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New
York City 2005 Sunday, July 10, 2005 Day 4
Each week Faith Baptist holds a morning service, lunch, and then an
afternoon service. We wanted to encourage the church
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Copyright © Bay City Baptist Church • 1840 Bond Street • Green Bay, WI 54303 • 920-499-5561
Sunday is a busy
day at First Baptist in Corona Queens. We joined the church family
for their regular services. The first floor of the building hosts an
English speaking service led by Pastor Sawyer. Today Doug Lowery
brought the morning message to a packed auditorium. The second floor
gymnasium hosts a Spanish 
speaking
service lead by Pastor Martinez. However, we did 
not
just sit and enjoy the services. Our mission group provided two
special songs and Mrs. Sawyer asked us to do the morning Jr. church
at the last minute. A group came through with some adapted VBS
material to give the kids a meaningful lesson. We are learning to be
flexible
by
serving, so we decided that we would bring lunch and serve it to the
church. After the Spanish church dismissed in the upstairs gymnasium
the whole church gathered for a Wisconsin lunch: brats, beans,
potato salad, and cheese curds. Mrs. Metko and our teens
made, served, and cleaned up the entire lunch. The people of the
church seemed to really enjoy the flavors of Wisconsin. One of the
preacher boys that traveled preached for the afternoon service.
After the second
service we had a little free time because both churches held quarterly
business meetings. Some took the time to enjoy ice cream and soda from the
Baez Grocery just across the street while others took the time to check
in with the loved ones from home that they were missing. At a short
mission meeting we decided that the most Godly thing we could do was
sleep. A small group of exceptionally energetic girls did some
laundry across the street and handed out flyers as they waited for their
clothes. 
We finally got to
go canvassing after dinner. We split into four groups and covered
two streets and the area of the park where we are doing our work. We
found as we headed out to canvas that the 
park
was hosting a soccer tournament today and a lot of people were leaving the
park as we were headed toward it. Each of us got the chance to hand
out invitations to the VBS/War and also church brochures with a gospel
message. Collectively we handed out over 1000 invitations and 400
church brochures. Please pray that God will use these bring people
to salvation. After a missions meeting we turned in to rest up for
the first day of VBS/War.
