On May 4th our association will be observing the National Day of Prayer. It is a blessing to gather with other believers to pray for our communities and our nation. There will be several prayer services that will take place on this special day:

Crisp County at the Courthouse at noon.

Bryromville at Groves Park at noon.

Lilly at the Fire Station at noon.

I hope you will make plans to attend one of these prayer gatherings. I truly believe when we come together to seek God that He will hear us and answer our prayers!

Many of our churches are aware of our evangelism trailer and have been using it. I want to remind our churches that the trailer is available and we would love for you to use it. If you have evangelistic outreach events and would like to use the trailer, please call our association office to reserve it. At this point, we now have two inflatables (a bouncy house & slide), a snow cone machine, and a popcorn machine. We hope our churches will use this resource.

Our children’s camps are beginning next month through July. We now have applications on our website at: www.southcentralbaptistnetwork.org. We now have a separate application for our day camp. The overnight camps are on one application. Please make plans to send your children to our camps. We are anticipating having some great camps again this year. We are also in need of youth and adults to serve at our camps. The Camp Missionary application is on our website as well. Please be in prayer now for our camps. This has been one ministry that most of our churches have supported throughout the years.

I want to thank all those who participated in our Golf Tournament. It was a great day for the tournament and we had six teams playing. We had several of our churches and businesses in Cordele sponsoring a hole. At this point, we have made a profit of 2,100. We are still waiting for more funds to come in from those who sponsored holes. If you were not able to sponsor a hole but would like to make a contribution toward the camp, it would be greatly appreciated!

It is a joy to serve you and please know that I am always available to assist your church in any way I can. I would love to come and lead your church in Sunday School training, strategy planning, missions planning, and discipleship training. I am praying daily for our Pastors and our congregations. I am truly blessed to serve you!

Bro. Gary

June 11-14, 2023 

Crisp County has a Christian Learning Center! This center represents a form of instruction known as "release time education". Upon completion of each course, the student will receive appropriate course credit according to school requirements. It is the desire of the Christian learning center that each student be given the education in character studies, historical context, and moral reasoning using the Bible and Christian doctrine as the foundation to ensure that each student is educated in a way that their uniqueness is embraced, and their success is promoted with the understanding that they are valued as a Creation of God. We currently have 43 students in the 7th and 8th grades that are enrolled in classes this semester. We have had over 100 students in the past four years to take classes. The Center classroom is located at Pinecrest Baptist Church. The current administrator and teacher is Jean Johnson. We are asking for churches and individuals to be committed to financially supporting this center. Would you consider making a monthly contribution? If so, please send checks to SCBN, PO Box 1274 Cordele, GA 31010. Your support would be greatly appreciated as many lives are being impacted by our C4 Christian Learning Center!