Our Worship Service centers on Matthew 6:24-34. Worship leaders include Amanda Rone, Wade and Brynne Severns, Youth Choir, Bill Blanton, Samantha Denton, Barbara Satterwhite, Donna Soyars, Meade Skelton, and the Church Staff
Worship: Proper 27b, 11.11.12
Our Worship Service centers on Hebrews 9. Our worship leaders include the Sanctuary Choir, Christen Schumacher, Way Thaw, Mae La, Bya Wann, Mamie Ruth Blanton, and the Church Staff.
Worship: All Saints Sunday, 11.4.12
Our Worship centers on All Saints Day. Rev. Severns’ sermon focuses on the topic of death. How does the church respond when we see or experience death around us? What is the role of the church as it relates to the care we offer those who are grieving?
Worship leaders include Anna Tuckwiller, Wiley Southworth, Susan Braden, Lawt Awng, Paula Hitchens, Connie Jones, Dick Denzler, Sanctuary Choir, and the Church Staff.
Youth Mentors Needed
The youth team is currently seeking one male adult and one female adult to serve as mentors to specific youth. Mentors are paired with one teenager to serve as encouragers and friends. This intentional model of discipleship provides a wonderful opportunity to serve and make an investment in someone’s life. We ask that mentors make an effort to see/talk to/do something with their mentee at least one time per month.
Contact Kate Ayers, David Guion, or Julies Gaines if you are interested in serving.
Worship: Reformation Sunday, 10.28.12
Our worship service centers on Hebrews 7, The High Priest. Worship leaders include Der Say, Sanctuary Choir, Gail Welstead, and the Church Staff.
Women’s Fellowship Group
The Women’s Fellowship Group invites all females to join their weekly gatherings at Colonial Apartments.
Who? Burmese and American born women and their beautiful children.
What? A gathering of women (and children) from different backgrounds and/or cultures, cooking, eating, and fellowshipping together while teaching and learning from one another.
When? Monday nights at 5:30.
Where? Usually held at one of the Burmese lady’s apartments living in Colonial Apartments. We move around every week.
Why? FELLOWSHIP, growing the size of the group, building knowledge and skills ? primarily teaching the Burmese women new skills while also integrating their ideas and encouraging their participation in all activities.
Contact Leigh Anne at Zylstra@tbcrichmond.org for more information
Sermon: The Long Way Home
Sermon based on the Great Commission, Matthew 28:16-20.
Worship: Proper 24b, 10.21.12
Our Worship Service centers on the Great Commission, Matthew 28:16-20. Rev. Severns’ sermon, entitled “The Long Way Home” serves as plea for unity. There is tremendous value in maintaining healthy tension in the church. Worship leaders include: Charlotte Wright, Alicia Phillips, Wade Severns, Tin Par, Sanctuary Choir, Kathy McGraw, and the Pastoral Staff.
Cung Thawng
God helped my family come to the United States as refugees from the Chin State in Burma. We resettled safely in Richmond in 2009. We had planned to move with my brother to Dallas, Texas.However, Rev. Eric Hasha and TeeMoo came to visit my apartment and invited to us to worship at Taberancle Baptist Church. We have been worshipping at Tabernacle ever since. The Pastor’s family and church members have warmly welcomed us and helped us make a home here.
I am very thankful to the church for their support. Thank you for caring for us. Now, we don’t want to move to another state because we don’t want to leave Tabernacle. This church has provided a safe place for us.
Cung Thawng, Deacon
Rev(s) Joanie & Jason Williams
Joanie and I consider the few years we were able to spend with you some of the richest of our lives. You loved us during a very significant time in our faith development, our marriage, and our preparation for ministry with Hyaets. You helped us learn how to be church as creative, authentic and faithful people.
So many of you guided and supported us both through Jason’s internship, our ordination and our discernment process as we developed and stepped out in faith to begin Hyaets. We cannot begin to adequately thank you all. Yet at this marker in your history, it seems appropriate to remind you that you mean a great deal to us. We become teary-eyed when we reflect back upon our Tabernacle Home!
Just a few weeks from now will mark the seventh anniversary of our joint ordination at Tabernacle Baptist Church! You continue to be a foundation and ground for us as we now walk our journey with Hyaets covenanting to inspire, enrich and embody community in the marginalized places of Charlotte, NC. Thanks for showing us what authentic community can look like in the church! Thanks for loving and understanding us when others, including our own families, did not understand us! Thanks for remembering us over the past seven years as we have been on the incredible journey with God and neighbor to which you ordained us!
Today you continue to inspire us as we hear and read stories of your journey into deep relationships with brothers and sisters from across the globe who are finding refuge in your backyard. Keep up the good and faithful work! Continue to enrich the community in which you have been placed! Never stop being the embodiment of loving, authentic, Christian community! We love you!
Joanie and Jason Williams
Jason and Joanie were ordained at Tabernacle on June 18, 2005 and are residential members of the Hyaets Community in Charlotte, NC.
