The LOOP Newsletter | Feb. 14, 2016

SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH

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February 14, 2016

WEDNESDAYS | 6:30-7:15pm | Chapel Join us Wednesday nights during Lent for Evensong. We'll examine significant religious art that helps guide us to an understanding of various facets of our faith journey.

THE GOSPEL OF...

FAITH COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

A Lenten service of worship, prayer and song.

FORGIVING February 17 Luke 15:21-24

Focus art: The Return of the Prodigal

FELLOWSHIPING February 24 Matthew 26: 17-30 Focus art: The Last Supper

CHOOSING March 2 John 1:29-34

Focus art: The Lamb of God

SACRIFICING March 9 John 9:6-16

Focus art: The Procession to Calvary

BELIEVING March 16 John 20:19-29

Focus art: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas

March 24 No service -- Holy Week

belong |

believe | become

2bcliberty.org Church office: 816-781-2824

Coming Up @ 2BC

Church-Wide

Lenten Devotional Now Available Our 2016 Lenten Devotional booklet is available now! This season’s focus is on The Gospel of the Nobodies. As well as devotionals to guide us for each Sunday of Lent and for each day of Holy Week, we’ll also read through the Gospel of Luke as a church family. It will serve to remind us how Jesus, by His example, turned the way we treat one another — especially the undervalued and our own personal feelings of unworthiness — upside down.

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Options to receive the Lenten Devotional: • Visit 2bcliberty.org/lent2016 to read them on a computer or device.

Receive the devotionals each morning via email. If you already receive the weekly eblasts, you'll get the devotional emails as well. Sign up on the homepage at 2bcliberty.org to get on the list!

Pick up a hard copy at the Welcome Center desk

What Do I Believe? Part 2 Study

Feb. 14-March 20 | Social Room | Led by David May Using Boyd & Eddy’s book Across The Spectrum, the class explores the basic issues of evangelical theology in a contemporary world. It is relevant, helpful and will seed your spiritual growth. You do not need to have attended part 1.

Forgiveness, A Lenten Study

Feb. 21 through Easter morning, March 27 | Social Room Marjorie Thompson, author of Forgiveness, A Lenten Study and also well known for Soul Feast, says “Forgiveness is the healing stream flowing out from the crucified Christ over a world that does not know how desperately it needs the healing.” We need forgiveness and we need to learn to forgive. This study, led by John Shank, will help us find the freedom found in forgiveness.

Senior Adult Coffee & Conversation

Monday, Feb. 15 | 1 p.m. | Social Room Our Senior Adult Ministry hosts a twice-monthly Coffee & Conversation in the Social Room open to all. No reservations needed!

New Security Procedure The church is updating the current security procedures beginning immediately in regard to the church doors.

The building doors will be unlocked for events 15 minutes prior to the event and will be locked again 10 minutes after the event is scheduled to start. If you have late arrivers at your meeting, you will need to station someone at the door to let those latecomers in, or ask them to call someone already in the building for access. Please do not prop the door open for those late arrivers.

Wednesday night and Sunday morning activities will not be affected by this change.

Our concern is for the safety of all persons in the building. Often doors can be left open with no one monitoring them, and this could lead to persons entering the building without our knowledge. Thank you for your assistance in protecting our children and others who use our building.

It is amazing to see congregational involvement growing all over the church. We have just finished celebrating Volunteer Appreciation Month which ended with our Ministry Fair. Many of you were exposed to ministries and groups that you didn’t know existed and expressed interest in becoming more involved. The HUB reflects the growing involvement by the number of groups and the participants in those groups.

When we began using the HUB, the hope was that it would be a user-friendly tool that church members could access, and even maintain their own information (i.e. address, phone, email, etc.). This same thought extends to groups. As the number of groups grow, so does the amount of group information in the HUB. But with each group comes a group leader and, low-and-behold, that group leader has the ability to maintain their own group information (i.e. descriptions, messages, calendar, participants, etc.).

