Phillips Memorial Baptist Church
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Phillips Memorial
Baptist Church
565 Pontiac Ave.,
Cranston, RI 02910
401-467-3300
fax 401-467-3302
Sunday Schedule
9 am
Sunday School and Adult Bible Study
Sunday School and Adult Bible Study10 am Worship, Children's Moment
Nursery 9:45 - 11:00 am Activity Time for Youth 10:15 - 11:00 amChildren's Choir grade K - 8 10:15 - 11:00 amFellowship Time following worship in Fellowship Hall 11:15 amMarch 7 Worship 10:00 am Communion and Third Sunday in Lent
Sermon: "Earth Swallowing SIn" Rev. Wesley Smith
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 10: 1 - 13
March 14 Worship 10:00 am Fourth Sunday in Lent
Sermon: "Ministry of Reconciliation" Rev. Wesley Smith
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5: 16 - 21
March 21 Worship 10:00 am Fifth Sunday in Lent
Sermon: "The Newness of God" Rev. Wesley Smith
Scripture: Isaiah 43: 16 - 21
March 28 Worship 10:00 am Palm Sunday Musical
Narrators, the Adult Choir, soloists and instrumentalists will perform the musical "Who Is This King? Royal Servant...Rejected Friend...Risen Christ!"
Building A Future of Hope
There are significant financial costs for renovation of the church. Please give generously to help us with this financial challenge. THANK YOU!
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Pancake Breakfast
New Members
& Baptisms
Church Ladies Catering
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Help your church with this additional financial challenge!
Your continued faithfulness in giving will make a significant difference. Thank you for your ongoing support of our "Building A Future of Hope" campaign.New Members and Baptisms
Congratulations to our new members!In November, three new members joined Phillips Church. We welcome them! Four new members and one reinstated member of Phillips Church were honored as we extended the right hand of fellowship this October. At PMBC we continue to see God's Spirit moving and bringing forth the fruit of a rich harvest. Three individuals stated their desire to follow Christ and were baptized in November. Praise be to God! If you desire to be baptized and/or join Phillips Church, please phone the church office or speak with Pastor Smith. (467-3300 ext 2) Call the church office for info on new member classes.Hope Circle News
American Baptist Women's Cookbook "from our hearts" is available, while supplies last. Books are only $10, and you can pick them up from 9am to 3pm, Monday through Friday in the church office. Support ABWof RI and Hope Circle of Phillips Church. Order a cookbook today. They make great gifts! The cookbook includes history of 22 American Baptist Churches in RI. Call for information, 401-467-3300,ex.1
The Knitter Group has been busy.
Warm Woolies. Our group is knitting warm woolies and delivering them to Crossroads. We will continue to make hat, mittens and scarves and save them up for next fall's distribution. Come and join us at 7 pm on Monday evenings. Learn how to knit or crochet! We are making items for Crossroads and SPNM.Baptism
Are you interested in being baptized? Call Pastor Smith for information on baptism, 401-467-3300 ext. 2.
Church Ladies Catering
A new fundraising venture of a few ladies of Phillips Church
is 'open for business.' Church Ladies Catering
is available for Church functions such as small parties
and collations taking place in Fellowship Hall. Prices are
reasonable and the food is specially prepared just for you.
Please call the church office for details and menu selections.
Let the party begin!
Candlelight
Christmas
Concert
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Martha Sobaje Honored
Dr. Martha H. Sobaje was recognized with the 2009 Anna Fiore-Smith Award in the presence of her choir and pastor at the Festival of Choirs event on November 1st at St. Paul Church, Cranston. Tributes to Martha were given by her publisher Wayne Leupold, Cheri Markward, chair of the Department of Music at Community College of Rhode Island, and the Rev. Wesley Smith, pastor of Phillips Memorial Church, and were read by Stephen Martorella, Dean of the Rhode Island Chapter. The award was then presented to Martha “in recognition of her excellence in leadership, dedication, and vision.” There followed a rendering of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Old Hundredth (“All people that on earth do dwell”) by the assembled choirs, congregation, and organ.
Phillips Adult Choir at the Rhode Island Organ Festival's
Festival of Choirs
The Rhode Island Organ Festival was a tremendous success, with over a dozen... (RIAGO) members performing over fifty works over an entire week, and with nine choirs, their director-organists and associated clergy participating in the opening “Festival of Choirs” held on the opening day of the festival week in the sumptuous acoustic space of St. Paul Church, Cranston, where the Rev. Francis C. Santilli gave us a most warm, inviting, and inspiring welcome.
Excerpted from RIAGO December 2009 newletter -- available at riago.org
Pancake Breakfast was Delicious!
You should have been at the Pancake Breakfast on the Sunday after Christmas. Not only was it delicious, but well attended by over 50 people. Right before church, we enjoyed a grand time of fellowship while eating our fill of pancakes and sausage. "Let's do this again," was heard for the rest of the morning. Well, let's!
