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-1619250 Non-ProfitPostage PermitNo. 32Old Greenbrier Baptist ChurchPO Box 456Alderson, WV 24910Pastor: Rev. Dr. Bill Bryan(304) 646-8631 Forwarding Service RequestedMinisters of Music:Dell & Nancy WoodCarolyn Holliday Treasurer:Charlotte MeltonCongregational Visitor:Peggy BollenbachEACA Director:Jodi WisemanOfficial Board, ChairBob LaRueStreet Address:301 North Monroe St.Church website: Phone:(304) 445-7854 Old GreenbriER6886575-48037753505200-4614545 Baptist NewsVolume XVII No. X20151327785140335FROM YOUR PASTOR’S HEART45243752032007829550-4921256334125-492125 HHGraGrEACA Opens – On September 8 Emma Alderson Christian Academy opened its doors for its first day of programming. We rejoice in the labors of the many volunteers, staff, and donors who have made opening day a reality. Most of all we rejoice in what the Lord has done to enable the beginning of this new ministry outreach. We dedicate the ministry of EACA to the glory of God and to the good of our children, families, and community.Children’s Church Begins – In response to the increased number of children in worship, a team of volunteers is at work to develop a Children’s Church ministry on Sunday mornings. Children will join in the beginning of worship and then dismiss for special teaching and other age-appropriate activities. This ministry needs volunteers to serve on a rotating basis. Please contact me, Laurie Parker, or Page Ward, if you are intrested in more details about this ministry or if you would like to help. This is yet another way we can minister to our children and families.45243754508545243751769110World Missions Goal Increases – During October we will receive our annual World Mission Offering. Our WMO goal for Old Greenbrier is $1,650, which represents a 10% increase over last year’s goal. This increase demonstrates in a tangible way that we are “stretching forward to the things which are before” as together we “press on toward the goal” (Phil 3:13-14 [ASV]). Please give generously and expectantly to the World Mission Offering as, together, we help people everywhere come to Christ, grow in their relationships to God and change their worlds through the power of the Holy Spirit.400050-200025123Men’sBreakfastJMUMC ~ 8a4Communion SundayS School ~ 9:45aWorship ~ 11aOfficial Bd. ~ noon567Bible Study ~ 6:30pChoir ~ 7:30p8Ruth Thurmond Circle ~ 1p91011S School ~ 9:45aWorship ~ 11a121314Bible Study ~ 6:30pChoir ~ 7:30p15Pack Food Pantry ~ 9aWVBC Convention16Food Pantry~9a1718S School ~ 9:45aWorship ~ 11a192021Bible Study ~ 6:30pChoir ~ 7:30p448945052139854489450521398522232425S School ~ 9:45aWorship ~ 11a262728Bible Study ~ 6:30pChoir ~ 7:30p293031The next Men’s Community Prayer Breakfast will be Saturday, November 7 at 8am at River of Life Church of God, if reconstruction of the church is complete.489585-200025 1 – Angie Bradley 5 – Bryan Hanna 8 – Brennan Wood 9 – Brittany Hanna 15 – Allie Holliday 17 – Nathan Bradley 18 – Laurel Alderson Karnes 19 – Clara HardestyKay Hunter 23 – Jerri DotsonDiana Taylor 24 – Rod Hunter 30 – Lisa Parker Children’s ChurchWe are blessed by the presence of our youngest worshipers, Kindergarten through 5th grade, in worship each Sunday. Down-in-Front-Time is a highlight for them and for us as adults who enjoy their responses.In order to better minister to our youngest worshipers, we have begun Children’s Church as part of our morning worship time. Our youngest worshipers join us in the sanctuary for the first part of the service and are dismissed after Down-in-Front-Time to continue their worship with age appropriate lessons and activities.If you would be interested in serving as a Children’s Church volunteer on a rotating basis, please contact the pastor, Laurie Parker, or Page Ward.152400-38100Our Finance Team meets on a regular basis to monitor our church budget and spending. Thank you for your regular tithes and special offerings. Each month, we want to present an overview of where we are financially.General Fund for the Month Ended August 31, 2013Beginning Balance$ (3,739.66) + Total Income$ 11,450.77 + Interest 3.05 ? Total Expenses$ 10,011.93Ending Balance$ (2,297.77)Budget Needs * Actual Need DifferenceGiving thru August:$78,977 $ 93,065 - $14,088September 6, 13, 20: $ 4,812 $ 7,977 - $ 3,165 Total 2015 Giving: $83,789 $101,042 - $17,253* These numbers represent actual giving versus budget. We do not spend money we don’t have. So, some budget items are not fully funded. The Treasurer and Finance Team closely monitor spending.Fill-Up and Fuel-Up ResultsOur Fill-Up and Fuel-Up dinner was a success with $3,692 raised toward the replacement and filling of our fuel oil tank before winter. Thank you Hospitality Team and those bringing silent auction baskets and food. It was a great time of fellowship and giving. Also, the tank is in the ground and ready for winter. Thank you House & Grounds team!Thank YouThank you for giving to our General Fund, Building Fund, and annual missions offerings. We faithfully continue to care for our church facility and to reach out to the world with the good news of Jesus Christ.fast to decay it was concluded upon to Draw a superscription in order for the members and non members to give a sum voluntarily, to cover it with shingles and build a stone chimney.”24 