Volume 24- Issue 02 Continuing the Journey; FEBRUARY ...npgbc.org/files/9614/5460/4243/pineypres_2016_fEB.pdf · Torrey & Ayesha Rogers ... From The CFO Outreach Ministry Alvin Cearnal

FEBRUARY Birthdays Angel Parker, 1st Latonya Smith, 1st Abel Grant, 2nd

Robert Perkins, 2nd Juquetta Milner, 3rd Me’khi Rouse, 3rd

Danielle Chambliss, 4th Necol Smith, 4th

Miranda Whitehead, 4th Linda Grace, 5th

Barbara Smith, 7th Melvin Brown, 8th

Candice McNeil, 8th Alexis Parker, 9th

Robert Taylor, 14th Tyrone Mosley, 17th Sequaria Sellars, 17th Shamaya Austin, 20th

Aleia Mosley, 20th Betty Randall, 20th Shirlie Smith, 20th

Sharon Mosley, 21st Kadijah Berry, 26th Nettie Harris, 27th

Nikki Brothers, 27th Linda Clark, 29th

Felecia Raushan, 29th

February Anniversaries Calvin & Amzie Robinson

February 14th

Jimmy & Cynthia Starr, Jr. February 14th

Alfred & Deborah Dixon February 20th

Torrey & Ayesha Rogers February 20th

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Communion is available for members who are

homebound. The member must

contact their deacon and make a request.

NOON DAY PRAYER Please give Special Prayer

Requests to Ann Wilcoxson to be addressed during Thursday’s Inter-

cessory Prayer & Supplication. We are asking those who can to fast on Wednesdays of each week. February’s fast is for God to send

laborers to the vineyard. “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37 As you fast, remember you must also pray; the two together will

give us great power as we watch God move in our church.

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PRAYER CONCERNS

SHUT-IN MEMBERS Eddie Blow (Heritage Healthcare # D10)

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Bible School Curriculum Sacred Gifts

& Holy Gatherings

Unit III Holy Days

FEB 7 Exodus 12:1-14

Passover

FEB 14 Leviticus 23:15-22

The Feast of Weeks FEB 21 Leviticus 16:11-19

The Day of Atonement FEB 28 Leviticus 23:33-43

The Feast of Booths

(Weekly study sheet available on line. For a hard copy see Administrative Office.)

GENDER STUDY

Men: Daniel 2-4 Women: Building Better Relationship

“Loving Our Neighbors”

Him First

We love him, because he first loved us.

1 John 4:19 (KJV)

Many of the people who know me well, often make fun of my obsession

for being on time. Some believe its because of my military background. Others attribute to the hard lesson I learned from my father when he left me be-hind on a fishing trip when I was only 5 minutes late. The truth is that I am obsessed with being on time because of the love I have for my LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. It is the source of motivation that instills a holy priority system. I desire to put Him first in all that I do, because He put me first on Calvary’s Cross. How can I justify being on time at work, fishing or a golf match and be tardy at wor-ship? He was an “On-time God,” and I want to be an “On-Time” servant. So because I put Him First, I must put His peo-ple first as well. I pray that He will allow me to serve you guys to the best of my ability. With His strength I can do it.

Thank You Jesus!!!!

Nobody can say it like

Brandon M. Lee, Sr. On last Monday Brandon

was broadcasting his praises for God’s favor as he received the following

awards from Sherwin Williams:

Store Manager of the Year

GA South District

2015 Gallon King Store Manager

President Club

Winning a trip to Maui, Hawaii

&

MVP GA South District

Congratulations Brandon!!!!

You have made your church family so very proud!!!!

We join in and say

Thank You Jesus!!!!

Monthly Theme : God’s Immutability

Volume 24- Issue 02

Continuing the Journey; Following the Cloud and the Fire

FEBRUARY 2016

Ash Wednesday, February 10th

Ash Wednesday is a day of repentance and marks the beginning of Lent Season. Ashes are used to express mourning. Ash Wednesday marks the start of a 40-day period (Jesus spent 40 days in the wilderness to fast and pray). This was a time of great temptation from the enemy. However, the time Jesus spent fasting and praying, strengthened His Spiritual Man as the physical man was weakened and brought unto submission to God. He gave up His life; what will you give up.

Felton Morris, Jr. Cameron Hill

Deotha Thomas Annie Watson

Brenda Sherman Sandra Dumas

Jackie Wiggins Earnestine Bivins

Kenneth Mosley Patricia Gilbert

Kimberly Jenkins Shamaya Austin

Clara Montford Yvonne Parsons

New Member’s Training

02/07/16-Pastor’s Class -8:30 AM

Sonya L. Hill James R. Owens Regina A. Owens Amia S. Owens Jovon Owens

Youth Orientation Watchcare Training

Baptism

02/28/16

*If you desire to reaffirm your Faith through baptism on Feb-

ruary 28th, please sign up at the Bulletin Board.

From The Chairman Joseph McElroy, Jr.

