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April 27, 2022
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Spotlight on Local Churches
PASTOR S CORNER by Rev. Debbie Lefevers
The stone has been rolled
away--The tomb is empty
CHURCH CALENDAR
Email church calendar news to Diane Glidewell at news'-mymcr.net by Monday at
1 0 a.m. Church information is published free of charge as space permits.
April 30
Chicken Q at Christ UMC
Christ United Methodist
Church Methodist Men, 417
N. Frontage Road, Forsyth
will hold a Chicken-Q on
Saturday, April 30 from
1 1:30 a.m.-l p.m. Tickets are
available at the church for
$10, and walk-up custom
ers will be served while
meals last. Meals include a
half-chicken, slaw, chips and
bread.
May 5
National Day of Prayer
Monroe County will recog
nize the National Day of
Prayer with a program on the
courthouse lawn on Thursday,
May 5 at 1 1 a.m. All are
welcome.
May 11
Circle of Care Food
Distribution will be at
Christ UMC
The Circle of Care, with
the assistance of com
munity churches and other
volunteers, will distribute
food packages provided by
Middle Georgia Community
Food Bank on Wednesday,
May 1 1 at Christ United
Methodist Church, 417 N.
Frontage Road, Forsyth. Re
cipients should begin lining up
at 10 a.m. Future monthly dis
tributions are planned for the
second Wednesday of each
month. Check Christ United
Methodist Church's Facebook
page or call 478-994-1232
for updated information.
May 24
Food distribution at St.
James Baptist
St. James Baptist Church,
1 10 James Street, Forsyth
will host a drive-through food
distribution on Tuesday, May
24 beginning at 1 1 a.m.
in partnership with Middle
Georgia Community Food
Bank. The distribution is at St.
James on the 4th Tuesday of
each month, weather permit
ting.
Ongoing
Rock Springs Church
Clinic
The Rock Springs Church
Health Clinic in Forsyth is
open every Wednesday from
8:30 a.m.-noon. New patient
consultations are available at
1 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th
Wednesday of each month.
The clinic is near Monroe
County Hospital at 100 MLK
Jr. Drive; the phone number is
478-992-9581.
Learn Doc Holliday s
secrets & Georgia ties
E aster season typically evokes
thoughts of a huge stone having
been rolled away from a tomb. It
is the perfect time in the Chris
tian year to take a look inside the many
chambers within our spirits and hearts to
determine what stones need
be rolled away.
As with New Years Day,
Lenten and Easter season
are a time of reflecting,
remembering, and revital
izing after having struggled
through the challenges of
mortality for another year.
It is a time to recall the sac
rifice of our Savior on the
cross and what his having
risen from the dead means to
us today.
So what DOES it mean to us today?
Its meaning is akin to the criminal with
a lifelong record of offenses against the
society in which we all live and whose
life is transformed during a prison Bible
Study. It’s the bitter teenager now over 50
years old who never forgave wrongs done,
finding peace.
It means that any and all situations of
sin that rested on the shoulders of our
Savior as he hung on that cross received
full payment. And not only received full
payment but also the cancellation of the
debt of mankind as he rose from the dead.
It is our freedom from sin and death.
Colossians 2:13-14
13 And you, who were dead in your
trespasses and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, God made alive together with
him, having forgiven us all our trespass
es, 14 by canceling the record of debt that
stood against us with its legal demands.
This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.
According to Matthews Gospel in chap
ter 8 and verse 17 (NRSV) - “This was to
fulfill what had been spoken through the
prophet Isaiah, “He took our infirmities
and bore our diseases.” And again in 1
Peter chapter 2 verse 24 (NRSV) - “He
himself bore our sins in his body on the
cross, so that, free from sins, we might
live for righteousness; by his wounds you
have been healed.”
What does His resurrec
tion mean to us today? love,
joy, peace, patience, kind
ness, goodness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness,
self-control, and long suffer
ing. All the characteristics of
Christ are now ours through
faith in him alone.
Because he has risen, we
no longer need a tomb as a
hiding place for fragments of
issues yet unresolved, hidden
disappointments or regrets and those
nagging doubts that plague those com
mitted to living by faith.
Placing things in a personal tomb may
help us momentarily to keep one foot
in front of the other but in the long rim
such diversion winds up being millstones
securely fastened to our ankles. All one
need do is ask forgiveness for a life of sin
and confess Jesus Christ as Savior and that
millstone of sin is cut loose and the stones
rolled away.
Let us rejoice! He is risen! The stone has
been rolled away and the tomb is empty!
Again I say, Rejoice!
Rev. Debbie Lefevers is the pastor of Christ
United Methodist Church, 417 N. Front
age Road, Forsyth. The Pastor’s Corner is
sponsored by the Monroe County Ministe
rial Association, which meets on the second
Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. at Christ
United Methodist Church, 417 N. Frontage
Road, Forsyth.
