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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2008 THE BANKS COUNTY NEWS PACE 9B Church UPCOMING THIS WEEK Calvary Baptist Church, Commerce, will hold a benefit singing Saturday, Nov. 8, at 6 p.m. The guest singers will be “The Lambdins,” “The Max wells” and “Divine Three.” Everyone is welcome. The church is located on Hospital Road. The Berea Baptist Church Relay for Life Team will sponsor its third craft fair Sat urday, Nov. 8, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is being held to benefit the American Cancer Society. There will be local and state artists with oils, acrylics, wa- tercolors and drawings. Arts and crafts such as lighted bottles, handmade knives, woodcrafts, sewing projects, pottery, floral designs, custom jewelry and photography will be featured. The “Berea Cookers” will have homemade soups, chili, cornbread and baked goods. Santa Claus will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fair will be held in the historic Wilson Jr. High School, which is now the church com munity center. The school is located on Hwy. 334, off Hwy. 441, south of Commerce. Main Street Gospel, Lula, will hold its free “Fourth An nual Chili Cook Off’ Saturday, Nov. 8. There will be singing, horseshoes, a moonwalk, food, balloons, face painting, games and more. A raffle drawing and youth talent show will be held at 1 p.m. All entries for the chili cook off, youth talent show and horse shows must be in before 11 a.m. Everyone is welcome to attend. The church is located at 6459 Main Street. For more information, call 678-316-6003. Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Lula, will hold its fall festival Saturday, Nov. 8, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be games, food, fellowship, a pie eating con test, coloring contest, basket ball moonwalk, scripture cake walk, hayride, antique car rides, entertainment and more. Hotdogs, pinto beans, corn- bread, boiled peanuts, popcorn and more will be available. For more information, call 706-336-6988. The church is located at 2405 Hwy. 51. Bush River Baptist Church, Maysville, will hold a 16th pastor anniversary for the Rev. Julius Mack Sunday, Nov. 9, at 2:30 p.m. There will be two services and the guest speakers and times are: 11:30, the Rev. Wil lie McCluskey of Fayetteville, N.C., formerly of Jackson County, and 2:30, the Rev. Johnny Smith of Neal Grove Baptist Church, Commerce. Everyone is invited to at tend. Dinner will be served from 1:30 to 2:15 p.m. The church is located on Grove Level Road. Homer United Methodist Church, corner of Sycamore and Church streets, will host retired Bishop Marion M. Ed wards of Raleigh, N. C., Sun day, Nov. 9, at 9 and 11 a.m. A native of Springfield, Bish op Edwards is presently Bish- op-in-residence at LaGrange College. He is a graduate of Georgia Southern University and Candler School of Theol ogy at Emory University and holds an honorary doctorate degree from Methodist Col lege. The church will also recog nize veterans of U. S. military service. The study, “What It Means To Be United Methodist,” will continue to be offered for all adult Sunday school classes at 10 a.m. through November. Crossroads Baptist Church, Toccoa, will hold its annual fellowship “Family and Friends Day” Sunday, Nov. 9, at 4 p.m. The guest speaker will be the Rev. Richard B. Haynes of Salem Baptist Church. A dinner will be served after the morning service. For more information, call 706-779-3644. UPCOMING NEXT WEEK Baptist Tabernacle Church will host the following events: Saturday, Nov. 15, a benefit Bar-B-Que and stew for Elaine Baker. Pick-up will be from noon to 4 p.m. All proceeds will go to Miss Baker. For more information, call Keith Seagraves at 706-658-6498 or Kim Kesler at 706-247-1370. Sunday, Nov. 16, benefit singing for Elaine Baker at 6 p.m. The “Resurrections” will be featured. For more informa tion, call pastor Tom Watson at 706-335-7080. The church is located off 441 South, 2 miles out of Com merce on the left. Community Baptist Church, Ila, will hold a sing ing titled “A Day With The Meyers Family” Sunday, Nov. 16, at the 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. worship services. For more information, call 706-255-0656 or visit www. yourcbc.com. The church is located on Hwy. 174. UPCOMING EVENTS Mt. Calvary Missionary Baptist Church, Commerce, will hold a pre-Thanksgiving dinner and service Wednesday, Nov. 19, in the Horace Wil liams fellowship