. Day of years. tickets can be purchased at house #1 and #2. A listing He has been a priest of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. and map of the homes is also available at the Children’s Mercy website.

Joseph for 35 years, serving in parishes around the Kansas City area-—mainly north of the river. He RETIREMENT CONCERT—PHIL POSEY attended seminary at Conception Abbey in northern Sunday May 7 | 7 p.m. | Village Missouri and graduate training at St. Louis University.

Presbyterian Phil Posey is retiring as conductor of the SECOND SERVINGS Kansas City Wind Symphony. His final Wednesday, May 3 | 5:45 p.m. | Social Room concert is May 7 and a retirement Team Amazing Grazing reception in his honor will follow. Ed Menu: Cheesy Baked Potato and Gilliand will be driving the people mover for 2BC Broccoli Soup, Salad, Bread, departing 2BC at 6:00.

Cookies, Ice Cream COMMUNITY PRAYER BREAKFAST Thursday, May 4 | 7:30 a.m. |Liberty United Methodist Church Family Life Center |1001 Sunset Ave. This prayer breakfast is presented by the Liberty

Gathering Music

TABLE OF FAITHS Tuesday, May 9 | 5:30-8:30 p.m. | Stoney Creek Hotel, Independence People mover will leave the 2BC parking lot at 5:00 p.m.

The Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council sponsors this Table of Faiths, giving us all this yearly opportunity to know our neighbors. At Table of Faiths you will be able to visit tables set up by more than 20 faith communities,

Julie Williams (11:00)

Invitation to Worship

Prelude

SECOND SESSIONS Wednesday May 3 | Social Room Our guest for the last session of “I See You” is Fr. Mike Roach a native of Liberty, MO. He grew up in Liberty during the late 1950's & 60's—when St. James Church was a “small church on Water Street, in the shadow of Second Baptist Church (at that time, there wasn't much association between Catholics & Baptists) HA!”

8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Mike Lassiter Brandon Kolb (11:00)

“Ring-Dance” Andrew Duncan (11:00) Student Handbells, Jake Stouffer, Conductor This is the last performance by our two seniors, Jake Stouffer and Emma Davis

+Hymn of Easter 215

“Rejoice the Lord is King”

Reading of Scripture

Acts 2:14-21

DARWALL

Wanda O’Dell (8:30) Karen North (11:00)

(Pew Bible, page 91, New Testament)

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God! Practicing the Presence of God Special Music Choral Worship

An invitation to silent prayer “At the Name of Jesus”

Prayers of the People +Hymn 605 Reading of Scripture

Amy Duncan (8:30) Cindy Berry (11:00) Jason Edwards

“And Can It Be” Acts 2:22-41 (Pew Bible, page 91, New Testament)

SAGINA

Brian Gamet (8:30) Steve Hemphill (11:00)

Leader: This Is the Word of the Lord..

People: Thanks be to God! Sermon

“The Kerygma”

Jason Edwards

+Hymn of Response 499

“I Surrender All”

Celebration of our 174th Anniversary May 6 & 7

SURRENDER

The worship of the living God invites our response. Those who wish to profess faith in Christ and/or to unite with the church are invited to come forward and share your decision with the pastor.

Offertory Prayer Offertory

“Seekers of Your Heart” Student Choir Directed by Ron Whited

Tunney/Darnall (11:00)

+A Time of Greeting

Jason Edwards

+Congregational Blessing

Jason Edwards “This is the Threefold Truth”

ACCLAMATIONS

This is the three-fold truth on which our faith depends, And with this joyful cry worship begins and ends: Christ has died! Christ is risen! Christ will come again!

Postlude

Details available on our website at 2BCLiberty.org/Events Brochures Available in The Welcome Center

David Fuller (8:30) Helen Brown (11:00)

+Presentation of Offerings “Doxology” LASST UNS ERFREUEN Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; praise Him, all creatures here below; O praise Him! Alleluia!

Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

O praise Him, O praise Him! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

+The Sending Forth 423

A Weekend of Worship, Celebration and Service

“The Strife Is O’er”

Alfred Fedak (11:00)

All Songs UBP CCLI #1091036

All Video UBP CCVI #502497070

Organ: Ann Posey Sanctuary Sound: Dave Heston

Piano: Milton Horne (8:30) Leslie Bunch (11:00) Audio: John Hilton Video: Sandy Goodpasture

belong | believe | become

Look Back and Thank God Look Forward and Trust God Look Around and Serve God.

Join Us As We Celebrate the Second Baptist Church 174th Anniversary

By Strengthening Our Serve in Liberty and Worldwide

May 7 Schedule 9:00-9:30 a.m. Extended gathering music in the sanctuary provided by the Wildwood Boys.

9:30-10:00 a.m. Worship in the Sanctuary 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Volunteering at the project sites 12:30-2:30 p.m. Stocksdale Park Picnic Menu: hamburgers, hot dogs, sides and cake celebration, Games Bluegrass music with the Wildwood Boys.

Signing up on line or with the printed information helps our planning; however, even if you don’t sign up ahead, you can participate in the Global 6K Run/walk for Water Saturday, May 6 at 9:00 a.m. at English Landing Park or join one of the projects Sunday, May 7, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. following the 9:30 a.m. worship service.

Come that Sunday prepared to go to the project you choose. If you signed up and gave a T-Shirt size your shirt will have your name on it and available for pick-up May 7. We will have additional shirts available at church Sunday in sizes Adult XS-2XL. You can also join in the fun at the picnic at Stocksdale Park 12:30-2:30 p.m. without making a reservation.

Other ways to participate Check this list and provide items that we will be using May 7  Cookies brought to the church for distribution to the first responders.  Used towels for the car wash.  Wheelbarrows, shovels, and rakes (please put your name on the tool).

Items will be kept in the annex behind the Many Hands Fair Trade Shop. You may drop them off in that location, or pick them up there after the event.

PRAYER REQUESTS

GETTING TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER Worship leaders today

HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL George Yohe is home!!! He is the 5-monthold grandson of Kent and Karin Yohe.

Helen Brown has been a member of 2BC since the fall of 1967 when she and Don joined the music faculty of William Jewell College. She is involved in the Sanctuary Choir, Adult Handbells, and Beginning Handbells, as well as many other church activities.

Greetings from the search committee for our next Associate Pastor of Worship & Music. As you may know, we are in the midst of fielding and evaluating candidate resumes. We initiated our process of recruiting candidates in mid-March and have received 25 resumes as of April 24. We are actively recruiting resumes through many outlets including ministry publications, online job boards, and seminaries and ministry networks of several individuals. While we have received resumes from candidates that we want to further explore, we are not yet prepared to end our recruiting process.

OTHER PRAYER CONCERNS Mary Margaret Oberkrom

Emma Davis will graduate from Liberty High School in May. She is active in school plays and musicals. She enjoys playing the guitar and sings in both the school and church choirs. She loves to read and hang out with friends. Emma is the daughter of Chuck & Bev.

While we as a congregation may be anxious to get a new Associate Pastor in place, as a search committee we remain diligent to the process of ensuring that we call the right individual for our church. Therefore, we do not have a definitive timeline of when we will stop the recruiting process and move forward into the interview phase. Be assured that we are in communication with the candidates we feel are a fit for our church to ensure they are informed of our overall process.

Sabra Boyd’s parents, health concerns.

May Update

We continue to ask for your prayers as we pursue the right candidate for this position.

Thank you.

The Search Committee for the Associate Pastor of Worship & Music

May Schedule for Wednesday Ministries and Sunday Children’s Choirs 

May 3 Last Rehearsal 4th/5th Grade Handbell Ringers Last Second Sessions until Fall  May 7 Children’s Choir Rehearsal 9:00-9:20 a.m.  May 10 Children’s Music Presentation | 6:20 p.m. | Social Room 4th/5th Grade Handbell Ringers Music from the four children's choirs (age 3 through 5th grade).

