The Outreach Committee is hosting a Community-Wide Block Party, which will feature live music, food, Steel City Pops, a small farmer’s market, and games and activities for children of all ages. Free admission and parking, but bring cash to support local vendors.
In many ways, we are now entering the most challenging period of the interim. By the time you read this article, the Ad Hoc Committee will have presented their recommendations to the Deacons who will have a month to think about and discuss the material before voting on their recommendation at the May Deacons’ meeting. This recommendation will come to the Church Business Meeting on May 23.
Please join us for the movie, Wonder, at our new time, 11 a.m. Enter through office door, take elevator to second floor, Room E-204. New this month will be lunch following the movie. For May, we will dine at McAlisters Deli with lunch on your own. Please call the church office at 502.895.2459 by Thursday, May 10, to let us know you plan on attending the movie and/or lunch.
Oaks Day, Friday, May 4, Church Office Closed, Normal Campus Activities Continue
Memorial Day, Monday, May 28, Church Office Closed, Church Campus Closed, All Activities Cancelled
Dear Broadway Baptist Church,
Thank you for your recent contributions of $10,000.00 for the Zimbabwe Seminary fund. Your gift makes you a part of a diverse community of more than 3,000 individuals and 133 progressive congregations responding to the continuing call of God in a rapidly changing world with a commitment to ecumenism, partnership in missions, radical hospitality and social justice.
Warmly,
Carole Collins
*This gift was given by our Missions Endowment Fund.
The last courtyard concert of the summer will occur on Thursday, July 30, at 7 p.m. Cost is $5. Come enjoy an evening of Jazz and dessert with Broadway’s own musicians Robert Dixon, Ken Lundberg, Jim Rago, and special guest, Jerry Amend. Please sign up in the church office at 502.895.2459 by Monday, July 27.
Last week's Vacation Bible School was a meaningful experience and successful new adventure for our church. Throughout the week, children and their parents participated in missions activities together, learning about Broadway's different mission partners. These activities allowed the families to serve God together and take part in the church's overall goals for missions.
The parents also took part in an adult Bible Study throughout the week led by Jeff Sanders. The time together was enriching, while also providing space for the parents to get to know one another better.
Most importantly, the children learned more about some of the great characters of the Bible, and God, who calls them to love and serve their family, friends, neighbors, and communities. We hope to raise compassionate children at Broadway who love Jesus and want to follow his example. This year's Vacation Bible School helped to move us in that direction!
Thank you to everyone who helped with VBS, either through donating supplies or your time. The children and families had a wonderful week serving God together, and none of it would have been possible without your help and prayers.
Yoga Classes
Tuesday 6:00 - 7:30 pm All Levels
Wednesday 10:00 - 11:30am All Levels
Thursday 4:00 - 5:15 pm Beginner/Gentle
6:00 - 7:30 pm All Levels
$45/six classes, $70/ten classes, $12 drop in. Interested? Contact sharonvoelker54@gmail.com or call/text Sharon at 502.641.5982
Instructor - Sharon Voelker
Sharon is an experienced teacher having taught classes at BBC for four years. She has trained extensively in the Iyengar method locally with Alex Cleveland and nationally with senior teachers Karin O’Bannon, Kathleen Pringle and Dean Lerner. She is registered with Yoga Alliance.
Yoga can help relieve tension and stress and increase flexibility, balance and strength. Yoga WILL make you feel good!
The summer Jubilate Youth Choir Festival Singers’ tour took place the first week of June. Our youth choir here at Broadway joined voices with youth from five other churches as they toured around Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The shared experiences on the tour created a sense of unity and purpose for the entire group. New friendships were formed, old ones renewed and ministry opportunities were abundant.
Last night at Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a white man walked into a prayer meeting in a black church. Initial reports say he remained in the meeting an hour before opening fire. I’m a white pastor, but this past Sunday was a vacation day, so I went to a black church where an African American friend is the pastor. Having just made this visit, and having worshiped in many African American churches, I think I have some sense of how the young man would have been received. . . .
One of the great things about Broadway is how we care for one another and our community. Throughout the month of June, the missions committee would like to encourage everyone in the church to participate in a service project to share God’s love with someone. You may choose to participate in a project with your Sunday school class, small group, or help with another need you know about. Wherever you choose to serve, we would love to hear about it and celebrate how God’s love is being shared.
