Announcements, January 18, 2026

Today is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Baby Bottles will be available for the next month for your donations to help support the Pregnancy Resource Center in Jacksonville, IL.

Pastor Joe’s message for this Sunday is titled “What Truths Help Us Decide Questions of Life and Death?” The sermon text is Romans 14: 7 - 9. Sunday evening at 6:00 PM Pastor Joe will cover the Book of Zephaniah as we go “Book by Book, The Bible One Book at a Time”.

We need some volunteers to learn how to run our service slides and soundboard. We have only one person trained on the sound board and one person for slides. They can't be here every week, so we need some people willing to learn. Controlling the slides for the service is most urgent, but we need people willing to learn in each area. The slides will all be set up in advance so you won’t have to worry about that unless you want to learn that part also.  If you regularly use a computer at work or at home, then learning to control the slides or sound would be easy for you after you were trained. If you are interested in running slides once a month, we will train you so that you feel confident doing that. Please let Joe or Harriett know that you are interested.

Those of you who attended MBC during the 1980’s may remember Pastor Wayne Pierce and his wife Delores.  He passed away some time ago but Randy Cooper just received word that Delores passed away on January 12. We extend our condolences to the family.