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The Wiregrass Farmer, November 20,2024 - Page 5 Time Well Spent Church Scripture & Prayer LUKE 18:1-8 Scripture: Luke 18:1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought al ways to pray, and not to faint; Daily Prayer: May we continually have Faith in God and never give up. It is written in Galatians 6:9(KJV) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. In Jesus Christ I believe and pray. Prayer of repentance: Be cause of your excellent way, I repent of my sins and accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. Pastor Larry Coffee and Lady Sharon Coffee, Madison Avenue Church of God by Faith - Ashburn Church & Pastor anniversary I AM Church of God will be celebrating it's 4th Church and Pastor's Anniversary on November 17,2024 at 8AM. We are located on 227 S. Cleveland St., Ashburn. Our guest speaker is Evangelist Tiffany Wilkerson. We invite everyone to come celebrate with us. Dr. Velma Jackson, pastor. We hope to see you there. Thanksgiving Meal Lag, The Living Almighty God Ministries Reaching Out To Our Entire Community For Our Annual Thanksgiving Meal. CDC Guidelines Ob served. Drive Through Or Walk Through Only. There will be a limit of plates per vehicle. We Are Preparing for your arrival to serve you a hot Thanksgiving Meal Saturday, November 23,2024 at 1:00 PM at Turner County High School Cafeteria, 316 Lamar St. For More Information Call Dr. Gwendolyn Mathis 229- 567-6003 Devotional and prayer service NEW PROVIDENCE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Dr. Marvin Brown will host a lunchtime community Devotional and Prayer Service at 12pm each 1st Wednesday of the month. This service extends an open invitation to the surrounding communities; to include all city and county workers, First Responders and others that desire prayer and devotion during their 12 o'clock lunch hour. A light lunch will be provided. Come and join us. Mentor classes God's Ministries of Hope Adult and Youth Mentor Classes are every 4th Satur day of the month from 6pm- 8 pm. We are inviting the communities to come and join us in teaching and educating the adults and youth. The adults are to stay with the children. If you have any questions contact Sis. Angela Tumbling 229-376-7458 or Min. Thelma Davis 229-288- 9377. LAG Ministries LAG Ministries: The Liv ing Almighty God Ministries invite each of you in the com munity to a God annointed in formative teaching workshop on Biblical layman teaching. There will be a new topic each month. If you are teach able 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 until 6 pm 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 Gwendolyn Mathis, 229-567- 6003. Please come and be blessed. Refreshments will be served. Intercessory prayer Intercessory Prayer Con ference Call Madison Ave. Church of God by Faith Dial in: (978) 990-5000 Code: 729651 Mon - Sat beginning at 8:30 a.m. (Days may vary due to Holidays). Pastor Larry Coffee, Lady Sharon Coffee. Church services Greater Faith Ministry, 250 Adams Ave, would love for you to come and join us in praise and worship. Our weekly services are Prayer Service Tuesday nights at 7:30, Bible Study Thursday nights at 7:30, Sunday School each Sunday at 10 am and services at 11:30 am. Pastor Christine Young. Emmery services Emmery Chapel AME Church announces our church services. Sunday School each Sunday at 9 am. and worship services on the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 10 am. Gale and I are in the midst of one of those difficult sea sons of life: taking care of my deceased parents’ final busi ness affairs and dispersing their earthly belongings. As I write this evening we are in north Georgia where it has been a chilly, rainy and dreary day. It makes me look forward to getting back to our home in south Georgia when today the thermometer showed that it barely reached fifty degrees up here while it was well into the seventies down there. But the weather is not the only un pleasant part of our visit. There is great uneasiness when going through our loved ones most personal and special pos sessions. As far as monetary value is concerned, much of it would be considered to be junk, but to them it was special treasures that they dared not part with. Our daddy was quite pri vate and protective of his be longings, so it was almost a sacred thing earlier today as I went into the basement and rummaged through his tools and other items. And even though it is completely legal and acceptable for me to claim whatever I want of his belong ings to take home with me, it generated a feeling of wrong doing as his treasures became mine without me asking for his permission. But it also af fected thoughts from deep within my well of memories as I layed hands on things that are connected to days long gone by. Both of my parents left this world in the past year only a The Ultimate In the next few weeks, there will be a lot of focus, in many different ways, on the subject of gifts. But there is a gift that surpasses all—John 3:16. For the past few weeks, we have examined some things that we take for granted that would be dramatically, and tragically different if Jesus Christ had not come to the earth. But, let us now consider Jesus, the Ulti mate Gift. We have to draw close to find strength in the One who is the ultimate per sonality. He was aware of the laughter of children...the tears of grief...the hunger and lone liness that affect us all. Christ has come! Long ages may Inspiration few months apart from each other. While they were elderly with many health problems, we thought we had more time to be spent with them. God had other plans and His plans are always perfect, and we ac cept that reality. Those decades that He gave us as a family were certainly made up of time well spent. When we consider the value of time shared together with family and other loved ones, it is good for us to be re minded that our relationship with God grows stronger when we set aside time to spend with Him. All of us live in a high- energy, high-demand world that can easily cause us to give far too little attention to our re lationship with God. Some times it requires us to lay aside some things —even important things —to do