Mobile Meals of Marshall is Looking for New Drivers

Looking to volunteer? Enjoy people? Enjoy driving?

Deliver meals to shut ins and those recovering from surgery or illnesses.

Contact Judi Saari at 517-554-1459 or Harriet Carroll at 269-781-4506

Cookies needed for Apple Sunday!
If you are available to make cookies for Apple Sunday (Dec 17 at 6:00pm), please contact Kay Bean at (517) 231-7623.

MOPS is in need of child care volunteers for their monthly meetings  (the third Thursday of the month 9:15am-11:15am). If you are policy approved and are willing to help, please consider signing up here!  Questions may be directed to Amy Stults (913) 292-1347.

Brew the self serve coffee and have it ready by 8:15AM. Be part of a regular rotation serving 1-2 times per month. If you are interested please contact mary@familybible.church.

Tech/Worship Teams (8:30 & 10:30AM Services) 

We’re looking for more volunteers to serve on our tech and worship teams for Sunday morning services!

Worship roles include

vocals
piano
drums
acoustic
electric
bass and more!

Tech positions include:

running the computer slides
soundboard
cameras for the livestream
broadcast audio for our livestream

You will be trained for whichever position you choose. Please contact Chris Forystek at chris@familybible.church if you are interested.

Ushers (8:30 & 10:30AM Services)

Be a friendly face as people enter the sanctuary. Assist people in finding a seat or other needs as they arise. Please contact Patti Hudson (patti.hudson@yahoo.com) or Mary Pike (mary@familybible.church) to serve.

Third Saturday of the month. If you are serving please arrive between 9 and 9:30AM. Distribution is from 9:30-11:30.

Lori Peck is in need for help on Lighthouse Prep day (the Monday before Lighthouse) to help sort and hang clothes. 10am at the annex.

Our Sunday morning prayer team invites you to be a part of the ministry through prayer! We are expanding our prayer care during and after service. We seek people who desire to pray for and with others. Join this team and rotation each month. If interested please contact Pastor Gerten (richardgerten@gmail.com).

Great news! There is now a drop-down menu available for Mustard Seeds when making online donations. Thank you in advance for your commitment to mission around the world!

www.familybiblechurchmarshall.org/give

More info to come!

Contact FBC Communities (familybiblechurchcommunity@gmail.com) or Carla Edgell (c.edgell73@gmail.com) if you have questions or would like to lead or participate in a community.

TO PLEDGE ONLINE, CLICK HERE: www.familybible.church/forward

Thank you for your commitment, giving, and most importantly PRAYER toward this amazing project!

We are working together. After one year of the Forward Campaign, we had new pledges and also some reductions/cancellations (which is okay as we know life situation change). The updated pledge total is $757,690.

Our savings and the Forward Campaign have given us a great start on paying for the building. We are still trusting God for the remaining balance of the long term debt.

Ever donation matters and moves us closer to our completion.

It was a joy to celebrate the groundbreaking together!

The building remains OPEN during construction. ALL MINISTRIES AND GROUPS WILL CONTINUE. Changes will be posted here and at the construction update board in the sanctuary lobby.

To access the building during the week AND on Sundays, please use the OLD 27 driveway and enter the building from the south doors (children’s wing). Press the doorbell for entry.

• Family Bible Church
  • Deacon Vice Chairperson-Dennis Craft (Craftphoto@aol.com, 269-209-2252)
  • Building Committee Chairperson-Doug Kiessling (dkiessling5@gmail.com, 269-579-0960)
  • Owner Representative-David Mead (meaddavid00@gmail.com, 269-275-5902)
• FED Design/Builders
  • Project Manager-Gary Rea
  • Project Superintendent-Dan Henry

Why Build?

As we shared when we first launched the FORWARD Campaign in May 2022, together we will continue to be a church who develops followers of Jesus who serve to reach ONE more. We will expand our facility in order for you, your ONE, and many others to encounter Jesus in a loving community.  Our fully built out building will have space in the large hub/gathering lobby where we will see the formation of community and healing conversations before and after services over coffee from the coffee shop. We will build a kitchen where meals will be prepared and fellowship, laughter and stories will be shared. We will build a large indoor playground, open to the community during the week, year-round, where children make new friends and so do mom, dad or grandma and grandpa with others who come together. Where these small conversations lead to big conversations of faith.

We will build a space for our middle and high school students in Marshall and the surrounding communities, who in recent years have met in lobbies, the sanctuary, and various rooms, to have a dedicated place of their own. It will be a building where they can welcome their friends from their neighborhood or school to encounter Jesus for the first time. This building will create a dedicated space where children of all ages have a warm, welcoming, secure, dedicated space to learn about Jesus and develop new friendships on Sunday mornings, at Awana and each summer at VBS.  We envision ministries and groups of all ages from the church and community gathering in this new building during the week in our warm and welcoming spaces where strangers become friends and ultimately family as we follow Jesus together.

What Are We Building Now & Later?

Today as we construct, the vision of this project has not changed, and it is the intention of the leadership to complete the project in its entirety.  

The construction industry, like most industries, has seen increases in both labor and material costs.  In addition, inflation continues to impact prices.  The Building Committee has reviewed the bids based on professional discipline and has reached out to local contractors.  Based on this detailed review, they were confident that the bids are appropriate for the current market.  It is anticipated that a delay in the project would result in higher costs in the future.

When the FORWARD campaign began we described the process that the building committee and Deacon board would follow if the FORWARD commitments fell short of our $750,000 goal.  When the bids were received we went through the same process to “right size” the project to fit the budget.  There are certain building components that cannot be delayed or modified, like the size of the building which is needed to link the children wing to the sanctuary.  

Some items, at this time, will be delayed including the completion of the cafe, kitchen, playground (however the planned electric and plumbing for these items would be stubbed now) and/or lengthening the amount of time the debt is paid. 

The board, building committee and finance committee will continue to review, work and plan toward the completion of this entire project.

You will also be able to be part of the solution by your continued or first time involvement with the FORWARD campaign. We invite you to join us in this step of faith. We are excited for the future, trusting God in each step.  

Discover more about the project and campaign HERE

You can learn more below in the FORWARD campaign link and update. CLICK HERE: www.familybible.church/forward

May marks one year since we began our campaign. We will revisited FORWARD May 2023 and gave the opportunity to you to readjust your pledge (higher or lower) or may a first time pledge.

If you choose not to pledge, you may still give to the building campaign.

Thank you for your commitment, giving, and most importantly PRAYER toward this amazing project!