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PAGE 2B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. MARCH 31.2022
News and upcoming happenings at your church can be emailed to articles@pickensDroqress.com for publication.
Church Services and Activities
Free Groceries
Free groceries and a free
bag lunch as long as supplies
last at Talking Rock First
Baptist Church, 429 Old
Blairsville Flwy. Talking
Rock, on Thursday, April 7th,
from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
For more information, call
706-253-7733 and leave
message.
Easter Egg Hunt at
Jasper First Baptist
Church
FBC kids will have their
annual Easter egg hunt on
April 13th from 5-6 p.m.
Please contact Erin with
any questions. 770-893-7857
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erinlovemmartin@gmail.co
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Justice, Equity and
Compassion
On Sunday, April 3, Dr.
David Center will moderate a
discussion panel on the UU
Second Principle - Justice,
Equity and Compassion in
Human Relations. The panel
includes Rev. Lorraine Jones
and two other church mem
bers providing personal per
spectives on this UU
principle. This service offers
an opportunity for open dis
cussion by all.
The worship service be
gins at 10:30 a.m. Join for
fellowship at 10 a.m. Moun
tain Light is a loving, open-
minded, welcoming
community that encourages
you to seek your own spiri
tual path. The service is in-
person at Mountain Light UU
Church, 2502 Tails Creek
Road (GA 282 West) in Elli-
jay with an option to attend
via Zoom. Please see
mluuc.org for more info in
cluding the Zoom link.
Share the Good
News
Send in information
on services and special
programs at your
church.
articles@picken-
sprogress.com
SINGERS WANTED
Pickens Community Thrift Store is
looking for Christian singers/praise
bands and gospel groups to
perform in our upcoming festival on
April 23 held at the store from noon -
5:00 p.m.
If you have a heart for the Lord &
wish to share the love, please
contact us @ cts30143@gmail.com
or call Suellen Reitz @770 401-9248
for more information.
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Mountain Light
A UNITARIAN
UNIVERSALIST
CHURCH
An Accepting Community
with Open Hearts A Minds
2502 Tails Creek Rd.,
Hwy 282 W • Ellijay. GA
Dress: Casual
Sundays • Fellowship 10 a.m.
•Service 10:30 a.m.
www.mluuc.org
Cooling assistance program opens for
Homebound and Elderly on April 1
The Low Income Home
Cooling Assistance Program
administered by the Georgia
Division of Family and Chil
dren Services will open to the
Homebound and Elderly
households on April 1, 2022.
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Regrese al estudio Basico de la Biblia
Estudio Biblico Las Bases de la Fe
Donde: Centro Familiar de Motivacion Cristiana
Direccion: 406 Heath Rd. Dawsonville, Ga. 30534
Dia: Sabados empezamos el 2 de Abril 2022
Hora: 10:00 a.m. y 2:00 p.m.
Pre-lnscripcion: Envie un mensaje de Texto al 470-439-6123
estudiobiblico con su nombre.
Nosotros le llamaremos para mas informacion y detalles.
Come Grow With
Us In Christ.
Sunday Worship at 10:30 AM
Adult & Children's Study: 9:00 AM
Sunday, April 3rd
Sermon Series:
The Church Then and Now -
A Journey Through Acts
Blind Eyes See
Acts 9:1-19
Wednesday, April 6th
7:00 PM
Sermon Series:
Surprised By Grace
Scandalous Grace
Matthew 20:1-16
Kins °f Kings Lutheran Church
45 Appalachian Circle, Talking Rock
706-301-9191
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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.
Homebound households are
defined as those households
in which every household
member is confined to the
home because of medical
conditions or disabilities.
Elderly households are de
fined as those households in
which every, member is aged
65 years or older. (If anyone
in the household is under age
18 and all the other house
hold members are 65 or older
that household will meet the
definition of Elderly.)
All households participat
ing in the program must meet
the income criteria; be re
sponsible for paying the cost
of energy for home cooling
directly to the supplier; and
be U.S. citizens or aliens ad
mitted to the U.S. for lawful,
permanent residence.
