Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Sunday October 25, 2009

Top of the Afternoon to you!!!

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

We started this Sunday off at 9:00am with new member's class. Sunday School started promptly at 9:30am. I am so excited that our Sunday School is growing. Please help me welcome a new teacher to our Sunday School staff, Sister Paulette Gabriel is teaching our babies,(class #1) 0-6 years of age. Of course Class #1 won our Banner attendance and Class #3(Teen Class) won our Banner Offering.

Of course this was our 4th Sunday Worship which means our youth were in charge of the service. Everybody did an awesome job. Our Youth Dance Ministry dance today and did an awesome job. I was so very proud to see little Brother Brondon Harris on the Dance Ministry, he did an awesome job.

Last week I concluded the series I had been preaching for the last two months, "Re-Laying the Foundations. So this morning I stood and gave the State of the Church Address. Of course I think it was beneficial to the family of the New Beginning Church, but we shall see if they acted on it.

That evening at 4:00pm we celebrated our 2nd year church anniversary. Pastor Farnsworth Coleman and the New Birth Outreach Ministries was our very Special Guest. Please let me thank God for Sister Jennifer Rudd and Sister Leona Brunson for doing an awesome job of leading our congregation in this special event. I am so Godly proud of both of these young ladies.

The New Birth Outreach praise team brought our church to another level with the Praise & Worship. Our Deacons, the Deacons of the New Beginning Church did an awesome job with the Devotional Period(You go Brother Harris).

There was a part in the service where we remembered to persons who were apart of this ministry and have passed from this life, Sister Mary Bolling and Sister Shayla Owens. We lit candles for them and prayed with and for their families. We also had a part in the service where we recognize the generations in our church. Persons who were born before 1946 wore black, persons born from 1946 to 1965 wore brown, persons born from 1966-1982 wore grey and persons born from 1983- present wore red. We played a gospel song that was popular in that generation in let those generations represent their generation it was a blast!!!(thanks Sister Harris).

Pastor Coleman preached from I Chronicles 29:1-3,7,18-19 and his subject was: "A pattern for provision for the vision!! He told us that we have to use God's pattern as our blueprint!!! It was an on time word for the house.

After service we sat and ate in fellowship with one another!!!

Thank you Lord for another year!!! If you would like to get a CD or DVD of our 2nd Year Church Anniversary leave your mailing address on here and we will ship one out to you!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, October 19, 2009

Sunday October 18, 2009

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

Let me first start off with our weekend, on Friday Night October 16, 2009, our church was on program to host revival at the Greater Miracle Christian Church, in Columbus, Georgia. Pastor Branddon Mays was the Host Pastor. Rev. Patrick Ivey of Stone Mountain, Georgia was the evangelist. Pastor Ivey preached from Ezra 8:21-23,31-32 and his subject was enough of talking the talk and not walking the walk!! Man when I tell you it was an on time word, you had to be there to understand!!! Our mass choir the Voices of New Beginning did an awesome job as usual!!!

On Saturday I got up early to get to our District Convention, The 4th District Convention of General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Inc. The convention was being held at the Gethsemane Baptist Church in Columbus, Georgia. Pastor Hawthorne Reed was the Host Pastor. Listen when I tell you that if you did not make it to this year convention, you missed a tremendous blessing. I was able to attend the Minister's Division, and I must commend Pastor Corey Neal of the Greater Peace Baptist Church and his staff for doing an awesome job this year in our Division. The Division was inspiring and uplifting!! Pastor Kennedy from Lanett, Alabama was off the chain.

Alright on Sunday morning we started at 9:00am with New Member's class and at 9:30am we went right into our Sunday School hour, let me say to Sister Nakita Bell the Superintendent of our Sunday School, that she is doing an awesome job. We now have 4 classes, our Sunday School is growing!!!!! The lesson this morning was: "Pleading for Mercy" the print text came from Mark 7:24-30 it was an awesome lesson!!!

Worship started this morning at 11:00am well the weather changed outside so it was a bit cold and our attendance this morning for worship was down, but those of us who did show up for worship had an awesome time!! Our choir blessed us in song and the Word went forward!!
I close out the series,"When the Foundations be Destroyed what can the righteous do?" I preached from Matthew 16:18 and Acts 2:47b. The subject was "Let the church be the Church"

Well its been a busy weekend for me so I am debating if I want to travel to Houston, Texas. Bishop I. V. Hilliard is having his pastoral conference this week, preachers have been telling me his conference is one of the most informative conferences. So pray for me as I contemplate this decision!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, October 12, 2009

Sunday October 11, 2009

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine love and our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

We began this Sunday with New Member's class at 9:00am and we started our Sunday School at 9:30am. The Sunday School lesson was Restored to Wholeness coming from Mark 5:1-13, 18-20. The lesson was a blessing. Our Banner attendance went to class #1 and our Banner offering went to the adult class!!

