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PAGE 20A PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. OCTOBER 14. 2010
Ghana pastor speaks
at First Baptist Jasper
Rev. Yaw Ofori, head of evangelism and missions for the
Ghana Baptist Convention in West Africa, speaking to First
Baptist Church Jasper, Sunday morning, October 10.
By Jeff Warren
Rev. Yaw Ofori, head of evan
gelism and missions work for the
Ghana Baptist Convention,
spoke to the congregation of First
Baptist Church Jasper, Sunday
morning, October 10.
Visiting in the United States
with his wife, Grace, Ofori
brought greetings from Chris
tians in West Africa and spoke of
church planting now occurring in
Ghana, new church starts con
nected to ministry provided by
the organization. His Nets. His
Nets distributes mosquito nets
without charge to African fami
lies as protection from malaria
carrying mosquitoes.
In the past, West Africa was
known as the White Man's Grief,
Ofori said, for the number of Eu
ropeans and other Westerners
who died in the country from
malaria. Despite the threat of the
disease, missionaries continued
to work in his country, Ofori
said. He said he counts his own
Christian faith a legacy of Chris
tian missionaries who came to
his country despite the risks.
Malaria remains a killer dis
ease among the people of West
Africa, Ofori said. In rural areas,
many inhabitants lack money for
medicine to treat the disease once
it is contracted. "I believe pre
vention is better than the cure,"
he said.
That is where the work of His
Nets is involved. Dr. Jimmy
Lewis, pastor at First Baptist,
presently heads His Nets as its
president. Lewis travelled with
other members of his church to
distribute mosquito nets in
Ghana earlier this year.
Ofori said at times as many as
1,000 people gather at a meeting
place to receive nets with just
200 available for distribution.
Often few Christians are in the
crowds assembled, he said. Re
cipients hold to a variety of dif
ferent beliefs. "Some are
Moslem, some pagan, some idol
worshippers," Ofori said. Nets
are distributed without discrimi
nation.
"When they receive their net,
they begin to think about God's
love for them," Ofori said. "How
people travelled from so far away
to Africa and to Ghana to give
them nets."
He said people receiving nets
express appreciation for the gift
and to the givers. "They look at
them to say, ‘I don't have money
to buy this net. You love me. You
don't want me to die’." And
grasping that, net recipients be
come curious about the God of
love who motivates such action.
The evangelism and missions
arm of the Ghana Baptist Con
vention is now sending church
planters to start churches near
meeting places where people
gathered to receive nets, Ofori
said. As a follow-up to His Nets
distribution of mosquito nets.
Christians of the Ghana Baptist
Convention are returning to dis
tribution points and starting new
churches among Ghanaians
touched by the nets ministry.
First Baptist Jasper has plans
for further involvement distribut
ing mosquito nets in Ghana. Pas
tor Lewis said a return journey to
Ghana is planned for spring
2011.
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Regular Board Meeting Agenda
October 14, 2010
5:00 PM
Board Conference Center
91 D.B. Carroll Street
Jasper, GA 30143
I. Call to Order
II. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance
Sassafras announces adult poetry contest winners
III. Approval of Agenda
IV. Superintendent Reports
The adult poetry contest of
the Sassafras Literary Exchange
came to its conclusion on the
Saturday morning of the Georgia
Marble Festival with the presen
tation of awards.
Although Sassafras has put on
writing contest for area youth for
the last twenty-nine years, this is
the first adult contest to be done
in a long time. But with the suc
cess of this affair (53 entries)
there will most likely be more
adult contest to come in the fti-
ture.
The winners can consider
themselves justly proud as well
as all the other entrants. The
works all were lucid and interest
ing showing talent and thought
fulness. There are many in this
area who are capable of putting
their thoughts and feelings down
on a piece of paper and hopefully
contest like this one will give
them an opportunity to liberate
those talents.
First place went to Diana
Smith for the poem, “Pink Lady
Plays Golf.” Walter H. Inge
grabbed second place honors
with, “Apartment Cat,” and third
place went to Sara Brown for
“Country Death.”
The following took honorable
mention: Jayne Beske for “My
Third place winner Sara Brown accepts her award on stage at the Marble Festival from
William Young as Joan Barnes looks on.
First place - “Pink Lady Plays
Golf’
By Diana Smith
Glossed lips glisten under a
straw hat
tied with a rose colored ribbon
perched on hair made
right my Mr. Michael every
Thursday.
Frosted nails by Ingrid brush her
skirt, hot pink and green.
Her gang ready to play.
She stands on the first tee
a flamingo display,
her personal golf cart,
a blushing chariot.
An 80 compression fuchsia ball
sits like a pickled egg
on a powder pink tee.
She addresses the ball to perfec
tion,
thanks to lessons by Christ.
The result?
Three new party invitations
and a tete a tete at five.
Even par.
Second Place - “Apartment Cat”
by Walter H. Inge
Sam differed from a plaster cat
In that
He possessed the ability
To breathe and move and eat and
die.
By why?
Motionless at the window sill,
On a carpeted shelf made just for
him,
Sam sat.
A shadow of a cat.
Deodorized, dewormed, de-
fleaed, declawed,
Defelinized.
Perhaps some day Samantha
might notice
The tunafish catfood untouched
in the bowl,
The PussyGood litter undug and
unshat,
And on the shelf-a plaster cat.
Third place - “Country Death”
By Sara Brown
Give me a country death.
Bury me under a poplar tree
And let me listen to the Earth
For now and forever.
Animals will bellow
And the creek will lick the rocks;
And I will be happy there
Entombed in the red clay.
The same red clay that
I played in as a child;
Thick; moist - smelling of life;
So red that my mama
Would say, “Wash up.
Looks like you’ve been playing
in blood.”
Blood. Earth. Life.
Give me a country death.
"Trees properly placed
around buildings can
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needs by 30 percent
and can save 20 - 50
percent in energy used
for heating."
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Garden;” David Gardner for “
Fishing In Slickrock Creek;”
Donna C. Harrington for “Their
Eyes Slide Away;” Cory DeBord
for “To Vincent Millay;” Sarah
Brown for “A Prayer,” and Pene
lope Green Dikas for “Lyrics for
A Lady-Bug.
Prizes included cash, a marble
plaque for first place, certificates
and a one year free membership
in the Sassafras Literary Ex
change.
The group meets the first
Monday of each month at 7:00
PM at the Sharp Top Mountain
Arts Association.
1. Attendance, Enrollment, and Drop-Out Reports
2. Maintenance Update (L. Shaddix)
3. Financial Update (A. Burgess)
4. Audit Report
V. Action Items
1. Approval of Minutes
2. Approval of Surplus Items
3. Approval of Personnel
VII. Board Comments
VIII. Adjourn
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