Bethel University Choir (St. Paul, MN)

Tuesday, March 15, 2o11 at 7:00 p.m.

All Church Valentine Party

February 12, 2011 at 7:00 p.m.

We will show the movie “Fireproof” and have dessert!!

Cost: $3.00/person $5.00/two (Bring a friend)

Come and join us for our Senior Adult Luncheon on May 12th at Noon.

Cost: $5.00

Make your reservation by May 10th.

On Friday, December 31, Lakeside Baptist Church will be holding a very special “New Year’s Eve” Celebration for the youth group.  Beginning at 7:00 pm, we will meet at the church to load up and go bowling for an hour or two.  Then, we will return to the church (at least by 9:00 pm) for pizza, games, movies, a short time of Bible study and prayer, and to “ring in the new year” together as a church group.  We’ll end the event at 1:00 am, just after the start of the new year.  Students who don’t care to go bowling can arrive at the church at 9:00 for the “in-house” part of the evening…and parents who don’t feel like having to pick up their children at 1:00 am can even make arrangements with Bro. Josh (in advance, please!) to have their children brought home after the event ends.  For more information, please contact Assistant Pastor, Josh Dear, via Facebook, or on his cell phone, at (601) 842-8892.

On Sunday, December 26, we will be having ONLY a 10:30 am worship service.  So that our families will have more time to celebrate this special season with their loved ones, we will not have Sunday School or our Sunday night activities this weekend (All of these will resume next week.).  This special “Christmas weekend” service will continue to celebrate the great and glorious gift which we have received in the Incarnation of Christ.  Also, at the conclusion of the service, Lakeside Baptist Church will be giving our members a very special Christmas gift which can help you grow in your knowledge of the Savior whom we celebrate during this wonderful season.  We hope that you will be able to join us for this very special time of worship – and we hope that Christ will be supreme in your thoughts at Christmastime and throughout the year.

Join us at church on December 14th at 7:00 p.m. for coffee and dessert. Please bring new children’s pajamas, slippers or a blanket to donate to the “Share a Little Warmth from the Heart” clothing drive. This event is for the whole family!

B. J. Johnston as John Wesley

We are VERY excited to announce that Lakeside Baptist Church will have the great joy of hosting Christian actor B. J. Johnston, who travels the country performing a one-man play on the life of John Wesley titled “The Man from Aldersgate”, on Thursday, December 9, from 7:oo – 8:00 pm.  John Wesley, born in 1703, is generally credited (along with his brother, Charles) as the founder of the Methodist church.  However, his contribution to church history is even more significant than this, and continues to inspire Christians from many denominations to pursue holiness and biblical faithfulness in their daily walk with the Lord.  John Wesley rode over 250,000 miles on horseback to bring spiritual renewal to the English-speaking world of his day, and through B. J. Johnston’s dramatic presentation, taken from the journals of Wesley himself, the powerful, Christ-glorifying words of John Wesley can be heard again in our day.  Please make every effort to join us for this very special presentation.  The event is free and open to all, though free-will donations will be accepted after the performance.  For additional information about the presentation, please visit B. J. ‘s website at www.kareproductions.com.

 You’re Invited to – Thanksgiving Dinner  

on Sunday, November 21, 2010

at Noon

 Please bring a side dish and your  favorite pie to share.

  We will be taking our fall ingathering offering, which will be designated for our General & Mission Budgets shortfall.

The churches of the Muskegon Area of Converge MidAmerica will have their annual Carol Sing at Lakeside Baptist Church at 6:00 p.m. on December 5th. We will have the “Lessons and Carols” format with the Pastors participating in scripture reading and special music will be highlighted from the churches. A time of fellowship with cookies and punch will follow.

Let me begin by saying that Karen and I are absolutely delighted to be here with you at Lakeside Baptist Church!  You have all been so very kind to us, and we can already see that we will be building some truly lasting relationships with many of you.  So, thank you, for your faithfulness to the Lord, your love for people, and the kindness that you’ve already shown to the two of us.  May EVERY person who visits our church feel as blessed by the sweet spirit that indwells the active members of this church family!

Now, please allow me to offer a few “quick” updates for visitors who might want to see what we’ve been up to lately, or hear what we have coming up in the next few weeks….

October 31 was a big day in the life of our church…but NOT because everybody was running out to dress up in crazy costumes and gather candy!  Instead, we had the joy of seeing God move in some very wonderful ways throughout the day.  First, during the Sunday School hour, we had a community breakfast along with our quarterly business meeting.  The meeting provided some excellent updates, gave everyone a chance to hear about the physical improvements that will be happening to our church building this month (carpeting our “Blue Room”, painting the walls by the front entrance, etc.), and gave opportunity for some fruitful dialogue about our church budget, which we hope to have finalized and approved by the church within the next couple of months (Anybody who has specific recommendations or thoughts about our proposed church budget for 2011 which you would like to have considered, please submit this in writing to the church office by November 21st.).

Our morning worship service that day called attention – NOT to “Halloween” – but to the REAL holiday worth celebrating, “Reformation Sunday”!  I was deeply honored to be able to share a couple of my own readings during the service about the rich and exciting historical movement known as “The Protestant Reformation”, which played a significant role in helping all of our Protestant denominations (including ours!) eventually come to exist.  Our sermon, however, was by our distinguished guest preacher, Dr. Jim Lacy, who shared a powerful and challenging message (which, sadly, all churches need to hear) on the topic of overcoming conflict within the church.

In lieu of the evening service on October 31, we held our evangelistic outreach to the community, known as “Trunk or Treat” – and it could hardly have been a greater success (Thanks to everyone who assisted with this special event!)!  In addition to having around 15 “trunks” from which TONS of candy was given out, we also offered face painting, balloon animals, a couple of “ball toss” games…and even had a real life race car that people were invited to look at, climb into, and take pictures of.  In the span of a mere two hours, we had WELL over 200 people come by (and possibly as many as 300!).  Throughout the night, we were able to show the community that we cared enough about them to do something like this.  Everyone had fun, and many of our guests heard the gospel clearly presented.  Needless to say, we’re already discussing our plans to host this event again NEXT year!

Finally, this past Sunday, we celebrated the Lord’s Supper together as a church, and I had the great joy of preaching the sermon.  For my message, I shared from Ephesians 4:1-16, focusing on the theme of “Membership in the Body of Christ”.  A single sermon can only begin to scratch the surface of what the Bible says about being the church, but hopefully God’s Word was proclaimed faithfully – I sure was blessed to have the privilege of preaching it!

This month, of course, we encourage everybody to give serious thought to all of the things that they are thankful for, and – as our annual Thanksgiving holiday draws near – to be ever mindful of who exactly we’re to be giving our thanks and praise to!  We’re all pretty good at knowing what we’re thankful for, but we often forget to give thanks unceasingly to our Lord, from whom EVERY good gift comes into our lives!  So, let’s all remember this over the coming weeks (and EVERY week!), and celebrate the great things that He’s doing in each of our lives…as well as the great things that He continues to do at Lakeside Baptist Church!  Blessings to all of you – and thank you for your faithfulness to the Lord, and your support of this church family.  May we all grow closer to Him as we contemplate the numerous ways that thanks are due to Him!