Thanksgiving Family Meal

Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year to get together with family and take time to share the blessings of the past year. This season, GBF will host a Thanksgiving Family Meal on Sunday Evening, November 23, at 5:30pm.

On the kiosk in the hospitality area of the church, there is a RSVP list for families to sign. Please be sure your family is signed up so we can include them in the food count. Each EKG group has been asked to contribute part of the meal. In the coming weeks, please sign up during the EKG hour! We need your help. The church is providing the drinks and meat (however, if you would just love to deep fry a turkey or bake a ham...let us know!)

Lastly, we are looking for a few volunteers to help decorate, set-up, tear down, and help in the kitchen. If you are interested in helping please contact Gina at babystinson@yahoo.com or Gayle McMullan at gayle.mcmullan@eds.com

This is going to be a great time of family fellowship, food, music and testimonies. Make plans to attend today!

Elders

I Timothy 3
Titus 1
I Peter 5

I feel like a nervous groom waiting to get married. I am filled with excitement about the prospect of getting elders in place at GBF because of the step of obedience it will symbolize. Just as a groom awaits his lovely bride and all the excitement that comes with a wedding, I feel the excitement can just about carry me away.

On the other hand, the very responsibility that I feel to teach, train and preach what the Word of God tells us about eldership is quite overwhelming. I deeply desire that each person at GBF will have a clear understanding of what defines a godly elder. No greater example can be found than Jesus Christ. What a measuring stick! No human being will even come close to the amazing, transforming, uniquely human servant that Jesus was, but our desire should be to strive, study, pray and learn to be that servant...humble...obedient...passionate. Wow! That young nervous groom feeling certainly can be fearfully paralyzing and can stop of us from doing what God wants. However, if we are walking in the truth that exudes from God's Word we can walk with humble boldness! Much like the groom who is meeting his bride at the center isle....claiming the gift that is his and acknowledging the one who is the giver of this beautiful gift.

Thank you for your prayers as we embark on this journey.
Bruce

Eldership Homework

As promised here is a list of texts that I would encourage each of you to read and study prior to next week's message on the Qualifications of Elders.

I Timothy 3
I Peter 5
Titus 1

There will be a new update later today and I will leave this memo in the updates for this week. Thanks for another great day yesterday and I am looking forward to seeing each of you again soon...

Bruce

Change is in the Air

With the weather changing to cooler temperatures and the colors fo the trees beginning to transform, we are reminded that nothing stays the same forever. I am so thankful that God has given us the ability to change as well. To those of you who will be joining us for Worship this Sunday, we have something "out of the ordinary" that I truly believe you will enjoy. You must be there to see and find out what that something "out of the ordinary" is but I promise it will be different. When given the opportunity this week to do something the same way it has always been done or to do it a little bit differently, I encourage you to step outside of the ordinary and do something that will change the normalcy of your life. Have a great day and I will see you on Sunday...

Bruce