To apply, applicants must
send in their most recent
electric bill, heating bill,
proof of household income,
proof of valid Social Security
Number, proof of citizenship
with a valid picture I.D.
and/or alien status. In addi
tion, Elderly households
must provide proof of age for
all household members.
All Community Service
Centers are closed to the pub
lic because of COVID 19. To
apply for assistance, you
must call the Service Center
in your county to receive in
structions on how to submit
your documents for your ap
plication.
Assistance will be in the
form of a one-time payment
on behalf of the eligible
household to help offset the
cost of cooling their homes.
The checks are issued di
rectly to the home energy
supplier. No checks can be is
sued until North Georgia
Community Action, Inc. re
ceives the funds from the
state of Georgia, Department
of Human Services. Assis
tance is on a “first-come,
first-served” basis, while the
funds last.
Any low-income residents
of the county who feel that
their household meets the
definition of “Homebound”
or “Elderly” should contact
the North Georgia Commu
nity Action, Inc.’s Commu
nity Service Center for their
county of residence begin
ning April 1, 2022 at 8:30
a.m. If you are unable to get
through on the phone line,
please be patient and keep
trying. The Homebound/El-
derly “priority” is through
April 30, 2022. You do not
have to get on the list the first
day. Keep calling until you
reach someone. Do not leave
messages as they will not be
returned.
Pickens County 706-692-
6803.
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The Cowboy
Church
By Rebecca Hampton
Mission Service Corp
Missionary
NAME
The Cowboy Church
was started 15 years ago
to bring the church of
Jesus Christ to the people
in this community. The
Ranch of Hope and Heal
ing was already minister
ing to the children and
young people at weekly
youth programs when
God gave me the idea of
Cowboy Church. It's a
wonderful place to wor
ship God in a pretty rustic
atmosphere, a bam.
The kids love to wor
ship in song and dance, do
an opening drill on horse
back, have a cookout and
some of the most power
ful preaching you ever
heard. Local preachers
donate their time to share
God's word with us and
we are grateful to the
many who have been
coming out here for the
past 15 years. We also
have greeters on horse
back. It's heaven for these
young people.
We have special events
all year long and the com
munity is always wel
come. I run ads in the
Progress so everyone will
know. We had our
Daddy/Daughter Valen
tine Date Night in Febru-
Continued on Following Page
The Church as originally
established by Jesus Christ!
Formal Worship in a loving atmosphere.
Come Visit and Learn!
Meeting at St. Luke's
Episcopal Church
7 Ewing Street
Blue Ridge, GA 30513
Services
2nd and 4th Sundays, 3 pm
OrthodoxBlueRidge@yahoo.com
706-455-8903
Exploring
“For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the
end.”Psalm 48:14 NIV
The James Webb Space Telescope is now in route to its desti
nation in orbit around the sun, nearly a million miles from earth,
where it will peer out to the farthest reaches of our universe, which
is to say, it will look back in time to the earliest stages in the devel
opment of our universe. This can be a hard concept to grasp, until
we understand that light takes time to travel. The light from the
sun takes approximately 8 minutes to reach us, and thus when we
look at the sun, we are seeing it as it was 8 minutes ago. The light
from the next nearest star takes about 4 years to reach us, and the
nearest galaxy to ours, the Andromeda galaxy, is 2.5 million
lightyears away, meaning that it takes light 2.5 million years to
reach us from there. All of this illustrates that our universe is in
credibly large. There is an advantage to this phenomenon, namely
that we can see into the distant past by looking further out. Space
exploration may leave some people cold. The universe seems to
many a dark and lifeless place once we leave our lovely planet.
And yet, we know that there are thousands of planets outside our
solar system, and probably vastly more than that, given the size
of the universe. It’s just that it will take us a few million years to
get to any of them unless we can figure out how to travel faster
than the speed of light. There is something in us that loves to ex
plore. — Christopher Simon
Cornerstone Church
of Jasper GA
140 Cornerstone Dr.,
Jasper, GA
9:30 A.M.
