issue | december 2021 advisor
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Associational Missions Strategist: Greg Benfield Ministry Assistant: Sarah Rozier
POBA Mission Statement: The Piedmont-Okefenokee Baptist Association exists to equip, enable, serve, and encourage a cooperating partnership of Southern Baptist Churches to effectively build the kingdom of God through evangelism, missions, discipleship, ministry and prayer.
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ADVISOR
ISSUE | December 2021
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Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
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Christmas Holidays
The POBA Office will be closed
December 22-31.
POBA Annual Meeting
January 20, 2022 Patterson Baptist
Save the date!
Meet Southern Baptists, LMCO, Christmas 2
News, Churches w/o Pastors, Prayer,
Hymn Stories
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Calendar 4
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MEET SOUTHERN BAPTISTS
Part 4: Why Southern Baptists Do What They Do Southern Baptists proclaim and minister the Gospel because the love of Christ compels us to do so.
God’s call to us is to present the
Gospel of Jesus to every person
and to make disciples in every
town, every city, every state, and every nation. The SBC
is committed to sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ
with the whole world.
OUTDOOR NAT IV I TY AT CENTRAL
BAPT IS T IN WAYCROSS
Central Baptist Church in Waycross will have an outdoor nativity December 17-19. See photo below for details.
Mark Williams recently celebrated 30 years as Minister of Music at First Baptist Church in Waycross. Congratulations, Mark!
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Remember these churches in prayer as they seek pastors:
CHURCHES SEEKING PASTORS
Astoria FBC Blackshear
Jamestown New Union
Pleasant Hill Ten Mile
PRAY: M ISSIONARIES OUT OF POBA
Aaron & Rebekah Harris (& Family) (Laura Chapel Baptist Church) Bible Translation Fulani of West Africa www.pioneerbible.org/aaronandrebekahharris
POBA OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE
Scotty & Jadison Hayes (& Family) (Emmanuel Baptist) Church Planting Peru
https://ebchurch.net/ftm/
Ministry opportunities have now moved online. See them here: mypoba.com/about-us/ministry-openings/
HYMN STORIES: O L ITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM
(Sam Stack) Phillips Brooks was born in 1835 in Boston,
Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard and the
Episcopal Theological Seminary in 1859. He then began
a ministry that lasted nearly 35 years. Early in his minis-
try, Brooks made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, spend-
ing the Christmas season in Bethlehem. The experience
of worshipping in the Church of the Nativity made a
great impression on Brooks.
In 1868, several years after his trip, Brooks was looking for a Christmas song for the Children’s choir to sing in a Christmas program. Not finding one, he wrote down the words to this great Christmas carol. He gave the text to his organist, Lewis H. Redner. Redner struggled for some time to come up with the right melody for this car-ol. On the evening before the program was to occur, Redner says that he woke during the night and rushed to write down the music. He always said that the music was a gift from heaven. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” was first published in a collection in 1874. Although Brooks wrote many other Christmas and Easter songs for children, “O Little Town of Bethlehem” is the only one that is still in use today. Originally there were five vers-es. Verse 4 is included here but is not found in many current hymnals.
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Saint Louis)
O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep, the silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight.
For Christ is born of Mary, and gathered all above, While mortals sleep, the angels keep their watch of wondering love. O morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth, And praises sing to God the King, And peace to men on earth!
How silently how silently the wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven. No ear may hear His coming, but in this world of sin, Where meek souls will receive Him, still The dear Christ enters in.
Where children pure and happy, pray to the blessed Child. Where misery cries out to Thee, Son of the mother mild. Where charity stands watching, and faith holds wide the door. The dark night wakes, the glory breaks, and Christmas comes once more
O holy Child of Bethlehem! Descend to us we pray; Cast out our sin, and enter in, be born in us today! We hear the Christmas angels the great glad tidings tell; O come to us, abide with us, our Lord Emmanuel!
Lewis Henry Redner | Phillips Brooks Source Material: 101 Hymn Stories by Kenneth W. Osbeck
THE BAPT IST FAITH & MESSAGE
You can read the Baptist Faith & Message here: https://bfm.sbc.net/bfm2000/.
Anniversaries
Ben & Dana Smith—19
Ben & Vian Glosson—30
Matt & Jennifer Tuttle—31
P i e d m o n t Ok e f e n ok e e
B a p t i s t A s s o c i a t i o n
CALENDAR
December Nov 28-5 Week of Prayer for Internt’l Missions & Lottie Moon Christmas Offering 14 Administrative Team Meeting 22-31 Christmas Holidays, POBA office closed 24 Christmas Eve 25 Christmas Day 31 New Year’s Eve
January 1 New Year’s Day 16 Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 17 Music Minister Lunch 18 Administrative Team Meeting 20 POBA Annual Meeting 27 Pastors Day at the Capitol 27 BTCP Continuing Education
February 3 BTCP Continuing Education 10 BTCP Continuing Education 14 Valentine’s Day 15 Administrative Team Meeting 17 BTCP Continuing Education 21 Music Minister Lunch 24 BTCP Continuing Education
Celebrating in December
Birthdays
Susan Baum—6
Vian Glosson—6
Steve Beal—8
Edmund Thrift—17
Richard Golden—14
Tommy Youmans—14
Danielle Griner—15
Matt Tuttle—15
Lamar Christie—16
Sam Stack—19
Sue Stack—20
Barry Rozier—21
Rusty Bryan—21
Tim Rowell—22
Sandy Foster—27
Edward Colley—29
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