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First Baptist Church
707 St. Patrick Street
Rapid City, SD, 57701
605.343.0342
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Traditional Service   8:30
Sunday School   9:30
Contemporary Service   10:45













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Dr. Gregg L.J. Hemmen

Senior Pastor

First Baptist Church

Rapid City, SD


fbcgregg@gmail.com

ASL Interpreter 
Available Upon Request at 10:45 Service  Contact Katie Peterson at kpeterson@c-s-d.org by Friday.
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Vacation Bible School will be July 27-31 from 5:30pm-8:00pm.  The theme this year is “The Incredible Race!”  If you’d like to help or volunteer please contact Debbie Toms at 393.0363.  See info about this VBS material at: http://www.standardpub.com/race/  --------------------------------------------       First Baptist is participating in the One Great Hour of Sharing world mission offering in July.  This missions offering helps families and villages around the world develop basic necessities for living (water, sewer, shelter, etc.).  For information on this offering, please click on http://www.abc-oghs.org/                          --------------------------------------------On Friday, July 25th there will be another Fourth Friday Happy Hour in the church basement.  Come after work (around 5pm) and join us for conversation and refreshments at the end of your work week. ---------------------------------------------Join at Rushmore Waterslides on Saturday July 26th for a water park day.  The water slide is located at 1715 Catron Blvd.  To see info on the water park, click on: http://www.rushmorewaterslide.com/index.html --------------------------------------------The handbell choir will be playing during both worship services on July 27th.                      ---------------------------------------------Don’t forget to sign up for the Palmerton Labor Day Retreat at Camp Judson.  The retreat will be August 29th-31st.  Contact Heidi Christner for information at 343.0342.                                       --------------------------------------------A New Study  shows that Americans still overwhelmingly claim Christianity.  Read more on our new News Link.
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(ASL Interpreted)  

               Welcome to Rapid City First Baptist Online!


I trust that your Summer is going well.  One of the things that we’ve been doing as a family this Summer is yard work.  Sounds exciting, eh?  I’ll bet you’d like to become an honorary member of our family! 

      Since we currently don’t have any grass or landscaping, we’ve been working on a lot of these projects ourselves.  One project in particular is an attempt to conceal and landscape around some utility boxes.  Since these utility boxes are right on the property line between us and our neighbors, we have been working on this project together.  It’s been a great chance to get to know our neighbors and develop a friendship. 

      Since we have moved here from North Carolina, we’ve begun to make new friends.  We’ve also continued to maintain contact with friends we already have.  Friends have been a great source of strength and encouragement in our transition.  Proverbs 18:24 says, “Some friends play at friendship but a true friend sticks closer than one’s nearest kin” (NRSV).  I’ve realized again that one of the greatest treasures I have in this world are people I know and who know me.

      During August, we’re going to be focusing on the topic of spiritual friendship.  What does the Bible have to say about friendship?  What’s it mean to be a friend?  How can we help one another along in life, and be helped along?  I hope that you can join us for this look at friendship.

      We’re also going to use this study to introduce some new opportunities to be connected to others.  This Fall, we’ll begin a spiritual friendship ministry where we’re going to pair a more mature Christian with a less mature Christian for regular conversations about life.  We’re also going to invite people to join a small group for 8-10 weeks where conversations about growing up into Christ will be the focus.  Both of these opportunities are a way that friendship can be nurtured.

      Some of you may not have ever been to First Baptist before.  This might be a great time to come and worship with us and get to know us.  Who knows?  New friendships might be waiting for you here.


Blessings..

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