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After 107 years, God’s still using Grace Baptist Church
It’s Homecoming Sunday again! Church members from years gone by as well as new friends will gather together for worship, remembering, and encouraging. After 107 years of ministry in New Orleans’ 9th Ward, it’s exciting to see God continuing to use us for His Kingdom. I’m looking forward to seeing my old boss, our Pastor Emeritus Dr. William Rogers. (You know him as Brother Bill!) And of course, the food, the food, there will be lots of food.
Don’t forget to set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed Saturday night, but then join us Sunday morning for what’s sure to be a great time.
9:45 a.m. Sunday School
11:00 a.m. Worship
Noon Fellowship Lunch
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New Orleans Baptist Association Fall Meeting
The New Orleans Baptist Association (NOBA)’s Fall Meeting will beheld on October 24 at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church at 7:00 p.m. with supper being served at 6:00. This will be great time of fellowship, music, food, and an inspiring vision of how we plan to impact lostness and poverty in the New Orleans area.
The following is written by NOBA’s new Executive Director of Missions Jack Hunter.
The focus of this meeting will be NOBA’s compassion ministries. Dr. Rick Donlon will be our featured speaker. He is a native New Orleanian, and a graduate of Ben Franklin High School and LSU Medical School. He is a founder of Christ Community Health Services. Rick and Laurie, his wife, have seven children. They live in the Binghampton community of Memphis, an inner-city neighborhood where Rick also works.
15 years ago, Memphis was the most medically under-served urban community in the country. Rick and three classmates moved there to open an inner-city clinic. Last year Christ Community Health Services had 130,000 patient visits, and operated five clinics, three dental offices, three pharmacies, and a mobile unit that provided care to the homeless.
Plan to attend and invite your church members to join you. Rick’s narrative will help us better see how our Baptist community, working together, can advance the Kingdom of Christ in the under-resourced communities of greater New Orleans. You will also meet Dr. Steven Euler who has moved into the Ninth Ward to be the founding doctor of CCHS-NOLA.
Dinner will be served in the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church Gymnasium/Fellowship Hall before the meeting. The doors will open at 5:45. The Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home, LBC, NOBTS, Baptist Friendship House, Global Maritime, CampLiving Waters, Louisiana College, and other partners and ministries will have booths set up around the gym. Come early and learn more about these important works.
Dinner will be served at 6:00. The serving line will close at 6:40. The Franklin Avenue choir will kick-off our program at 7:00 sharp. We will be called into business session at 8:00, and our business should be concluded by 8:15.
Your witness and service to your church and community are the greatest evidences of God’s amazing grace in our metropolitan area. Your staff at NOBA loves and highly esteems you. We look forward to seeing you at our Fall Meeting on Monday evening, October 24.
Until then, may the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
Jack Hunter
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A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ,
so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Galatians 2:16 (ESV)
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Getting to know our new members
-John 13:35 (ESV)
Many of our church family have gotten to know our newest members, two very special ladies Anne Badeaux and Darrian Shelby. If not, I’d like to introduce them to you here.
After much thought and prayer, Darrian gave her heart to the Lord Jesus Christ this summer, and I had the privilege of baptizing her a few weeks ago. She is a senior in high school and has been attending our church with her grandmother Jackie for about two years now. I had the pleasure of getting to know Darrian last November as she went with our youth to the Youth Evangelism Celebration. She seems to be a fun person, but someone who’s very serious about her future.
Anne has been life long friends with another new member Dreux Summers. Dreux actually credits Anne with leading him to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Anne came to us ready to serve and has already been elected to the Women’s Ministry Leadership Team. She also has experience in women’s prison ministry.
Take some time to get to know Anne and Darrian and let them know how much they mean to our church family.