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Page 4 - Wednesday, May 11, 2022 The Sylvania Times thesy lvaniatimes .com J 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) VOTE YES! May 24, 2022 WHY? BETTER ROADS TSPLOSEfunded projects include repaving and repairing damaged roads. Better roads, better future! Jackson Baptist Church Socn afier Ihe Civil VJat. ihe hearts of eghl men and womernHere birred and Jackson BapL si Church was born Rev C E Bare!eld pfWdted Jackson Baptist Cllich's first 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 Rev G L Jackson and Ihe niesoTChrisjianJ belief were adopted Services are held each Sunday at 11:00 a.in.1 ■The current pastor is Ralph D.xcn ■ I Your Church Have An Upcoming Event? Let Everyone Know! | | Call 912-451-NEWS (6397) or | I e-mail thesylvaniatimes@gmail.com I 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. MONEY STAYS LOCAL All money collected through TSPLOST will stay local! 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