WELCOME TO PACKS BRANCH BAPTIST CHURCH
May 18, 2025
ERIC DAVIS, PASTOR
It is a blessing to share this Lord’s Day with you and we are glad you chose to wor-ship with us. For those visiting, we are honored to have you. Please fill out a “Visitor’s Card” located in the pew and place it in the offering plate later in the ser-vice. If you do not have a home church, please join us tonight and this week in our services. Thank you for coming!
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves’ we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thank-ful unto him, and bless his name. For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalms 100
OUR WEEKLY SERVICES
SUNDAY SCHOOL SERVICE 10:00 am
SUNDAY MORNING WORSHIP 11:00 am
SUNDAY EVENING WORSHIP 6:00 pm
WEDNESDAY EVENING MASTER CLUB 6:30 pm
WEDNESDAY EVENING SERVICE 7:00 pm
THURSDAY EVENING VISITATION 6:00 pm
Upcoming Event–Teacher’s meeting scheduled for 5/27/25 at 6:00 pm.
Congratulations
Jacob & Bailey Meadows will be graduating from Wood-row Wilson High School on Saturday, May 31st. Jacob plans to attend BridgeValley Community and Technical College and Bailey plans to attend WVU Tech. Please pray for them as they finish high school and start college.
To the Graduate
What I would Wish For You, Dear Young Friend:
Just enough EXPERIENCE seasoned with heartache so that you can separate dreams from illusions…DENIAL touched with indifference so that you will always try harder and struggle just a little more to reach your goal or to taste victory…HARD WORK and lots of it so that you might grow blisters on your hands, but not on your atti-tude…DEFEAT occasionally in order that your backbone may be stiff-ened and your emotional muscles strengthened…NEED so that you will never be afraid to reach out to others for help, nor will fail to comprehend that others may have need of you…FRUSTRATION in order that you will have to begin again, to pick up the shattered piec-es and know what it is to have to start over…FEAR of competition, fear of weakness, and fear of failure so that you will always avoid being the destructive Bs: boastful, blasé and bored…FAITH so that you will wrap yourself in God as your security blanket, and never fail to acknowledge the Stars and Stripes as your status symbol…No, I have NOT offered you the EASY PATH, nor have I tossed out pretty phrases to compliment or win you. But then, friendship is telling it like it is. And life is made of these things I have offered you. The test is whether or not you can take it!
~Basilia E. Nelson