FPU is Coming to Sanford (via our church)
Have you considered taking part in Financial Peace University? A free preview of the course will be held this Wednesday night at 6:45. Come check it out!
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Join Us at Sanford’s Alive After 5
We’re going to be at Alive After 5 this Thursday in Downtown Sanford!
We will have a booth letting our community know that we are here, and we care about them! This really is a great “block party” atmosphere! Please plan to come help us support Sanford and promote our church at this event!
Financial Peace University: Coming Soon!
Coming up on August 24 we launch our Financial Peace University course. It’s A thirteen-week DVD course that shows us how to handle our money in a way that honors God.
For the first time, we’re offering this course on a Wednesday night. You should consider getting involved! Take a look at this video to learn more…
If you live in Sanford, Florida, we invited you to attend this course at our church.
National Night Out Against Crime (Update)
This last Tuesday, August 2nd, we had the opportunity to partake in Sanford’s National Night Out Against Crime. This is an event where each community holds a rally with the local police department to fight against crime. Palmetto Avenue Baptist Church used this time to show our community, Sanford, FL, that we are here, and that we support the Sanford Police Department in the fight against crime. We showcased all of our ministries (PABC, Church At The GYM, and Liberty Christian School.
We had about thirty-five volunteers come out and be a part of this awesome event! A big thank you to all of the volunteers who made this happen! We definitely let the community know that our church exists, and we are all about helping our community!
For pictures of this event check out our Facebook Fan Page
(Contributed by Jason Williams)
National Night Out Against Crime – Sanford, FL
This Tuesday, August 2nd is National Night Out Against Crime. Our local community of Sanford, FL will be rallying together to lower crime. This will be a great night as many of the organizations in the city come together to rally around one cause – lower crime. Our church,Palmetto Avenue Baptist Church, will be there showing our support for the local community.
If you would like to partner with us plan show up at Fort Mellon Park on 1st Street by 5:30pm and come be apart of this awesome event! There will be many booths with free samples, The Big Red Bus, Mayor Triplett, and a few police demonstrations.
See ya there!
Wheelchair Rugby in Sanford, FL
What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear DAV (Disabled American Veterans)? Veterans from WWII, Vietnam – old men in wheel chairs, maybe sixty, seventy years old, older? Well, I had the immense pleasure of attending a Wheelchair Rugby game, DAV vs Sanford River Rats and Team USA Armed Forces Good Will Ambassadors on Friday, July 8. I was rocked awake, shocked back to reality! These Disabled American Veterans are my age, MY AGE! Hello! Afghanistan, Iraq. It felt like a personal slap in my face, as it should have hit me a long time ago, but this is the moment for me, that it finally sank in. I am so completely humbled and honored to have been in the presence and to have watched our heroes and our youth, our local ball players, our good will ambassadors come together, strap themselves in a wheelchair and TRY to keep up with these amazing DAV wheelchair rugby players! Sanford’s Palmetto Avenue Baptist Church hosted the game in their gym and their Pastor, Ron Williams, City of Sanford’s Mayor, Jeff Triplett, and River Rat’s GM, John Welton, watched from the sidelines as the Veterans, without breaks, exhausted most every ballplayer on the other teams! The Veterans were so kind as to occasionally backwards roll a ball through the goal line. What an awesome game to watch, full of energy, excitement from the players and the crowd, banging and clanging and clattering like you’ve never heard, but mostly a tug on your heart like you’ll want time and again! You’ll not want to miss this event should it come around again next year to become an annual City of Sanford, River Rats BaseBall, Team USA Armed Forces Good Will Ambassadors, and Disabled American Vets Wheelchair Rugby Event held at Palmetto Avenue Baptist Church in Sanford Florida!!
Written by: Sandy Adcox
(This article was first published in the Sanford Herald on July 24, 2011. Posted here with permission from the author.)
Courageous…the Movie
Save-the-Date! The producers of Fireproof and Facing the Giants will be releasing a new movie on September 30th. It is called Courageous! Check it out the trailer below and plan to go see it. And by the way, here’s the movies official website: http://CourageoustheMovie.com/
Man Code DVDs Are Available
On Father’s Day, we showed one of the four messages on the Man Code DVD at our weekend service. Mark Driscoll delivered a powerful message that our people will be talking about for quite a while.
At the service, we also gave away copies of the Man Code DVD to all of the men in attendance, but we soon learned that many of our attendees wanted a few extra copies to send to their sons and son-in-laws who did not attend our Father’s Day service in Sanford. Because of this, we ran out of DVDs. BUT, we have replenished our supply!
So, join us this weekend at Palmetto Avenue Baptist Church, and pick up the extra copies of the Man Code that you were hoping to get. And, if you happened to have missed last weekend’s powerful service, here’s a glimpse of what you missed. Be sure to grab a DVD this weekend!
Fish Fry (A Father-Son Event)
The men of our church got together this past Saturday for some good ol’ fashion fellowship and a seafood feast. We enjoyed more than 150 pounds of fish, plus hush puppies and other sides! It was a great time for everyone. And, we’d like to give a special shout-out to all of our cooks who spent much of their Saturday prepping and cooking the great catch of fish: Don Ador (and Yvonne Ador, she helped at home), Harry Unsworth, Shane Stewart, and Travis Hansen.
Here are a few pictures from our event…
(Contributed by Jonathan Williams)
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