First Bible Baptist Church of Lincoln

BBC Christmas 2011

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It has been a tradition at BBC to involve the younger generation in our services as much as possible to encourage them to hone their talents for the Lord in His service. At Christmas, if they are willing, they often play their instruments, and put on a small program. We also have lots of adults join in the specials for this special "Christmas Sunday". Afterwards, we enjoy a meal together, exchange gifts, and then bring an abbreviated program to the residents of Colonial Health Care nursing home. Enjoy these videos of our "Christmas Sunday".

Operation Christmas Child Finished

2011-12-20T07:04:00.000-08:00

Our Operation Christmas Child project was a huge success. We sent out 33 boxes through Samaritan's Purse for needy children.

Operation Christmas Child

2011-10-27T06:57:00.000-07:00

What started out as a giving project for our Gospel Club children, has ballooned to a church project as well. If you would like to donate small gifts items, shoe boxes, wrapping paper, or a completed shoe box, the deadline is Nov. 6-7. On Nov. 7, at 3:00PM we will have our Operation Christmas Child shoe box event. The children of our Gospel Club will bring their completed boxes, we will pack boxes with children who didn't bring their own, and wrap them. We will also have special fun things planned for this club time. If you would like to be a part of this event, let Pastor or Jen know.
Here is a link to Samaritan's Purse where you can learn more about this project.
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/OCC/

Growing Gospel Club

2011-10-27T06:17:00.000-07:00

Our Gospel Club, which meets every Monday at 3PM, is growing to epic proportions. We can't remember when we have had such interest in a weekly Bible club. Our church ladies take turns making snacks for the kids. One week, we said, "Make sure there is enough for about 17." The next week we said, "Better make that 20". The next week it was 25, and now, after having 27 with 3 regular attendees missing, we have had to say, "make enough for at least 30, and don't forget that the teens who help with our Gospel Club need to be fed as well." WOW! How exciting!
If you are a member and have thought about helping someday, now would be a great time to put thoughts into action. :) This is especially helpful during craft time, when little ones may need help cutting or gluing. Also, just another adult nearby during story time is very helpful.

Praise the Lord for these children and this opportunity to reach out into our community and share Christ!

Gospel Clubs and Youth Bible Study

2011-09-17T06:07:00.000-07:00

Our young people's Bible club and Bible study start this Monday, Sept. 19th. Gospel Club, for ages 5-12, is 3:00PM-4:30PM. Youth Bible Study, for ages 12-18, starts at 4:30-5:30PM. Invite your friends! Our Gospel Club will be going through the Armor of God and having lots of fun with games, crafts, stories, puppets, and songs. Our Youth Bible Study will be starting a study in Proverbs from Positive Action for Christ called "Wise Up". Come join in!

This Friday

2011-07-05T12:30:00.000-07:00

This Friday, June 8th, we are priviledged to be hosting the Bob Jones University Drama Ministry Team at 7:00PM. All are welcome.

Coming Soon to BBC.

2011-05-02T08:48:00.001-07:00

Cut and paste this link into your browser and watch the trailer, see pictures of production, and meet the actors. http://www.milltownpride.com/gallery/
June 17, 2011
7:00PM
Refreshments at intermission and admission is free!

VBS 2010

2010-08-26T11:26:00.000-07:00

Vacation Bible School, August 23-27 2010.

Acting out some of the lesson

The younger group at game time

Parachute during check in

Pictures with the Jester

The Dark Knight

Games

Helpers

Crafts

The Squire in the Throne Room

The entrance to the castle

The Bright Knight

Ladies Trio, Easter Sunday 2010

2010-05-04T07:14:00.000-07:00

Reminders

2010-05-04T07:09:00.001-07:00

Tonight is our last Youth Group meeting and Kids4Truth meeting. We will break for the summer and start again in September. Be on the lookout of announcements for summer get togethers for our Youth.
Our ladies have been invited to two different churches for a Mother/daughter banquet and a Ladies Tea. The mother/ daughter banquet will be hosted by Lee Baptist Church on Friday, May 7 at 6:00PM. The Ladies Tea will be hosted by Chester Baptist Church on May 20th.
This Saturday, May 8th is Spring cleaning day at our church. Come and bring some cleaning supplies with you. There is much to do! We will enjoy lunch on the grounds together.

Special This Week

2010-03-06T14:25:00.000-08:00

This week Bible Baptist Church welcomes the Bob Jones University Musical Ministries Team.
All are invited to come and hear beautiful music and wonderful testimonies of God's provision.
Wednesday, March 1o, 2010
6:30 PM

Family Tree

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Otis and Chrystal Shorey
Rusty and Pat Burnham
Linwood and Lynn Holmes
Charlie and Cheryl Leveque
The Cox Family
Cyrus and Allie King
Temple and Edith Ireland
Annette Clay
Ellen Wyman
John Jellison
Tom Wolford

The Drinkwater Family Wendy and Brett Crocker, Abby Moon

Doris Libby

Mrs. Linda Campbell

Dianne, James, and Tim Buskirk

Francis and Jean Crucianni

Reminders

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Members,
Don't forget quarterly business meeting. Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 7 P.M. Remember to get those reports in!
Hockey Game, Feb. 5th at UMO
Housewarming for Ken and Leta King, Feb. 13th at noon. Directions on the back bulletin board.
Rollerskating at Great Skates, Feb. 18th, 5-7 PM.
Youth Group every Tuesday 6:30-8:00PM.

