Fellowship Church, GA

Providing an environment for people to follow Jesus

VIP, Now what is this all about?

May 17

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People are naturally fearful when they attend a new church the first time. Their mind is racing with questions. Will I have to speak? Will I have to stand or sit or know when too? Will they ask for money? What if I get lost? What if the message is boring and I go a snoring?

Understand people do show up each week and many have these fears. How can I help ease their fear and provide them with an over the top experience where they can follow Jesus? Go on, think how you can do that each week, even if you don’t actively serve on the Guest Services Team. Check Out this blog to find some simple things you can do to assist. http://fellowshipga.org/blog/2012/05/11/party-crashers-or-invited-guest/

How do I know who a VIP Guest might be? Look for a person carrying a Green Guest Bag. This is a person to be greeted. Your greeting will be that step to help.

See Ya Sunday!

If you would like to join the team click here. https://fellowshipga.infellowship.com/GroupSearch/Show?zipcode=&campus=&category=3278&weekday=&start_time=

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Set List 5.13

May 14

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Doctrine wk. 1

Our God Is Love – Hillsong
Not Ashamed – Passion (Tomlin, Redman, Tofer Brown, Bryan Brown)
Kingdom Come – Elevation Worship
Awakening – Tomlin, Rueben Morgan

Party Crashers or Invited Guest?

May 11

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Hi folks,
Have you ever went to a place that required someone to assist you and found the experience to be less than desired? You are thinking of those place now because you will not shop or go there. Now think about the places that you do go, the folks that help you probably know your name (CHEERS), your favorite food or special ingedients for that great cup of coffee.
Ever been invited to a party that where you were made you feel unwanted? You were treated like the partry crasher.
But how about when you were invited and found yourself to be the special guest. Now we are having fun!
Your guest service team has been reading and working on ways to create a new VIP Experience for First Time Attendees. We will be trying some new things in the weeks to come and ask you join us by doing some simple things.
1. Allow guest to park in the VIP Parking area.
2. Move to the center of the row, leave the aisle seats open.
3. Greet people all around.
4. Invite your friends to join you in making first timers feel special.
When First Timers show up they will think, “Wow! These folks were expexting me and were happy to see me.
Plan now to join in the Fellowship church VIP Experience!

Fellowship Flyer

May 10

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Good afternoon! This has been a very busy week but a rewarding week around Fellowship Church! We have been able to love on the teachers at Baldwin Elementary and show them how much we appreciate everything they do for the children of Baldwin/Habersham County.

You still have one more chance to share the love tomorrow beginning at 11 a.m. We are having a full service taco bar for the teachers from 11 a.m. til 1 p.m. You can come by any time during that time to help serve. We will be having hard/soft shell tacos, rice and beans and all the trimmings…so come ready to serve.

Here is what is happening in the next several weeks here at Fellowship Church:

1. Saturday, May 19th at 6 p.m., we are having a church wide, bring your own picnic get together. Bring something for your family to eat, bring chairs or blankets and get ready for a time of fun and fellowship with each other. We will be playing volleyball, horseshoes, and whatever else we can find to get into.

2. Saturday, May 19th, Arise Student Ministry will be riding in the Mtn Laurel Parade. They are in need of candy donations to toss to the crowds. If you can bring any wrapped candy (preferably not chocolate due to the heat) to help, you can drop them off on Sunday morning or any time next week to the office.

3. We will be holding baptism on Sunday, June 17th. If you need to take the next step, please email Stan.

4. Fellowship Softball Team is inviting everyone out to watch them on Tuesday, June 12th at 7 p.m. After the softball game, we will be heading to Copper Pot to enjoy half-off pizza and celebrate a “win”. We hope everyone can come out and enjoy this great time.

Have a great weekend and don’t forget that Sunday is Mother’s Day!

Contact Information

Craig Lee, Lead Pastor
Stan Crump, Campus Pastor
Mickey Carroll, Worship Pastor
Whitney Collins, Children’s Director
Anthony Benfield, Youth Pastor
Amanda Anderson, Administrative Assistant

230 Industrial Park Road, P. O. Box 10, Baldwin, GA 30511
706-894-1500
www.fellowshipga.org

Set List 5.6

May 7

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Hope wk. 5

You Are The Light – Fee
Give Me Faith – Elevation
Your Love Never Fails – Jesus Culture
How Great Is Our God – Chris Tomlin

Thanks to Gerren Fish for leading us in worship yesterday. Stop by his Facebook page and thank him.

Fellowship Flyer

May 4

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Don’t forget that next week is Teacher Appreciation Week at Baldwin Elementary. We are still in need of people helping by either donating muffins, juice, donuts or desserts (pies, cakes, cookies, etc) or time (we need help serving teachers next week). Below are the times and days we need help

Monday (muffins, juice, donuts–please drop these off on Sunday). We need help from 8-9:30 a.m.

