Bartimaeus Baptist Temple

Greeting faithful followers of BBT.  I hope you are having a blessed week and I hope you are being a blessing to someone this week.  We had a great service last week and I appreciate Chuck and Lee and Janie for coming out and singing for us.  It was really good to celebrate Easter all over again.  Linda as always did a great job with the Bible study and she reminds us we are halfway through the Old Testament.  It is really good to go back and read these stories about all the biblical characters we have talked about all our lives, at least the lucky ones of us who were brought up in a home that read and talked about the Bible.  I hope that is the kind of home you are making for your family.

This week is Summitt week and as always I can’t wait to see what God has in store for us .  Joel and his group are always such a blessing. They do such a good job to bring the Spirit of God into our meeting.  I look forward to the day we can repay them for all their kindness, hardwork and dedication but for now God is doing that for us.  I hope you will be there and invite someone to come with you to be a part of this celebration.

Ruth will leave on Thursday and will be gone the rest of the month so please be praying for her and Cathy as they head out to California for a well deserved vaccation.

Mike did not have his surgery on Monday as thought but it has been rescheduled for Thursday so be praying for him.

Pris is leaving on Wednesday to stay with her Dad while her Mother goes in for surgery on Thursday.  Please keep our family in your prayers this week.

Keep reading those scriptures every day and keep lifting those prayers up for those who need a touch from God whatever it is a healing or mending of a relationship or just a better outlook on life.  Our God is the supplier of all these things.  keep doing good things for other people and keep trusting in the promise that God will never leave you are forsake you.  May God bless you and may his face shine upon you.  We love you and will see you on Sunday.

Pastor David & Pris

Greeting BBT followers.  Now this feel like spring!  Baseball is going on at the ballpark, the grass is starting to turn green and the weather is fantastic.  I hope you are enjoying this as much as I am.  I hope with the better weather it will encourage people to get out more especially on Sunday afternoon at about 2:30.  I appreciate La Trish bringing the Sunday school lesson on Sunday.  I hope you are trying to keep up with your reading each day because it makes it very difficult to try and catch up if you get behind.  Last week’s Easter service was very enjoyable and it was nice to have dinner in our dinning room again.  I think we need to make some changes on the table arrangements so we will have more room but it was a great dinner with great friends.

This week I am going to be preaching on John 21:1-14.  This is story of Jesus appearing to the Disciples as they are back out in their boat fishing.  I am going to be taliking about what does it mean to be successful.  What Jesus says and what the World says are two very diffrent things.  I want all of us to make a difference in this world, I want all of us to really stand for something.  I would like to think my life meant something to somebody besides myself.  We all should want to leave an impression on the people we meet.  Not that we are so good but that we have a God that is so good.  We can stand up for the values that God established for us to live by and we need to choose our hero’s carefully.  It is so easy to idolize the superstar that can do what we only dream about doing, or that good looking man or woman that has so much charisma that people are drawn to them.  Bur what about our parents that spend their lives meeting our needs and providing for us or how about that good friend that is always there in good times and bad.  The people that are really successful in life are the ones that change our lives for the better.  The ones that do what they say and care about people regardless of their circumstances.  You are my hero, all of you who choose to believe God loves you no matter what the world says.  I will always want my name associated with the people of Bartimeaus Baptist Temple.  I hope you feel the same way.

We need to pray this week for Sarah’s mother who had a heart attack and is in a hospital in Allen.  We don’t know a lot about her situation right now but we are praying for her full recovery.  Jo Havens had a light stroke last week and was in Baylor hospital but she is back home now.  She is still very week and needs our prayers.

Chuck Kagel and his group will be with us on Sunday the 18Th to sing for us.  They were going to come the Sunday before Easter but we got snowed out.  Please make plans to be at Church this week and next as we continue to celebrate the Resurrection of Christ.  We love you so much and miss you when you are not here.  Pray for those that we have listed on the prayer request and keep doing good things for other people because as you will see Sunday that will lead to a successful life.  God bless you and keep you and we will see you Sunday.

Pastor David & Pris

Greetings faithful followers of BBT.  Who would have believed  that on the first day of spring we would have 3 inches of snow on the ground, then a day later the temperature would be 65. IT just goes to prove that old saying ” If you don’t like the weather in Texas just wait a minuet.” As pretty as it was I hate that it cost us a chance to meet and fellowship together.  I am very sorry Chuck and his group did not get to come and sing their Easter songs for us but I am hoping they can come later next month.

This week is Summitt weekand I am really looking forward to sharing our praise and worship with our friends form Summitt.  I know this is a diffrent way to worship then many of us grew up in but God wants us to experience all his gifts and blessings and this is really a good way to share our faith.  I hope you will be in Church this week.

I received some very bad news this afternoon from Pris. They have care-flighted her dad to a hospital in Tyler. It appears he has had a stroke and is in really bad shape.  I will call you and let you know once we know more. Pris is on her way down there so please be praying for her and our family.

They have almost finished the renovations on the church but they are not done yet. It seems very shortly they are going to have many Men and Women from Heights Church come on a Sunday morning and work on the inside and outside of the church. They will be painting and cleaning and planting flowers and making the church look like the place we all believe it to be.  A Beautiful place to come and Worship our God. We would never have been able to do all of this on our own but I thank God he has brought so many dedicated Men and Women into our lives to bless it. We could never repay them for what they have done but that is the way God does business. We are blessed BY them they are blessed FOR doing it.  I just stand back in amazement watching his power.

I hope you will be in church this week, sharing all the gifts God has given you and I hope you are making plans to be here on Easter and inviting someone to come with you. We are planning on having our first fellowship in our new building on Easter so be thinking about what you would like to bring.

Please be praying for our dear Brother Glenn Aronhalt, Pris Dad, as we travel down there this week to be with him.  I will see you on Sunday, hopefully there won’t be any more snow, and please keep doing good things for those around you in your walk through life. God bless you.

Pastor David & Pris

Greetings fellow members of the BBT family.  I hope you are having a great week and I hope you have been able to keep up with your Bible reading this week.  I am excited about the prospect of getting together this Sunday and sharing with everyone what we have read.  A special thanks goes to Linda for her hard work and determination on getting this program off the ground.  We have been very fortunate to have been provided all the information needed to accomplish this Bible study.  It is just another example of Gods Provision.  I enjoyed hearing the testimony from Ms Georgia last week.  What an example she is of a Woman possessed with the Holy Spirit and wanting to share it with others.

Once again I am going to try and preach the message God gave me on commitment out of Luke the 5TH Chapter vs 1 -11.  I am not making any promises this week but we will just go where the Lord leads us.

I hope he leads you to Church on Sunday.  We have a lot of exciting things coming up over the next few weeks which include Summitt, Chuck Cagle and his group coming to sing and EASTER.  It will be here before you know it.  Keep reading your scriptures and keep doing good things for the people around you.  Pray for those that are hurting and be a friend to those who need a friend.  You know what they say you can’t have too many friends!  We love you and will see you on Sunday.

Pastor David & Pris

Greetings & Blessings & PRAISE GOD we get to go back to church on Sunday!  Just got off the phone with Pastor David who says we’re a GO for church on Sunday!  (no pun intended)  😀  The renovation is not quite complete but good enough to get back together and PRAISE THE LORD.  I went by on Wednesday and the new restrooms look great–well worth the wait.  Thanks for your patience, and look forward to seeing y’all on Sunday for Worship & Praise with Joel and the Summitt Church Team.

In His Accessible Grace,
Linda