VBS 2023 Child Registration. Scan the QR code below. You will be sent to a google doc to complete the form.

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FLC Celebration Day slideshow.

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Sunday worship and message, "How Great Thou Art". Family Life Center celebration day; it was PAID IN FULL after only nine years. God is good.

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HBC Update 6-1-23

Bless the LORD, O my soul; And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
Bless the LORD, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: (Psalm 103:1-2)

We are so very grateful to the Lord our God for all His blessings on Hardin Baptist Church.
• He has provided for us and kept us going through the pandemic.
• Blessed us with good Sunday morning attendance (120-140 regularly)
• Sent us a bunch of kids to minister to on Wednesday nights (around fifty kids and sixteen adult workers)
• He has enabled us to completely pay off the Family Life Center loan in only nine years

And His blessings show no sign of stopping.
• We will send a “bumper crop” of thirty-eight kids and six Counsellor to Church Camp on July 10-14
• We’ll have our first Vacation Bible School since 2019 on July 23-27, 6-8:30 for Grades 1-8

Truly, it’s fitting for us to “Bless the Lord”!
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Family Life Center Celebration:
Join us this Sunday for an after-Church celebration Potluck, Note-burning Party, and Presentation. Bring your favorite potluck food and plan to have lunch with all your Brothers and Sisters at Hardin. Drinks will be provided.
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Baby Bottle Offering for HOPE of the Delta will continue to run through Father’s Day, June 18th. Fill a bottle with change, bills, and checks, or donate online through the Church website. What a great an effective ministry Hope has become; let’s bless them as they expand.
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School is Out for the Summer! All the kids are excited, vacations are being planned, the weather is great, and we all look forward to a fantastic summer. Please be extra careful driving since kids will be out and about.
Congratulations to all who successfully completed their year’s schooling, and also to all the wonderful Teachers and Staff who work so hard to make our Public Education System a true blessing to the children of our community.
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Red hatters: Lady Bird Café, Friday, June 23rd. Leave the church at 11am to travel to Sheridan. Contact Karen Kinkaid 870.247-4487 or Linda Smith 870.540-7618 if you plan to attend.
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VBS is scheduled for July 23-27, Sunday through Thursday evenings, from 6:00 until 8:30. For kids going into grades 1st through 8th . Work and preparation is already underway, and a lot of help is needed. Contact Miss Evelyn to sign up, and let’s plan on a fantastic VBS! As always, donations are very much appreciated.
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We will observe the Lord’s Supper on Sunday morning, June 11th. Please join us at the Lord’s table as we do this “In Remembrance” of our Savior.
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The monthly day of Prayer and Fasting is Wednesday, June 14th, a day to spend extra time with the Lord and sacrifice a common pleasure to focus on Him instead.
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Numbers:
Sunday School: 53
Adult Worship: 86
Children’s Church: 8 Kids, 2 Adults
Wed. Nite Kids/Teens: 52 Kids, 15 Workers
Offering: $6,865

Church Information:
Hardin Baptist Church
300 Todd Lynn Drive
White Hall, AR 71602

Office hours 9-5, Mon-Fri
Church email: hardinbc@suddenlinkmail.com
Facebook: Hardin.Baptist
Church Website: www.HardinBaptistChurch.org
Pastor’s email: johnnyd.taylor@gmail.com
 

Memorial Day Weekend. Message on the 70 million Christian martyrs that were killed for their faith in Christ since Bible times. Honoring our fallen soldiers with video and "Taps". by Aubrey L., and special music by Bro. Bob M.

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Faith of Abraham: "Altars" part 1

The importance of altars in your life, what they are, what they're for, and how to use them in your life.

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Honoring our Graduates, and message, "Your Future Calls". Special music by Addy K.

