News Bulletin | April 3, 2021
Upcoming Events, Opportunities to Serve, Ministry Teams
Easter Services | April 4th | 8:00, 9:30, & 11:00 am
Join us for Easter as we celebrate our risen Lord! Our Morning bible study classes will not meet. Childcare for Nursery thru Pre-K will be available during the 9:30 & 11:00 services only.

Church Office Closed | April 5th

Livin' It Senior Adult Luncheon | April 6th | 12 Noon
Our next Living' It luncheon will be held in the Activities Center Fellowship Hall. All senior adults 55 and older are invited to attend. The lunch will be catered. Please sign up online using the link or call the church office. https://onrealm.org/burlingtonbaptist/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=YjJkMzY4ZmEtZTIxZC00ODc4LWE1MjQtYWNmNTAxMDI2MTgz

Next Steps Class | April 25th | 12 Noon
If you are a new member or just checking us out, we encourage you to join us for our Next Steps Class. Lunch will be provided. If you need childcare, please contact the church office at 859-586-6529. https://onrealm.org/burlingtonbaptist/PublicRegistrations/Event?linkString=NDVhOGE5MjAtYzMyMy00NWJlLWFlMDItYWNkMjAxMzlmNmFl

Kidz Rock & Kidz Rock Jr. "Pandemonium Style" | Wednesdays | 7 pm
Join us in the Activities Center for Kidz Rock and Kidz Rock Jr. We will be meeting entirely in the Activities Center. It will be from 7-8 pm during March & April. Be sure to join us and bring a friend!

Married Life | Sundays | 6 pm
Join the married life group for fellowship with other married couples. They meet each Sunday night in the Atrium area.
Sunday
8:00 am | On-Campus Worship Service
9:30 am | On-Campus Worship Service
11:00 am | On-campus Worship Service, Facebook Live & Website

Monday
Church Office Closed
9:30 am | "Blessed" Ladies Bible Study Group meet on-campus
7:00 pm | College Students Meet On-Campus

Tuesday
12 Noon | Livin' It! Senior Adult Luncheon
7:00 pm | Young Adults Meet On-Campus
7:30 pm | Two By Two Podcast with Bro. Harold & Danny via Facebook & Website

Wednesday
7:00 pm | Students meet on-campus (Social Distancing)
7:00 pm | Kidz Rock & Kidz Rock, Jr

Saturday
9:00 am | Quilting Group
7:30 am | Students Leave for Spring Break
April 3rd | Bob Walton, Judd Stanton
April 4th | Lynn Summers, Ben Kirby, Jacki Matheny, LaVerne Goins
April 5th | Reba Goff, Julia Schreck, Pat Lasley
April 6th | Lynda Schunder
April 7th | Brianna Perry, Gabriel Light, Doug Walsh, Joanne McClelland
April 8th | Olivia Owens, Jordan Wege, Olivia Price, Shawn Sansom
April 9th | Bobbie Rush
April 10th | Laura Lyle, Jayme Johnson
April 11th | Lauren Summers, Jimmy Surgill
April 12th | Gary Anderson, Carla Biddle, Ava Wainscott, Holly Laux, Jonny Powers
April 13th | Ava Smith
April 14th | Addyson Scroggin, Harry Figgins, Daniel Holscher
April 15th | Vera Daniel
April 16th | Ally Rassenfoss
April 17th | Ernie Biddle, Judy Pennington
DEACONS ON CALL FOR APRIL
Chip Ramsey | 1-859-421-7259
John White | 859-663-6073

DOLLAR CLUB MEMBERS FOR APRIL
Marianne Stork | 859-586-6902
John Stork | 859-394-4085 & Laura Stork | 859-620-7821
Spencer Stork | 859-394-4086 & Therese Stork | 859-547-2613

FIRST IMPRESSION TEAM
4/4: Easter Sign Ups
4/11: Team 2

MEDICAL TEAM
4/11: Holly Laux


Volunteers are needed for our First Impression Team! This team includes our greeters, minglers and Starting Point Desk Host. Please call the church office if you are interested in serving! 859-586-6529

Our Diaper "Doo-ty" Ministry is thrilled to offer 6 mos of diapers for active members of BBC in 2020! We need diaper sizes 1, 2 & 3's. Not only do our members receive diapers, but our craft group includes a baby blanket as well! So, if you are expecting, please make sure to notify Beth Claxon, Joanne Ford, Rowena Bush, Elaine Skelton, Patsy Ligon or Linda Lilly!