NEXT

Deacon Meeting Saturday

February 6th 9:00 AM

See Deacon McElroy ***********

Thank You

Thank you for responding the way you have during our Pas-tor’s Appreciation. Your re-sponse and presence was noticed and appreciated. You made it possible to have a great worship celebration. As we praise and thank God for all His blessings we acknowledge your obedience and sacrifices. May God contin-ue to pour out His favor upon your lives and return to you ten times more. So we thank you for:

Coming Smiling Participating Cheering Singing Crying Worship Loving Giving Sacrificing Eating Fellowship Cleaning Up Locking Up And everything else

Pastor Appreciation Committee

From The CFO Alvin Cearnal

Sacrificial Giving

A recent Devotion reading pointed out that one of the won-drous features of God’s teaching on “Giving” seems backwards from our everyday experiences. According to the Bible, God says we get what we need by serving others, and we get more by giv-ing more. In other words, some-one who gives freely gets more. But someone who withholds from giving gets even less or poorer. This logic can be confus-ing and makes no sense because it seems that the more we give away, the less we will have; and the more we save up to keep, the more we will gain for ourselves. It has been proven time and time again that the more we give, the more we receive. Proverbs 11:24-25 (GNB), “Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer. Be generous, and you will be prosperous. Help others, and you will be helped.” Our service to others and giv-ing are important to God. We must remember that our God is a God of abundance. Elijah and the Zarephath’s widow (I Kings 17:8-16) and The Widow’s mite (Luke21:1-4) are examples of true sacrifice because they gave in faith all that they had. God is faithful to see that all of our needs are met as well as some of our wants when we obey His principles on serving and giving. I Samuel 15:22 “…Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice…”

Christian Education Ministry

Brandon Lee, Sr.

An example to follow.... Luke 5:35-36 states, “But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in re-turn; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.” I'm reminded of being in high school taking an Algebra 2 class, this was the only class throughout my high school tenure that I loved to go to. The reason I enjoyed the class so much was that my teacher gave great examples to the problems we were working on. Once the example was given I was able to use it as a pattern to get the answer to a problem. In life we will go through problems, but be en-couraged we have s great ex-ample to follow, He is Jesus Christ, He is our pattern to follow. Jesus gives us real life examples in the Bible, turn the other cheek, pray for your ene-mies, these maybe hard prob-lems to get right but we have a great example who always got it right, HIS NAME IS JE-SUS!!! So when problem aris-es our teacher will lead us in way we should go!

Christian Youth Ministry

Joseph Brothers, Jr.

A young woman went to her mother and told

her things were hard and she did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. Her mother took her to the kitch-en. In three separate pots she placed carrots, eggs, and ground coffee beans. In about twenty minutes she fished the carrots and eggs out and placed them in bowls. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. She asked the girl, “what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied. On closer examination, the girl noted the carrots were soft and mushy, the egg had become hard boiled and the coffee was rich dark and flavorful. There is a timeless lesson in this story. Each item faced the same adversity, the boiling water, but each reacted differently. The car-rots went from hard and strong to weak and mushy like a Christian with no conviction. The eggs were changed from pliable to hard and unyielding, like a Christian who has lost their empathy for sinners. The ground coffee beans were not changed by their situa-tion. They changed their environ-ment instead. They colored and flavored the water. "When adver-sity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean? Matt 5:13 “You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its flavor, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and tram-pled on by people.

Women’s Enrichment Ann Wilcoxson

Are You

A Wise Builder?

Every wise woman buildeth her house: ...

Proverbs 14:1

In order to build your house, you must be “fit to build.” Here are some tips that will help you get in shape for the task:

Your heart must be condi-tioned to the things of God. Let Him be your Strength Coach.

Let go of past hurts, situa-tions or circumstances, they hinder the building process.

Don’t try to build a “cookie cutter” house. Your house is unique.

You must have the proper tools (Prayer & The Word of God.)

Stay in the work area that you are assigned to (you are not the Master Build-er.)

Spend time with the Mas-ter Builder. He knows the plans that He has for you

Following these tips will promote a strong and healthy home. So purpose in your heart to build your house. See you at our next session on: Saturday, February, 13th, at 9:00AM. Our topic will be “Loving Him!”

Outreach Ministry Ronald Morgan

February 20th 10:00 AM -1:00

Hi Church family, due to unforeseen problems with my laptop I will not be able to bore you with the last two categories of which you may have found yourself in on how to Evan-gelize. I know that just breaks your heart so I will give them to you the next time around so you can stop cry-ing. Smile. I would like to thank Detec-tive Grace for joining the Outreach team. He was so thrilled to be a part of the staff and we had a great time this past third Saturday. As you already know, Matthew 28:19 in the Bible states Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations etc., and Detective Grace did just that with all of his heart. Thank you so much Brother Grace for being obedient to GODs Word. For you all that don't know the Women's Prison has not allowed us to come and minister to them do to a lack of prison security for the last couple of months so if there are people looking for a job the prison system has a big turn over and are seeking help at most, if not all, prison facilities. On that know I am seeking people that will be willing to pray and fast for some of the individuals that frequent the Food Bank Ministry. This way you can be a part of the Evangelism/Outreach Ministry by just praying for people from your home. I would still request that you attend the meetings on third Saturday just to pick up your list and have Com-munion with the rest of the staff. I be-lieve that another Church had the job and decided to stop doing it and I thought it would be a job for NPGBC and will allowed people that have in-formed me of their wanting to be a part of the staff but for some reasons could-n't do one of the other Ministries so here is a chance to be obedient and get points in Heaven as well. You know fasting is a part of our Church practice, so don't be alarmed; you don't have to overdo it. Maybe stop yakking on the phone for a few hours/days. Smile. Until next time Go.

Food Bank Times 2nd, 4th & 5th Tuesdays , 8:30 AM

Women Prison Ministry Cancelled for January