Starling Avenue Baptist Church Occasions
This Week at SABC
Sunday, June 2, 2024
9:00a.m. BaptistMen’sBreakfast
10:00-10:30a.m. SundaySchool
10:30a.m. ChoirRehearsal
11:00a.m. WorshipService&DeaconElection
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
6:00p.m. Deacon’sMeeting
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
10:30a.m. MidweekGathering
6:00p.m. MidweekGathering
Saturday, June 8, 2024
3:00-5:00—GameDay
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, Margaret Caldwell; Offertory Prayer, Tommy Wells; Candle Lighter, Dawn Taylor; Greeters, Donna Wells & Susan Franklin; Open and Close, Tommy Wells
The Congregation is invited for refreshments and socializing in the Memorial Garden followingtoday’sWorshipService.
A Love Offering for Local Benevolence will be taken by a deacon at each exit of the sanctuaryfollowingtoday’sworshipservice.
Absentee Deacon Ballots need to be turned into the church office no later than noon on Friday, June 8.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Annual Mission Offering. Onceagain,we exceededourgoalof$6,500.00bycollecting$7,023.00.
The Recreation Team ishostingaGameDay on Saturday, June 8,from3:00-5:00p.m.in theFellowshipHall. Pleasejoinusforcardor boardgames. Bringasnacktoshare!
Kristin Adkins Whitesides willbeaKeynotePreacherduring the2024CBFGeneralAssemblyinGreensboro,NC,on Friday, June 21,from4:30-6:00p.m. Ifyouwouldliketoattendbut needtransportation, let the church office know by June 10. Ifwehaveenoughinterest,wewillusethechurchbus.
SABC Mission Project: The Warming Center is continuing to help the homeless this summer by providing them with Hygiene Bags. The C.A.R.E. Group is collecting items (all items need to be travel size) to help with this mission from June - August. Items include: toothbrushes,toothpaste,dentalfloss,barsoap,shampoo,sunscreen&deodorant.
From our Director of Music
Nolanwouldliketostartabelltrainingclass,andis wonderingiftherewouldbeenoughinterestinit. He canbeginteachingitinthenextfewmonths. If interested,pleasecontactthechurchoffice.
Share With the Pastor: Ifyouhavesomethingyouwouldliketosharewiththepastor,please fill outone of the yellow“Share with the Pastor” cards that are located inthe pews andat both entrances. The card can then be placed in the offering plate or handed to pastor followingworshipservice.
Remembering in Prayer: Bobby Hankins, Nancy Snyder, J. G. McMillan, Regina Carter, FreddieDonavant,SusanneTravis,PeteMabry,LoisJohnson,MaynardHandy,USAFAirman CodyMinter,LarrySmith(TonieMcMillan’sbrother),SharonWhite(KathyLong’ssister-inlaw),KaitlynSmith,Kody&KaseyRedfern(niece&friendsofBeckyNance),KarenGribble (friendofPatMcKinster),Jeanette&HaroldDraper(KimDraper’sin-laws)
Birthdays this week: Toni Tollison, Joan Joyce, Kayla Webb & Pat McKinster. Happy Birthdaytoeveryonecelebrating! Ifyouarehavingabirthdaythisweek,pleaseletBarbara inthechurchofficeknow.
Dear Members of SABC: On behalf of Clearview Early Learning Center, we sincerely appreciate the gift bags you provided our students for our Showcase of Learning Event. Our kids were thrilled with the bags! Your partnership and encouragement help us better serve and meet the needs of our students and their families. We earnestly thank you for your support of the students of Martinsville City Public Schools and hope for your continued support in the future. Sheilah W. Williams, Director of Clearview Early Learning Center
Grace Network Items for June: cannedsoup,dishdetergent&deodorant. Itemscanbe leftintheboxlocatedoutsidethelibraryonthe2ndFloor.
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
O LORD, you have searched me and known me. You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it.
For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
2 Corinthians 4:5-12
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed. How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!
I try to count them they are more than the sand;
I come to the end I am still with you.
For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake. For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that it may be made clear that this extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us. We are afflicted in every way but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair, persecuted but not forsaken, struck down but not destroyed, always carrying around in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our bodies. For we who are living are always being handed over to death for Jesus’s sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us but life in you.
Mark 2:23-3:6
One Sabbath he was going through the grain fields, and as they made their way his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. The Pharisees said to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food, how he entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and he gave some to his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath, so the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.” Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there who had a withered hand. They were watching him to see whether he would cure him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come forward.” Then he said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. He looked around at them with anger; he was grieved at their hardness of heart and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. The Pharisees went out and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.
BudgetNeedsYTD:$99,665.16
BudgetOfferingsYTD:$112,139.62
BudgetNeedsEachSunday:$4,745.96
BudgetOfferingsfor05.26.24:$920.00
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##
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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