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This Sunday Evening
Family Gathering
September 13 · 5:00 PM · Family Life Center
We eat together, take communion, hear how the work is going, and hold a business meeting. The Apprentice Gathering takes the week off so nobody has to choose.
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The Informer • September 7, 2026
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Church family,
I've been turning these last few Sundays over, and I don't want them leaving you heavy. The Teacher in Ecclesiastes has made us confront some uncomfortable truths, and those can pile up. He said them to free us.
We've heard him say, in Ecclesiastes 1, that everything under the sun is vapor, a breath you can see and never hold, and that the people after us will forget us the same way we forgot the ones before. He ran wisdom and pleasure and work as far as a king could run them, and every one came back vapor. Then he said there is a time to be born and a time to die, a time to weep and a time to laugh, and we do not set any of those times. God put eternity in the heart and hid the whole of what he is doing. He named what is true so we could put down a load he never asked us to carry. The sun came up this morning without us, and it will come up tomorrow the same way. We can put the world down. Running the world is his, and being known by him is ours.
He saw, in Ecclesiastes 2:24, that the bread, the work, and the years come out of the hand of God, none of it earned, so we receive them. He saw that we do not set the times, so we celebrate today. Last Sunday he saw that this is an evil world, so we take the good God still gives.
This week the Teacher turns to the house of God, Ecclesiastes 5:1 through 7. Guard your steps when you walk in. Come ready to listen more than you speak, and mean what you promise.
Sunday evening at 5:00 we come back to the Family Life Center. We sit down around tables and eat together. We take communion. We hear how our work together is going, and we have a business meeting. The Apprentice Gathering takes the week off so nobody has to choose. Come to the tables.
In the Peace of Christ,
Pastor Garrison
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Church Family
James Blount asked us to thank you for how this church cared for their family after his mother, Yvonne Blount, died. He leaves soon to work as a merchant marine for the next few months. Pray for him as he works and as he mourns his mom.
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Mark Your Calendar
Coming Up at FBC
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This Sunday Evening
Family Gathering
Sunday, September 13 · 5:00 PM
Family Life Center
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Morning worship is Ecclesiastes 5:1 through 7. Then we come back at 5:00. We sit down around tables and eat together, take communion, hear how our work together is going, and have a business meeting.
The Apprentice Gathering takes this week off so nobody has to choose. We pick back up September 20 at 4:00, at Roger and Jan Smith’s.
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Pack Thursday, September 17 · 3:30 PM • Hand Out Saturday, September 19 · 7:30 AM
Food Bank
Our food bank keeps the same rhythm every month, so you can put it on the calendar once and have it for the year. Distribution is the third Saturday at 7:30 in the morning. We pack the Thursday before at 3:30.
Thursday takes an hour and a set of hands. Saturday morning takes more of both, and it goes faster when there are enough of us. No sign-up. Come to either one, or come to both.
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Sunday, September 20 · 4:00 PM · Roger and Jan Smith’s
The Apprentice Gathering Resumes
We are reading The Good and Beautiful God by James Bryan Smith. No sign-up and no cap. Tell Pastor Garrison if you need a book. The church is buying them.
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Every Wednesday
Wednesday Nights
Supper at 6:00 · Classes at 6:15
This Wednesday: Taco Wednesday from Mama Maria’s in Gilbert
The whole church in one building on one night. We eat together first, then everybody has somewhere to be.
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| Adult Bible Study |
Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, taught by Pastor Garrison |
| Youth Group |
Sixth grade through twelfth |
| Elementary |
Bible study, games, and memory work |
| Young Men’s Group NEW |
First through fifth grade boys, out at the Red Barn. Fire building, knots, tools, Scripture, and men of this church teaching boys how to follow Jesus. |
| PreK |
Stories, songs, and a snack |
| Nursery |
Open all night, so parents can sit down |
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Serving This Sunday • September 13
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| Babies |
DeAnne |
| Toddler |
Lisa Lowe |
| Pre-K |
Jean |
| Media |
Micah and Lindsey |
| Flowers |
Tara Rodgers and Kayla Partain, in memory of Mike and Kitty Giska and Kathy Giska |
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At a Glance
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| Sundays |
Worship 9:45 AM, Sunday School 11:00 AM |
| Wednesdays |
Supper 6:00, Taco Wednesday from Mama Maria’s in Gilbert. Classes 6:15 |
| Sept 13 |
Ecclesiastes 5:1-7 in the morning. Family Gathering at 5:00, meal, communion, and business meeting |
| Sept 17 |
Food bank packing, 3:30 PM |
| Sept 19 |
Food bank distribution, 7:30 AM |
| Sept 20 |
The Apprentice Gathering resumes, 4:00 PM |
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9402 Natchez St, Wisner, LA 71378 • (318) 724-6148
Worship 9:45 AM • Sunday School 11:00 AM
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