Mission

Vision:  To develop a ministry that provides ushers and usher services for Friendship Baptist Church’s worship services and special activities.

Duties:  Ushers are forerunners – for they prepare the Church for the guests by being among the first to arrive at Church, they receive the order of the day from the Pastor, they see that the Church is in proper condition to receive guests, and they see that required worship service items are distributed to the congregation as needed.

Ushers’ Ministry Programs:

1.     Senior Usher Ministry:  This ministry consists of Senior Ushers (ages 22 and older) and provides usher services on Sundays at 10:15 am).  Monthly meetings will be held _______at ______pm.

2.     Junior Usher Ministry:  This ministry consists of Junior Ushers (ages 6 to 21) and provides usher services on every  4^th Sunday at 10:15 am.  Monthly meetings will be held _____prior to the third Sunday at _____.

Additional information can be obtained by calling 

When: Sunday, February 5, 2012

Where: Washington Center / 126 Newberry St. Southwest Aiken, SC

Time: 3pm

History of the Little Rock Nine & Brown v. Board of Education

In 1954, the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision officially declared segregation in public schools as unconstitutional. All U.S. public schools were instructed to integrate. Within a week, Arkansas was one of two Southern states to announce it would begin immediately to take steps to comply with the new ruling. The Arkansas Law School had been integrated since 1949, and by 1957, seven of Arkansas’s eight state universities had desegregated. Blacks had been appointed to state boards and elected to local offices; however, public state high schools were a different story.

In September of 1957, the public school ruling was tested for the first time when nine black students enrolled at Little Rock’s previously all-white Central High School.

The list below details the sequence of events before, during and after the desegregation attempt.

September 2, 1957 – The day before classes begin for the new school year, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus summons the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School and block any attempts by black students to enter the school. Faubus announces in a public television speech that the orders are a proactive approach to prevent violence to all citizens and property and to “preserve the peace.”

September 4 – Nine black students attempt to enter Central High but are turned away by the National Guard.

September 20 – A federal judge grants an injunction to NAACP lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Wiley Branton to impede the governor’s use of the National Guard. The troops withdraw.

September 23 – Little Rock police officers and over 1,000 integration protestors surround the school in anticipation of the black students’ attempt to enter the school. The police escort the students into the high school’s side door unnoticed. Outside, the mob learns of the students’ entrance and becomes angry and aggressive. They begin to challenge the police officers. Fearful the crowd will get out of control, the school administration moves the black students out a side door before noon.

September 24 – U.S. Congressman Brooks Hays and Little Rock Mayor Woodrow Mann ask the federal government for help via a telegram to President Dwight Eisenhower. President Eisenhower displaces between 1,100 and 1,200 federal troops of the 101st Airborne Division and places 10,000 National Guardsmen on duty.

September 25 – The Little Rock Nine, under protection from federal troops, enter Central High School through the front entrance. Aggressive white mobs verbally chastise the students and physically harm black reporters in the crowd covering the affair. The event is seen around the world.

Fifty years later – The courageous efforts of the Little Rock Nine are celebrated as one of the most defining chapters in Little Rock’s history, and as one of the earliest victories of a long overdue civil rights movement. Central High remains one of the leading education centers in Arkansas and stands as an icon for racial equality and social reform.

Visit our Little Rock Nine photo gallery, containing compelling images of the Little Rock Nine students as they attempt to enter Central High School

Friendship Baptist Church will celebrate Rev. Clinton “TC” Edwards, Jr., 7th Pastor’s Anniversary on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 2:00 p.m.  The Reverend Oscar W. Brown  0f the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church of Edgefield, SC along with his Church Family will be our guest.  Please come out and celebrate this occassion with the Friendship Baptist Church Family.

The Men’s Ministry of Friendship Baptist Church will sponsor its Annual Ladies’ Day Breakfast for the women of FBC on Mother’s Day morning, May 9, 2010 at 8:00 am.  Please come out and enjoy the wonderful breakfast the men are planning.

MOTHER’S DAY PROGRAM, May 9 @ 10:15 am

Please be reminded that we will have our Mother’s Day Program on Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 10:15 am.  The guest minister will be Minister Michelle Page from Second Baptist Church.  The program is being sponsored by the Deaconess Ministry of FBC.

GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

We are happy to announce that Minister Willar Hightower will be graduating from Morehouse School of Religion at the Martin Luther King Center on Saturday, May 8, 2010.  Pastor Edwards and the Freindship Baptist Church Family salute you Minister Hightower on your accomplishment.  May God continue to bless and keep you and your family!

WARD #2 BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION – May 15 @ 3:00 pm will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2010 at 3:00 pm at Ryans of Aiken, Whiskey Road.

ATTENTION GRADUATING SENIORS!!

All Seniors of Friendship Baptist Church, graduating from high school this spring are asked to provide a picture and a brief biographical sketch for the May 23rd bulletin.  Information needed in the sketch is as follows:  your name; parents; high school; community, school and church involvement; college you will be attending and planned major.  Give the information to Sis. Loretta Bush by the 1st Sunday, May 2nd (pictures will be returned).

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY RELAY FOR LIFE – May 21

Celebrate and support the American Cancer Society by participating in the 2010 Relay for Life marathon!  You can help support this worthy cause that affects so many of us by walking with a team or giving a donation.  The Relay for Life event is Friday, May 21, 2010 at Aiken High School.  Contact Kim Toney for more information or you can make an online donations at www.relayforlife.org/aikensc under the “Friendship Baptist Church” team.

“BOYZ TO MEN” AND “WOMAN NOT OF THE HOOD”

VISION:          Bring back those values and morals instilled in young people years ago that helped to create a disposition of self-worth, self respect, and integrity. 

MISSION:  To develop respectable and mannerable young people, ages 13-18, under the Godly instruction of Christian adults.

FORMAT:  Initially, participants will gather together for a welcome and opening prayer.  Then, participants will separate by gender.  The sessions will be conducted simultaneously, and then reconvene for a closing and lunch.

Parents, we need your support to ensure teens are present and on time.  For more information, contact Sis. Donna Moore Wesby, (803) 502-0777.

Purpose: God’s Big Picture takes the students through a gallery of the major characters and themes of God’s Word. This approach will give our students an understanding of the Bible as a picture of God’s plan and purposes.

Lesson 1           God’s True Story

Lesson 2           Created by God’s Hand

 Lesson 3           The First Family

 Lesson 4           Safe in the Ark

 Lesson 5           Abraham Answers God’s Call

 Lesson 6           Jacob Is Forgiven

 Lesson 7           Joseph Faces Tough Times

 Lesson 8           Moses leads the Escape

 Lesson 42         EASTER – New Life In Jerusalem

 Lesson 9           Joshua Takes Charge

 Lesson 10         Deborah Calls for Courage

 Lesson 11         Gideon’s Hiding Place

 Lesson 12         The Strongest Man Fails the Test

 Lesson 13         Ruth’s Reward