Hephzibah Baptist Association
Associational Missionary Tim Batchelor
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Calendar of
Upcoming Events
Oct 5 Monthly Pastors Mtg, Bethlehem BC, Girard, GA, 6pm
Oct 18 HBA Annual Meeting, Rosemont BC, 6 pm
Nov 8-10 Georgia Baptist Convention, Second BC of Warner Robins, GA
Hephzibah Baptist Association
Annual Fall Meeting
Speaker: Brad Marchman
Evangelism consultant, GBMB
October 18th, 6pm
Rosemont Baptist Church
2026 Children's Home Collection
We are collecting items for the Children's Home in Baxley at our Fall Meeting, October 18th, 6pm at Rosemont Baptist Church. There will be a trailer at Rosemont a week before the meeting for collection or you can bring your items to the meeting.
Canned goods: Tuna, Chicken, Kidney Beans, Baked Beans.
Trash bags: 13 gallon & 40 gallon size
Paper Towels
White Full-size Towels
White Wash Cloths
White Dish Towels
Cleaning Supplies: Bleach, Non-aerosol Kitchen Spray, Non-aerosol Bath Spray, Pine Sol Concentrate, Fabuloso Concentrate
Hephzibah Baptist Association
September 2026
Missionary Moment
by Tim Batchelor
From the beginning to the end of Scripture, the Lord was seeking to gather people to Himself. Adam and Eve sinned in the garden and they hid themselves, but the Lord came to gather them back to Himself. The very last verses of Revelation read “The Spirit and the bride say “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come;” (Revelation 22:17) Throughout the Old Testament the Lord promises that He will gather His people together (Psalm 106:47, Isaiah 11:12, Jeremiah 29:14, Ezekiel 11:17). In Matthew 23:37-38 Jesus laments that though He wanted to gather his people under His wings as a hen gathers her chicks, they would not. In John 11:52 we see that the purpose of Jesus was to “gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.” In the last days Jesus will “send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds…” (Matthew 24:31)
Jesus is a gatherer and those who are with Him are to be gatherers. In Matthew 9:36-38 Jesus bemoans the shortage of laborers in the fields to gather the harvest, so he exhorts us to ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into the harvest. So important is the gathering work to Jesus . . .
BIBLE DRILL
it is time to plan for the upcoming year of Bible Drill. Children's Bible Drill is an awesome way to help students grades 3-6 grow in their relationship with jesus through God's words. Betsy Milburn at Wrens Baptist Church would be thrilled to help any church establish a Bible Drill program. For more information you may contact her at betsymilburn@att.net or Time Batchelor and he will put you in touch with her.
Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief has two chainsaw units working in Merrillville, IN after wind damage last Friday. The first two teams started north yesterday, 8/18/2026 and will arrive later today. One of the units traveling is Unit 35R from the Washington Baptist Association which has some of the nearby towns in it. For example, Sandersville and Sparta are part of the Washington Baptist Association.
This is the first “God Story” from their trip. This story was shared by multiple volunteers traveling with 35R.
Please pray for the two teams working this week and the two teams which will replace them in a few days. This is an 11 day trip for each group due to distance from Georgia.
“It’s been an interesting and yet exciting day as we left Milledgeville. We picked up our trailer and another team member. We barely got down the road when we blew a tire on the trailer. As John pulled over off the highway into a dairy farm property in the middle of nowhere. We had to assess the situation. I was  praying and reached out to two others by text to pray while they worked on the tire. We knew no one could thwart God’s plan.
We then were approached by the guy who is pastor/dairy farmer of one of our Washington Baptist Associational churches. You’ve got to love God’s sense of humor. The pastor helped us out/prayed over us and we got on the road to Madison with our full team of four. Then we had to get the trailer worked on to replace the tire.
This auto center worked in an amazing fashion, took us right in and evaluated our situation telling us we basically needed all four tires replaced, which was not exactly what we were hoping for. They finished efficiently and quickly, and I ask if the bill had been paid when the lady told us we were ready to go.
She said, “don’t worry, ma’am, it’s been covered.” We could not even begin to believe it. Billy, the manager said a gentleman had come in and observed our unit trailer and told Billy to give us what we need and he’d cover the cost. We figure that had to be about $1000 expense.
How amazing and good is our God, the great provider ????
God protected us and provided exactly who and what we needed in a powerful way today. We arrived safely in Bowling Green for the night and look forward with great expectations to arriving in Merrillville, Indiana tomorrow.
We have also met up with our other unit and enjoyed having dinner and fellowship with them this evening. The Lord also blessed us with another team member deciding to meet up with us and help work for the week. We have two brand new GBDR volunteers working this week.
Thanks to the Lord as people are seeing our yellow shirts and asking us where we’re going and thanking us.
The details of this event were shared by Joy Gilmore, Unit 35R and Wayne Swann, Unit 4R.
Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief
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KBA/HBA Media
Center Update
KBA Library is growing!
Please see the list of new items available for checkout. There are many other resources available as well. Stop by the KBA office to see if you find something that meets a need for you, your small group, or church.
You can see the new resources by clicking here!