Safe at Home: Upstate Missionaries Recall Quake | WSPA

2010-01-19T07:03:00.000-08:00

Safe at Home: Upstate Missionaries Recall Quake WSPA
If you would like to see more about this story, you can go to http://www.majestymusic.com/ for a full write-up and pictures of their homecoming at the airport. It's worth the visit!

Family waiting to hear from Upstate minister in Haiti during quake | WCBD

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Family waiting to hear from Upstate minister in Haiti during quake WCBD

Found!

2010-01-14T14:55:00.000-08:00

We just got word through Majesty Music that Dr. Frank Garlock, Sarah Bennett, and the native pastor have been found alive. Join with us now as we Praise God!

Among the Missing in Haiti

2010-01-14T09:28:00.000-08:00

Please join us in prayer today for several people that are among the missing in Haiti. Dr. Frank Garlock, founder of Majesty Music in Greenville, SC along with several others were on a mission trip at the time of the earthquake. They have not been heard from. We know that God is sovereign, and, even in this, He has a divine plan. We also believe in the power of prayer! Our hearts and prayers are with the Garlock and Hamilton families today. This link is for a news story that names the missing. http://www.wyff4.com/video/22232368/.
We have also learned through this link, http://www.biblesint.org/ ,that others that we know are safe, some of whom are testifying to the miraculous way in which they were spared. Praise the Lord!

Rollerskating

2010-01-03T06:48:00.000-08:00

Members,
Our winter rollerskating party has been rescheduled for Thursday, Feb. 18 from 5:00PM-7:00PM. All ages are invited to attend. There is a small food concession as well as laser tag, and arcade games, so bring spending money. The cost to get in is $3.50 and $4 dollars for in line skates. Feel free to invite friends!

Christmas Program

2009-12-14T06:09:00.000-08:00

Bible Baptist Church invites you to join us for our annual Christmas program on Sunday, December 20, at 11:00 AM. The program is entitled "What God Wants for Christmas" and includes all of our Sunday School children. Several of our older children will perform special numbers with instruments or singing. Our play is in memory of Debbie Wolford Troxell who drew up the plans for this play right before she passed away last year. She was a Sunday School teacher and we have missed her artistic flare all around our church, as well as her beautiful singing!

This is a picture from last years play.
Aren"t they cute!?

Thankfulness

2009-11-30T05:01:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving to our readers. Here are some definitions of Thankfulness that our Pastor shared with us at our Wednesday night Bible study: "recognizing the benefits which God and others have provided, accepting difficulties as part of God's loving provision, looking for appropriate ways to express genuine appreciation, and looking for ways to honor others who have benefited my life." Psalm 100 is a wonderful scripture for the Thanksgiving season, and there are many stories in Scripture as an example for thankfulness. Consider the story of the thankful leper or the story of Ruth.
Here are some things that we are thankful for.
Salvation
Family
Friends
Bills paid in unexpected ways
Prayers answered in ways that proved to us God's power
Open doors for witnessing
A growing, active youth group
and many many more!

Youth Group Fun/Wii Tournament, Food, Games, and Bible

2009-09-02T05:40:00.001-07:00

Younger girls playing WiiOlder girls playing WiiThe fellasGo, Diane!The winner!Muscle men.
Homemade dough boys.

Game room

Chow line...ladies before gentlemen.

Listening to the lesson

Pictures from VBS 2009

2009-06-26T08:34:00.001-07:00

These pictures below show what a fun VBS our church runs. They show Song time, game time, skits, lessons, the penny weigh for offering, the stage, puppets, and a themed photo op.

VBS 2009

2009-06-18T08:20:00.000-07:00

Vacation Bible School is set to begin June 22, and will run through June 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. This years theme is The Hard Hat Zone, God's Blueprint for Living. Please pray that the Lord will send us lots of children, and that we can reach them for Him. Pictures soon!

With The Lord

2009-04-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

Deborah Wolford Troxell went home to be with her Lord January, 2009. She taught our Junior age Sunday School class, used her talent of singing for special music, and her artistic abilities with flower arrangements for the auditorium and bulletin boards. Debbie grew up in our church and is greatly missed.

Former Pastor Ronald E. Campbell, who was our pastor for almost 30 years, went home to be with the Lord April 8th, 2009. Pastor Campbell served the Lord in our church after retirement by teaching Sunday School, and preaching at our Nursing Home services. He will be greatly missed!

