From your missionarypage 2

Townsend trip picspage 2

Church newspage 3

VBS picspage 4

Church contributionspage 4

Men’s Ministires Meetingpage 5

Annual meetingpage 6

GoGeorgiapage 6

The Awakening in Perrypage 7

WOM retreat at Pinnaclepage 7

Kairos ministrypage 8

Regional SS trainingpage 8

Calendarpage 9

School prayerwalkpage 10

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Gary Leutzinger

From Your Missionary

My heart is rejoicing for what God hasdone this summer through our campsand our association mission team thatwent to Townsend, TN. Let me tell youwhat God did in July!

The day camp went great, and we hadmore this year than last. Our team didan awesome job leading the childrenthrough a seven hour day camp for fourdays. There were specific Bible stories

for each day, and everything was centered around thestory. The week was very hot, but the staff and childrenenjoyed their time everyday in the pool! I know that Godis working in these young lives, and I can’t wait to seewhat He does as they learn what it means to love God andserve Him!

God poured His Spirit out upon the youth camp. We had15 campers, and God did amazing things in everyone whoparticipated. There were many decisions for rededication,and it was awesome to see how God moved in theinvitation time after each service. After the Friday eveningservice, the Spirit was moving so powerfully that thegroups split off and God continued to work! I appreciateJenni Taylor, Danielle Walls, Christian Abercrombie andRebekah Bowen for their hard work to make the campsuccessful. I also am thankful for my wife Laura and hersister Janice Bacon for preparing the food for the day campand the youth camp. I also want to thank John Eidenire andhis worship team for leading our worship!

The association mission team had a great week inTownsend, TN. This was our first year of doing thisparticular ministry, and God used the team in a mighty wayto share the Gospel with many children and multiplefamilies. We praise God for one of the children whoprayed to receive Christ and for the others who heard theGospel! There were many special moments, and I can tellyou that God used our teams to minister to all kinds ofpeople with many spiritual needs. Please pray for lives thatwere impacted and that God will continue to work in theirhearts! We look forward to continuing this ministry nextyear!

As I close, let me remind and encourage you to attend ourAnnual Meeting September 11 at First Church, Vienna.We will once again meet at 5:00 p.m. and begin with abrief business session and then immediately move intoworship. We are also making plans to have a children’sconference and youth rally at the same time. Stay tuned infor further details!

It is a great joy serving as your associational missionary, and I thank God everyday for all of our pastors andchurches! May God continue to have His way in our livesand may we continue to look to Him as we work togetherto build the Kingdom of God!

Bro. Gary

Townsend mission trip pics

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Pinehurch Church Youth Afterparty on July 25Cordele First Church youth at a new church plant in theSan Francisco area on a mission trip in July.

Church news

Multiple homecomingsand revivals in AugustHatley Church will have revival services August 14-17. Tommy Land will be the guest preacher. Sunday servicesare at 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Monday throughWednesday services will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Lake Blackshear Church will have revival servicesAugust 27-28. Derrick Smith will be the guest preacher. Saturday begins with pizza at 5:30 p.m. Worship begins at7:00 p.m. with special music by The Tauntons. Sundayservices are worship at 11:00 a.m. with special music byThe Henderson, a cookout at 5:30 p.m. and worship againat 7:00 p.m. with special music by Potters Clay. Nurseryfor all services.

Omar Heights Church will celebrate HomecomingAugust 7 at 10:30 a.m. and conduct revival servicesthrough August 10. Times will be Sunday at 6:00 p.m.,and Monday through Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. Guestpreacher for all services will be Kevin Moore.

Pinecrest Church will have revival services August 7-10with Danny Singleton preaching and Joe and Kim Stanleyleading worship. Services begin at 6:30 p.m.

Pinehurst Church will have revival services August 21-24 with Danny Singleton preaching and Chris McDanielleading worship. Sunday services are at 10:30 a.m. and7:00 p.m; Monday thru Wednesday services at 7:00 p.m.

Sharon Church will celebrate Homecoming August 7with lunch following the 11:00 a.m. worship service. Revival services will begin August 8 and go throughAyugust 11, 7:00 p.m. nightly. Tom Stephens will be theguest preacher.

