FACTWeekly Update
Week of Sunday, October 26, 2025
"The Price and Privilege of Impact Living"
Galatians 5:16-26
Rev. Ferrell Towns
WELCOME! Our heartbeat is to Connect to Christ, Grow with Others, and Engage the World together as Family. We gather to be disciples totally committed to Christ, becoming like Him in supreme love for God, selfless love for others, and sacrificial love for the world as we go locally, regionally, and globally. We hope you participate today with an expectation to encounter the Lord and a desire to celebrate the wonder of Jesus. It’s all about Him!
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News & Information
FACT Giving
September 2025
Monthly Needed Income for General Fund = $36,514
Monthly Received for General Fund = $63,840 (75% over budget)
Monthly Needed Income for GCF = $8,432
Monthly Received for GCF = $11,389 (35% over budget)
October 19, 2025
Received for General Fund = $5,095
Received for the GCF = $1,585
FACT Family News
October is Pastor Appreciation Month. This Sunday will be the last day for you to bring a card. You can place the cards in the basket in the foyer on Sunday. If you have questions, please contact Jarvis Crosby.
Friends will be meeting for food, fellowship, games and community on Friday, October 24 at Noon in the Fellowship Hall. All ladies are invited.
Toccoa Falls College wants to invite you to a concert on Thursday, October 30 at 7pm in the Grace Alford Performing Arts Center. This concert will feature the TFC Concert Band performing Celtic Voices: Songs of the British Isles. Admission is free.
Mark your calendars now! Our Pumpkin Patch will be open September 29 - October 31. We are going to need volunteers to help sell pumpkins. If this is a ministry that you could be involved with, please let Pastor Luke know.
Alliance Women - Upcoming gatherings (If you need childcare to attend, email office@firstalliancetoccoa.com)
October 18, 10:00 am, FH features our speaker, Jeanna deVroome.
November 15, 8:00 am, held on the campus of Toccoa Falls College, we will be hosting the annual Hope for the Nations Fun Run/Walk. Proceeds will benefit the Alliance Women’s National Project. You won’t want to miss this event for the whole family!
Tuesday, December 16, AW Christmas Desserts
Harvest Festival & Trunk or Treat
Our fall Harvest Festival is next week, Friday, October 31, from 5:00-8:00 pm on the ballfield. This is an event to reach our community. We still need lots of volunteers. Click HERE to sign up for volunteering!
Ways to help:
Donate candy for the Trunk or Treat. There will be a box outside of the office where you can leave the candy.
Decorate your Trunk and meet the kids of Toccoa.
Help decorate the campus/set up.
Help direct traffic.
Help with hayride, petting zoo, games
Help with clean-up at the end of the event.
Click HERE to sign up for helping! Please contact Pastor Luke if you can help.
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday, November 8, 2025 at 8:00 am in the Family Life Center.
The Alliance Women's Fun Run will be held on Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 8:00 am on the campus of Toccoa Falls College. This year the cost will be $30 per person or $75 per family. All proceeds will go to the Alliance Women's National Project. A T-Shirt will not be guaranteed on registrations received after October 28, 2025. Click HERE to register.
On Sunday morning, November 23, we will be having a service of Thanksgiving and Praise to recognize all the the Lord has done for us over the last year through testimony and reports. As part of that service, we will be having baptisms. Anyone interested in being baptized at that time should reach out to Jarvis Crosby.
Our church will be hosting a Thanksgiving Dinner for Developmentally Disabled Adults on Tuesday, November 25. We will need people to donate needed food items as well as volunteers to help with set-up the day before, serving food, mingling with the AVITA guests, and clean up after the meal. Look for a sign up sheets soon in the foyer for food donations and volunteers as well as other details.
First Alliance Church of Toccoa is forming a short-term missions trip to Envision Atlanta in April 2026. The dates are April 24-26 and the cost is $175. This cost would cover lodging and meals. If you would be interested in this ministry, please contact Jarvis Crosby.
Monthly Prayer Focus
Living in Personal Obedience - Pray that we would love the Lord our God with all of who we are and love not just in words but in how we live as the people of God. Pray that we exercise the will to obey what we already know to be true and good - the commands of the Father - and live in the way of Christ. Pray we would daily choose complete trust in and surrender to Jesus Christ. Pray that we would seek Jesus with new eyes and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal to each of us areas in which we need to repent. Pray that Jesus would be manifest through us to one another, our local community, especially those we know who don’t yet follow Christ. Pray that we would, in and through our obedience, know the fullness and depth of life in Christ empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Highlights
Office Hours
Tuesday - Friday
10am - 5pm
Sunday 10/26
Sunday Discipling Classes
9:00 am, FLC
Coffee & Connection
10:00 am, FH
Worship Service
Kingdom Kids
Nursery & Toddlers
10:30 am
Sanctuary & livestream
Sunday Evening Gathering
6:00 pm, FH
Wednesday 10/29
Prayer for Revival
12:00 pm, Sanctuary
AWANA
6:30 pm, FH
Ladies Bible Study
6:30 pm, Library
Prayer Meeting
6:30 pm, FLC 212
Youth Group
6:30 pm, FLC
Friday 10/31
Harvest Festival
5:00 pm, Ballfield
Saturday 11/1
Men’s Prayer Meeting
8:00 am, Library
Sunday 11/2
Sunday Discipling Classes
9:00 am, FLC
Coffee & Connection
10:00 am, FH
Worship Service
Communion
Kingdom Kids
Nursery & Toddlers
10:30 am
Sanctuary & livestream
Sunday Evening Gathering
6:00 pm, FH
LOOKING AHEAD
11/2, Daylight Saving Time Ends
11/8, Men’s Breakfast
11/15, AW Fun Run
11/17, Elder’s Meeting
11/18, Admin Board Meeting
11/21, Friends
11/23, Thanksgiving & Praise Worship Service
11/25, Avita Meal
11/27-11/29, Campus Closed
4/25-26, Short Term Missions Trip to Envision Atlanta