Fun Times at BBC Past and Present

2008-10-30T05:50:00.000-07:00

Christmas play 2008

This photo, sent in by Linda Campbell, is of some of our Church kids at our 2007 Harvest Party. Pictured are from left to right:

Mikayla Upcott ,as a wise virgin, Alana Upcott, as Esther the Queen, Reilly Hesseltine, Josh Hesseltine, Rebecca Radovic, as a rabbit, Nathanael Upcott, as Eleazar the priest, James Ayers, as Saul of Tarsus, Holly Hesseltine, as the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Our History

2008-10-07T16:07:00.000-07:00

This photo is a newspaper clipping showing Pastor Ron Campbell welcoming our new Pastor, Rev. Terry Upcott. Pastor Campbell retired after serving as our Pastor for 29 years.
April 1999 given by Linda Campbell

This photo shows Pastor Campbell, Melvin Clifford, Cyrus King, and Tom Wolford Sr. burning the church mortgage after it was paid off.

Photo given by Linda Campbell

Our former Pastor, Rev. Ron Campbell ,near the beginning of his time with us. Pastor Campbell was our Pastor from 1970-1999.
Photo given by Linda Campbell

This photo was taken in the early 1950's and shows some folks in what is now the basement of our church.

Pictured from left to right:

Alluna "Bunny" Wyman, Jeanette White (Pastor's wife), Alec Weatherbee, Clarice McMullen, Rev. Bill White, Gilbert Hooke, Eddie Dicker, Cyrus King, Vaughn "Peanut" McKinney, Edith Gerry, Pearl Smith, Harriet McKinney.

Photo given to Edith Ireland for the church by Bill Gerry Jr.

Our Statement of Faith

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The Scriptures
We believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God; that it is the only complete and final revelation of God's will to man; and that it is the supreme standard of all faith and practice.
II Timothy 3:16,17; II Peter 1:19-21
God
We believe the scriptures reveal God as eternally existing, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, and manifesting Himself in Three Persons-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-one in essence and power.
Ex. 3:14, Gen. 1:1, Matt. 28:19, IICor. 13:14
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ
We believe in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ; His virgin birth; His sinless life; His substitutionary death on the cross for our sins; His physical resurrection from the grave; His ascension to the right hand of God where He ever liveth to make intercession for believers; and His personal, visible, bodily return to the earth at the end of the age.
Matt. 1:18, John 1:14, Matt. 20:28, I Peter 1:18, I Cor. 15:14, Acts 1:11, I Thess. 4:16,17
The Holy Spirit
We believe that the Holy Spirit is a person, possessed of all the distinctive Divine attributes. We believe He is the Administrator of the things of God- convincing of sin, revealing the truth, energizing believers in matters of prayer and service and restraining evil "until He is taken out of the way."
IIThess. 2:7, Psa. 139:7-10
Man
We believe God made man in His own image and that man came into the world by direct creation of God and not by evolution; that this creative act of God was separate and distinct from any work of God. We believe the Scriptures record of the fall of man through disobedience to God and that by nature man is "dead in trespasses and sins."
Gen. 1:26, 9:6, Rom. 5:12, Psa. 53:5
Salvation
We believe salvation to be by grace through faith wholly apart from human merit and that every individual is a sinner by birth and by choice and therefore must exercise personal faith in the redeeming work of Christ on Calvary in order to be saved.
Eph. 2:8-9, Titus 3:5, Psa. 51:5, Rom. 3:23, 10:9-10
Satan
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan- that he is a created being once known as "the anointed Cherub that covereth". That through pride he fell- that He is the "God of this world" and the "Prince of the power of the air"-and that he will be judged at the revelation of Jesus Christ and ultimately cast into the lake of fire.
Matt. 13:14, john 8:44, Eph. 2:2, Rev. 20:10
Heaven and Hell
We believe in a heaven of eternal bliss for all who through faith in the Lamb of God, have become the children of God, and the lake of fire of eternal judgment for all who have not received the forgiveness of sins which is through Christ Jesus.
Rev. 21:1-8
The Church and its Ordinances
We believe a local Fundamental Baptist Church is a voluntary association of baptized believers, equal in rank and privilege subject to the Word of God, and independent of any external ecclesiastical control whatsoever. We believe God's Word commands every believer to be baptized, and that the only scriptural mode is by immersion. We believe the Ordinance of the Lord's Supper should be observed as Christ said, "In remembrance of His broken body and shed blood" for us, and that the supper has no sacramental virtue.
Acts 2:38, Romans 6:3, I Cor. 12:13, I Cor. 11:23-24
Evangelization
We believe it is the solemn obligation of every believer to be a personal soul-winner and to do his utmost to carry out the Savior's command to give the Gospel to the whole world.
Matt. 28:18-19

Our Pastor and Family

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Pastor Terry C. Upcott came to Bible Baptist in 1999 to join in ministry with Pastor Ron Campbell as our Assistant Pastor. When Pastor Campbell retired, Pastor Upcott was called to take his place as Pastor. Pastor Upcott holds a degree in Practical Christian Training Ministerial track from Bob Jones University. His wife, Jennifer, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Bob Jones University. They have three children who are homeschooled.