By Tom Jenkins on 2/25/2008 3:09 PM

 

 

            The season for Upward Basketball will soon end. John Hardy, director of the program, told me that 142 children were active in the program this year. Counting parents, siblings, grandparents, we probably touched 500 people through this year’s program. The Awards Night will be March 15 and is the highlight of the season. Each player receives a trophy on Awards Night. No one is left out.

            Upward Basketball is part of our children’s ministry. The ministry includes our Bible teaching programs, childcare for infants through four years of age at the Academy, after school for school age children, TeamKids on Wednesday nights, summer camp and Vacation Bible School. We are very intentional about ministry to children because they are part of the largest growth segment in our community, adults 27-47 years of age. This is the niche we intend to reach as God gives us strategies for engaging our primary mission field—Creedmoor and its surrounding communities.

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By Tom Jenkins on 2/11/2008 11:24 AM

“Imaginings”

Dr. Tom Jenkins

  

To me the word “imagining” means living out of our imaginations, imagining what can be and ordering the affairs of our lives in such a way as to achieve it. That’s the risk of faith. Reaching for possibilities rather than camping out on what we’ve accomplished. Maybe that’s what the Apostle Paul meant when he wrote about forgetting the past and reaching for the future. He was seized by something bigger than himself that thrust him toward the possibilities of what could be.

 I want to be a change agent. Not a caretaker of the past. I want to “imagine” what the future can be like for FBCC. I am only one voice in this and I am not an authority and I admit my biases and lack of objectivity on some subjects, but, even understanding all of that, I am committed to the journey toward the future. Its there where we shall ultimately camp out as a church and reflect on our Lord who overcame barriers and built bridges so our future can have purpose.

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By Tom Jenkins on 2/4/2008 4:02 PM

 

Saturday, February 2, seventeen of our church members joined volunteers from other churches to work on the Habitat House under construction on Smith Road. The Katie Lee Currin Mission Group provided the food for the day. The team completed the exterior and interior walls. They also installed the rafters and began laying the sheeting for the roof. The roof should be completed by Saturday, February 9.

           

For three years our church talked about ways in which we can further engage in missions. That conversation led us to send a team to eastern North Carolina last year. The conversation led us to join with other churches in our community to sponsor a Habitat House in Southern Granville County. We helped to fund the project and now we have furnished labor to build the house. Soon a deserving family will have a new home. Who knows where the conversation will lead us next. As the Lord continues to call us to be on mission he will call you, too, and then you will have to wrestle with where...

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