Kilpatrick Baptist Association
Connecting • Serving • Equipping
Tim Batchelor, Associational Missionary
Chanda Harbeson and Susan Batchelor, Ministry Assistants
Von Adkins, Financial Secretary
Kilpatrick Baptist
Women's Fall Leadership Event
Find Joy in Your Journey
Speaker Jane Bishop
September 23rd, 6-8:30pm
Fort Creek Baptist Church in Dearing
Registration $10/person and includes Chick fil A meal, Reg. fee due at KBA Office by Sept 16th. For more details, email kbaassistant@yahoo.com.
Season of Prayer for Mission Georgia
September 2024
Share the love of Christ through the Christmas Backpack Mission Project. Backpacks are due by 4:30pm on Thursday, October 31, 2024 @ the Kilpatrick Baptist Association Office (1784 Wrens Hwy, Thomson, GA 30824). Our office hours are Monday-Thursday 9:00-4:30pm. Please contact the KBA Office at 706-595-5324 or Chanda/Susan at kbaassistant@yahoo.com if we can assist you or answer any questions. Download pdf instructions here.
SERVE THE LORD ABOVE ALL
The truth is that every person serves a master. Our master is whoever or whatever is the first priority of our life. Our master is whoever or whatever we allow to control our life. The only master who truly gives us life is Jesus Christ. Every other master enslaves us and ultimately destroys us. In Romans 12 we see how Jesus Christ becomes our Master, and also the results of Jesus being our Master which leads to us serving Him above all.
First, serving the Lord above all means that we surrender to Him as Savior and Lord and are transformed by His presence and power in our lives.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect” (Romans 12:1-2).
KBA Media
Center Update
We have several new Bible Studies that you will want to explore in the KBA Library. Most come with video access to help with your preparation and presentation. Take a look at our new listings, then stop by to check out the Study Guide.
Upcoming Events
Pastors Conference, Tuesdays @ 10:30am KBA Office
September 1-30 Season of Prayer for Mission Georgia
Sept 23 KBA Women's Fall Leadership Event, 6pm at Ft Creek Baptist Church
Sept 26 Ministers Wives Fellowship, 6:30pm at the Batchelors' house
Oct 29 KBA Annual Meeting, 6:30pm at Marshall BC
Oct 31 Christmas Backpacks are due by 4:30pm
Sept 2-Nov 2 FBC Thomson Upward Basketball Early Bird Registration begins
Sept 15 FBC Thomson Financial Learning Experience Workshop
Sept 20 Bethesda BC, Steve Ladd Concert, 7:00 PM
Sept 21 Youth Revive-All Concert by Faith, New Hope, & Sweetwater, 5-8pm
Sept 22 Sharon Homecoming (225 Years), 11am; Sept 23-25 Revival, 6pm
Oct 6 Powell Homecoming
Nov 2 Wrens BC, Basit Hammad OCC Testimony, 2-3 PM
Missionary Moment
September 2024
Tim Batchelor
Back in July I was traveling through Jefferson County, and I passed a couple of dryland fields that had been harrowed but not planted. For years I have passed by these fields in the summer, and they would be planted in cotton or peanuts. For some reason, this year the farmer decided not to plant. I wondered if the farmer hadn’t planted because the drought that we endured during the planting season greatly reduced the prospects of a crop. If the reason the farmer didn’t plant was due to the drought in June, he made a serious miscalculation because those who did plant now have fields on a path to great harvests due to the rains that came in July. It takes faith to plant in drought when there is no rain in sight, but a field not planted is a field that will not yield a harvest.
This illustration serves as something of a parable for many churches and many lives. The field is the world, our neighborhood, or community. It is ready for the seed which is the Word and the ministry of the people of God. To plant the field will require an investment of time, effort, finances and heart. Sometimes we hesitate to go to work.