The 2BC Monthly | January 2017

THIS WEEK AT @2BC January 9 January 10 January 11 January 13-14

Thailand Mission Trip Departure 9:30 MomsNext Regular Wednesday Schedule 9:30 MOPS 6:00 pm—9:00 am Student Winter Lock-in

IMPORTANT MESSAGE re: JANUARY CHURCH COUNCIL MEETING The January Church Council meeting will take place on January 22 instead of January 15.

CHURCH CONFERENCE will be held the following Sunday, January 29th at noon

Epiphany Sunday Starstruck

THAILAND MISSION TRIP In November we made a significant commitment to Get Stronger by strengthening our global presence. How will we do that? One way is by developing a Thailand/Myanmar ministry network to minister to immigrants and refugees here and in southeast Asia.

This January we are taking the next step in this new mission commitment by sending 5 of our members and 2 William Jewell students to Thailand. Jason Edwards, Mike Lassiter, Blane Baker, Bill Gossett, Jeff Buscher, Christian Wyatt and Daniel Bittel will travel to the Upland Holistic Development Project in Mai Ai, Thailand to build and strengthen relationships, explore future mission opportunities, and to demonstrate possible uses of both an aquaponics system and solar recharging stations.

You can follow the progress of this mission trip by following the 2BC Blog (http:// www.2bcliberty.org/media), Instagram and Facebook pages. Please remember to pray for these church members while they are gone.

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WELCOME TO WORSHIP! If you are a first-time guest, please complete a guest card from a pew pocket or 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.

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 gifts that the three Wise Men, or Kings, or Magi, brought cost them plenty but seem hardly appropriate to the occasion. Maybe they were all they could think of in the moment. In any case, they set them down on the straw – the gold, the frankincense, the myrrh – worshipped briefly, and then returned to the East where they had come from. It gives you pause to consider how, for all their great wisdom, they overlooked the one gift the child would have been genuinely pleased to have someday, and that was the gift of themselves and their love.”

– Frederick Buechner

FEBRUARY 2BC EVENTS DEACON ORDINATION AND RETREAT CHURCHWIDE February 3 Ordination Service at 6:30 PM with Reception following.

ALL DEACONS February 4 Breakfast at 8:30.

Daniel Vestal guest speaker beginning at 9:00. Lunch served at 12. Spouses are invited to the lunch. $10 per person. RSVP by January 25 to the church office or on the Events page of our website (http://www.2bcliberty.org/events).

SURVEY SAYS! Wednesday February 22 | 6:30-7:15 | Social Room Nick Bartlow and Daniel Bunch will return with more survey data about us. Hopefully, this information will help the Associate Pastor of Worship and Music in their discerning candidates.

SAVE THE DATE! POVERTY SIMULATION February 25, 2017| 9:30-Noon

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.

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

United Services Poverty Simulation is a unique opportunity to help people understand what life is like with a shortage of money and an abundance of stress. Community wide event. Free of charge. Preregistration required and is limited to 72 participants. Registration opens January 9. Call the church office or register on the Events page of our website (http://www.2bcliberty.org/events).

HIGH SCHOOL NON-STOP TRIP Dates: February 18-20 Cost: $100 Location: Memphis, Tennessee Includes visits to the National Civil Rights Museum and Sun Studio Open to current high school students DISCIPLE NOW Dates: March 10-12 Location: 2BC and around Liberty

The Faith of a Mockingbird with Jane Boswell.

In The Faith of a Mockingbird, based on Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, uses Lee’s beloved characters to explore Christian faith, theology, and ethics. Join Scout, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson in this study considering God’s world and what it all means.

STUDENT SUNDAY Date: January 29 Time: 8:30 & 11:00am services Includes performances from Student Choir, Student Handbells, and messages from our high school senior speakers.

Hoodwinked with Michele Peck. Moms have been hoodwinked tricked into believing lies that keep them from not only enjoying motherhood, but forging friendships with other moms who might tackle the tasks of motherhood differently. Myths such as Mothering is natural, easy, and instinctive cause moms to feel like failures if they have questions or apprehensions in raising their kids. Operating from the premise that the way I mother is the right (and only) way puts up fences between moms instead of building bridges of encouragement between them. Lies such as I am my child s choices tempt moms to mistakenly believe that if their child makes a wrong choice then they, in turn, must be a bad mom.

CHILDREN

STUDENTS

We have a growing collection of umbrellas in the Welcome Center. If you have lost yours, please check the table to see if we have acquired it.

SPRING SEMESTER INFORMATION MEETING January 8 at 5 pm. Get the info for everything coming up in the 2017 Spring Semester.

WINTER LOCK-IN

Dates: Friday, January 13 - Saturday, January 14 Time: 6:00pm-9:00am Location: 2BC and around KC Cost: $30

What to bring: A snack and a drink to share Description: Join us for an incredible Winter Lock-In experience complete with a trip to Power Play, hours of ACG's, and all-night fun at the church! Dinner and unlimited Power Play games and attractions are included in the cost of $30. Bring a snack and drink to share with everyone. Online registration will be available soon!

