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He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
In this issue:
Check out what's coming up at BSBC from Feb. 9 to 16.
The Annual Congregational Meeting – Tuesday, February 22, 7 PM
Annual Report Booklets
Invitation to Refugee Sponsorship – Meet Rachel Nesbitt
Fredericton’s “12 Neighbours Community” and BSBC
Sunday Morning, February 13
Youth News
Online Community Options for This Week
Bereavements
This Week @ BSBC
1. Mark Your Calendar: Annual Meeting
Our Moderator, Dr. Calvin Smith, calls for the congregation to gather for The Annual Congregational Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. (Storm Date: Thursday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m.). Attendance at the meeting can be in-person or online through Zoom.
This is an important event which highlights our ministries, opportunities to serve our world and financial direction for 2022.
How to attend
Please make a reservation to attend either in-person or on Zoom. We invite you to click the button below. In order to guarantee receipt of the Zoom link, please register by Sunday, Feb. 20.
2. Annual Report Booklets Are Almost Ready
Each year we compile a booklet which includes:
reports from all full- and part-time staff;
reports from all boards, committees, teams;
the financial report for 2021 and the budget proposal for 2022;
the report of the nominating committee who have recruited volunteers to serve in all aspects of church life; and
membership and adherents lists.
As you can tell, it’s a big job and we’re grateful to Janet Mitchell who has brought all these individual submissions together under one cover.
The 2021 Annual Report will be available on Sunday, Feb. 13 and from the church office thereafter.
To have a printed copy mailed to you please click here.
OR, if you would like an electronic copy of the report booklet, please click here.
Meet Rachel Nesbitt: Invitation to Refugee Sponsorship
Your Social Action Team invited Rachel Nesbitt to write you to share about her connection with our proposed refugee family. We commend her letter to your attention and thank Rachel for her heart for this opportunity.
4. Fredericton's 12 Neighbours Community & BSBC
As a church rooted in our downtown core, reaching out to the most vulnerable members of our community IS an important focus for Brunswick Street Baptist Church. Your Social Action Team invites you to consider partnering with a new organization, 12 Neighbours Community Inc., that is taking an innovative approach to supporting those who are experiencing homelessness and insecure housing.
Click the button below to learn more and about how you can support this project.
5. Sunday Morning: Feb. 13
Again this coming Sunday, you have a choice! You can attend in-person or online. The contemporary service will be available in the gym in a return to our café setting or on Facebook Live. The traditional service will be available in the sanctuary or join on YouTube.
Attending on-line? Simply visit thestreetonline.ca and click “Worship Online” and then choose your service. One way or another, we do hope you’ll be with us.
Contemporary Service
In the gym, Jon and Alyse Wilton will be leading the musical worship while Pastor Ross will be offering the next instalment in the “Unleashing the Church” series in Ephesians. This week, he’ll lead the gym congregation through a study of Ephesians 4:1-16, a passage entitled “Unity and Maturity in the Body of Christ.” Next Sunday, Pastor Greg will be preaching in the gym, continuing the Ephesians series with Pastor Ross offering a third message on the final Sunday in February.
Traditional Service
In the sanctuary, soloist David Steeves and pianist Gloria Tranquilla will be leading the musical offerings. We’re so pleased that we’re returning to our “His Name is Power” segment with Denise Mersereau interviewing Sarah Duguid. Dr. Keith will be offering the first in the three week mini-series entitled “The Experience of Grace.” This week’s passages for consideration are 1 Kings 18:1-11 and Luke 16:1-9.
Dr. Keith writes: For the next several weeks we will studying the parables of Jesus that invite us to have a new experience of grace. Rather than striving for what doesn’t satisfy, we will look afresh to the risen Lord Jesus. In a recent book, Tom Wright remarks: “The modern Western world is built on anxiety. You see it on the faces of people hurrying to work. You see it even more as they travel home, tired but without having solved life's problems. The faces are weary, puzzled, living with the unanswerable question as to what it all means. This world thrives on people setting higher and higher goals for themselves, and each other, so that they can worry all day and all year about whether they will reach them. If they do, they will set new ones. If they don't, they will feel they've failed. Was this really how we were supposed to live?”
