The Associational Advisor

  Below is a listing of 2025 Fall Revivals and Homecomings in the Piedmont-Okefenokee Baptist Association. If your church's information is not listed, please contact the POBA office at (912) 285-8161 with details. You can also  submit this information online .  Revival: Dates Church Speaker(s) September 14-17 Shady Grove Robert Wigley, Justin Gambrell, Ray McMillan September 21-25 Walkerville various Homecoming: Date Church Speaker September 21 Shady Grove Ashley Corbett October 5 Hoboken October 5 Laura Chapel .

  Active Pastors/Staff and their spouses celebrating this month. If your information is not included, please contact the POBA office at (912) 285-8161.

 The table below reflects giving January - June 2025, as of 6/25/2025. This list does not include designated gifts.  Church Contributions Astoria Beulah Blackshear First 22,999.98 Bridge Community 2,350.75 Bristol 2,000.00 Browntown Calvary 1,434.00 Camp Pinckney 3,460.11 Central 4,750.02 CrossPoint Community Deenwood 2,404.40 Emmanuel 24,738.92 Folkston First 1,750.00 Grace Chapel 1,199.00 Hacklebarney Haywood 3,710.00 Hephzibah 600.00 Hickox 6,348.45 Hoboken Jamestown 7,671.01 King Memorial Laura Chapel Lees Chapel 3,367.00 Liberty 4,112.18 Lulaton 3,803.50 Manor Community Mershon Millwood 200.00 Mt Calvary 2,562.95 Nahunta First Newbern 1,341.85 Oak Hill 6,943.62 Offerman 4,173.26 Patterson 6,017.00 Pine Grove 1,014.88 Pineview 800.00 Pleasant Hill 596.75 Pleasant Valley 7,189.46 Rehobeth 1,500.00 Riverside Chapel 350.00 Sand Hill 1,471.77 Satilla 1,025.36 Set Free Shady Grove South Gate 400.00 Southside Nahunta 1,200.00 Spring Hill 75.00 St George First 600.00 Sweat Memori...

Choirfest will be held on Tuesday, September 16 at Sweat Memorial Baptist Church, beginning at 6:30 PM. Sweat Memorial Baptist Church is located at 510 West Blackshear Avenue in Waycross.  Information and registration forms have been mailed to each POBA church. If you have not received this information, please contact the POBA Office at (912) 285-8161. The deadline for registration forms is Tuesday, September 2, 2025. This form can be completed online at: http://bit.ly/Choirfest2025Reg .  Choirfest is designed as a time for us to worship together and experience the worship that takes place each week in our individual churches. Churches are encouraged to make every effort to come and sing AND stay and worship with the other choirs. We are looking forward to this time of worship with the churches of the Piedmont-Okefenokee Baptist Association!

  Your POBA will gladly assist POBA churches by covering the registration cost for you and your church members to attend the SPARK conferences.  Contact the POBA Office  at (912) 285-8161 to register.  Sunday, August 25, 2025 4:00 - 8:15 PM Brewton-Parker Christian University, Mt. Vernon Keynote Speaker: Thom S. Rainer https://brushfire.com/gabaptist/spark2025-mtvernon/603369   Sunday, September 7, 2025 4:00 - 8:15 PM Sherwood Baptist Church, Albany Keynote Speaker: Mark Clifton https://brushfire.com/gabaptist/spark2025-albany/603338  

  The POBA Executive Committee Meeting will be held on Thursday, August 21, 2025 at Whosoever  Baptist Church in Nahunta. Whosoever is located at 6975 US Hwy 301 in Nahunta.  A meal will be served at 6:30 PM and the meeting will begin at 7:00 PM.  Please register for the meal by calling the POBA Office at (912) 285-8161 or at  https://bit.ly/AUG25ExecMeal . (The POBA Executive Committee is made up of the Pastor plus two additional church members. See POBA Bylaws: Article 2, Section 2, Sub-section 1.)