Aug 19, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, Latest News, Moderator
In our last Coordinating Council meeting, I shared this blurb from Eugene Peterson’s A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (quoting William Faulkner): “Life is not about making monuments, but about making footprints. A monument only says, ‘At least I got this far’...
Aug 16, 2024 | Executive Coordinator
In his book Markings, Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat and second Secretary General of the United Nations, wrote, “For all that has been —Thanks; for all that shall be — Yes!” Scribbled in his personal diary in 1953, perhaps after learning he had been named to his...
Apr 27, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, College & Young Adults, Coordinator for Young Batist Ministries, Latest News, Missions
Mission Madness took place March 15-17 in Athens, Georgia. It was a wonderful weekend of serving the community of Athens with around 200 middle and high school students and their adult chaperones from across our state. Our theme for the weekend was “being the salt and...
Apr 25, 2024 | Latest News, Moderator
MY LATE GRANDFATHER dreamed of being a Baptist preacher, but he would not give up smoking, and he feared the responsibility of saving people’s souls. He pitched a fit when my parents crossed the state line to bring me into the world in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I am the...
Apr 23, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, Executive Coordinator, Latest News
As long as I can remember, music has been a part of what being a Baptist means to me. The small church I grew up in was a “singing” church. We did not have classically trained musicians or even a professional minister of music. We did not have a pipe organ or a grand...
