September 2009 Church Newsletter  

Hello Johnson Grove Family, 

     Wow! What a busy month we have had. We have also had a glorious time in recent days with our Father truly blessing our family here.

      I would like to welcome the Silvernails into our family at Johnson Grove. We are blessed to have the new owners of Travelers Inn to be a part of our church. We are also blessed to have Cindy Ashmore to part of our church. We are thankful for these new members are excited to se what more awaits from our Heavenly Father.

     We had a great time on our recent trip to Columbus Georgia. The “Youth Venture” trip was an awesome  success. I believe we had a total of 13 churches represented. We had approximately 250 young people and adults. Some of the projects include a "Camp For Kids" with over 1300 back packs where assembled with supplies for needy children. We had no less than 9 B.Y.B.C. every day, at least one door to door evangelism team, and 3 block parties of which the largest had over 250 attendees (not counting our people). These people where fed and the Gospel was shared. We had 4 houses vinyled, 4 houses painted, roofed a church, built and roofed a new building, walls removed and rebuilt in a ministry center, and cleaned a whole city street. All this drew the attention of 3 T.V. stations and several news papers. Please pray and consider about being a part of this adventure next year. Dates are July 5th through 9th, 2010. Thanks to all form our church who went.

     We have paid off our passenger bus! We are so grateful for all who gave so generously and with a vision to reach our community. Please pray for God to utilize the bus so he may be glorified!

     We have had a new sound system donated and installed! Thanks to all who participated in this. Special thanks to Bro, John McMahan for hooking up the equipment.

      We also want to remember in prayer the Drivers and Stairs families who have lost loved ones in recent days. Our prayers and love go out these loved ones in their time of grief.

     We are preparing for our next mission trip at the present, to go to Polk county in East Tennessee. We will be working on a ministry building for the Agape retreat center for the Polk County Baptist association. Bro.Ryan Potts is Director of Missions their, and is doing a wonderful job.

     We are also preparing for a trip to Antigua in January. We will be working along side of Mid-Continent Bible University of Mayfield Kentucky. We will be doing construction and ministry on the island. Pray for those who will be going.

      We also have the opportunity to ordain two men to the ministry of our Lord! Bro. Ralph Winters and Bro. John McMahan. We are grateful for their calling and pray that God will utilize them in an awesome way.

     Pray for our nation, our sick, and our hurting people. Pray for the Lost of this world and in our communities. Pray that Gods will use you to make a difference!

Pastor Mike Hazlewood