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Hiltonia Trinity Church is seeking a part time pastor to
lead our church and preach God’s word. Send resumes
to: s4hand@yahoo.com
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.
Hiltonia Baptist Church
1234th Ave
Hiltonia Ga, 30467
Pastor Darrell Young
Sunday School 10:00 AM
Worship Service 11:00 AM
Phone Number 478-552-4809
Hiltonia Trinity Church
2470 Waynesboro Hwy Sylvania,
GA 30467
Phone Number: 912-829-4632
Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Worship: 11:00 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 Activities; 6:30 p.m.
Little Horse Creek Baptist
814 Little Horse Creek Rd.,
Rocky Ford, GA
706-402-1199
Pastor: Jim Cheyne
Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.
Wednesday Prayer mtg: 6:30 p.m.
“Where Friends Become Family”
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 Meet
ing 7:00 p.m. Pastor Bill Kent.
Middle Ground Baptist
Church
259 Middleground Road Sylva
nia, Ga. Sunday School 9:45 am.
and morning worship 11:00 am.
Sunday evening worship, 6:00
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pm. Wednesday night prayer
meeting, 6:30 pm. The current
Pastor is Dr. Charlie Cooper.
Newington 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
Youth 5:30 p.m.
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
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www.oakhillmillen.com
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.
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/T rinityEpiscopalStatesboro
for further information on weekly
activities.
Believe You Can and You’re Halfway There - Theodore Roosevelt
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.
Double Heads Baptist Church
141 Captola Road
Sylvania, GA., (912) 863-6101
Pastor: BJ Horne
Sunday Worship: 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday Bible Study:
6:30 p.m.
Sunday Theology Class meets at
9:45 a.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
First Baptist Church
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 Congregational
Church of Sylvania
246 Goloid Church Rd.,
Sylvania, GA 912-531-6608
Worship 10 a.m.
Children’s Church 10:30 a.m.
Life Group Bible Studies
Monday 6:30 p.m.
Pastor: Dr Benny Tate
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Lay Leaders: Dale Forehand &
Tommy Pace
“Come As You Are”
First United Methodist Church
201 N. Main Street,
Sylvania, GA 30467
Oak Hill Baptist Church
3233 Oak Hill Church Rd,
Millen, GA 30442
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“The Light in the Darkness”
Isaiah 9:2 - “Thepeople who walked in
darkness have seen a great light; those who
dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them
has light shone. ”
Even though I read most of my books
on my Kindle now, I still enjoy going
into bookstores. When I walk into a
bookstore, there is always a table in front
of the entrance with the bestselling books,
and there is a large section on that table
devoted to “self-help” books. If you don’t
know what I’m talking about, you can skip
the bookstore and google “NY times self-
help bestsellers”. What amazes me about
these books is that they don’t stay on the
bestseller list long - they are replaced with
sequels or the newest edition of “self-help”.
If we could help ourselves, why isn’t there
just one great self-help book that has been
written? Why do we need more and more
self-help books every year?
The last time I took my wife out for a
romantic dinner, we went to a restaurant
with white tablecloths, linen napkins, and
candles on the table. As we were looking
at the menu, I noticed something about the
candle on our table - it was artificial. This
candle was an electric candle that flickered,
mimicking a real flame. It was so well
done, and it looked so much like the real
thing, that it tricked me into thinking it was
real. Do you know when I figured out it was
a fake? When I realized it was not giving
off any heat.
Those self-help books, and all of man’s
answers, are like artificial light - it mimics
the real thing, but there is no life in it. A
real candle is alive - it flickers, it smokes,
it dances, it changes, and it gives off heat!
There is a difference between artificial
light, and the real thing! Real light is alive.
Isaiah 9:2 says that “a great light has
come to a people living in deep darkness.”
This is a prophecy about the future birth of
Jesus. Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus came to
be the savior of the world, saving His people
from their sins. Jesus said in John 8:12, “I
am the Light of the world. Whoever follows
Me will not walk in darkness, but will have
the Light of life.” Do you have the Light of
life or are you walking in darkness?
Jesus is the great Light that has come to
a people living in deep darkness - darkness
caused by our sin. In the Bible darkness is
always descriptive of man’s sin, being far
away from God. The problem is, all of the
artificial light in our culture has tricked
us into thinking we aren't living in deep
darkness.
One more illustration - New York City,
the city that never sleeps. At 3 am, when the
night is darkest, NYC is lit up like noontime
because of all of the artificial light. In NYC
you never have to be in the dark because of
all of the manmade light.
We live in a world that never sleeps,
saturated by the artificial lights of this
world. What happens when the lights go
out? What happens when the artificial light
fails, and the darkness is so dark that it
feels like a heavy blanket? What happens
when the self help books fall short of fixing
the problem? Jesus is the solution to the
problem - He is the Light of the world that
illuminates the deepest darkness. He came
to be your light, to remove your sin, and
to lead you out of deep darkness into His
marvelous light of life.
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