Award-winning author Victoria Wilcox
will share the real story of Doc Holliday
with the Monroe County Historical Soci
ety on Monday, May 2, at 7 p.m. Wilcox
will speak about Holliday—a Wild West
legend born in Georgia with family ties
to Gone with the Wind—at the Conley
Building, 104 East Adams St. in Forsyth.
The public is invited to this free event and
doors open at 6:30 p.m.
As founding director of Fayetteville’s
Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum, Victoria
Wilcox (a Peachtree City resident) learned
the Holliday family’s untold stories of their
infamous cousin, which led her to two
decades of original research and national
recognition as a Doc Holliday expert. She
is the author of the documentary film ”In
Search of Doc Holliday” and the historical
novel trilogy “The Saga of Doc Holliday”,
for which she twice received Georgia
Author of the Year honors and was named
Best Historical Western Novelist by True
West Magazine. In 2020 she published the
pictorial biography, “The World of Doc
Holliday: History and Historic Images,”
which received the Will Rogers Medallion
for Western Storytelling.
Wilcox has lectured across the country,
guested on NPR affiliates, and was featured
in the Fox Network series “Legends & Lies:
The Real West.” In the summer of 2017 she
joined actor Val Kilmer (Tombstone) as
guest historian at the inaugural Doc Hol-
liDays in Tombstone, Arizona, site of the
legendary OK Corral gunfight.
For more information, call ralphbassjr@
gmail.com or publicist Mimi Schroeder at
mimi@maxbookpr.com
County, Forsyth, Culloden work on 5-year plan
By Diane Glidewell
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On April 5 Middle Georgia Regional
Commission hosted a meeting to start the
process of the five-year review of the Joint
Comprehensive Plan for Monroe County,
Forsyth and Culloden. All members of the
Monroe County Board of Commissioners
were present, along with representatives
of Forsyth. No representatives of Culloden
attended.
The meeting was at the commissioners’
board room and immediately preceded the
regular Board of Commissioners meeting.
The meeting was conducted by Greg
Boike, David Lane and Joe Black of the
Regional Commission. They explained
that the state requires each governmental
entity to have a comprehensive plan and
to update it every five years. The process
requires several public hearings and takes
about six months. The state requires the
plan to support various applications for
funding.
The plan must include vision, goals,
needs and opportunities, with specific
community work programs. The plan
must address broadband, transportation
and land use and may include other focal
points.
Commissioner Lamarcus Davis said the
plan needs to address Monroe County’s
housing needs, and Commissioner George
Emami said funding plans for parks and
recreation, including cooperation between
the cities and county, should be in the plan.
Forsyth Mayor Eric Wilson said a plan
for public transportation should be in the
Joint Comprehensive Plan as well as water/
sewer plans. Boike asked the government
officials to help the Regional Commission
get as much public input as possible.
Notes from Forsyth Council meeting
On April 4 Forsyth approved paying
annual membership dues of $1,000 to the
1-75 Central Corridor Coalition, Inc. Hall
recommended approval.
Council approved a request from Angela
Bloodser to close streets in the Pinkney
Circle subdivision on April 9 for “music &
dancing celebrating a 50 year birthday” No
times or number of people expected were
shown on the application.
Council member Mike Dodd said when
he attended the Forsyth Golf Course board
of directors meeting, directors expressed
concern that a sponsor was allowed to
advertise on its golf carts at the Forsythia
Festival Golf Tournament. Dodd said the
carts are leased by the Golf Course and
it provides all gasoline used by the carts,
including gas at the Forsythia Festival
Tournament, but revenue from the spon
sor went to the Chamber of commerce.
City manager Janice Hall said the For
sythia Festival committee discussed the
concern, and the Chamber apologized to
the Golf Course board and thanked the
Golf Club in the ad it ran in the Reporter
after the Forsythia Festival. Hall said the
Festival Committee had allowed advertis
ing on the golf carts for several years and
can’t undo it now She said it will find
another way to recoup the $750 sponsor
ship in the future.
Farmers Market
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Market, which is just far enough
away from the square for people
to miss.
“Our job at Main Street is to fill
the gaps,” said Wilder.
Board member Greg Goolsby
motioned to move the Farmers
Market back to N. Jackson Street
for 2022 but to continue gather
ing information for a change,
and the motion passed unani
mously.
After the vote Eddie Rowland,
who owns the Old Mill Market
with his wife, Kathy, told the
board that he was indifferent
to whether the Farmers Market
moved near his business but that
he was disturbed by things posted
on social media about him and
his business in relation to the
move. He said he never solicited
the move; both Wilder and his
predecessor had come to him and
asked him if he would be agree
able to it.
Rowland said his family and his
business are very community-
minded and didn’t deserve people
saying that they influenced the
move because they would profit
from it.
“I want it to be beneficial to all,”
said Rowland. “No hard feelings,
but I needed to get that out.”
“I think it was the right move,
but well continue to work with
the vendors,” said Cone.
Swearingen said Main Street/
DDA will look for other ways to
partner with Old Mill Market
and the other small businesses
near it. Rowland said he would
appreciate signage in the city to
let people know of the growing
business district near Old Mill
Market, and Wilder said that is
already being planned.
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