We are excited to be having the TBC of CT teens and sponsors coming to help us with our second VBS! Thank you so much to my brother-in-law and sister, Matt and Melanie Harper, for doing the back breaking work of traveling from CT to FL with teens and a game plan to help us put on our VBS! Thanks also to my wife, Jen, for all the organization and work putting together the following flyer. Without their help, this VBS would have been impossible! Thank you!
I am excited to announce that Truth Baptist Church is formally organizing! By God’s grace we have complied a Constitution and By-laws subservient to the authority of God’s Word. This Sunday those desiring to become members of Truth Baptist Church and have fulfilled the requirements will be given the opportunity to sign the charter of our church. To commemorate the special occasion, we are planning a special schedule:
9:45 – Sunday School: Brian Tuttle
10:30 – Special Speaker: Pastor Jeff Miller (Pastor of Agnew Road Baptist Church in Greenville, SC)
12:00pm – Lunch (All are invited!)
1:00pm – Charter Service: Pastor Matt Rowley
I am so thankful for the faithful people God has brought to our church. Please continue to pray that God will gives us wisdom to reach out into our community and reach the lost for His glory. I am continually reminded of my dependence on God to build “His” church (Matthew 16:18).
Thank you for your prayers and support that have been absolutely vital in starting TBC. If you live in the area, we would love to have you join us!
In Christ,
Matt Rowley
We are excited about what the Lord is doing here in Jacksonville! In the last several months, two people have made professions of faith! We are also excited to see new people coming and many growing in their walk with the Lord! Thank you for your prayers and support!
Here is our January 2011 Update Letter.
Matt, Jen, Brianne, and Titus Rowley
We were honored to have Stephen and Vickie King, missionaries to Germany, be the first missionaries to present their work at Truth Baptist Church. Vickie is the daughter of Bob and Susan Clark who are an integral part of our church. Stephen presented the ministry God has called the to in Gotha, Germany during our Sunday School hour this past Sunday, and the challenged us on the authority behind the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20).
I would like to pass on for your prayers the requests Stephen presented on the last slide of his presentation. Several people requested them.
Prayer Request for the King family, missionaries to Germany:
For Bibelgemeinde Gotha:
For Impact Camp Ministries:
We were pleased to present them with a generous love offering to be an encouragement to their family and send them on their way in a manner worthy of God (3 John 5-8)!
Why do you do what you do? Why do you make the decisions you do? What motivates you? Scripture answers these questions with a single focus: “Do all to the glory of God.”
Here are a few verses the Lord has brought to my mind as I have been meditating on this truth:
Romans 1:3-5 “concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection from the dead, according to the Spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord, 5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles for His name’s sake,” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.” 1 Corinthians 10:31 – “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Peter 4:11 – “Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” Colossians 1:16 -18 – “For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. 18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.“There is no greater purpose in life than to glorify God in every attitude, thought, and action! May God give us grace to that end!
