Volume 76 / Number 48 / December 2, 2025

Second Sunday of Advent: PEACE

A New Peace

Isaiah 26:3

Blake Benge

Worship Service

10am, Sanctuary

No Sunday School

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This Sunday, our church family will gather for one combined worship service at 10am in the Sanctuary. It’s a special time to come together in unity as we lift our voices and hearts in praise. We look forward to worshiping together as one body in Christ!

Sunday, December 7

10am, Sanctuary

Christmas At Snyder!

There are so many meaningful ways to be part of Christmas at Snyder: experience the wonder of the Singing Christmas Tree, send your students to our Student Christmas Party, enjoy a cozy night under the stars at the Kids’ Family Movie Night on the Front Lawn, explore our Snyder Gift Catalogue to bless our ministry partners, and participate in our Christmas Mission Offering as we share Christ’s love with our community and beyond.

This is a season made for connection—so invite your neighbors, friends, and family to join you. Let’s celebrate the New Hope, New Peace, New Joy, and New Love found in Christ, together.

Singing Christmas Tree

2025 Singing Christmas Tree Schedule:

Thursday, December 4 at 7:30pm
Friday, December 5 at 7:30pm (waitlist)
Saturday, December 6 at 4:30pm (waitlist) & 7:30pm
Sunday, December 7 at 4:30pm (waitlist) & 7:30pm

Pickup tickets in the Church office!

Visit the Church Office during regular hours: Mon–Thurs: 8:30am–5pm, Fri: 8:30am–1pm

Please DO NOT leave a voicemail or email for ticket reservations—if we miss your call, try again!

Please bring your ticket with you to the performance.

Singing Christmas Tree Offering

We will be taking an offering each night at the close of the Singing Christmas Tree and donating it to our local partners who give out food during Christmas. Those agencies include Fayetteville Urban Ministries, Operation Blessing, and Balm in Gilead.

Family Night at The Tree!

Wednesday, December 3

6:30pm, Gathering Hall

Family Night at the Tree takes place during the Singing Christmas Tree dress rehearsal and is designed for families with young children. No tickets, no dress clothes, and no stress! Just come as you are, enjoy some cocoa beforehand, and experience the wonder of the Tree together in a relaxed, family-friendly atmosphere.

We’ll start in the Gathering Hall at 6:30pm with some cookies, hot cocoa, and a short devotional before heading to the Sanctuary around 7pm.

Winter Games: A Snyder Student Christmas Party!

Sunday, December 14

6:00pm, Fellowship Hall

Snyder Kids' Movie Night!

Thursday, December 18

6:30pm, Front Lawn

Join us for a cozy, family-friendly outdoor Christmas movie night featuring The Star! Bring your blankets and chairs as we watch the story of the first Christmas come to life under the stars.

The Christmas Mission offering begins Sunday, November 30, and concludes with Christmas Eve. This year, we have set the goal at $50,000. We know God can do this! The offering benefits the CBF Global Missions Offering, the Annie Armstrong Offering, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, the NC Baptist Children’s Home, the Fayetteville Family Life Center, the CBFNC Welcome House Community, the NC Baptist Retirement Homes, and the WMU Heck Jones Offering.

Snyder’s Gift Catalog is Coming Wednesday!

Looking for a unique gift this Christmas, Snyder’s Gift Catalog is your answer. The gift catalog contains many gift ideas that will benefit our 3 international partnerships and our national partnership in Kentucky. There are some local giving ideas as well. You may purchase the gifts with cash, check, or even online giving, but you must accompany your payment with a gift card, so we know where to send the money. The gift catalog will help us continue to invest in the relationships of our partnership with Haiti, Kenya, and Myanmar. The gift catalogs will be available around the Church beginning November 26.

Join us on Christmas Eve as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!

