This has been an exciting month of firsts for Lakeshore Baptist Church! We've shared in our first fellowship meal, observed our first Lord's Supper, and begun our first Sunday School classes. Both the adults and the children's class are studying from the book of Genesis this quarter in Sunday School, and we're averaging seventeen attenders!
Micah Bender and Brittney King have been coming on extension from Northland and have begun teaching Sunday School for the primary children and nursery pre-schoolers. We are so thankful for their help and smiling faces in services.
This month we welcomed the WFBC director Wayne Vawter and his wife to our fellowship meal, and our weekly visitors from Bay City have been such an encouragment. We praise God as He continues to add to our numbers from the community, and our core of families from Bay City remain faithful in attendance and ministry. Sunday morning attendance averages thirty-one and twenty-one on Thursdays. We are excited to see new people getting involved in services. Some of the men have begun serving as ushers, and the ladies are providing refreshments for Bible Study and have initiated a Christmas giving project.
Please continue to pray for new contacts from our follow-up visits. Ray was able to help a man move across town this week, and rubbed shoulders with some of the man's friends as well. We are so thankful for the men from Bay City who have gone out in the evenings to make those visits with us. Pray also for safety as we travel. We were in other churches across Wisconsin for four of the five Sunday nights in October, and Ray made an overnight trip to Hannibal for a Wednesday service. We have enjoyed seeing some college friends at two churches this month. Tiffany caught up with a classmate in Fon du Lac, and we talked again with Ray's good friend who is the assistant pastor in Marinette. We continue to pray as well for the purchase of a house in Kewaunee, so that we can really get involved in the lives of the people in the community.