MINDFUL PARENTING RETREAT AT 2BC January 20, 5:30-8p and Jan. 21, 9 a.m.-noon | Sonya Richardson-Thomas, LPC, RPT will lead this community-wide retreat for parents of 0-7 year olds.

As of Dec. 2 the cost is $125 and you can bring your spouse or partner. Register at squareup.com/store/ sonya-richardson-thomas, or find the link on Sonya’s Facebook page.

LOST AND FOUND

The Worship of God The Epiphany of our Lord

January 8, 2017

8:30 and 11:00 a.m.

Gathering Music Invitation to Worship

Charles Smith

Call to Worship

“This is the Day”

Candlelighting

Adam Fuller

Prelude

“As With Gladness Men of Old” Michelle Cook, flute

+Hymn of Praise 124 Sign-up at the bottom of our home page at 2bcliberty.org to receive our regular communications via email.

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Warren Angell (11:00) and Rose Marie Cooper

Stan Pethel

“The First Nowell”

Old Testament Reading

THE FIRST NOWELL

Isaiah 60: 1-6

Steve Ritter Davis Fulk

(Pew Bible, page 535, Old Testament)

Leader: This is the Word of the Lord.

People: Thanks be to God! Practicing the Presence of God +Hymn 151

An invitation to silent prayer “We Three Kings”

KINGS OF ORIENT

Prayers of the People

Amy Duncan

COMING UP AT 2BC...

CHURCHWIDE

New Testament Reading

Matthew 2: 1-12

Jessica Greason Carolyn Fulk

(Pew Bible, page 1, New Testament)

Leader: This Is the Word of the Lord..

People: Thanks be to God! Music for Epiphany

“In the Bleak Midwinter” Gwen Phillps and David Fulk, vocalist

Sermon

Starstruck

+Hymn of Response 159

“Fairest Lord Jesus”

arr. Craig Courtney

Jason Edwards CRUSADERS’ HYMN (ST. ELIZABETH)

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 +Presentation of Offerings 148

Nick Bartlow Angie McElhaney “Bright and Glorious Is the Sky” “What Child Is This”

COFFEE WITH THE PASTOR Sunday, Jan. 8 | 9:45 a.m. | Oak Room | Join Pastor Jason Edwards and a few members of 2BC for an informal coffee. Ask questions and chat about anything you want to know as you get familiar with the 2BC faith family.

Wilbur Held

GREENSLEEVES

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh, come peasant, king to own him; The King of kings salvation brings, let loving hearts enthrone Him. Raise, raise the song on high, the virgin sings her lullaby.

Joy, joy for Christ is born, the Babe, the Son of Mary.

CONNECTIONS CLASS Sundays, Jan. 15-Feb. 12 | 9:45 a.m. | Connections is a five-week class led by Greg Duncan and designed for new members and those who are new to our congregation, or anyone who would benefit from the experience. Not only will you explore more about who 2BC is as a faith community and how you can best connect, but you’ll be able to examine your own giftedness and perhaps discover new opportunities for personal growth and ministry here at Second Baptist.

Books can be ordered online in advance and a small number of books will be available for purchase at the first class session. The first study session will be held during the Sunday school hour on January 15th in the Fellowship Hall.

CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA Choir Wednesdays | 7:15-8:30 | Rm 501 Orchestra | TBA Was your heart stirred by the choir and orchestra during Advent and Christmas? Do you sing or play an instrument? Then perhaps you might consider being part of one of these ensembles as they prepare for the Lenten and Easter seasons. For information about the choir, contact director Don Brown at brownhouse601@att.net or choir president Leslie Bunch at lbunch62@yahoo.com. The choir meets Wednesdays from 7:15 to 8:30. For information about the orchestra, contact organist Ann Posey at poseyannphil2@sbcglobal.net

Please register for this class on the events page of our website (http://www.2bcliberty.org/events) or by calling the church office.

AT THE CROSSROADS, Leadership for the Second Half of Life.

Sundays, Jan. 15| 9:45 a.m. | West Side of Social Room Wes Blanton will lead this featured class. The class will be a six week study around the book "At the Crossroads - Leadership Lessons for the Second Half of Life”. This Bible-based small group study will focus on how to live a purposeful and spiritually healthy life in retirement. We will examine how to make the next part of life the best while making a significant difference in the lives of others. We will also consider what needs to happen in advance to prepare for retirement.

Participants will hopefully conclude the study with a greater understanding of God’s plan for their lives during this highly anticipated and meaningful phase of life. The content will be pertinent for those nearing or already in retirement.

SECOND SERVINGS This week’s fellowship menu is J & S Pizza, Salad & Cookies. Meal reservations are due by Mondays at noon.

You can make reservations by calling the church office or online at http://2bcliberty.org/wednesdays SECOND SESSIONS Wednesdays Jan. 11-Feb. 15 | 6:30-7:15 Following supper Adults have 3 options for discipleship: Renegade Gospel with Hadley Fisher. Who was Jesus, really? Wasn’t the central figure to the Christian faith a man who denied all preconceived notions about what God should look like? Wouldn’t associating with him have meant joining a rebel movement? Doesn’t it still? Renegade Gospel is a church study that challenges believers to come to terms with the real Jesus—the rebel Jesus.

