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THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS • THE COMMERCE NEWS
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2016
Church News
Announcements
Blacks Creek plans Maysville UMC
homecoming, revival to host singing
Blacks Creek Baptist Church will celebrate
homecoming on Sunday, Aug. 21, at 11 a.m.
Abishai, a gospel group, will perform at 6
p.m.
Services will be Aug. 22-24 at 7 p.m. Evan
gelist Jamie Atkins will preach and there will
be special music nightly.
For more information, visit Blackscreek-
baptistchurch.com.
Homecoming,
revival set at New
Hope AME Church
New Hope A.M.E. Church will hold its
annual homecoming service on Sunday
Aug. 21, at 11 a.m. The church is located on
Hwy. 53, Hoschton.
The church will hold its annual revival
Monday through Wednesday, Aug. 22-24, at
7 p.m. Dr. Tar-u-ray Bright, executive pastor
of The Cathedral of Turner Chapel, Mariet
ta, will speak on Monday and Wednesday
nights, and Rev. Leela Brown Waller, senior
pastor of Bethel AME Church, Acworth, will
speak on Tuesay night.
Women's Day
planned at Warren
Chapel UMC
Warren Chapel United Methodist Church
will celebrate its annual Women’s Day Cele
bration August 20-21.
A free breakfast will be served at 9:30 a.m.
Saturday. Minister Debbie Armstrong from
Divine Deliverance Temple, College Park, will
be the guest speaker.
On Sunday, Minister Kathy Borders, Ander
son, S.C., will be the speaker.
The Guardians to be
at Canann Baptist
On Sunday, August 28, at 10:30 a.m., the
gospel group, The Guardians, will be singing
at Canaan Baptist Church.
The church is located at 980 Homestead
Road, Danielsville.
For more information, contact Pastor
David Strickland at 706-202-5188.
Methodist churches
to give out free food
Methodist churches led by Warren Chap
el and Commerce United Methodist Church
will be offering free food to residents in
Banks and Jackson counties from 9 a.m. to
noon on Saturday, Aug. 27, at Warren Chap
el, which is located at 468 Homer Road,
Commerce.
Food to be distributed was purchased
from contributions of church members and
obtained from the Food Bank of Northeast
Georgia and shoppers contributing food
purchased at Quality Foods.
Residents should have a vehicle to pick
up a box of food containing items such
as canned fruits and vegetables, crackers,
cereal, peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti
noodles and sauce and other non-perish
able items. There will be help to load the
food boxes.
Maysville United Methodist Church is host
ing a Southern Gospel Singing at 6:30 p.m. on
August 18 featuring Archie Watkins and the
Smokey Mountain Reunion , which includes
some of the original members of Inspiration
Quartett.
Other singings planned include:
• August 25, Foothills Gospel Music Network.
• Sept. 1, Troy and Tammy Burns.
• Sept. 8, Frankie D and family.
• Sept. 15, Tony Edwards.
• Sept. 22, the Christian Aires.
• Sept. 29, One Heart from Florida and Foot
hills Gospel Music Network.
Oconee Baptist
Church preschool
openings available
Oconee Baptist Church Preschool, located
in the Dry Pond community has a few open
ings for fall.
Classes include a daily chapel time with felt
Bible stories, a weekly themed curriculum and
Bible-based principles.
The three-day program begin September 6
with classes on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Thursdays. Children may be dropped off at 8
a.m. and should be picked up by 11:30 a.m.
There is a $125 registration fee, which
includes supplies, school T-shirt and book bag.
Tuition is $130 per month (Sept. - May).
For more information or a tour of our facility
call one of the teachers: Two-year olds: Sarah
Trippe 706-255-9768; Three-year olds: Stephanie
Yates 706-255-2486; or Four-year olds: Lori Ste
vens 706-338-9814.
Spaghetti supper to be
held at Homer United
Methodist Aug. 23
The Homer United Methodist Church men’s
group will hold their third annual spaghetti sup
per in support of church and community proj
ects from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 23,
in the Don Stewart Hall at the family life center,
located at the corner of Sycamore and Church
streets in downtown Homer.
The cost per plate will be $6, eat-in or take
out. The menu will include spaghetti, salad,
dessert, bread and drink.
Homer United
Methodist announces
new Sunday schedule
Homer United Methodist Church, located
one block east of Veterans Memorial Park in
downtown Homer, has announced a new
schedule for Sunday morning worship and
Bible study.
Already begun are four Bible studies: two
adult and one each for children and youth.
These services are held at 8:45 a.m. in the
family life center.
Morning worship is set at 9:45 a.m. in the
church sanctuary. The service is designed to
conclude at 11 a.m. There are no further regu
lar worship services during the day.
Visitors are welcome to both the Bible stud
ies and worship hour. A nursery is provided
at both times.
The Rev. Jim McLendon is the pastor.
Do you feel special?
Do you feel special? I’m sure we all
do at times. It may be on our birthday
or an anniversary. In reality we should
feel special every single day. 1 wish
we could grasp the love of God in our
lives and we could sail through life
knowing the joy of the Lord more than
ever before.
God sees potential in all of us.
Before we were formed in our moth
er’s womb He knew we were on the
way and He had already orchestrated
mighty plans for us before we were
even born. Ephesians 2:10 says that
we are his masterpiece; we are a work in progress
and he sees potential in all of us. I’ll admit there
are times when I can’t see potential in myself. It
may have been a time of trial or tribulation, it may
be when I’m overloaded with things to do at work,
home, and other places too. My prayer is that
from this day forward, we will remember to reach
for God’s potential. We do that by being a willing
vessel, even when things seem to be going back
wards. I guarantee you if we will stick with God, He
will make a way. He will match our potential with
his plan and we will soar.
