Worship Services

What Should I Expect?

Worship services at First Baptist take place in the multi-purpose building, the one behind the brick church Education Building.  The entrance is between the two buildings.  There are two  Sunday morning services that begin at 8:00am and 10:30am and last approximately one hour.  The following is a representative sample of a Sunday morning service:

Opening Song
Choir Presentation
Welcome and Announcements
Offering
Prayer Time
Children's Time with the Pastor
Congregational Songs
Message by Pastor Davidson
Response
Closing Song

A nursery is available in the back of the education building for both bed babies and toddlers and is coordinated by a pediatric nurse.  Pre-school church takes place in room L-6 of the Education Building.  Children's church takes place in the upstairs of the Worship Center after Children's time with the pastor. 

 Sunday Worship
8:00am
9:15am
10:30am
6:00am
6:30pm		 Worship Service
Bible Study
Worship Service
Orchestra Practice
Worship Service

Wednesday Night 

Activities for Children
6:30pm
6:30pm
6:30		 Birth - 2yr - Nursery
Preschool (age 3-4)
3M for Kids
Activities for Youth - Ed. Bldg.
6:00pm
6:30pm		 Shop Talk
Youth
Activities for Adults - Worship Ctr.
6:30pm
7:20pm
8:00pm		 Worship
Crossroads Cafe
Choir Rehearsal
Why worship?
What about Wednesday and Sunday night?

Sunday night is a little more informal time to gather and sing praises to the Lord and listen to teaching on a variety of topics from the pastor, associate pastors, preacher boys from the seminary or special guests.  

Wednesday night is a good time of activities for all age groups followed by the Crossroads Cafe.  The back of the Worship Center is set up like a cafe and a variety of food and desserts are available at minimal cost presented by the Hospitality Team.  Choir rehearsal follows under the direction of choir director extraordinaire Donnie Settles.  The choir is a special group who enjoys each others' company and preparing special music for worship.  Everyone is welcome.

 The postmodern world that surrounds us yearns for stability, morality, security, fidelity, faith, hope, and love.  These deep needs can only be met through the One who meets our deepest needs for Truth.  Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.

- Marva J. Dawn, A ROYAL "WASTE" OF TIME: THE SPLENDOR OF WORSHIPING GOD AND BEING CHURCH FOR THE WORLD, Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999, p. 69.

"My friends, church is for getting a foretaste of the kingdom.  It is community that whets our appetite for new creation.  It is where we get a small sliver of the wedding cake of the feast of the lamb that will be for all of us who enter eternal life through him.  And the communion of the church is the taste that should linger on our lips as we live for Christ each day."
It Takes A Church...- Todd Bolsinger