+A Time of Greeting

Jason Edwards

+Congregational Blessing

Jason Edwards

+The Sending Forth 165

“Thou Didst Leave Thy Throne”

MARGARET

When the heavens shall ring, and the angels sing, at Thy coming to victory, let Thy voice call me home, saying "Yet there is room, there is room at My side for thee."

My heart shall rejoice, Lord Jesus, when Thou comest and callest for me. ­Postlude

All Songs UBP CCLI #1091036

The EHS Course, with Emotionally Healthy Spirituality Day by Day, will take you on a powerful 8-week journey of transformation that will equip you with tools to develop a deep interior life with Christ.

Eight Sundays starting Jan. 15 | 2:30-4:30 p.m. | led by a team | If you found our fall emphasis on Emotionally Healthy Spirituality helpful, this is your opportunity to take your next step and go further in-depth on these concepts.

Please register for this class on the events page of our website (http:// www.2bcliberty.org/events) or by calling the church office. Course books for this class are $10 and the Day by Day Daily Office guide is $9. Please indicate in your registration if you’d like to purchase the books through the church office.

Organ: Ann Posey Sanctuary Sound: Dave Heston Interim Worship Leader: David Fulk

“Jesus Shall Reign”

Charles Callahan

All Video UBP CCVI #502497070 Piano: Leslie Bunch (8:30) Debbie Lassiter (11:00) Media: Media Team Interim Choir Director: Don Brown

PRAYER REQUESTS CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY Christian sympathy is extended to the family of Erma Nadine Bogart. Services were held December 28, 2016.

LIBERTY HOSPITAL Loretta Hughes, No visitors please.

OTHER PRAYER CONCERNS John Powers, Karen Rogers brother-inlaw had a stroke Monday afternoon December 19th. He is at Center Point Hospital. John has lost his speech and is half paralyzed, is getting better but would appreciate our continued prayers.

GETTING TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER WORSHIP LEADERS TODAY Nick Bartlow has been a member of Second since 2000. He currently serves on the Leadership Development Committee. He is the Senior Director of Insights and Analytics for Smithfield Farmland.

JANUARY 2017 MONTHLY A NOTE FROM PASTOR JASON In a Christian sense, Epiphany names a great January liturgical feast. It is rooted in the biblical story of the three mysterious Magi who journeyed from the East to offer gifts to the Christ child. The season of Epiphany begins on the 12th day of Christmas as a culmination of our celebration. The church uses it as the occasion to remind us that Christ came not just for the Jewish people but for all people. His coming was an epiphany, an awakening for all humankind.

Amy Duncan has been a member of Second Baptist Church since 1975. She is currently involved in Bible study, the sanctuary and handbell choirs, and the deacon ministry at Second Baptist. Amy is also a Senior Sales Director with Mary Kay Cosmetics. She is married to Greg and they have two children, Stewart and Emily.

Adam Fuller is a fifth grader at Shoal Creek Elementary. He is the son of Angie and David Fuller.

Carolyn Fulk has been a 2BC member since 1995. She teaches American history and world geography at Heritage Middle School and is an avid fan of the St. Louis Cardinals.

She and David are parents of Davis.

Davis Fulk is an eighth grader at Heritage Middle School. In addition to student activities at Second, Davis enjoys running cross country. He is the son of Carolyn and David Fulk.

Jessica Greason married Brandon in 2007 and has been active at Second Baptist since their marriage. They are parents of sons Tate and Hayes.

Angie McElhaney is an audit partner at Marks Nelson, a CPA firm. She is a Stephen Minister. Angie and Tim have two sons, Taylor and Nick.

Steve Ritter and Tammy have two sons and three grandchildren. Steve is retired from GE Energy. The Ritters have been members of Second since l989.

“Epiphany” in its secular sense complements its Christian meaning. Here’s one definition: A sudden realization about the nature or meaning of something. To realize the meaning of something — my life, my gifts, an illness, a death, this thing of beauty, an ordinary day — it’s a rich word that points us to a particular revelation about the very nature of something.

How many epiphanies have you experienced in your life? Have they come upon you suddenly or seeped in slowly? Can you name them? How have they surprised you, shaped you; shifted your focus or understanding? How has your life been enriched by a well-timed epiphany?

The New Year often brings with it a myriad of resolutions. We’re now primed and ready to finally tackle that project or better those relationships, to save more money or to shave more pounds. Why not resolve to keep our eyes open for God’s next epiphany? This New Year very well could include new shaping, new shifting; new light and perhaps even new revelations about the very nature of your life. Are you open to that?

Wondering (as I wander),

Jason Edwards Senior Pastor

Note: This January Monthly will serve as our information piece for the month of January.

Copies will be available all month in the stands or for download on the “View Services” page of the 2bcliberty.org website.