Looking to serve their community, Elam Baptist Church in Georgia contacted their local Division of Family & Children Services lead case manager to see what foster families needed. This led to the creation of the Compassion Linen Closet.
The Friendship Baptist Association in rural southwest Georgia, like many other rural associations, is confronting a crisis. It is experiencing a shortage of pastors, youth and children’s workers, and musicians.
The Good Samaritan Health Center of Cobb in Fair Oaks, Georgia, has a mission: “to spread the love of Christ by providing a quality healthcare home to the uninsured and underserved in our community.”
A new study on pastoral wellness reveals that many pastors struggle with financial, physical and mental wellness.
A rural church in Georgia has been experimenting with some unique ways to revitalize their congregation and get them involved in serving their communities.
Georgia Baptists recently held a music camp at Shorter University. The camp’s aim is to raise up the next generation of worship leaders.
As we celebrate the birth of our nation, it is important to remember that many who rallied to arms did so with the call for religious freedom ringing in their ears.
Church planting was part of NewBranch Community Church’s vision from the beginning, says Teaching Pastor Ken Rucker. The question for this Georgia church, which began gathering in 2008, had always been, “When’s the right time to plant?”
After a major hospital closure in Atlanta, nonprofit health care providers had to step up, and they have been working to provide care for many who are under-insured and low-income.
Scott Cates, a Georgia Baptist pastor, is touching thousands of lives from Tiger, a town that sits at the base of 2,856-foot Tiger Mountain, a prominent Blue Ridge Mountain peak in the far northeast corner of Georgia.
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