Starling Avenue Baptist Church Occasions
This Week at SABC
Sunday, April 14, 2024
10:00-10:30a.m. SundaySchool
10:30a.m. ChoirRehearsal
11:00a.m. WorshipService
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
10:30a.m.—MidweekGathering(Cancelled)
5:15p.m. HandbellChoirRehearsal
6:00p.m. MidweekGathering(Cancelled)
7:05p.m. ChoirRehearsal
Welcome to Starling Avenue Baptist Church! If this is your first time visiting with us, we sincerely hope that you find meaningful worship and a loving community here. There are guest cards in the pew racks if you’d like to let us know more about yourself. Drop these into the offering plate or the basket in the back of the sanctuary. We’re happy to welcome you as our guest today!
Lay Leader, Anne Stultz; Offertory Prayer, Sarah Fain; Candle Lighter, Dawn Taylor; Greeters, Geneva Winn & Tonie McMillan; Open and Close, Billy Spencer
Africa Bound: Angela&SteveZimmermanwillbetravelingtoAfricathisweektovisittheir daughterKaren. AngelawillbeoutoftheofficefromApril15–April27. Pleaseprayforsafe traveling. Ifaneedariseswhilesheisgone,pleasecontactyourdeaconorthechurchoffice.
Organ Recital: Nolan’srecitalisSaturday,April20,at7:30p.m.,attheUniversityofNorth Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston-Salem. If you plan to attend and would like transportation,thechurchbuswillleaveSABCat5:45p.m.
The Quarterly Business Meeting and our Annual Mission Luncheon will be held on Sunday,April28,followingWorshipService. WewillbeacceptingdonationstotheAnnual MissionOffering.
Clearview Early Learning Center,ourpartnerschool,hasaskedustodonateitemsfortheir end of the year celebration. They need small individual bags of chips and individual boxes/pouchesofjuice(CapriSun). Collectionboxeswillbeateachentrance. Weneedthese byMay5.Thankyou!
Patrick Henry Elementary School Special Mission Project: Fortherestoftheschoolyear (until May 15) we are collecting selected food items for PHES students experiencing food insecurities.Childrenareprovidedfoodbagstotakehomeeachweekend.Lookforfliersand collectionboxesateachentrance.Pleasecallthechurchofficeifyouhavequestions.
Annual Mission Offering: Lastyear’sgoalof$6,500wasexceeded. Thisyearthegoalis $6,500, with the hope that it will also be exceeded! The Annual Mission Offering runs through Pentecost Sunday, May 19. Specialenvelopesarelocatedatbothentrances. So far, we have collected $3,510.00.
Mission Partners: BGAVAlmaHunt,Cooperative BaptistFellowshipGlobalMissions, Martinsville/HenryCountyWarmingCenter, God’sPitCrew,Karen(CBFFieldRepresentative), andVernieLewisScholarshipFund.
New Books! Thelibraryhasfournewbookswhichyouareinvitedtoborrowandread:
• Dipping Springs Farm-StoriesofthesixdaughtersofNancyMatilda&EdwinThomas FrithbyPatsyDraper(Frithfamilyhistory);donatedbyPatriciaKohlbeck
• Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths byKarenArmstrong;donatedbyCharlesDameron
• Two’s Company-StoriesoflifegrowingupinFieldalebyMargaretAdkins;donatedby CaroleWebb
• Mostly What God Does bySavannahGuthrie
Remembering in Prayer: Pat McKinster, Joyce Poindexter, J. G. McMillan, Regina Carter, FreddieDonavant,MikeSpicer,SusanneTravis,PeteMabry,LoisJohnson,MaynardHandy, Renee Jenkins (Rev. Zimmerman’s sister), USAF Airman Cody Minter, Larry Smith (Tonie McMillan’sbrother),SharonWhite(KathyLong’ssister-in-law),MyronRichardson(Richard Caldwell’s brother-in-law), KaitlynSmith, Kody & Kasey Redfern (niece & friends of Becky Nance),KarenGribble&PaigeBrockenerough(friendsofPatMcKinster)
Continue to remember NancySnyderwithyourprayersandcards.
Birthdays this week: Bobby Hankins, Rannie Bouldin, Jane Newman & Susan Franklin. HappyBirthdaytoeveryonecelebratingthisweek!
Grace Network Items for April: cannedsoup,toiletpaper&feminineproducts. Itemscan beleftintheboxlocatedoutsidethelibraryonthe2ndFloor.
Acts 3:12-19
When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, “Fellow Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But you rejected the holy and righteous one and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed the author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.
“And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. Repent, therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out.
1 John 3:1-7
See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him as he is. And all who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.
Luke 24:36b-48
While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” They were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. He said to them, “Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see, for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. Yet for all their joy they were still disbelieving and wondering, and he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate in their presence.
Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
BudgetNeedsYTD:$66,443.44
BudgetOfferingsYTD:$79,313.29
BudgetNeedsEachSunday:$4,745.96
BudgetOfferingsfor04.07.24:$10,955.00
Here are current ways to give to the ministry and mission of SABC:
-Through USPS to 932 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, VA 24112. Your offering envelopes are alreadyself-addressed. Allyouneedisastampandtapetoreinforce.
-Dropoffyourenvelopesinthe locked mailbox outsideoftheChurchOffice.
-Setupanautomaticor one-time bank draft throughyourbank.Simplygotoyourbank’sbill pay webpage. Set up SABC as the “payee” and have your payments automatically delivered electronically.Thisissimpleanddoesn’tcostyouorthechurchanyfees.
-Online giving available at https://get.tithe.ly/give. You can choose “Cover Fees” to slightly increaseyourgifttopayprocessingfees.
How to Connect to Sunday Worship & Other Gatherings
Ifyouareunabletoparticipateinourliveservice,youmaystreamit. To connect to Worship from your landline (audio): Call1-844-621-3956(tollfree),AccessCode: 132-630-0075##
To connect to Worship from your computer, tablet, or smartphone (video): GototheSABCFacebookpage(bit.ly/FacebookSABC)or ourYouTubechannel(bit.ly/YouTubeSABC).
Closed Captioning isavailableonYouTube.
Church Office Hours
Monday: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday: 9:30 a.m. – 2:30 pm
Friday: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
(276)638-8861 www.starlingavenue.org
Pastor: Rev.AngelaZimmerman(azimmerman@starlingavenue.org)cellphone(336)212-3213
OfficeAdministrator: BarbaraRakes(church@starlingavenue.org)
DirectorofMusic: NolanAnthony(nanthony@starlingavenue.org)
InterpreterfortheDeaf: JoanJoyce