Family Bible Church FamilyGram Page in this ISSUE Birthdays and Anniversaries page 9 Getting Ready - Part 9 page 1 Global Partners— DeNeuis Page 8 Emily Black’s Short Term Mission page 4 Halvorson News page 5 OneCry Prayer Mtg page 11 Pastor Ron Page 3 Silver Eagles page 7 Youth Calendar page 6 Women’s Retreat Page 1 Worship page 10 FamilyGram A Publication of Family Bible Church May 2016 Volume 2016 Issue No. 5 M y brother in the Lord knocked on our back door and actually waited for me to open it this time. We both knew that this was going to be our last visit and, as he came in, his face seemed to show it. He didn’t say anything for a while and looked a little sad so I jumped right in, “Well, look at you… all ready for your move? Is Jan all packed?” He replied, “Yes, as ready as we’re going to be I guess. But it’s going to be hard leaving Whidbey.” He told me more about his new job as I poured him a cup of coffee and got out the now famous cookie tin. “Well, my friend, let’s see if we can do a little wrap-up about per- sonal and family preparedness.” I said this partly to get his mind off their leaving. “As followers of Jesus we have a much (Ready—Connued on page 2) GETTING READY - PART 9 by Dick Haines John 16:33 Some Concluding Thoughts on Preparedness H ey Husbands! Give your Wife a Special Mother’s Day Gift! Send her to the Women’s Retreat! WHEN: Fri., May 20 – Sun., May 22 WHERE: Beautiful lush grounds of Ce- dar Springs Christian Retreat Center in Sumas, WA (cedarspringscrc.org) COST: $190.00, (a non-refundable deposit of $75.00 is due at reg- istration). REGISTRATION: You can register each Wednesday at WOW or in the foyer after each service on Sundays. Watch the church bulletin and our Facebook page (Women’s Ministry of Family Bible Church) for further details. Last day to register is Sunday, May 8 th ! THEME: "For Such a Time as This!" A retreat built on themes of revival and re- newal. (Note: This is the final article in a series of special interest stories about help- ing you and your family prepare for coping more effectively with vari- ous emergency situations.) "And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?" Esther 4:14 Anxiety and fear are on the rise in Ameri- ca. But God is calling for revival and re- newed courage for the glory of His name. The best way to conquer fear and anxiety is to unleash the power of praise! It’s time for the church to rise up with praise and speak the name of Jesus to a broken and hurting world. Are you ready? It’s time! ABOUT OUR SPECIAL SPEAKER: Becky Harling, Speaker and Author Authentic. Passionate. Funny. Inspiration- (Retreat—Connued on page 4)
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Family Bible Church FamilyGram Page
in this ISSUE
Birthdays and Anniversaries
page 9
Getting Ready - Part 9 page 1
Global Partners—DeNeuis
Page 8
Emily Black’s Short Term Mission
page 4
Halvorson News page 5
OneCry Prayer Mtg page 11
Pastor Ron Page 3
Silver Eagles page 7
Youth Calendar page 6
Women’s Retreat Page 1
Worship page 10
FamilyGram A Publication of Family Bible Church
May 2016 Volume 2016 Issue No. 5
M y brother in the Lord knocked on our back door
and actually waited for me to open it this time. We both knew that this was going to be our last visit and, as he came in, his face seemed to show it. He
didn’t say anything for a while and looked a little sad so I jumped right in, “Well, look at you… all ready for your move? Is Jan all packed?” He replied, “Yes, as ready as we’re going to be I guess.
But it’s going to be hard leaving Whidbey.” He told me more about his new job as
I poured him a cup of coffee and got out the now famous cookie tin. “Well, my friend, let’s see if we can do a little wrap-up about per-sonal and family preparedness.” I
said this partly to get his mind off their leaving.
“As followers of Jesus we have a much
(Ready—Continued on page 2)
GETTING READY - PART 9
by Dick Haines
John 16:33
Some Concluding Thoughts on Preparedness
H ey Husbands! Give your W ife a
Special Mother’s Day Gift! Send her
to the Women’s Retreat!
WHEN: Fri., May 20 – Sun., May 22
WHERE: Beautiful lush grounds of Ce-
dar Springs Christian Retreat
Center in Sumas, WA
(cedarspringscrc.org)
COST: $190.00, (a non-refundable
deposit of $75.00 is due at reg-
istration).
REGISTRATION: You can register each
Wednesday at WOW or in the foyer after
each service on Sundays. Watch the
church bulletin and our Facebook page
(Women’s Ministry of Family Bible
Church) for further details.
Last day to register is
Sunday, May 8th! THEME: "For Such a Time as This!" A
retreat built on themes of revival and re-
newal.