A few pics from Pinecrest’s Brazil mission trip in July:

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July VBS pics

Filadelphia Church

Pinehurst Church

Undesignated churchcontributions Jan-June 2016Your gifts to help reach people for Christ in Crisp, Dooly,and Worth Counties are appreciated.

Acorn Pond. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Agape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00

Antioch.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556.25

Arabi.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,747.83

Bakerfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Bethel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661.00

Byromville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,113.91

Dooling.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00

Drayton.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,050.00

Ebeneze. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,950.52

Filadelphia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 942.18

First Cordele.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,432.20

First Unadilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500.00

First Vienna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,309.62

First Warwick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,078.53

Harmony.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988.16

Hatley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450.00

Lake Blackshear. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,678.55

Lakeshore. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Liberty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,545.85

Lilly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Mars Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Morningside. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598.29

Mt. Pleasant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Mt. Vernon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.00

New Harvest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215.95

Northern Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,105.00

Oakfield. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418.60

Omar Heights. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00

Penia.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.177.80

Pinecres. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,627.43

Pinehurst.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Pleasant Grove. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,084.24

Riverview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500.00

Rock Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Sharon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 672.70

Smyrna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,124.75

Thrive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0

Tippettville. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100.00

Victory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300.00

Wenona. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.00

Zion Hill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 856.10

TOTAL.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,505.46

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Visit gogeorgia.net for more information and to register.

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A Weekend Retreat in the Beautiful North Georgia MountainExperience Worship & Spiritual Renewal Learn to Respond to Cultural Changes

Engage in Meaningful Dialogue & Challenging Messages

Join Georgia Baptist women for a weekend of dialogue and exploration of what it means todemonstrate a Living Faih within family, community and culture. Through worhip sessions,keynote speakers, missionary sorties and interactive prayer room you will leave with a boldconfidence to live out your faith each day. Cost: $90, includes all sessions, lodging and threemeals. Register at www.georgiawmu.org.

RegionalSunday School & Small Group

TrainingAugust 20, 2016Crossview Baptist Church506 Irwinville Hwy, Fitzgerald

This is a great opportunity for all SundaySchool teachers, pastors, church leaders,small group leaders and anyone else to learnhow to produce successful discipleship. There will be session classes forleaders/pastors, adults, youth, children andpreschool.

Free registration begins at 9:00 a.m. Firstsession begins at 9:30 a.m., and last sessionbegins at 11:00 a.m.

Contact Randall LaRoche at 912-310-0410or Ted Kandler at 912-656-5129 for moreinformation.

Event sponsored by Ben Hill-Irwin BaptistAssociation and the Georgia Baptist MissionBoard.

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Kairos Prison Ministry International

"I was in prison and you visited me" — Matthew 25:36

The mission of KAIROS Prison Ministry is to share thetransforming love and forgiveness of Jesus Christ toimpact the hearts and lives of incarcerated men, womenand youth, as well as their families, to become loving andproductive citizens of their communities.

Team members are currently training for KAIROS PrisonMinistry and will be entering Dooly State Prison inUnadilla the first weekend in November to take the love ofJesus to the incarcerated. Please keep KAIROS in yourprayers as the team prepares and trains for KAIROS #35.Pray the Holy Spirit is already at work on residents (prisoninmates) harden hearts to be soften and transformed as thelove of Jesus is shared with the residents throughout theNov. 3-6 KAIROS weekend

Men, there is still time to become a KAIROS volunteer andjoin the team by inquiring with any KAIROS team memberor the Houston Baptist Association office for details. Additionally, members of the KAIROS Team will be gladto come to your church by invitation with a fullpresentation of the ministry

Each of us men, women, youth, and children of all agescan support KAIROS through prayers, financial support,baking homemade cookies and donating 2 liter sodas(name brand only please, i.e. Coke/Pepsi products fortaking into the prison) for the inmates on the KAIROSweekend, volunteering to feed the KAIROS team memberson the KAIROS weekend, and all the children and youthcan even participate through arts and crafts by makingposters and writing letters to the inmates which they wouldreceive on the weekend, agape love in abundance! Thank you for all your support in the past and thank youfor your support and prayers now as we prepare ourselvesthrough the leading of the Holy Spirit.

