The drink machine in the Family Life Center has a new dollar bill acceptor! We apologize for any inconvenience the old one may have caused, but the new one has been tested and is working properly!
First Courtyard Concert, April 19th
The first courtyard concert is scheduled for April 19 immediately following worship. We are very excited about the creative twist for this concert. We have enlisted some of our members here at Broadway, who are music educators within our city, to share their creative knowledge with our children and youth. This is intended to be a child and youth friendly event. So, we encourage families to attend. In addition, please feel free to invite friends within our community who might be students of our music educators. This will be a great treat for us and a good outreach opportunity as well. Cost of the child friendly meal is $5.00 per person. Make sure to make your reservations early!
Reflections at the Cross
Each week during Lent we have focused on one of the crosses placed on the window sills within our sanctuary. During Holy Week, please feel free to come by the church during office hours to spend time in reflection and prayer at each of these crosses. We encourage you to reflect on the guided prayer located at each window or even to take the cards home with you for the week.
Calling All Graduates
If you or someone you know affiliated with Broadway are graduating from high school, college, or a post graduate institution, please send in their information to be recognized on Graduate Sunday, May 24. For high school students, please include the high school the student is graduating from, as well as post high school plans. For college and post-graduate information, please include the school and degree attained. This is for all graduates in the Summer of 2014 through May 2015.
Holy Week
Palm Sunday Processional
Sunday, March 29, at 10:50 a.m.
Just before worship, we will gather outside the front steps of the sanctuary and listen to the story of Jesus’ processional through Jerusalem. Then, we will follow the cross, waving our own palm branches, as we enter the sanctuary for worship. We encourage all who are able to participate.
Maundy Thursday Service
Thursday, April 2, at 7:00 p.m.
Please join us April 2nd for a special Maundy Thursday service, led by the Chancel Choir and Bells, with communion in the Sanctuary. Nursery/childcare will be available.
Creative Arts Camp
Yes! We have found a date in the shortened summer calendar for our Creative Arts Camp: Monday, July 27 -Thursday, July 30 from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Because the response was so overwhelming last year, we have decided to limit our age of participation to school-age children: rising 1st graders to completed 5th graders. In addition, we will limit the number of those participating to 40 children. There will be a large group time of choir and several small group/individual offerings, such as; voice, piano, drama, art, culinary arts, etc… Please be on the lookout for registration details and other information and make plans to have your child/children participate. If you can serve as a volunteer during this camp, please contact Robert or Emily.
Chancel Choir Favorite Anthem
Have an Event?
Would you like to reserve an event on the church calendar? We now have a form that we require you to fill out in order to get an event added to the calendar - both the google calendar and the online calendar. You can find the link here or print copies are available in the church office.
Thank You! From Chris and Emily Liles
Emily and I would like to thank everyone for caring for us and asking about baby Tessa. We are so grateful for all the kind words and excitement. We feel so fortunate and blessed that we get to raise Tessa at Broadway, surrounded by such a loving and nurturing community.
Grace and Peace,
Chris, Emily, and Tessa Liles.
Changes to the Newsletter
Please note that, starting in March, you will only receive two email updates per month, rather than the weekly and monthly newsletter. This will only affect those of you who receive the online newsletter. You can find church news updated daily here or on the church’s facebook page. We hope this will help you to keep up with all the latest church news in the most concise way possible!
Love in Action
If you are active in a charitable organization that could benefit from a month-long collection through our Love in Action Bins, please contact Betty Allen (502-895-0852) or Susan Reed in the church office. Among groups we will be helping this spring/summer are The West End School and Chenoweth Elementary. We would like to be of service to your group as well.
Chris's Discernment Column
This Lenten season we are beginning a discernment process. We will be considering God’s
calling for us as a church for the next few years. Primarily, we will be trying to discern how
to build on Broadway’s passions and strengths, but we will also give thought to how to do
this in a changed cultural landscape.
We are in the process of training volunteers to sit down with small groups of members to
pray and to hear people’s thoughts. If you would like to participate in one of these sessions,
please email Susan Reed (susanr@broadwaybaptist.org) so we can arrange a time for you
to meet with one of the small groups.
Once we have heard from all these groups, we will then have a second round of
conversations with congregation members. This second conversation will take things a step
further by reflecting on some of the things we learned in the first conversations, and then
considering more specific ideas that might grow out of what we have learned.
Over the summer, we will distill this all down to a report back to the congregation, and
based on that report, we will begin working through the church’s leadership structure to put
specific plans in place based on what we believe God is calling us to do.
Please be in prayer for this process and for those working with the Discernment Team:
Emily Allen Kirby (Chair), Noelle Bailey, Dick Brown, Ken Cox, Maryanne Elliott, Dawn
Stambaugh, Ryan Williams, Chris Caldwell, and Susan Reed.
Dare to Care
On the second Monday of every month, volunteers from Broadway go to Dare to Care to pack backpacks or sort food donations for families in Louisville. All ages (above 12 years old) are welcome to help! We leave the church parking lot at 8:45 a.m., work until noon and go have lunch together. Our next volunteer date is Monday, March 9.
Spring Mission Yard Sale
Habitat Build
We need folks to come out to build during the Raise the Roof days of March 5, 6, and 7. We also need a small group or Sunday School class to volunteer to make lunch for the work crew on Friday, March 6.
Please contact Conway Stone 502.419.7066 for more information or if you have not said the official “yes” to Baptist House 2015.
Lenten Worship
This Lenten season is for us a time of discernment as a congregation. Where is God leading us? Who is God calling us to be? As you prepare for worship, and as we prepare to follow God, meditate on this prayer, written by Ken Cox, a member of our Discernment Team, a group of volunteers helping to guide our church through this process: Lord, grant us the confidence to be who we are, and the courage to be who we are not.
Lenten Music Schedule for March:
Thank You - Valentine's Banquet
HoneyBaked
New Members
New Members Kirk and Barbara Leiferman
New Members Bill, Donna, Summer, and Sam Stevens
Running Group
The Running Group is back in action! Whether you are a new runner or run 100 miles just for fun, this is the group for you. Participants meet outside the Children’s Learning Center at 8:30 a.m. to run around Louisville. Many are running in preparation for the Kentucky Derby Marathon or Mini-Marathon on April 25. So if you’ve always thought about running for the roses, now is your chance!
Childcare is provided. Please contact Patrick Ryan at pryan_ul@hotmail.com for more information about the Running Group.