The Donelson Family … dying to self, living to serve!
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First Baptist Church Donelson 2526 Lebanon Road Nashville, TN 37214 TheFamily@donelsonfamily.org |
Dear Church Family, We have the great opportunity to enjoy God through the ministry of Bud and Barbara Lee this next Sunday morning, August 28th. Bud and Barbara will be share a mini concert during our morning worship. Please come ready to bless them through a generous love offering. Your servant, Bro. Jim
We spent another twelve hours traveling the back roads of Iowa today. I want you to look at the picture below and see if you can see how different these people of Iowa are than yourself. Look hard and long into the eyes of these people and see if you can find the difference. What [...]
We just arrive in Iowa and we were greeted with a great challenge from God. The sign says it all. As we looked from left to right we were faced with the greens of growing crops, but as we looked at the statistics of the counties we will be visiting we realized that the green [...]
This Thursday members of the Mission Team will be headed to Iowa to survey possible locations for a new church start. It is our hope that the Donelson Family will join us on this journey via this blog. If technology allows, we will be posting updates throughout the days Friday and Saturday. Sign up now [...]
The world we live in is full of opinions. The current opinion, about opinions, is that everyone has an opinion and my opinion is equal to your opinion. The issues about opinions are as confusing as that last sentence. So, how do we, as Christians, form an opinion on a given topic and feel confident [...]
What a great celebration day we had this last Sunday as we remembered the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Many of you were visiting for the first time and I would like to invite you back again as we celebrate resurrection day again this next Lord’s Day. God touched many of you [...]
Tonight we began the process of covering 5030 homes around our location with the gospel. We had a good group to start but it will take a big commitment to accomplish this task prior to Easter. Be watching as we will be adding some Saturday mornings to our outreach [...]
The Father/Daughter Banquet was a great success. Thanks to everyone that gave of their time and talents to make this happen. A bit thank you goes to Deborah for her dream and hard work. Below is the for you to download your own copy of the pictures taken. http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/2864807/1/Father_Dauther_2011?h=54fefc Your servant, Bro. Jim
This Sunday night we begin this semester’s CrossTraining at 5 p.m. There are classes for men, women, moms, youth and theologians. There is choir for senior adults and children alike. Come and join us has we “equip the saints to live and model a Christ-like lifestyle…to the glory of the Father.” Bro Jim Women – [...]
You all know how much I hate to cancel services, so I wanted to say that we are postponing services until Sunday but everyone thought that would be confusing. So, to be clear we will not have any services or meetings tonight due to the possibility of the new snow. Stay home, stay warm and [...]