Newspaper Page Text
The Wiregrass Farmer, October 22, 2008 - Page 5
Obituaries
Martinez services at Bethel
Funeral services for Shawn Ryan Martinez,
20, of Sycamore, Ga. were held Wednesday,
October 15, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. at the Bethel
Baptist Church. Rev. Terrell Roberts officiated.
Burial followed in Rose FTill Cemetery in
Ashbum, Ga. Mr. Martinez died Sunday in Tift
County, Ga. from injuries sustained in an auto
mobile accident.
Soft music was played for the prelude and
postlude. Serving as pallbearers were Joshua
Flilton, Flerman L. Fletcher Jr., Jerry Macri,
Billy Franklin Jr., Justin Gregory and Justin
Keen.
Mr. Martinez was bom in Miami, Florida and
had lived in Turner County since 2004. He was
the son of Jose Nicaro Vega Martinez and Bonita
Faye Fowler Fletcher. He was a salesman and a
member of the Bethel Baptist Church in
Sycamore and the Calvary Baptist Church in
Clearwater, Florida.
Mr. Martinez is survived by one son, Jayden
Shawn Martinez, Sycamore, Ga., his Mother,
Bonita Faye Fowler Fletcher Delgado Elias,
Sycamore, his Grandmother, Dorothy Wilson
Fowler, Sycamore, Ga. Also surviving are his
brother, Herman Lamar Fletcher, Jr., Tifton, Ga.
and five sisters, Patricia L. Fletcher, Tifton, Ga.,
Audrey Lynn Rogers, Christina Nicole Delgado,
Adrienne Rochelle Delgado, and Brittany
Celeste Delgado, all of Sycamore, Ga.
The family received friends Tuesday from
6:00-8:00 P.M. at Perry Funeral Chapel. You
may sign the online guest book and share your
special condolences and memories with the fam
ily by visiting Perry Funeral Chapel's Website at:
www.perryfuneralchapel.com
Burgess graveside services at New Prospect
Graveside funeral services for Brenda (Lulu)
A. Burgess, 62, of Ashburn, GA. were held at
2:00 PM, Tuesday, October 21, 2008 in the New
Prospect Freewill Baptist Church cemetery in
Turner Co. Rev. Kirk Lavender officiated.
Katrina L. Young sang two songs of comfort.
Mrs. Burgess passed away Sunday at Tift
Regional Hospital following a brief illness.
A native of Irwin Co., she was the daughter
of the late Joseph Elbert and Mildred Louise
Jolley Arnold and had lived in Turner Co. most
of her life. She was a housewife and homemaker
and was a member of the New Prospect Freewill
Baptist Church. She loved crocheting, bird
watching and spending time with her dog.
Survivors include her husband, Walter S.
Burgess, Ashburn; her aunts, Fran Jolley,
Ashbum, Faye Arnold, Sycamore, Grace Luke,
Ringgold and Diane Raschke, Lakeland, FL. Her
uncle, Warren Arnold, Sycamore and numerous
nieces, nephews and cousins.
The family received friends Monday evening
from six until eight at Perry Funeral Chapel. You
may sign the online guest book and share your
special condolences and memories with the fam
ily by visiting Perry Funeral Chapel's Website at:
www.perryfuneralchapel.com
Long memorial services in Tifton
Randy Matthew Long, 49, of Ashbum, died
Friday, Oct. 17, 2008, at Tift Regional Medical
Center. Memorial services were held at 4 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 19, in the chapel of Albritton-
Beaumont Funeral Directors with the Rev.
Danny Ray officiating. A private interment will
be held at a later date.
Mr. Long was bom Dec. 9, 1958, in Colquitt
County, to the late Clarence Long and Merna
Bowers Long of Ashburn, who survives. He
was also preceded in death by two brothers and
one niece.
After 31 years as an aluminum extrusion
manager and consultant, Mr. Long earned his
bachelor’s degree in business administration in
2008. As a single father, he reared two of his
daughters who are college students in Illinois.
He loved boxing and golf.