(Note: This is the final article in a series of special interest stories about help-ing you and your family prepare for coping more effectively with vari-ous emergency situations.)
"And who knows but that you have come
to your royal position for such a time as
this?" Esther 4:14
Anxiety and fear are on the rise in Ameri-
ca. But God is calling for revival and re-
newed courage for the glory of His name.
The best way to conquer fear and anxiety is
to unleash the power of praise! It’s time for
the church to rise up with praise and speak
the name of Jesus to a broken and hurting
world. Are you ready? It’s time!
ABOUT OUR SPECIAL SPEAKER: Becky
Harling, Speaker and Author
Authentic. Passionate. Funny. Inspiration-
(Retreat—Continued on page 4)
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larger agenda than the rest of the world has during and after a disas-ter strikes don’t we? And you won’t read about it in the newspapers or see it on TV today.” I began. Keith nodded and said, “Yeh, I’m begin-ning to see that.” I went on, “As a Christian preparedness website re-cently put it, this means that no matter what level of preparedness we and our family have decided to get ready for, we followers of Jesus should be prepared also by knowing what God’s Word says.” Keith thought for a moment and then broke in, “So having a Christian-based maturity really is the best preparation for what may be com-ing.” Wow, was I pleased to hear him say these words! He was grow-ing really fast in his new faith and I realized that he and Jan and the kids had a much better chance of weathering whatever might come.
I replied, “Yes, it really is a matter of our faith and trust in the Lord conquering our fears isn’t it? No matter how many canned goods or gallons of water or cash or gold or guns and ammo we may have stored away, the only way to be truly pre-pared as Christ would have us be is to be willing to help our neighbors – this is really just the Golden Rule isn’t it? We also have to allow the Lord to strengthen us to grow to become more like Jesus. All the preparations we may make and all the good intentions we hold will matter nothing if our faith is little more than a wisp that allows the quick reentry of selfishness, greed and fear at the expense of our appli-cation of Godly principles.”
The look on Keith’s face told me that he didn’t quite understand so I went back, “What I mean is that God wants us to let Him strengthen us to be more and more willing and able to do His work in this world. He does most of this strengthening, not us. But He also knows that we’ve got to survive in order to do this. So you see, He is setting us apart for accomplishing both His work and our own. This doesn’t mean we don’t need to take active
(Ready—Continued from page 1) steps to be better prepared. We’re expected to use our God-given brains and common sense.”
“Oh, I think I see,” he replied. “It’s a matter of knowing what God’s pri-orities are and not just my own.” “Yup, that’s pretty much it. And it also means becoming more resilient to what may come.” I said with a big grin.
After listening for a while he said, “Well, Dick, you’re making heaven sound better and better. I’m com-ing to realize that it’s not easy to prep by faith and not also by worry and fear at the same time particu-larly if I spend much time on inter-net prep sites. And if the disaster we’ve been talking about is a really gigantic one our Christian faith and service is going to be all the more essential won’t it?” I nodded with an even wider smile as he went on, “… but at least now Jan and I are doing more than just talking about getting ready. We’re together on it. We’re coming to real-ize that whatever may happen God’s Spirit is with us as our Comfort-er.”
“But Keith, before you go let’s briefly review some key things we’ve talked about over these past months,” I began, “like first of all getting over one’s normalcy bias that tries to convince us that be-cause we’ve never had a really ma-jor disaster here we never will. Next, we all need to face facts while acknowledging our own limits, in other words, to know ourselves as much as possible. Then we can get started prepping where we are - with what we already have. We should build our fresh water and food cupboards up a little at a time…remember, at least a gallon of pure drinking water per day and 2,000 calories of nutritious food per adult. After that we’ll probably need shelter, warmth and electricity to protect our health. We didn’t even talk about the economic impact of many disasters; if possible we all should try to set aside at least a
month’s worth of extra emergency cash.” He interjected, “Yeh, and what about sharing our Christian faith with others so they can come to know and love Jesus, just like you did with me. Man, that’s real prepping. But I noticed that you didn’t mention hardly anything about self-defense or buying silver or gold… the internet is really crammed with those subjects.”
We both knew that we wouldn’t be having any more of these meetings and the realization cast a kind of shadow over our discussions. I said, “Well, if you weren’t leaving we could have talked about all kinds of other stuff. You’ll have to do your own prep work on them from here on out.”