According to church minutes, these repairs were made but not completely paid for until 1799. Repairs to the original meeting house were again necessary in January 1812 as the minutes record that “. . . the chimney likely to fall and the seats broken, the glass in the windows broke.”25 A committee was tasked with affecting these necessary repairs.Elder John died in 1821 just as plans were being made for the construction of a new meeting house. The church minutes reveal that the church “Entered on a plan for Building a meeting house and trustees appointed to superintend the same.”26 This second meeting house, a larger 40’ by 50’ frame building, was constructed on the same site as the original log meeting house and served the congregation until after the Civil War.Again in 1869 the need for a new meeting house appears in the church records. “The Trustees submitted their plan of a new House and that they had over $800. Subscribed for the building of the house.”27 This new church building was completed by 1872 on the same site as the first two meeting houses. Over the ensuing years this third meeting house was extensively renovated and enlarged. In 1882 work was undertaken to procure a bell for the church and to build a parsonage.28 The parsonage was completed around 1890.29 At the turn of the twentieth century, “. . . a baptistery was ordered to be put into the church. Up to this time, baptizing had been done in the river.”30 The church has in her possession pictures of the exterior of this building and one of its stained glass windows. The interior of the third church building and its use in worship were described as follows.. . . A gallery ran around three sides of the room for the use of the slaves. The pulpit was high enough for the minister to see both floors and was elaborately painted and decorated. No intermingling of the sexes was permitted. When a man brought his wife or best girl to church she sat on the south side with the sisters. The man sat with the brethren if he was a member in good standing; if not, he sat in the east corner with the “sinners” or “transgressors.”32In 1930 the third meeting house was razed to make way for the fourth church building, constructed of Indiana limestone, which continues as a meeting place for worship and ministry to this day. The current church building, except for the sanctuary, was opened for use in 1935. The sanctuary was completed in 1940, and the first worship service held in it occurred on May 19, 1940. This church building was dedicated on Sunday, June 16, 1940.33. . . to be continued“BAPTIST BEGINNINGS AND EXPANSION IN SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA”What follows is the third excerpt of an article written by Pastor Bill for the American Baptist Quarterly in honor of the 150th anniversary of the West Virginia Baptist Convention. The entire article is available in American Baptist Quarterly XXXIII, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 25-44. It will be published serially over the next several months as a feature article in the Old Greenbrier Baptist News.Greenbrier Baptist Church674370013970Her BirthThe history of Greenbrier Baptist Church provides critical insight into both the beginnings and growth of Baptist work in the southern region of what is now West Virginia. In this regard Semple clearly states, “By giving a historical relation of this church in particular, the reader will be informed of the first rise of the Baptists in these parts, seeing this is the oldest church in the district, and is, in a sense, the mother of the rest.”2067056008616959601200861695The roots of Greenbrier Church lie firmly in the Regular Baptist tradition since the church from which her leader came was of this persuasion. Regular Baptist churches in Virginia, such as Smith and Linville’s Creek Church, were originally united with the Philadelphia Association. But in time, distance and the need for local fellowship led to the formation of the Ketocton Association at Ketocton Church in Loudoun County, Virginia on August 19, 1766. The Ketocton Association originally included four churches which were represented at the constitutional meeting as follows: Ketocton – John Marks and John Loyd; Smith and Linville’s Creek – John Alderson, Sr.; Mill Creek – John Garrard and Isaac Sutton; Broad Run – David Thomas and Joseph Metcalf.21 As noted earlier, Greenbrier Church was birthed on November 24, 1781 as an arm of the Smith and Linville’s Creek Church and the Ketocton Association.Her BuildingsGreenbrier Church of necessity at first met in the homes of her members. A meeting house is first mentioned in the church minutes of May 24, 1783.Having taken it into Consideration respecting a place for publick [sic] worship it was thought a place most Convenient on M. William Morris land nigh Baughmans Ford, Green Brier River, an acre of which being granted by M. Morris for the Building of a Meeting house . . . for the use of the Baptist Society & for a publick [sic] place of Internment to Bury the Dead.226619875685809953625173355On July 25, 1783 the minutes record plans for “. . . our meeting house (Viz) 25 by 17 a Chimney in the middle in the Breadth of the house to Begin building August next.”23 This meeting house became the first Baptist church building erected in what is now southern West