Homeland Park Baptist Church

SBA 217 TH ANNUAL MEETING Sunday, October 20 Concord Baptist Church 4:30 PM   Partners in Ministry Displays, Fellowship & Refreshments 5:15 PM   Pre-Session Music 5:30 PM   Annual Meeting *Nursery available beginning at 5:15 PM. SBA ANNUAL YOUTH RALLY Sunday, October 20   New Life Fellowship 5:00-7:30 PM Join us for games, pizza, music & worship! Guest Speaker: Tim McKnight Music: Basic Life Band FREE EVENT! Reservations are required by Wednesday, October 16. Call the SBA Office 864-225-7759 or email karen.daves@saludabaptist.net.  

Global Hunger Sunday: October 13 100% of offering dollars are used to purchase food. https://globalhungerrelief.org/sunday

WMU Prayer Emphasis North American Mission Board: Texas, Rodney Barnett International Mission Board: Sub-Saharan African Peoples, Selvin Jeremiadoss “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING”

TRUNK or TREAT Wednesday, October 3 0   6:00 PM Each year more and more children and their families from our community stop by for this outreach event. This year we are holding this event a day early to give more of our families an opportunity to participate. Please bring your vehicle with candy to give out to the children in our community who come through our parking lot, as we reach out to their families. Dressing up and decorating your trunk is not a requirement to participate, but is always appreciated. As you can imagine, there is a large demand for candy as well. If you would like to donate candy, please bring it to the HPBC Bible Study Office when you come to church.

Mission Action & Operation Christmas Child Breakfast Our Mission Action Project for the month of October will be shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. Please leave items for this in the Bible Study Office. We will have an Operation Christmas Child Breakfast on Saturday, October 19 at 10 AM in the Family Life Center to pack the shoeboxes. P lease bring a check for $9 payable to Samaritan’s Purse to cover shipping to the breakfast. Shoeboxes are in the Bible Study Office. Item suggestions are included in the bulletin. Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,  for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 NIV     

The Power of Your Faith Do you know that your faith can influence others to follow Jesus? God has blessed all of us with a circle of people to influence. Whether it be our family,  friends, or random people we meet, God has a plan for all of our relationships. You may think, “I don’t know what to say” when asked about your faith. All you have to say is the truth. Share with others what your life was like before meeting Jesus, how you came to know Jesus as your Savior and how your life is different after becoming a Christian. Also, you can show Jesus’ love by your actions. In Luke 7 we read of an occurrence where Jesus was teaching and the crowd was packed. Four friends knew that Jesus had been healing people. They loved their friend who was paralyzed so they took his mat, went to the roof and lowered him at Jesus’ feet. Notice what Jesus says next . . . Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the man, “Young man, your sins are forgiven.” (Luke 7:20) The faith the frien

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