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We want to welcome Doug Gibson as Interim Pastor of Liberty
Hill Baptist Church. Our association has been blessed and continues to be
blessed with excellent interim pastors who serve our churches at a critical time
of transition. Thank you Lord for all of those serving as interim pastors! We
now have eleven churches in our association without pastors! Please keep praying
for our churches without pastors (see list in the Prayer Update).
Mallary Baptist Association churches have for quite a number
of years participated in Prayer Walking our schools the day before the See You
at the Pole Rallies. Please don’t forget to mobilize the members of your
churches again to Prayer Walk our schools on September 20. The suggested time is
7 PM, but prayer walk whenever you can. Please designate someone to get a count
of how many participated and the name of the schools and call the office to give
us the name of the church, how many participated and the name of the school(s).
Thanks for your continued faithfulness to pray for our schools. It is making a
difference!!!!
October 26-31 are the days for our ministries at the
Exchange Club Fair. We will again provide free dental and medical care for the
fair workers (October 26-29). We are working on purchasing a mobile office for
us to continue to use for the doctor and nurses. We also provide the MBA Shower
Trailer for use by those staying in the Fairgrounds RV Park. We are hoping to
also provide free haircuts for the fair workers. Every night and Saturday and
Sunday afternoon, we will provide free Christian entertainment at the beginning
of the midway. We also hope to again provide a free meal for the fair workers on
Monday. We need volunteers for helping with registration at our dental and
medical ministries, volunteers to help set up the mobile office and shower unit,
to help clean-up the building for the entertainment and Baby Care Area, and to
help pass out Gospel tracts during the entertainment times. If you would like to
be “On Mission with God” in this setting as we reach out to fair workers and
others who attend the fair, please call the office.
Please make sure that you church has agreed to transfer your
Sunday night service on October 3 to First Baptist Church Albany for the 6 PM
Joint Worship Service with Manley Beasley, Jr. ministering to us. There will be
a combined choir and other special music. Please make your plans now and be
praying for all of the events with Manley Beasley September 30-October 3 (see
back of Prayer Update for more information).
I want to encourage you to attend the Speechless Prayer
Conference at Norman Park September 27-28. Our Prayer and Discipleship Teams are
encouraging all of us to participate in this annual event. This year is it close
to us! Martha and I will be participating; please join us. See GBC website for
more details www.gabaptist.org.
-Tom
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