Announcements

College and Career Class Starts January 18th

The College and Career class will begin a study "Your Life In Christ", on Sunday, January 18th, led by Natalie Lovelace.




Offering Envelopes

The offering envelopes for 2026 are on the front pew. If you don't find your name on a box, please take one of the unassigned boxes. Wanda will record your envelope number the first time you use the envelopes.




Women's Bible Study-Love Like You've Never Been Hurt

Beginning Monday, January 26th from 10:30 to 12:30 - Women's Bible Study led by Ashlee Noles, called "Love Like You've Never Been Hurt". Please see Janice Grubbs or Meagan Crosson to order your book. 




Financial Peace

We will start a 9 week session of Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. We will meet on Mondays and Thursdays@ 6:30 PM, beginning Monday, January 5th. Please see Pastor Randall if you are interested.




Valley Baptist Women's Conference

Valley Baptist Women's Conference - January 23rd - 24th. Friday from 6:00 PM to 9:15 PM & Saturday from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Eastern time @ Valley Baptist Church - 3302 20th Avenue - Valley, Alabama.

Beth Lawrence will be the speaker. Early registration is $35.00 now through December 31st. Register at

Valley Baptist Women's Conference

 




Current OCC Needs

We are currently in need of pencils, pencil sharpeners, erasers, and scissors. Please help if you are able. Thank you.




Christian Service Center Needs by Month

Thank you for your support of Christian Service Center. Listed below are most needed items for each month. Please pray about choosing a time to help with ongoing needs. And please pray about making an appointment to visit the office. We would love to have groups from your church visit and see what God is doing!

January -Donations of packaged food items are requested - mac and cheese, grits, dry beans, rice, hamburger helper, jello, instant potatoes.

February- Canned goods - tomatoes, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, canned meats.

March - meal, flour, sugar, shortening, cooking oil

April- Sheets, towels, etc. These are not required to be new, just clean and placed in a plastic bag with the size written on the outside of the bag.

May- Items easily prepared for school age children: Individual mac and cheese, pop tarts, soup, juice boxes, microwavable meats, fruit cups, crackers.

June- We would like to encourage churches having VBS to collect soap. This has been a tremendous help in the past.

July -Donations of food items to be given to homeless individuals: Snack crackers, saltine crackers, tuna, Vienna sausages, small cans of deviled ham, chicken, individually wrapped candies (no chocolates please), fruit gummies, individual packs of mustard or ketchup, juice boxes. Individually wrapped plastic spoons or forks.

August- Notebook paper, pencils, pens, Crayola crayons 24 pack

September- Community Wide Food Drive September 28th. Location to be announced.

October- Christmas gifts for boys and girls, men and women. Please call Christy or Cheryl for details. 334-476-2605 or 334-576-3552.

November- We need food boxes to distribute to families in time for Thanksgiving. These boxes should contain food for the family to prepare their own Thanksgiving meal.

December- Food items that a family might like to have on hand for a New Year's Day meal.

Cheryl Myers




East Liberty WMU Facebook group

The East Liberty WMU has created a private Facebook group for WMU ladies from our churches to join. This will help share WMU information across the association. You are encouraged to join the group. The group name is East Liberty Baptist Association WMU.




Awana News

The Awana Christmas Party will be 12/21. There will be no Awana on 12/14 and 12/28.