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Bethel Brick United
Methodist Church
1259 Oglethrope Trail
Sylvania, GA. 30467
(912)829-6924
New Pastor: John Powell
Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday: Bible Study &
Prayer: 12 noon
Sunday Children Church:
11:30 a.m.
Buck Creek UMC
2545 Buck Creek Rd
Sylvania, GA 30442
Church: 912-863-4165
Pastor: Carroll Gay
cell: (478) 494-6228
Sunday School: 10 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11 a.m.
Wednesday Family Dinner and
Bible Study: 6 p.m.
The City of Victory
103 Azalea Dr.,
Sylvania, GA 30467
912-564-5745
Pastor: Nicole Peeples
Sunday Worship: 10 a.m.
Building people, families,
communities, and the city.
buildingthecity.org
Double Heads Bapttst
Church
141 Captola Road
Sylvania, GA., (912) 863-6101
Pastor: BJ Home
Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study:
6:30 p.m.
First Baptist Church
Sylvania
214 S. Main Street
Sylvania, GA. 30467
Sunday School: 9:45 am
Morning Worship: 11:00 am
Evening Worship: 6:30 pm
Wednesday Night Adult Bible
Study: 6:45 pm
Our Wednesday Night
Children’s activities:
Children’s Snack Supper: 5:30
pm
Children’s Choirs: 6:00 pm
RA’s/GA’s/Mission Friends
6:45 pm
Youth (7-12 grades):6:00 pm
First Untied Methodist
Church
201 N. Main Street,
Sylvania, GA 30467
912-564-2747
Pastor: Dorsia Atkinson
Sunday School: 9:45 A.M.
Morning Worship: 9:00 A.M.
(In Fellowship Hall)
11:00 A.M. (In The Sanctuary)
Tuesdays: School Prayer
Breakfast (Middle & High
School) 7:00 A.M.
Adult Bible Study 1:00 pm
Wednesday:
Supper & Devotional
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Youth & Children Activities
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Goloid Baptist Church
296 Goloid Church Road
Sylvania, Georgia 30467
(912)863-7660^
Pastor, Keith McFeely
Sunday Worship: 10:00 A.M.
Jackson Baptist Church
5554 Newington Highway
Sylvania, GA. 30442
(912)829-3908
Ralph Dixon, Pastor
Sunday School: 10:00 a.m.
Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Night Worship: 6:00
p.m.
Wednesday Night Prayer
Meeting & Children’s Activi
ties; 6:30 p.m.
Memorial Baptist Church
126 Mock Street, Sylvania.
Church Phone 912-564-2409.
Sunday School 10:00 a.m.,
Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.,
Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.,
Wednesday Night Prayer
Meeting 7:00 p.m. Pastor Bill
Kent.
Middle Ground Baptist
Church
259 Middleground Road
Sylvania, Ga. Sunday
School 9:45 am. and morn
ing worship 11:00 AM.
Sunday evening worship,
6:00 pm. Wednesday night
PRAYER MEETING, 6:30 PM. THE
CURRENT INTERIM PASTOR IS
Dr. Charlie Cooper.
Oak Hill Baptist Church
3233 Oak Hill Church Road
Millen, GA 30442
478-982-1616
Pastor: Joshua Johnson
Sunday School: 9 a.m.
Sunday Morning: 10 a.m.
Wednesday: 7 p.m.
Choir practice - Bible Study
Youth Group - Kids Mission
Group
www.oakhillmillen.com
Red Bluff Independent
Baptist Church
215 Red Bluff Rd.
Sunday School begins at 10
a.m. and worship services at 11
a.m. Sunday night worship at 6
p.m. and Wednesday services
at 6 p.m. Pastor Spike Albrit
ton and may be reached at 904-
838-2179. All are welcome.
St. Michael’s Episcopal
Church
Eucharistic Services begin
Sundays at 10:30 a.m. St.
Michael’s Episcopal Church
is located on Liberty St. next
to the park in Waynesboro.
