Pastor Greg Little and the Victory Baptist Church in Gaffney, South Carolina, will be hosting the December South Carolina Baptist Fellowship meeting. The meeting will begin at 2:30pm on Monday, December 6th, 1999. Bro. Dennis Carter Trinity Baptist in Spartanburg, Bill Pickell Calvary Hill Baptist, in Pacolet, ; Bro. Renny Campbell: Living Letters Prison Ministry; and Bro. Grady Gregoryof Light House Baptist Church in Blacksburg will be preaching. Directions will be given for local restaurants after the afternoon service. This will be the first fellowship to be hosted by Pastor Little and the Victory Baptist Church. Be sure to plan on coming if at all possible.

Directions: Take I-85 to Gaffney, get off at exit 92 then go into Gaffney. Stay on this road until you come to a stop sign, turn right at stop sign onto highway 18 south. Follow 18 until you see Berry Memorial Baptist Church on the right. Turn left onto Garvin Lake Road. Take first road on right which is Ballenger Road. Come to the stop sign, take left. Victory Baptist Church will be on the right. There are plenty of signs.

A special word of thanks is in order for Bro. Cooper and Bro. Hummel and their Churches for hosting the last two wonderful fellowships. These Churches went all out and did a super job.

If you would like to host a South Carolina Baptist Fellowship meeting in the year 2000, contact Bro. Steve Mays at 864-984-4277. The following months are booked: January - Choice Hills Baptist in Greenville; February - Faith Baptist in Laurens; March - Bible Baptist in Simpsonville; April - Trinity Baptist in Spartanburg; May - Light House Baptist in Ora; July - Tabernacle Baptist in Greenville; August - Alpine Baptist in Columbia; October - Temple Baptist in Anderson; November - Open Bible Baptist Church in Sumpter; December - Victory Baptist in Gaffney. We still need to fill June and September. Let’s do this before the year is over.

"Australia's ban on handguns did not stop a killer from shooting 54 people, 35 of them fatally, in 1996: he resorted to rifles. After the 1996 slaughter, the Australian government outlawed semi-automatic and pump-action shotguns. As part of the deal, it bought back 640,000 guns from their private owners. The result? In the first year of the new ban, the murder rate rose 3.2 percent and armed robberies were up 44 percent." -- Columnist Stephen Chapman, The Federalist Brief , 12 October 1999.

I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong. I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve. I asked for prosperity and God gave me brawn and brain to work. I asked for courage and God gave dangers to overcome. I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help. I asked for favors and God gave me opportunities. I received nothing I wanted. I received everything I needed. My prayer has been answered.

Sightler Publications announces a new book titled, “A Testimony Founded For Ever: The King James Bible Defended in Faith and History” by James H. Sightler. The book has 272 pages of text, 484 footnotes, 12 pages of references and 12 pages of index.

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Editor’s note: I’ve asked various Pastors and Evangelists to write articles for the Trumpet in the coming months. Be looking for these Hot Articles in the coming issues.

"The educational system has become the weapon of choice for modern liberals in their project of dismantling American culture." -- Judge Robert Bork

"Duty then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You should never wish to do less." -- Robert E. Lee

The church began in the Upper Room agonizing. The Church will end in the Supper Room organizing.

"He who converts a soul draws water from a fountain, but he who trains a soul winner digs a well from which thousands will drink." C. H. Spurgeon.

"Safety is not the absence of danger, it is the presence of the Lord." D. Champlin

"God is much more interested in Character and Godliness than in Activity." - Ron Comfort

During the month of September, Bro. Steve Mays of Faith Baptist Church in Laurens was able to preach the gospel to English speaking people in Canada, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Sweden, Netherlands, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Finland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Germany, several colleges across the US, in US government offices around the world and on US military bases around the globe. These are the locations that accessed the church web page and had the ability to hear his recorded sermons there. While these people were on the Faith Baptist Church web site they were also able to read many excellent sermon outlines, tracts and find links to other fundamental Bible-believing ministry web pages. Can you think of a way to make your mission dollars to stretch any farther?

Contact Faith Baptist Media Ministries today to expand your ministry "into all the world".

Evangelist Jimmie Clark will be at the Alpine Baptist Church, January 9-14, 2000. Pastor Earl Green and the congregation are trusting the Lord for a great beginning to the New Millennium at The Old Country Church.

Faith Baptist Church in Laurens, SC will be having a Family Conference Revival meeting, Nov. 15 - 19. Services at 7:00 PM nightly. Dr. Dennis Carter will be preaching.

The Faith Independent Baptist Church in Cleveland, SC. has 14 white pews with a medium color stain that they would like to sell. The are uncushioned. Please call (864) 836-6948 if you are interested. WTBI Radio has gone on-line. If you have a computer with the ability to connect to the internet you can hear live broadcasting 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world. The URL for this is: http://www.TabernacleMinistries.org/WTBIRadio/

Bro. Steven Mays will be at the Calvary Baptist Tabernacle in Bunn, NC, Dec. 5th - 8th. Pastor Brian Boehme and the congregation invite you for these special anniversary services.

As Visitation Minister of Trinity Baptist Church in Spartanburg, SC, it amazes me of all the excuses that people use. "I don't go on visitation because the Lord hasn't called me." What happened to Matthew 28:19 where the Lord said, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost: ....." When asked why they couldn’t do something for the Lord, one person responded with, “there goes a fire truck down the road. One excuse is a good as another.” We’ll give an account for these excuses some of these days.

Several people have told me that they are concerned about the Y2K and therefore not going on The Holy Land Tour in March 2000. Is it Y2K or the B49? I try not to let other people use fear to control me! I do not believe that the Y2K has caught God by surprise - Proverbs 3:5-6. The seating is limited for the March Tour. We have approximately 25 deposits in already. Get you deposits in as soon as possible to make sure of your seating. Call Bro Raleigh Lindsay at (864) 597-0967 for information. Monthly payments are available. Email: SirWaltr@bellsouth.net

By Rev. Raleigh Lindsay

...Of the nation's 94 million men, only 26 million attend services regularly, and some researchers say the number may be as low as 13 million, The Washington Times said. American men "are one of the massive pagan subcultures on earth today," a Barna Research Group report said.

Real leaders often astonish and frighten as they lead. They break new ground, take new territory, and ask for new kinds of commitments. They make new kinds of commitments themselves. Maintaining the status quo is what managers do. This is not at all a bad thing, but it is not leadership. Leadership by definition, means being out front blazing new trails. This always causes amazement, fear, and discomfort. The leader is almost always the one who is called upon to give the most.” Are you willing to lead? Our Saviour lead the way. He was a leader of leaders. Mark 10:32, "And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid."