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Change your clocks! Kingdom Calling alert, workday help needed + Walking in Purity

Daylight Savings Time begins this weekend! Here’s your reminder to remember and turn clocks forward one hour so you arrive at the right time on Sunday morning.

Be praying for 60 of our ladies away at the retreat this weekend and also for the families they leave behind! 

Kingdom Calling Alert: Tree of Life Volunteer Introduction – March 17
Last month’s Kingdom Calling focus concluded by announcing the action step for volunteering with Tree of Life and their work to help bring restoration in tangible ways in our community. Remember to attend TOL’s Volunteer Introduction program this Saturday/March 17, 9-10:00am, if you’re interested! Call TOL at 540 441 7920 to learn more.

Spring Workday @ Church – March 24
This is our semiannual opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder together AND give our church building the refreshing it needs after hard use, and also prepare it for Easter! Please mark Saturday, March 24, 8:30am-2:00pm on your calendars and come out for as much or as little time you can give. Family friendly, tasks for all ages, outdoors and indoors. 

Visitor Connection Lunch – March 25
Are you new to BRBC within the past 6 months? Join the leadership at a special lunch to welcome you! Details are Sunday, March 25 at 12:30pm, downstairs in the quad classroom. We do need your help—please RSVP by March 18 by emailing Brittany () or by listing the names of those attending & contact info on a comment card (found in the back of the sanctuary chairs) and drop it in the offering plate.

Good Friday Service & Easter – March 30 & April 1
Join us on Easter weekend as we celebrate a “Glorious Day”! We will remember His death on Good Friday, March 30, 7:00pm at a brief service for the whole family; childcare is not available. We will celebrate His resurrection on Easter Sunday with identical 9:30am and 11:00am services. No Sunday School; childcare for ages 3 and under for the entirety of each service; ages 4-8 dismissed after worship in each service.

Walking in Purity
Continuing in “Discipleship of the Heart,” Pastor Jack preached that purity is all about being controlled by God’s Spirit, how to live a life yielded to the Holy Spirit, and the importance of confession to our daily life. Listen to “Walking in Purity.

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 3/4/18 – $22,412.66
YTD giving needed for budget – $432,715.33
Actual YTD giving to budget – $433,813.34
Giving over budget – $1,098.01

This Week
March 11 – Sermon | Staying on Target
March 13, 9:30-11:30am – Ladies Bible study (thru May 29)
March 17, 7:00am – Men’s Breakfast & Study, Kitchen
March 17, 9:00-10:00am – Tree of Life Volunteer Introduction
March 18 – Cochabamba Team: Help build a house!

This Month
March 24, 8:30am-2pm – Spring Workday @ Church – are you coming??
March 25, 12:30pm – Visitor Connection Lunch (RSVP by 3/18)
March 25-April 7 – Life Groups on break
March 30, 7:00pm – Good Friday Service

Looking Ahead
April 1 – Easter Sunday
April 7, 10:00am – Youth Group Tree of Life Food Delivery
April 8, 9:30am – Membership Orientation & Celebration
Week of April 8 – Spring Life Group Session begins
April 21, 10:00am – Baby Shower (Fedick & Loveless)
April 28, 8:00am-12:00pm – Tree of Life Community Serve Day
June 16, 8:30-10:30am – Walk for Tree of Life
June 18-22 – Vacation Bible School (VBS)