“I’ll really miss our coffee and cook-ie meetings,” I said. “After you get
settled in I hope we can stay in touch. I also hope you’ll try to meet with other guys back there to share your faith and how it trans-lates into getting pre-pared. You know, watching the evening news makes it clear that there are a lot of people who need to
prepare by finding the source of inner peace in Jesus that we’ve found.” He gave me a confirming smile and replied, “You know, when we first moved here I used to won-der why here but now I think I know. One reason for sure was so we could meet. God sure knows what’s best for us doesn’t He?” I nodded as he went on. “One more thing before I have to go. I want you to know that while I prep I promise to pray for Carol and you, for your health and safety and for your mar-riage and family.” “I really appreci-ate that Keith, and I’ll do the same for you and Jan and the kids.”
We hugged and even shed some tears as he left for the last time with two cookies clutched in his hand. I called out, “faith – not – fear, bud-dy!” He stopped, turned, and said, “And the same to you, brother.”
“It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me,
it is the parts that I do understand.” - Mark Twain
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South Sudanese Lopit with Wycliffe Associates Bible
Translators and FBC Missionary Dan Halvorson.
T here are those who say that this is ordinary. But
don’t let that fool you. “Mother” will always be the bravest, least ordinary, most difficult and utter-ly challenging career that any-one ever hopes to lay claim to.
While others might hear, “diaper-changer, food-maker, car-pooler, bottle-washer, laundry-doer, sweat pants-wearer, life-on-hold” wanna be doing anything else woman, the Truth, whether it feels like it some days or not, is that you are in fact a shelter from the storm.
You are a Cape of Good Hope.
You are a warrior who will bat-tle for your children’s hearts, souls, attention, innocence, education and memories.
Go to battle my friends. This is your time.
We will hold strong on either side of you. We will pray over those bottles, through the dark watches of the night, when doubt comes and children break, when adults fail them, when they push and push as hard against us as that day we deliv-ered them into the world we. will. not.
be broken.
We may ache and see cracks tear through our hearts, but we
You Are Mighty Because You Mother in CHEERING FOR YOU, MOTHERHOOD, RABID FEAR OF PARENTING by Lisa-Jo Baker
will get up again tomorrow and load the clothes and the words that need to be said. Again and again and again.
And when the world tries to claw at them, to break them, to smash the beauty in them, may our walls hold true. May the les-sons we’ve told, the truths we’ve lived, the life we’ve spoken into them come back easily, predict-ably, with wash and repeat ease.
Kingdom business. Jesus work. This shaping of souls. This raising tiny humans.
There are those that say that this is ordinary. Don’t buy that for a second.
If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? - Milton Berle
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
—Theodore Hesburgh
“Women’s Liberation is just a lot
of foolishness. It’s the men who
are discriminated against. They
can’t bear children. And no
one’s likely to do anything about
that.” ~Golda Meir Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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THE SILVER EAGLES WILL MEET May 20th at 11:30
At 270 SE Pioneer Way
The PBY flew from here
To the Aleutians in 1943
“IT FINALLY CAME HOME”
Created by WWII vets who flew the “PBY-5A” Catalina amphibious patrol bomber, to honor the history of all the Navy & Marine Aviators who served our country from NAS and all of those who flew the Catalina.
After the tour we will go to San Remo’s Restaurant at 421 Midway Blvd
for an early dinner.
Please contact Marjorie Kott – 360-675-3146 or [email protected] for reservations for
both the museum & the restaurant. $6.00 fee for the museum.
D ear Mama,
You’re hoping to be Queen for a Day.
You’re hoping your labor of love and daily sacrifices and long hours and sleepless service and hard, hard work might be acknowledged in a way that will make your mama-heart go flutter, flutter, flutter, I. Am. Seen.
And I hope that for you too.
Your love runs deep. Your reach stretch-es far. Your presence breathes safe. Your work speaks holy… and so you deserve to be honored, oh Mama-Queen for a Day.
But this year, as you prepare for the day that’s all about you…
R emember her who has no babies to embrace.
R emember her who has experienced loss in the womb or loss in her arms.
R emember her who reluctantly en-trusted her heart-in-the-shape-of-a
-child to someone else’s care because, at the time, it was the highest form of love.
R emember her who is separated through deployment or assignment
or illness or disease.
R emember her who aches in her soul while her baby is in prison.
R emember her who has waited and counted and worn her knees ragged
praying for the day when those two lines would appear.
R emember her who loves our babies because she’s not yet found a man
to give her some of her own.
R emember her who burns with regret for letting go when there seemed no
other way.
R emember her who parents alone, with those sweet littles still too
young to form the words “I love you” on their lips.
R emember her who waits in agony for applications to be approved and
a judge’s ruling telling her what she al-ready knows. (That she, too, is a moth-er.)
R emember her who’s broken-hearted from being pushed away by a way-
ward teenager.
