I hope you will join us Sunday at 10:30am as we are back in to our series on conflict resolution. This Sunday we will seek out peace (Psalm 34:12-14) "What man is there who desires life and loves many days, that he may see good?  Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit. Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it." This week we want to learn to avoid mere peace keeping and pursue peace making. What's the difference?  We will also be observing communion.

Sunday evening we will have Matt Rowley preaching on Matthew 24:1-3.  I hope you can come!

Tomorrow morning Keith will be challenging us with the closing thoughts from Jesus sermon on the mount. The passages and thoughts will bring together the teachings from the earlier portions of His sermon. Please come with a heart ready to hear what God would have for us.  Sunday evening, Billy Gillen will be giving his testimony, and afterwards Pastor Rowley will be preaching on how to make the gospel clear in a confused world.  I hope you can come and bring a friend!

Join us this Sunday morning as we continue in our series on resolving conflict in a way that pleases God! This Sunday some helpful ways to navigate potential conflict hoping to bring the emotional temperature down. Bring a friend!!!

This Sunday evening Pastor Rowley will be preaching after a time of some VBS testimonies.  Pastor Rowley said this about his message... "A person asked me this week why God made it so hard to earn a living in the world.  Is it because of the curse in the Garden of Eden.  With the time left after testimonies, we will broach this subject." 

I look forward to beginning our new series as we revisit how to resolve conflict God's way! Bring a friend and join us Sunday at 10:30 am.

This Sunday we finish our series in Acts. We plan to begin a new series on the 27th on what the Bible teaches about conflict and how to resolve it when it happens. Our church studied this some time back, and this summer is a great time to revisit this important part of our discipleship as Followers of Jesus.

Tomorrow we will look at the subject of why is there suffering if God is so good? How do we handle that as believers? Join us tomorrow at 10:30 am as we learn from God’s Word together.  Tomorrow evening I will be continuing the series in Acts, so please join us if you are able! 

Summer is in full swing as we gear up for VBS this week. You might see a few changes this weekend as TBC is transformed into the old west! Have you registered for VBS yet? You can register the kids by clicking on this link VBS. Join us Monday through Friday 6:30-8:30 pm. Adults you can bring the kids and we have a class for you too taught by Kevin Tower. Please pray for our volunteers and kids this coming week.

Well this Sunday is sooooo special here at TBC. It is the 45th anniversary of Truth Baptist Church. What a blessing and joy to celebrate! It is also our time to honor Pastor Bim and Deanna's 45 faithful years here as Bim founded & pastored TBC! On Sunday, Pastor Rowley officially steps back from serving as senior pastor and steps into retirement. He is being conferred by our church to become Pastor Emeritus of TBC. That means that our church loves and appreciates Pastor Bim and with deep respect wants him to enjoy a different pace of ministry. But as he cares to, he will still serve the church teaching, doing his regular ABF, his life group, and more.

They will be honored on Sunday, and there is a lunch in their honor in the gym after church.

Tomorrow is Father’s Day as we continue in Acts right after 3000 were saved. What was next for the early church? Come join us at 10:30 am. and lets learn together!  Remember no Sunday evening service this Sunday. 

This Sunday morning and evening we will be hearing from of of our supported missionaries, Dr. Cherian.  He has an exciting ministry training up ministry leaders in India.  Pastor Rowley has gone to teach a few classes at the Bible College there a couple of times in the past few years.  I hope you'll be blessed by hearing from him.

Join us Sunday morning as we resume our study of the early church in Acts called, "Church 101:We are better together."

This Sunday we begin our summer series, Church 101. We plan to visit Acts and learn together from the early church and her leaders found in Acts particularly the early chapters. Join us at 10:30 am Sunday as we study and learn together how to BE the church in action!

Tomorrow morning we will be looking at the first half of Matthew 7. How can we best follow Christ’s example and words as we Live out the Golden Rule today?  I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Tomorrow evening, Jack van Achterberg will be preaching on the passage of Jesus raising Lazarus!  I've heard Jack share this message before, and it was excellent!  I hope you can come.

Please join us tomorrow morning for a beautiful service of worship to God through songs, a beautiful video to honor the mothers in our lives, a missionary update from Mary Davis, and an encouraging message from Scripture about God’s everlasting love for his children.

