It has been quite awhile since I last posted. That can be attributed to several factors including finishing the last semester of my undergraduate degree, several things at the church that occupy time and mental space, and bbeing married to an outstanding woman who I make sure I spend time with.
There are several things going on in my life now that I must admit. I am dealing with the call/purpose/destiny of God on my life. I know that I am in the proper place for this season but as of tomorrow the chapter is read to be read to me although God has already written the story. I am in no ways saying I know the next move of God for my life but I am going to say that I am considering what God is saying through His word to me. I solicit the prayers of the righteous for this matter.
On a lighter note. We are in the midst of a building project for our North Campus at Beulahland and it is really coming together. There is no foundation, no skeleton framing, no subfloor or any of that but I can see the picture becoming reality. Its been a long time coming.
http://www.glorynet.net/beulah/Title0_Chapter0.html This is a video of our new construction.
I have been a memeber of "The Land" for my entire life. I can vidily remeber the late Pastor A L Hudson preaching and the church having an echo because of the few people in the church. It was good church though we had some good church. I can remember the afternoons when we would stay an hour after church just to fellowship. We were small in number but large in heart. I remember him being sick and not preaching for awhile and alot of older preacher were filling in the pulpit. Then he died. To me things went on as usaul except we had a young preacher come preach every now and then. He was really young compared to the other preachers we had been hearing. But he could sing and preach as well or better than any of those we had been hearing. he was a distant family member and I had no idea that we were looking at him to be our pastor. His father pastored the largest black church in Macon at the time and they had the best Sunday school too. We called this young man Eddie, Jr. in the family. He was only 19 and a freshmen in college and in May they had a meeting and called him as the pastor. We then knew him as Pastor E. Dewey Smith, Jr. We were still few in numbers but we had some good church. We would be in church for hours and just enjoyed it. We were traveling to other churches to celebrate their Annual Days with them and it was great to be going as a church. We adopted the theme "A going Church for a Coing Christ". After 3 years we were stuffed in that small A-frame church that only sat about 200 at best.
We then purchased land with the intent to build but God had other plans. Pastor Smith say an ad for a church for sale in the paper one Saturday and investigated to find that we could only imagine building of that size for the price. But we were out of money. He petitioned the people and we raised the neccesary funds to aquire the loan for the edifice. We raised the money and moved into our Newberg Location facility in June of 1994. We have been in it every since. Pastor Smith lead our church until December of 2003. In January of 2004 Pastor Maurice Watson was in school at Beeson Divinty School in Alabama and came to fill in the pulpit for us at Beulahland and priclaimed "I am not a candidate". Well we prayed and the rest is history. He came in April of 2004 and by February 2005 we had started our South Campus. By August of 2006 we were moving into our new constructed South Campus. Our membership has more almost tripled in four years. We have more than 5500 member now and are still growing. Through the sound biblical preching and awesome praise and worship we are continuing to do the work that God has ordained for us to do. Our church hadn't built a building since our first sanctuary. In August of this year we broke groud for our new North Campus and its all to the glory of God. We do have a some good church now too.
