Announcements June 7th, 2015

PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR ALL OUR SICK, SHUT IN AND THOSE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES IN THEIR LIVES AND FAMILIES

Min. Matthew Williams, wife Sis. Alexis and children, Sage & Zuri

Elder Phyllis Edwards

Baby Dylan Mitchell, great-niece of Rev. Susan Mitchell

Bereavement:

Dr. Doris Patillo dear friend of Mama Julia Williams made her transition on Sunday, May 24, 2015. Her service was held on Friday, May 29, 2015.

Sis. Deborah Simmons of Macon, Ga., made her transition on Monday, June 1st.

Mr. Alvin Barratt of New York, brother of Sis. Sandra Samuels made his transition on Friday, May 22nd. This would have been Mr. Barratt 61st Birthday. His service was held in New York on Saturday, May 30th.

Mr. Harold Phoenix, of Savannah, Ga. Brother of Elder Don (Sandra) Phoenix made his transition on Friday, May 22nd. His service was held on Saturday, May 30th at the First African Baptist Church of East Savannah.
Please send your prayer request and prayer concerns to deacons@firstafrikanchurch.org
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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Parents/Guardians: Pre-School & Elementary Students Nsaa applications are due now. Please complete a form from downstairs in the CFABS office and leave completed form in the basket provided. We will recognize all our Pre-School & Elementary Students on next Sunday.

All Women of FAC if you are interested in singing for our Men on Father’s Day. Please attend choir rehearsal on Thursday, June 18, 2015 at 7:30pm.

If you are interested in planning and implementing the Nssa Cookout on Saturday, June 27, 2015. Please attend meeting on this Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 8:00 pm and June 13, 2015 at 11am in the Community Room. We need cooks, setup, clean-up and servers. Come celebrate our student’s accomplishments in the FAC Park with an OLD SCHOOL COOKOUT on Saturday June 27, 2015 from 1:00 pm-4:00 pm.

Creation Care is seeking volunteers to assist in our garden and walking trails on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Raised vegetable beds are for rent in the garden! Cost $40.00/season. Hurry, limited quantities. If interested, please see Sis. Marshall Honeywood

ALL FAC Leadership: “First Afrikan Rhythms” in our worship. Please join us for a Leadership Mbongi. Saturday, June 20, 2015 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., We expect to see all of our spiritual leaders (elders, deacons, ministry leaders, ministers, and trustees) involved in leading worship to be in attendance. What is the First Afrikan Rhythm for Worship? How we engage, why and what are the expectations of our worship experience.

Mark Your Calendars–June is Nsaa (Excellence)!!! Families and friends please plan to submit your child’s, relative or extended family member’s academic and/or cultural achievements. We will recognize each group of achieving students on the second, third and fourth Sunday in June, 28, 2015. Pre-school and Elementary on the second Sunday, Middle Grades and High School on the Third Sunday. This year our theme connects persons in our immediate family (living and ancestral) to our achievements. We never achieve excellence all by ourselves. “Because of Them, We Can” asks each Nsaa recipient to name the persons in their immediate family that “made a way” for their achievements. Look to post your application on the FAC website or email it to the church.

Nsaa applications are in your bulletin and downstairs.  Please leave completed forms in the basket outside of the CFABS office downstairs

Or you can download the NSAA form below and email it back to the church for review.

 

Nsaa Application Web Form 2015 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are invited to this year’s Vacation Bible School: Camp Taifa with the theme: “Wisdom Under The Baobab Tree” July 6-9, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. Our Hebrew Bible focus is the wisdom books: Jobs, Proverb and Ecclesiastes and, Afrikan Proverbs. Our goal is to express wisdom as it comes to use through our children, adults and our elders. Using music, images, stories and movement, the intent of the camp is to (1) link wisdom to the building of our nation as African and Christians and (2) wisdom is a gift from our Creator not bound by age; meaning it can appear at any age. The task is knowing when to recognize it. As always, we also tie Camp Taifa with our July Community Festival which is Saturday, July 11, 2015. Registration forms are in the narthex and downstairs. If you are interested in working with the Camp Taifa please complete the “Assistance” information sheet also left in both areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Community Announcements

The DeKalb County School Nutrition Department will offer the Seamless Summer Feeding Program to all DeKalb County children 18 years of age and younger. The Seamless Summer Feeding Program is sponsored by the USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) in an effort to provide nutrition, during the summer months, for all children regardless of financial status. For some children, the meals they receive at school during the academic year are the only meals they eat all day. Students can receive free meals from June 1 through August 1, 2015 at the following DeKalb County School District sites: Bethune Middle School, Redan Middle School, Tucker High School. Free meals are available weekly Monday through Thursday for breakfast and lunch at the sites 8:00-9:00a.m. and 11:30 a.m.-12:00 noon,.

 

 

CD”S are available for sale in our media room in the Narthex for $7.00