I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND WISH YOU ALL A VERY MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS! I AM TRULY BLESSED TO BE YOUR PASTOR!
THE LORD HAS BEEN VERY GRACIOUS TO FBBC THIS PAST YEAR WITH MANY FOLKS GETTING SAVED AND SEVERAL NEW FOLKS AND FAMILIES JOINING THE CHURCH. NEXT SUNDAY WE WILL BE HAVING SEVERAL FOLKS GETTING BAPTIZED AND ANOTHER FAMILY WILL BE JOINING THE CHURCH. PRAISE THE LORD!
WORK ON THE FELLOWSHIP HALL CONTINUES. BATHROOM TILE HAS BEEN INSTALLED AND GROUTED IN BOTH THE MEN'S AND WOMEN'S TOILET ROOMS AND A SHOWER WAS ALSO INSTALLED IN BOTH. THE ELECTRICAL WIRING FOR THE LIGHTING IS ALMOST COMPLETED. THE SPRINKLERS AND SMOKE DETECTORS AND FIRE ALARM INDICATORS WERE BEING DONE TODAY AND HOPEFULLY WILL BE COMPLETED BY WEEKS END.
DOORS AND HARDWARE HAVE BEEN HUNG AND THE STAINING PROCESS HAS BEGUN ON ALL THE DOORS AND WOOD ENCLOSED COLUMNS. THE BATHROOM FIXTURES SHOULD BE INSTALLED BY END OF NEXT WEEK. CERAMIC TILE WILL BE DONE THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR THE $9,000.00 NEEDED TO INSTALL THE HVAC SYSTEM AS WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY WITHOUT IT. WE ARE HOPING THAT THE KITCHEN MAN AND THE PLUMBER WILL BE ABLE TO COME NEXT WEEK TO FINISH THE KITCHEN SOON TOO.
THANKS FOR YOUR CARE AND PRAYERS!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Monday, December 6, 2010
FELLOWSHIP HALL IS PROGRESSING!
Work began last week on the new Fellowship Hall in the basement underneath our auditorium. Brother Kaiser, and two other men, Ed Dellorco and Dave Christy came and jumped right in to begin the work. Dave, installed the drop ceiling of a 70' x 80' room and was finished in two days! WOW! He also installed the drop ceiling in the women's toilet room as well as the new kitchen. It looks GREAT! Ed framed in a needed soffit in one section of the main room to facilitate the ceiling being at the highest level possible. He also framed in 2 new rooms that will be used for a pantry and equipment room, and then began cutting all the lumber to size needed to frame in the steel columns. The columns will look like a piece of furniture when done and stained. Amazing workmanship by these two men. Brother Joe Kaiser also ram rodded the work being done by many of our own men and teens and he also installed the floor tile in both the men's and women's toilet rooms. He also worked me to death running for material and ordering whatever was needed. Two of our men also made a run to Maryland to pick up 3 skids of ceramic tile (14 hours roundtrip!!). Thanks Larry Kragiel and Mike Buttery for driving and also Tony Hart for letting us use his car carrier!
Many of our ladies provided meals for the men (lunch and dinner every day) and our teen girls served and cleaned up as well. Thank you Alison Sturgeon and Lisa Anderson as well as Victoria, Sarah, Sarah, and Erin for you hard work every day! Many men and teens have worked long hard days every day...Dean, Brent, and Andrew Burhoe, Adam, Caleb and Luke Graff, Tyler Arthur, Todd & Matt Sturgeon, Tim Benson, Pete Allen, Billy Anderson, Kyle Bechtold, Scott Normand, Brad Schilling, Kevin and Tom Danielson, Mark and Mike Danielson, JB Hillman, Isaac Raymond, Ethan and Seth Sadoian, John Sarra, Garry Saucier, Pastor Sparks and Pastor Getto, Mauro Turissi, Jay Watson, Christopher Bryant, Ed Young and Ed Zak. I am sure I have forgotten some of the men and ladies...please forgive me if I did. I appreciate all of you who have been working such long and hard days. May the Lord bless you all for your giving spirit!
Thanks to all the sacrificial giving by our folks here at FBBC! In the last two weeks our folks have given $20,690.00 of the $34,000.00 needed to complete the entire project!! Glory to God! What a joy it is to pastor folks! I sure do love you all!
FBBC sure does appreciate all the hours of labor being donated by Brother Joe Kaiser and his crew of excellent craftsmen! THANK YOU!
Many of our ladies provided meals for the men (lunch and dinner every day) and our teen girls served and cleaned up as well. Thank you Alison Sturgeon and Lisa Anderson as well as Victoria, Sarah, Sarah, and Erin for you hard work every day! Many men and teens have worked long hard days every day...Dean, Brent, and Andrew Burhoe, Adam, Caleb and Luke Graff, Tyler Arthur, Todd & Matt Sturgeon, Tim Benson, Pete Allen, Billy Anderson, Kyle Bechtold, Scott Normand, Brad Schilling, Kevin and Tom Danielson, Mark and Mike Danielson, JB Hillman, Isaac Raymond, Ethan and Seth Sadoian, John Sarra, Garry Saucier, Pastor Sparks and Pastor Getto, Mauro Turissi, Jay Watson, Christopher Bryant, Ed Young and Ed Zak. I am sure I have forgotten some of the men and ladies...please forgive me if I did. I appreciate all of you who have been working such long and hard days. May the Lord bless you all for your giving spirit!
Thanks to all the sacrificial giving by our folks here at FBBC! In the last two weeks our folks have given $20,690.00 of the $34,000.00 needed to complete the entire project!! Glory to God! What a joy it is to pastor folks! I sure do love you all!
