The January South Carolina Baptist Fellowship meeting will be hosted by the Choice Hills Baptist Church in Greenville, South Carolina. The meeting will be moved back from the first Monday to the second Monday so that we allow time for everyone to get settled back in from the Holidays. This will also allow those who’ve gone into hiding over the feared Y2K crisis to come back out.

Pastor Stan Craig and all the good folks of Choice Hills invite everyone to attend this great time of fiery preaching, great food, and wonderful fellowship. The date for the next fellowship meeting is January 10th, 2000. The meeting will begin in the afternoon at 2:00pm. Bro. Craig has lined up some great preachers and he has asked that every man of God come with something powerful to kick off the new year!

Preachers, bring some printed material to share with the Brethren. Be sure to announce the meeting in your church bulletin. For directions to the Choice Hills Baptist Church, please call 864-984-7396 or 864-246-6140.

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.

Did you know?

90 percent of pastors work more than forty-six hours a week.

90 percent feel they were inadequately trained to cope with ministry demands.

80 percent believe pastoral ministry has affected their families negatively.

75 percent report a significant stress-related crisis at least once in their ministry.

70 percent say they have a lower self-image than when they started in the ministry.

70 percent do not have someone they consider a close friend.

50 percent feel unable to meet the needs of the job.

40 percent report a serious conflict with a parishioner at least once a month.

33 percent confess having been involved in some inappropriate sexual behavior with someone in the church.

33 percent say that being in the ministry is an outright hazard to their family.

"Births to unmarried parents in the United States have increased five-fold since the 1930s. Forty-one percent of births to women 15-29 between 1990-94 were out of wedlock, The Associated Press reports. Only 8% of births were to unmarried parents from 1930-34. Unmarried couples are less likely to get married because of a pregnancy, the study shows. In the 1960s, about 50-60% of couples married after finding the woman was pregnant. That number dropped to 29% in the early 1980s. Children of unmarried parents are more likely to face social and economic problems."
(Religion Today, November 10, 1999)

This month we want to spotlight two young evangelists I’ve had the privilege to hear in the recent months. The first is David Smallwood. I heard Evangelist Smallwood at the September South Carolina Baptist Fellowship. He preached one of the best messages I’ve ever heard out of Revelation chapter three on the Laodocean Church. Bro. Smallwood is a member of the Forrest Hills Baptist Church in Stone Mountain Georgia, where Rock Deerfield is the Pastor. He’s been in evangelism six years. He would be a help to your people. You can contact him by calling: (404) 374-0522

The second evangelist I want to spotlight this month is Evangelist Mike Qualls. I heard Bro. Qualls preach at the Faith Baptist Camp Meeting in Resaca Georgia during the Thanksgiving meeting. He brought an anointed message. God used it, it was powerful. Before going into evangelism, Bro. Qualls pastored for six years. His home church is the Morning Star Baptist Church in Cleveland NC. He stepped out in evangelism in July of 1999. To book him for a meeting call: (704) 872-0989

"All God’s giants have been weak men, who did great things for God because they believed that God would be with them." - Hudson Taylor

"I have found that there are three stages in every great work of God: first, it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done." - Hudson Taylor

"Satan strikes either at the root of faith or at the root of diligence." - John Livingstone

"If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day." - E. M. Bounds

"The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday." - Vance Havner

"We never test the resources of God until we attempt the IMPOSSIBLE." - F. B. Meyer

"There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him." - William Law

When people are praying for a city, there is no shortage of people out on visitation.

The Bible Baptist Church of Simpsonville, South Carolina will be hosting a women’s fellowship featuring the Hutson Sisters on March 25th, 2000. Sherry, Donna, and Kay will be singing and sharing messages that will be a great blessing to every lady present. A fifteen dollar registration fee includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and a wonderful time of inspiration. Space is limited, so early registration is suggested. Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8:00 a.m., and the service begins at 9:00 a.m. The services end at 3:00p.m. The Bible Baptist Church is located at 233 Harrison Bridge Road in Simpsonville, South Carolina. For more information, please call Pastor William M. Cole at (864) 963-9152. 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”. The Gateway Baptist Church in Spartanburg, SC will be having their annual Winter Jubilee Jan. 24th - 28th . Evening services Monday through Friday will start at 7:00 P.M. The main speaker will be Brother Billy Mitchell. Starting on Tuesday Morning, services will start at 9:30 A.M. The main speaker for these morning services will be Brother Don Farmer, Jr. Other preachers will be called from the floor. There will be special singing each night featuring, “The Praise Quartet”, “The Rochester Family”, “The Jim Roland Family”, and “The Nottingham Four”. For more information call 864-578-1677.

10. The King James Bible will still have the answers.
9. Prayer will still work.
8. The Holy Spirit will still move.
7. God will still inhabit our praise.
6. There will still be anointed preaching.
5. Heaven will still be real.
4. Hell will still be real.
3. The Church will still be the Pillar and Ground of the Truth.
2. God will still Love you.
And the number one thing you won't have to worry about with the Y2K bug........
1. Jesus will still save sinners.
Pray that People will become Y2K compliant! That they will turn to Jesus and say: "Y(es) 2 the K(ing!)"