hall. The dine-in hours will be from 5 to 7 p.m. with the ser vice beginning promptly at 7 p.m. The special guest will be the Rev. Rochard White and New Beginning Worship Center, Commerce. The church is located at 95 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. For more information, call 706-335-8283. Faith Baptist Church, Jef ferson, is currently accepting orders for its November Angel Food Ministries food boxes. Orders will be taken until Monday, November 10 and the pick-up date of orders will be Saturday, November 22, from 8 to 9 a.m., in the church's fel lowship building. For the month of November a regular food box, senior food box and Thanksgiving dinner box will be available. Checks or money orders can be mailed to FBC AFM, P.O. Box 921, Jefferson, GA 30549. For more information, visit www.angelfoodminis tries, com. Commerce First United Methodist Church will host the “6th Annual Thanksgiving Meal” Thursday, Nov. 27. The First Baptist Church of Com merce will provide the meal delivery service. The meal will include turkey and all the trimmings. Fruit bags will also be delivered with the meals. Donations of food, money and time are being accepted. Canned good donations can be left at the church anytime between now and Wednesday, Nov. 26. Cooked items should be brought to the church's fam ily life center before 10 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 27. To participate, call Gina Hagan at 706-335-2920 or the church at 706-335-4018. The church is located at 54 Cherry Street. Visit www. CommerceFUMC.org for more information. Lula Assembly of Praise Church will serve Thanksgiv ing dinner as a free gift to the community Thursday, Nov. 27, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Traditional Thanksgiving fa vorites will be served. Everyone in the community is invited. “We would also love to have those who work in law enforcement, fire and emer gency services and other ar eas of public service to be our guests and let us serve you,” leaders said. The church is located at 615 8 Carter Street. For more infor mation, call 770-869-7632. “Zambian Vocal Group” New Life Fellowship, Alto, will have guest singers “Zambian Vocal Group” Sunday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m. The church is located at 4944 Yonah/Homer Road. 'Jesus Wept/ John 11:35 I would suppose that the first time you read this verse it touched your heart as it did mine. To think of the love and com passion that Jesus had not only for His friend Lazarus, but also for the people around Him is over whelming. Sadly, many people cannot see or seem to experi ence this love. I think there may be a cou ple of reasons that Jesus wept here in this smallest of verses. So many back then, as today, were either unable or unwill ing to comprehend or embrace this love. Now that so many have con formed to the world's insis tence that we be “politically correct,” we have distorted truth and can no longer call sin sin. (Romans 12:2, John 8:32) Could the days of ignoring facts for the sake of freebies have caught up with us? The disciples in Matthew 24:1-2 got so caught up in the beauty and brightness of the temple of their day that they forgot how temporal things really are and that one day the monuments of man will become rubble. Has the glare of this world blinded us to the reality that we, yes we ourselves, are the temples that God dwells in? (1 Corinthians 3:16-17, 6:19) The promise of 2 Chronicles 7:14 still rings true today. Beloved, we are in what I firmly believe is a crossroads in our history. I believe that unless we make some serious steps towards repentance the next thing we will feel is the defibrillator. Let us not be guilty as Ahab was of rejecting the counsel of the Micaiah’s of our day though they may be few. (1 Kings 22) I have been to over 14 nations in the last few years now and I can tell you that I am thank ful to be an American, but that fact does not negate truth! The truth is that we have lost much of what made us great. Yes, Jesus wept, and I think He still weeps! “In Him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” (John 1:4, 5) I hope the flicker of light that still comes from the “Church” in America will again shine forth brightly. Vince Mercardante was a pastor for 20 years and is the founder of Father Speaks Min istries. He speaks on the sub ject of the Father heart of God and His love, a message that has taken him to many nations around the world. 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