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Lenten Series 2005
Church Night at First Baptist
Thursdays, 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM
February 10 through Easter Week 2005
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There are opportunities for all of us to experience an evening of fellowship each week for
our entire season of Lent.
Our 'Super Expanded' Schedule for
Thursday Church Night's at FBC included the following:
Dinner and Program 6 to 7:15 PM
Bell Choir Rehearsal 6:45 to 7:15 PM
"FBC Kids Maundy Thursday" Rehearsal 6:30 to 7:25 PM
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Lenten Dinner Programs
- TRANSITIONS
Enjoy a delicious dinner, prepared by a group from within our church, and hear a program focusing on transitions that we face in life and sometimes at church. The following are the programs
in the series:
• February 10: Susan Lowrey, Associate for Spiritual Development at Trinity Church, will explore the significance of transitional periods in our life in relationship to spiritual growth. She will focus on the question, "What happens to us spiritually as we go through transitions in our life?" Mrs. Lowrey has been a welcomed speaker at several of our Lenten dinners.
• February 17: The Reverend Jane Gibbons, Area Minister for the American Baptist Churches of Ohio, will be our guest. As the church prepares to say good-bye to their senior pastor, Rev. Gibbons will share with the congregation what they might anticipate during the next year as a pastor search committee is formed and the search for a new pastor begins. There will be opportunity in this session for questions and answers.
• February 24: An evening of praise music. Our praise band is beginning a new ministry of midweek, twice monthly, praise services. On this evening we are crossing a bridge to an alternative style of worship. Whatever preference you might have regarding worship, we invite you to experience this night of praise.
• March 3: Guatemalan
Mission Trip. Nineteen people under the sponsorship of First
Baptist will be spending a week in Guatemala helping to build a
house. On this night they will share with you what it means to
them and the hopes they carry with them as they cross this bridge to
another culture. the dinner this evening will include Guatemalan
foods.
• March 10: Kenyon
College Chamber Singers. We are very pleased to welcome to
First Baptist this 54 member choir. Our Lenten experience will
be deepened as we listen to some of the finest choral musi ever
composed. The concert will take place in the sanctuary
immediately following the dinner.
• March 17: Our Lenten
dinner series concludes with Reverend Kevin Bedford as our guest
speaker. Rev. Bedford is the new pastor or Third Baptist
Church, a church to which First Baptist has very close ties.
As the new pastor, Rev. Bedford can share with us the experience of
his own transition and what it means to arrive at a new place in
one's life.
Infant care will be provided.
Our children will be preparing for special Maundy Thursday
presentation of the original drama "Do You Hear Him
Cry?" They will rehearse each Thursday night during Lent.
2004
Lenten Speaker Report
MONDAY CONNECTION: AN INTEGRATIVE FAITH
AT HOME, WORK & PLAY
How are we influenced in our day to day life by our faith? What impact does our faith have on our work, home, world, and play? What are the connections between Sunday and Monday, our faith and the world in which we live? Each week we
heard how friends and members have approached these questions as they have sought for a faith that extends beyond Sunday.
February 26, 2004 - “Enabled and Empowered: How Your Church Is Changing.” Dr. Andersen
began the series by looking at the changing nature of our own church and the possibilities these changes will provide us for living a more active faith.
March 4, 2004 - Susan Lowrey, Spiritual Director and past speaker at our Lenten Dinners,
shared with us how the resources of her faith helped her during the past year as she received the diagnosis of breast cancer and underwent treatment.
March 11, 18, 25, 2004 - “Monday Connection: An Integrative Faith At Home, Work & Play”
Featured friends and members of First Baptist.
April 1, 2004 - A special Thursday in which part of the evening took place in the youth center where we
were led in singing by our praise band. The youth room has been completely redecorated and features a café atmosphere. |
Lenten
Series 2003 Report
March 6 through April 10, 2003
Introduction
 The
psalmist explains, "yea, I have goodly heritage." (Psalm
16:6). We shout with the psalmist in acclaiming our heritage of
faith in the 150 Year History of The First
Baptist Church of Greater Toledo. The Lenten Dinners in 2003 embraced some of the wider dimensions of our heritage that continue to this
day.
The forty days of Lent are a period of self examination
and reflection which prepare us for Easter. The Lenten Dinners also
provide a midweek opportunity to fellowship and worship together as our
church family.
Speakers
March 6, 2003
Reverend Jane Gibbons, Area Minister for the American Baptist Churches of
Ohio, was our guest. We know our own history as The
First Baptist Church in Toledo, but what about the rest of the
state? How big was the state of Ohio in 1853, how many Baptists were
there, where did they reside and what were they like? Rev. Gibbons answered many of these questions and more when she
was with us.
She helped us understand the place of our church in the wider
historical context of the state.
March 13, 2003
The Honorable Jack Ford, Mayor of the City of Toledo, was our
speaker. We were privileged to welcome Mayor Ford to First
Baptist. Mayor Ford shared with us his thoughts on the role
of the church in the life of his own faith journey. Mayor Ford is a
member of New Covenant Baptist Church, one of our sister American Baptist
Churches in Toledo.
March 20, 2003
We welcomed Reverend Bill Foster back to our congregation. Bill and
Beth Foster and their children were active members of First Baptist for
many years. Rev. Foster is now the Executive Chaplain of St. Joseph
Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As he has touched our lives and we
have touched his, we begin to understand a wider dimension of fellowship
and ministry. We enjoyed Rev. Foster's return visit.
March 27, 2003
Riverside Baptist Church and Second Baptist Church were both founded as
outreach ministries of First Baptist and served their neighborhoods for
many, many years. They have now joined together along with a third
church to form Cass Road Baptist Church. The Reverend Tom Barber,
current Pastor of Cass Road and former Pastor of Riverside, was our
speaker.
April 3, 2003
We welcomed Reverend Doctor Langston Bannister as our guest. Rev.
Bannister was pastor of Third Baptist Church, a church First Baptist played
a role in founding. It a privilege to have
him share with us in this last month of his tenure at Third.
April 10, 2003
We closed our Lenten Dinner Series on this final Thursday evening
prior to Holy Week. Our session was entitled "The Church Looks
Forward." We are beginning an intensive period of self study to
prepare us for future ministry and service in the name of Christ. This is
the forward looking part of our 150th Anniversary Celebration. This is the beginning of a process
that will also include input from the community and ultimately reshape our
ministry at First Baptist. Coordinating this project and giving us the
needed expertise to interpret the information we receive was Sally
Parker, president of Currere, a consulting firm in Cleveland, Ohio.
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for details on the rest of the Holy Week events at First Baptist.
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