Church News
Lothair hosted a very successful VBS clinic March 1st with 58 people from 12 churches attending. Leadership came from five churches. VBS orders placed through the association will be received through March 17.
Several churches celebrated Baptist Men’s Day. Whitesburg FBC enjoyed sausage gravy and biscuits along with songs, testimonies and great fellowship around the table as well as men leading the worship service with solos and a men’s choir.
Big Creek will have a Baptist Men’s Breakfast this Sunday. They also had a soup and potato luncheon and all contributions for the meal went toward the Annie Armstrong Offering.
On behalf of the association and the WMU we want to extend our deepest appreciation to Jeff Missionary for trying to host the quarterly WMU/Baptist Men’s meeting. TWICE they cooked and prepared and TWICE the weather forced us to cancel the meeting. THANK YOU LADIES FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND SWEET ATTITUDES
The church family at Airport Gardens gives praise for their new pastor, Adam Feltner and his wife Fran, who began their ministry there last November. Since then they have welcomed three by letter and one by baptism and look forward to all God is going to do in the future. They had a Valentine Dinner and will have a gospel singing March 15.
Upper Second Creek rejoices in two baptisms!
The Annual Youth Day & Rally at Consolidated will be held Sunday, March 9 with youth from Airport Gardens, Hazard FBC, Lothair, Petrey Memorial, and Town Mountain participating. Joshua Holland, youth minister at Hazard First will speak on “Young People Taking a Stand for Christ.” Their annual inter-church worship service will be March 30 with DoM James Castlen (AM service) and Dr. Charles Douglas, pastor of Bowman Memorial Untied Methodist Church in the afternoon.
Berean took the kids bowling in January and the men led in the worship service February 24.
There will be a revival at Craft Colly in April. Watch for the exact date in next month’s newsletter.
During January the First Creek youth had a lock-in with 61 youth attending. Josh Holland, youth minister at Hazard FBC, was the speaker. The church is planning an Easter play Easter night.
Jeff Missionary will celebrate homecoming March 27-30 with lots of food and fellowship.
During these cold months Typo is remodeling their sanctuary. Smithsboro has just finished remodeling theirs into a beautiful place of worship.
Willow Fern celebrated Pastor Clell Miller’s birthday with special singing and a dinner following the service. In February Ruth Miller organized a Health Fair at the church with doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who are members of the church. Approximately 75 received blood pressure and blood sugar screening as well as several others plus vital information. Sadly they lost a charter member but rejoiced that they had one baptism.
Pastor Densmore Goodson, Upper Second Creek, had an unusual opportunity to share the difference Christ has made in his life at a Wild Game Dinner hosted by Calvary Campus in Letcher County. The 60 attendees enjoyed a flyfishing demonstration by Goodson and several dishes of venison, elk, duck, and rabbit.
