If you need to contact Brother Jason

during the week, please call him at

910-620-3900. If you need his mail-

ing address, it is 144 Ethan Lane,

Douglas, GA 31533.

In Spite of…Ministries Going to jail, even county jail, is

a very traumatic experience for

anyone. Besides being

immediately separated from one’s

children and family, one has to live

in very close quarters with total

strangers, eat institutional food,

sleep on one inch-thick mattresses with no pillow, and wear very

unattractive prison garb called jumpsuits. But then, jail isn’t supposed to

be fun, right? Right. And guess who also knows this and uses it to his

advantage? The devil himself. He is very clever and loves to further

meddle in a prisoner’s life by capitalizing on her shame and sorrow and

loneliness and fear, all feelings that almost all inmates experience. He is

anxious to beat up on many of the inmates who already are beaten down

and have no hope. That’s why our ministry is there. We can bring hope

and peace, yes, and even joy into the lives of these inmates, and it’s all

because of the love of Christ! We have seen lives transformed almost

before our eyes sometimes, when a prisoner finally “gets it,” that God gave

up His only Son so He wouldn’t have to give up on us! It’s that compelling

message that brings us back to jail every week. Whether passing out

library books, or giving them a Bible to keep, or praying with them, or

telling them about Jesus, it’s really all about the same thing.

It’s all about Calvary Love. Jan Boettcher, Tim & Helen Musgrove

Usher Schedule for August Lonnie Myers Johnny Knight Robert Parsons

Raymond Nipper Louis Matthews Darryle Wooten

We are accepting small toys for boys and girls for the month of August. We need 100 of each.

OUR DAILY WALK Monday-Friday 12:08 p.m.

WULS Radio 103.7 FM

Presented by Reedy Branch Baptist Church Friends

Monday 7:00 p.m.—Men’s/Women’s Prayer Time

Wednesday 7:00 p.m.—Adult Bible Study-”Whale to Wail”

7:00 p.m.—Youth Discipleship

Thurs.-Sat. Personal contacts for Sunday

Friday 6:00 p.m. “In Spite-of” Ministries

Sept. 9—Clean-Up Day

Sept. 10—Homecoming

Nov. 15—Community

Thanksgiving Service

Lamar Harper Delores Harrell Robert Howard Earlie McQuaig Lonnie Myers John Porter Cindy Richardson Donna Smith Linda Stapleton Dubb Spann

Gerry Bailey Jairus Brooks Vicki Burks Ricky Carver Ricky Corbitt Alvin Cribb Sarah Davis Scooter B. Deen Bennie Dockery Sr. Sandra Dockery

Den Weniger Evelyn Weniger Bill Whiddon

Please contact Rhonda

Saeed to add

additional prayer

concerns to our list.

912-309-0211 or

rsaeed@windstream.net

Schedule of Services Sunday Morning Worship — 11 a.m.

Training Union—6:00 p.m.

Sunday Evening Worship — 7 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer — 7 p.m.

Youth Discipleship & Worship — 7 p.m.

Reedy Branch Baptist

August 6, 2017

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10:30 A.M. Worship Service Thank you for joining us today as we give honor to our beloved

“Senior Saints”. So sit back, listen and enjoy the services today. If

this is your first time here at Reedy Branch, we appreciate you

joining us today.

Call to Worship #215 Majesty

Choir Special I’ve Been Changed

Hymn No. 333 Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

Prayer Peanut Davis

Congregation Meet & Greet

Welcome and Greeting Bro. Jason Bland

Concert - The Greenes

Offertory Evelyn Weniger

Message Bro. Jason Bland

“Building a God-Sized Legacy”

Ephesians 2:19-22

Invitation Hymn #307 Just As I Am

Close Worship #386 The Family of God

Prayer

Today is the annual celebration of our elder saints here at Reedy Branch. Senior saints are not counted as those who used to serve, but to the glory of God – senior saints continue to serve. Joshua 14:10-12 records the words of Caleb, who is an 85 year old example of continued service in one’s older years: “10And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. 11As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. 12Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be

able to drive them out, as the LORD said."

Caleb had every excuse to retire. However, is there any true retirement from serving the Lord? In Psalm 71:18, the believing writer lifts a request as well as a responsibility. “Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this

generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.”

As a church family, we have gleaned from the wisdom of our Senior Saints and admire the example that they have set. We have been strengthened by their testimonies which have been seasoned over time through hard trials and tribulations. It is our prayer for everyone that has lived to be labeled as a “Senior Saint,” that you continue to demonstrate

the Lord’s strength and power to the world.

Your fellow saints salute you on this, your special day!

Our evening services will be cancelled today due to our Senior Saints celebration. We will resume our regular schedule next Sunday, August 13.

Sunday

afternoons

at 5:30

We are having a “revamp the

nursery” shower and we will be

accepting donations through Aug.

20. Pick up a gift item list in the

sanctuary vestibule. We are

registered at Walmart and

Amazon. Items can either be

brought to the church or shipped directly to the church. If you

choose the shipping option please use 144 Ethan Lane, Douglas,

GA 31533 as the address. It’s very important to take the item

sheet with you so we don’t receive 42 blue crib sheets. If you

have any questions please get together with Ms. Faith Bland.

Please join us in the social hall

following the morning celebration

for a delicious luncheon prepared

by the church family.