ALERT!!!! EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS MAY 13!!! 

Camp Alive! Don’t miss out! Get your youth pastor/leader/parent/pastor to register your group TODAY!! An information PowerPoint is attached, and the registration link is attached, as well as camp rules and a checklist.   

Please find attached the short PowerPoint information about Youth Alive Camp this summer. Make sure to open the PowerPoint first at this link. The file, when you click on the link, may give you the message that it is too large. If so, just click on the download option.

Also find the registration link here https://forms.gle/aHeVVuyKQcWxjRJJ6 and the Camp Rules, and Camper Checklist are linked below. 

Let me know if you have any questions.
Teressa Voltz

Still looking for a summer experience for your high school student?
Welch Summer Academy is a week of fun, faith, and learning!
We offer 4 camps sure to help your students grow not only in knowledge but also in their faith all while having a great time with current Welch College students and faculty members.
JOIN US June 3-7! Register at Welch.edu/wsa
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Connect Church Update,

Prayer Requests, and

Self-Supporting Target Date


We want to thank you for your continued prayers and support of the Ferguson family and Connect Church. God has blessed this work, and we are grateful for every person who has contributed to make this a reality. With God’s help, we are working towards being self-supporting in December of 2024! We aren’t there just yet, but we are getting close. We ask for your continued support for the rest of this year as we are still several percentage points away from the target, but we are getting close. The rise in interest rates has slowed our progress towards this goal, but we are trusting that we will continue to trend in the right direction.



Over the last year, the Lord has allowed us to lead people to Christ and baptize several. As many of you know, we have been in our new building for just over 2 years. That has been an indescribable blessing as it allows us to have a “forever” home to operate the ministry. During that time, God has blessed us with multiple families and opportunities to share His Word.



One specific area of ministry that has been a blessing to Connect Church is Vacation Bible School. Last year, we saw 13 children give their lives to Christ! We are in the preparations right now for our VBS in June. Be praying that God will send children who need to hear the truth of God’s Word and that God will use us to give it to them.

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This past year, we hosted a beautiful Christmas Eve service that includes worship, a challenge from the Bible, and a story for the kids. We also began a series of events we call WOW Night! Women of Worth is a night for just the ladies to come together to worship and fellowship with one another. These nights have helped the ladies of our community and church connect in a special way. These are just a few of the many things God has been doing in Houston, and we look forward to many more.



Prayer Requests:

Pray for souls to continue to be reached with the Gospel message.

Pray for open doors into the community.

Pray for the finances of Connect Church and for those who continue to support us (like you) so we may continue to serve this community as we inch closer to being self-supporting.

Pray for VBS and other summertime events (camps, outings, outreaches, etc.)

Thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Please continue to support us while knowing that we are getting closer to the financial goals we have set. If you have any questions or would like to hear more about what God is doing here, please feel free to reach out to me. We are honored, grateful, and full of love for each of you.

Your friend in Houston,

Heath Ferguson



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The central event in all of history that makes the most impact for eternity: the resurrection. It makes sense that there will be questions, doubts, and platforms dedicated to debunking it. It makes even more sense that the church should be producing massive amounts of teaching and helpful aids for the church and Christians in a postmodern world that seems to think we’ve moved beyond discussion like this.

Gary Habermas has given the church world a masterpiece that deals with this most important issue. His book, On The Resurrection: Vol. 1 Evidences, is thorough and well researched. I have listened to Gary for years. I have quoted him often and I trust him, with regards to his knowledge and teaching on the resurrection, even more.

This first volume of four is over one thousand pages and is window into this apologist and theologians mind pertaining to his forty plus year endeavor to understand more of the resurrection. He discusses about any area that you can imagine to sharpen our skills. He looks at the historical research, how to assess historical research and researchers, the minimal facts about Jesus and the resurrection, the gospel resurrection date, and more.

I wish I could tell you that I have read all of this book. I have not…yet. But it is fantastic and certainly a much needed tool for every pastor, theologian, or anyone wanting stretch their understanding more on this subject. There should never be a limit to our understanding and we should never shy away from such a great work. As their long as there is breath in your lungs (believer) and there are people on this planet who need Jesus, we should push ourselves to correctly handle the truth (2 Timothy 2:15) and to be prepared to share our faith with anyone (1 Peter 3:15)!

WMO 2024 Kids’ CurriculumNow Available for Download

The curriculum includes five new lessons about people in the Bible (and in our world today) who share about Jesus. These 30-minute lessons can be used in the weeks leading up to your church’s World Missions Offering day as children’s church lessons, object lessons, Sunday School classes, VBS missions classes, homeschool lessons, and much more!Click to download the curriculum for FREE.https://iminc.org/wmo/world-missions-offering-kids/

Kristi Johnson

Development Communications Manager

IM, Inc.

We are thankful to spend time with Leandro Pozo, FWB pastor and leader in Cuba, this week as he visits many FWB churches here in the States to raise funds and support for the many ministries taking place with our partners in Cuba. 

Join us in praying for the theological seminary, Cuban missionaries, church-planting efforts, youth camps, and many more ministries.

Learn more at https://imincsc.wpengine.com/cuba-partnership/

Kristi Johnson

Development Communications Manager

IM, Inc.

The 1109th Annual Meeting of the
Texas State Association of Free Will Baptists
First FWB Church
913 Richardson Drive
Henderson, TX 75654
June 5-6, 2024

Please find the forms and pre-registration at: https://texasfwb.org/statemtg24/