1st Baptist Chandler
by Joanne Davis

At First Baptist we are a Bible believing and teaching church. It is our desire to see Jesus radically change lives. Do you struggle with a hurt? Jesus can heal that hurt. Are you fighting an addiction? With Christ you can overcome. There is a road to recovery and the map is found in the Bible.

Do you need a change in your life? Is there something missing in your life that you just cannot seem to find? Come to Jesus; He is what you have been looking for you whole life. Jesus Christ is calling out to you and waiting for you to take that first step. That first step many well be to join our Celebrate Recovery classes. We have started our Celebrate Recovery classes. They meet on Friday, from 6:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. We will hold these classes in the old Fellowship Hall.

Brother Danny and his family will be leaving on vacation next Monday, August 13th. He will return some time on the 20th so that Jake can participate in "Meet the Bears". Sometime later in the year, he will take a second week of vacation, probably around Thanksgiving or Christmas.

The Pre-teen's and their counselors are back from camp now. I understand that they had a wonderful time and came home full of enthusiasm.

Our older youth are preparing for their Disciple now weekend from August 10th through the 12th. You can help out with this great discipleship training by providing either a meal or perhaps you would like to provide them a place to stay (they don't need bedrooms, just floor space will do). Talk to Maggi Debenport to find out how you can help.

As we approach the fall season, our GA's, Pre-teen Boys, Sunday School classes and other activities will again be in full swing. That means we will have an increased need for supplies for all of these groups. We keep a central supply closet, called our Resource Closest. Some of the needs we have to resupply this closet include: crayons, markers, drawing & construction paper, poster boards, scissors, pens, pencils, erasers, stickers, stamps and stamp pads, glue sticks, colored pencils. How about you? Can you donate something to this closet? Let's keep the children well supplied for their activities.

On Wednesday evenings Brother Danny is preaching on "Facing Your Giants". It is an interesting series. Do you have "Giants" in your life that keep you from doing and being all that God would have you be. Come join us at 6:30 p.m.every Wednesday evening and learn how to "Slay your giants".

If you long for a life that has significance and meaning and do not have a church home please join us Sunday morning at 9:45 a.m. for Sunday School and at 11:00 a.m.for our morning worship. If you have younger children, we also have a Children's Church (Castle) for those up through 3rd grade.

Our Sunday evening services are held at 6:00 p.m. Nursery is provided for our Sunday services. Wednesday evening services begin at 6:30 p.m. and there are activities for grades K-high school and adults. Why not let us help you learn how to read your map (Bible) on the road to recovery and radical discipleship?