Survivors include his wife, Kathleen Cola
Long of Ashburn; his mother, Merna Bowers
Long of Ashburn; five daughters, Christie
Moore and husband Len and Melissa Thomas
and husband Zack, all of Nashville, Nikki Long
and Sunni Long, both of Marion, Ill., and
Kourtney Cola of Herrin, Ill; two sons, Michael
Mulch of Akron, Ohio, and Brandon H. Grove
of Durham, N.C.; three granddaughters, Hannah
Moore, Natalie Moore, and Elizabeth Moore;
two grandsons, Levi Thomas and Keven
Mikulich; one sister, Glenda Hutto and husband
Dickie; four brothers, Stanley Long and wife
Judy, Manis Long and wife Sharon, Ronnie
Long and wife Glenda and Dale Long and wife
Reginia; and several nieces and nephews.
Albritton-Beaumont Funeral Directors in
Tifton was in charge of arrangements. You may
sign the online guest registry at www.albritton-
beaumontfuneralhome.com
Church news
Homecoming and Revival
Dakota Baptist Church announces
Homecoming and Revival services.
Homecoming will be Oct. 26. Bro. Robert
McCoy will be preparing the 11am service with
covered dish lunch to follow. Revival services
will be Oct. 27-29 at 7pm. Bro. Chuck Taylor
from Lebanon Baptist Church in Abbeville will
be preaching.
Homecoming Sing
Inaha Baptist Church in Sycamore is having
it's first Homecoming Sing on Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m.
Singing guests will be Brandon Hughes, Sam &
Labreeska Atkinson and Mandy Harrell. For
more info please call 567-8796 or 229-326-
6579.
Happy hour
Pastor Charles A. Anderson Sr. and the disci
ples of New Birth Life Changing Church invites
you to the greatest party on earth. Everyone is
invited to come and join in this great party. You
don't have to bring anything, just show up!
There is a three for one. No half price, you get
the whole deal. Come and see what all the fuss is
about. This party takes place every Sunday at
8:30 a.m. at the New Birth Life Changing
Church, 127 Condor Dr., Ocilla, Ga. This is a
life changing experience. Children are welcome!
This is one HAPPY HOUR (Ephesians 5; 18)
you won't forget. FMI call 229-468-4476 or 229-
425-7108
Appreciation Day
Announcing Community Appreciation Day!
Oct. 25, 11am to 4pm, sponsored by the First
Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Sycamore.
Festivities will take place at Heritage Park,
behind Colony Bank in Ashburn. Everyone is
welcome to join us for free food, music, dramas,
prize drawings, and tons of fun for the kids!
Bible study at CUCOG
Joyful Hearts Fellowship & Bible Study (For
ages 45 and over)
We would love to have you come join us
here at Christian Union Church of God, for a
time of fellowship and Bible Study. We will
meet on the 2nd Monday of each month at 6
P.M. there will be refreshments and door prizes.
Please make plans to be a part of this new min
istry and bring a friend.
For more information or to call and make
sure the meeting is being held as scheduled,
please call Emma Britt at 567-2358 or Kitha at
567-9442.
Church Anniversary
Rev. W.H. Leggett and the members of Zion
Hope Missionary Baptist Church, 521 Joe
Lawrence Rd. will be celebrating their 140th
Church Anniversary Monday, Oct. 27-29, 7:30
pm each night. The climax of the anniversary
celebration will be on Sunday, Nov. 2nd with the
morning worship services and Family and
Friends day. Everyone is cordially invited to
attend.
Hallelujah Party
Rev. W.H. Leggett and the members of Zion
Hope Missionary Baptist Church will be having
their Annual Hallelujah Party on Friday, Oct.
31st beginning at 6:30 pm. Everyone is invited
to come out and enjoy the games, candy, prizes,
food and fun, fun, fun!
Church Services
Pastor Marvin Cuffie of the Friendship
Missionary Baptist Church is sending out an
invitation to attend our Sunday services every
second Sunday at 8 a.m. Please come and wor
ship with us.
LAG ministries
LAG Ministries: The Living Almighty God
Ministries invite each of you in the community
to a God annointed informative teaching work
shop on Biblical layman teaching. There will be
a new topic each month. If you are teachable and
not ashamed that you do not know, this is the
place for you. The classes are free, and will start
on each 3rd Saturday in each month from 4:30
pm til 6pm at the City of Ashburn Youth
Resource Center. Ages adults, young adults,
teens 13-18 years old. We want to reach as many
in the community that need a spiritual revelation
on the word of God.
