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Vacation Bible School – Journey off the Map – begins one week from today. Preregistration information is below. To get you ready and excited, here is another video:

To preregister your children for VBS, please fill out the vbs registration form. You can scan and email your registration forms to info@playground.laredcreative.com, mail or bring them to the church office, or just bring the forms when you bring your children Monday evening, July 27 at 5:00. Registration will also be available here at the office at 4:45 p.m. each afternoon next week.

Our annual family celebration for VBS will be Sunday, August 2nd at 10:40 a.m. This will include a presentation by the children and will be followed by lunch, snow cones, popcorn, games and the famous bounce house.

We hope your children will join us in our Journey off the Map!

VBS 2015 – Journey Off the Map from LifeWay VBS on Vimeo.

Richland’s VBS will be July 27-31. For more information, click HERE.

The time for our annual Vacation Bible School is drawing near! This year’s Journey off the Map will be July 27-31 (Monday through Friday). We will gather nightly from 5:00 – 8:00, wtih all participants and volunteers welcome for supper at 5, followed by VBS starting at 5:30. We hope you’ll join us for this fun and exciting time, as kids learn what it means to follow Jesus and have a blast doing so.

VBS is for kids who have recently finished preschool through sixth grade.

If you are interested in serving the children in our church and in our community by helping, please let us know. Spread the word, and invite your family, friends, neighbors, classmates, etc. Let’s take the journey!

On Sunday, August 2nd, we will have our annual VBS Celebration during our 10:40 a.m. worship service. The service will be followed by lunch, family games, popcorn, snow cones and the famous bounce house. All are welcome!

On Saturday and Sunday, we celebrated the 175th anniversary of Richland Baptist Church (founded June 20, 1840). With nearly 250 people at our family and community celebration on Saturday and 150 people at our Sunday morning worship service, we were blessed and encouraged by the work of God in the lives of many. Several people made this anniversary celebration possible, and for that we are extremely grateful. Below are some pictures giving you a small glimpse of the fun we had in fellowship and worship.

Richland Baptist Church was started June 20, 1840. What an exciting time to celebrate 175 years as a church family!

Ultimately, though, our 175^th anniversary is not why we are celebrating this weekend. Rather, we are celebrating because of the grace and mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Our anniversary is something for which we are thankful. We are grateful for and proud of those who came before us and endured the ups and downs to keep Richland together for the sake of the gospel. Like every church family, we are not perfect. We are sinners who daily need our Savior. We are dependent on the Lord as much today as we have ever been.

Richland has endured the Civil War, has pushed through the horrific sin of human slavery, has battled disunity and division, and has had its share of other struggles. Still, here we are after 175 years. Praise the Lord!

Our passion is the gospel. Our church is our family. Our world is our mission. By the grace of God and through the work of His Spirit in our church, we exist to love Him and love others. We have been fortunate to have started five other gospel-centered churches and pray the Lord will use us to start many more – to be used of Him for the advancement of the gospel to the nations.

As you celebrate our 175^th anniversary, be thankful for Richland. More importantly, though, seek the Lord Jesus with all your heart and pray for His work in your life and in the life of the church. May He be honored, and may His church be faithful, humble, united and courageous.  After all, everything good we do as His followers and as His church family is because of Him. Be reconciled to God. Be reconciled to one another!

—Nick Drake, Pastor

Family & Community Celebration – Schedule of Events

Saturday, June 20 (4-8 p.m.)

*Barbecue              *Games              *Snow Cones & Popcorn

*Moon Bounce     *Dunk Tank       *Pictures & Videos

*Special Music      *Fellowship        *Memories

Supper will be served at 5:30. Please bring a covered dish to share.

Sunday, June 21 (9:30-11:45 a.m.)

9:30 a.m. – Family Groups for all ages

10:40 a.m. – Worship

*Including special music and former pastor David Church bringing the message.

For more information or for directions, visit us online or call 573-642-2556.

Richland Baptist Church was founded on June 20, 1840, making this Saturday our 175th anniversary! To celebrate, we are having a family and community celebration that is open to all family and friends of Richland Baptist Church, as well as our local community. Please join us!

Saturday, June 20 (4-8 p.m.)

*Barbecue              *Games               *Popcorn & Snow Cones

*Moon Bounce     *Dunk Tank        *Pictures & Videos

*Special Music      *Fellowship        *Memories

Supper will be served at 5:30. Please bring a covered dish to share.

Sunday, June 21 (9:30-11:45 a.m.)

9:30 a.m. – Family Groups for all ages

10:40 a.m. – Worship

*Including special music and former pastor David Church bringing the message.

If you missed our morning worship service on May 24th, you missed an exciting day for our church family, as Tina Giboney was baptized. Please watch this short video of Tina sharing her testimony of how she came to faith in Jesus Christ.

Men, please join us Thursday evening at 5:30 for our monthly fellowship. This week we’ll be going skeet shooting together. If you don’t have a shotgun, no worries. We have plenty to share. Invite your family and friends, even if you just want to come and enjoy the fellowship and don’t plan on shooting anything.

We plan on meeting in the church parking lot at 5:15 and carpooling together to the shooting range. If you can’t make it by then but still want to join us or meet us somewhere else, please contact us. Hope to see you Thursday!

Here are a few special events coming soon…

May 12 (11:30 a.m.) – Recycled Teenagers’ Luncheon

May 14 (5:00 p.m.) – Men’s Fellowship: Skeet Shooting

June 9 (11:30 a.m.) – Recycled Teenagers’ Luncheon

June 20 (4-8 p.m.) – Dodransbicentennial Celebration (Richland Baptist Church’s 175th Anniversary)

June 21 (10:40 a.m.) – Special Anniversary Celebration Worship Service with former pastor David Church bringing the message (preceded by Family Groups at 9:30)

July 27-31 (5-8 p.m.) – Vacation Bible School: Journey off the Map

For questions or more information on Richland activities and events, please contact us.