168 Colonial Drive, Jackson, MS 39204
Updated September 18, 2024
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
JESUS IS ALIVE! HE IS RISEN!
Can you say with the soldier at the cross, "truly, this was the son of god!"
Jesus Christ was crucified... he shed His blood and died on a Roman cross in Jerusalem witnessed by hundreds, perhaps thousands. BUT THREE DAYS LATER, HE AROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND WALKED ON THE EARTH FOR FORTY DAYS BEING SEEN BY HUNDREDS. He was the Sacrificial Lamb, making a way for us to be right with God by paying the debt for our sins on that old wooden cross.
- That is the distinguishing fact between Christianity and all other world religions - we serve a risen Savior, One who has power even over death. The founders of all other religions have died never to be seen again. But not Jesus! For forty days, He was seen by, was touched by, walked and talked and ate with others, all after He was raised from the dead. Emmanuel - God with us! He also possessed the authority and ability to disappear from their presence and reappear physically in their presence... only God can do that. Then he bodily ascended to heaven as a number of his followers watched. Truly He was and is the Son of God!
- Satan had done his worst, BUT God did His best! Satan thought he had defeated God by killing his son, but it was in God's plan all along that Jesus must suffer and die as payment for our sins. We could never hope to be good enough to enter heaven on our own good works - our own goodness and righteousness is like filthy rags. The sin debt we all incurred must be reconciled and only Jesus as the sinless Son of God could pay that debt. Our only hope for eternal life and for heaven is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
- That is great news, but the best news is yet to come.
Jesus promised that one day he's coming back! He will come back for you if you will believe in your heart that Jesus Christ came to earth as God in the flesh... taking on the form of a man... that He died a sacrificial, substitute death on the cross for your sins and mine, was raised from the dead. If you will confess with your mouth that you accept him as Lord of your life; then on the authority of the Word of God, the Holy Bible, you can avoid the punishment of sin, you can inherit eternal life, and you can begin a new life with God... a life that will never end. You can do that today right where you are. If you truly mean it - and He will know if you are serious about Him - then He will come into your life and give you a new life, a new hope, a new purpose, and a new commitment to live a selfless life, surrendered only to Him.
My dear friend, all my sins are forgiven because I have put my faith and trust in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is preparing a place for me in heaven and for all those who will receive Him as Savior and Lord.
Praise God... Jesus took our place on the cross so we could have a place in heaven!
His grace is sufficient for you. He still saves all those who will come to him. Romans 10:13... "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Revelation 3:10... "Behold I(Jesus) stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him." You must open the door from the inside. Jesus will not force himself into your life.
"A Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge." A.W. Tozer
Alta Woods Baptist Church Worship Schedule
GOD IS SO GOOD TO US! I WAS GLAD WHEN THEY SAID UNTO ME, LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD!
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
SUNDAY
BIBLE STUDY CLASSES - 10:00 AM
The Ladies Sunday School class is meeting in the Fellowship Hall.
Del Slone's Class is meeting in the old chapel.
The Men’s class is meeting downstairs in the (formerly)conference room near the church office.
WORSHIP - 11:00 AM
WEDNESDAY
PRAYER MEETING - 11:AM
(Wednesday morning prayer meeting, 11:00 am)
Blessed is the man who gives and remembers not and receives and forgets not.
Upcoming Church Activities
Brother Steve's Sermon Topics
PREACHING FROM THE PSALMS
SEPTEMBER
September 22 - What Is Our Purpose?: Psalm 139
September 29 - God Is Good: Psalm 145
OCTOBER
October 6 - Praise Him: Psalm 150
Children's of Mississippi - We received a very nice thank you from Amber Magee, the Community Development Coordinator for Children's Hospital of Mississippi for partnering with them to meet the needs of Mississippi's children and their families. The stories of lives touched speak to the commitment and passion of those who work within the hospital ministry to these children and their families. Thank you, Alta Woods, for your cheerful and generous giving spirit.
MISSIONS
SEPTEMBER MISSION EMPHASIS - MARGARET LACKEY STATE MISSIONS
The Margaret Lackey State Offering supports ministries in Mississippi such as initial funding to start new churches, camps (Central Hills Baptist Retreat for boys and girls; Camp Garaywa in Clinton), collegiate outreach (Baptist Student Unions), men's and women's job corps(discipleship and job skills at 14 sites in Mississippi), and literacy missions ministry (training for volunteers in basic literacy). The offering trains and mobilizes volunteers in North America and international missions, disaster relief (physical labor, hot meals, counselors of comfort), criminal justice (discipleship materials and seminary classes in jails and prisons), and cross-cultural outreach (to different language groups and cultures). It also provides training for volunteers to minister to the Deaf; offers a Christian witness and warm hospitality to seafarers in Pascagoula and Gulfport; assists in sending short-term workers in North America and other countries to work alongside missionaries.
It is received each September in all our Southern Baptist churches in Mississippi and expresses our Caring in Local Communities; Reaching out with a Helping Hand; Ministering at Camps and Campuses; Serving in and Beyond Mississippi.
ALSO SEPTEMBER MISSION EMPHASIS
We are collecting for the BILLY BRUMFIELD HOUSE for the HOMELESS. They request socks and underwear. (The Billy Brumfield House is connected with Stewpot Ministries)
SCHOOL SUPPLIES ON SALE NOW. GREAT TIME TO GET ITEMS FOR OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD: CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX EMPHASIS IN NOVEMBER.
AUGUST 28, 11:00 AM - QUARTERLY BUSINESS MEETING - report summary... Del Slone, Moderator, called the meeting to order.
New business of the church was scant. Financial report - receipts for June and July exceeded expenses by approximately $4,000.
Next quarterly business meeting will be in November. First Business Meeting in 2025 will be in January which will set the quarterly schedule for the year. Only other business was to see if the church still wanted to have a Christmas Eve Vesper Service. Of the members present, it was decided that the Vesper Service will be at 4 PM on Tuesday, December 24. Terry will check with New Jerusalem to be sure that they would not need the use of the Sanctuary at that time.
Del Slone closed the meeting with prayer.
I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
