Welcome to the First Baptist Church of Mascoutah web page! FBCM is a growing Southern Baptist Church, located in Mascoutah, Illinois (Population 6,737), just five miles south of Scott AFB.
We offer a wide range of ministry opportunities to our congregation and are planning to reach out into our world with both North American and International Mission trips. Our desire is to live up to our motto:"A Family Helping Families Connect With Christ."
If you are ever in our area, please take this as a personal invitation to come visit us. I believe you will find us to be a loving and very friendly church: a place where you and your family can serve and minister.
Duane Smith,
Pastor
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- AWANATheme is Missions night
- College Survival Kits Donations are being accepted for our college students. Please place your "junk food" in the container in the main hallway. If you would like to give cash, please see Tim or Stacey Seaney.
- Church Operations GuideA limited number of Church Operations Guides will be printed and placed in the distribution boxes outside the church office. Please, only one hardcopy per family and only if you can’t access the on-line copy. If the copies have all been taken, please tell someone on the Church Constitution and Operations Guide Committee.
- VBS 2010
Teachers & Assistants still needed! See Andrea Sisson. If you want to help, please sign up on the bulletin board. - IRON SHARPENS IRON Men’s ConferenceGeared towards men’s needs, this conference is intended to help men live for Christ as singles, husbands, and fathers. The conference will be held at Faith Family Church in Shiloh, IL, May 1st, 2010. The cost is $39.00 per person without lunch, $47.00 per person with lunch for a group of ten or more. If less than ten, the cost will be $48.00 without lunch and $56.00 with lunch. The sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board. Money must be received in the church office by April 18.
- Commission Stories
a newsletter from the International Mission Board is on the hallway table.
- Mission Committee
collecting paper towels for the month of April.
- Mascoutah Township Shoe Drive
See the poster on the bulletin board. This drive will help Haiti.
A Burden For A Nation
How long, LORD, must I call for help and You do not listen, or cry out to You about violence and You do not save? Why do You force me to look at injustice? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Oppression and violence are right in front of me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates. This is why the law is ineffective and justice never emerges. For the wicked restrict the righteous; therefore, justice comes out perverted. Hab 1:2-4
This sounds like it could have been take right out of the daily editorials in our local paper (well maybe not) but it sure does sound like what a lot of people are thinking. Unlike the rest of the prophets we read about in our Bible who simply pronounce the oracles of God, Habakkuk has an on going discussion with Him. The book is more about one prophets questions and understanding than God’s Revelation to the nations. Habakkuk had a burden for his nation: a nation who had experienced all of God’s blessing, yet had turn their backs on Him in the name of personal rights and pleasures. Likewise I have a burden for a nation – our nation! I don’t think you will find many Christians who don’t have a burden for this great nation of ours. Whether you find it in the history books or not this great nation was founded on the principles of the Bible.
Our national life was held together by the principles of God’s word as well – but now? We should be burdened for our country because if history is a teacher, we can see the signs of our demise! With this in mind I would like to look at three truths that could be foundational to our study of the book of Habakkuk, a Blessed Nation, a Cursed Nation, and God’s Kingdom. May God give us a burden to pray for our nation and seek to live for Him by faith.
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Pastor
Duane Smith