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BLUE RIDGE BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

Volume 48, Edition 3,4 March/April 2021

Blue Ridge Baptist Association

828-559-0224

BIRTHDAYS

01 Mrs. Danielle Walker (East Marion)

11 Rev. Freddie Williams

14 Mrs. Miriam Upton (Bethel)

CALENDAR

07-13 Week of Prayer/Study for Annie Armstrong

07-13 Youth Week

14 Daylight Savings Begins

28 Palm Sunday

BIRTHDAYS

01 Rev. Jim Brewer (BRBA)

03 Rev. Brian Gentry (Macedonia)

24 Rev. Michael Robinson (Sugar Hill)

ANNIVERSARIES

30 Rev. and Mrs. Marty Conner (Cherry Springs)

CALENDAR

02 Good Friday

04 Easter Sunday

13 Executive Committee Meeting, 7:00 p.m. Cross Memorial Baptist Church Fellowship Hall

We offer our heartfelt condolences to:

Mrs. Shelley Roach and her family in the passing of her mother Charline Newton on February 19th.

We will be collecting gift cards again this year for Baptist Children’s Homes. (Walmart, Sams Clubs, Food Lion, Lowes, Ingles, Piggly Wiggly). Contact the BRBA office with any questions you may have.

Notes from Jim Brewer…

All are aware of Covid. We have not had many meetings as a result of the pandemic. Each time we plan on having a meeting, there is an uprising in cases. We are trying to keep everyone updated. I am calling and texting the pastors in the Association.

Please try to keep the churches open as much as possible. Use proper precaution methods (hand sanitizer, masks, social distancing, etc.) Senior Adults are vulnerable and it is easy for them to be contaminated. Be careful. Most of our churches have done a fantastic job in improvising. Some are having in-house worship, others through Facebook and some are livestreaming to various rooms in the church and into homes. Pastors, don’t get discouraged. God knows our hearts as we try to obey the rules of the land. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” Hebrews 10:25.

As most of you know, in November I found out I had cancer and treatments were completed February 12^th. Doctors have encouraged me to isolate as much as possible. I will have a PET scan in two months. The prognosis is positive. The doctors are pretty certain the treatments have “nipped it in the bud”. We will take the healing as temporary here, knowing full healing is after this life. Lazarus was raised, but eventually had to die. I am working primarily from home with technology. As the doctor allows, I will be able to visit churches again. Thank you all for the prayers.

- Jim