Kilpatrick Baptist Association
Connecting • Serving • Equipping
Tim Batchelor, Associational Missionary
Chanda Harbeson and Susan Batchelor, Ministry Assistants
Von Adkins, Financial Secretary
If your heart is for the lost and those in need throughout our great state, we invite you to make Georgia your mission, too. During this Season of Prayer and Generosity, join Georgia Baptists in praying, giving and getting involved to meet needs in your community. Resources
Mission Georgia
Season of Prayer and Generosity
September 1-30
The conference is designed to encourage, equip, and strengthen pastors, while also welcoming the wives, ministry staff, deacons, lay leaders, and other church leaders who serve alongside them. Registration is free, and pastors are encouraged to bring members of their team if they are able.
Registration and full conference information can be found here:
https://www.washingtonheightsbc.com/2026-kba-pastor-s-conference-registration
Upcoming Events
Pastors Conference, Tuesdays @
10:30am Sweetwater BC Fellowship Hall
August 31 - Sept 8 Ecuador Mission Trip
September 10-12 KBA Pastors Conference
Sept 22 KBA Women's Fall Leadership Mtg at Sweetwater BC, 6:30pm
Oct 27 KBA 112th Annual Meeting, Faith Baptist Church, 6:30pm
Blythe BC is looking for a bivocational Family Ministry Coordinator.
New Providence Baptist Church is looking for a bi-vocational pastor.
Reedy Creek Baptist is looking for a pastor. Contact Jan at jan3jim@aol.com
KBA Women's
Fall Leadership Meeting
The World On Our Hearts
September 22, 6:30pm
Sweetwater Baptist of Thomson
Speaker: Stephanie Bennett
GBMB Women's Ministry Consultant
Registration is $15 (includes Chick fil A box meal). Please register at the Kilpatrick Baptist Association Office at 1784 Wrens Hwy, Thomson, GA between M-Th, 9:30-4:30pm or mail your registration to KBA Women, PO Box 895, Thomson, GA 30824.
Missionary Moment:
Timothy W. Batchelor
I Chronicles 12:32 mentions the sons of Issachar as men who “understood the times, with knowledge of what Israel should do.” This bit of extra commentary in an otherwise ordinary list of armies that served with David reminds me of the great need of our day. Sometimes we say, “times are changing” and indeed they are, and they always have.
Gardening has changed since I was a kid. When I was growing up we didn’t have to deal with Japanese Beetles, tomato leaf blight, army worms or squash bugs and vine borers. Our garden produced all summer. Now my tomatoes are dead by mid-summer, and my squash produce for a couple of weeks and then die from vine borers. Last year, in trying to find a solution to the squash bugs and borers I thought back to a variety of squash we grew when I was a child. When I was eight or nine years old, my father came home from his work with some squash seed that a man from India gave him. We planted those seeds and they produced a vine that grew squash all summer and up until it frosted. This squash far outproduced the yellow squash that we normally grew. The plants produced so much squash that we kids became tired of squash casserole and were glad to see the plants die at first frost. We called them Indian squash. I saw the same sort of squash growing in India where nearly every house had one growing up its wall and onto the roof. Last year I began to wonder if perhaps that variety of squash might do well in the hot summer weather here in east central Georgia since it seemed to grow prolifically in very hot regions in India. Perhaps it would be more pest resistant as well.
Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief has two chainsaw units working in Merrillville, IN after wind damage last Friday. The first two teams started north yesterday, 8/18/2026 and will arrive later today. One of the units traveling is Unit 35R from the Washington Baptist Association which has some of the nearby towns in it. For example, Sandersville and Sparta are part of the Washington Baptist Association.
This is the first “God Story” from their trip. This story was shared by multiple volunteers traveling with 35R.
Please pray for the two teams working this week and the two teams which will replace them in a few days. This is an 11 day trip for each group due to distance from Georgia.
“It’s been an interesting and yet exciting day as we left Milledgeville. We picked up our trailer and another team member. We barely got down the road when we blew a tire on the trailer. As John pulled over off the highway into a dairy farm property in the middle of nowhere. We had to assess the situation. I was  praying and reached out to two others by text to pray while they worked on the tire. We knew no one could thwart God’s plan.
We then were approached by the guy who is pastor/dairy farmer of one of our Washington Baptist Associational churches. You’ve got to love God’s sense of humor. The pastor helped us out/prayed over us and we got on the road to Madison with our full team of four. Then we had to get the trailer worked on to replace the tire.
This auto center worked in an amazing fashion, took us right in and evaluated our situation telling us we basically needed all four tires replaced, which was not exactly what we were hoping for. They finished efficiently and quickly, and I ask if the bill had been paid when the lady told us we were ready to go.
She said, “don’t worry, ma’am, it’s been covered.” We could not even begin to believe it. Billy, the manager said a gentleman had come in and observed our unit trailer and told Billy to give us what we need and he’d cover the cost. We figure that had to be about $1000 expense.
How amazing and good is our God, the great provider ????
God protected us and provided exactly who and what we needed in a powerful way today. We arrived safely in Bowling Green for the night and look forward with great expectations to arriving in Merrillville, Indiana tomorrow.
We have also met up with our other unit and enjoyed having dinner and fellowship with them this evening. The Lord also blessed us with another team member deciding to meet up with us and help work for the week. We have two brand new GBDR volunteers working this week.
Thanks to the Lord as people are seeing our yellow shirts and asking us where we’re going and thanking us.
The details of this event was shared by Joy Gilmore, Unit 35R and Wayne Swann, Unit 4R.
KBA Media
Center Update
KBA Library is growing!
Please see the list of new items available for checkout. There are many other resources available as well. Stop by the office to see if you find something that meets a need for you, your small group, or church.
You can see the new resources by clicking here!
Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief
Please click here to see class descriptions on the DR page. There is a job for everyone. It isn't all cutting trees, cooking, or hard manual labor tasks.
A hands-on mission experience opportunities:
Sept 25-26 Columbus
To learn more & register, visit Missiongeorgia.org