GEORGIA Updates
|  Southern Baptists Provide Relief to Georgia Flood Victims. More than 300 volunteers from some 50 Southern Baptist disaster relief crews from nine state conventions are now on the scene in the west Atlanta areas ravaged by September floods preparing meals for victims and volunteers, cleaning out muddy homes and removing debris. | |
| | Exciting elements of all three levels of Pray-Care-Share are happening in Thomasville. Foru congregations are doing the Alpha evangelism course together and three of them are hosting Alpha in local, county-funded high schools during lunch hour -- about 35 percent of the students are participating! Approximately 1,200 youth attended a major youth outreach, and several thousand were expected for an InsideOut youth ministry event in March with concerts, testimonies, services tents, a prayer tent, and more. Churches are planning a festival-style serving day in the community in 2011. As they use 2010 as training ground, it will be an opportunity to work with community ministries and congregations in collaboration. | |
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