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Dear Family,

As a reminder, we will have a continental breakfast on Easter Sunday at 9:45 before our service at 10:30. All food will be provided.

I look forward to celebrating our Lord’s resurrection with you,

Pastor Colin

Dear Family Bible Church Members,

We will have a Members Meeting next Sunday, March 19 immediately following our worship service. Our elders will be presenting Brent Griffin for your approval for our Associate Pastor position. Brent has served faithfully at Westwood Church for over 10 years in a variety of roles and our elders believe he is qualified and well-suited to serve as our new Associate Pastor. Please take the opportunity to introduce yourselves to Brent, his wife Brooke, and their two girls Emma and Lila at church in the coming weeks.

Also next Sunday (3/19), as our teaching series on the book of Esther is coming to a close, we will be holding a Purim celebration during our worship service. If you don’t know what that is, come and find out! Let me especially encourage you to bring your kids as we will need them to help us celebrate what God did to save his people (and by extension, all of us) at the time of Esther.

See you Sunday,

Pastor Colin

Dear Family,

We will have an all-church lunch after church this Sunday, February 19. FBC will provide fried chicken as the main course. Please bring a side or a dessert to share and drinks for your family.

During lunch we will have the opportunity to meet the Griffin family. Our elders have been pleased to interview Brent Griffin as a candidate for our Associate Pastor position. Brent has been serving in various roles at Westwood Church here in Evansville for over 10 years and we are excited to hear him preach this Sunday at FBC. Please welcome Brent and his wife Brooke, and their two girls Emma and Lila and take the opportunity to introduce yourselves to them at lunch this Sunday.

Also, as a reminder, next Friday, February 24th the women of FBC will be hosting a Ladies Progressive Dinner. Soups, sides and sweets will be served at two different homes on the north side of Evansville. Meet at 5:45 PM to carpool from the church. Please R.S.V.P. to Brenda Kerr or Nancy Islam.

Have a great week,

Pastor Colin

Join the women of FBC on Friday, February 24th for an evening of food and fellowship. Soups, sides and sweets will be served at two different homes on the north side of Evansville. Meet at 5:45 PM to carpool from the church. Please R.S.V.P. to Brenda Kerr or Nancy Islam.

Dear Family,

We will gather for worship this weekend on Christmas Eve, Saturday at 5 PM rather than on Sunday morning at 10:30. We will resume our normal meeting time on January 1 at 10:30, and Sunday School will resume meeting at 9:30 on January 8. I will look forward to worshiping with you on Christmas Eve as we celebrate our Lord Immanuel’s coming.

Pastor Colin

Dear Family,

I am writing to remind you of our annual members business meeting at Family Bible Church this Sunday, November 20, immediately following our worship service. All members over 18 are encouraged to attend in order to establish a quorum needed to conduct business. We will be presenting our annual budget for your approval and hearing a few brief reports on the state of our ministry and building project. In addition, our elders will present Jim McDonald for your approval as a candidate for our team of elders. Jim served on our original team of elders for six years and has graciously agreed to stand for re-election. Martin Brown is rotating off our elder team after faithfully serving our church for two consecutive three year terms. Please thank Martin for his faithful and steady guidance and prayers on our behalf. I hope you will join us to consider these important matters.

See you Sunday,

Pastor Colin

Dear Family

As a reminder, during our worship service this Sunday, August 14^th we will be collecting our giving pledge cards for our building expansion project. This is a huge undertaking for us, but I believe it will be of great benefit to future generations at Family Bible Church. I am assuming that by now you have taken time to pray and decide what your family is willing to give cheerfully and sacrificially so please come with your pledge card prepared to let us know what you plan to give. If you did not receive a pledge card, you can pick one up Sunday to fill out or contact us to have one emailed to you. If you would like more information about our building expansion, please see the previous post or feel free to speak to one of our elders if you have further questions. If you are unable to join us this Sunday, please mail your pledge to Family Bible Church, 15515 Husky Way, Evansville IN 47725.

After our service we will celebrate God’s provision with a meal. The main course (bbq) and tableware will be provided. Please bring drinks for your family and a side dish or dessert to share.

I will look forward to worshipping with you again this Sunday,

Pastor Colin

Dear Family,

If you have been at Family Bible Church over the last two weeks, you have heard that our elders have called a Members Meeting on July 24^th immediately following our worship service. I am writing to inform you regarding what our meeting will be about.

Before the construction of our current facility, our elders and several of our members formed a building committee to develop a master plan for the construction of a building that will serve, not just our current needs, but future generations at Family Bible Church. God has graciously provided our current building as stage 1 of that plan, which has been fully paid for through your generous giving. Our building has been a great place for us to gather for worship, enjoy meals together and serve as a base for other FBC events and community gatherings. One of our current limitations has been classroom space for Sunday school. We have been doing the best we can to hold classes behind screen flex walls and in our conference room. But, as many of you can testify, this has been quite challenging as we knew it would be. We also have no permanent storage space which we now create with more screen flex walls.

To address these limitations, over the past year our elders have been working on a design for stage 2 of our master plan and have collected bids from several building contractors. We eventually selected Midwest Contracting as our preferred builder who, with the support of Morley Architects, Engineers, and Surveyors, has developed a floor plan and exterior design that we are pleased with and would like to share with you. It includes new nursery and classroom space, additional bathrooms, storage, additional offices and an expanded kitchen, coffee bar and cafe area that will serve our existing facility and future expansion to the south. We believe this design will serve our family well for many years to come.

According to our By-laws the approval of our members is required for the purchase, construction or sale of any church real estate. If you have completed our process of membership will you please pray for wisdom and come to our meeting on July 24^th to seek the Lord’s will together as we present this project for your approval?

See you Sunday,

Pastor Colin

One of our dear families, the Megals, lost their home to a fire early Thursday morning. We are grateful that their family, their two dogs, and one snake are safe. But they are obviously overwhelmed with all of the upcoming decisions they need to make. Many of you have asked about ways to help. Here are a few ways to help out while they deal with insurance claims, housing decisions and organizing their home again.

• You can purchase items from their Amazon wish list.
• You can purchase gift cards to their favorite restaurants: Azzip, Dairy Queen, Red Robin, Buffalo Wild Wings, Los Bravos, Hacienda, Papa Johns, Chic-Fil-A, Jason’s Deli, McCalister’s. You can either deliver these cards to the Megals in church, or mail them to 506 Brook Meadow Circle, Evansville, IN 47711.
• We will send out further information on signing up for a Meal Train next week.

Please pray for the Megals as they trust the Lord to provide for them.

Pastor Colin

Dear Friends,

I am writing to inform those of you who are members at Family Bible Church that our elders have decided to postpone our upcoming Members Meeting by one week to allow our church family to support one of our own at a funeral. Our annual meeting will now be held on November 14th, immediately following our morning worship service. I apologize to any of you who will be unable to accommodate this schedule change, but we felt it was the right thing to do.

We will be presenting our annual budget for your approval, hearing a few brief reports on the state of our ministry, and presenting plans to expand our building to include additional classrooms, offices and storage space. I hope you will join us to consider these important matters, especially since your vote, in person, is needed to approve our budget for the coming year.

Business thus concluded, we will gather again later that evening for fun at our Barn Dance at 5 PM. John Grimm will send out a post with more details about that later.

Please help us get the word out about our Members Meeting schedule change by forwarding this email to those you know who might not be subscribed to our website.

See you Sunday,

Pastor Colin