The Farmville Baptist Church Podcast

Episode 026 - CLASP and Community Garden - A Conversation with Dr. Erica Brown-Meredith

We are thrilled to share in this episode a conversation Pastor Adam had with friend of Farmville Baptist Dr. Erica Brown-Meredith. Dr. Brown-Meredith is Assistant Professor of Social Work at Longwood University and the advisor for Collaborating with Lancers for Academic Success (CLASP), an on-campus program to help first-gen, racial/ethnic minority, transfer, and low-income students succeed in their academic career and, more generally, in life. Farmville Baptist has supported CLASP during exam time and partners alongside CLASP students in the Farmville Community Garden.
In this episode, Pastor Adam and Dr. Brown-Meredith discuss the work of CLASP, look forward to the next growing season in the garden, and learn about a new opportunity for CLASP students in Ghana, a place Pastor Adam and Dr. Brown-Meredith both have visited and love.
If you would like to learn more about the work of CLASP, you connect with them at CLASP - Longwood University. The work of the community garden can be explored on the garden's Facebook page (Farmville Community Garden | Facebook). To support the CLASP study-abroad program for the upcoming summer, you can contact CLASP directly or make a donation at Farmville Baptist Church (note that it is for CLASP Summer Program).
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 025 - Sermon - Growing Up: More than Guardrails (Matthew 5:27-37)

This episode's sermon covers a lot of ground in Matthew 5: adultery, divorce, and oath-taking. Yet Pastor Adam helps us see the ways they are connected. Jesus invites us to be people who seek to do more than live within the guardrails of life. Instead, we are to be committed to faithfulness and the truth. Our choir concludes the episode with the reflective anthem "Bread of Sorrows, Wine of Tears."
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 024 - Sunday School and Small Group Preview - Mar/Apr 2023

Growing our faith involves more than participating in worship, as important as that is; it also means learning more about Jesus, the Bible, and how to live as a follower of Christ. At Farmville Baptist, we try to grow in Christ together by studying the Bible and talking with one another about how to live faithful lives in small groups and Sunday School classes. Pastor Adam sits down with Ken Copeland, one of our teachers, to preview the material for the next few weeks, as well as highlight a new college class that just started. If you want to grow in your faith, we encourage you to check out one of these classes (in-person or online)!
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 023 - Sermon - Growing Up: Rejecting Malice (Matthew 5:21-26)

As we enter the season of Lent, we return to our study of how Jesus calls us to grow up in Matthew 5. This week, the Sermon on the Mount enters into the realm of the practical: how do we actually live, day-to-day, as followers of Jesus? The first instance of real-world application is when Jesus calls us to reject malice and avoid anger, because anger causes great harm for both the holder of that anger and the target of that anger. Our choir concludes the episode with the reflective anthem "It Is Well."
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 022 - Sermon - Pausing for Glory (Matthew 17:1-9)

In worship this week, we paused in our exploration of Matthew 5 to observe Transfiguration Sunday. As we read reports of revival in the news, Pastor Adam invites us to consider the encounter Peter, James, and John had in Matthew 17. How did they understand what they saw? Why did they need to be reminded not to fear? And why did Jesus tell them not to talk about it with anyone...yet?
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 021 - Pastors’ Roundtable - Asbury University Revival and He Gets Us Campaign

In this special episode of the Farmville Baptist Podcast, Pastor Adam invites his friends Rev. Martha Kearse (Peakland Baptist Church) and Rev. Todd Blake (Park View Community Mission) to discuss two stories about Christianity in the media right now: a possible outbreak of revival at Asbury University in Wilmore, KY, and the multimillion dollar He Gets Us ad campaign. Adam, Martha, and Todd talk about what gives them hope in Kentucky, why they are a bit skeptical about the marketing campaign for Jesus, and how the Spirit can work in incredible, and unlooked-for, ways. You won't want to miss this conversation - listen in and share your thoughts in the comments!
A special thanks to Martha and Todd for joining the conversation on short notice. Martha pastors Peakland Baptist Church (www.peaklandbaptistchurch.org) and Todd serves as executive director of Park View Community Mission (www.parkviewmission.org).
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 020 - FACES - A Conversation with Paul Baker

Feeding hungry people has been part of the work of Jesus and the people of God from the very beginning. Here in Farmville, many churches and people of goodwill feed hungry people through the work of FACES, our Farmville-area food pantry. Pastor Adam had the chance to sit down with Paul Baker, co-president of FACES, to learn more about what FACES does and how we can help.
One immediate way to help is through the Farmville Youth Collective | Farmville VA | Facebook soup fundraiser for FACES on Sunday, February 19, 2023. This fundraiser will operate from 5:30-7 PM.
If soup isn't your thing, or you want to contribute directly to FACES, you can do so at DONATE | facesfoodpantry.
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 019 - Sermon - Growing Up: Mission and Methods (Matthew 5:17-20)

God gives us a mission, and then we develop methods to fulfill that mission. But what happens when God calls us to a new season that requires new methods for the same mission? Jesus shows us how we can remain true to the core of the mission of God while innovating and adapting our methods to the needs of the day. This didn't please everyone who heard him teach - but it did open up new possibilities for the people of God then and now. Join Pastor Adam and the congregation at Farmville Baptist this week and ponder what God is calling you to do, and what it means to follow intent of God as you live for him.
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 018 - Sermon - Growing Up: Be Salty and Shine Bright (Matthew 5:13-16)

Salt and light - there are few things in life more basic, and more essential, to existence than these two. Jesus uses the images of salt and light to help his disciples understand the posture he wanted them to adopt in the world. Join Pastor Adam and the congregation at Farmville Baptist this week and wrestle with what our identity is as salt and light, and ponder what it means for you to be salty and shine bright.
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!

Episode 017 - Sermon - Growing Up: What We Need to Know (Matthew 5:1-12)

What do we need to know - REALLY know - to follow Jesus? And who is it that can have access to the kingdom Jesus talked about? Pastor Adam starts a new sermon series on the Sermon on the Mount with a look at the Beatitudes, inviting us to align our perspective with the perspective of Jesus, who says that there is no one who is excluded from the love of God, no one who cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, no one who is not able to be part of the family of faith.
If you are interested in more of what Farmville Baptist Church is doing in the heart of Virginia and beyond, visit our website (farmvillebaptist.org) or check us out on Facebook (facebook.com/farmvillebaptist.org).
Our podcast theme music, "Filled Up and Running Over," is provided for us by the Uptick Artists' Collective.  Their amazing music can be found and supported at Uptick Artists.  Give them a listen and support their creative work!