So now, Group Leaders, here is a task. Sign into the HUB (which you can access on the upper-right corner of 2bcliberty.org), and from your home page, click on a group along the right side (under My Groups) to which you are assigned as a Leader. The Group Information screen appears, and near the top right of the screen is a box labeled “Group Actions”. From the drop-down menu, choose “Edit Participant list”.

All the people assigned as members of that group will be listed. Please review the list and make adjustments as necessary: • Add a member that is not listed: In the upper right, under “Actions”, click “Add or invite new people” and choose the “People by Name” option.

• Remove someone who is no longer a member of that group: Check the box to the left of the person to be removed, then, above the name column is a box “If checked, set group status to “. Click, choose “Remove from group” and the click OK. As always, if you have trouble, just contact me and we can figure things out together.

Ellen Gregory, HUB Specialist egregory@2bcliberty.org

We're continuing our partnership with Team World Vision to bring clean water where it is needed most!

Kansas City has been chosen as one of four cities in the US to host this race. Your $50 registration fee provides clean water to one child in Africa, and you will run with that child's photo on your race bib!

When? Saturday, March 19 at 9 a.m.

Where? English Landing Park, Parkville, MO Register: KC.WorldVision6K.org (register as an individual) Questions? Contact Team Leader Michelle Prindle at jprindle1@kc.rr.com. She'd love to carpool with other participants.

Schumacher Elementary Youth Mentor Training

Feb. 23 | 10:30 a.m. | Rm. 303 If you are interested in becoming a Youth Mentor at Schumacher school, contact School Connections Team leader Debbie Lane at debbielane71861@gmail.com or (816)781-9281.

300 E. Kansas | Liberty, MO 64068

816.781.2824

Sunday. Feb. 14 | First Sunday of Lent info@2bcliberty.org

We request reservations by Monday at noon before the meal.

Contact Maggie at 781-2824 or mhenderson@2bcliberty.org, or visit 2bcliberty.org/sanctuary.

8:30a Worship | Tutt Chapel 8:45a Student Handbells rehearsal | Music Suite 9:00a Children's Choir rehearsal | Rm 402 9:45a Bible Study for all ages

What Do I Believe? study | Social Room

Forgiveness study | Social Room 11:00a Worship | Sanctuary 5:00p Student Choir rehearsal | Rm 501 6:30p Student Innermission | Student Area (6th floor)

Monday, Feb. 15 1:00p

Senior Adult Coffee & Conversation | Social Roon

Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17 | Our Catalyst receipts for the week totaled $17,080.50.

Gluten and MSG free options available.

To help keep our church family informed of our finances, we’ll list the total Catalyst 2.0 receipts from Catalyst giving from the past week.

Questions? contact Linda Jones at 816781-2824 or ljones@2bcliberty.org.

Financial Report: Feb. 7, 2016

spaghetti with meat sauce garden salad garlic bread dessert

Second Servings Menu: Feb. 17

this week

5:45p 6:00p 6:15p

6:30p

7:15p

Sanctuary

Second Servings meal | Social Room Beginning Handbells (gr. 4-5) | Rm 502 Sanctuary Handbells | Rm 501 Formation (grades 6-8) | Student Ministry Room Evensong Service | Chapel Children's Mission groups Watershed (grades 9-12) | Missionary House Sanctuary Choir rehearsal | Music Suite

Thursday, Feb. 18 6:45p

HandsOn 2.0 knitting group | Welcome Center

Sunday, Feb. 21 | Second Sunday of Lent

opportunity to serve

Student Ministry Meal Providers Each Sunday, we provide a light breakfast and "snack supper" for the students at church, and we invite anyone in our church family to help!

We have two spots to fill for each meal each week, so everyone will have a partner to team up with. Visit 2bcliberty.org/serveat2bc to sign up on the VolunteerSpot website, or contact Charles Smith at csmith@2bcliberty.org or 781-2824.

8:30a 9:45a

5:00p 6:30p

Team SERVE coaches meeting | Oak Room (301) What Do I Believe? study | Social Room

Forgiveness study | Social Room Personnel Committee meeting | Room 303 Church Council | Room 505

(These events are in addition to our regular Sunday schedule.)

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