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HBC Update 5-19-23

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, so that you do not appear to men to be fasting, but to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. (Matt 6:17-18)

Last Wednesday was our Monthly day of Prayer and Fasting, but you can do it anytime. We’re all busy, but what can we give up from our schedule and spend time with the Lord instead? Is it lunchtime? Surfing the internet? An hour of sleep? The point of fasting is to show the Lord that fellowship with Him is more important than our daily activities. It also strengthens our self-discipline, and that’s a good thing.

So what can you give up this week to focus more on the Lord Jesus Christ and your relationship with Him? He is worth it.

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Congratulations to our 2023 High School Graduates:

Alyssa Amerson

Kathryn Brewer

Hunner Freeman

Tonight is Graduation at the White Hall Football Field. We are so proud of our Graduates and pray the Lord’s richest blessings on them as they start this new chapter of their lives.

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Our annual Car show is tomorrow (5-20-23) from 10am until 1pm. Cool autos, food, fun, and bake sale. It’s always a fun event; see ya there!

Proceeds go to Church Camp.

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VBS is scheduled for July 23-27. There will be a short VBS meeting after worship this Sunday for all interested in helping. Plan on being involved in our VBS. It’s a great way to reach and teach the kids, and we haven’t had one in a few years. Let’s all pitch in to make this one great.

See Miss Evelyn for more information.

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Hallelujah! Our Family Life Center is paid off after only eight or nine years! We will have a Celebration, Sunday afternoon, June 4th Potluck lunch after Worship.

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Annual Baby Bottle Offering for “HOPE of the Delta”, our local crisis pregnancy center, will run from Mothers’ Day through Fathers’ Day. Take a bottle, fill it with coins, bills, and checks, and bring it back to Church. You can also mail it in, drop it off at the Church office during regular business hours (9-5, Mon-Fri).

God Bless you for supporting the most innocent and helpless of us all.

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AED’s: We now have two Defibrillators ready for service if needed. They are located at the back of the Sanctuary by the Fire Extinguisher, and at the Family Life Center near the Fire Extinguisher.

Thank You! To all helped make this happen.

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Remember the Seven Activities of a Church Member:

Attend Worship.

Small Group: Get connected to a small group like Sunday School.

Serve: Find your place of ministry in the Church. We need everyone’s help.

Tithe: We all pull our weight.

Daily Devotion: Personal worship and time with your Lord.

Bring others: Who do you know that you can help bring to Christ and to Church?

Holiness: Live a Christian lifestyle.

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Numbers:

Sunday School: 66

Worship: 179

Children’s Church:

Wed. Nite Kids/Teens: 49 Kids, 16 Workers

Offering: $6,865

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Mothers' Day worship and message, "Marriage", May 14, 2023. Special music by Edie.

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Sunday morning worship and message, "Be Gracious". May 7, 2023.

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HBC Update 5-4-23

Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her: "Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all." Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, And let her own works praise her in the gates. (Proverbs 31:28-31)

Next Sunday, May 14th, is Mothers day.

            How can we thank God enough for the amazing Christian Ladies in our lives? These blessed souls carried us close to their heart for nine months, nurtured, fed, and loved us, and helped us learn how to live in the world.

I’ve said it before and it’s still true today, that the greatest expression of the Love of God on earth is the love of a Mother. And we have all had other great ladies in our lives that have invested in our raising, and helped us in innumerable ways.

So to our moms, grandmothers, aunts, Church ladies, teachers, and all the other women God has blessed us with, we all want to say THANK YOU, may God bless you, and we appreciate you more than words can say.

We all rise up and call you “Blessed”.

God bless,

Happy Mothers Day

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Congratulations to our 2023 High School Graduates:

Alyssa Amerson

Kathryn Brewer

Hunner Freeman

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New Member information:

Melinda Blevins, 1101 Robin Rd, White Hall, AR 71602. (870) 692-8858

Gage White, i/c of Lisa White, 11547 Dogwood Forest Drive, Pine Bluff, AR, 71603

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Yard Sale total: about $4,900

Thank You! This is an eternal investment in the lives and souls of our precious young people. Begin now to pray for a great Camp in July at Siloam Springs.