the better thing and commune with God. In the New Testament book of Ephesians, we get a re minder of a great man of God, Apostle Paul, who valued being able to commune with God in prayer. He realized that he, along with all followers of Gift elapse before His glory has re duced the world to ordered beauty, and before He has clothed a glorified humanity in garments of white, but Christ has come!. He is the Revealer of all things that prowl in the darkness, the Stiller of the storms of passion, the Quick - ener of all that is wholesome, the Adorner of all that is beau tiful, the Harmonizer of all dis cord, the Reconciler of all contradictions, the Healer of all our diseases, and our Savior from our sins. Christ has come! The Torch for truth, the Anchor of hope, the Pillar of faith, the Rock for strength, the Refuge for security, the Fountain for Christ, were members of a spiritual family headed up by God Himself. As a member of that family he could communi cate with the Father through prayer, which brought growth and vitality to his spiritual life. In like manner, communing with God consistently brings great strength to our relation ship with God. As a result of his awareness that he belonged to the family of God and that God was his heavenly Father, Paul had the assurance that when he prayed he was heard by Him. He wrote regarding his communi cation with God: “For this rea son I kneel before the Father, from Whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name” (Ephesians 3:14-15, New International Version). He continues: “I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being” (verse 16). What joy Paul must have experi enced with the assurance that He was heard by God as he called out to Him in prayer. He went on to refer to God as the One Who is “able to do im measurably more than all we ask or imagine” (verse 20). The more time we spend with God, the greater realiza tion we have of His goodness and availability. As we grow in our relationship with Him the more we value prayer and the results that it yields in us and through us. Without a doubt, time spent with Him is time well spent. refreshment, the Rose for beauty, the Lamb for tender ness, the Friend for counsel, the Brother for love. Jesus has trod upon the face of the earth. His steps will not be obliter ated. Can't we follow the Shep herd, and walk in the Light? But we sneer, and dismiss, and coo over the Baby, but ignore the Man and His word, thus denying His divinity, and sub stitute our own ideas, and look what a mess we have made. We have less time left each day that passes to acknowledge this Gift and what it cost, and be come His child. 229-567- 1552. Pastors, deacons and church leaders For 120 years, The Wiregrass Farmer has published your church news, whatever it may be. We plan to continue this and encourage you to submit news of revivals, sings, vacation Bible school and other events. Please send pictures as well. The Church Directory appearing on Page 5 each week lists every church in Turner County we know of. Your line listing is free. Is your church willing to invest a tiny bit to expand your listing? For $100 a year, you can have a block on the directory for a more com plete listing for your church. You can list the street address, service times and the pastor. You can have as many blocks as you like and the cost, $100 per block, will remain the same. Send us your church news wiregrassfarmer@yahoo.com wiregrass 1 @ windstream.net Fax it! 567-4402 or Call 567-3655 Deadline for all copy is 5pm Friday Legals by Noon Friday (2) We invite you to attend the Church of your choice this Sunday First Baptist Church of Ashburn 302 McLendon St. | 229-567-9320 www.fbcashburn.com We would love to have you join us! Parker r jr ^~^ Chevrolet §■ 1^ South Georgia H H Banking Company ■ You can You can Gorday Drive 561 E. Washington St. advertise here advertise here Ashburn Ashburn, G A 31714 567-3655 567-3655 567-3306 567-9686 Expanded church info available 567-3655 Amboy Baptist - 7930 Ga Hwy 159 Ashburn Ashburn First Baptist -302 McLendon St. Ashburn First United Methodist - 406 N. Main St. Bethel Baptist - Hwy 32 E. Sycamore Christ Foundation - Rogers Plaza Christian Union Church of God - Industrial Dr. Church of Christ - Industrial Dr. Church of God By Faith - 322 W. Madison Ave. Dakota Baptist - Hwy 41 N Double Run Baptist - Hwy 159 N Emmery Chapel AME - 215 Leesburg Hwy Friendship Baptist - 1100 Son Story Rd. Grace Fellowship Baptist - Harmony Baptist - W. Turner County Haw Pond Baptist - 1511 Hawpond Rd. Arabi Halleluiah Temple COGIC - 927 MLK Dr. 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 Ave. New Providence Baptist Church- W. Washington Ave. Morningside Baptist - 215 E. Monroe Ave. Mt. Zion Church of God - 463 W. Monroe Ave. United Pentecostal - Sycamore New Hope Baptist - Bussey Rd. New Mt. Olive Baptist - E. Washington Ave. New Mount Zion Baptist - 105 South Jefferson St. New Prospect Freewill Baptist Oak Grove Baptist Piney Grove Baptist - Rebecca Pleasant Hill Baptist - Rebecca Rebecca Baptist - 166 Ashley St. E. Rebecca Rocky Mount Baptist - 1050 Rocky Mt. Rd. New Hope Baptist Church- 222 HC Williams Rd. S. Ashburn Holiness - Pearl Ave. Sycamore Baptist - Hwy 41 S Sycamore United Methodist - Sycamore Tabernacle of Praise 61 Emily St. Sycamore Terrell Baptist - Hwy 112 W Trinity Community Church - Pineknot Rd. Rebecca United Methodist - Rebecca Wideman Chapel - Rebecca Zion Hope Baptist Church - 521 Joe Lawrence Rd. Emmanuel Missionary Baptist - Sycamore Israels Temple - 635 W. Washington Ave. St. Luke Missionary Bapt. - North Leary Rd. St Theresa’s Catholic Church - 807 S. 3rd St., Cordele New Mt. Pleasant - 200 Dunlap Circle El Shaddai Ministry - 536 Carlos Ave. Greater Faith Ministries - 250 Adams Ave. New Jerusalem Freewill Baptist - Lee St. New Jerusalem Holiness Church - 210 Carlos Ave. Christ Foundation Assembly of God - 222 E. Monroe God’s Ministries of Hope - 81 Emile St., Sycamore First Apostolic Pentecostal - 100 S. Mattie Ave, Sycamore I AM Church of God - 227 S. Cleveland St. Ashburn www.The WiregrassF armer.com At $31 a year, that’s the same cost as a print subscription. Each week’s edition is online Tuesday evening. Read the news. Look through the archives.
