Solid Rock Baptist Church
Christmas Sunday 12/22/2011
 
CHRISTMAS SUNDAY 2011
---  We will be holding one service on this day at 11 AM ---
This year the Christmas Holiday falls on a Sunday. What a time to celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ! A year when the designated day of His birth in Bethlehem is actually on the Lord's Day (Sunday). Of course, we celebrate His glorious Resurrection every Sunday, not just Easter, but we do set aside one day out of the year to honor the day of His birth. What a great testimony to the community for us to take time out of the busy holiday schedule, and not only "keep Christ in Christmas," but to keep Him FIRST in Christmas. 
 
 
Our fall revival meeting this year will be November 18, 19, and 20. Our guest preacher will be Dr. Larry Seals of Gulf Coast Prison Ministries. He has been a great friend to our church for many years, and we are looking forward to him preaching for us again. The times of service are 7 PM on Friday and Saturday nights (Nov. 18, 19) and regular service times on Sunday (Nov. 20).
 
 
This coming Sunday morning we will be privileged to have one of our long-standing missionaries with us. Bro. Mike Dobbins is a missionary in the country of Zambia in Africa. He has been there for over a decade, ministering the word of God and establishing churches and training native Zambians to lead their congregations. The Lord has used him in a tremendous way in that country. He will be telling about his ministry in the Sunday School hour and then preaching in our morning worship hour. He will be a blessing. We will take up an offering for him during the services.
 
 
Happy Birthday America! This year the USA celebrates its 235th year as a free, independent nation.  For our Sunday services on July 3, Captain Kevin Thompson, a member of our church, will be speaking on the Christian heritage of America. Captain Thompson is stationed here in Memphis and is battallion commander of the recruiting command for the Midsouth area. He is a veteran of the Iraq War. The Lord led him and his family to our church when they moved here. He and his family are a blessing to our church. They are faithful, love the Lord and believe the Bible, and are unashamed witnesses for the Lord Jesus Christ,  the "captain of our salvation." (Heb. 2:10) I hope that you will join us for Sunday services. (After church we will be having a church potluck dinner and games also. )
 
 
We are glad to be having as our special guest preacher this Sunday Bro. Stinnet Ballew. He will preaching both the morning and evening services for us. Bro. Stinnet is from East Tennessee, where he was a long-time pastor. Since then he has been preaching throughout the country as an independent Baptist evangelist for over 20 years. He currently resides in Dalton, Georgia, and is a member of Faith Baptist Church, pastored by Sammy Allen. 
 
 
This coming Sunday, a good friend of many years will be preaching for us at Solid Rock.  Brother Ray Meier ( formerly the pastor of Liberty Baptist Church in Amarillo, Texas) has been a tremendous blessing to me since I have known him. We met in Bible school "way back" in 1982.  I learned how to be a witness on the job from working for and with him, and watching him "in action." I praise the Lord for his influence on me. I am a better Christian because of his testmony and him "taking me under his wing." Hope that you will be there to worship God with us in song and sermon.
 
 
APRIL 10 thru 13, 2011 --- We will be having our church's  annual Spring Revival meeting with Evangelist DAVID SPURGEON. The services will start on Sunday, April 10, with our regular times of services that day. The meeting will continue through Wednesday, April 13. The weeknight services start at 7 PM.
 
 
Sunday, March 20, Brother Freddy Reed will be with us in the morning service.  He is a staff evangelist with Champion Baptist College in Hot Springs, Arkansas. He also graduated with me from Bible school back in 1984. We look forward to fellowshipping him and his family.