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PAGE 2B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. MARCH 3. 2022 News and upcoming happenings at your church can be emailed to articles@pickensDroaress.com for publication. Numerous Ukraine ties at Mt. Zion Through its direct partnership with an amazing family of ninety-plus church planting missionaries and ministries, Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Jasper has a close connection with what is happening in the Ukraine, and throughout eastern Europe and the world. As an Independent Baptist Church, the Great Commission of Jesus Christ is our mission state ment, that we are to “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.” Following the New Testament model of cross cultural church planting, we invest, through monthly financial giv ing and prayer support, in the witness and ministry of missionaries in dozens of nations. Missionaries actually present their ministries in person in serv ices and events at Mt. Zion, and newsletters (also known as prayer letters) of their activities are shared every week by the pastor. Among those we have supported for many years are John and Amy Sullivan, missionaries to the field of Ukraine and directors of Mission 823, a ministry focused on serving at risk youth in East- Shawn Sullivan, director of Mission 823, a missionary ministry supported by Mt. Zion Baptist Church, with some of the at-risk children he serves in Ukraine. em Europe. Their Gospel centered work involves combatting human trafficking by defending, res cuing and restoring at-risk children and their com munities. Over 2 million Ukranian children were displaced by the war in 2014, and the current in vasion by Russia will only compound the crisis. Mt. Zion is actively helping the Sullivans in mak ing a difference in the current conflict, as Mission 823 already has the infrastructure in place to deal Continued on Following Page Church services and activities Piano quintet to be performed March 5th The North Georgia Chamber Symphony is proud to present Franz Schubert’s popular “Trout” Piano Quintet in A major, D 667. Clara Park, pi anist, will be joined by musicians from the orches tra including Laura Tomlin, violin; Laurin Smith, viola; Ismail Akbar, cello; and Jonathan McWilliams, bass. There will be two performances on Saturday, March 5th. At 2 p.m. they will play at Sharp Me morial Methodist Church on the campus of Young Harris College at 1114 Main Street in Young Har ris, and then at 7 p.m. the second performance will be at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Dahlonega at 1188 Hamp Mill Road. Come Grow With Us In Christ. Sunday Worship at 10:30 AM Adult & Children's Study: 9:00 AM Sunday, March 6th Sermon Series: The Church Then and Now - A Journey Through Acts Divisions Within the Church Acts 6:1-7 Wednesday, March 9th 7:00 PM Sermon Series: Surprised By Grace Saved by an ‘Enemy* Luke 10:25-37 Also on the program is Schubert’s lied Aufdem Strom or On the River, with Ms. Tomlin taking the singer’s place on violin, along with horn player Deryck Clarke, and Ms. Park on piano. Both programs are free and open to the public, with easy access and parking. Is 2022 equal to 1939? On Sunday, March 6, Rev. Jennifer Dalton will speak on the very current topic of "Is 2022 Equal to 1939?" When are freedom, justice, and order among nations worth fighting for, or at least mak ing some kind of sacrifice to protect? Rev. Dalton, one of Mountain Light's "rota tional" ministers, was raised Mormon and South ern Baptist, and has a Master of Divinity from Emory's Candler School of Theology. Our worship service begins at 10:30 a.m. Join us for fellowship at 10 a.m. We are open to guests of all faiths and beliefs and are an LGBTQ welcom ing congregation. Our service is in-per- son at Mountain Light UU Church, 2502 Tails Creek Road (GA 282 West) in Ellijay with an option to attend via Zoom. Please see our web site at mluuc.org for info on how we are oper ating during COVID and for the Zoom link. Kins of Kings Lutheran Church 45 Appalachian Circle, Talking Rock 706-301-9191 B First left turn off US 515 north of Philadelphia Rd. in Jasper www.kingofkingslcmsga.org • kingofkingslcmsga@gmail.com View recent worship services on our website. Free Groceries Free groceries and a gree bag lunch will be available as long as supplies last at Talking Rock First Baptist Church, 429 Old Blairsville Hwy., Talking Rock on Thursday, March 3rd from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. A free gift card will also be available for the first 75 people. For more information, call 706-253-7733 and leave message. From Jasper, take 515 North, take a right onto Antioch Church Road, take a right at the stop sign and then a left onto 136E. Talking Rock First Bap tist is the brick church on the right. Food ministry Cool Springs Baptist Church, partnering with There’s Hope For The Hungry, offers non-perish able food to those in need on Thursday, March 10th, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. No ID required. Serv ices will be provided inside, with Covid-19 pre cautions taken. Cool Springs Baptist Church is located at 4671 Hwy. 53 East, Tate, Georgia. Call (770) 735-2799 for more information. Tune in Fridays for evangelist preaching Everyone is invited to tune in every Friday evening to wotgtv.com/west ROKU channel to hear Evangelist Evelyn Adams. Prayer requests may be made by calling 706- Continued on Following Page Minister ’s Corner Let your faith be bigger than your fear By Rebecca Hampton Mission Service Corp Missionary When God asks you to step out on faith, and trust Him in ways you may never have thought were possible; they are possi ble. Trust Him to do some extraordinary things in your ordinary life. He is the same God we read about in the bible and He can do now what He did back them. Read in Hebrews chapter 11. It's called the faith chapter in the bible and all the heroes of faith are listed there and all God did through them. Read and be encouraged. Just ordinary men and women trusting God to do the impossible in most cases. When God speaks to your spirit and you pray until you get the assur ance that this is God's will. Go for it. There is nothing or nobody that can stop God will. He is always faithful to do exceedingly abun dantly above all that you can ask or even think. The Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God. Dr. Stanley taught me to obey God and trust Him with all the conse quences. It works every time. If He's asked you to do something and it's ac cording to His will it will happen. Just obey. Don't be afraid just trust God and move for ward. He will show you the way. Praise His name. He's faithful. Who is Counting? T he philosopher John Stuart Mill claimed that we should act in such a way as to maximize happiness (and minimize pain and suffering), and not just our own, but the pleasure and pain of everyone who might be affected by our actions. This means that we should try to predict the effects of our actions ahead of time, and to count ourselves in the equation, but not count ourselves any more than we count others. At times we may have to sacrifice our own happiness if we know that doing so will enhance the happiness of others or spare them pain. A similar type of calculation is often done in relationships, when we ask ourselves if we are getting as much out of the relationship as we are putting into it, or if the other person is contributing as much as we are. The idea that in love we shouldn’t be tallying up costs and benefits is romantic, and perhaps ideally, we shouldn’t, but it’s tempting to agree with the founder of Utilitarianism, Jeremy Bentham, when he said that “Men calculate, some with less exactness, indeed, some with more; but all men calculate.” The fact that we all calculate may simply reflect that we all have an innate sense of fairness. We all know the feeling of being taken advantage of, when we feel that we put in more than others or received less. But perhaps we should try to calculate less, or at least feel good about putting in more and receiving less. For it is in giving that we receive, and those who give the most of themselves are invariably the happiest. “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” Philippians 2:3-4 NIV - Christopher Simon Cornerstone Church of Jasper GA 140 Cornerstone Dr., Jasper, GA 9:30 A.M. 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