With everything going on with Covid-19, we are currently suspending our monthly meetings until further notice.
Please know we miss each and every one of you and truly appreciate all the love and support you have given us over the years. We are hopeful this pandemic subsides and that we are able to get life back to normal!
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The next meeting for POC’s Book Club, “Hooked On Books”,  will be on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 2:00 p.m.  September’s “Book of the Month” is Reconciled: Third Book of the Civil War Trilogy by historian, entertainer, and Texas Author, Curt Locklear.
We are hoping that all members will join us for an afternoon full of fun, fellowship, refreshments, and lively discussion!!!
If you are interested in joining “Hooked On Books”, and this fun-loving group of ladies, please email alanehaardt@yahoo.com. All are welcome!!
-Alane Haadt

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.

Russell Jones of Port O’Connor was born December 13, 1936. He passed away on July 20, 2020.

Russell was preceded in death by one son, Randy Reed. He is survived by his wife Sally Jones; son Rusty Reed; daughters Robin Chapman and Rachel Sanchez, and six grandchildren.

When my sailing days are over,
And I sail the seas no more,
I shall build myself a refuge
By the ocean’s swelling shore.
As I watch the foaming breakers
When the tide comes rushing in,
I shall contemplate my lifetime
With its virtues and its sins.
Where the azure of the heavens
Meets the undulating blue,
Where the sweeping, soaring seagull
Flies its endless quest for food,
It is there that I would rest,
When my work on earth is done.
At the endless blue horizon,
Beneath the setting sun.
May the wind be at my back,
As I sail eternal seas,
And may those who love me wish me,
Fair Weather! And Godspeed!