Fifth Sunday in August

On August 30th, 2009,  Elder Chad O’Quinn will preach at our regular 10:30 a.m. service at Mount Paran.

Services will be followed by lunch in the fellowship hall directly adjacent to the church.

Visitors are always welcome!

2009 Annual Meeting

Saturday, August 1 and Sunday, August 2, 2009

Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church will hold its annual meeting.  Services are scheduled to begin on Saturday, August 1st at 10:00 a.m.  Elder Ronald Lawrence will be visiting with us.  We will have lunch after the services.

On Sunday, August 2nd, services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and we will also have lunch after the services.

Everyone is invited.

Annual Singing Service set for May 3rd, 2009

Mount Paran will host its annual Singing Service at around 2 p.m. on the 1st Sunday in May 2009 (May 3rd).

Regular services of singing, prayer, and preaching begin at 10:30 a.m., and a pot-luck lunch will follow afterwards in the Fellowship Hall. You’re welcome to join us for this service, too.

But if you can only make the singing, it will, again, start around 2 p.m. (or whenever we get done eating lunch and fellowshipping with one another).

The Singing Service itself is a simple service where everyone present is invited to sing (from their pews) a few hymns out of the The Old School Hymnal in the a capella style (without any musical instruments). We sing for about an hour, and then leave.

If you any questions, you can contact Chris Edwards at 706-717-8171. Directions to Mount Paran can be found here, as well as additional contact information here. I hope you can make it.

Fifth Sunday Services in March 2009

Elder Jabin James from Irwinville, Georgia, will be visiting with us at Mount Paran Primitive Baptist Church on March 29, 2009–the fifth Sunday.

Lunch will be served after services in the adjacent fellowship hall. Services will start at 10:30 a.m. as usual.

Everyone is invited.

Sorrells Springs Primitive Baptist Church Annual Meeting

Saturday, October 25 and Sunday, October 26, 2008

Sorrells Springs Primitive Baptist Church will hold its annual meeting.  Services are scheduled to begin on Saturday at 10:00 a.m.  Elder Ronald Lawrence will be visiting with us.  We will have lunch after the services followed by communion.

On Sunday, services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m.

Also, every 4th Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., there is a service scheduled at Park Place Nursing Home in Monroe, GA. 

Everyone is invited.

Annual Meeting

Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3, 2008

Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church will hold its annual meeting.  Services are scheduled to begin on Saturday at 10:00 a.m.  Elder John Scott will be visiting with us.  We will have lunch after the services followed by communion.

On Sunday, services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and we will have lunch after the services.

Everyone is invited.

Ordination Service

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Services are scheduled at Mt. Paran to ordain Brother Chris Edwards to the office of deacon. The services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. and will be followed with a lunch in the fellowship building.

Everyone is invited.

May Newsletter

May 2008

Provided by Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church
and Sorrells Springs Primitive Baptist Church

Psalm 23:2
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Every time I read this verse I am reminded of the times my dad and I would go to the lake fishing and the wind would cease; causing stillness on the water so that I couldn’t even see a ripple. I thank God for those days when He allowed me to see those beautiful scenes of peace.

In this text David tells us that his Shepherd gives him peace, because it is He that makes him to lie down in green pastures and He that leads beside still waters. There is no question that without Him there is no peace. Why, you ask; because the Bible teaches us that the natural man without God knows not the way of peace (Romans 3:17). In Titus 3:3 we read, “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.” Just by reading that text I believe we could come to the conclusion that there is no peace that could be known by the natural man without God. This is the reason God is called the God of peace in the letter to the Hebrews 13:20 and one day the entire elect family of God will enjoy completely the peace of God when every one of them are assembled at His throne praising Him for His marvelous grace (Revelation 5:9).

In Isaiah 26:3 we read, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:” In this text we learn of a peace every child of the King can experience while living here in this world. The peace is not enjoyed by giving our time to the world and its pleasures, but by keeping our minds fixed on Jesus the Great Shepherd of the sheep. In Mark 4:35-41 we find a time when the disciples of the Lord were in a ship on the sea and there arose a great storm of wind and the ship was beat against and full of water. The disciples in fear said to the Lord who was asleep in the hinder part of the ship, “Master, carest thou not that we perish?” And when he arose, He rebuked the wind saying, “Peace, be still.” The Bible tells us that there was a great calm after the Lord rebuked the wind and caused the storm to cease. He then reproved his disciples, asking them, “Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?” The Lord did this for two reasons: 1) The disciples had forgotten that the Lord of glory, ruler of heaven, earth, wind and sea was with them on the ship; and 2) Jesus had already told them in verse 35, “Let us pass over unto the other side”. If the disciples had kept these two things in mind, they would not have been fearful at all.

