How to Connect to Sunday Worship & Other Gatherings Although we have moved back to in-person worship, our services will continue to be live streamed. To connect to Worship from your landline (audio): Call 1-844-621-3956 (toll free), Access Code: 132-630-0075## To connect to Worship from your computer, tablet, or smartphone (video): Go to the SABC Facebook page (bit.ly/FacebookSABC), our YouTube channel (bit.ly/YouTubeSABC) or our new video conferencing service Webex (bit.ly/StarlingAvenue), Access Code: 132 630 0075 Closed Captioning is available on YouTube. Please note that this Sunday’s worship service will be available on Webex only through audio. Facebook and YouTube connections will be as usual. Thank you for your patience during our learning process.
Current Church Office Hours Monday: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm Wednesday: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Lunch 12-1 pm) Friday: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm
(276) 638-8861 -- www.starlingavenue.org Pastor: Music: Church Secretary: Barbara Rakes (church@starlingavenue.org) Interpreter for the Deaf: Joan Joyce
Starling Avenue Baptist Church
Occasions This Week at SABC
Sunday, August 8 11:00 am--Sanctuary & Virtual Worship Wednesday, August 11 6:00 pm--Bible Study in Social Hall Welcome John Quinlan as our guest minister. Martha Lee will serve as today’s Lay Leader. Pianist is John Fulcher with Pat McKinster as hymn leader. Greeters are Tonie McMillan & Anne Stultz. Lock-up is Reed Finley. Please volunteer to help open and close the church, to be a lay leader, greeter, or to help with live streaming the service. Contact a member of the Worship Committee or the church office. Congratulations to Linda Pulliam for being recognized by the Community Storehouse for 15 years of volunteer service, and for her years as chair of the Board of Directors. Please contact Martha Lee or the church office if you have Prayer Requests. Through our Benevolence Fund, we are able to help those in need in our community who don’t qualify for assistance elsewhere. We are always in need of resources in order to meet needs as they arise. During these days when the pandemic has caused so much economic hardship, please consider giving to the SABC Benevolence Fund so that we can help our neighbors. The Church Library will be open on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month from 10 am-12 pm. Come check out a new book or puzzle! Celebration of Life Service for Harry Dalton will be held on Saturday, August 28, 2021 at 2:00 pm at Starling Avenue Baptist Church. If you would like to share a favorite memory of Harry (a joke, nickname, or phrase), the family is putting together a remembrance booklet for service attendees. Memories need to be received by the church office on or before August 13. Gift Given in Memory of G.K. Huddle by Patsy Roach. Birthdays: Richard Caldwell (8) and Jeff Lovell (12). Happy Birthday to Richard & Jeff!
Here are current ways to continue to give to the ministry and mission of SABC: -In the offering plates at the Check-In Tables at in-person worship -Through USPS to 932 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112. Your offering envelopes are already self-addressed. All you need is a stamp and tape to reinforce. -Drop off your envelopes in the locked mailbox outside of the Church Office. -Set up an automatic or one-time bank draft through your bank. Simply go to your bank’s bill pay webpage. Set up Starling Avenue Baptist Church as the “payee” and have your payments automatically delivered electronically. This is simple and doesn’t cost you or the church any fees. -Online giving available at www.starlingavenue.org. You can choose “Cover Fees” to slightly increase your gift to pay processing fees. Daily Readings Monday: Psalm 57; 2 Samuel 15:13-31; Ephesians 5:1-14 Tuesday: Psalm 57; 2 Samuel 18:19-33; 2 Peter 3:14-18 Wednesday: Psalm 57; 2 Samuel 19:1-18; John 6:35-40 Thursday: Psalm 111; 1 Kings 1:1-30; Acts 6:8-15 Friday: Psalm 111; 1 Kings 1:28-48; Romans 16:17-20 Saturday: Psalm 111; 1 Kings 2:1-11; John 4:7-26 Stewardship Report August 1, 2021 Budget Needs YTD: $180,756.04 Budget Offerings YTD: $111,234.77 Budget Needs Each Sunday: $5,830.84 Budget Offerings for 08.01.2021: $2,525.00
Scripture Readings for Sunday, August 8, 2021 Psalm 130 Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning. O Israel, hope in the Lord! For with the Lord there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities.
Psalm 25:14 KJV The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.