CLARKSTON, GEORGIA (MAY 2-4) MISSION TRIP INTEREST MEETING

Interested in cross-cultural mission work among unreached peoples right here in North America? Join us on a short mission trip weekend focusing on how you can take a "Step Towards the Nations." Learn and be equipped in refugee ministry. Our team will prayer walk and strategically serve at Kristopher Woods apartment complex. Our team will also worship on Sunday morning with Clarkston International Bible Church in a joint worship service experience with other ethnic churches. The mission trip interest meeting will be on March 16 at 11:45am in the Old Fellowship Hall. 

2025 MISSION OPPORTUNITIES / TRIPS INFORMATIONAL MEETING

Join us on Sunday, January 5th from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the Old Fellowship Hall as we roll out the mission opportunities for you and your family to be involved with in 2025. We will have both local and global opportunities. Lunch will be provided at no cost. There will not be childcare. We will have a kid’s area in the back of the room where kids can color and make a craft as we share. Help us to plan for the food by filling out a registration form in Missions Landing or scan the QR cod provided here by December 30.

Join us on Wednesday, May 22 from 5-7pm for our End of School Church-Wide Fellowship in the Laida Fellowship Hall due to rain. We will enjoy a special time of worship, fellowship, food (hot dogs and hamburgers), and games!

It’s time to Serve Clarksville!

Join us as individuals, families, or groups on Saturday, April 27! Please sign up in advance at the link below and select your first, second, and third options for Serving Projects. If you just want to serve and do not have a preference, we will find a great place for you to serve! If you have any questions, please contact us in the church office at 931.245.0000 or email info@fbct.org.

SCHEDULE:

8:00am: Breakfast and Worship

9:00am: Depart to Mission Sites

SERVE CLARKSVILLE PROJECTS:

• Salvation Army - pull weeds and other outside work

• Clarksville Street Department – roadside trash pick-up in specific areas

• Block Party at Blue Sky Mobil Home Park (partnership with our Hispanic ministry)

• Gospel Convo / Prayer Team – door to door

• Moore Magnet Elementary – remove and replace small fish pond liner

• Loaves and Fishes – help cook hamburgers, put into 200 sacks, give out at section 8 housing

• Free Car Wash on campus of First Baptist

• Deliver cards/cookies/treats and pray at Fire & Police Stations

• Arcadia Senior Living – facilitate board games & art projects

• Real Life Ft. Campbell – light construction work inside facility

• Give out water bottles and protein bars at the Greenway  

• Rossview Middle School – flower bed work; plant flowers, etc.

• TEAM IS FULL - Rossview Elementary – deep clean library shelves 

• TEAM IS FULL - Hope Pregnancy – painting; cleaning; possible outside project

• TEAM IS FULL - Veteran’s Home – help with bingo games; sing a few songs 

• TEAM IS FULL - Fuel Program - organize and pack food bags for schools 

• TEAM IS FULL - Clarksville National Baseball League – run concession stand for a team 

• TEAM IS FULL - Norman Smith Elementary – beautify outside area; clean out brush; possible flower planting

• TEAM IS FULL - Baptist Collegiate Ministry – pull weeds, pick up sticks from property, clean/paint benches, etc.

• TEAM IS FULL - Good Samaritan Ministry – put together dental bags; cleaning; shredding papers

• TEAM IS FULL - Manna Café – put together boxes for their food distribution program

* All teams will prayer walk in their areas of service or another specific area assigned.

* Teams might participate in outside trash pick-up at a local school once finished with their project. 

HARVEST TIME

On Sunday, February 25 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m., you are invited to a brief training and engagement time in our community.  After the brief training, we will form small groups and go out into our community in order to pray and share the gospel. Meet us in the Old Fellowship Hall / Mark Briggs Connect room at 1:00 p.m.

2024 MISSION TRIPS INTEREST MEETING 

On Sunday, February 25 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., we invite you to join us to consider several mission trip opportunities coming up this year. We will meet in the Old Fellowship Hall / Mark Briggs Connect Group room. Light lunch will be provided. Please register by February 22 through this link below.

Immediately following our worship service on November 19th from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m., we will be hosting a missions mingle time in our Old Fellowship Hall area. At this mingle time, you will be able to try some snacks from South Korea and the Americas. We will have many of our missions partners at information tables that you will be able to connect with as you walk around. We will also share briefly about missions at First Baptist along with potential 2024 mission opportunities. 

Childcare is not available. No cost for the event. Please register here by November 12th.

Operation Christmas Child Atlanta Trip Interest Meeting | October 29

There will be a brief meeting on Sunday, October 29, at 12:00 p.m. in the Old Fellowship Hall / Mark Brings Connect Room for anyone interested in going to Atlanta to serve for a shift at the Operation Christmas Child processing center on December 2. If you have any questions, please email Susana.Crespo@fbct.org.

BACKPACKS FOR BURT

Our church has an opportunity to be a blessing to children in need at Burt Elementary. We are seeking to fill 75 backpacks with school supplies to give students at the beginning of the school year. We already have the backpacks. We just need supplies to put in the backpacks. We are collecting these supplies through the month of July. You will find tables, information, and bins in our sanctuary concourse and missions landing. If you have any questions, please contact us at onmission@fbct.org.

