Announcements & Prayers (Week of 16-22 March 2025)

(Weekly Prayer Schedule Follows the Announcement)

• Special Thanks:  A special thanks is extended to all the men who worked in the cemetery yesterday straightening headstones.  Your hard work and commitment are a true blessing to all of us at Fairfield.

• Men’s Chorus:  The Men’s Chorus will practice this afternoon at 3:00pm.

• Ignite Youth:  Ignite Youth will meet this afternoon from 4:00pm-5:30pm. Ignite Youth is a small group for children in Elementary and Middle School that meets each Sunday afternoon.  Spread the word!

• Bible Study:  Join us for Bible Study on the book of Genesis each Monday.  Two sessions are offered for your convenience: one at 9:30am and a second at 6:00pm.  No special materials are needed for the study beyond your favorite Bible.  Please invite a friend and join us as we study God’s Word together.   This week’s discussion will focus on chapters 38-40.

• Weekly Prayer Meeting:  Join us for a weekly prayer meeting each Monday beginning at 11:00am.  We’ll pray for the church, our community, our nation and the world.

• Pinto Bean Supper:  Invite your friends to join us for our next Pinto Bean Supper this Tuesday, March 18.  The Supper will begin at 5:30pm.  Anyone wishing to volunteer is invited to join us at 4:00pm.  

• Choir practice:  The choir will practice this Wednesday at 6:00pm.

• Family Life Team:  The Family Life Team will meet this Thursday, March 20, at 6:00pm in the fellowship hall.

• Room In The Inn:  Our final RITI will be at Pursuit’s Rocksprings Campus this Friday and Saturday (March 21-22).  We will partner with Webbs Chapel and be responsible for Breakfast on Saturday morning. Details going forward for the Mission team and others interested will go out via email from Jan Ledford.  Please contact Jan to be included in that email.

• Distribution of Church T-Shirts:  Church T-shirts will be available next week for distribution to those who placed an order recently.  Payment will be collected when the shirts are distributed.

• WNC Workday:  There is a proposed WNC work day planned for Saturday, April 5, at Gashes Creek Baptist Church, 308 Gashes Creek Rd., Asheville.  Details of the duties involved will be coming soon.  Contact Jan Ledford for more information.

• Fifth Sunday Luncheon:  Mark your calendars now and plan to join us for our 5th Sunday covered-dish luncheon on March 30 at 12:30pm.  Everyone is invited!

• Church Directory Updates:  Directory pictures will be taken after the 9am service and before the 11am service today.  If you haven’t had your photo taken for our Church Directory, or if you would like to update your photo, please stop by our photo booth.  Also, please complete the Contact Information Update Form available on the small table if you are new to Fairfield or if you want corrections made to the last directory.  The updated directory will be available in the member section of the church website soon.

• Lenten Prayer Series:  During Lent, we’ll have a special emphasis on prayer.  In addition to a sermon series on prayer, many of the Sunday School classes will also feature lessons on prayer.  These lessons will be based, in part, on the book Powerful Prayers in the War Room by Daniel B. Lancaster.  We are encouraging everyone to read this short book (about 73 pages) during Lent.  Paperback copies are available at the table in the hallway for $10/ea.  Less expensive Kindle and Audio versions are available as well.

                      LET’S PRAY                                                      March 16-22, 2025

	SCRIPTURE – NKJV	Prayer Starter
SUN	Jeremiah 7:24 - “Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but followed the counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.”	Lord, we claim to be Christians.  We read Your Word but we’re stubborn and choose our way instead of Yours.  Holy Father please forgive us!
MON	1 Samuel 15:23 - “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.  Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.”	Father, why are we surprised when plans don’t go our way?  We refuse to let You lead us.  In Your name we ask for a submissive spirit.
TUE	Acts 7:51 - “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears!  You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.”	Jesus strengthen in us the “fruit of the Spirit”.  We want to be Spirit led not by flesh that fails!
WED	Micah 4:5 - “For all people walk each in the name of his god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.”	Father when You know we’re putting someone or something above You, convict our hearts.  We vow faithfulness to You and You only!  Amen.
THU	Habakkuk 3:17 - “Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the labor of the olive may fail, and the fields yield no food; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls-yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.”	Lord help us remember Job’s words when everything is going wrong, “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”  We want that kind of faith!
FRI	Haggai 1:6-7 - “You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.  Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!”	Lord Jesus, we keep searching for the things that never satisfy.  You and Your word are our daily bread.  Help us set our eyes on You!
SAT	Lamentations 3:40-41 - “Let us search out and examine our ways and turn back to the Lord; let us lift our hearts and hands to God in heaven.”	Lord we’re sorry for the sins we’ve committed this week by thought, word and deed.  We are ashamed for what we’ve done.  Please forgive us.