Our next Commodities Food Distribution will be April 13th. The supplemental items needed are: Jelly, Toilet Paper, Soap, Toothpaste & Soup. You may drop these items off at the church office.

TURN YOUR EYES

April 4th | Jesus as Risen Lord (Matt. 28:1-10)
April 11th | Getting the Gospel to Every Home (Matt. 9:35-38)




Weekly Budget: $21,472.00
Last Week's Giving: $21,139.93
Budgeted YTD: $279,136.00
Giving YTD: $273,950.18
Difference: -$5,185.82
Other Designated Gifts: $2,617.00
Annie Armstrong Offering: $2,599.35
Annie Armstrong YTD: $4,266.73

ATTENDANCE LAST SUNDAY

8:30 am Service: 117
10:45 am Service: 241
TOTAL: 358
Thank you, Burlington Baptist Church for the beautiful flowers and cards. Bill always felt that BBC was home and loved his Burlington family. Memorials, in Bill's name may be given to Burlington Baptist Church. ~Love to All, Sarah Garrison

Thank you to our Church Family for all of your prayers, cards, and calls during Clayton's illness. We are very blessed. ~Thank you, Esther Perry

I want to thank everyone for their prayers, cards, calls & food after the passing of Jack. A special thank you to Bro. Harold & Jeff. ~God bless! Lillian Tucker

Ponderings of Passion Week
 
Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush Him; He has put Him to grief. 
Isaiah 53:10                           
 
    I hope you have been able to take a little extra time this week to consider the events of “Passion Week” or “Holy Week.” I like the designation “Passion Week” because Jesus’ passion for us was displayed in an indescribable way as He went to the cross to suffer on our behalf (as our substitute). The Gospel writers record several of the events that happened the last week of Jesus’ earthly life. We are familiar with Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on that first Palm Sunday. We know that Jesus cleansed the Temple by driving out the money changers (Luke 19:45-46) and He taught daily in the Temple area. Jesus, on the Mount of Olives, gave some extended teachings on end time events. These teachings have come to be known as His Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24-25:46). 
 We know that Jesus was able to eat the Passover meal with His disciples (Last Supper) as He shared a new covenant with His people and the associated symbols (bread and wine representing His body and blood). We know that Jesus then went to the garden of Gethsemane to pray as He waited for His betrayer. We are familiar with Judas’ betrayal, the mockery of a trial, Peter’s denial of Jesus and Pilate’s cowardness. We know that Pilate had Jesus scourged by the Roman soldiers and then sentenced Jesus to be crucified.
    The Gospel writers do not spend much time describing the agony of crucifixion because the original readers would have been very familiar with the suffering and torture associated with crucifixion. Sometimes we can get side-tracked with the brutality of the cross, and do not give enough thought to ALL that Jesus accomplished for us (salvation) on the cross. 
    This year I have been blessed by going through a devotional book called, “An Ocean of Grace: A Journey to Easter with Great Voices from the Past.” (I highly recommended this 40-day devotional for 2022)! This week I have been enjoying a short book called, “The Cross in Four Words.” Those four words are freedom, forgiven, justice, and purpose. God’s plan of redemption is so amazing and I think that He gets more glorious and praiseworthy the more we look to the cross!
     One of my favorite passages to consider on Passion Week is Isaiah 53 (The Suffering Servant). Isaiah 53:6 says, “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned-every one-to his own way; and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” We are the wayward, selfish, sinful sheep and Jesus willingly takes all our sin upon Himself. Isaiah’s prophecy about the suffering Servant (who is Jesus) was written approximately 700 years before Jesus was born. This reminds us that the suffering of Jesus was part of an eternal plan, made between the members of the Trinity. Listen to Isaiah’s description (in Isaiah 53) of what Jesus would experience on our behalf:
 
  1. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
  2. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
  3. He was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
  4. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 
  5. Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt.
  6. He poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressor; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors. 
 
    We cannot picture Jesus going to His death kicking and screaming. No, He willingly laid down His life that He might ransom/save us. There has never been a greater display of passion and love! Let us ponder the events and praise the Lamb of God who died to take away the sins of the world.   

Bro. Harold