Starling Avenue Baptist Church
Occasions This Week at SABC Sunday, November 26, 2023 10:00-10:30 a.m.—Sunday School 10:30 a.m.—Choir Rehearsal 11:00 a.m.—Worship Tuesday, November 28, 2023 1:30-3:30 p.m.—Jigsaw Puzzle Time, Room 211 5:30-6:30 p.m.—Community Meal, Fellowship Hall Wednesday, November 29, 2023 10:30 a.m.—Midweek Gathering 5:15 p.m.—Handbell Choir 6:00 p.m.—Midweek Gathering 7:05 p.m.—Choir Rehearsal 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, Shirley Simmons; Offertory Prayer, Joan Joyce; Christ Candle, Anne Stultz; Greeters, Becky Nance & Linda Pulliam; Open and Close, Susan & Jeff Franklin
Hanging of the Greens will be Sunday, December 3, at 5:30 p.m. Following this service, we’ll have refreshments in the fellowship hall. Please bring finger foods, and if possible, please have them on serving plates. Thanks. The Activity Department of Mulberry Creek Nursing & Rehab Center is asking for help to make Christmas a happy memory for their residents. Each year they set up a Christmas store and allow their residents to shop with $5.00 Mulberry Creek Bucks to purchase five gifts for their family, friends or themselves. The community is asked to donate items for this store. Examples include lotion, shampoo, body wash (full size bottles), blankets, Word Search books (large & regular print), diabetic socks, hulless popcorn, cheese puffs, candy bars, Little Debbie cakes, etc. Items should be brought to the church by Sunday, December 10. Boxes are located at both entrances to the church. Mid-Week Gathering. You are invited to join the always lively conversations on Wednesdays at either 10:30 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. in room 202. Hope to see you there.
Join us for good food and fellowship during our Community Meal on Tuesday, November 28, in the Fellowship Hall. Begin your Christmas Season by visiting the church library and checking out holiday books, movies and puzzles.
Remembering in Prayer: Helen Moore (Carol Merchant’s aunt), Nancy Snyder, Freddie Donavant, Reed Finley, Danny Joyce, Mike Spicer, J. G. McMillan, Susanne Travis, Pete Mabry, Lois Johnson, Airman Cody Minter, USAF, Myron Richardson (Richard Caldwell’s brother-inlaw, Lauren Werner (Linda Pulliam’s granddaughter), Dana Sharon (Shirley Simmons’ daughter), Kaitlyn Smith, Kody & Kasey Redfern (niece & friends of Becky Nance), Karen Gribble & Becky Joyce (friends of Pat McKinster); Our Country; All Those Affected by War & Violence; Our Homebound Members. Birthdays this week: Stephen Cecil, Clovice Cooper, Lee Webb & David Bell. Happy birthday to everyone celebrating! If you are having a birthday this week, please let Barbara in the church office know. Grace Network Items for November: boxed dinners (Hamburger Helper), bath soap, toilet paper, toothpaste & individually wrapped toothbrushes. Items for December: boxed dinners (Hamburger Helper), dish detergent, deodorant & laundry detergent. Items can be left in the box located outside the library on the 2nd Floor.
SCRIPTURE READINGS Deuteronomy 8:7-18 For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with flowing streams, with springs and underground waters welling up in valleys and hills, a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, a land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you may mine copper. You shall eat your fill and bless the LORD your God for the good land that he has given you. Take care that you do not forget the LORD your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today. When you have eaten your fill and have built fine houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied, then do not exalt yourself, forgetting the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, an arid wasteland with poisonous snakes and scorpions. He made water flow for you from flint rock, and fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you, and in the end to do you good. Do not say to yourself, “My power and the might of my own hand have gotten me this wealth.” But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, so that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your ancestors, as he is doing today. Psalm 100 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth. Serve the LORD with gladness; come into his presence with singing. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him; bless his name. For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations. 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not regretfully or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. As it is written, “He scatters abroad; he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever.” He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us, for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your partnership with them and with all others, while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!
STEWARDSHIP REPORT – November 19, 2023 Budget Needs, YTD: $217,404.14 Budget Offerings, YTD: $207,944.46 Budget Needs Each Sunday: $4,625.62 Budget Offerings for 11.19.23: $4,341.53
Here are current ways to continue to give to the ministry and mission of SABC: -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 SABC 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. How to Connect to Sunday Worship & Other Gatherings If you are unable to participate in our live service, you may stream it. 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) or our YouTube channel (bit.ly/YouTubeSABC). Closed Captioning is available on YouTube. 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. Angela Zimmerman (azimmerman@starlingavenue.org) cell phone (336) 212-3213 Office Administrator: Barbara Rakes (church@starlingavenue.org) Director of Music: Nolan Anthony (nanthony@starlingavenue.org) Interpreter for the Deaf: Joan Joyce