We had Baptism this morning with 2 souls going down in the liquid grave. We thank God for the Linwood Baptist Church and Pastor Marion Hester who allowed us to use their baptismal pool.
Service started promptly at 11:00am, now remember we just finished our Dunamis Conference "09" on Friday not and I must tell you that it was an awesome conference and Apostle Lionel Catchings of the Christ Temple of Atlanta Church was on time with the word from the Lord.
The reason I share with you about Dunamis is the fact when we started at the 11:00am hour church was full!!! Normally after revival folk are tired and stay home on Sunday but not at the New Beginning Church, we showed up and showed out.

Our Male Chorus was in charge of the song service. Thank you Brother Richard Harris for your dedication with the Male Chorus, we did an awesome job.(which means I sing with the Male Chorus)(Smiling)

The word for the house came from I Kings 8:10-11 and the subject as we continued the series of When the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?, was A Church that recognizes the Cause and Effect of the Glory!!! Listen when I tell you that the message was on time and awesome, if you were not there you missed a tremendous blessing!

The 1st point was there has to be structure(order). Its something about black folk that we don't let order. The 2nd point was there has to be prioritization, we have to learn to prioritize. The 3rd point was parallazation.

After service we took pictures for our Church Anniversary that will take place on Sunday October 25, 2009 at 4:00pm.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Dunamis Conference 09 Thursday & Friday

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you with Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your ministry are walking under an open heaven!!!

I do apologize I did not get back on here before today to do Thursday and Friday night! So here we go Thursday our classes started at 6:00pm, the Men was in their session with Deacon James Brown of the Greater Shady Grove Baptist Church, the Women were in their session with Pastor Zelbra Biggers and Pastor Quinton Dorsey of the Concord Baptist Church taught our Youth Ministry!!! Our theme was "Moving from Membership to Discipleship." The classes were so very awesome!

On Thursday Night Apostle Catchings preach from the topic "Structure." He stress the importance of having Order in the House of the Lord. The message was so powerful that it was so quiet in the house that I knew our family members were listening and receiving the instructions for our house.

On Friday Night Apostle preached about stages(Platforms). Pastor Leo Cyrus and the Wynton Hill Baptist Church was our guest. He talked about 4 points. The first was have a vision(dreams) of course this sermon dealt with the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. The second was a pit, a place where the Lord will have you placed to develop you, mature, equipped you. The third point was Integrity, he stated that the church no longer has integrity(WOW). We don't do what we say we will do!!!!!! The last point was perseverance, be able to go through some difficult days in remain faithful!!!!

Listen our church was on a fast praying for a word from the Lord and thank God that we receive it!!!!

Can't wait until tomorrow to stand and declare the Word of the Lord!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Wednesday October 7 Dunamis Conference 09

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!! Wednesday night kicked off our Dunamis Conference 09. Classes began at 6:00pm with Men's class, Women's class, and a Youth class. Our theme this year is "Moving from Membership to Discipleship" I tell you the truth it was awesome!!!!

The service started at 7:00pm, our host church was Pastor Vincent L. Wilson and the New Life Missionary Baptist Church. Their Male Chorus did an awesome job ministering in song.
Our Revivalist for the week, Apostle Lionel Catchings of the Christ Temple Church of Atlanta, GA. was off the chain!!

He preached from Philippians 3:13 and his subject was "Stretch" I tell you the truth the Holy Ghost moved in a mighty way!!! Can't wait to see what happens on tonight!!! If you are here in Columbus, Ga you ought to press your way tonight to be in the house!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, October 5, 2009

Sunday October 4, 2009

Top of the Morning to you!!

We greet you in Divine Love our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

We started this morning off at 9:00am with New Member's class, and this Sunday we started Sunday School at 9:30am because we had a baptism this morning. The Sunday School lesson was: "In Search of a Leader" coming from Mark 1:35-45. Of course Sunday School was awesome as usual. The Banner Attendance went to class #1 our Children's class and the Banner Offering class went to class #3 our Adult class(my class, smiling).

Due to the Baptismal Service we started service at 11:30am and everything was well, our choir did an awesome job ministering in song and the word went forward with power and demonstration.

Still preaching from the series: "When the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do" I came from I Peter 2:9 and my subject this morning was: "A church with a Purpose" The word was awesome and 4 more souls were added to the kingdom. God is so AWESOME!!!!!!

Listen this week is the week of our Dunamis Conference 09, we will have prayer service Monday and Tuesday at 7:00pm to 8:00pm. Wednesday the conference start at 6:00pm with classes for, Men, Women and Youth. At 7:00pm starts the preaching service and our guest for this year is Apostle Lionel Catchings of the Christ Temple Church of Atlanta, GA.

This Conference will be a tremendous blessing to you, so I encourage you to come out and receive what the Lord has in store for you!!!

We are fasting for our conference if you are interested in getting involve. Our fast is No meats and only water as our beverage. Our prayer times are 10:00am and 10:00pm. We are praying for the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, Dunamis Conference 09, that the Lord would send more men to our church, for the President of the United States of America, and for me the Senior Pastor/Teacher.

Let me say to a Friend and brother Pastor and Lady Bernard T. Rose congratulations. This morning at 8:00am I was able to go and shared with them at their very first worship service and I tell you Pastor Rose preached the word of God. The name of the new church is Kingdom-Word Church in Phenix City, Alabama. Lets keep him and his assignment lifted up in prayer!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28