FBBC sure does appreciate all the hours of labor being donated by Brother Joe Kaiser and his crew of excellent craftsmen! THANK YOU!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
PRAISE THE LORD!
WELL, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO THOUGHT I HAD DIED BECAUSE THERE HAS BEEN NO NEW POSTS TO THIS BLOG...I DIDN'T! I AM STILL ALIVE AND WELL! This has been a very busy last few months for sure. I won't put you to sleep with all the details but needless to say we have been hopping every day.
We have suffered the loss of some dear saints of our church family (Cal Burhoe and Katheryn Young) as they have traveled on to glory ahead of us. We were hoping and praying that we ALL could go Home on the "family plan" in the rapture but such was not the Lord's will. Praise the Lord we know where they are and we WILL see them again...soon!
These last few months we have seen a wonderful harvest of souls as many have heard the gospel and were gloriously saved by His marvelous grace! Last Sunday morning (November 21st) we saw two men (one in his 30's and one about 17 years old) walk the sawdust trail and call upon the Lord to save them! GLORY! We also had a young husband and wife (in their 20's) who were recently saved get baptized and join the church! The evening service I preached on being THANKFUL and then opened up the service to the church family and there was about an hour of great testimonies about the Lord Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful day!
We have been 6 years now in our new building and we have never been able to save enough money to be able to finish the fellowship hall below the auditorium. Brother Joe Kaiser from Northeast Vision (out of Solid Rock Baptist Church in New Jersey) was here with us for our Missions Conference and he challenged us to try and raise the funds to get started. As a result the Lord has enabled us to raise some of the monies needed to be able to do a good portion of the room and as a result the Lord is sending brother Kaiser and a crew of about 6 of his men to come to FBBC next Monday to install the ceiling, ceramic tile, plumbing fixtures, and finish our kitchen. I am still amazed at what the Lord is doing here at FBBC!!!! I am grateful to have such godly friends as Brother Kaiser! He is a blessing everywhere he goes! He is a blessing to me and to FBBC. Thank you Lord for crossing our paths!
We have suffered the loss of some dear saints of our church family (Cal Burhoe and Katheryn Young) as they have traveled on to glory ahead of us. We were hoping and praying that we ALL could go Home on the "family plan" in the rapture but such was not the Lord's will. Praise the Lord we know where they are and we WILL see them again...soon!
These last few months we have seen a wonderful harvest of souls as many have heard the gospel and were gloriously saved by His marvelous grace! Last Sunday morning (November 21st) we saw two men (one in his 30's and one about 17 years old) walk the sawdust trail and call upon the Lord to save them! GLORY! We also had a young husband and wife (in their 20's) who were recently saved get baptized and join the church! The evening service I preached on being THANKFUL and then opened up the service to the church family and there was about an hour of great testimonies about the Lord Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful day!
We have been 6 years now in our new building and we have never been able to save enough money to be able to finish the fellowship hall below the auditorium. Brother Joe Kaiser from Northeast Vision (out of Solid Rock Baptist Church in New Jersey) was here with us for our Missions Conference and he challenged us to try and raise the funds to get started. As a result the Lord has enabled us to raise some of the monies needed to be able to do a good portion of the room and as a result the Lord is sending brother Kaiser and a crew of about 6 of his men to come to FBBC next Monday to install the ceiling, ceramic tile, plumbing fixtures, and finish our kitchen. I am still amazed at what the Lord is doing here at FBBC!!!! I am grateful to have such godly friends as Brother Kaiser! He is a blessing everywhere he goes! He is a blessing to me and to FBBC. Thank you Lord for crossing our paths!
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
"ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY"
The play "One Heartbeat Away" performed by our teens from FBBC last Friday and Sunday evenings was a blessing beyond words. I have no ability to explain the blessing that I personally received as I watched the play both nights. I was amazed to see all that was involved (stage crew, actors, etc) be so blessed by God! I too experienced the moving of the holy Spirit as I gave the invitation. Then the ultimate blessing...to see 4 adults get saved Friday night and 4 young people get saved on Sunday night! WOW! Glory to God! I am also rejoicing to know that there were probably 60-100 lost folks that heard the gospel and surely were brought to holy Spirit conviction as a result of all the scripture they heard on both nights. God's word never returns void! Who knows how many others will be saved down the road as a result! There is fruit that will remain and be added to the accounts of all the young people and adults involved in this play.
Thank you all for the many months of labor, fasting, prayer and witnessing that has taken place since last November! Most of all, THANK YOU LORD for glorifying yourself through our teens and teen workers!
Philippians 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Thank you all for the many months of labor, fasting, prayer and witnessing that has taken place since last November! Most of all, THANK YOU LORD for glorifying yourself through our teens and teen workers!
Philippians 1:11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Church Visitation
Praise the Lord! Thank you to all of you who took an hour of your Saturday morning today to take gospel to the streets of Plainville today! I heard many good reports from the faithful brethren who went out into the highways and hedges for the Lord! (Luke 14:23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.) May the Lord bless you for your compassionate heart for the souls of the lost. (Jude 21-23 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh).
My wife and I really only had one prolonged conversation with a man about 80. But we know that the word will not return void and that the Lord blesses the proclamation of His word! (Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it). Also ran into three teens playing catch in the streets and they seemed very interested in what I told them about our GREAT SAVIOUR and the wonderful Teen department at FBBC!!
My wife and I really only had one prolonged conversation with a man about 80. But we know that the word will not return void and that the Lord blesses the proclamation of His word! (Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it). Also ran into three teens playing catch in the streets and they seemed very interested in what I told them about our GREAT SAVIOUR and the wonderful Teen department at FBBC!!
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