VBS Freestyle

In Christ,

  Next Week at FBC
  VBS Freestyle
  Sunday, July 26 through Wednesday, July 29
  Supper at 5:00, home by 7:30. Bring every kid you know.

    VBS Details

  The Informer • July 20, 2026

  Church family,

  What does it take for us to be the church? That is the question our summer series, What It Takes, is working through, one Sunday at a time. Not what it takes to run a church, but what it takes to be one, the people God is building. We started by asking what the church is. Yesterday, in Philippians 2, we asked how we build, and Paul’s answer runs backward to everything the world teaches. We build by going down.

  The world hands its trophies to the people out front, the ones who make sure they are seen, and it forgets the ones down in the dirt doing the work. God keeps score the other way. Jesus was God, and he came all the way down: down to a manger, down to a servant’s towel, down to a cross, the lowest place there is. Because he went lowest, God raised him to the highest name there is. Down is the way up in the kingdom of God. So we stop competing, we count one another more important than ourselves, and we each pick up the towel with our name on it. That is how a church gets built, all of us down in the work together, not a faithful few while the rest watch from the stands.

  Next Sunday brings week three, and it puts the question to us: what will it take? We will be in Philippians 2:12–18, where Paul moves from the cross to the everyday and lands on a line as plain as it is hard, do all things without complaining or grumbling. I am still sitting with it, but that is where what it takes to be the church gets real, down in how we treat each other day to day. Come Sunday and we will dig in together.

  It is a full week ahead, and a good one. VBS starts Sunday night, and I want to see this whole church family in it.

  In Christ,
Pastor Garrison

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  Coming Up at FBC

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      Sunday to Wednesday • July 26 to 29
      VBS Freestyle
      Doors and supper at 5:00, done by 7:30 each night. Supper is provided, so come hungry.

      For Our VBS Volunteers
      The Plan for the Week
      Thank you to everyone who came to the volunteer meeting Sunday. A few reminders. Your rooms are assigned, so decorate whenever it suits you this week. Come at 4:30 each night to set up and pray together before the doors open. Be here all four nights if you can. These kids latch onto a face, and it means something when it is the same face Monday through Wednesday. Read your night’s lesson before you come, wear your VBS shirt if you have one, and eat supper with us. If you still owe us a background check, let me know this week and we will get it done before Sunday. Questions go to me. Materials or reimbursement, see Jessica. Registration, check-in, and allergies, see Lisa Kiper at the table.

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      Wednesday, July 29 · VBS Family Night
      Family Night: Bring a Dessert
      Wednesday, July 29 is Family Night, and it takes the whole church. We open at 5:00 with a fish fry in the Family Life Center, and the Haring family is frying. At 6:00 the kids lead us in the closing program. If you are not teaching or cooking, bring a dessert. Drop it at the Family Life Center kitchen by 5:00, and let’s send these families home full and glad.

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      Save the Date · Sunday, August 2
      Men’s Dry Bones Conference
      Men, keep Sunday, August 2 open for the Dry Bones Conference. Details are coming.

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      Sunday, August 9 · 3:00 PM · Princess Theatre
      Wisner’s Wisest: Driving Miss Daisy
      Our Wisner’s Wisest are going together to Driving Miss Daisy on Sunday, August 9, the 3:00 pm show at the Princess Theatre. Yes, that is me on stage as Boolie. Tickets are $35. Come spend the afternoon with us and cheer us on.

  New This Fall
  Wednesday Nights

  In order to make better use of our volunteers and to best serve our families together, here is our new Wednesday night schedule. A full Wednesday means supper at 6:00, then classes for every age: Adult Bible Study (this fall, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, taught by me), Youth Group, Elementary, and PreK and nursery.

    August: Family worship. The whole church together, all ages, no dinner or classes.
    September to November: Full programming every Wednesday.
    December: Celebration on the first Wednesday.
    January: Family worship, the whole church together again.
    February to April: Full programming.
    May: Celebration on the first Wednesday.

  Come hungry, and bring the kids.

      Serving This Sunday • July 26

          Babies
          Katie M.

          Toddler
          Lisa K.

          Pre-K
          Maranda Y.

          Media
          Open, come serve

          Flowers
          The Scott Family, in memory of Jamie Scott

    At a Glance

      Sundays
      Worship 9:45 AM, Sunday School 11:00 AM

      Jul 26–29
      Vacation Bible School, 5:00 to 7:30 PM nightly

      Jul 29
      VBS Family Night, fish fry at 5:00 PM

      Aug 2
      Men’s Dry Bones Conference (save the date)

      Aug 3
      Wisner Back to School Prayer Rally, in the gym

      Aug 9
      Business Meeting after worship. Driving Miss Daisy, 3:00 PM

      Aug 15
      Food Bank Distribution

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