Ps: Leftover yard sale stuff was donated to Kathy’s Closet in Sheridan, and Salvation Army in Pine Bluff.

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AED’s: We now have two Defibrillators ready for service if needed. They are located at the back of the Sanctuary by the Fire Extinguisher, and at the Family Life Center near the Fire Extinguisher.

Thank You! To all helped make this happen.

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FLC NOTE PAID OFF!

The final payment for the Family Life Center loan was made on May 1st. We started in the spring of 2014, and the Lord (and His people) have abundantly blessed!

Praise the Lord, and thanks to His people for your faithfulness in giving to this fund.

Ps: We will celebrate this great blessing on Sunday, June 4th.

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Car Show:  Our Annual Classic and Antique Car Show, Saturday, May 20th, from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm. Concessions, Bake Sale, Free to show (no entry fee, donations appreciated), Trophies awarded for People’s Choice and 1st-3rd Place.

For more information contact Paul Howard (870) 247-1258, Frank Campbell (870) 489-0114, or Wes Shnaekel (870) 918-2002.

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Remember our Mission Statement: To love and serve the Lord, our fellowman, and one another, and to be a Church for Faith and Family.

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Remember the Seven Activities of a Church Member:

Attend Worship.

Small Group: Get connected to a small group like Sunday School.

Serve: Find your place of ministry in the Church. We need everyone’s help.

Tithe: We all pull our weight.

Daily Devotion: Personal worship and time with your Lord.

Bring others: Who do you know that you can help bring to Christ and to Church?

Holiness: Live a Christian lifestyle.

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Numbers:

Sunday School: 66

Worship: 123

Children’s Church: None, 5th Sunday

Wed. Nite Kids/Teens: 40 Kids, 16 Workers

Offering: $5,765

Sunday worship and message, "Faith Fundamentals", followed by the baptism of two into our Church Family. April 23, 2023.

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Easter Sunday Worship and Message, "Because He Lives". Special music by our Youth Praise Band.

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Today is Good Friday, the day we commemorate the Lord's death on the cross.

FROM THE CROSS TO HEAVEN’S TEMPLE

(Excerpt from “For the Love of GOD: His Heart, Our Purpose”)

Wood creaked, tendons popped, raspy lungs filled with air, and the Lamb of God pushed against the nails and lifted Himself up on the cruel cross one last time.

“IT IS FINISHED! He cried in triumph.

And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit.” Having said this, He breathed His last. (Luke 23:46)

This day, in the realms of time and eternity, our Savior will go where no one else on earth or in Heaven can go, and will do for us what no one else can do. He is our High Priest, and this is our Day of Atonement.

He sacrifices Himself on the all-consuming altar of the cross, for He is Christ our Sacrifice.

From His spear-pierced side flows water as well as blood for He is Christ our Sanctification, our Living Water.

Passing through the Holy Tabernacle of His life and ministry, He is the golden lampstand, Christ our Light.

Like showbread, He is our Bread of Life, and as incense, He is our Intercessor, the Mediator of the New Testament.

He is also the Veil, the Way into the Presence of the Father for us.

So in His final act of ultimate sacrifice, Christ tears Himself away from His body, and sends His Spirit Godward.

Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split…

(Matthew 27:51)

Yonder in the portals of glory myriad legions of holy Cherubim with gazes fixed on their Lord of Hosts, finally hear the word they have been longing to hear from the Father.

“Go!”

Instantly they spread their wings, leap from Heaven’s precipice, and cascade downward in a celestial waterfall toward that wretched hill.

Their King is coming Home.

Like guided missiles they plummet through the sky, bearing down on the awful scene, guided by the brilliant Light of the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, now separated from His body.

In a holy hurricane of glory, they swarm around him, scattering darkness and sending demons scurrying for cover. Billowing clouds of His faithful ministers hail the conquering King, the Lord of Hosts, and prepare to act as escort for the triumphal entry of the Spirit of Jesus into Heaven.