Virginia. By July 1784 the meeting house was in use but not complete. Church minutes for January 26, 1793 record that “The meeting house being out of repair and goingEmma Alderson Christian Academy NewsOur Academy offically opened on Tuesday, September 8 to the glory of God and the good of our children, families, and community. Praise the Lord!Registration for both the Pre-K and After-school programs is open and on-going. Contact our Director, Jodi Wiseman at (304) 445-7575.301371050165201358585725 -95250-152400Prayer Needs as of September 20 Jackie Goodall familyLinda Kelly familyTim Qualls familyChris Rogers familySaeed AbdeniGlenna Adams (sis-in-law of Mary Godby)Phyllis AkersHope Aliff (friend of Anne Parker)June Ames (friend of J. Lehmann)Malia Ashmead (P. Bollenbach’s grand-daughter)Pat AyersKaren Baker (sister of L. Carter)Jim Belcher (friend of Anne Parker)Barbara BradleyNathan BradleyGary BryantMargaret CantleyDreama CarterDarius Christian (Charlotte Grimmett brother)Nathan Clay (friend of Anne Parker)Cody (Alice Clark’s grandson)Jean Dodson (friend of Anne Parker)Aretha Dowdy (friend of Betty Highlander)John Dynak (friend of Curtis Pauley)Donna EskinsNick & Stephanie EstepLinda Fitzwater (Friend of Anne Parker)Carol GodbyCrystal & Emma HalsteadBrittany HannaKent Hanserd (C. Knapp’s nephew)Clara HardestyJerry HarrisBetty HighlanderAnita & Don Hill (friend of Mary Godby)Dickie & Ora HonakerShawna Hopkins (C. Smith’s granddaughter)Lorene HouseMadeline Howard (C. Knapp’s sister)Jesse Hylton (friend of Dolphis Wood)Matthew Jarvis (friend of Mary Godby)Bob LaRueJoyce LehmannLevi LevisayCharlie LobbanLori Loggins (A. Parker)John Mace (friend of Lawrence Lewis)Pearl McCurdyVirginia Miller (sister of Charlotte Grimmett)Charles Mitchell (friend of Mary Godby)Melody Moss (A. Parker)Sharon Mullins (C. Holliday’s sister)Sandra Neely (friend of C. Knapp)Eva Nichols (friend of Anne Parker)Andrea ParkerLee PattersonCole Pickles (7 y.o. from Union)Levi Pugliani (Bob & Gayle LaRue’s grandson)Marsha RayRebecca Rexroad (Jewell Smith’s grand-daughter)Jim Reynolds (friend of Pastor Bill & Deborah)Heather RichmondLibby, Stephanie, G.W. Richmond (C. Smith)Theresa Rookstool (Carolyn Knapp’s niece)Margie SimmonsTammy SkaggsChristine SmithEddie Smith (friend of Mary Godby)Lucy May SmithMelinda UtterbackSammy Walker (friend of C. McCallister)Theda Wallace (friend of Anne Parker)Claudine Hinkle WaltonLarry Wickline (Jack Taylor’s uncle)Jeff WillisJeanie Zopp (friend of Theresa Massey)ALL TROOPS In Our Armed ForcesRandy Fleshman (home)Joseph Garcia (New Jersey)Katie Hunter (home)Jess Phillips (home)Brent Taylor (home)Ernie Tincher (Afghanistan)Church Family Shut-inMary Lou Bowden Ernestine LightFrances Canterbury Juanita RookstoolHarriett Dancy Dorothy Taylor Louise Utterback Government Officials Heads of StateStudents: Jonathan Bradley, Bethany Burdette, Hannah Griffin, Rhys Rogers, Kari Still, Kelsey Still, Stephanie Willis, Keith Wiseman, Brennan WoodEMMA ALDERSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMYNote: Please notify church office 304 445-7854 to delete or add to prayer list. 6181090-133350 …forgetting the things which are behind,and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal… Philippians 3:13–14 (ASV)God is doing new and surprising things in once-Communist Hungary!Forgetting what is behind: Hungary is still recovering from four decades of repressive Communist rule, during which schools were controlled by the government.And stretching forward to what is ahead: Churches now have the opportunity to run schools, where they can teach the Bible, nurture students in their faith and open new doors by providing courses in conversational English.As part of this new approach to education, International Ministries partner Hungarian Baptist Aid has been given the opportunity to manage 49 schools throughout this eastern European country—serving 17,000 students in grades K–12. The impact has been staggering!Students and teachers alike are blossoming in grace-filled environments as they study the Bible and see firsthand what a difference Jesus can make in their lives.After-school clubs are reaching students with the gospel message, practical Bible teaching and the joy of the Lord.Students are stretching their conversational English skills, thanks to American Baptists who are responding to the immediate and ongoing need for English-speaking teachers.The amazing transformation that we see in Baptist-run schools in Hungary is just a snapshot of what is happening through IM’s partners and nearly 1,800 missionaries and global workers in more than 70 countries around the world.Now more than ever, there is an urgency to stretch forward all around the world. And you are encouraged to be part of the new and surprising things God is doing through International Ministries with your support of the World Mission Offering.As we Stretch Forward together, God will lead us to provide increased support for worldwide missions. Our 2015 WMO goal is $1,650, a 10% increase over our 2014 goal.Whether God is calling you to GO as a global volunteer or worker or to GIVE of your financial resources, let us join together in touching as many lives as possible in more than 70 countries around the globe. ................
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