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Baskets pick-up, Tree of Life, missions + your testimony

This Sunday, come on out to the Membership Orientation to get started on membership or to learn more about BRBC! 9:30am in Room 104.

Also this Sunday, if you requested a Basket of Blessings, please go ahead and pick up the basket labeled with your name from along the stage after the service. Let’s all continue praying this week for these 37 unsaved moms, as they receive baskets and have contact with ladies from BRBC!

Moms’ Connection – May 10
Come out this week to an encouragement group for moms, meeting on the second Thursday of each month from 9:30-11:30am! The acronym describes our hopes for the group: Cultivating Oneness (through)* Faith * Fellowship * Equipping * Encouragement. $10 if you pay this Sunday/$15 at the door. RSVP on the City, or check out the bulletin or the table at the back on Sunday for a beautiful flyer and more details!

Tree of Life Volunteer Introduction – May 19
Here’s another chance to attend Tree of Life Ministries’ bimonthly Volunteer Introduction program! Learn how you, your family, or your Life Group can volunteer with TOL and their work to help bring restoration in tangible ways in our community. The next intro session is Saturday/May 19, 9:00-10:00am. Call TOL at 540 441 7920 to learn more.

Help fill grocery bags for those in need
Tree of Life Ministries’ food pantry, located right here in Purcellville, let us know of the following immediate needs: Pasta & Rice Sides (Knorr), Canned Tomato Sauce & Paste (no diced), Spaghetti Sauce, Cream Soups, Rice (1 or 2 lb bags), Sugar, Cake Frosting, Canned Salmon & Spam, Boxes of Instant Oatmeal packs (no canisters), Instant Mashed Potatoes, Jelly, and Hamburger Helper. You can bring items to church and place them in the blue bin in the upstairs entryway.

Praying Together
David Watson, home from college and with us today, is heading out tomorrow on a missions trip to the Philippines for the next two weeks! Let’s join together and petition our Father for strength despite weakness, protection, being used powerfully by God, and more!

Sharing Your Faith & Testimony
Continuing in “Discipleship of the Heart,” Pastor Jack spent a second week on sharing our faith in Jesus with others, featuring a great interview panel. Our own Bijan Gilanshah, Josh Johns, and Roz Custard shared their testimonies of how the faithful witness of others helped bring them to faith in Jesus. Remember – we are just beggars telling other beggars where to find bread! Listen to “Sharing Your Faith & Testimony.” Click here for the evangelism training sermon Pastor Jack referenced from 2017, “The Calling We Extend.”

Giving report “They gave themselves first to the Lord and then to [His work] …” 2 Cor 8:5
Weekly giving needed for FY2018 budget – $18,813.71
Total giving for offering of 4/29/18 – $10,223.04
YTD giving needed for budget – $583,225.01
Actual YTD giving to budget – $581,264.99
Giving under budget – $1,960.02

This Week
May 6 – Baskets of Blessings pick-up
May 6, 9:30am – Membership Orientation & Celebration
Week of May 6 – Life Groups (thru 5/26)
May 8, 9:30-11:30am – Ladies Bible study (thru May 29)
May 10, 9:30-11:30am – Moms’ Connection – RSVP today!
May 12, 7:00am – Men’s Breakfast & Study, Kitchen

This Month
May 17-26 – Cochabamba 2018 team in Bolivia
May 19, 9:00-10:00am – Tree of Life Volunteer Introduction

Looking Ahead
June 2, 9:30am-4:30pm – Backyard Bible Club Teen Training
June 3 – Women’s Spring Spa Night
June 9, 7:00-11:00pm – Ultimate Dance Thing 4 – Joni & Friends
June 16, 8:30-10:30am – Walk for Tree of Life
June 18-22 – Vacation Bible School (VBS)
July 9-13, 16-20 – Backyard Bible Clubs outreach
Sept 22-Oct 6 – France missions service trip