March 30th is 5th Sunday!

This will be a day filled with fellowship and praising the Lord. We are starting the day at 8:45am with a pancake breakfast being prepared by our deacons. This means we are not having our first worship gathering at 8:15am.

Following breakfast, we will resume our normal schedule for Sunday School at 9:30am and our second worship gathering at 10:45am. In our worship gathering, we will be partaking in communion for all baptized believers in Christ. If you are interested in joining the church by baptism or have accepted Christ and have not been baptized, you are able to this 5th Sunday. If you have questions or would like to be baptized, please call the office at (336)731-8434. We will need to know the Sunday before, March 23rd.

We are participating in the 2025 Welcome Easter Parade with a float and bus. The parade is April 5th @ 3pm. There are 3 ways you can join in the fun.

1. Donating individually wrapped candy - You can drop it off at the bins by the sanctuary & large fellowship hall
2. Decorate the float - Look at the Facebook page for meeting times
3. Ride on the float & bus - Sign up on the bulletin boards

May 2024

Hello FBCW family!

As you may recall, we voted as a church on November 5, 2023, to move forward with purchasing and installing new audio-visual equipment in the current sanctuary. Our desire is for our church family to worship in the space that is dedicated for the purpose of worship. The sound equipment has been in desperate need of an upgrade for several years and has limited some things we can do to enhance our worship services. We are currently awaiting arrival of the equipment, and we anticipate this project being completed sometime this Fall.

Even with this limitation we have enjoyed worshiping together as one church family in our Sanctuary on 5th Sundays and for special days, like Good Friday or our Candlelight Carol Sing. We believe that we are in a place where we can worship together every Sunday morning as one family. Our maximum seating capacity in the sanctuary is 350, and our current average Sunday worship attendance would allow us to temporarily gather together in ONE service. In addition to that, our current Sunday School is able to meet at one hour as well with some small modifications.

So, beginning Sunday morning, June 2, we want to implement a “Summer Worship Schedule,” that will look like this:


There are several reasons we want to move to this new schedule for the summer months.

• We are currently able to all fit in one service, and usually summer attendance dips.
• We believe this would be unifying and encouraging for us to be together in one service.
• We know that we will not be able to stay in one service forever, and the next step would be to have two services with a Sunday School in between. This summer schedule allows us to take an initial step in that direction.
• We believe this would also be a beneficial schedule for families with younger children, especially those dealing with feeding and nap schedules.

I realize that moving to this new schedule, even for a temporary time, will be a significant change for all of us. The pews will be more crowded. Our Sunday School classes will have to adjust to be able to have be effective with less time. Those who attend the second service will have to move to a new Sunday morning worship location. Our worship team will struggle to lead well with less than adequate equipment. For every one of us, our preferences will be challenged.

But I believe it will be worth it to spend the summer together in worship and Bible study as ONE church family, trusting the Lord to grow us in unity, maturity, and mission. We believe that the Lord will continue to bless this fellowship of believers as we live for His mission, and we sincerely desire to see this place full of new believers and new faces. We won’t be able to keep this schedule forever, but we can for a few months.

Our plan is to communicate clearly with the church of how we can work together to make sure that June 2 is an exciting, celebrative day of thanksgiving to God for this local body of Christ that He has called us to be a part of at FBCW. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me or any of our staff. Thank you for being an important part of the work that the Lord has called us to at FBCW.

In Christ,

Chris Griggs
Lead Pastor

Dr. Danny Akin will be joining us at both gatherings May 5th! We pray to see you there.

Dr. Akin is married to Charlotte Akin. They have been married since May 27, 1978.  
They have four sons who all currently serve in the ministry.  He has 4 daughters-in-law and 15grandchildren!
 
Dr. Akin currently serves as the President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a Professor of Preaching and Theology.
 
Dr. Akin and his wife Charlotte have traveled to Sudan, Turkey, Middle East, Kenya, Asia, Central Asia, Thailand, India and Paraguay serving our students and missionaries and helping share the gospel.

We are partnering with the Baptist Children's Home for their April 2024 Food Roundup. Your donations help provide meals for neglected and/or abused children. Eating regular meals allows the children to develop a sense of trust as their basic needs are met.

Join us as we give to help others.

A list of items is on the bulletin boards or can be downloaded below.
Drop off containers are positioned outside of the Small and Large Fellowship Halls.