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Wednesday, November 2, 2022 - Page 5
Let God’s promises shine on your problems
Oak Hill Church
“A Word for Pastors”
Church News
Words of Encouragement
Pastor Joshua Johnson
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Bay Branch Baptist
Church
4029 Millen Hwy
Sylvania, Ga 30467
Sunday School 9:45 a.m.
Worship Service 11:00
Pastor: Rev. Blake Hicks
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 Baptist
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.
Douglas Branch
Baptist Church
116 Douglas Branch Church Rd.
Rocky Ford, GA 30455
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday Morning Bible
Study 10:00 a.m. Pastor:
Wayne Powell 912-425-9804
Farmdale Baptist Church
1300 Farmdale Rd,
Sylvania, GA
Pastor: Cade Bazemore
912-863-4714 or 912-689-9863
Sunday School 10 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.
Evening Worship 6 p.m.
Wednesday Worship 7 p.m.
Children’s Church and
Nursery
First Baptist Church
Sylvania
214 S. Main Street
Sylvania, GA. 30467
Pastor: Rev Wayne Ayer
Sunday School: 9:45 am
Morning Worship: 11:00 am
Evening Worship: 6:30 pm
Wednesday Night Adult Bible
Study: 6:45 pm
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 United 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.
Grace Unbound
Ministries 203 Filbert
Street, Sylvania, GA
Pastor: Travis Smith
Fellowship: 10:00 a.m. for
coffee, donuts, etc.
Service: 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study: Thursdays 6 pm
ALL are welcome to attend.
Come as you are.
Green Hill Baptist
Church
2648 Savannah Hwy,
Sylvania, GA. Morning
Worship 11 a.m. Sunday
School 10 a.m. Evening
worship 6 p.m. Youth meet on
Wednesday evenings at 6 p.m.
Wednesday prayer meetings
6:30 p.m. Pastor David Sharp
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 morning wor
ship 11:00 am. Sunday
evening worship, 6:00 pm.
Wednesday night prayer
meeting, 6:30 pm. The current
interim Pastor is Dr. Charlie
Cooper.
Newington United
Methodist Church
Middleground Road
Newington, Georgia 30446
912-829-3318
Sunday School (all ages) 10 am
Sunday Morning: 11 a.m.
Wednesday: Choir Practice 7 pm
Pastor: Rev. Dr. Karen R. Zeigler
Everyone is welcome
Oak Hill Baptist
Church
3233 Oak Hill Church Road
Millen, GA 30442
478-982-1616
Pastor: Joshua Johnson
Sunday School: 10 a.m.
Morning Worship: 11 a.m.
No Sunday Night Services
Wednesday: 7 p.m.
Adult Bible Study - Youth
Group - Team Kid
www.oakhillmillen.com
Our Lady of the
Assumption Catholic
Church
121 Ridgecrest Dr.
Sylvania, GA 912-564-2312
Pastor: Lou Lussier
Weekday Mass:
M-W-F 8:30 a.m.
Weekend Mass:
Saturday 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 9:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Spanish
Parker Grove
Missionary Baptist
Church
5314 Scarboro Highway
Rocky Ford, GA 30455
Pastor: Elder Levon Alston
Sunday School - 9am
Morning Worship Service - 10am
Midweek Worship Service -
Wednesday at 7pm
For more information contact
Jen Ruffin 912-682-4493
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 Albritton 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, Rector
Trinity Episcopal Church
4401 Country Club Rd,
Statesboro, 30458. Trinity
Episcopal celebrates Sunday
Eucharist at 8:15 a.m. and
10:30 a.m., Father Charles
Todd, Rector and Jonathan
Murphy, Music Director.
Please call the church office
at 912-489-4208 or visit their
FB page www.facebook.com/
TrinityEpiscopalStatesboro
for further information on
weekly activities.
October is Pastor Appreciation month. While you may be reading this at the
beginning of November, I have a final word of encouragement to share with
Pastors from John the Baptist. If you are reading this as a church member,
consider your pastor as you read -1 hope it will give your insight into his
calling and will give you cause to thank God for him, and to go and encourage
him yourself.
John 3:27-30 - John responded, “No one can receive anything unless it has
been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am
not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of him.’ 29 He who has the bride is
the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices
greatly at the groom’s voice. So, this joy of mine is complete. 30 He must
increase, but I must decrease.”
John the Baptist’s response above was to a problem his disciples brought
to him in v.22-27 - the crowds were leaving to follow someone else! John’s
ministry had experienced great popularity as the crowds went out to the
Jordan river wilderness area to hear his great sermons and see the baptisms,
but now they were turning away from him to see this new upstart, Jesus.
Baptism numbers were down, and the disciples were leaving John’s ministry.
In fact, his disciples went so far as to complain in v.27 “the whole world
is going to Him [Jesus]!” What was John’s response? Gratitude, joy, and
humility.
#1 - Be thankful! John said in v.27, “No one can receive anything unless
it has been given to him from heaven.” It is only by God’s grace that I have
anything good. From the breath in our lungs, to the number of members in
any given church, all are gifts from God that we are to be thankful for. We
would have nothing without Him. Nothing belongs to us! I can’t be like Andy
in Toy Story and write my name on anything (if you don’t get it, google it).
Everything is given to us by God - because everything, and everyone belongs
to Him.
#2 - Be joyful! In v.28-29 John gives a beautiful illustration of church
ministry, and pastoral ministry. John says that he is only a groomsman
rejoicing at the wedding between the Bride and the Groom. In this illustration,
the Bride is the church and the groom is Jesus. John is explicitly saying that
it is his job only to unite the bride and groom in glorious union. Every pastor
should pray for the same mindset as John the Baptist, to realize we are only
groomsmen, playing a part in uniting Jesus’s church to Himself. John said
presenting the church to Jesus made his joy complete.
#3 - Be decreasing! In v.30 John makes one of the greatest statements made
by a man in all of scripture, “He must increase, but I must decrease.” The
church, my community, and the world needs much more of Jesus and far less
of me. He must increase in every way - name and fame, knowledge of Him,
love of Him, and obedience to Him. Implicit in John’s statement is this truth,
He can increase, or I can increase, but both cannot be true. Which one will it
be in your life? Must He increase or must you increase?
I told my church yesterday that
if I serve Jesus well among them
as their Pastor - they are to give
glory to God. I also told them that
when my mistakes, my struggle
with sin, my evident weaknesses,
my offenses and overlooking of
individuals or families, and my
failures cause them hurt - that they
are to be gloriously reminded that
I am not what they need. What
they need is Jesus! Pastor, what
you need is not validation through
numbers, success, or compliments
- you need Jesus. Church member,
what you need is not a super pastor
- you need Jesus. And for you, the
unchurched, the hurting, or the
confident and self-sufficient one
who says I need nothing - what you
need is Jesus.
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