The Young Musicians (3rd-5th) will share a timely musical about how technology can affect our God-given relationships.  May 17 Last Second Servings until fall Stu Talks Youth Presentation Last Children’s Mission Groups until fall, and they deserve a treat for all the things they’ve learned and work they have done! After our Wednesday night dinner, a snow cone truck will be parked outside the Welcome Center doors. There will be blankets to sit on the grass while we eat. What a treat! Thank you, leaders, for a great year. It’s been exciting to see the children “Shine like the Son” throughout the year as they learned and served others!

Irene Thomas Susi Seely, health concerns.

Laura Carder’s grandmother, Dorothy Ruestman, has been put on hospice.

David Fuller joined Second after graduating from William Jewell College. David Is Chief of Programs and Administrative Services for the Training and Doctrine Command Analysis Center at Ft. Leavenworth and a deacon at Second Baptist Church.

Brian Gamet and Sarah have been part of 2BC since 2009. They are proud parents of Desirae, Tucker and Lily. Brian works as the manager of Demand/Forecasting with Bayer Animal Health.

Jim Fischer, Gerry Walther’s brother, recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Steve Hemphill is a retired diplomat with the U.S. State Department as well as having an earlier career as a Missouri Prosecutor. He remains active in an area business as well as international and local charitable organizations, but mainly William Jewell where his nephew and niece from Pennsylvania are students.

Walter Weaver, Kevin’s brother, diagnosed with leukemia and undergoing chemo.

Brandon Kolb is a third grader at Shoal Creek Elementary. He is the son of Daphne and Eric Kolb.

Allen Noel, Jim’s brother, has been put on hospice care.

Erma Kay Edwards, recovering from a fall.

The Search Committee for our Associate Pastor of Worship and Music.

Karen North has been attending 2BC for over 10 years. She was born and raised in the Northland and has one adult son, Matthew.

Karen is a registered nurse and enjoys spending time at Lake Pomme de Terre in her spare time.

Wanda O'Dell and Dan have been members at Second since 1986.

Wanda is a MOPS mentor, greets in the Welcome Center, and plays the piano for worship services.

Jake Stouffer grew up at Second. He's active in drumline, Student Council, and baseball at Liberty North High School, and looks forward to graduating in May, and attending Iowa State University this fall. Jake is the son of Bert and Jacque.

Ron Whited has been a member since 1990. He owns his own software development company. He and Becky have a blended family of four children and four grandchildren. Ron leads the Media Capture Team.

Julie Williams and her husband, Dustin, have been attending 2BC for four years. She is beginning her fifth year of teaching elementary music in Grain Valley. Julie enjoys working with the 2BC first and second grade choir and helping with VBS and Masterpiece Arts Camp.

May 2017 Monthly A NOTE FROM PASTOR JASON The Energy of Easter I can still sense the energy of Easter. There's nothing quite like it.

Our Lenten preparation readied us and that readiness only rose as we embraced the rhythm of Holy week. Palm branches, broken bread, and Christ's cup brought us to Christ's cross, which is our cross too. Buried with Christ in baptism on Good Friday, raised to walk in newness of life on Easter Sunday. This we proclaimed with conviction, pageantry, and exuberance as our readiness erupted in celebration on Easter morn. It is, not surprisingly, one of my favorite worship experiences each year. There's nothing quite like it. And I know many of you will agree.

As someone from the community rightly pointed out to me this past week, Easter is the highest attended worship service of the year – anywhere. (With Christmas Eve attendance a close second and other high attendance days lagging a good bit behind) Why is that? The answer isn't difficult to discern, chief among them being this is the day everyone decides to show up. One researcher, Thom Rainer, says not many non-Christians attend on Easter Sunday (though they do on Christmas Eve). Easter is the time when Christians who do not attend church often decide to show up. I'd add this is also the Sunday when all of us who are active (but not every single Sunday) decide to show up at once. And why wouldn't we? We are, after all, Easter people. When it comes time to celebrate the resurrection, we ought to show up and sing out.

