Archive for January, 2010

Bonny Dudash’s father died last night. He was 91. There will be no viewing and a memorial service has not yet been planned. Keep Bonnie in your prayers and you may want to send a card or see if there are any needs..

Vickie Dowling is still in Northwest hospital as well as  Megan Miles. Megan will go home Friday.

Sue Roberson is in a hospital in Pa, hopefully Sue will be home friday.

Roy Driever is in the Veteran’s Hospital.

Please keep these three ladies and one gentleman in your prayers this week.

This past Friday night and Saturday until noon 16 of our men went on a deacons retreat. Taught by Dr. Joel Rainey,  it was a wonderful weekend and we all grew a lot.  Several of the men who attended were deacon candidates and we look forward to having them on board soon. The fellowship was priceless as well and we had a great time sitting up late in the lodge, drinking coffee and some of us eating ice cream.

Dr. Rainey did a Bible Study on what a deacon is and then we spent Saturday talking about culture shifts. Did you know that in 1920 the Southern Baptist Convention voted at their convention to condemn the use of pianos in church because they were used in bars?   Isn’t it great that someone stepped up some time later and said we can use this for the glory of God as well.  Sound like anything today?

I will complete the book of Hebrews on Feb.7^th.   From here we will take the books of James, 1 and 2  Peter, 1  John,
2 John and 3^rd John.

Men’s ministry and fraternity got off to a great start with 30 men attending. They will now break into small groups and meet on  the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of each month.

15 new members  completed the new members class this Sunday

Deacons retreat – We leave this Friday from the church at 330 pm for those going together. Others are going on their own. We have 5 new men going to be trained and hopefully ordained afterwards.  I’ll have pictures next week.

Michelle Delgado’s father, Mr. Howard Horsey, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday evening, January 12.  Michelle is asking for prayer for her family to bring them closer together during this difficult time.

The following arrangements have been made:

VIEWING:        Eline’s Funeral Home

11824 Reisterstown Rd (at Franklin Blvd)

Tuesday, January 19  -  3:00 – 5:00 pm;   7:00 – 9:00 pm

FUNERAL:        Covenant of Grace

820 Nicodemus Rd (at Berryman’s Lane, about 1 mile west of Reisterstown Rd)

Wednesday, January 20  -  10:00 am

Interment at The Veteran’s Cemetery

The EC passed the 2010 budget last night and will now pass it on to the house [NWBC] for a vote at the end of January. Information will be handed out at Sunday’s service.   Basically the budget has about a 5 % increase over last year.

We also voted to redo the parking lot in the spring and to proceed to get a loan for such upon approval of the church. In the fall the church will have a capital stewardship program to pay for the parking lot as well as upgrading the building.  Plans will be forth coming.

We honored our secretaries for each having over 10 years at Northwest.

There were three deaths of NWBC families last night.  Please keep them in your prayers.

Michelle Delgado’s dad Mr. Horsey died last night. Mr. Horsey will be laid out at Elines in Reisterstown. Times not yet known..

Blessing Ngong – Her mother died in Africa.

Chris Larkin’s [My daughter Amanda’s husband] grandmother died . She will be at Shimuneks Funeral home in Bel-Air 3-5, 7-9,  Midge Sturm.