All are invited to gather with us in the Sanctuary for a beautiful time of worship, a heartfelt message from Pastor Blake, and the warm glow of candlelight as we end each service. Come experience the joy, hope, and peace that only Christ can bring this Christmas season.

Limited Childcare is available for ages 3 and under.

2025 Singing Christmas Tree: “All Things New”

From the pen of the early 19th century hymnist, Frances Havergal, who gave us the hymns “Take My Life and Let it Be Consecrated”, “I Gave My Life for Thee”, “Like A River Glorious”, and others, comes the poem “All Things New”. This timeless poem serves as the core and the central theme of the 2025 Singing Christmas Tree.

There are numerous biblical nuances in Havergal’s words, and we are reminded of the overwhelming power of our Almighty God, “who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to HIM be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.” [Ephesians 3:20-21].

Like many of you, I believe the best church music is replete with biblical imagery and connects us to the timeless God of the universe who created all things to give him praise, but is at the same time, a present reminder that this almighty God is still in the business of giving believers life, hope, and a future. The music of Christmas is obviously fit for the church’s telling and re-telling of timeless truths revealed by God in the scriptures through the prophets, through the biblical narratives and accounts, through the story of the virgin birth of Jesus, and through the continued story of Jesus’ gift of salvation to all who have come after Him.

I pray that the message of this year’s Singing Christmas Tree will find a new place deep in your soul and give you peace, comfort, zeal, and a love for Jesus while being reminded of His sacrifice for your life and your future.

Here is Havergal’s text, “All Things New”:

Light after darkness, gain after loss, Strength after weakness, crown after cross; Sweet after bitter, hope after fears, Home after wandering, praise after tears. Alpha and Omega, beginning and the end, He is making all things new. Springs of living water shall wash away each tear; He is making all things new. Sight after mystery, sun after rain, Joy after sorrow, peace after pain; Near after distant, gleam after gloom, Love after loneliness, life after tomb.

- Frances Havergal

For further reading and the biblical foundation of the 2025 Singing Christmas Tree, see these passages: Isaiah 43:18-19; Isaiah 42:9; Revelation 21:5; Lamentations 3:22-23; Romans 6:4; Isaiah 65:17; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Ephesians 4:22-24

See ya at “The Tree”!

Richard Suggs

Committee on Committee Report

A Congregational Meeting will be held on Sunday, December 14 at the end of both services to vote on the Committee on Committees Report. Members will also vote by secret ballot to elect 16 deacons of the 23 nominated to serve. Next week's edition of The Bell will list pictures and details of those nominated.

Committee on Committees Report

Carolina Opry Christmas Show

Saturday, December 13

Act fast! Only 15 tickets left for the Carolina Opry Show on Saturday, December 13, at $70 each. Don’t miss this chance for an unforgettable experience! These tickets must sell, so reserve yours today at the Church Office before they’re gone!

WMU

Eloise Jenkins Roundtable

Monday, December 8

11am, Fellowship Hall

Thank you for your generosity!

Thank you, church family, for your willingness to give as the Lord calls you to. Your generosity with your time, resources, and prayers enables us to both support those in our community and send out teams to serve around the world, sharing the love of Christ wherever we go.

Financial Report

Total Budget Gifts: $135,661.60

Amount Needed: $3,332,896.13

Given to Date: $2,922,554.16

Under Budget: $410,341.97

Give to the Mission of Snyder

Mission Giving Plan - October

NC Baptist State Convention: $5,542.56

NC Cooperative Baptist Fellowship: $6,420.32

International Mission Partners: $15,554.73

Congratulations: to Sam and Anne Marie Frangos on the birth of their daughter, Sophia Cameron, born on November 29.

Christian sympathy: is extended to Rudolph and Jenny Singleton on the death of their daughter, Scott Singleton Gatch; and to the family of Glenn Greene.

Deacon of the Week:

Horace Long

910-705-7096

Worship Attendance 11.30.25

Total: 575

Sunday School: 360

Weekly Prayer List