Starling Avenue Baptist Church
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This Week at SABC
Sunday, June 4, 2023
10:00-10:30a.m. SundaySchool
10:30a.m. ChoirRehearsal
11:00a.m. Worship
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
1:30-3:30p.m.—JigsawPuzzleTime,Room211
6:00p.m. DeaconMeeting
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
10:30a.m. MidweekGathering
6:00p.m. MidweekGathering 7:05p.m. ChoirRehearsal
Thursday, June 8, 2023
6:00p.m. Personnel,Room202
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!
Welcome Rev. Dr. Joshua Hearne, guest minister; Lay Leader, John Scott; Offertory Prayer, Jeff Stegall; Christ Candle, Ronnie Prillaman; Greeters, Dee Smith & Susan Franklin; Open and Close, David Bell.
Rev. Dr. Joshua Hearne livesinDanvillewithhiswife,Jessica,anddaughter,Lucia.Joshua and Jessica are founding members of Grace and Main Fellowship, an intentional, Christian community devoted to living and working alongside people experiencing homelessness, poverty,addiction,andotherinjustices.HeholdsadoctoraldegreefromMercerUniversity and, after more than a decade of working in faith-based institutions, now works at the Danville Regional Foundation, focused on community development and community engagement.
Children’s Sunday School hasalreadybegun,and Youth Sunday School beginstoday!
Communion Sunday forJunewillbeonSunday,June11,2023.
On Sunday, June 18, we will have an outdoor service at 10:00 a.m. No Sunday School. Followingtheservicetherewillbea hotdog lunch. Dresscasualandbringyourlawnchair.
Helpers and cooks are needed for our monthly Community Meal (lastTuesdayofeach month). Ifyoucanhelp,pleasecallthechurchoffice276-638-8861orToniTollison276-8062039.
Do you enjoy fellowship and working jigsaw puzzles? ThenjoinuseveryTuesdayfrom 1:30–3:30p.m.inRoom211.
Library News:
A collection of Sound Books by Patrick O'Brian hasbeendonatedtoourChurchLibrary byBillySpencer. O'Brian,borninEngland,wrotehistoricalfiction,manywithadventures onthehighseas.
Sharon Wayne donated her Mom's Sound Book Collection to our Church Library. Midge Huddle loved books, and when she began to listen to books, shebeganher own libraryof72titlesofChristianfiction.
Visit our Church Library tolookmorecloselyatthesetreasuresandbeginlisteningas youtravel,sitonthebeach,deckoryourrecliner.
Remembering in Prayer: FamilyofChristyMattox,PattyBarnett,KarenGribble(widowof formerHenryCountyBaptistPastor),DonnaCollins,KaseyRedfern(friendofBeckyNance), BeckyJoyce(friendofPatMcKinster),ChristyMattox, MikeSpicer,JoanRoach,PattyBarnett, Bobby Hankins, Nancy Hudson, Fern Kanode’s sister Janet, J. G. McMillan, Maggie Pilson, LaurenWerner,DanaSharon,SusanneTravis,PeteMabry,LoisJohnson &JeanetteDraper; OurCountry;AllThoseAffectedbyWar&Violence;OurHomeboundMembers.
Gift Given to the Annual Mission Offering in Honor of Sarah & William Fain and In Memory of Pete Weatherford byJeff&FrancesStegall.
Serving in the Military: Airman Cody Minter, USAF, 1341 Princeton Street, Abilene, TX 79602
Birthdays this week: JoanJoyce,KaylaWebb&PatMcKinster. HappyBirthdaytoeveryone celebrating! If you are having a birthday this week, please let Barbara in the church office know.
Grace Network Items for June: Assorted canned greens (turnip, collard, etc.), dish detergent,deodorant&laundrydetergent.
Psalm 8
O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O Lord, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Genesis 1:24-2:4a
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures of every kind: cattle and creeping things and wild animals of the earth of every kind.” And it was so. God made the wild animals of the earth of every kind and the cattle of every kind and everything that creeps upon the ground of every kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.”
So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.” God said, “See, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is upon the face of all the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all their multitude. On the sixth day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
May 28, 2023
BudgetNeedsYTD:$101,763.64
BudgetOfferingsYTD:$96,555.62
BudgetNeedsEachSunday:$4,625.62
BudgetOfferingsfor05.28.23:$2,395.00
Here are current ways to continue to give to the ministry and mission of SABC:
-Through USPS to932StarlingAvenue,Martinsville,VA24112.Yourofferingenvelopesare alreadyself-addressed. Allyouneedisastampandtapetoreinforce.
-Dropoffyourenvelopesinthe locked mailbox outsideoftheChurchOffice.
-Setupanautomaticor one-time bank draft throughyourbank.Simplygotoyourbank’s billpaywebpage.SetupSABCasthe“payee”andhaveyourpaymentsautomaticallydelivered electronically.Thisissimpleanddoesn’tcostyouorthechurchanyfees.
-Online giving availableatwww.starlingavenue.org. Youcanchoose“CoverFees”toslightly increaseyourgifttopayprocessingfees.
Church Office Hours
Monday: 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 10:00 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@starlngavenue.org)cellphone(336)212-3213
OfficeAdministrator: BarbaraRakes(church@starlingavenue.org)
Pianist/Organist: FernKanode
InterimChoirDirector: PatMcKinster
AssociateInterimChoirDirector: LindaMoore
InterpreterfortheDeaf: JoanJoyce
