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01 January 2010
Dear First Church Family,
Thank you for coming together to ensure that our church family will
continue to securely inhabit this beautiful
house of worship
that the Lord has blessed us to occupy for nearly 35 years!
We thank our many supporters, throughout
this nation who supported us and contributed to the victory that we will
continue to celebrate for the next 93 years!
As we move toward our
93rd
anniversary, there is exciting work that the Lord has set before us in
the new decade.
Education
is a primary focus for First Baptist Institutional Church in 2010. First
Church is currently partnering with community organizations to fight
illiteracy, by providing G.E.D. training and testing by
Pathways & Visions,
elementary school mentoring by A-1 Skill
Builders, tutoring programs for k-12
students having difficulties with academics by
AMP (Achieving Maximum Potential), and
computer skills classes in partnership with
Maria Madeline Project/50 Plus Prime,
preparing baby boomers for new economy jobs.
We are collaborating with AMP
to enroll students who require tutoring in reading comprehension
phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, writing, MEAP/TerraNova
preparation, and mathematical concepts & applications. Programming is
free and runs from 6 to 8 weeks (32 hours).
The only requirements are that students
attend public schools requiring supplemental tutoring and are
acknowledged recipients of a free or reduced lunch program.
First Baptist will continue to welcome and
sign up students throughout the school year.
For further information, please call the
church at 313-838-0166 or visit First Baptist Institutional Church
online at
www.fbiconline.org.
This new decade must be a time for us to
get back to the basics of
how authentic
Christians are supposed to live our lives.
In 2010 we will focus very clearly on
learning how
to live our lives in the way our Lord
desires, and learning how to be more effective in sharing our
Christian
understanding with those who so desperately
need the
salvific love of Jesus Christ.
In the beginning of this year we will read
Pastor Rick Warren’s new book from his
Living With Purpose Series, “God’s
Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions.”
Starting in February
our FBIC 101, 201 301 and 401 Membership Classes
will begin again to re-train
our members to become exemplary
armor-bearers for Christ.
Our theme this year will be taken from
Matthew 25:31-40:
25:31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the
angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
25:32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will
separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from
the goats,
25:33 and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at
the left.
25:34 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, you that
are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world;
25:35 for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave
me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
25:36 I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care
of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'
25:37 Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw
you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to
drink?
25:38 And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or
naked and gave you clothing?
25:39 And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited
you?'
25:40 And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did
it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it
to me.'
First Church, we thank God for 93 years and pray that he will bless us
another 93 years!
With Great Love,
Howard B. M. Fauntroy, III
Pastor
First Baptist Institutional Church
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