Hephzibah Baptist Association
Associational Missionary Tim Batchelor
Mission Georgia
Season of Prayer and Generosity
September 1-30
If your heart is for the lost and those in need throughout our great state, we invite you to make Georgia your mission, too. During this Season of Prayer and Generosity, join Georgia Baptists in praying, giving and getting involved to meet needs in your community. Resources
Calendar of
Upcoming Events
Aug. 31- Sept. 8
Ecuador Mission Trip
Sept 14 Monthly Pastors' Meeting, East Burke Baptist Church
Sept. 10-12
KBA Pastors & Leaders Conference @
Washington Heights BC
Hephzibah Baptist Association
Annual Fall Meeting
October 18th, 6pm
Rosemont Baptist Church
Only 1 opportunity left this summer for a hands-on mission experience opportunity:
Sept 25-26 Columbus
To learn more & register, visit Missiongeorgia.org
Hephzibah Baptist Association
August 2026
Missionary Moment
by Tim Batchelor
It was fantastic to see so many of you at the Spark Conference on August 16th. I give a huge shoutout to Pastor David Lambert, Matt Ward, the FBC Staff and so many volunteers from FBC Thomson for their work to bring this conference to the Kilpatrick Baptist Association. I have received lots of great feedback on the job they did in hosting. Folks were blessed by the different breakout sessions as well as the main session with Thom Rainer. I trust that you received training that will help you engage more fruitfully and productively in the ministry areas to which you are called.
I first became familiar with Thom Rainer around 25 years ago when I heard him speak in conferences and read his books. One of his books that I read was “The Unchurched Next Door.” The book was written out of a desire by Thom Rainer to understand the attitudes and beliefs of the unchurched across our nation with the hopes that a better understanding of them would help the church to more effectively reach them.
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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