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Ins FEBRUARY Nurturing Faith Lessons ‘New Beginning’ for NW Georgia Church 5 Contains FEBRUARY Nurturing Faith Lessons ‘New beginning’ for NW Georgia church 5 JANUARY 2013 baptiststoday.org Baptists and the Emancipation Proclamation | p 8 Moderators talk about Fellowship transition | p 32 Peacein the Valley ™ BIBLE STUDIES Little Cataloochee quietly for adults and youth 17 welcomes reflective FEBRUARY lessons inside travelers | p 38 Cover photo Little Cataloochee Baptist Church, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, provides a January 2013 reflective stop for hikers. Photo by John Pierce. Vol. 31, No. 1 Page 38 baptiststoday.org John D. Pierce Executive Editor PERSPECTIVES [email protected] Pat got it right this time: will we? 7 Benjamin L. McDade Executive Vice President By John Pierce 7 [email protected] Julie Steele Churches and the Chief Operations Officer Church Everlasting 30 [email protected] By Aaron Brittain 30 Jackie B. 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Information | 3 !"#$% &'( )*#"#! +% ,#*' )-.$/. “We were able to go further,” said Deacon Paul Croft of the new Mt. Peria Missionary Baptist Church building, that replaced three others destroyed by a tornado, due to insur- ‘New ance and generous donations. Beginning’ Georgia church experiences renewal after deadly storms rip through town INGGOLD, Ga. — After 19 months of or destroyed as well. meeting in the local American Legion “I saw a need, and decided Rbuilding, the members of Mt. Peria I wanted to recommit myself to Missionary Baptist Church were beaming with helping my community get back excitement as they prepared for a community- on track,” said Maddox, who now has also launched new ministries, he said, such wide open house and the first worship services chairs the church’s laymen’s council, designed to as mentoring and after-school programs. in their new facilities in early December. “take a little pressure off the pastor.” A car pulled into the church parking lot, “Whoever wants to come,” said longtime Thanks to good insurance and gener- and the driver’s window came down. “I’m so member and deacon Paul Croft, retired from ous donations from near and far, the church glad for you; I’m so glad for all of us,” the older the DuPont plant in nearby Chattanooga, of the replaced the three buildings with an impressive woman said to Maddox before driving away. congregation’s open invitation to join in a time new one. The mostly-white Concord Baptist Maddox thanked her and then said: of thanksgiving. Church in Temple, Ga., held a fundraiser and “People have been so nice.” The missing canopy of trees that once presented the church’s pastor Jimmy Ingram Responses to the storms brought the com- covered Ringgold, vacant lots where structures with a check for $120,000, according to the munity closer together across racial and religious once stood, and a few remaining piles of debris Chattanooga Times-Free Press. lines, he added. And while no one would wish are the only physical evidence now of the deadly The congregation’s gratitude is so strong, such tragedy on a community, Maddox said tornadoes that ripped through the small county- said Maddox, they plan to support a church both the church and the town are better for the seat town in Northwest Georgia on the night of in New Jersey or New York that was damaged wear. April 27, 2011. But the memories remain strong more recently by Hurricane Sandy. The church “It’s a new beginning.” BT — and so do the lessons learned from going through a storm with neighbors who have now become closer friends. Phillip Maddox retired from the Electric Power Board where he was a research ana- lyst and moved from Chattanooga to scenic Cherokee Valley just over the ridge from Ringgold’s downtown eight years ago. It was the hardest hit area — where homes were devastated. Maddox said the power had gone out, and he heard the tall hickory trees — that had attracted him to build a home there — snap- ping. But he was stunned when someone from Atlanta who was following the storms called and said: “Ringgold’s been destroyed.” The next morning he learned that five of his neighbors had died and many others lost their homes. Maddox said he and his wife decided to join Ringgold’s century-old Mt. Peria Church Lay leader Phillip Maddox speaks with a Chattanooga TV station about the early-December open that had suffered significant damage to its three house and first worship services in the new facilities of Mt. Peria Missionary Baptist Church in Ring- buildings — and was surrounded by homes, gold, Ga. The church suffered extensive damage from the April 2011 tornadoes but now has stronger businesses and schools that had been damaged community ties, a larger membership and expanded ministries, he said. Feature | 5 “This is what, to me, is the essence of Christianity.” —The late jazz pianist and composer Dave quotation Brubeck, stating that the heart of his sacred music is the profound biblical message to love your enemies (RNS) remarks “The [Baptist World Alliance] is deeply “Church steeples make an excellent concerned about the continuing attacks location for a cell site … It’s giving being perpetrated by extremist groups, good connectivity, and people “Traditional Christian language is in many cases targeting Christians.” don’t even see it.” now almost fatally infected by the appearance of ideological bias and —BWA General Secretary Neville Callam following —John Britton of AT&T to San Francisco’s KPIX on political taint. This is the damage the killing of two Baptist pastors amid recent violent paying churches to use steeples as cell phone towers done by a national habit of self- attacks in Nigeria (CBS News) satisfied partisan division — and dragging religion into it.” “The court found that couples who “For me, actually, when it comes to the wish to marry without involving clergy age of the Earth there is no conflict. —Columnist Ray Waddle in The Tennessean have many alternatives for doing so.” I believe that in the beginning God —Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller after a created the heavens and the earth, and I federal court rejected atheists’ requests to preside at think scientific advances have given wedding ceremonies, saying only clergy or public us insight into when he did it and officials are licensed to do so (RNS) how he did it.” “I don’t have the right to ask the Anglican Church to change its “Some of us play it overly safe, —Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Roman Catholic who often attends a Southern Baptist church, in an traditions for me.
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