KAIROS Team #35, Dooly State Prison

Contact the Association Office for information if you havean interest in volunteering for this ministry and/or yourchurch would like to schedule a presentation from KAIROSteam members on this ministry.

You may go to the Prayer Vigil Online at the websitebelow and submit a “30 minute prayer commitment” tohelp support 24 hour prayer coverage for the KAIROSweekend, from beginning to end (Nov. 3-6). Then comeand witness “answered prayers” through the labors ofyour love, prayer efforts, and support by coming to DoolyState Prison for the KAIROS Closing Ceremony at 2PM onSunday November 6, 2016 at the Closing Ceremony. Youwill need to see a team member in order to complete anapplication for the Closing Ceremony for attendance.

http://www.3dayol.org/Vigil/GetVigil.phtml?pvid=11712&commid=1143

Birthdays & Anniversaries

Aug 4 Bruce HowlandAug 7 Juanita Newsome, Wendy PriceAug 12 Melanie & John SmithAug 19 Linda HowlandSep 1 Harolene & Jay ShinglerSep 5 Damon FountainSep 6 Lila Cobb

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Please pray for:#Asssociational Missionary Gary Leutzinger

#Hicks Brown

#Nancy Gibbs

#Mary Linda and Warren Hall

#Janet and John Pate

#Merle Sheffield; Lauralyn & Troy Drew

#Crisp Area Pregnancy Center

#Lost and unchurched people

#Revival in HBA churches

#Unity in our churches and unity among our churches

#Churches without pastors: Acorn Pond, Bethel, Dooling,,Lakeshore, Mars Hill, Oakfield, Rock Hill

#All the events and activities mentioned in this newsletter

Church positions availableSmyrna Church is seeking a part-time minister of music. Contact Linda White at 229-268-6792.

Unadilla First Church is looking for a pianist. Call 478-627-3615.

Vienna First Church is seeking a pianist for Sunday AMworship and weekly choir practice. Contact Jim Bolton at229-268-4386.

Pinehurst Church is seeking a Minister of Music/WorshipLeader, interim or permanent. Blended worship style. Contact Tim Pr ice a t 478 -957-5326 orTim@PBCFamily.com.

Arabi Church is seeking a bi-vocational youth pastor. Send resume to John Evans, 3910 First Avenue, Arabi, GA31712.

Opportunities coming upHouston Baptist Association events are printed in bold type. HBC is an abbreviation for Houston Baptist Center.

Tuesdays Men’s Prayer Breakfast, 8am, HBC

Aug. 1 Men’s Ministries Meeting, 6:30pm,Byromville Church

Aug. 3 Pastors Roundtable, 10am, HBC

Aug. 11 PrayerWalking Our Schools, 6pm

Aug. 12-13 The Awakening Men’s Conference, Perry

Aug. 20 Regional Sunday School & Small GroupsTraining, 9am, Fitzgerald

Aug. 22 Associational Executive CommitteeMeeting, 7pm, HBC

September MissionGeorgia Emphasis

Sep. 5 Labor Day, HBC closed.

Sep. 11 186th Annual Meeting of HoustonBaptist Association, Vienna FirstChurch, 5-7pm

Sep. 16-17 Women on Mission Series, PinnacleRetreat Center, Clayton

Oct. 11 Missions Celebration Banquet, 6pm,Lake Blackshear Church

GospelSings By Grace

presents

GloryboundSouth Georgia Quartet

Devotion in Song: Tim Perry

August 5, 20167pm

Cordele Community ClubhouseSW Corner US 41 and US 280

229.322.6333

Houston Herald is published monthly by Houston Baptist Association. Send news and/or comments to P O Box 1274,

Cordele, GA 31010, email to secretary@houstonbaptist.org or call 229-273-4127.

NONPROFITORGANIZATIONPOSTAGE PAIDPERMIT NO. 35

VIENNA GA

Hous on Baptist Association2116 Hwy 41 ^ P O Box 1274 ^ Cordele, GA 31010www.houstonbaptist.org229-273-4127 (phone); 229-273-0626 (fax)Associational Missionary: Gary Leutzingera.m@houstonbaptist.org

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