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706-253-2657
521 North Main Street
Jasper, GA30143
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COOL SPRINGS
BAPTIST CHURCH
4671 HWY 53 East, Tate, Georgia
(770) 735-2799 _
Sunday School 9:45 am Q
Worship Service 11:00 am
www.coolspringschurch.com
SPEEDBURGER, INC
Fresh Cooked Barbeque
Fresh Chicken Cooked To Order
Dine In Or Carry Out Service
Phone In For Carry Out Service
612 East Church St., Jasper
706-692-5136
Episcopal Church EH
of the Holy Family
202 Griffith Rd., Jasper, GA 30143
(Just off Cove Road near Grandview Road)
Sundays
8:00 am - Quiet Service & Communion
9:15 am - Christian Education
10:30 am - Musical Service & Communion
holvfamilveDiscopalchurch.net
HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING CO., INC.
700 South Main Street, Jasper
(706) 253-3554
www.densonhvac.com
JASPER DRUG STORE AND GIFTS
JASPER PHOTO CENTER
£Kodak YOUR
“Good Neighbor Pharmacy”
Prescription Specialists
“More Than You Can Imagine”
1 North Main Jasper, GA 706-692-6427
Richard F. Buhl, D.D.S
Specialist in Orthodontics
Changing the world one smile at a time
South Main St. • Jasper GA 30143
705- 692-7989 Fax: 706-692-0228
706- 253-7989 www. orthodonticsbybuhl. net
Two locations in Jasper:
820 S. Main St. and 1305 Old Philadelphia Rd.
706-692-5900
Georgia
Mountains
Hospice
706-253-4100
70 Caring Way • Jasper, GA
Jasper TV & Appliance
Top Brand Appliances
Guitar Strings & Accessories
Generac Generators - TV Antennas
Appliance Parts - Infrared Heaters
935 East Church St. • 706-692-5611
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MIKE DENSON
PARTNER/AGENT
NORTON-DENSON INSURANCE, LLC
P.0. BOX 787
150 NORTH MAIN STREET
JASPER,GA30143
706-692-6451
FAX:706-692-6452
mdenson@nortoninsurance.com
Harmony Henderson
Exclusive Agent
Personal Financial Representative
Allstate
3850 Camp Road, Ste.B
Jasper, GA 30143
Phone 706-253-5800
Fax 706-842-6922
Cell 678-234-8134 Allstate
harmonyhenderson@allstate.com '***8 "flood hands,
www.allstate.com/harmonyhenderson
Jeremy Young
Owner
HEATIHB Md COOLING PO Box 811
770 894-7429 " Jasper, GA 30143
HEATING.COOLING.GEOTHERMAL
SERVICE AND Licensed & Insured
INSTALLATION jyoungac@yahoo.com
Mon-Th: 7am-9pm, Fri-Sat: 7am-10pm, Sun: 7am-9pm
70 Foothills Parkway (770) 893-1000
Marble Hill, GA30148 foothillsiga.com
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
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CONTRACTORS, INC.
GRADING, HAULING & DEVELOPMENT
1204 West Church Street ~ JASPER, GEORGIA 30143
706-692-3400 • Fax 706-692-3405
H&P
BLOCK
Chuck Wigington
770-893-7217
cwigington@ellijay.com
Stephen Wigington
770-893-8699
swigington@etcmail.com
AVAILABLE YEAR-ROUND
HRBLOCK.COM
Taxes, Bookkeeping
and Payroll
675 Noah Dr.
Ste. 104
Jasper, GA 30143
Office: 706.692.3178
Fax: 706.692.6405
bebennett@hrblock.com
NCM
Nancy Cochran Maddox Attorney at Law, P.C.
Two Locations to Serve You:
23 Mary Street 489 Highland Xing #202
Jasper, GA 30143 East Ellijay, GA 30540
706-253-3707 706-276-3707
maddoxlaw@etcmail.com ellijay@mac.com
www.nancymaddox.com