“Blessed be God,
who has not turned away my prayer,
nor His mercy from me!”
~Psalm 66:20~
Today, let’s especially pray for all those who would love to be in church, but who are unable to go. This includes nursing home patients, hospital patients, home-bound, and those working.
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Week of Prayer for the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering
Day 8 – Friday Night Church, Morgan City
“… for we are laborers together with God.” 1 Corinthians 3:9
God not only has a desire for everyone to know Him through Jesus Christ, He also has a divine plan. His mission is to reach His world, which includes Louisiana, with the Gospel. Our one task is to reach the lost and unchurched for Christ.
Charles Gilder, retired pastor of Bayou Vista Baptist Church in Morgan City, and Marty Romero, pastor/church planter at Friday Night Church, have one task, and they share a vision to accomplish it. Their task: to reach persons in Morgan City who would not go to traditional churches and to make and disciple new believers, guiding them toward a church home.
The sponsoring church, Bayou Vista, takes its role seriously; many of the members attend services and help with music. Together Bro. Marty and Pastor Gilder find joy in reaching people who are discouraged and seeing them come and get excited about what God is doing. Marty says “sharing the Gospel is serious business, but at Friday Night Church people are reached where they are.”
This unique church plant model can be used elsewhere, too, according to Bro. Marty and Pastor Gilder. Unique approaches are needed if we are to reach Louisiana for Christ.
- Pray for continued vision to reach people who might otherwise be overlooked with the Gospel.
- Pray for disciples. Disciple making is a challenge when working with people accustomed to undisciplined lifestyle.
- Thank God for assistance through Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering that enables church planters and missions pastors to focus more on ministry.
- Pray for partnering churches.
Elaine Hilbun
(November 4, 1926 – September 19, 2009)
Died at 8:40AM on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at Liberty Community Living Center in Liberty, MS. She was a native of Tangipahoa, LA and a resident of Osyka, MS. Age 82 years. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, from 9 a.m. on Monday until religious services at 11 a.m. Monday. Services conducted by Rev. Ken Irwin. Interment Woodland Cemetery, Kentwood, LA. Survived by son, William Laine “Billy” Hilbun, Gloster, MS, sister, Helen Joyce Newsom Dykes, Kentwood, 3 grandchildren, William S. “Van” Hilbun, John Wesley Hilbun, and Daniel Laine Hilbun, 1 great-granddaughter, Johanna Laine Hilbun, numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by sister, Doris Newsom Kennon and brother, Ernest Donald Newsom.
Mrs. Lucille Pledger’s daughter, Melinda, is planning a big part for “Miss” Lucille’s 90th birthday on September 24th. Let’s let her know Kentwood connected people still love and care for her.
Melinda’s address is: Melinda Huss
2307 Western Drive
Decatur, IL 62521
The truck will be in Kentwood to pick up the groceries we have given for the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home Fall Food Roundup. Please leave your donations in the area at the base of the steps that lead to the church office.
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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10
Mike Benson, Editor
SOMETIMES GOD SEEMS to take forever…
You wait and wait and wait. But when He finally moves, He does more in one hour and you could accomplish in a lifetime. So it’s your choice: be busily consumed with your paltry attempts or wait on God until He moves in the fulness of His glory and purposes. God’s sense of timing is like this: He waits forever and then moves suddenly and instantaneously. There’s only one way to even begin to tune into God’s sense of timing, and that is through waiting. Waiting transports us out of the temporal, out of our time-zone, and into His time-zone.
God can out-wait anybody. He just waits and waits, while the crisis looms larger and larger, and He waits some more. He waits until the crisis becomes an impossible predicament. And then He waits some more! Finally, when the remotest chance of escape is completely gone, God intervenes suddenly. A good example of this is Abraham.
God promised Abraham a son when he was 75 years old, even though Sarah was baren. And then God waits five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years. By now it’s too late. Even if Sarah were not barren, she is now too old, and so is Abraham. Twenty-five years. Count them. Twenty-five interminable years. Finally, when all natural hope was exhausted, God provided and Sarah became pregnant! God is the king of wait. (Bob Sorge)
“Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;
do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.”
~Proverbs 37:7~
Honor God on His day!
Anna Lee
In I Corinthians 3:5-8, Paul points out that each person involved in farming has a necessary role. “One plants, one waters, but God brings the growth.” We each have a role in reaching the lost in Louisiana for Christ.
In 1 Corinthians 3:6-7, Paul identifies two persons, each working toward a common goal, each with a specific task; Paul planted, Apollos watered. They planted and watered because God directed; the blessings came because of the power and will of God. God is the Source, the Power that enables us to work together.
Paul uses the word “we” inclusively, bringing every believer into the picture. He addresses all believers with a heart for making a difference. Believers have the responsibility to be on mission to spread God’s Good News of salvation and eternal life to the lost and unchurched in Louisiana.
A laborer is a skilled worker, one who has learned and is perfecting a particular skill for a specific purpose. Paul’s farming analogy refers to skilled laborers, persons who know their role in the process and who understand the importance of that role in meeting the goal.
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