In recognition of Mother’s Day, there will be no evening service tomorrow. Instead, we encourage you to spend quality time with your families and friends, honoring the mothers and mother-figures in your lives. For all of you who are mothers, we recognize that you fill a magnanimous role every day – no matter what season of life your children are in. To you we say THANK YOU! May God continue to grant you strength, health, peace, and joy in everything you do, for his honor and glory.

Tomorrow, I will be picking back up where I left off on the Colossians series.  We will be looking at a practical passage (Col 3:12-14) that tells us what a model Christian should look like.  If we put into practice the great truths taught in Colossians 1 & 2, our lives should begin to look like the model Christian we see in these verses.  We are to "put off" old traits and "put on" these Christlike traits.  

Sunday evening we will be looking at the next event on God's prophetic calendar.  I have been studying 4 key passages in 1st and 2nd Thessalonians dealing with the Rapture of the Church and the coming Day of the Lord.  We will start with the first exciting passage in 1Th 4:13-18.

I sure hope you had a great Easter weekend last week. This was our first Easter with you, and it was beautiful and meaningful for sure. Thank you for going on your local mission trip to invite people to church last weekend! Keep it up because for us as Believers every Sunday is Resurrection Sunday!

Which reminds me… this Sunday is Name Tag Sunday! Please put on a name tag when you come for worship. This is a great way to get to know people by name. We have all seen people that we did not know so hopefully we can put a name to a face this Sunday!

You will hear more about this... but save 2 dates this summer. The first date is June 22 as we celebrate TBC’s 45th anniversary and Pastor Rowley and Deanna’s 45 years here as pastor. We want to give love and thanks as he becomes our Pastor Emeritus. More later. 

The second summer date to save is Sunday, July 20th, when we come together as church family for Summit 1. This is the first of 3 summits when our church comes together to discern and discuss who we are and where we believe God wants us to go.

We have entered the holiest of all weekends for us as Jesus followers. As we approach this Easter Sunday, we want to invite you to read and check out all that is happening!  We already had a wonderful and meditative Good Friday service Friday evening.  Thank you to all who participated in that service and to all who attended.  Eli was able to give a great Gospel message as well.

Easter will be celebrated well so be sure and read all the different ways you can celebrate Easter next weekend. It will be a delightful weekend of opportunities to worship a risen Savior! Don't forget that this Sunday and Easter we will have a station set up for free pictures to be taken. Bring your family and enjoy our photo booth.

I want to invite our church family to join together to come back for services on Sunday night at 6 pm. Nick Coelho will be preaching a message entitled The Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It's the only message with eternal ramifications for all people everywhere, so bring a friend if you can.  Sunday evenings are a great time of worship, study and fellowship for an hour. I would love to see you there!  

Have you begun your local mission trip to invite someone from work, or school, or friends to our Easter weekend services? We have several to choose from:

 - Good Friday service at 7 pm on Friday the 18th. This is a night of worship and reflection on Christ’s death.
 - Sunrise service outdoors here at church at 7:30 am to begin the celebration that Jesus is alive!!! We plan to have breakfast afterwards!
 - 10:30 am Easter celebration as we worship our risen Savior!

These are great events to invite people to. After all, we do not want to keep Easter to ourselves! This world is looking for hope and peace, so let’s show them JESUS!!

This Sunday I plan to preach on the Gospel of Easter and how it originated with our Heavenly Father and His great love and mercy for us! God is soooo good!!

Today marks a new and exciting chapter in the ministry of TBC as Pastor Pat Hand will be taking over as the Interim Pastor of the Church.  He has many years of experience in the ministry and has a genuine heart for God, for God's people and for the local church.  I trust you will show him a kind and warm welcome.  His wife Carol could not be with us today, but she will arrive on Wednesday from their home in Canada.  

This evening we will have our regular monthly Men's and Women's Ministries.  For the men we will be looking at a vital subject:  The Discipline of the Mind.  The battle of the Christian life is largely fought in and with the mind.  The World, the Flesh and the Devil are all trying to capture our minds.  Please come this evening to discover how to be victorious in this area.  The women will be looking at their identity in Christ as a comforted comforter.

Thank you for praying fervently that our church will have God's blessing as we move forward.