The Associational Advisor

  PRAYER  - How to Have a Holy Hour https://bit.ly/HowToHaveAHolyHour   EVANGELISM  -  3 Circles https://www.namb.net/evangelism/3circles/   DISCIPLE-MAKING  -  How to Have a Quiet Time   https://bit.ly/HowToHaveADailyQuietTime   MISSIONS  -  The Southern Baptist Missionary and   Missions https://bit.ly/SBCMissionaryAndMissions  

  Pleasant Valley Baptist Church will host their 5th Annual "Red Back" Hymn Sing on March 12, 2023 beginning at 6:00 PM. Pleasant Valley Baptist Church is located at 7136 Central Avenue in Waycross. All are invited to attend. 

  The POBA Piano Festival will be held on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 2:00 PM.   The   winners will play at Choirfest. Contact the POBA Office or your POBA music minister for a registration form. Entry Deadline: April 2, 2023 Music Requirements: (1) Hymn from list (below) , played in a style suitable to accompany congregational singing. (1) Piece of choice, appropriate for a church worship service. Audition will be a minimum of 2 minutes and maximum of 10 minutes. Hymn List: Come, Thou Almighty King Praise Him! Praise Him! To God Be the Glory Great Is Thy Faithfulness Are You Washed in the Blood All Hail The Power of Jesus Name Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Blessed Be The Name Fairest Lord Jesus The Old Rugged Cross Just As I Am    

  Hymn Stories: Wherever He Leads, I'll Go  (Sam Stack) This month, I want to share a hymn article that I wrote in 2021.   Wherever He Leads I’ll Go is one of my favorite invitational hymns and the hymns of B. B. McKinney have greatly influenced Baptist life over the last eighty plus years. B. B. McKinney (1886 – 1952) had a great influence on Southern Baptist music in the early 20 th Century.   He served as an educator, music editor, and pastor.   In 1935, he came to the Sunday School Board of the SBC (now Lifeway).   In 1941, he became the first secretary (director) of the newly created Church Music Department of the Sunday School Board (now called Lifeway Worship). Under his leadership the Sunday School board produced three hymnals, Songs of Victory (1937), The Broadman Hymnal (1940), and Voice of Praise (1948). In 1936, while leading music for the Alabama Sunday School convention, McKinney had dinner with the speaker R. S. Jones, a missionary to Brazil and a lifelong fri