I am very excit­ed about this year’s Night of Dis­ci­ple­ship (for­mer­ly “M” Night) to be held at Taber­na­cle Bap­tist Sep­tem­ber 15th at 6:30 p.m. This will be a great night of fel­low­ship, encour­age­ment and train­ing and I hope each of you will plan to be there. Class­es being offered are:

Dis­ci­ple­ship in the Small Church — Dan­nie Williams  (FBC Lyons)

Prepar­ing for Revival — Brad Waters (FBC Hazlehurst)

Being a Believ­er in Your School — Madi­son Her­rin  (Taber­na­cle)

Being a Believ­er in Your Work Place- Reece Mincey (Cedar Crossing)

Being a Believ­er in Your Home — Kyle Woodfin (FBC Alamo)

Spir­i­tu­al Renewal/Intimacy with Christ  Rob­by Smith (DBA)   

Our DBA Bible Insti­tute con­tin­ues with the Great Doc­trines of the Chris­t­ian Faith (pt. 1) on Sep­tem­ber 23, begin­ning at 6 p.m. at our DBA office in Ailey. For more infor­ma­tion please give us a call at 912–583-2713.

Our DBA Mis­sion Trip to Savan­nah is fast approach­ing and we hope you will join us. On Fri­day, Novem­ber 7th inter­est­ed folks will join us by 8 a.m. at FBC Lyons to trav­el to Savan­nah, Geor­gia for a one day mis­sion trip. There is no cost for the trip but each per­son will be respon­si­ble for pay­ing for their own lunch. We will be min­is­ter­ing to the home­less of the area dis­trib­ut­ing water, blan­kets, tarps, and food. If you would like to join us on this one day trip please call our DBA office at 912–583-2713 or reply to this email.

Please be in prayer for Joshua Woodfin (son of Kyle and Alan­na Woodfin) in his fight with can­cer. There will be a fundrais­er in Alamo to help this won­der­ful fam­i­ly with med­ical expens­es on Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 13th begin­ning at 8 a.m. in down­town Alamo (the Gar­den area). There will be plen­ty of food and fun as well as a one mile fam­i­ly fun run/walk. Appli­ca­tions are avail­able at the Alamo Pharmacy.

The Mont­gomery Coun­ty Chris­t­ian Learn­ing Cen­ter is doing a great job min­is­ter­ing to High School Stu­dents in Mont­gomery Coun­ty. For more infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing this impor­tant min­istry please go to www.mococlc.org. This is a won­der­ful min­istry that is mak­ing a dif­fer­ence in our com­mu­ni­ty so please check it out and con­sid­er sup­port­ing it with your prayers as well as your checkbook.

I’m excit­ed to announce we will be tak­ing a mis­sion team to work in Sid­ney, which is on Van­cou­ver Island, British Colum­bia (Cana­da) March 28th-April 4th. We will be doing some light con­struc­tion work, host­ing Block Par­ties, as well as help­ing with a Good Fri­day evan­ge­lism event. The cost of the trip is approx­i­mate­ly $1,500 and you will need a pass­port. We will have an appli­ca­tion form ready next week but in the mean­time please be in prayer, seek­ing God’s will con­cern­ing your par­tic­i­pa­tion in this very spe­cial endeav­or. Remem­ber, “We must be glob­al Chris­tians with a glob­al vision because our God is a glob­al God.” –John Stott

Blessed to Serve,

Rob­by

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