R emember her who lacks access to the kind of medical care we take for
granted and instead waits in fear of her birthing day.
R emember her—in a far off land—who pushed to her death, while de-
Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
- James Bryce
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Jane & Dennis Behrman Dianne & Jack Granade
Heather & Connor Bettis Jan & Andy (A.J.) Markley
Susan & Reynaldo Delmundo Mercy & Kerry Speth
Caryn & Gregory Eggett Bonnie & Montee Walters
Taylor Berthiaume, 20th Geyer, Wendy 15
th Pearcy, Kelsey 13
th
Kylin Black, 05th Lynne Giammarinaro, 27
th Matthew Pearcy, 07
th
Jonathon Bright, 16th Dick Haines, 19
th Shirly Pedersen, 17
th
Bonnie Buxton, 21st Bud Hansen, 05
th Gregory Peele, 05
th
Mike Buxton, 15th Tordie Hayden, 27
th Patricia Ransford, 11
th
Christine Christopherson, 05th Ashley Jones, 08
th Andrea Roberts, 19
th
Jon Anders, 15th Joel Christopherson, 12
th Avery Jones, 14
th Brennan Schell, 31
st
Carol Anderson, 02nd
Kit Christopherson, 07th Antonio Lazada, 11
th Dorothy Schulz, 26
th
Danielle Arnett, 11th
Bryce Daigle, 08th Svenja Marshall, 14
th Kevin Turner, 17
th
Landon Arnett, 15th Reynaldo Delmundo, 16
th Kai Medina, 24
th Matthew Turner, 06
th
Lacy Baldwin, 19th Debbie Dyche, 16
th Kathrine Medina, 23
rd Billy Weaver, 23
rd
Robert Bell, 15th Dan Edwards, 29
th Bob Mitchell, 11
th Susan Wells, 03
rd
Madelyn Berthiaume, 31st Mary Erickson, 13
th Tammy Ostermann, 17
th Caleb Zarraonandia, 16
th
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so
rare.
— Mark Twain
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My Story by Jason
Ingram & Michael
Weaver
We just started singing
this song at Family
Bible Church (FBC) in
April. It started with a
conversation with
someone on worship team who had
asked to sing this song. However, when
we introduce a new song at FBC it is
important that it be accessible to the
congregation – in terms of melody and
rhythm – but that it more importantly
speak biblical truth. So I began listen-
ing to the song, hearing it on the radio
and then took the time to read through
the lyrics.
Taking their cue from the refrain of
“Blessed Assurance”, Jason Ingram and
Michael Weaver begin to piece together
a story of what life in Christ looks like.
What has Christ done with the stories of
these two men?
“If I told you my story, you would
hear hope that wouldn’t let go.
If I told you my story, you would
hear that never gave up.
If I told you my story, you would
hear life, but it wasn’t mine.
If I should speak, then let it be of
the grace that is greater than all
my sin,
Of when justice was served and
when mercy wins,
Of the kindness of Jesus that
draws me in.
Oh, to tell you my story is to tell
of Him.”
From the Worship Desk
Can you hear the testimony of
these two men being sung through
these lyrics? The story of men
whose lives are radically different
because of the hope, love, and life
of Christ that saturates each lyric
of this song. The hope of Christ
that doesn’t let go, the love that
never gives up, and the life that we
have because of what Christ has
accomplished. And when we have
the opportunity to talk about this
life that we have let us then take
the opportunity to speak about
Christ; His grace, justice and mer-
cy.
Lyrics like these ones begin a pro-
cess of thinking that ought to make
us ask, “What about my story tells
of Christ?” What about my story
shares the hope, love, and
life of Christ when I get the
opportunity to share with
people about Christ?
While visiting friends in
D.C. in April we were hav-
ing a discussion about the
Holy Spirit and personality
traits. It was said to me, “If
you [Brian] didn’t have the Holy
Spirit I could see how you might be
downcast.” Mind you, these are
good friend who know me beyond
Sunday morning and know my in-
troverted tendencies and so it was
not a negative comment, however
it made me grateful for the work of
God in my life. It made me grate-
ful that through the work of the
Holy Spirit I have joy, peace, hope
and love that are beyond myself
and not a part of my personality
make up. In fact, my tendencies
are more toward worry, melan-
choly, and self-centeredness. So, if
I told you my story, would you hear
joy, peace, hope and love? If I told
you my story would you hear about
Christ?
When we introduce songs at FBC it
isn’t just because we like them. In
fact, there are a lot of songs that we
like that simply just don’t make the
cut because they are either not
congregationally accessible or they
have something in them that ques-
tions a core tenant of our faith.
