by Megan Hopkins | Feb 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
The season of Lent invites us to take on spiritual disciplines and live into our identity as disciples of Jesus Christ. Prayer is central to our walk with Christ and is a discipline that helps us grow spiritually. Also, our prayers are powerful, and interceding for...
by Megan Hopkins | Feb 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Lent is a season of fasting and prayer that prepares us for Easter. It’s a season that reminds us of our mortality, human frailty, and deep need for God’s grace in our lives. I hope you had a chance to join us for our Ash Wednesday Service this past week, as it was an...
by Megan Hopkins | Feb 8, 2024 | E-Newsletter, Uncategorized
The season of Lent is drawing near. On Tuesday at 6:00 pm, we will celebrate at our annual Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper and highlight the ways that God is working in our youth ministry. Then, on Wednesday at 6:00 pm, we will gather for worship on Ash Wednesday to...
by Megan Hopkins | Feb 1, 2024 | E-Newsletter, Uncategorized
It’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Peanut Butter Jelly Time! Peanut Butter Jelly Time! I’m so excited for this year’s Backpack Buddies and Can Do Food Pantry Canned Food Championship, and I hope you are too! This food drive is a simple way for our church to make a major...
by Megan Hopkins | Jan 25, 2024 | Service/Missions, Uncategorized
Greetings from the DR- Since Sunday, our Dominican Republic construction team has been hard at work with the people of Batey Siete. Our efforts are aimed at supporting the medical mission teams who come to offer healing and hope to this community. On Sunday, we...
by Megan Hopkins | Jan 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
From Pastor Stephanie Relationships Just this past week, members of our church have dealt with loss. A child just a week away from entering into this world only to be found with no heartbeat. A sister stood beside her sister in grief as she mourned the passing of her...
by Megan Hopkins | Feb 8, 2024 | E-Newsletter, Uncategorized
As Director of Modern Music, Mark Murphree can most-often be found behind a keyboard on stage in the Fellowship Hall. He has been quietly offering his talent to Pittman Park since 1992, most recently mentoring a rotation of musicians in the contemporary service. Over...
by Megan Hopkins | Dec 19, 2023 | History
The Pittman Park Fellowship Hall displays a collection of 15 flags from different countries. Each flag represents a place where the congregation has served in decades past. To honor the meaning behind the display and to help explain it’s purpose, the Church...
by Megan Hopkins | Dec 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
You can find Sherrye Grotte most Sundays in the Fellowship Sunday School Class or worshipping in the sanctuary. She moved to Statesboro from Hawaii and learned about Pittman Park through her neighbor, who happens to be Pittman Park Matriarch Bennie Herring. What do...
by Megan Hopkins | Nov 15, 2023 | History, Uncategorized
A rustic arrangement featuring ring-necked pheasants among branches and flowers can often be found decorating the Fellowship Hall lobby. The intriguing display was donated in the late 2010s in memory of Gary “Dennis” Edwards, Sr. by his family. His widow, Charlotte...
