First Baptist Church, under the leadership of our pastor, Phillip Miller, has officially entered the technology age. Not only do we now have our services broadcast live on Facebook at Port O’Connor First Baptist Church Facebook/videos, the church has installed in our sanctuary, two large monitors to display sermon outlines, notes and music words during our services. There have been so many changes during these trying times, these are good ones! Come check these new enhancements to your worship experience.
Summer is certainly hitting us with everything that we can possibly imagine – storms, HEAT, mosquitoes, visitors and more HEAT. That’s just some of the reasons we choose to live in our wonderful little town! None have stopped things from going on as usual here at FBCPOC. The ladies have started a new Bible study on 2nd Timothy by Beth Moore. The time has changed to 3:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. The men still meet at 7:00 p.m. on the same day. On Wednesday evenings at 6:00 p.m., we hold prayer meeting and the youth meet. Sunday mornings, we have Sunday school for all ages at 9:45 a.m. and worship at 11:00 a.m. As always, we are waiting to welcome everyone to any of these activities. We do have plenty of masks and gloves if you need them. The church facilities are continuously disinfected and social distancing is practiced. No hugs or handshakes are allowed, but you can see us smiling behind our facemasks! All that said, we have plenty of room in our sanctuary to seat you safely.
Our ongoing projects have suffered because of the pandemic. The food collections for the Community Food Bank have fallen off significantly, but the need hasn’t. Remember to include nonperishable food items on your next visit to church. Also, please remember the Samaritan’s Purse Shoe Box project. These boxes go all over the world to impoverished children at Christmas time. Almost any article small enough to fit into a shoe box is welcomed, such as clothes, school supplies, small toys, bar soap, wash rags, socks, hairbrushes and combs, to name a few. Exceptions include any liquids, food, toothpaste, basically anything that will spoil, leak or melt. We have set a goal of 100 boxes for this year. This is two times the number we sent last year! Remember this worthy cause, please, when you are shopping.
We live in a wonderful country and are allowed many freedoms, one of which is to worship as we please. Take advantage of this and worship with us next Sunday.