This week we will study the parable of the shrewd manager, which is often considered one of the most difficult parables to interpret: how can this rascal possibly give us spiritual insight that will help us at work and at home today? But with some assistance from 1 Kings 18, we will pause to consider what it means to steward our gifts and live by faith in these challenging times.
Attending in-person? Please use the button below to make a reservation.
6. Youth News: Coming Up For Youth at BSBC!
Wednesday Night Bible Study
Coming up this week, we continue our Wednesday night Bible study series going through the book of Jonah! Youth are welcome to join us from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in-person or on Zoom for a time of learning and fellowship! If youth are coming in-person, masks and proof of vaccination are required. For the Zoom link please email Pastor Nikki.
Youth Group
On Friday youth are invited to join us at Killarney lake for snowshoeing from 7 to 9 p.m.! Don’t have snowshoes? Do not worry! RSVP by sending an email to nikki@bsbc.nb.ca or youth.nb.ca@gmail.com and we will have snowshoes ready for you! If youth would like to be a part of this event, and/ or would like to invite a friend, please let me know by Thursday morning. If youth have headlamps or flashlights, please bring them with on the day of! For more information reach out to Pastor Nikki!
All are welcome to come out to these events! Please be praying for our young people and those serving alongside them!
7. Online Community Spaces
Creating space for community and wellbeing in a time of isolation
Let's do life together (online!) we're offering two opportunities next week to come together in community over Zoom.
Cardio Workout with Pastor Ross
Have you ever worked out with a pastor? Do a 20-minute cardio workout with Pastor Ross on Tuesday, Feb. 15. Join him on Zoom at 7 p.m.
Meeting ID: 878 1589 9762 | Passcode: 772999
Cook Supper with Anna Marie
Anna Marie Colpitts welcomes you to join her in the kitchen tomorrow Feb. 10 at 5:30 p.m. to make supper together. Then join us on this Zoom link for some fun! Get the recipe and grocery list.
Meeting ID: 875 4144 6372 | Passcode: 001910
Next week's recipe
Anna Marie will be cooking with us again next week too! If you're a planner and want to get your ingredients ahead of time, you can find next week's recipe here.
8. Bereavement
Several people connected with BSBC have, over the last week, experienced the loss of a parent.
Rupert Tingley
Our sympathy and prayers of comfort for Deacon Mary Tingley on the passing of her father, Rupert Tingley, in Moncton on Thursday, Feb. 3. Rupert will be sadly missed by his brother, Gerald (Trallawny); daughters, Mary of Fredericton, Nancy Land (Jeff) of Hillsborough; son, James Tingley (Anne) of Charlottetown, PE; grandchildren, Molly and Edward Tingley and Alice Land as well as several nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, Rupert was predeceased by his loving wife Joyce (nee Carter) in 2014; and by his sister, Lorna in 2016.
Mr. Tingley’s life was characterized by service to the communities where he lived and to Baptist work around the world — rooted in a deep faith in Jesus Christ and a commitment to what the book of James counsels as a ministry of works as a sign of living faith. His funeral service was conducted on Tuesday, Feb. 8 at Moncton’s First Baptist Church. The full obituary can be found here.
Faye Bell
On Saturday, Feb. 5, Elaine Durling’s mother, Faye Bell, passed away at Neill Hall in Fredericton. Faye is survived by her sons, Bradford (Angelica) Bell, Woodstock, NB and children, Aaron, Jordan and Brittany; Richard (Maureen) Bell, Ottawa, ON and children, Stephanie, Shawn, Rory, Ryan and Patrick; daughter Elaine (Ed) Durling, Hanwell, NB and children, Scott, Jeremy and Jill; son-in-law Shawn Fenerty, Douglas, NB and children, Brendan, Lindsay and Keeghan; and many other family members.
