Loop Newsletter 051114

this week:

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> Church Picnic

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> Church Conference Report

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> Life Together Retreat

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> Graduate Recognition Sunday

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Welcome Center and Coffee Bar

Kansas Street Entrance (South)

8:30 a.m. Worship Tutt Chapel

Leonard Street Entrance (West)

9:45–10:45 a.m.

Bible Study for All Ages 11:00 a.m. Worship Sanctuary

Franklin Street Entrance (North)

Happy Mother’s Day

2BC Church Picnic

& annual birthday party

FAITH COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

may 11, 2014

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Sunday Mornings with Us . . .

Sunday, May 25 4:00 p.m.– dark Bennett Park (at the Shelter by the Ball Field) Every spring we like to join together to celebrate our anniversary as a church. We would love for you to be able to come celebrate 171 years on May 25!

Join us when you can. Stay as long as you want!

Schedule of events: 4:00 p.m. Softball, volleyball, playground, ultimate Frisbee, hanging out 5:30 p.m. Hot dogs and hamburgers, baked beans, chips, beverages 6:30 p.m. Birthday recognition. Special guests are those with a zero in their age this year. Birthday cake for all!

Directions: Bennett Park is located on Clayview Drive in Liberty between Nashua Road and 152 Highway.

Hope you’ll mark your calendars and plan to join us!

Additional Reserved Parking

church conference

COMING MAY 17

Church Conference was held Sunday, May 4, 2014, and two decisions were affirmed with a vote.

Working with the Safety Team and Larry Gregory, a plan was developed that will begin May 17 that we hope will begin to aid in providing additional reserved parking for the handicapped and those with limited mobility.

A recommendation from the Mission Committee with the approval of the Church Council was approved. “The Missions Committee recommends that Second Baptist Church change, beginning with any unsent funds, our support from Hillcrest to Hillcrest Hope and that the line item in our annual ministry plan be changed to reflect the decision.”

Also approved was the sabbatical Mike Lassiter will take from June 1–July 12, 2014. A summary of the sabbatical includes:

Each Sunday five more places for handicapped parking will be added with temporary signs on the west side of the Children’s Justice Center parking lot. These places will be marked each Sunday with the accepted ADA Disabled Handicap Signs.

• Staying in Bridger, South Dakota on the Cheyenne River Reservation June 1-28 for partnership visioning and conversation about the next 10 years of our partnership.

• Adding a patio to the Lassiter house June 29–July 12.

Additionally, the written reports of committees, staff and teams were approved.

graduate recognition sunday May 18 Secondly, each Sunday five places on the north side of Kansas Street between Leonard and Lightburne will be marked with temporary signs dedicated to those with mobility needs. Printed on these signs is, Please Reserve for People with Limited Mobility.

Parking can be the initial step in being hospitable.

Second Baptist people can join in by not only honoring any reserved parking places, but showing others who might need them where these places are located. Let’s think hospitality, together.

GRADUATE RECOGNITION IN WORSHIP Sunday, May 18, is Graduate Recognition Day at Second Baptist Church where we recognize our high school graduates in the 11:00 a.m. worship.

We will also recognize college or technical school graduates (from December through this summer) on this Sunday.

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Life Together 2014 Church-wide Adult Retreat June 6–8 at Second Baptist Church

$20.00 | Childcare available Learn more and register at: 2bcliberty.org/lifetogetherretreat ABOUT THE RETREAT What happens to faith when “religion” becomes a bad word? When there are more unaffiliated Americans than there are Roman Catholics, mainline Protestants, or evangelical Protestants? Everything changes, that’s what happens. Join Diana Butler Bass, author of Christianity After Religion, for a weekend of thinking about the world outside of church, looking at trends and topics that are influencing our own spiritual lives and our communities of faith.