But, when we introduce a song it is
to either help us as a congregation
engage with that Sunday’s theme,
or it is to encourage us as a congre-
gation in an area of our theology,
or it is to make us think about our
story in Christ and how we might
be sharing that story with others
around us.
There is so much in a
song! Each song carries
its own personal story
from the writer(s) but it
also engages the people
of Christ in the story of
His Bride, the Church.
And finally, a song
might help to engage the listener
with their own story. A lyric can
bring back a distant memory, a
melody could trigger an emotion,
and a song might
help put together
a thought about
theology. So,
when we sing
these songs, I
hope that you
find yourself en-
gaged not only in
the
What’s in a Song? Part 3
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou
O ur OneCry prayer group will not meet in May, but we encourage folks to attend the: National Day of Prayer on May 5, Thursday,
at the Gazebo in City Beach at 5:15 PM.
Looking Ahead... OneCry prayer group is making plans to attend the Decision America Prayer rally in Olym pia, on June 29. Info is shown below. Folks who want to sign up to go, can contact me at [email protected] or leave a message at 360-675-0244.
America’s spiritual and moral foundation is crumbling. What can we as followers of Jesus Christ do? We must pray, seek God’s face, and stand firm on His Word.
That’s why we’re bringing the Decision America Tour to each of the 50 states. I’m going to pro-claim the Gospel and challenge Christians to pray fervently and boldly live out their faith in Jesus Christ—at home, in public, and at the ballot box.
Will you join us in this effort?
HERE’S HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED:
today, where you can:
PRAY
Sign up for your state’s prayer team and ask God to bring revival to your state and our nation. Pray for your commu-nity, our nation, the tour, and opportunities to reach the lost with the Gospel.
Consider gathering a group to pray with you.
SIGN THE PLEDGE
Join thousands of others and
commit to take a stand for Je-
sus Christ.
MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND
Bring your friends and join Franklin Graham at the prayer rally in your state capital.
or leave a message at 360-675-0244 to sign up to go.
For more information go to
DecisionAmericaTour.com
livering life into the arms of the world as she said hello-goodbye.
And you, dear Mama-friend…
Your surrender is noble and your service is seen in the heavenly places.
You—who are so like God Himself in your creating and nurturing and laboring and the handing over of your very glory to another—will you remember how precious the privilege of doing what He does?
Will you remember that your chil-dren, your role, your name—Mama—is not something you’re entitled to, but some-thing released to you as a gift?
Your gift—the one you give and the one you receive—is far sweeter than any that could be packaged up and wrapped with a bow this Mothers Day.
Happy Mothers Day to you, Mama.
May you be celebrated, esteemed, and affirmed in your joy. May you wake up that sweet Sunday morn-ing to receive your beloved hand-drawn cards.
And as you do, may you remem-ber her, and whisper a prayer for her too – the one who is unable to share in your joy.
And may you also receive your breakfast in bed and a tidy house as you undoubtedly deserve. And flowers, many flowers!
Love, Another Mama Trying to Remember
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Upcoming EVENTS
Every Tuesday 6:00 PM The Pier—College & Career
Every Wednesday 6:30 PM Prayer & Praise—Library
WOW Bible Studies
9:15 AM Wed Mornings 6:30 PM Thu Evenings
National Day of Prayer 5:15 PM Thursday May 5
At the Gazebo in City Beach
Men’s Mission Trip to Mexico’
May 12-16
Women’s Retreat at Cedar Springs
Friday-Sunday, May 20 –22
Silver Eagles 12:00—2:00 PM Friday, May 20th
Youth Retreat to Island Lake May 28-30
LOOKING AHEAD VBS July 18-22
What Always Comes Right Before a Miracle by Holley Gerth
She wears white and floats down the aisle. My oldest niece is getting married and
she’s gorgeous.
She stands, whole future ahead of her, next to the one who will share it.
The pastor talks of the wedding where Jesus turns water into wine. He says, “Jesus’
mother told the servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ ” He encourages the couple in
front of him to do the same. Those words grab hold of my heart. They won’t let go
through the reception line, as my fork slices into cake, as the last cheers go up when
the hand-holding pair rushes out the door into their new life together.
Because I realize, for the first time, those are the words that always come just before
a miracle.
Not “Do whatever you want”
Not “Do what you feel.”
Not “Do what makes you happy.”
Do whatever He tells you.
That’s what invites the impossible into the everyday.
That’s what can alter everything for all of us.
My niece said “I do” and her whole future changed.
When we say “I will do” it does the same for us.
“I will do whatever you tell me.”
Say those words and watch for water to turn into wine.
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