Senior Adult Ministry (Life Stage 3)
Senior Adult Minister, Bob Jackson
Members of First Baptist Church, sixty-five years of age, or older, are linked to the group known as Life Stage 3. This group, which numbers more than 300, is involved in a myriad of activities, ministries, and missions. They especially enjoy group fellowship, breaking bread together, and going to a variety of places together.
Contact Bob Jackson in the church office at 817.594.5457 if you need more information on the following:
Bible Study
People in Life Stage 3 (65+) have several choices for Bible Study. There are five departments in this age group.
Adult 4 Department is the youngest age group for adults, ages 60-69. This department has one class for both women and men.
Adult 5 Department is age graded from 70-79. This department has one class for both women and men.
Adult 6 Department is the oldest age graded group for adults ages 80+. This department has three classes: one men’s class and two ladies’ classes.
Open Door Department is a large non-age graded group. The department meets as a class for Bible Study. Department members are assigned to one of six care groups. Care group leaders are responsible for maintaining frequent contact with all of their assigned members.
Disciplers is a small non-age graded class whose members are interested in a deeper understanding of God’s Word.
Department Structure
All departments are structured to enable the five functions of the church (worship, ministry, evangelism, fellowship, and discipleship) to be fulfilled. The structure for fulfilling these functions is called T.E.A.M. T.E.A.M. is an acronym for Teacher, Evangelism, Assimilation/ Fellowship and Ministry. Each of these areas is led by a class member who is responsible to lead the class in becoming involved in each of the five functions of the church.
Keenagers Meeting for Adults 55+
Keenagers meet at 10:45 am on the 3rd Monday of each month from September to May. This group meets in the Chapel for a program which includes prayer, singing, announcements about senior adult activities, and warm fellowship laced with a good dose of humor.
The main portion of each month’s program features presentations which focus on the needs of senior adults, or which are geared toward entertaining those in attendance. Preceding the program, blood-pressure checks are offered beginning at 10:15 am. Following the program, a potluck lunch is served.
Game Day
The first Monday of each month from 10 am to Noon in the Fellowship Hall, senior adults gather for an time of fellowship and fun while playing their favorite table game. Some play 42, others play Spinner, and others just come to watch.
Everyone comes to have fellowship and fun and enjoy their favorite finger food or snack. Bring a table game, your favorite finger food, a friend, and a smile.
Exercise/Fitness
Three mornings a week (M, W, F), at 9 am in the Fellowship Hall, a group of energetic men and women participate in an exercise program designed especially for senior adults. There are three levels of participation from which to choose. Each one has varying degrees of intensity of participation. Thus, anyone (from an “in-shape” senior adult to someone using a walking cane) can join in this program to get your body into motion, firm up and tone muscles, and trim inches.
Travel
Day Trips
Day trips are planned monthly for sightseeing and fellowship. A variety of destinations have been visited including the following: Texas Rangers baseball games, American Airlines Museum, several art museums in Fort Worth, bluebonnet and wildflower viewing, exotic animal parks, southern gospel concerts and Christmas concerts, live theater plays in Weatherford, Fort Worth and Granbury, Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo, Dallas Arboretum and Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, The State Fair of Texas, a movie studio tour, and nuclear power plant tour. Call the church office at 817.594.5457 for more information about upcoming trips.
Overnight Trips
Overnight trips are planned to visit more distant attractions. Some of the destinations groups have visited are: Branson, Missouri; Austin & Fredericksburg, Texas; College Station, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Independence, and Brenham, Texas; Tyler, Nacogdoches, the Texas State Railroad; Vanishing River Bald Eagle Tour near Burnet, Texas; a Panhandle tour of Palo Duro Canyon State Park, attendance at the musical drama “Texas,” a visit to the “Cadillac Ranch” at Amarillo and the YO Ranch at Mountain Home, Texas, and a tour of the Panhandle Plains Museum in Canyon; viewing Christmas light displays at Marshall, Texas, Chickasha, Oklahoma, several towns in the Texas Hill Country, Natchitoches, Louisiana, and San Angelo and San Antonio, Texas.