Mark Your Calendar
- Ladies Bible Study – This Sunday!
- Lamberth Baby Shower – Oct 25
- OCC Shoe Box Collection – Nov 15
📢 Announcements
Josh & Julia Harper visiting this Sunday!
We’re excited to welcome them as they spend time meeting our teens, parents, and the broader church family. This is a great opportunity for us to get to know them and for them to get to know us as they prayerfully consider joining Eastside as our new youth leaders.
Josh is exploring the possibility of stepping into the role of full-time youth pastor, bringing leadership and guidance to our next generation. Let’s show them the warmth and love of Eastside as we welcome them this Sunday!
📖 Ladies Bible Study
Join us for Ladies Bible Study starting Sunday, October 4th, at 5 PM! We will meet weekly for 8 weeks as we dive into studying the names of God.
If you’d like to participate, please contact Sarah Wiggs to sign up and ask any questions.
We look forward to growing in faith and fellowship together!
🎁 Operation Christmas Child
Eastside Baptist Church is participating in OCC this year. If you would like a box(es) to fill, please see Lori Beal after service, or call/text her at 951-323-1813.
*There is a “gift suggestion” flyer on the back table. You can also click on this link: What Goes in A Shoebox? Or this link: OCC Amazon Storefront
*Each box needs to have a label identifying the sex and age group it’s packed for. Adhesive labels are on the back table
*Shoeboxes will be collected on Sunday, November 15th.
💬 Table Talk
What are your group’s plans this month?
📖 Adult Bible Study – “How People Change”
Real change can feel out of reach, but God is at work in the everyday moments of our lives (2 Corinthians 3:18). Join us this Sunday at 10am for our Adult Bible Study series, “How People Change,” based on the teaching of Paul Tripp. Come as you are, bring your questions, and grow with us—we’ll save you a seat.
👶 Lamberth Baby Shower – Oct 25th
Please join us for a baby shower on Sunday, October 25th at 1pm. All are welcome!
In lieu of a greeting card, please bring a well-loved or brand-new book to help us start baby’s first library. Please sign your name on the inside cover!
The registry is linked below:
https://www.myregistry.com/baby-registry/jessica-lamberth-and-matthew-lamberth-troutman-nc/5629059
Discussion Questions for GLocal Missional Church
📖 Biblical Insight
1. Antioch: A Church That Reached Beyond Itself — Acts 11:18–26
- Why was Barnabas the right person to send to Antioch?
- What do you notice about Barnabas’s character in this passage? Why do you think Luke describes him as a “good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith”?
- Why is it significant “a great many…were added” through the ministry of these ordinary believers?
- How does Acts 11 challenge the idea church exists to maintain its programs/people/resources?
🔨 Practical Application
1. Crossing the Boundaries Around Us
- What kinds of boundaries tend to keep Christians from connecting with people around them?
- What would it look like for you to intentionally cross one of those boundaries this week?
- How can Eastside increasingly be known where people from different backgrounds truly belong?
2. Becoming a Barnabas
- Who has been a “Barnabas” for you—someone who believed, encouraged, or gave an opportunity?
- Why is encouragement such an important part of making disciples and building a healthy church?
- Who is someone in your life who might need you to become their Barnabas?
- What is one specific way you could encourage, include, mentor, or invest in that person?
3. From Maintenance to Mission
- What is the difference between a church that maintains itself or that intentionally lives on mission?
- What would it look like for you to personally and intentionally live on mission?
🪞 Personal Reflection
1. Who Are My People?
- Who are the people near me who ARE like me?
- Who are the people near me who are NOT like me?
- Who are the people not near me and who are NOT like me?
- Is there a person or group that God may be calling me to intentionally get to know?
- What keeps me from taking that first step?
2. Who Am I a Barnabas To?
- Am I more focused on who someone is right now or on who God can make them through His grace?
- Who is one person I could intentionally invest in over the next month?
- What is one practical step I can take this week?
3. What Is God Asking Me to Do?
- Am I living primarily for my own comfort, or am I intentionally participating in God’s mission?
- What is one risk God may be asking me to take for the sake of the gospel?
- If I genuinely believed that one person can reach many, what would I do differently?
- What is one specific action I will take as a result of this sermon?
Nursery Schedule
10/4 – Cara & Ruby Stevens
10/11 – Lisa Giles, Gerri Lawrence