1. Please be in prayer for Pastor Chester Proctor (Alston Baptist) who is having severe back issues.
2. Continue to pray for Pastor Larry Hightower as he recovers from a motorcycle accident and surgery. He will be preaching this Sunday and appreciates your prayers for strength.
3. Please pray for our Annual worship celebration (this Sunday, October 18 at First Vidalia) and our Annual Meeting (Monday at Rocky Creek Baptist). We plan to have a great time bragging on Jesus.
4. If you have not signed up to participate in Operation Balm (Hospital Chaplaincy training for clergy and non-clergy) October 27, please consider doing so today. Please call us at 912-583-2713 for more information.
5. Our DBA Church Leadership Institute is awesome and we would love for you to take part. The next course being offered will be on October 20 and 27 from 6-9 p.m. and is called Worship: Theology and Practice. It is designed to help us understand the theology (and practice) of worship. Topics of discussion will include: Personal Definition of Worship, Understanding Trends and Dealing with Change, Practical ideas in Implementing Worship, Biblical Values in Worship, Barriers in Worship, Creative Ideas for Worship-Involving People, and Steps in Building an Effective Worship Service. Our instructor will be Dr. Jon Duncan with the Georgia Baptist Convention.

Quote of the Day:

 The wrong question is whether your church is “traditional” or “contemporary” and which is better. The real issue is whether your church is biblically faithful, acting as the presence of Christ in the community at large, able to relate Christ to people in culture, and is on mission. In short, is your church “missional”?

Have an awesome weekend and I hope to see you Sunday evening (at 6 p.m.) for our DBA Worship Celebration. Remember, we will also have something special for children (in Kids Bay) and an awesome experience for youth in the Historic Sanctuary. The rest of us will be meeting in the Worship Center with our DBA Choir and special guest speaker Dr. Larry Wynn.

Blessings!

Robby

Participating churches will distribute baby bottles on Mother’s Day. Families or individuals may take them home, fill them with cash, checks, and change, and “boomerang” them back to the church. All proceeds will benefit Rachel’s House Pregnancy Resource Clinic.
The cost for the bottles will be $244.00 per box of 200 bottles plus a shipping and handling fee of 24.90, and tax of $21.45 which brings the total to $290.35.
Fill a bottle…save a life!

Rachel’s House PRC is our DBA crisis pregnancy clinic
that will be opening in 2010.
For information please contact our office (912) 583-2713.

 The purpose of this school is to train and encourage folks in the service of Jesus Christ.
It is designed to be beneficial to Pastors, Staff, Sunday School Leaders and Church Leaders in general.
All courses will be practical and will involve learners in guided practice in each topic of study. Instructors (for 2009) will be Georgia Baptist Convention staff members who are highly qualified in that identified area of study. The cost of the training will be $20 per person, per course which also includes all study materials. Each course will last 5 weeks and will be held on Tuesday nights. Each session will begin at 7:00 p.m.

Who Should Attend?
Deacons
Sunday School Teachers and Directors
Pastors/Ministers who have a hunger to learn
Church Leaders
Men being called into the Pastoral Ministry
People who have a passion for Christ and want to learn more about him and his work

Key Characteristics of All Courses
Focused on leadership development
Anchored in “how-to” ideas
Taught by practitioners
Located close to your church
Directed by local leaders
Coordinated with the GBC Continuing Education Ministries
Contributes to developing a Lifelong
learning philosophy
Geared to the needs of the participants
Open to anyone regardless of educational background

Do you have to be a Baptist to attend? No

For more information please call 912-583-2713

• DBA churches supplied 309 cakes as well as money to purchase cakes for the Baxley Children’s Home. Thank you Tabernacle and First Vidalia for collecting and delivering the cakes.

• The WMU sponsored Missions Inspiration Fellowship was a wonderful blessing and the soup was wonderful as well.

• Journey Church began with 350 people in attendance at the first service. To God Be the Glory!

• The Super Evangelism Seminar was a great blessing with 127 people from 16 different churches. Thank you First Baptist Lyons for hosting such an inspirational event.

• The DBA Church Leadership Institute begins February 10, 2009 with an important introductory session at 7 p.m.  Classes will be taught by Georgia Baptist Convention staff and each course will cost students $20 which includes the text books. This is a great opportunity for pastors, staff, deacons teenagers and other church leaders to better equip themselves for ministry. Please call our DBA office or David Barrett (Institute Director 912-537-7343) for reservations, information, and brochures.  Class topics include -
  • Leading a Southern Baptist Church
  • The Baptist Faith and Message
  • Church Administration Foundations
  • Pastoral Ministry Basics
  • Building Kingdom Leaders
  • Christian Education Ministries
  • Worship in a Multi-Cultural Setting
  • Personal Spiritual and Leadership Development.

• Mighty Men Ministry (a leadership ministry for men) will meet every Tuesday beginning February 11 at 6 a.m. at the Senior Center at Tabernacle Baptist. This will be a weekly time of leadership training, prayer and discipleship. Men of all ages, and races are invited to participate. If you would like to participate on the 11th please give us a call at our DBA office at 912-583-2713 so we will know how much food to prepare for breakfast. This ministry is free to all. Associational Student Speakers Tournament is February 10th at 6 p.m. at Ailey Baptist Church. Please call our DBA office if anyone from your church will be participating.

Excited in Jesus,

Brother Robby