Mrs. Bell’s obituary shares: Faye devoted her life to raising her four children. She encouraged each of them to pursue higher education and was proud of their accomplishments. Faye also ensured their religious education was well grounded in the Word of God. She was active in the local church and community where she volunteered countless hours. Faye was a Dominion Life Member of the Women’s Missionary Society and held various positions on the executive. Faye’s funeral will be held on Friday, Feb. 11, 2 pm at Woodstock Baptist Church. Her full obituary can be found here.
Rev. Ford Malcolm Alward
Many members of the BSBC family know and are grateful for the faithful ministry of Stephen Alward who serves as the Director of Green Hill Lake Camp. On Feb. 1, 2022 at Carleton Manor, Woodstock, New Brunswick, following a period of declining health, Stephen’s dad, Rev. Ford Malcolm Alward, passed peacefully into the awaiting arms of his Lord and Savior and to be with Jean, his loving wife of 60 years, who went before him.
Throughout the years Stephen’s dad pastored at First North River, Glace Bay, Riverside-Albert, Nackawic, Florenceville, as well as doing interim work in Fredericton, Quispamsis, Keirsteadville and finally in their adopted home of Woodstock. Rev. Alward is survived by sons and daughter: former Premier of New Brunswick, David (Rhonda), Mark (Brenda), Stephen (Janette), Paul (June) and Rebecca (Jeff) and grandchildren Nathen, Jonathan (Shubhi), Bradley, Benjamin, Hannah, Mel, Phoebe, Alison and Jadon, as well as great-grandson Rowan. A celebration of life will take place in the spring. The full obituary can be found here.
Thank you for praying for these families in their time of loss — giving thanks for three parents who loved Jesus and now know a fullness of life unparalleled.
9. This Week at BSBC: Feb. 9 to 16
Please note: FLC stands for Family Life Centre.
Wednesday, February 9
10:00 Senior Exercise (Gym)
1:00 Pastoral Staff Meeting (Family Room, FLC)
1:30 WMS Meeting (3rd Floor Conference Room, FLC)
2:15 Full Staff Meeting (Family Room, FLC)
6:30 Not Your Usual Prayer Meeting (CM) (Zoom)
6:30 Youth Bible Study (Family Room, FLC And Zoom)
Thursday, February 10
9:00 Benevolent Ministry (By Appointment)
9:30 New Life (3rd Floor Assembly Area, FLC)
1:30 Ladies Bible Study (CB) (Family Room, FLC)
1:30 Small Group Bible Study (MM) (3rd Floor Conference Room, FLC)
5:30 Cooking with Anna Marie (Zoom)
7:00 GriefShare (Family Room, FLC)
7:00 Mandarin Choir Practice (Choir Room)
Friday, February 11
10:00 Senior Exercise (Gym)
7:00 Mandarin Fellowship (Zoom)
7:00 Youth Group Snow Shoeing (Killarney Lake Park)
Saturday, February 12
11:30 Pastors Retreat (Family Room, FLC)
1:00 Worship Team (Gym)
3:30 Sports Friends Soccer (Odell Park)
Sunday, February 13
6:00 Mandarin Prayer Meeting (Boardroom Over Main Kitchen)
9:00 Asian Sunday School Class (Boardroom Over Main Kitchen)
10:30 Traditional Worship Service (Sanctuary)
10:30 Sermon Café (Gym)
10:30 Mandarin Worship Service (3rd Floor Assembly Area, FLC)
12:00 Fresh Start (Barnabas Center)
Monday, February 14
9:00 Senior Exercise (Gym)
6:30 Education Committee (Zoom)
7:00 BSBC WMS (3rd Floor Assembly Area, FLC)
Tuesday, February 15
12:00 Mandarin Prayer Meeting (Boardroom Over Main Kitchen)
1:00 Pastoral Staff (Family Room)
1:30 Quilters For Missions (Quilting Room)
2:15 Full Staff Meeting (Family Room)
6:30 DivorceCare (3rd Floor Assembly Area, FLC)
7:00 Workout With Pastor Ross (Zoom)
Wednesday, February 16
10:00 Seniors Exercise (Gym)
6:30 Not Your Usual PM (CM) (Zoom)
6:30 Youth Bible Study (Family Room, FLC And Zoom)
