The 135th annual meeting of the Suwannee Missionary Baptist Association ended last night. Our church was represented well by leadership who attended as messengers from our church with voting rights in the meeting and by a large number of choir members who sang Monday night in a mass associational choir. I am grateful for their participation because people are watching us. Among the 38 voting churches and 1 new church under watchcare, we consistently rank among the top five churches. This puts us into an important middle ground for two reasons.
First, the larger churches know that we are a church that ranks with them – and God can use us to challenge them to do more. An example of this is in the area of baptisms. Last year we led the association with 20 baptisms; this year we were second with 25 baptisms. (Praise the Lord for the 43 baptisms that First, Branford saw last year.) My prayer is that we would take the presentation of the gospel message seriously and that we would consistently lead in this area.
Second, we still know what it is to be “small church”. For 90 years, we were one of them. God creates different churches in different sizes for different people to come to knowledge of Him. There is greatness in small church! This greatness comes from the fact that Christ died for those churches and that their role is absolutely unique in the kingdom. Sometimes bigger churches forget this and act as if the smaller churches are smaller in vision and importance.
We are thankful to be part of Suwannee Association; grateful that we have visionary leadership through Bro. Fritz (or as he is lovingly known here at Wellborn, Rev. Dr. Fountain); and excited about what God is going to do, not only at Wellborn, but among our sister churches.
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