W. M. Adams was a charter member of Pittman Park. In 1979, looking back on the church’s earliest days, he wrote:
“It would take a book, a big book, to tell the full story of how Pittman Park was born… We had been told from the beginning that we would have to be self-supporting and a church with a mission. That, we already knew.”
And then he named that mission. He believed the church was accomplishing something specific:
- To minister to the students and faculty of Georgia Southern and to newcomers in Statesboro.
- To use the great abundance of leadership found in its young people.
- To be a church of vision and world concern.
Nearly 70 years later, those words don’t just hold up, they feel like they were written for this Sunday.
This week we begin a new sermon series called “Built,” and we’ll celebrate Confirmation Sunday together. A new class of young people will step forward and claim this faith as their own. They won’t just be joining a church. They’ll be stepping into a story, one shaped by men and women who believed from the very beginning that Pittman Park should be bold in mission, rich in leadership, and wide in its concern for the world.
We’ll also welcome new members into the life of Pittman Park. And as we draw closer to our 70th Anniversary, I want to be clear about something: we are not simply looking back. We are recognizing that the same spirit that stirred our charter members is still alive and at work among us.
The mission hasn’t changed. The story isn’t over. I hope you’ll be here Sunday to see the next chapter begin.
God bless,
Jonathan Smith
For Jesus. For People. For Community.