In John 16:33, Jesus told us “that in this world ye shall have tribulation”. He did not say that we might, but that we shall have tribulation. Jesus also told us “be of good cheer. I have overcome the world” and because of His prosperous labors in the room and stead of his sheep (elect family of God – John 10:11) the entire family of God will make it to the other side. Not only this, but while here on earth He has promised never to leave us nor forsake us (Hebrews 13:5, Isaiah 49:14-16). So no matter how large the storm of life, be at peace dear child of God, our Lord reigns and one day we will all look back and say “O, death where is thy sting? O, grave where is thy victory?” (1 Cor 15:55).

Elder Ronnie Loudermilk

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Saturday, June 21, 2008, Services are scheduled to ordain Brother Chris Edwards to the office of deacon. The services are scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m.

Services are held at Park Place Nursing Home, Monroe, every 4th Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Sister Cleo Autry
Sister Jean Swords
Sister Nora Haralson
Sister Mary Moss
Brother Mike Puckett
Brother Neal Robertson
Brother Charles Autry
Elder Edward Cagle
Sister Joanne Reeves
and always for each other

SERVICES

Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church is located in Monroe, Georgia on Mt. Paran Church Road. Services are held each 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Directions

Sorrells Springs Primitive Baptist Church is located in Monroe, Georgia on Bold Springs Road. Services are held each 4th Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Directions

For more information, contact Elder Ronnie Loudermilk at
MountParanPBC@gmail.com

Annual Singing Service

Mt. Paran will hold its annual song service on Sunday, May 4, 2008.

Services will begin at 10:30 a.m., followed by lunch in the fellowship building.  The song service will begin at approximately 1:30 p.m.

We invite everyone to visit with us for this special day! 

March Newsletter

March 2008

Provided by Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church
and Sorrells Springs Primitive Baptist Church

Psalm 23:1
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

I suppose there is no Bible subject that I love any more than that of the sufficiency of the Lord. When David tells us he shall not want, the cause for this condition is the Lord being his Shepherd.

In the Gospel of John chapter six we read of a time when five thousand besides the women and children were gathered together having nothing to eat. In Matthew 14:15 the disciples tell Jesus to send them away that they may go into the villages and buy themselves victuals. In John 6:5 Jesus asked Philip, “Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” and Philip’s response was that, “Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them”, but the One he spoke to had no insufficiencies. Two hundred pennyworth of bread may not have been enough but the Living Bread (Jesus) that came down from heaven was, because in John 6:12 we read that they were filled.

In Hebrews 10:11,12 we read, “And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God.” When I read this text I am prone to think about the priests of the Old Testament times and how they would offer one sacrifice, only to have to offer another and another. The reason they would have to offer another is the sacrifices that they were offering were never able to put away sins. Hebrews 10:3 says, “But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.” The beginning of verse twelve says, “But this man” and this is none other than Jesus our Lord. When He had made the sacrifice of His own self He was able to sit down because He made a complete and sufficient sacrifice for sins. In John 19:30 Jesus said “It is finished”. When those words came from His blessed lips the sacrifice for the sins of His people was sufficiently paid in full when He died on the cross for them. By this statement I am saying that Jesus needs no help in getting His people to heaven because He has done it all.

In 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 we read about the resurrection of the saints of God on the last day. Paul teaches us in this text that the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God. Then Paul, without any reservation, tells us that the dead in Christ will rise. Paul did not say that Jesus would look for help, but that He Himself would raise the dead and would change those that are alive and remain. In Philippians 3:20, 21 Paul tells us that He is able and when I consider what the Bible teaches me about this great day and all that the Lord will do, how could I consider Him anything other than sufficient?

In conclusion I would like to say not only is the Lord sufficient in all the things previously mentioned but He has also given us a sufficient worship service in the New Testament Church. He has given us a sufficient Bible, the Word of God, and He always has been and always will be a sufficient strength for all His people when they are in time of need.

Elder Ronnie Loudermilk

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Sunday, May 4, 2008, Mt. Paran will hold its annual song service. Services will begin at 10:30 a.m. followed by lunch in the fellowship building. The song service will begin at approximately 1:30 p.m.

Services are held at Park Place Nursing Home, Monroe, every 4th Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Sister Cleo Autry
Sister Jean Swords
Sister Nora Haralson
Sister Mary Moss
Brother Mike Puckett
Brother Neal Robertson
Brother Charles Autry
Elder Edward Cagle
Sister Joanne Reeves
and always for each other

SERVICES

Mt. Paran Primitive Baptist Church is located in Monroe, Georgia on Mt. Paran Church Road. Services are held each 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Directions

Sorrells Springs Primitive Baptist Church is located in Monroe, Georgia on Bold Springs Road. Services are held each 4th Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Directions

For more information, contact Elder Ronnie Loudermilk at
MountParanPBC@gmail.com