More New Creatures In Christ

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We serve a big God, loving and compassionate. Come see us a Beaverdam some Sunday and discover what these new creatures found out about this glorious God.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new." 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)



Kenzi

 I love those eyes and that smile!


Joseph

Father and Son

Brandon with Chris looking on

 Love that smile. Worth a thousand words, right there! (Brandon's smile is pretty cute, too!)

Chris

Awards Day

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Awards Day with some of our children from church.

Fall Fest 2013

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Beaverdam's fall Fest was a smashing success. We fed over 150 people. I have no way of knowing how many we had Trunk or Treat, participate in the games, or roast marshmallows- walk in the cake walk- ride the Hayride-or get their face painted. Here are a few pictures...

Savannah, our youngest Trunk or Treater. A spry 7 weeks old!

 Face painting

 Luke running a game station.

Our illustrious leader and her crew from Alice In Wonderland

 

 I can't believe that Reagen is old enough to Trunk or Treat!

 The Duck Dynasty crew was well represented at the Fall Fest this year

Who doesn't love a good cake walk!?

 Trunk or Treat time at Connie and Chuck's Trunk

Good ole Uncle Si, complete with Tupperware cup and Sweet Tea

More Pics From Sunday

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Liturgical Dance Company

Liturgical Dance At Beaverdam

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Beaverdam was blessed with the Liturgical Dance Company and their choreographer Amy Shivar in worship today.

Bruce prays to open the service with a packed house of over 170.

 The girls showed us true worship

 Maddie helps us know that God is our All In All.

Just a small taste of what heaven will be like, as these angels took us before the throne.

Awards Day

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Awards Day At Beaverdam. Two of our GA's got Awards from their school for A honor role.

Think Pink Sunday

On Sunday we celebrated Think Pink Sunday, a cancer recognition service. We heard testimonies, shared Scriptures, and generally loved on one another. We celebrated victories over cancer, commiserated and grieved together those we have lost, and we prayed for those hurting because of the disease. Here are a few pictures of this very meaningful service.

 We wore Pink and Purple for breast cancer and Relay for Life.

 

Luke read the story of Blind Bartimaeus and Jesus' compassion toward the sick.

Elaine spoke of her battle with breast cancer

Maddie and The Preacher give out purple ribbons to cancer survivors

Wendy spoke of overcoming carcinoma

Zack spoke about children's cancer and his St Baldrick's project

The Summer So Far

Well, the Summer of 2012 is half gone. Here's a few of the happening here at The Dam...

The Royal Ambassadors had their recognition services

And so did the Girls In Action.


We had VBS. Guess who played Jonah? Hmmm, FatPastor, maybe???? That's me with a "school" of students in the Belly of the Fish.

We also had our Pinewood Derby

 We were going to call it the RA Pinewood Deby, but then a GA won the Grand Champion, soooo...stay tuned for more happenings.

More New Creatures In Christ

Baptism TKO

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My standard line before walking anyone into the baptistery has always been, "Don't worry. I haven't dropped anybody yet."

Well I still haven't dropped anybody, but Paul was about as close to knocking someone out as I've ever come. I usually take a step to my left before baptizing someone that's my own height. But after four baptisms in a row I forgot! It's a good thing he doesn't have much hair, cause it would have scraped the wall.

Baptism

We baptized a total of five Sunday. Here are a few shots thanks to Tammy Jeffers!

Heating Up The Baptistery

No; literally, heating up the baptistery. A few weeks ago the pump that circulates the water and also acts as a water heater for the baptistery went out. After much debate on size, price, and installation crew, we finally found, ordered, and installed the pump this past week. Our humble building and grounds committee sweated the plumbing, phased the electricity, and turned the elbows, (and several other plumbing jargons that I just nodded my agreement and assent at,) and wallah, Thursday afternoon we had hot water!

Just another day in the life of a small church pastor—or was it? 

God certainly didn’t think so. During our Sunday service, five came forward to receive Christ (another joined by the most Baptist of ways…the moving of the LETTER.) So while we might say, “What convenient timing,” we can truly know that God is never taken by surprise. He knew that baptistery needed heating up...in more ways than one. Indeed I can say with the Apostle Paul, “And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now to our God and Father be glory forever and ever.”

Amen.

Baptism

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Baptism today. Here are a few pics.


I need to get our baptism pictures updated. (Note to self; get pictures.)


Patty took these from the front pew.