There will be a list of service opportunities in the Atrium, Foyer, and by the church office. At the bottom of that list is an “offering of time” slip. Please fill out the bottom slip, tear it off, and leave it in one of the baskets by the sanctuary doors after worship.
Another way to celebrate how members of our church are being the hands and feet of Christ is through the Summer Missions Selfies bulletin board in the hallway outside of Friendship Hall. When you are working on your service project, take a picture. You can email it to Susan Reed in the church office (susanr@broadwaybaptist.org), or print it out and hang it on one of those boards. Let’s consider it a church-wide challenge to fill those boards with service pictures over the summer!
Broadway will serve lunch on Saturday, June 13, at the KBF Extreme Build homesite in McCreary County. This will be at the home's dedication. If you can help by donating dessert, fruit, drinks, or by helping prepare the food or wish to travel to help serve, please contact Donna Williams at 502.774.0515. We will leave Saturday morning at 8 a.m.
Thank you from the West End School!
To everyone at the Broadway Baptist Church,
Again, all of us at the West End School are so very grateful for your thoughtfulness and generosity. The end of the school year is rapidly approaching and graduation will be on May 19. All of the students have worked so hard and have made remarkable strides. Much of this would not have been possible without your unfailing generous support. When the boys do well moving to other schools it is you who have given them a good start and a hand up.
Bless you,
Deborah and Robert Blair
Dear Friends,
I was thrilled with the lovely birthday greeting you sent me for my 101st birthday. Even though I cannot see it, my family read me every name on it and described it to me in great detail. What a thoughtful, loving gift that continues to bring me joy.
I continue to appreciate the many ways the members at Broadway have stayed connected to me even though I cannot attend services regularly. The calls, notes and visits are joyful reminders that you don't forget your senior members. Thanks to each one of you.
With love,
Helen Graves.
The Family Resource Center at Chenoweth Elementary will be in need of new or gently used child-sized backpacks when school starts back in the fall. If you would like to buy a backpack to donate, please place it in one of the Love in Action bins located in the Atrium, Friendship Hall, or outside the office by Sunday, July 26.
Many thanks to all of you who have participated or are scheduled to participate in the Flower Ministry this year at Broadway. Flowers are a beautiful addition to our worship service and a thoughtful way to remember someone in the process. If you want to take advantage of this opportunity, there are five more Sundays available this year. They are: July 19, July 26, August 2, October 11, and October 18. If you would like to provide the Sanctuary flowers for one for these Sundays, please contact Carol Lundberg at 502.895.2459 or carol@broadwaybaptist.org.
Our congregational discernment process is moving forward. Members of our discernment team, along with others who were trained to help, met in small groups with over 75 youth and adults in the church. They talked with them about times when Broadway has had special meaning for them, and they talked with them about God’s hopes and dreams for Broadway’s future. The thoughts were compiled and discussed by the discernment team, and then a second set of conversations among members occurred at the pot luck luncheon a few weeks ago. That day the team got some feedback and clarification.
Now the team will work on distilling and prioritizing the feedback into a report about where the congregation feels God is leading us. On the basis of this, the staff, along with committees, teams, deacons, and other lay leaders, will make specific plans and set specific goals to help us move in that direction.
My thanks to the discernment team and to all those who are participating in the conversation!
As we make our final preparations for Vacation Bible School, we need your help! Please help us update our resources for VBS by taking a card with an item listed from one of the bulletin boards located in the Atrium and Foyer. Return the item you selected to one of the boxes located throughout the church on Sunday, June 7 or Sunday, June 14. You may also return items to the church office throughout the week.
Service in September will be held Saturday, September 19 from 8:30 – Noon. This is a church-wide time of service in our community to commemorate the tragedy of 9/11 with a positive spirit of serving those around us. Meet in Friendship Hall for breakfast at 8:30. Service projects will be at various locations in the church and around Louisville from 9:00 – Noon. All ages and skill sets are welcome! We will have a variety of service projects available.
Location
Broadway Baptist Church
4000 Brownsboro Road,
Louisville, KY 40207-1826
Phone: 502.895.2459
Office and Staff
Office Hours
Monday - Thursday
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday
OFFICE CLOSED
