Pastor Frank and the Church Planning Council are prayerfully presenting proposed Core Values for First Baptist Nashville. Pastor Frank has preached several weeks on Core Values of Christ, the early church, core values in missions, and presented the proposed Core Values Sunday, June 29. Click here to listen to sermons from May & June 2008. Pray about the proposed Core Values (see Five Things That Really Matter below...). Listening/discussion sessions will be held soon.

What Will Matter Most in the Long Run?

"Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress."
I Timothy 4.15

The Functions of a New Testament Church...

Worship · Discipleship · Evangelism · Fellowship · Ministry

The Mission of First Baptist Nashville...

Loving God, Loving People

The Vision of First Baptist Nashville...

Building a caring community of faith that mediates the transforming love of Christ beginning in the Downtown Nashville and extending around the world.

Five Things That Really Matter...

1. Reaching People for Christ
2. Applying the Bible to Everyday Life
3. Becoming Like Christ
4. Building Healthy Relationships
5. Serving in the Name of Christ

For more information or to volunteer, contact Tim Morrison at tim.morrison@firstbaptistnashville.org

Special thanks to our VBS videographer and photographer Chaney Swiney!

Outrigger Island 2008 Video

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Thank you, Church Family, for allowing our students and leaders the opportunity to minister and touch lives in Charleston, West Virginia. Our team of 62 assisted NAMB missionaries Norm and Debbie Cannada in reaching out to inner-city children, juveniles in detention centers, a community attending a baseball game, residents in apartment complexes, and many, many more. Not only were lives touched in WV, but those of us who experienced the trip are changed because of it. Thank you for supporting this incredible growing opportunity for these students.

CTMT08 Video

CTMT08 Photos

Click here to read the tour journals and see daily photos!

It's that time of year again! Please let us know of your interest in serving this year on a committee. (Surveys apply only to members NOT currently serving on a committee.)

Please complete the survey on or before July 1, 2008.

For more information, contact Lori Towns, 664-6001, lori.towns@firstbaptistnashville.org

Thank you for your patience and flexibility this summer as we remodel our Fellowship Hall. During July and August we will have Wednesday night meals every week according to the schedule that may be acquired within the church office. There will be 3 differences:

We will be eating and meeting in Room 100 of the East Building.
Because the kitchen will be closed, our meals will be catered from outside sources.

Adult meals will be $5.00 (children's meals will continue to be $2.00). Therefore, we need a good count of folks planning to attend each week to order the correct amount of food.

Please note your preferences on the summer reservation sheet by clicking here!

Please complete the form and return it promptly. Reservations are requested on or before Monday, July 7.

Summer Camp for Students Grades 7 - 12

At CAMP08, you will experience more joy, more fun, more energy, more friends, more excitement, and more love than any other week of your life. It's a great escape from the world and a great time with Jesus!Besides the awesome recreation, swimming pools and a beach, there is Jesus and His ever-present, life-changing, mind-altering power! Get a taste of all that God has in mind for your life as you encounter the "Wild West."

Sign up online for this incredible adventure!

Director Brad Dunn is taking a group of Sunday School leaders to Sunday School Leadership Week at Ridgecrest training center July 11-14. Pray that these leaders will learn about more Sunday School ministry as well as recharge their batteries for the upcoming year.

IDEAS

• Give away a new neighbor packet with something freshly baked from your kitchen.
• Throw a homemade ice cream party for your neighbors.
• Invite friends to a concert or an outdoor event.
• Bake banana bread and deliver it to someone you know who is homebound.
• Throw a neighborhood cookout.
• Set up a lemonade stand.
• Coordinate a community improvement day or yard sale.
• Host a game day of volleyball, horseshoes & croquet.
• Have a home theatre party.
• Write letters for those unable to do so.

First Baptist Nashville's Family Mission Trip is currently on assignment in Elizabethton, Tennessee July 3-6. Pray for opportunities to share Christ as families engage in hands-on ministry. Pray that the individuals in the community with physical and spiritual needs will feel the love of Christ through our members. The mission team's report will be July 9th.

October 3-4, 2008
at First Baptist Nashville

The "Get Growing" conference is designed to provide practical teaching and tools to equip you and your church to better understand life-controlling behaviors and how they affect our society today. Based on her book, "In Every Pew Sits a Broken Heart", Ruth Graham, along with a select group of highly qualified speakers, will address these "life-controlling behaviors". They provide a Biblically based understanding, along with practical steps for overcoming and even preventing these issues from stunting your growth, your church's growth, or the growth of someone you care about. Make plans now to be a part of this wonderful opportunity.

For more information, contact Cheri Viar, at 232-2938 or cheri@viar.org

There is neither a foxhole conversion nor heroism story here, just simple service. It was always my desire to serve in the military, so after graduation from college, and a rejected attempt to join the Navy and fly F-4s, I was accepted into Officer Training School in the Air Force, being commissioned a second lieutenant, July 1, 1965. After aircraft maintenance school, meeting Vicki and marrying her in March, 1966, we set off to face life together at our permanent base in North Carolina, little prepared for the numerous separations that took me to Africa, Portugal, England, Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa, and of course, Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive of 1968. Through it all God graciously preserved us.

The turbulent 60's with its activists and militants, social upheaval and strained political climate in the US at the time, made being in the military difficult, but I could never imagine being anywhere else.

It warms my heart to hear folks today honor soldiers, airmen, and sailors. Serving one's country is both a responsibility and a privilege. When I swore an oath, it was to protect, preserve and defend the Constitution, meaning our way of life, our democracy, our liberty, our freedom. I took that oath seriously and was proud of my service in wartime and peace. In my mid 60s now, I yet see that young officer on scores of flight lines around
the world simply doing his duty. I praise God, Who sustained me on them all!

Please pray for the following

• that children who have accepted Christ as Savior will be brought into the fellowship of the church and begin growing in Christ likeness.
• that the church will begin to help meet the needs discovered during VBS.
• that what was learned during VBS will make a difference in the lives of those who participated.