Newsletter for January 14, 2026

Join Us This Wednesday for Family Night at 6 PM!

We're kicking off a powerful 4-week series:
"Getting to Know the God We Trust."

Discover who God truly is as we dive into His attributes and character. Come grow in faith, ask big questions, and deepen your understanding of the One we worship. Don’t miss it!

On The Menu
Potato Soup, Corn Bread
Pear Salad, and Dessert

Don’t Miss the On Mission Celebration!
We’re excited to be part of the upcoming On-Mission Celebration. This is a unique opportunity to hear directly from missionaries serving with the Georgia Baptist Mission Board (GBMB), the North American Mission Board (NAMB), and the International Mission Board (IMB).

This is more than an event — it’s a call to live “on mission” at home and around the world.

Here’s What’s Happening:

Saturday, January 31

• Mission Fair at 10:00 AM at Bethel Baptist
  Come explore how God is moving through missions around the world. Missionaries will have tables set up and will be available to share about their ministries. Lunch will be provided. This is an event for all ages, and it’s especially a great opportunity for youth and children to engage with missions in a hands-on way.
• Evening Gathering at 5:00 PM at Morningside Baptist
  Our church will join with Morningside Baptist, Grace Fellowship, and Wellspring Baptist for supper and a time of hearing from missionaries Samuel Ayala, Emory, and Beverly Lussi.

Sunday, February 1

• Sunday School – We’ll hear from Twyla Jackson, a North American Missionary.
• Morning Worship – Guest speaker Matthew Gibbs from the Georgia Baptist Mission Board will share with us.
• Evening Gathering at 5:00 PM at Bethel Baptist
  All the churches in the Turner Baptist Association will come together again for supper, followed by worship and time with more missionaries.

            Sunday Evening Missionary Speakers:
            Children: Kerry and Twyla Jackson
            Youth: Jason Jones, Beverly Lussi, and Emory Lussi
            Adults: Matthew Gibbs (GBMB), Stephanie Carr (NAMB), and Frank Moran (IMB)

Make plans to attend this special weekend. Be inspired. Be equipped. Be on mission.
Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with what God is doing across Georgia, North America, and the world!

Choir Practice starts back on Wednesday, January 21, 2026.
We would love to have you.

Join us for a time of food and fellowship as we take a trip to
The Canterbury Kitchen at the Mayberry Diner in Albany.
Friday, January 30, 2026

Departure: 10:00 AM from the church parking lot
Return: Around 1:30 PM

This trip is a great opportunity to enjoy a meal together and connect with one another.

Sign up in Sunday School or fill out the form below to reserve your spot.
We hope you’ll join us!

Don’t miss Brother David’s Mid-Week Devotions.
New messages are posted every Wednesday on our media page—take a midweek moment to be encouraged and refreshed in God’s Word.

Budget for 2026 . . . . . . . .  $334,834.00
Tithes Needed to Date . . . .  $12,878.24
Received to Date . . . . . . . .  $11,564.33      
Needed for weekly budget . . . $6,439.12
Tithes Received this week . . . $2,783.93

Where do you look for help?  Everyday life is full of challenges, obligations, and responsibilities.  Frequently, we face times of adversity, hardship, and heartache.  Where do you look for help?

We are often tempted to use the values, ideas, and means of those who don’t know God.  We often put our confidence in those things rather than in God.  We often don’t really trust God to meet our needs.

We are not the first to make this mistake.  Judah did the same thing in the Old Testament.  In Isaiah 31, Judah was looking to Egypt to protect them from Assyria.

Judah put their hope and trust in the wrong place.  Verse 1 says, “Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help and rely on horses and trust in chariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, nor seek the Lord!”

How foolish of Judah!  How foolish of us to trust someone or something other than the Lord!  Verse 3 says, “Now the Egyptians are men and not God, and their horses are flesh and not spirit; so, the Lord will stretch out His hand, and he who helps will stumble, and he who is helped will fall, and all of them will come to an end together.:  Help from some source other than God never helps.  Whatever we trust instead of God will collapse.
What about God?  Is He worthy of our trust?  Can He really help us?  Think about what the rest of this chapter says about God.

Verse 2 says God is wise.  That means God knows the best answer in every situation.  He knows the best way to bring it about.  He knows the best timing to bring it about.  We can trust God because He is wise.

God is also faithful.  Verse 2 says He does not retract His words.  God is faithful to His Word.  This is true in terms of carrying out His warnings or fulfilling His promises.  God is faithful.

God is also victorious.  Verse 4 compares Him to a strong lion who kills his prey and is fearless of hunters.  Nothing and no one can resist God.  We will never face a problem that God cannot handle.
 
Last, God is protective of His people (verse 5).  Believer, you are deeply and personally loved by God.  He is interested in every part of your life.  He is working in every part of your life right now.  You can trust Him.

What a wonderful God we have.  He is our great and constant help.  We can trust Him in every situation.