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Issue 2
Annual Block Party Trailer Training
Saturday, March 17th 9am-12pm
Lakelands Baptist Association
We are adding a giant movie screen
to the block party trailer this year!
This is a REQUIRED annual training for all churches that wish to use the Block Party Trailer at any time in 2018. Someone
needs to be present that will be present when the trailer is in use at your event. Breakfast biscuits, coffee and juice will be
provided.
Please RSVP the number coming from your church by Wednesday, March 14th at 227-6261 or [email protected].
MEN’S RALLY
The first Lakelands Men’s
Rally of 2018 was a great
success, with
approximately 250 in
attendance.
Thank you to
Rice Memorial Baptist
Church for hosting this
event and for the delicious
low country boil.
March 20th at 11am Abbeville First Baptist
307 North Main Street, Abbeville
We will have mission testimonies from multiple churches and ministries in our association.
Hyde Park Baptist Church
is seeking a
Part-Time Music Director
Please email resumes to
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Nominating Committee Meeting
March 15th
10:30am
LBA
W.V. Mission Trip Deposit Due to LBA
$50 Deposit Due by April 5th
Limit of 50 people
All forms and balances due by May 10th.
Season of Prayer
for North American
Missions and Annie Armstrong
Offering
Sunday, March 4th - Sunday, March 11th “Through the Torn Curtain”
An Easter musical presented by the choir and soloists of
the McCormick First Baptist Church.
Friday, March 23rd at 7pm
followed by an ice cream social
and
Sunday, March 25th at 11am
Tickets are not required.
108 S. Oak Street, McCormick, SC (864-852-2640)
Join us for a beautiful presentation this Easter season.
WMU Associational Spring Meeting
April 10th at 7pm
Laurel Baptist Church
330 Sample Road, Greenwood, SC
Guest Speakers
Tim and Jody Cross - MSC NAMB missionaries
They mobilize local churches and believers to become the Hands
and Feet of Jesus to refugees who are being resettled to the
Upstate of SC. They partner with World Relief Greenville to train up
churches and volunteers to be “Good Neighbor Teams” to newly
arriving families from Burma and the Conga. They are members of
First Baptist Church of Simpsonville and are excited to see God
move in a mighty way through the local Body of Believers to share
Christ with our neighbors who God is bringing right to our own
backyard.
Lakelands Women’s Ministry Event
April 26th from 6-8pm
Guest Speaker
Lindsay Blair, Program Director with Switch.
She will be speaking on the commercial sex industry and human
trafficking.
South Side Baptist Church
505 W. Greenwood Street in Abbeville, SC
Fried Catfish will be served by the men of South Side Baptist.
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“The Curse Removed”
Okay, I confess, I love to eat! Of course, most folks do. You may not
know this but eating is actually good for you. Not eating is actually
bad for you. Eating healthy food in balanced proportions is where our
target food intake should be. Wow…am I waxing elegant or what?
I’m trying to up my game a little bit linguistically since I spent the
evening with Mrs. Judy Davies at the Executive Board meeting last
night. She always, with such grace and composure, makes me feel a
bit uneducated and uncouth whenever I am in her presence, though
she never does so on purpose. Whenever she and I are in the same
room together, it feels like a Beauty and the Beast remake…with Mrs.
Judy as Belle of course and me as the Beast…just making sure
everyone gets the analogy. So, bear with me as I am trying very
carefully to mind my “p’s” and “q’s” so as not to offend any by my
abuse of the English language.
Okay, I digress away from the topic of eating, but allow me to do so
just one more time. Mrs. Judy, for those who don’t know, is our
Associational Director for our English as Second Language ministry.
That’s right, she teaches English to those who do not speak it very
well. She always encourages me to come and sit in on a class. I’m
fairly certain it is not for the purpose of observing the ESL ministry in
action, but instead, I think Mrs. Judy is hopeful I will learn a bit of
English while I am there.
But, you see, I learned to speak English from Snuffy Smith. Yep, sad
but true! Back in the day before computers and cell phones and the
internet, we got the local paper and I’d always turn to the “funny
pages,” otherwise known as the comic section. My favorite comic was
Snuffy Smith, which is actually a classic and has won more awards
than any comic strip in the history of comics I think. It’s described
like this, “Snuffy Smith is a comic strip that stars Snuffy Smith, a
bodacious hillbilly, who lives in the town of Hootin’ Holler with his
tolerant, loving wife Loweezy, their son, Tater and their nephew
Jughaid.” Other characters are Paw, Parson and Merry Beth. And
from that comic, you get words like, “sho’nuf, mebbe, Cris’mas,” etc.
In one comic episode, Merry Beth, who is sweet on Jughaid, says,
“Hey Jughaid, you wanna play house?” To which Jughaid replies,
“Mabbe, does it involve eat’n?” Aw, now we’s back to eat’n again!
But before I gets there, I just wants to appeal to Mrs. Judy, who now
understands where I learnt to talk, and alls I gots to say is, if’n Snuffy
Smith’s English were good enuf to win him countless awards, then I
confess I look up to Snuffy as a bodacious country bumpk’n worthy
of learn’n from. Now, Mrs. Judy, calm down, I know I just left one of
them participles dangling, but it’s okay, Snuffy dun it a time or two
too, and he got paid royally and was rewarded handsomely. So now
that you better understand me, if’n that’s possible, let’s get back to
that eat’n thing, which is the only reason Jughaid would play house
with Merry Beth.