Call 706-554-3465 for more
information. Website:
stmichaelswaynesboro .org
Larry Jeison, Priest in Charge.
List your church here for only $10 a month
Call: (912) 451-NEWS (6397)
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Jackson Baptist Church
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sermon in Novernber Of 1070
In December of 1870 Wiam H Beard Sr.
donated a parcel el land Iron his homestead
located about ten m es east of Sylvania on I
the cfd Savannah end Augusta Stage Read at
(ihe 57th mile poet Here the lirsi church was'
buill named Jackson BaptiSl Church after
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belief were adopted
Services are held each Sunday at 11:00 a.in.1
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Words of Encouragement
Pastor Joshua Johnson
Oak Hill Church
66 Yes, He Gives!”
When I was a child, I remember reading one of Grimm’s
fairy tales called “The Elves and the Shoemaker.” Perhaps
you remember the story too. An old, poor shoemaker is worn
out and broke, but sets out his last scraps of leather to make
one pair of shoes the next morning. I looked up the fairytale to refresh my memory,
and at this point in the story it says, “With a good conscience, he lay down quietly in
his bed, commended himself to God, and fell asleep.” Make a note of that line - we’ll
come back to it later. When the shoemaker awakens the next morning, in the place of
the scraps of leather, he finds a pair of exquisitely made shoes! He sells that pair for an
excellent profit and buys leather for two pairs the next day. He goes to bed that night
and the next morning he finds two exquisite pairs of shoes. This goes on for a few days
until the shoemaker and his wife decide to sit up at night and find out what’s going on.
To their surprise, two elves arrive every night and work all night to finish the shoes!
So, what does a Grimm’s fairy tale have to do with the Bible? This fairytale is actually
a good example of Psalm 127:1-2 - Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders labor
over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.
2 In vain you get up early and stay up late, working hard to have enough food— yes.
He gives such things to His loved ones while they sleep. God gives to His children,
while they are sleeping!
One more story, and then I will land the plane. In Mark 4:26-29 Jesus tells the story
of a farmer planting seed. Every day the farmer goes out and plants his seed, then he
goes inside and sleeps every night. Before long the seed sprouts and grows, “although
the farmer doesn’t know how.” The soil produced a crop by itself - it seems, but the
purpose of Jesus’ parable is in harmony with Psalm 127, while the farmer was sleeping,
God was working, giving him a good crop.
Here’s the takeaway - Yes, He gives! God is a gracious, giving Father. He gives good
things to his children while they sleep. God giving to me while I sleep is called GRACE.
God’s grace is when He gives me what I don’t deserve. We tend to take two extremes
when it comes to God’s grace - grace refusers and grace exploiters. Grace refusers say,
“I must earn it!” while grace exploiters say “Gimme, gimme, gimme.” God says grace
refusers must humble themselves and stop their vain labor, and grace exploiters are lazy.
So how should we receive God’s grace? Note the word vain in Psalm 127. God doesn't
say don’t labor, but don’t labor in vain. Good labor is when we do everything God places
in front of us for the day and then lie down and sleep, commending ourselves to God.
Vain labor is thinking that it all depends on me. If I work hard enough, if I do enough,
I can make it happen. Remember the shoemaker? “So in the evening, he cut out the
shoes which he wished to begin to make the next morning, and with a good conscience,
he lay down quietly in his bed, commended himself to God, and fell asleep.” He placed
his circumstances in God’s hands and slept peacefully.
God can do more in my sleeping, than I can do in my vain working!
Let’s pray, “Father, thank you for your grace that you freely give to me. Help me to do
the work that you’ve placed before me today, and to trust that You are working, even
while I’m sleeping. Thank you for giving to me! In Jesus’s name. Amen.”
(Author’s note —» God did not send elves to help the shoemaker! The Elves and the
Shoemaker is a fairytale - I’m only pointing out a spiritual truth found hidden in it,
whether it was placed there intentionally or accidentally.) Pastor Johnson is the minister
at Oak Hill Church.
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