Tuesday
We need help from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Wednesday (pies, cakes, cookies, etc–please drop off Monday or Tuesday)
We need help from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Thursday
We need help from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Friday
We need help from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

If you are able to help, please click here and sign up to bring items and/or help. Thanks

Contact Information

Craig Lee, Lead Pastor
Stan Crump, Campus Pastor
Mickey Carroll, Worship Pastor
Whitney Collins, Children’s Director
Anthony Benfield, Youth Pastor
Amanda Anderson, Administrative Assistant

230 Industrial Park Road Baldwin, GA 30511 706.894.1500
www.fellowshipga.org

Repetition on Sunday Morning and the songs we sing!

May 3

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Repetition, Repetition, Repetition it’s kind of like Location, Location, Location in real estate, it makes a difference.  Many times as a worship leader I get asked, “If you pick out the songs we sing, why do you pick the same ones over and over”.  I thought I would take a few minutes and explain some of the reasons we repeat songs in our worship services.

1. It’s Biblical

The Bible is full of repetition.  Jesus repeated himself numerous times.  Paul told the Philippians to, “rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice” (Phil 4:4 ESV).  In the Bible repetition happens to show emphasis and importance, which leads us to #2.

2. It helps us learn

When I was in High School and college if the teacher said something twice I knew it was important and was probably going to reappear on an exam.  So I wrote it down and then when studying I would repeat it so I knew it so I knew it (sorry I couldn’t help myself).  Most of the songs we sing are scripture put to a tune.  If we are repeating a song it usually has really solid Biblical truth that we as a church/congregation/Christ follower can stand on and use in our everyday life.  I have to tell my children repeatedly to clean their room, brush their teeth, go to bed and this is a daily occasion, if we are only in church once a week (some of us once a month, cough cough) we need to repeat the Biblical truths God has given us so we can learn them.

3. If you know the song you might sing it

I know it’s not very popular to sing in church for some people, although we do have a good group of singers in our congregation.  We also have people that like to not sing, not because they can’t, but because they won’t.  The most common reason is fear, well here is some repetition for you, the Bible has 366 verses that tell us not to fear.  But the chances of you singing a song that you do not know or have never heard if you don’t like to sing are slim to none.  So we try to do at least 2 songs that are very familiar so no one can have excuses for not doing some congregation singing.

4. I want to honor our musicians hard work

Our band spends countless hours learning each song we do and if we are singing different songs each week that adds to the practice time.  When we do a new song on Sunday each band member has spent approximately 8-10 extra hours on that one song, listening to it and learning it.  We have spent as a band an extra 1-2 hours rehearsing it and learning it together.  We usually play it 6-8 times together before we ever play it in front of the congregation.  All of our musicians are volunteers and give of their time, talent, and treasure to ensure each week is the best.  They all work full time jobs, are spouses, and parents if I’m constantly loading them with music to learn they will have to compromise their responsibility to be a disciple, spouse, parent, and steward.  If they are already familiar with the song we are doing if cuts their prep time significantly.  I feel as one of their pastors I need to honor their time or something in their personal life may suffer.

I would love to hear your thoughts on repeating songs on Sunday morning

Mickey

Set List 4.29

Apr 30

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Hope wk. 4

Go – Hillsong United
We Are Free – Newspring Worship
One Thing Remains – Jesus Culture
Our God – Chris Tomlin

 

Teacher Appreciation Week

Apr 25

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Here is a schedule for Teacher Appreciation Week. If you can help any of these dates, please click here and sign up.

Monday-room service (breakfast-coffee, juice, donuts & muffins) 8 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Tuesday-rootbeer floats 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Wednesday-lunch/dessert bar (cakes, pies, cookies) 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Thursday-Banana Splits 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Friday-Taco Bar 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

You can email me below, if you have any questions too. Thanks!

Contact Information

Craig Lee, Lead Pastor
Stan Crump, Campus Pastor
Mickey Carroll, Worship Pastor
Whitney Collins, Children’s Director
Anthony Benfield, Youth Pastor
Amanda Anderson, Administrative Assistant

230 Industrial Park Road Baldwin, GA 30511 706.894.1500
www.fellowshipga.org

Fellowship Flyer

Apr 24

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…providing an environment for people to follow Jesus

This Sunday is Whitney’s last day with us. Don’t forget to stop her and thank her for everything she has done and wish them best of luck as they continue on with the next chapter of their lives.

Baldwin Clean Up Day will be this Saturday, April 28th. If you are signed up to help, please be here at 8:30 a.m. to begin set up. If you haven’t signed up, you can still do so by email Stan below.

Teacher Appreciation Week is May 7th-11th. So far, only 2 people have signed up to bring breakfast items (muffins, juice, donuts) to use on that Monday and desserts (cakes, cookies, pies, etc) to use on that Wednesday. If you would like to sign up to bring something or if you are willing to take some time off of work to come by and help us, please email me below. You can also sign up online here

Contact Information

Craig Lee, Lead Pastor
Stan Crump, Campus Pastor
Mickey Carroll, Worship Pastor
Whitney Collins, Children’s Director
Anthony Benfield, Youth Pastor
Amanda Anderson, Administrative Assistant