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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

“Transportation” “The Importance of

Communion”

Please call the designated driver the evening before the service you Communion is a practice that is meant to be observed over and over throughout the life
wish to attend and as a courtesy to the family households, of a Christian. It is a holy time of worship when we corporately come together as one

PLEASE!!! NO CALLS AFTER 9:00 P.M. body to remember and celebrate what Christ did for us. It’s a time of reverence
(showing honor and respect) unto the Lord.
VAN DRIVERS
Why do we observe Communion?
8:00 a.m. Worship Service
We observe Communion because the Lord told us to. We are to obey His commands:
And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you;
1st Sunday Derrick Robertson 565-8668 do this in remembrance of me."

2nd Sunday Valerie Robertson 565-8668 1 Corinthians 11:24 (NIV)

3rd Sunday Darryl Hudson 435-2284 In observing Communion we are remembering Christ and all that He has done for us
in his life, death and resurrection: And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said,
4th Sunday Darryl Hudson 435-2284
"This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."
1 Corinthians 11:24 (NIV)
5th Sunday Farrell Carmouche 584-8364

11:00 a.m. Worship Service When observing Communion we take time to examine ourselves: A man ought to
examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.
1st Sunday Andre Pike 752-8414 1 Corinthians 11:28 (NIV)

2nd Sunday Derrick Robertson 565-8668
In observing Communion we are proclaiming His death until He comes. It is, then, a
3rd Sunday Bernard O’Neal (510) 693-5088 statement of faith:For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim
the Lord's death until he comes.
4th Sunday Ruthie Johnson 439-2020
1 Corinthians 11:26 (NIV)

5th Sunday Derrick Robertson 565-8668
When we observe Communion we show our participation in the body of Christ. His
Do you enjoy driving? If the answer is yes, then life becomes our life and we become members of each other: Is not the cup of
thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is
join the Transportation Ministry. We are in need not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one
loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.
of drivers. Contact Bro. Derrick Robertson at the 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 (NIV)

number listed above.