When there is a need, Faith Baptist Church Bowman, Georgia, hooks up a trailer, hits the road and builds relationships one trip at a time.
On May 9, pastor Jamie Callaway and a group of volunteers delivered to Oconee Heights Baptist Church in Athens, 450 much-needed chairs from First Baptist Church Vidalia.
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Oconee Heights recently completed ReFocus, a six-step process used by the Georgia Baptist Mission Board to help churches gain fresh clarity about their mission and how to serve faithfully in the community where God has placed them.
Callaway responded to a Facebook post from Oconee Heights, which needed help moving the chairs. He and a crew of 10 made the more than three-hour drive to Vidalia, then hauled the chairs more than three hours to Athens before returning to Elbert County.
Arriving by late afternoon, church members helped unload the chairs. Then members from both churches gathered in a circle and prayed together.
Working side by side
“When you get to work side by side with other brothers and sisters in Christ, instead of just sitting in church together with somebody, it develops a different kind of relationship,” Callaway said.
Faith Baptist has three trailers for ministry: a fire trailer, a tent trailer and a crisis relief trailer. The crisis relief trailer, which has been taken all over the country, was used for the chair move.
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EDITOR’S NOTE — This story was written by Henry Durand and originally published by The Christian Index.