FRIDAY, JUNE 6 6:00 p.m. – Dinner 6:40 p.m. – Opening Music & Activity 7:00 p.m. – Session One

with Diana Butler Bass The “Nones” and the Nuns

Getting On and Off the Faith Bus

Special Guest: Diana Butler Bass

In this lecture, Diana unpacks movements and trends in American religion, with an eye toward how these trends play themselves out in our lives, churches, and society. We’ll particularly explore trends among younger American adults toward leaving church and the growth of religious pluralism.

8:00 p.m. – Small group discussion 9:00 p.m. – Retreat conclude for evening

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast 9:15 a.m. – Opening Music & Activity 9:45 a.m. – Session Two

with Diana Butler Bass Embracing Spiritual Awakening On Saturday, Diana presents two lectures and conversation time exploring the possibility of being spiritual and religious.

By engaging themes of experience and questions emerging form patterns of belief, practice, and community, we will delve into what it means to be Christian in today’s world.

10:45 a.m. – Coffee Break 11:00 a.m. – Small group discussion 3:00 p.m. – Meet at 2BC parking lot to drive

to Central Baptist Theological

Seminary (CBTS) 4:00 p.m. – Diana Butler Bass

speaks at CBTS She will be engaging in dialogue with Dr. Molly T. Marshall (President of Central) and Rev. Carla Aday (Senior Associate Ministry at Country Club Christian Church) SUNDAY, JUNE 8 8:30 a.m. – Diana Butler Bass

preaches in Worship at 2BC 11:00 a.m. – Diana Butler Bass

preaches in Worship at 2BC

Register today: 2bcliberty.org/lifetogetherretreat 3

may 14 Pizza Night ($1/slice) Reservations are appreciated by Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

Contact the church office at 781-2824 or mhenderson@2bcliberty.org to make a reservation.

SPECIAL NOTE

The final Wednesday night meal is May 14. We have been taken care of very well over the last nine months by our 5 Wednesday night teams led by, Nick Bartlow, Bryan Boyd, Roxann Brenton, Bob Holt, and Mary Margaret Oberkrom.

If you have eaten at Second Baptist on Wednesday night you know what we mean, so join us in saying thank you to these teams! Because the teams have concluded their meal preparation for the spring we will enjoy pizza from Domino’s for $1/slice.

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WEDNESDAY CAFE

PRAYER REQUESTS

this week Sunday, may 11: MOTHER’S DAY 8:30 Worship (Sanctuary) 9:45 Bible Study for all ages 11:00 Worship (Sanctuary)

tuesday, may 13

9:30 MOMSnext Meeting

wednesday, may 14 (Final Wednesday NIGHT UNTil FALL) 5:45 Wednesday Café

LIBERTY HOSPITAL Carole Tanner OTHER PRAYER CONCERNS Sara Walton, life issues Ellie Kay Winchester, Mike & Debbie Lassiters’ granddaughter; surgery recovery

6:00 Beginning Handbells (Room 502) 6:15 Sanctuary Handbells 6:30 Adult Formation: Exploring “Christianity After Religion: The End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening” by Diane Butler Ray diamond, pending surgery Bass 6:30 Parenting Teenagers 6:30 Mission Friends (Pre K and K) 6:30 Boys in Action (1st–5th grades) 6:30 Girls in Action (1st–5th grades) 6:30 Formation (6th–8th grades) 6:30 Watershed (9th–12th grades) 7:20 Sanctuary Choir Rehearsal

THURSDAY, may 15

6:45 Hands On 2.0

SUNDAY, may 18: GRADUATE RECOGNITION SUNDAY

9:00 Graduate Recognition Breakfast 6:30 Church Council Meeting (Room 505)

(The events listed here are in addition to our regular Sunday schedule.)

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SUMMER CHOIR

Sanctuary Choir will still rehearse throughout ths summer, check the HUB calendar for specific dates.

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Coming this Summer ME2 Tuesday Lunch Bunch with our 2BC Ministry Team.

Watch for a June schedule coming soon . . .

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