Deuteronomy 7:6 tells us that we are his trea
sured possession. Has there been a time when
you’ve felt like no one cared? I’m sure we’ve
all been tricked by that scheme to
some extent. I pray that never hap
pens again. If the Word of God tells
me I’m treasured by the King of Kings,
that should be good enough for me.
Actually it should have me lifting my
hands up to heaven and raising my
voice in praise. I am important. That
should be evident because he was
willing to give him life as a ransom for
many. We are all a part of that “many.”
Lord let us all remember that our lives
are valued by the Most High.
God sends people into our lives
who care about our sorrows, but he knows
what each of us are going through. Psalm 56:8
reminds us that he collects all our tears in a
bottle. He has recorded each one in his book.
There is no one like Jehovah. He cares about
every detail in our lives. Luke 12:7 said the very
hairs of our head are numbered. Zechariah 2:8
reminds us that we are the apple of his eye.
Now let me ask this question one more time.
Do you feel special? I pray that each one of us
will stop and reflect on how much God cares
for us.
Sherry Lewis of Maysville is pastor at New
Beginnings Ministry. She can be reached at bcn-
scoop@aol.com.
Ministerial group offers chaplain services
Members of the Tri-county
Ministerial Association take their
religion very seriously providing
chaplain services and prayer at
Northridge Medical Center and
Hill Haven Nursing Home in
Commerce.
The work of 13 chaplains, a
secretary and a treasurer reach
es well beyond the Banks-Bar-
row-Jackson area identified by
its name however. The organiza
tion that meets the first Saturday
morning of each month in the
conference room at Northridge
Medical Center starts at home.
Officially founded in 1979, the
Tri-County Ministerial Associa
tion actually reaches back to the
1970s to then BJC Hospital.
Though the members are
few in number, among them,
they reach thousands of pea
pie. The chaplains provide 24/7
on-call chaplaincy to Northridge
and Hill Haven, along with reg
ular chaplaincy service to those
places Monday-Friday. They
have a “prayer cloth ministry”
at Northridge, where they keep
the chapel stocked with Bibles
and where they have a book
for prayer requests. They also
provide chaplain support to staff
at Northridge and Hill Haven
and financial support to Hope
Resources Center in Jefferson,
which supports women with
unplanned pregnancies.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Charles Elrod, a preacher
since 1985, who does a weekly
broadcast on WJJC each Sun
day and on the third Sunday of
each month provides a service
at Northridge Health & Rehabil
itation. He also leads a service
at Athens Heritage Home on the
first Wednesday of each month.
Carlton Peters has been a pas
tor since 1953 and is currently
pastor of Rogers Baptist Church.
He’s been with the Tri-County
Ministerial Association for over
35 years. He is its treasurer.
Jesse Mealor is official
ly retried from the group, but
he does a weekly service at
Northridge Rehabilitation &
Health Center and regularly dis
tributes over 5,000 tracts a week.
John Webber also began
preaching in 1953 and has been
with the association since 1983.
He started the “If” program,
which focuses on prayer and
fasting, and he and Rick Morrow
established www.interstatepray-
er ministries.org, which is pra
moting the If program online.
If asks participants to pray 15
minutes a day and fast one day
a week, contemplating the good
that could be done through that
effort. He is the chaplain coor
dinator.
Earl Winegamer began teach
ing at New Covenant Church ion
Athens in 1996. He was ordained
as a minister in 2016.
Lamar Preston, an ordained
minister, and his wife led home
Bible studies for years. He’s
joined as a chaplain in late 2015.
Donna Whitaker and her fam
ily serve in a ministry to the
homeless in Athens. She is a
client assistant and the admin
istrative assistant with Hope
Resource Center. She is the
Tri-County Ministerial Associa
tion secretary.
Michael Moon heads Moon
Ministries and Believe Him Min
istries, both of which are itin
erant preaching and outreach
ministries. He helps officiate
over communion services at
Northridge Health and Rehabili
tation Center.
Will Mosely began a prison
ministry at Jackson Count Cor
rectional Institute in 2000 and
is the official prison chaplain.
He holds Sunday school, Sun
day evening services, Bible
study communion services and
a yearly vacation Bible school
program at the prison — the first
of its kind in Georgia. He also
presides over communion ser
vices at Northridge Health and
Rehabilitation Center.
Shebrina Bailey has been a
chaplain with the association
since 2014 and is active in evan
gelism and an itinerant ministry.
Randall Payne has been a
chaplain for two years. He helps
officiate over communion ser
vices at Northridge Health and
Rehabilitation Center.
Jan Overton visits, reads to
and prays for the residents of the
rehab center, nursing home and
hospital. An ordained minister,
she also volunteers with Hope
Resource Center.
Sam Letson has pastored
churches in Virginia and Geor
gia and since retiring serves
as an interim pastor for Baptist
churches in the southeast. He
helped found and presides over
meetings of the Tea Party Patriots
of Jackson County and has been
a chaplain with Tri-County Minis
terial Association since 2011.
Troy Herbert has pastored a
number of area churches and
currently is pastor of Hudson
River Baptist Church. He is a
charter member of the Tri-Coun-
ty Ministerial Association and
became one of its chaplains in
2005. He has served as president
and vice president of the group.
Janis Ray is a minister, a regis
tered nurse and holds degrees in
social work and Biblical studies.
She has served in a number
of ministries, has been a pastor
and is currently the director of
Hope Resource Center. She’s
been a chaplain of the ministe
rial association since 2014 and is
its president.
The Tri-County Ministerial
Association’s monthly meetings,
are usually the first Saturday of
each month at 8:30 a.m. in the
conference room of Northridge
Medical Center (The Septem
ber meeting has been moved
to Sept. 10 due to the Labor
Day holiday) are open to any
one interested in spreading the
Gospel.
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