For more information call Minister
Gwedolyn Mathis, 229-567-0412 or 229-567-
6003. Thanking you in advance. Please come
and be blessed. Refreshments will be served.
Free Bible study course
You can take this eight lesson course through the mail. It takes you on a study from the Old
Testament to the New Testament. Simply mail us the following information:
Name:
Mail to: Ashburn
Church of Christ
Address:
Citv
State
Zip
P.O. Box 129
Ashburn, GA
31714
Watch where you step
My daily routine includes a
brisk early morning walk for
exercise. With the days getting
shorter and the time not yet
having been rolled back to
Eastern Standard Time, my
walks start while it is still dark.
The other morning as I got to
my walking spot, I took a few
steps on the grass and felt a
sensation under my shoe that I
did not like. Having seen sev
eral dogs in the area, I knew
without looking what had hap
pened. It was disgusting and
my goal was to get it off imme
diately—and I did.
I am sure that you desire no
further details about my inci
dent of walking where the
neighborhood dogs had trod, so
I will depart from that scene.
But I borrow from it to focus
on something far worse that we
come into contact with, yet we
are too often content to leave it
clinging to our hearts. I am
referring to sin. Although we
might try to ignore it, call it
something else, explain it
away, or make excuses for our
selves, the truth is that sin is
real and must be effectively
removed from our lives if we
expect to be found pleasing to
God.
Looking back to the begin
ning of humankind, we find
that when sin entered into the
first man and woman, their
response to God when He con
fronted them about their viola
tion of His instructions was to
try to make excuses for them
selves. Genesis 3 records that
“The man said, “The woman
You put here with me--she
gave me some fruit from the
tree, and I ate it” (verse 12,
NIV). He knew that he had par
taken of fruit that God had for
bidden them to eat, but instead
of confessing his bad choice he
blamed it on his wife. But Eve
was not willing to take respon
sibility either: “Then the Lord
God said to the woman, “What
is this you have done?” The
woman said, “The serpent
deceived me, and I ate” (verse
13).
So they both sinned, but
neither was willing to take
responsibility. Makes me won
der how many of us have dealt
with our guilt in the very same
way!
After writing about God’s
displeasure with sin and its
consequences in Romans 1,
chapter 2 begins with these
words of the apostle Paul:
“You, therefore, have no
Romans 3:23: “For all have
sinned and fall short of the
glory of God.”
I did not just come to
understand that I had some
thing disgusting on the bottom
of my shoe the other morning,
I did something about it--I
cleaned it off. In like manner,
admitting our sin is an essential
step in the right direction, but
we must not stop there. We
must allow the only One Who
can cleanse away our sins to do
so. That One is Jesus Christ.
You do not have to spend
the rest of your life with the
ugliness and filth of sin cling
ing to you. Here is the remedy:
“That if you confess with your
mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and
believe in your heart that God
raised Him from the dead, you
will be saved” (Romans 10:9).
Call out to Him right now!
Bible study at CUCOG
Joyful Hearts Fellowship & Bible Study (For ages 45 and
over)
We would love to have you come join us here at Christian
Union Church of God, for a time of fellowship and Bible Study.
We will meet on the 2nd Monday of each month at 6 P.M. there
will be refreshments and door prizes. Please make plans to be a
part of this new ministry and bring a friend.
For more information or to call and make sure the meeting is
being held as scheduled, please call Emma Britt at 567-2358 or
Kitha at 567-9442.
Greater Faith Ministries
Greater Faith Ministries, 250 Adams Ave., Ashbum, with
Elder Ethel Davis Pastor & Founder, have our weekly Church ser
vices every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., prayer service and every
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. for Bible Study. Sunday School every
Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. and Sunday service at noon.
Clements Chapel services
Clements Chapel Methodist Church would like for people that
have been asking to know when we have church services. Our
services are full time. We have church services (preaching) at
9:45 AM every Sunday morning. Sunday School is at 10:45 AM
every Sunday morning. Rev. Tom Salter is the Pastor.
