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PAGE 2B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JULY 15. 2021
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Revival and Homecoming
County Line Church
Come Grow with Us in Christ!
Summer Sermon Series:
Favorite Bible Verses
Join us as we explore some well-known and
much-loved Bible verses.
This Sunday, July 18th is
Esther 4:1-17.
View recent worship services on our website.
Worship Service:
10:30 a.m.
45 Appalachian Circle, Talking Rock
706-301-9191
First left turn off US 515 north of Philadelphia Rd. in Jasper
www.kingofkingslcmsga.org • kingofkingslcmsga@gmail.com
Homecoming and Revival continues
this week at County Line Baptist
Church through Saturday, July 17.
Revival services through Saturday,
July 17th beginning at 7:30 p.m.
nightly.
Rev. Joel Alexander is Evangelist
and Rev. Jess Posey is Pastor.
Weekly Church
Activities
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Kins of Kings
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Program to heal
racial tension at
Mt. Light Sunday
On Sunday, July 25 25,
Mountain Light UUC wel
comes Pastor David-Michael
Searcy as our guest minister.
His “Reflections on June-
teenth” asks: “What has
changed since 1865?"
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Chinch in
Anniversary!
WAiSTBP
Old friends
and
New friends
Locaiion
9906 Henderson Mountain Road
Fairmount, GA 30139
Call for more info:
404-405-5968
Saturday, July 17, 2021
5:00—5:00 p.m.
Speaker
Pastor Varmy Cochran
SRSff e
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We will reflect and weave
it all back to remembrance
and knowing that we all are
one with each other and the
Divine.
We will work with Musi
cal Meditations and Mudras
that will energetically help
deepen the message and heal
the collective racial divide in
our country and world. Let’s
lift up every voice and Rise
up in the Oneness of which
our human family calls us to
be.
Mountain Light UUC has
returned to in-person atten
dance. If you would like to
attend, please visit our web
site (mluuc.org) for more in
formation on how we are
operating during the COVID-
19 Pandemic or how to join
via Zoom.
Mountain Light UUC,
2502 Tails Creek Road (GA-
282 West), in Ellijay, wel
comes guests of all faiths,
ethnicities, and gender iden
tifications. Our worship
service begins at 10:30 AM.
Join us at 10 for fellowship.
Adventist Food
Pantry
The Adventist Commu
nity Services food pantry will
be open Wednesdays from 1-
2 p.m. at Jasper Seventh-Day
Adventist Church, 600 Burnt
Mountain Road, just past the
library.
GriefShare
Support Group
GriefShare continues Sun
days from 2-4 p.m. weekly
through August 8th, meeting
at King of Kings Lutheran
Church. GriefShare is a video
seminar featuring some of
the nation’s foremost experts
on grief recovery topics.
Each seminar is self-con
tained, so jumping in at any
time is allowed. The seminar
also includes a small group
discussion to allow group
participants to talk about the
content of the seminar and
about how they are dealing
with the death of their loved
one. GriefShare is available
to anyone grieving the death
of a relative or friend. Child
care is available at no charge,
and the cost of the workbook
is $15.
King of Kings is located
at 45 Appalachian Circle,
Talking Rock, GA. To re
quest additional information,
leave a message with the
church at 706-301-9191, or
search online at
https://www.kingofk-
ingslcmsga.org
Mountain Light
A \ UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST
CHURCH
An Accepting Community
with Open Hearts & Minds
2502 Tails Creek Rd.,
Hwy 282 W • Ellijay, GA
Dress: Casual
Sundays • Fellowship 10 am.
•Service 10:30 a.m.
www.mluuc.org
Minister’s
Comer
Let s Finish Our
Race with a
Joyful Spirit
By Rev. Tony Elder
As I tuned in to the
morning news on the
Fourth of July, the elite
runners in the annual
Peachtree Road Race in
Atlanta had just crossed
the finish line.
Something unusual
stood out to me as they
interviewed the second-
place finisher among the
women. Unlike what I
had witnessed in previous
years, this 22-year-old
runner wasn’t having to
try to catch her breath to
talk to the reporter. She
didn’t even look like she
was perspiring. She was
bubbly, energetic, and ap
peared as if she could turn
right around and run the
race again. Maybe it was
the uncommonly cooler
temperatures and lower
humidity that morning
making such a difference.
Whatever it was, it
was a far cry from the ex
hausted, sweaty partici
pants I was accustomed
to seeing laboring to fin
ish the race.
The Apostle Paul
talked about the fact that
he wanted to finish his
race with joy (Acts
20:24), referring to his
walk with God through
life and the ministry he
had received from the
Lord.
At the time he was
facing the likelihood of
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The Scapegoat
“We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own
way; and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all. ”
Isaiah 53:6 NIV
I n the sixteenth chapter of
Leviticus, God tells the Israelites
that they must offer particular
sacrifices in order to receive God’s
forgiveness. One of those sacrifices is
the scapegoat, which bears the sins of
the community and is then sent into
the wilderness: “When Aaron has
finished making atonement for the
Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting
and the altar, he shall bring forward
the live goat. He is to lay both hands
on the head of the live goat and
confess over it all the wickedness and
rebellion of the Israelites—all their
sins—and put them on the goat’s
head. He shall send the goat away
into the wilderness in the care of
someone appointed for the task. The
goat will carry on itself all their sins
to a remote place; and the man shall
release it in the wilderness.”
(Leviticus 16:20-22 NIV) The notion
that we can put our sins on a
sacrificial animal and send it off into
the wilderness is strange but
intriguing. Like casting our burdens
upon the winds or the waters, the
scapegoat feels purifying to us.
Perhaps this is why it feels so good
and so cathartic to confess our sins;
we can finally let go of them. We do
well to remember also that for
Christians Jesus is the ultimate
scapegoat, the sinless victim who
takes all of our sins upon himself and
is then cast out into the figurative
wilderness via his crucifixion.
Consider how you might cast off your
sins, both literally and figuratively, by
confessing them.
-Christopher Simon
Cornerstone Church
of Jasper GA
140 Cornerstone Dr.,
Jasper, GA
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700 South Main Street, Jasper
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Exclusive Agent
Personal Financial Representative
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3850 Camp Road, Ste.B /&tQl
Jasper, GA 30143
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Owner
PO Box 811
Jasper, GA30143
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Cagle Funeral Home
364 E. Church Street • Jasper, Georgia 30143
Office (706) 692-6615
Sunrise Memorial Gardens & Chapel Mausoleum
Office (706) 692-4349
Obituary Line (706) 253-6399
Helen Cagle Fax (706) 692-9399
CONTRACTORS, INC.
GRADING, HAULING & DEVELOPMENT
1204 West Church Street ~ JASPER, GEORGIA 30143
706-692-3400 • Fax 706-692-3405
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Jasper, GA 30143
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23 Mary Street 489 Highland Xing #202
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