Welcome to our Sunday Worship Service!

• Worship with us in the Auditorium or in the MPR where we will simulcast our livestream.

• We will continue to adhere to safe social distancing practices and wear masks as required for in-person activities.

• If you have children attending KidZone, please pick them up promptly after the service.

• Worship service will also be available via Facebook or YouTube for those who wish to continue to watch at home.

• Please check in – whether you are here in person or watching online – using the ChurchCenter app on your smartphone, or on the ChurchCenter online portal on a computer.

SUNDAY
Connecting Point @ 9:20 AM
Chat with friends and family at FBC
or
online on YouTube or Facebook
(YouTube/Google or Facebook account required)

KidZone Classes
NURSERY-3RD GRADE @ 9:30 AM
Please pick your child up promptly after the Worship Service.

Sunday Worship Service @ 9:30 AM
In Person in Auditorium
Livestream Simulcast in MPR
Click here for self-screening protocol
or
Join us online on YouTube or Facebook

Weekly Bulletin
Worship through Music ~ Emma Watts
Worship through the Word ~ Pastor Isaac Terry
Shift: Handling Life’s Transitions

Sunday School Classes @ 11:00 AM
Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger – Room 303/305
Bible Talk with Pastor Isaac – Room 302/304

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MONDAY
MOPS @ 6:30 PM
Meeting in the MPR

TUESDAY
Youth Group @ 6:00 PM
In person at FBC with Pastor Isaac
Meeting in the MPR
Youth Group ends at 7:30

WEDNESDAY
Awana @ 6:30 PM
Open to students age 3-6th grade

TODAY:
ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL
Sunday school classes begin at 11:00. We hope you’ll join us after the service:
• Book of Titus with Paul Eslinger: An interactive bible study for adults
– Room 303/305
• Bible Talk with Pastor Isaac: An interactive study for youth & adults
This week: Practical Prayer
– Room 302/304

FOOD SHOWER FOR THE WALKERS
Let’s shower our new pastor and his family with some of the basic food items to help them as they move in to their house. Please click here to sign up for one or more items that would like to supply for their pantry.

Important Details:

• Bring non-perishable or frozen items to the church building on Sunday mornings in January.
• Labeled boxes will be available for your items in the “coffee room” in the MPR.
• A shelf in the freezer in the “coffee room” will be designated for frozen items.
• Refrigerated & perishable items will be accepted after we know their move-in date (we’ll contact you).
• If you are not able to bring your items on a Sunday in January, please send an email to fbc@thefirstfamily.net to make an appointment to drop off your items.

PASTOR TIM PREACHING ON JANUARY 17
January 17 will be Pastor Tim Walker’s first Sunday at FBC!
Plan to join us as we welcome the Walkers into the First Family.
This will be a great time to invite your friends and neighbors, too.

KIDZONE ONLINE
brite* is back! Follow the FBC KidZone page on Facebook and watch every Thursday for a new lesson and activity. We have new brite* lessons for January and hope you’ll enjoy them. Make sure to check every week for a new lesson and activity – click here for KidZone Online.

MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS
MOPS is starting up again and has plenty of room, so if you are a mom of kids (from pregnancy) through age five, please join us!

More details:
•    Meetings are on the second and fourth Mondays, September-May
•    January Meetings: January 11 and 25
•    6:30 PM in the MPR at FBC
•    Bring a friend, neighbor, etc.!
•    See our Facebook page or the FBC MOPS page for more info

Shift: Handling Life’s Transitions

Pastor Isaac Terry

1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5 a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (ESV)

You may give in person using the boxes at the back of the Auditorium or the MPR

Give Online

Financial Information through November 30, 2020
Giving: $200,530 • Expenses: $202,511 • Budget: $285,975

Tim & Rebecca Walker

If you want to be a dynamic part of God’s story here, you need to be willing to be a part of God’s story anywhere. So often, God’s specific callings include leaving and going. This realization and commitment can be scary, but it can also lead to amazing stories of our Lord’s provision, power, and purpose.

In our family’s experience, God has consistently leveraged the smallest amounts of courage into undeserved opportunities to join his great big story. From conversations about Jesus in our home, neighborhood, and communities, to epic adventures in American indigenous cultures, Canada, Mexico, Central America, East Asia, Southern Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Arabian Peninsula, God persistently proves the manifold implications of Psalm 24:1 and the directive of Psalm 8. And through all of these, God faithfully calms our fears, stretches our trust, and patiently shapes us into missionaries.

In the summer of 2000, our family answered God’s specific call to leave family, friends, and familiarity to go with him on mission to a little valley in Washington’s Cascades that we came to call home. In the winter of 2020, God has once again called us to leave family, friends, and familiarity to follow him on mission to the Tri-Cities. As our trust is stretched and our fears calmed, our prayer is that God would continue to shape all of us at Richland FBC into the missionaries he will use to write his great big story in Central Washington, the Pacific Northwest, and around the world.

Pray with us:

• For all the practical details of packing up 20 years of life, securing a home, and relocating.
• For the emotional strength to grieve leaving while embracing the joy of new friendships.
• For the healing of wounds and relational struggles in the First Family.
• For flexibility, grace, and sweetness as we all learn as a church to work from within old and new relationships to see our love grow for the Lord, for each other, and for our communities.
• That God’s name would be praised and that his kingdom would come in Richland as it is in Heaven!

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