It seems that ya’ll, ya’ll as in all ya’ll who are Lakelands Baptists,
seem to like to eat a whole lot as well. It ain’t jest me. You see, it
seems ever time we do something in this association, food generally is
thrown into the mix somewhere somehow. Yep, jest look at the pic on
the front page. That was Rice Memorial’s men putt’n on the dawg at
one of our Men’s Rallies. Yep, low country boil for 300 hungry
men…I mean, how can any human being describe that…it was
heavenly… inexpressible! And then, at Women’s Ministry Team
events and WMU events where food is served …hundreds, a half a
thousand to be exact…uh, that’d be the preacherly way of making 500
sound like a whole lot more, showing up to eat and fellowship. In
April, the next Women’s Event will be at South Side Baptist where
the men in that church will pull out all the stops and pull off the most
amazing fish fry on the planet, and the Men’s Rally at First Mt.
Moriah will see the men shoveling down Brunswick Stew. Shoot, we
can’t even have a Block Party Trailer training day without sausage,
bacon, chicken, ham biscuits and coffee. Ever time I have a meeting
of the ALT or the whatever, those team members can’t seem to think
about the business at hand until they eat, so many of our meetings are
at restaurants in the area. And at HarvestFest, my goodness, our
churches feed the world it seems. And preachers, and others, fill my
lunch time schedule with conversations over food at local meat and
threes, much to my delight.
But lest you think we are all gluttons, which we may be, remember,
Jesus was often reclining at the table with someone. He was the one
who cooked fish for the disciples on the Sea of Galilee when he asked
Peter if he truly loved him. And Jesus fed the 5000 and then took up
leftovers so nothing would go to waste. Yep, if cook’n outdoors and
eat’n was good enuf for Jesus…it’s good enuf for me. And it was in
the Old Testament that many Jewish celebrations were feasts…
meaning food was involved. And it is spoken of in Revelation of one
day sitting at the table in glory enjoying what the Bible calls the
“wedding supper of the Lamb.” And in Eden, God said, “Eat
anything, except from the tree in the middle of the garden, for the day
you eat thereof, you will surely die.” Now think about it, before the
curse, man could eat anything and it was all good. But after the fall,
almost anything we now eat is somehow or other, not good for you.
Wow, and all because somebody disobeyed God.
So, I have a feeling, after the curse is removed permanently in glory
according to Revelation 22:3, we will get to eat all we want at the
wedding supper of the Lamb with no worries about cholesterol, blood
pressure, obesity…none of that. And I’m pretty sure, BBQ is gonna
be served at that meal…just say’n! Praise God for Jesus Christ, who
removed the curse of sin…and every other curse known to mankind.
So rejoice and be glad! For while we still live under the curse, we are
not subject to the curse, for one day, the curse given in the beginning
of time, will be forever and irrevocably removed. So if that’s the case,
we might as well rejoice in the grace that is ours today and enjoy the
curseless future that will one day be ours! Anybody want to meet me
for lunch…just ask’n!
Jesus Christ was with God the Father before the world was created. He
became human and lived among humanity as Jesus of Nazareth. He came to
show us what God the Father is like. He lived a sinless life, showing us how
to live, and He died on a cross to pay for our sins. God raised Him from the
dead. Jesus is the source of eternal life. Jesus wants to be the doorway of new
life for you. In the Bible, He was called “Lamb of God” (John 1:29). In the
Old Testament, sacrifices were made for the sins of the people. Jesus became
the sacrificial Lamb offered for our sin. Jesus said, “I am the way and the
truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John
14:6). He is waiting for you now.
Admit to God that you are a sinner. Repent, turning away from your sin.
By faith, receive Jesus Christ as God’s Son and accept Jesus’ gift of
forgiveness by dying on the cross.
Confess your faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
You may pray a silent prayer similar to this as you call on God to save you.
“Dear God, I know that You love me. I confess my sin and need of salvation. I
turn away from my sin and place my faith in Jesus as my Savior and Lord. In
Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.” After you have received Jesus Christ into your
life, tell a pastor or another Christian about your decision. Show others your
faith in Christ by asking for a baptism by immersion in your local church as a
public expression of your faith.
The Holy Bible, Book of Romans 10:9-13
Lakelands Baptist Leader MARCH 2018
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Telephone: (864) 227-6261
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Lander BCM
2018 Summer Missionary Assignments
Shyanne Joye--Italy
Emily Mulholland--Italy
Maegan Hamm--Italy
Sara Owen--Peru
Jatrese Brownlee--Ottawa, Canada
Deanna Williams--Ottawa, Canada
Callie Powell--North Africa
Lia Keith--Tahoe City, California
John Michael Alexander---Toronto, Canada
Chelsea Beckett--North Africa & Middle East
Brooke Tipton--Leon, Mexico
Please join us in praying for these young
adults as they serve the Lord in this capacity
for 8-10 weeks this summer.
ATTENTION! ATENCION!
Learn to speak English
Aprender a hablar Ingles
Classes
Clases Empiezan
Clases gratis
Wednesdays 8:30am - 10am
Fridays Bible Study 8:30am - 10am
Sundays 9:45am - 10:45am
South Main Baptist Church
1000 South Main Street
Greenwood, SC
Enter at back of the church.
Ingrese en la parte de atras de la iglesia
Health Ministry Kits
Health kits provide basic
toiletries that can open the
hearts of individuals and
remove barriers to sharing the
gospel. These kits are used to
minister and witness to people
in our own communities and
regions. Scriptures and other
gospel materials in the
language of the person
receiving the kit are added.
The standard health kit
includes:
1 toothpaste (6 oz.)
1 toothbrush (factory sealed)
1 soap (3.8 oz. or larger bath
size)
1 washcloth
1 bath towel
1 comb
Placed in a two (2) gallon or
larger zip lock bag
Due to LBA by April 24th