Musings with the Pastor:  Let me remind you that the Annual Star of Hope Diaper and Coat Drive, sponsored by combined millions, ends Sunday, December 17, 2017.  This drive is an opportunity for each of us to be a blessing to some disadvantaged person when the need is so great.  Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.  Please check the Coat and Diaper Drive collection point for more information.

On Today, we are celebrating with the Choir as they celebrate their annual day.  On today, we are all choir members.  Have you considered how emotionally and spiritually gratifying music in general, and specifically, “Our Song,” can be in the fabric of our daily lives?  Spiritual music is more than just art, and it is art of the highest order, it is praise to the Most High God!  That praise might be exuberant, or it can be celebratory, or a song of thanksgiving.  However, the manifestation of our praise, that praise emanates from a heart of love.

For the Spirit-filled believer, we indeed do “speak to ourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord.”  (Ephesians 5:19)

Music is an integral component of our worship experience, and we praise and thank God for the FMBC Choir.  What an awesome job they do in leading the praise service.  Thank you FMBC Choir.  We honor you on this your Annual Day Celebration.

 May the Lord bless all of you as you continue in Him.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones

Musings with the Pastor:  Let me remind you that the Annual Star of Hope Diaper and Coat Drive, sponsored by combined millions, ends Sunday, December 17, 2017.  This drive is an opportunity for each of us to be a blessing to some disadvantaged person when the need is so great.  Your cooperation is greatly appreciated.  Please check the Coat and Diaper Drive collection point for more information.

 On Today, we are celebrating with the Choir as they celebrate their annual day.  On today, we are all choir members.  Have you considered how emotionally and spiritually gratifying music in general, and specifically, “Our Song,” can be in the fabric of our daily lives?  Spiritual music is more than just art, and it is art of the highest order, it is praise to the Most High God!  That praise might be exuberant, or it can be celebratory, or a song of thanksgiving.  However, the manifestation of our praise, that praise emanates from a heart of love.

 For the Spirit-filled believer, we indeed do “speak to ourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in our hearts to the Lord.”  (Ephesians 5:19)

Music is an integral component of our worship experience, and we praise and thank God for the FMBC Choir.  What an awesome job they do in leading the praise service.  Thank you FMBC Choir.  We honor you on this your Annual Day Celebration.

May the Lord bless all of you as you continue in Him.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones

Musings with the Pastor:  A very heartfelt thanks goes out to Sisters Patricia and Keisha Allen, Barbara Thompson and the Allen family, for their gracious and very generous gift.  This gift was given in the memory of the life and legacy of a great man of God.   Reverend Robert Allen, III.

 Rev. Allen was a Preacher extraordinaire, a good singer, and you know that a singing preacher can sing himself out of an ill-prepared sermon (Rev. Allen never had to do this).  He was a gifted teacher and his prayers would soar to the very throne room of God.

 Rev. Allen was a loving husband, father, grandfather (boy, did he love Patricia), he was indeed an Ephesians 5:25 husband!  Rev. Allen loved the Lord and the Friendship Baptist Church.  He was faithful in his support of the Church (Rev. Allen understood tithing), the Pastor and the Friendship family.  Rev. Allen was also an entrepreneur and was quite successful.  (Being a business person and a Christian are not mutually exclusive)

 This Pastor is grateful to the Lord for the life and legacy of the Reverend Robert Allen III, Servant of God.

 Pastor J. Amos Jones