Supplies Needed:

• No. 2 Pencils

• Cap erasers

• Crayola Crayons (at least 16 in a pack)

• Colored Pencils

• Composition Notebooks

• Loose-leaf paper (wide rule)

• Packs of tissues

• Baby wipes

Please bring in your donations by July 23. Our KIDS ministry will be packing the backpacks on Wednesday, July 26th. 

We will have a Gospel Conversation Training class on Sunday, March 19th, from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Mark Briggs’ Connect Group classroom (Old Fellowship Hall). It's essential for us as Christians to know how to share the Gospel with others. This will be a time that we can learn and train together. There will be a time for:

• Lunch

• Training

• Going out and putting what we have learned to use

• Coming back together to report and debrief

A lunch from Jersey Mike’s will be provided. Childcare will not be available. No cost for the event. 

Please register by March 15th.

MISSIONS INFORMATIONAL MEETING - 2023 OPPORTUNITIES 

A new year means there are new opportunities for us to be on mission for Jesus. If you are interested in serving Jesus locally or globally, join us on Sunday, January 15th, from 12:00 - 1:30 pm in the Old Fellowship Hall / Mark Briggs Connect Group room for an informational meeting about mission opportunities in 2023. A light lunch will be served at the meeting.

If you plan to join us, register by January 11th by clicking the button below or contact Graceon Rippy at graceon.rippy@fbct.org.  

We will have a Gospel Conversation Training class on Sunday, September 25th, from 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. in Mark Briggs’ Connect Group classroom (Old Fellowship Hall). It's essential for us as Christians to know how to share the Gospel with others. This will be a time that we can learn and train together. There will be a time for:

• Lunch

• Training

• Going out and putting what we have learned to use

• Coming back together to report and debrief

A lunch from Jersey Mike’s will be provided. Childcare will not be available. No cost for the event. 

Please register by September 22nd.

Who’s Your One with NAMB

September 19 | 8am Registration and Breakfast | 9-11:30am Evangelism Workshop | Laida Fellowship Hall

Imagine the kingdom impact if every Christian in North America — starting with every member of your church — had one person they shared the gospel with and prayed for regularly.

We must do whatever it takes to reach the lost, and it starts with ONE.

Invite your church to attend the Who’s Your One Evangelism Workshop with you at First Baptist Clarksville on Monday morning, September 19.

Join us for a day of inspiration and training to encourage you and your church members to live on mission and share their faith with others in their home, work and community. Learn more details and register below.

Who’s Your One Evangelism Workshop Schedule:
8:00 a.m. - Check-in/Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - Welcome by NAMB
9:05 a.m. - Session 1
9:45 a.m. - Break
9:50 a.m. – Session 2
10:35 a.m. – Break
10:45 a.m. - Session 3
11:30 a.m. - Dismiss

To help keep attendees and staff healthy, NAMB will follow CDC recommendations for gatherings and events. We ask that if you have had a fever greater than 100.4, cough, runny nose, sore throat or trouble breathing within 24 hours before the event, please stay home.

We are inviting you to join us for a special event featuring Dr. Paul Chitwood, IMB President, on Saturday, August 27th from 6:00 – 8:00pm. in our Fellowship Hall. Dr. Chitwood will share about the work at the IMB and offer a time for questions. Mission BBQ will be catering.

Childcare will not be available. No cost for the event.

Please use the link to register for the event or call the church office at 931-245-0000.
Please register by August 21st.

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Fellowship Hall

We will be having an interest meeting to explore the possibility of a mission trip to Brazil in 2023. Rick Thompson, IMB missionary, will be sharing about the work in Brazil and the needs there. We will meet on Thursday, August 4th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in Mark Briggs’ Sunday School classroom (Old Fellowship Hall). A light dinner from Jersey Mike’s will be provided.

Childcare will not be available. No cost for the event.

Please use the link to register for the event or call the church office at 931-245-0000.
Please register by July 31st.

Old Fellowship Hall (Mark Briggs’ Sunday School Classroom)

Join us for an Introduction to Disaster Relief and Introduction to Flood Recovery training!

Located in the Loft, Hope Building
Saturday, January 29 | 12:00-3:00pm

The cost of training is $36.00 which covers your background check and your 3 year ID badge. Please bring a check payable to Tennessee Baptist Mission Board. Also go to the link below and print out the registration form and bring that with you. 

https://tndisasterrelief.org/registration-forms/

Snacks and drinks will be provided. If you are interested in attending the training please text Michelle King at 931-237-6137 or email at charliemichelle6@yahoo.com

For any questions or more information, please email Jason Johnson, Missions Pastor, at jason.johnson@fbct.org

Operation Christmas Child Packing Party will be Wednesday, November 14 beginning at 10:00am and will go until we are finished packing boxes! Join us for this exciting time of fun and fellowship and we make Him known together!

T2T Lynch, KY Mission Trip Informational/ Interest Meeting

Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 3:00 pm

The T2T Women’s Ministry is organizing a mission trip to Lynch, KY for September 14-16, 2018. An informational and interest meeting will be held on Sunday, June 3rd at 3:00pm, in the Steeple entrance landing area (third floor). All women who are interested in participating are encouraged to attend this informational meeting. Details about the trip and potential projects will be discussed. This meeting is for those who have already signed up as well those who are interested in learning more. Please mark your calendars and make plans to attend.

Join us on Wednesday, February 14 at 9:00am as we gather to deliver 120 boxes of cookies around our community to show our love and support for local businesses.