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February 8, 2012

Financial Peace University

This awesome class designed to give you financial peace will be offered during R.L.U. (Real Life University) beginnig Wednesday, February 8.

   PREVIEW DATES:

  • January 22 at 5:00 pm
  • January 29 at 5:00 pm

If you are interested in learning about this this class, join us in F-1 on either of the dates listed above.

The cost to take this class is $93. Because of the costs involved we are offering two separate preview sessions for your convenience. By attending one of the two preview sessions you will be better equipped to decide if you want to invest in this life changing course.

We attended Financial Peace University.  While browsing the Dave Ramsey website, Kerry found a tool, “Generation Change”.  We ordered the kit and an extra workbook to go through with our kids, who are 18 and 14.

Our daughter will be graduating this year and will need a computer.  Kerry came up with an idea for a wonderful gift.  For her birthday we gave her money toward the purchase of the laptop with a few stipulations.  She would have to save the money we gave her and the remainder of the cost herself.  Once all of the money was saved, we ordered the laptop.  Another requirement was that she and her brother go through the “Generation Change” kit with us.

Financial Peace University and Generation Change have been such a blessing.  What a perfect time in their lives to be exposed to such great instruction for their finances.  We wish we could have been exposed to Dave Ramsey’s principles earlier in our lives.                                       Kerry & Vicki Darsey

The following link will take you to Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University website.
Financial Peace University

Start: February 8, 2012 6:00 pm
End: March 28, 2012 6:00 pm

March 4, 2012

Annie Moses Band Concert

You Don’t Want to Miss this Amazingly Talented Family

Sunday morning, March 4th, the Annie Moses Band will perform the special music and then, at 6:00 pm, they will perform a full concert that will dazzle you beyond belief.

The Annie Moses Band is an ensemble unlike any in America today. A blend of fiddle, jazz, and
classical influences fused with soaring, folk-inspired vocals creates a sound that is both refreshing and familiar. The Annie Moses Band is a family bringing classicism to the common man.

With 1000+ hours of airings on PBS stations across the country (the highest debut for any artist on public television to date), a top-ten Classical Crossover album (Billboard Magazine), a bustling tour schedule of over 80 concerts a year before 100,000+ people, and a plethora of appearances in print and on television, this family is pulling new fans from across musical genres to their eclectic style of music making.

 

Named in honor of the children’s great-grandmother, the group is poised to broaden its impact with their new project and public television special, Pilgrims & Prodigals. Scheduled for release in 2011, Pilgrims & Prodigals is a two-disc cd/dvd package giving audiences the visual thrill of the group’s live performance, as well as the accessibility of a studio album.

The music is a tapestry of Americana favorites and original tunes. Jazz re-imaginings (“Poor Wayfaring Pilgrim”), Copland-esque renditions of Celtic classics (“Blarney Pilgrim”), Appalachian echoes (“Girl of Constant Sorrow” and “Trail Mix”), and progressive strings and vocals (“The Road Well Traveled”) make Pilgrims & Prodigals the Band’s definitive project thus far.

Beyond this success, the Annie Moses Band enjoys the fact that their music is an inspiration to a new generation of young artisans. “Everywhere we perform there are returning children, who say to us, “I started playing a couple of years ago after we saw your concert.’ This scenario is exactly what we hope will happen,” Annie explains. To bolster this reality, the Band hosts the annual Fine Arts Summer Academy in Nashville, TN where over 200 students from ages 4 to 22 come to hone their artistic craft, and discover their innate gifts as performers.

Start: March 4, 2012 6:00 am
End: March 4, 2012 7:00 pm

March 9, 2012

Charles Billingsley Concert

Purchase a ticket from one of the youth, the main office, or on the FBC Front Porch.
Proceeds go to missions.

Charles Billingsley is recognized as one of Christian

music’s most powerful inspirational vocalists.

When he was 22 years old, the day after his college graduation Charles Billingsley packed up his red two-door Ford Explorer, attached a little trailer behind it and headed to a church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to perform his first professional concert. Almost twenty years later, after 24 records, 17 years of marriage, two children, and 3,000 concerts, Billingsley is releasing his 25th album. Never Forsaken, releasing early 2012, is a collection of songs ranging from recreations such as “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Another Day in Paradise” to intimate autobiographical tracks like “Baby I Blinked,” as well as the impassioned truth-telling like “God So Loved the World” and the title track.

Eight years since his last solo artist album, Billingsley is excited to share Never Forsaken with the world, and its catchy tunes are served with a powerful message: “It’s a plea to the church,” Billingsley explains. “Look beyond the four walls of our buildings and get out there and love the world. It’s just a reminder to us all–God actually loves them as much as he loves me.”

Elaborating on that message is the album’s catalyst song, “God So Loved the World.” Written by Billingsley along with Keith Smith, Adam Lancaster and Tony Wood, the song serves as a wake-up call to the church: “Every preacher in the pulpit/Every cynic on the street/Every poet/Every pauper/Every soldier/Every lawyer…God so loved the world.’

 

Billingsley, with his with his wife Shae and their two boys, recently took an eye-opening trip to Guatemala along with the humanitarian organization Causelife. During their visit, as they journeyed through numerous villages in dire need of fresh water, Billingsley’s inspiration deepened to help build wells across third world countries.

 This trip also grew the inspiration for his new project, especially for its title track. “The song ‘Never Forsaken’ is for those people in the world who are hungry, lost, afraid, malnourished, thirsty, who cry out every day for something called hope,” he shares. “They won’t hear this album. This record is for the people who will hear it to do something about it.”

 Billingsley’s message for the record became clear: “Give away today, whatever that means. Your love, time, money, talents, whatever it takes, let God use you.”

 

Start: March 9, 2012 7:00 pm
End: March 9, 2012 8:00 pm
Cost: $10 admission