Ah, yes. And therein lies the point. The last verse of the hymn “Easter People, Raise Your Voices” says it well: "Every day to us is Easter, with its resurrection song. Even when life overwhelms us Easter people sing this song: Alleluia! Alleluia! Everlasting Sunday song."

In a very real sense, every Sunday is meant to be a celebration of the resurrection. This is why Christians started meeting for worship on the first day of the week—to remember Christ's Sunday resurrection. Even the Lenten season, which transpires over 46 days, is only actually a 40-day fast. Why? Because we subtract the Sundays. The Sundays of Lent are not part of the Lenten fast because…well…Sundays are Sundays. Even more, every Sunday is supposed to remind us that "Every day to us is Easter."

And so I wonder—while we're all still sensing the energy of Easter - how we might receive it as a challenge, so that our resurrection celebration might not culminate, but continue? After all, the real energy of Easter comes not from the climax of an Easter introit (though our choir and instrumentalists did lift us, didn't they?), nor from putting a little extra oomph in our own Hallelujahs (though you sure did!) nor even from impassioned preaching (Lord help us all!J), but from the ever available power of the risen Christ who says he is with us always —and in an extra special way when two or more are gathered in his name.

I can still sense the energy of Easter. I don't want that to stop. It really doesn't have to stop. Christ is with us.

Christ is with us at the dinner table with our families. Christ is with us in our office chairs at work. Christ is with us in particularly meaningful ways as we gather for worship each and every Sunday. Christ is with us through our breaking of bread, study, and prayer. Christ is with us when we go out and serve together like we will do as a church on our anniversary Sunday. Christ is with us. Because: Christ is risen!

Yes! May we proclaim it now and always, in word—AND in deed.

Jason Edwards Senior Pastor

Twenty-three years ago, our church changed the name of our existing preschool ministry to the community to Second Friends. In all those years, we have had only two directors to lead this excellent educational experience for young children. Isn’t that amazing? When Debbie Lassiter passed the baton to Angela Bush, many wondered if life could possibly continue with a new person in charge. Well, it didn’t take long for all of us to realize that Second Friends was, once again, in great, capable hands! Angela began to direct this ministry in 2002. For fifteen years, she has worked tirelessly with her team of teachers to live out the mission statement for the preschool: “To encourage the development of the whole child by providing experiences that stimulate innate curiosity and foster positive self-esteem through encountering others in a nurturing Christian setting.” Read what one student and her parent say about Angela: “When I think about Angela, Colossians 3:23 always comes to my mind. It says, “Whatsoever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men.” From the biggest event to the smallest detail, Angela truly gives her all. She works to make each child (and parent) feel cared for and special. She works countless hours on individual gifts for each child at every holiday, she joyfully greets them each day by name as she helps them inside, she teaches them about Jesus and how much they are loved by Him, puts together an amazing imaginary play place called “Tot Town” for one week each year, feeds our bellies at the Thanksgiving feast, and pours her heart into the preschool in countless other ways, with little recognition. I could not be more thankful for her passion for preschoolers, as two of my little ones have been blessed by her ministry. She has made an impact on our family and we are forever grateful! We love Mrs. Angela!” (And from daughter, Ellie: “She made us toys every time at Bible time and she made them by hand! She made me feel really, really happy.”) -Jenny Dobbs Second Baptist Church is very thankful for Angela’s years of ministry. She will be sending off her last group of preschoolers this month as she leaves this position. We know how much she will be missed by the entire preschool community.

“Under Angela Bush’s leadership, Second Friends has become a well-known and well respected preschool in the Liberty area. Her staff has such great respect for all she has done for them and the preschool.

Parents and children love and adore her! We will miss her generous Christian spirit and wish her the best in the future.” Marcy Driskill, Second Friends Board Chair.

As a part of the church family, you may personally want to let Angela know how grateful you are for her service as our Second Friends Director. A thoughtful note or card would be wonderful! (Check the HUB for her home address or feel free to mail your note to the church.)

“Angela, well done, good and faithful servant.” Matthew 25:21

Gwen Phillips Children’s Pastor