Updated July 14 2025
For by grace you are saved... not by works. Ephesians 2:8-9
For by grace you are saved... not by works. Ephesians 2:8-9
“Seek My Face, and you will find all that you have longed for. The deepest yearnings of your heart are for intimacy with Me. I know because I designed you to desire Me. Do not feel guilty about taking time to be still in My Presence. You are simply responding to the tugs of divinity within you. I made you in My image, and I hid heaven in your heart. Your yearning for Me is a form of homesickness: longing for your true home in heaven. Do not be afraid to be different from other people. The path I have called you to travel is exquisitely right for you. The more closely you follow My leading, the more fully I can develop your gifts. To follow Me wholeheartedly, you must relinquish your desire to please other people. However, your closeness to Me will bless others by enabling you to shine brightly in this dark world.”
Psalm 42:1-2; Psalm 34:5; Philippians 2:15
Jesus Calling by Sarah Young
Jesus Christ was crucified... he shed His blood and died on a Roman cross in Jerusalem witnessed by hundreds, perhaps thousands. BUT THREE DAYS LATER, HE AROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND WALKED ON THE EARTH FOR FORTY DAYS BEING SEEN BY HUNDREDS. He was the Sacrificial Lamb, making a way for us to be right with God by paying the debt for our sins on that old wooden cross.
Jesus promised that one day he's coming back! He will come back for you if you will believe in your heart that Jesus Christ came to earth as God in the flesh... taking on the form of a man... that He died a sacrificial, substitute death on the cross for your sins and mine, was raised from the dead. If you will confess with your mouth that you accept him as Lord of your life; then on the authority of the Word of God, the Holy Bible, you can avoid the punishment of sin, you can inherit eternal life, and you can begin a new life with God... a life that will never end. You can do that today right where you are. If you truly mean it - and He will know if you are serious about Him - then He will come into your life and give you a new life, a new hope, a new purpose, and a new commitment to live a selfless life, surrendered only to Him.
My dear friend, all my sins are forgiven because I have put my faith and trust in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is preparing a place for me in heaven and for all those who will receive Him as Savior and Lord.
Praise God... Jesus took our place on the cross so we could have a place in heaven!
His grace is sufficient for you. He still saves all those who will come to him. Romans 10:13... "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Revelation 3:10... "Behold I(Jesus) stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him." You must open the door from the inside. Jesus will not force himself into your life.
"A Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge." A.W. Tozer
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
BIBLE STUDY CLASSES - 10:00 AM
The Ladies Sunday School class is meeting in the Fellowship Hall.
Del Slone's Class is meeting in the old chapel.
The Men’s class is meeting downstairs in the (formerly)conference room near the church office.
WORSHIP - 11:00 AM
WEDNESDAY
PRAYER MEETING - 11:AM
(Wednesday morning prayer meeting, 11:00 am)
Blessed is the man who gives and remembers not and receives and forgets not.
July Mission Emphasis - Children's Hospital of Mississippi
Brother Steve's Upcoming Sermon Topic
Sermon Series- Questions Jesus Asked
July 13 - Do you believe that I can do this? Matthew 9:28
July 20 - Why are you crying? John 20:13
July 27 - Do you believe? John 11:26
August 3 - Why do you worry? Matthew 6:28
August 10 - Why don't you notice the log in your own eye? Mattew 7:3
August 17 - What do you want me to do for you? Mark 10:51
August 24 - Pastor Out ; Rex McRaney to preach
August 31 - Why were you searching for me? Luke 2:49
Church Business Meeting April 30, 2025.
Annual financial report was good, we spent less than we took in. It was reported that the church van was sold to the Pontotoc Baptist Association for $32,000. The largest portion of these funds were deposited to the Virginia Stampley foundation fund.
MAY - DECEMBER 2025 CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES FOR ALTA WOODS BAPTIST CHURCH
JULY - Mission Project: Children's Hospital
16 VBS Joint Worship
23 Business Meeting
30 Bible Study Lab
AUGUST - Mission Project: Gateway Mission
6 Lunch (Begin Study of Revelation)
9 L.A.W: 9:30
24 Pastor Out: Rex Yancy to Preach
SEPTEMBER - Mission Project: State Missions Offering
3 Lunch
21 Teacher Appreciation Sunday (Lunch)
27 Mug and Muffin (9:30-Noon)
29 Metro BA Meeting 6:30pm
OCTOBER - Mission Project: Samaritan's Purse
1 Lunch (Begin Doctrine of Prayer Study)
5 Pastor Out (Rex Yancy to Preach)
22 Business Meeting
28-29 MBCB State Convention
NOVEMBER- Mission Project- Seaman's Ministry
2 DST ends
5 Lunch
9 Veteran;s Sunday, Shoebox Ministry
26 No Wednesday Services
DECEMBER- Internation Missions
3 Lunch - Week of Prayer Emphasis
10 Carols of World Service
24 4pm Vespers - David Watts
29 Final Day of Office Open for year
31 No Wednesday Services
Our Mission emphasis for July 2025 was Mercy House in Georgetown. Billy and Peggy Roberts delivered a van full of supplies this past week,
As always, Alta Woods members were very generous in their giving and Mercy House was very appreciative.