By Margie Ward

Sunday morning a good attendance with visitors; we pray they felt God’s presence among us and received a blessing by coming and will come back to any of our services. We had several members out today, a lot of them are sick with whatever is going around, maybe after seeing the doctor this week they will be back with us next Sunday. The call to worship was “Victory Chant.” The choir special was “That’s why we praise Him,” special music by Howard and Denny Pickett, “Speak the Word Lord.” We were blessed today to have Dr. Mark Sterling with us and bringing the morning message, “Praying with Great Faith,” Luke 7: 1-10. The centurion approached Jesus by faith coming humbly asking Him to heal His servant, he said he knew he was undeserving of this and even unworthy of His presence. Jesus honors a humble heart, this centurion solider had a sweet spirit, he accepted Jesus by faith, told him he would accept whatever He did, he understood both directions, said he would follow under His authority and submit to His will. Jesus said to him, I have not seen such great faith. We should anticipate opportunities of faith like the centurion, trusting God to do something. When we face difficult situations in life and pray believing we should expect great things, God always has a bigger picture of what’s going on. Without faith it is impossible to please God. Dr. Sterling is the Director of Prayer and Spiritual Awakening with the Georgia Baptist Convention.   
On Sunday night at 6 p.m. a good attendance present with visitors. Bro. Ron continued Spiritual Gifts on “Prophecy” I Cor. 12 and 14 and Rom. 12: 6.
The Rock-A-Thon for Annie Armstrong Home Missions will be this Friday, March 7 at 6 to 10 p.m. at Brownwood Family Life Center.
On Sunday evening, March 16 at 6 p.m. an Easter Musical will be presented by the choir at Brownwood. Make plans now to come and hear this.
Everyone is asked to start bringing in candy-filled eggs for the children’s egg hunt on Saturday, March 22 at 10 a.m. at Brownwood.
Saturday morning the Better Bridges weekend began at Brownwood. The speakers for the breakout sessions were from the Georgia Baptist Convention. Some sessions were on Prayer, Missions, Church Finance, Deacon Ministry etc. Seven or eight churches from the Morgan County Baptist Association were represented with 50 to 60 people in attendance. Lunch was served afterwards in the Family Life Center. On Saturday night a banquet was held at Madison Baptist Church for speakers, pastors and wives etc. Then on Sunday morning different churches had speakers from Saturday bringing messages in the churches.
On Sunday afternoon those going to NurseCare for singing and visitation were Esther Atkinson, Kittie Mayfield, Barbara and Toy Sims, Sammie and Christy Brown, James Harold Smith, Ronald Atkinson, Denny and Patsy Pickett.
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I received this in the mail last week. This is really good. I was asked to include it in this week’s column so I quote “Here’s the latest at our house.” Anybody is welcome to visit Kenny, Yvonne and Cody Harper on Friday. Somebody came by on Saturday afternoon. Everybody came by Sunday for lunch and to watch the race. Nobody left until Tuesday. We enjoyed the visits and can’t wait to see them all again.
Centennial Baptist Church participated in the AWANA Games on Saturday, March 1 at Hebron Baptist Church in Dacula. Centennial’s T&T co-ed Team won first place in the N.E. Region. They will advance to state finals on March 15 at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Tucker; 16 AWANA children participated in this event.
Sonny and Mary Wood and all the AWANA leaders say “Thanks for a job well done.”
James Harold and Ellen Smith visited Mrs. Florine Ward on Sunday afternoon.
Coming up on March 15 and 16 Centennial Baptist Church will present their annual Passion Play at 7 p.m. each evening. Even if you’ve seen this production before you’ll want to come and see the new and exciting scenes they have added this year. The play is free and open to the public. Please come and invite a friend.
On March 15 Centennial will have its “Caring For Our Community” annual Easter event at the former Bright Starz/Rutledge Academy building on Davis Academy Road.
It will begin at 10 a.m. with an egg hunt, games, inflatables, lunch, the Easter message and great prizes. The entire community is invited to participate in this free event! Hope to see you there!