Kilpatrick Baptist Association
Connecting • Serving • Equipping
Tim Batchelor, Associational Missionary
Chanda Harbeson and Susan Batchelor, Ministry Assistants
Von Adkins, Financial Secretary
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.
God's Command to Serve
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other.
I thank God for you! Those are the words I feel led to speak over the laborers.
I thank God for you! Those are the words I want to be heard by those who are weary, tired, and have put their hands to the plow and yet to look back.
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 23-25 Revival at Sharon Baptist Church, 7pm
Oct 6 Powell Homecoming
Nov 9 Sweetwater Harvest Fest, Noon - 7pm
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.
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.