New Deliverance
New Deliverance Full Gospel Church in Sycamore has their
church services each second, third & fourth Sundays with Pastor
Bishop Willie Frank Prather and Prophetess Betty Prather. Where
everyone is welcome.
Worship services
Church of God by Faith Morning Glory services 8:30 a.m.
Mon-Sun; Morning Worship at 11:30 a.m. every Sunday; Bible
Study every Tues. 7:30 p.m; Pentecostal services every Thurs.
7:30 p.m. For more information please call 567-4008. E lder. Dr
Larry W. Coffee, Founder & Pastor Sis. Kaye Coffee, Co founder
& Elect Lady. Min. Pam Pickens, Secretary.
73
3 ®
©
tL -A
© s
a m
jS
u <
3 £
U ’>
^ §
in
o
l“9 Q
r
Inspiration
excuse, you who pass judgment
on someone else, for at what
ever point you judge the other,
you are condemning yourself,
because you who pass judg
ment do the same things”
(verse 1). What is he saying?
Both Jews and Gentiles have
been infected by sin and need
to be spiritually cleaned up. He
states it a bit more clearly in
Attend the Church of your choice this Sunday
Ashburn First Baptist -302 McLendon
Ashburn First United Methodist - N. Main St.
Bethel Baptist - Hwy 32 E. Sycamore
Christian Union Church of God - Industrial Dr.
Church of Christ - Industrial Dr.
Church of God By Faith - W. Madison
Clements Chapel United Methodist - Sycamore
Dakota Baptist - Hwy 4IN.
Double Run Bapt. - Hwy 159 N
Dayspring Church of the Nazarene - 983 North St.
Friendship Baptist - Story Rd
Grace Fellowship - 133 N. Gordon
Harmony Baptist - W. Turner County
Haw Pond Baptist -1511 Hawpond Rd. Arabi
High Hill Baptist - 5 miles N of Ashburn
Inaha Baptist - Hwy 41 S.
Independent Faith Baptist - Sycamore
Jesus Temple of God, 194 Pate St.
Living Waters Fellowship - 417 E. Madison
New Providence Baptist Church - W. Washington
Morningside Baptist - 215 E. Monroe
Mt. Zion Church of God - W. Monroe
United Pentecostal - Sycamore
New Hope Baptist - Bussey Road
New Mt. Olive Baptist - E. Washington Ave.
New Mount Zion Baptist - Jefferson St.
New Prospect Freewill Baptist
Oak Grove Baptist
Piney Grove Baptist - Rebecca
Pleasant Hill Baptist - Rebecca
Rebecca Baptist - Rebecca
Rocky Mount Baptist
New Hope BaptistChurch-222 HC Willaims Rd. Sibley
S. Ashburn Holiness - Pearl Ave
Sycamore Baptist - Hwy 41 S
Sycamore United Methodist - Sycamore
Terrell Baptist - Hwy 112 W
Trinity Baptist - Pineknot Rd
Rebecca United Methodist - Rebecca
Wideman Chapel - Rebecca
Zion Hope Baptist Church - 521 Joe Lawrence Rd
Emmanuel Missionary Baptist - Sycamore
Amboy Baptist - Hwy 159 N
Israels Temple - 635 W. Washington
St. Luke Missionary Bapt. - North Leary Rd.
New Mt. Pleasant - 200 Dunlap Circle
El Shaddai Ministry 536 Carlos Ave.
Greater Faith C.O.P. Ministries - 250 Adams St. New
Jerusalem Freewill Baptist - Lee St.
New Jerusalem Holiness Church- 210 Carlos Ave.
Southland Chrysler
Your Chrysler-Dodge Dealer
Highway 41, Cordele, GA
273-3473
Bishop Well & Pump
Service
Tifton, 382-6117
1-800-342-9345
Parker
Chevrolet
Gorday Drive
Ashburn, 567-3306
You can
advertise here
567-3655
Colony
515 E. Washington Ave.
Ashburn, 567-4383
QUALITY
CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH
DODGE, INC.
322 N. Grant Street
Fitzgerald, 423-5720
East Washington Ave.
567-9031, Ashburn
ft South (.icorgiu
Ranki ng Company^
561 E. Washington St.
Ashburn, GA 31714
567-9686