Through the sky above Jerusalem they escort Him, beyond the sun and stars they go, to the Celestial City they accompany Him. Up the sides of the Holy Mountain of fire they shout His return, and into the very Temple of Heaven itself they announce His arrival.

There is Jehovah the One True God, sitting upon the Throne, high and lifted up. Surrounded by an emerald rainbow, He is attended by the billowing clouds of a hundred million angels shouting “Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty!”

And there now stands the Son, Beloved of the Father, the very Heart of Heaven. He has finished the godly task and completed the work His Father had set before Him. He has drained the Cup, paid the ultimate price, and claimed the ultimate victory.

How true ring the words of Heaven’s fantastic creatures in their adoration of this Christ, our Savior:

“…Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom, and strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

(Revelation 5:12…)

But even now, in this moment of glory and triumph, His thoughts and actions are not for Himself, for He has Priestly work, intercessory work to perform.

For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands…but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us… (Hebrews 9:24)

It is there in the true Holy of Holies, before the real Mercy Seat, under the radiant gaze of His loving Father, that Christ presents His offering.

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all…who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God… (Hebrews 9:12, 14)

Blood of Man, blood of God, blood of Heaven, is presented in Heaven for us by our High Priest for God’s consideration.

We the fallen, hold our breath.

Will God accept our High Priest? Will He accept the Sacrifice? Will it be presented well enough; will it be good enough; will it be enough? Will atonement be made and accepted that our sins be forgiven?

The Ancient of Days gathers Himself in clouds of celestial glory, amid the Mercy Seat of His Throne, attended by innumerable angels. He looks upon our High Priest standing before Him in perfect righteousness, and examines the Blood of the Sacrifice, Blood of Christ.

And He is satisfied!

Christ our High Priest is accepted, His intercession effective, the Blood of the Lamb is found to be more than sufficient for the forgiveness and cleansing of all sin.

God is well please, our sins are forgiven, and it is forever well with our souls.

And so, with the piercing of His side, and the tearing of the Veil of His flesh, the Way into the Holy of Holies is thrown open wide for us.

Scripture References:

John 14:6, 19:34-35

Hebrews 4:14, 9:12, 14, 24, 10:19-23

Luke 23:46

Matthew 27:51

Isaiah 6:1-4

Revelation 5:12

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Sunday morning worship and message, "Nailed to the Cross". Special music by Jane K. April 2, 2023.

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Sunday morning worship and message, "Balance for a Busy Life". Special music by Bro. Bob Montgomery. March 12, 2023.

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Sunday morning worship and message, "You MUST be Born Again" from John chapter 3. March 5, 2023. "Radiant Girls' Camp" report by Danni Owings. Worship leader, Ernie Medlin Pastor, Johnny Taylor

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Rich Bridges

Our dear brother Rich went home to be with the Lord Tuesday, February 28th, 2023.

Services will be Saturday, March 4, 2023.

Family visitation will be 1:30-2:30 at Ralph Robinson and Son Chapel on Cherry Street in Pine Bluff.

Funeral Service will be at 2:30.

For more information visit https://www.ralphrobinsonandson.com/

Please pray for the family during this very difficult time.

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Sunday morning worship and message, "Water Baptism and Church Membership". Special music by Children's Church, and Alyssa A. January 29, 2023.

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Sunday morning worship and message, "The Sanctity of Human Life: A God for all Generations". Special music by Tana P. Jan 22, 2023.

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Inclement weather policy: If Church Service is cancelled due to weather, the decision will be made by 7:30 on Sunday morning,and by 4:00 on Wednesday afternoon.

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Sunday morning worship and message: The Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Special music by Addy K.

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Sunday morning worship and message, "Saved and Sure". August 7, 2022.

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Due to difficulties with the Church phones and the telephone company, the Church phone numbers are no longer valid.

Please call Secretary LIsa Silvey directly at (870) 692-0394, or Pastor Johnny Taylor at (501) 413-3966 until further notice.

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