Friday, November 19, 2010

November 19, 2010

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
Wow it has been an awesome year, we are winding down 2010. God has been truly good to us!!! So I will get back to my blog!!! Love you guys and keep us covered in your prayers!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Sunday January 17, 2010

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!!!!

Well I don't even know where to start!!! Let me first say Happy New Year to you all and can I please remind you that 2010 is the year of fulfill promises!! Whatever the Lord promise to you, it shall come to pass in this year 2010!!!!

The New Beginning Church is a bless church. The church that we were using for our baptismal service has given us, yes you heard me correctly, has given us their facility!!! WOW look at God!!! He is Jehovah Jireh-The Lord who will provide!!!!

We had our first service at church this past Sunday and we had 5 Sunday School classes. Did you hear what I said we had 5 Sunday School classes!!!!! The number of people at Sunday School was 39!!! God is doing a great thing in our Midst.

I preached from Deuteronomy 1:6-8 and my subject was it's time to move on!!!! New Beginning is now receiving what the Lord has promise!!! The word was powerful and awesome!!!

On Friday night January 15, 2010 Bishop E. Craig Wilson of the New Generation Fellowship and The Greater Macedonia Baptist Church was our guest for our consecration service and man he was awesome!!!!!

Please lets pray for our Brothers and Sisters over in Haiti!!!! Please keep us in your prayers as we endeavor to Save a Generation!!!!!
Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, December 28, 2009

December 27, 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 start this blog off with last Sunday's report, December 20, 2009, we started at 9:00am with New Member's Class and then our Sunday School started at 9:30am. Class #1 won the Banner Offering and Class #2 won the Banner Attendance. Our Worship started at 11:00am Pastor Brandon Mays and the Greater Miracle Christian Church was our very special guest.
Pastor Mays preached from John 5. The Lord used him in a mighty way!!!!! 2 more souls were added to the Body of Christ.

On Tuesday December 22, 2009 the Columbus/Phenix City Minister's Conference had service at The House of Mercy in Columbus, Georgia!!!! The House of Mercy is a homeless shelter, I had the opportunity to preach. My text came from John3:16 and my subject was "The Gift that keeps on Giving" we had an awesome time, let me say thank you to our President, Pastor David T. Holston for the opportunity. After we ministered we got a chance tour the facilities, man when I tell you that it was awesome. Now this is very important to me because when Katrina hit I was in the same boat. So it was very emotional for me!!!

On Friday December 25, 2009 we had our Christmas service, I preached from Isiah 9:6 and my subject was "Merry Christmas" we had an awesome time and service was just for 1 hour!!!
On this Sunday past December 27, 2009 we began our day at 9:00am with New Member's Class and our Sunday School started at 9:30am. This morning my class, class #4 won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance class. Our special guest today was Pastor Bernard Rose and the Kingdom Word Church of Phenix City, Alabama. Pastor Rose preach from Luke and his subject was, "Divine Direction, Reposition Yourself" Man when I tell you that we had an awesome time!!! What a word from the Lord!!!

My New Orleans Saints lost 13-2 but we are still Superbowl bound baby!!!!! Who Dat!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

December 13, 2009

Top of the Afternoon to everyone,

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 with New Member's Class at 9:00am and Sunday School started at 9:30am. As usual our Sunday School was great!! Class #2 won the Banner attendance and Class #4 won the Banner offering. Way to go Sunday School Ministry for doing an consistently awesome job.

Service started promptly at 11:00am. This Sunday was the Sunday our Male Chorus ministered in song, and of course I sang with that group so I got a chance to lead a song(ROTFL).

This Sunday one of the Son's of the New Beginning Church was licensed into the Gospel Ministry. If you will help me congratulate and pray with and for Minister Marcus K. Scott as he starts this journey!!!! Does of us who have been called to this assignment knows the difficult road ahead, but we also know who promises never to leave nor forsake us!!! Minister Scott preached from John 3:14-18 "The Ultimate Gift" I must say I am so proud of him and his faithfulness to the Lord!!! He did an awesome job!!!! Pastor Scott has been with us for the past 4 years and the last 2 years he has been our Youth Pastor, our Youth Ministry has grown from 12 Children to over 50!!! We now have a full operational Youth Ministry!!!!

Service ended with me giving him his Minister's license!!! Well keep praying for us as we are in our Rest Month. We want see one another until Next Sunday!!!!!

P.S. Let me remind you that the New Orleans Saints beat the Atlanta Falcons and we are still undefeated!!!! 13-0!! Who Dat Baby!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Sunday December 6, 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 Sunday at 9:00am with New Member's Class and went right into our Sunday School period!! Our Sunday School lesson was The lineage of David coming from Ruth 4:13-17 and Matthew 1:1-6. Thank God for our Kinsman-Redeemer- Jesus Christ!!! Well class #4(My Class) won the Banner Offering and Class #2 won the Banner Attendance.

We went to the Linwood Baptist Church for our Baptismal Service, thank God that he is still sending souls to the New Beginning Church, Thank you Pastor Hester and the Linwood Church for your hospitality!!!

We got back to New Beginning for our last Lord Supper Service of the year 2009, New Beginning was present and we had an awesome time, I preached from Genesis 25:19-23 and the Message was, How to obtain the Promise!!! I shared with our Church Family that 2010 is the year of fulfilled promises, whatever the Lord promised you it shall come to pass in 2010!!! Man when I tell you the Lord moved in a might way, it was a tremendous blessing!!!!

Well please keep us lifted in prayers!!! We are in our REST MONTH so we want see one another until next Sunday!!!!

Oh yeah ya'll I Got to to tell you this, the New Orleans Saints are 12-0!!! (LOL) Who Dat Baby!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, November 30, 2009

November 30, 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!!!!

I know it has been a long time since I have posted on my blog, but this has been a very busy month for me. If you don't know I am a die hard New Orleans Saints fan and we have been winning and I have been travelling back and forth home to watch theses games!!! so here we go let me catch you up!!!!

I've had to preach a revival in Indianapolis, Indiana at the Gabriel Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Kevin Russell was the Host Pastor, and let me tell you the power of the Lord met us in that place. Back here in Georgia I travelled to Rome Georgia for the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia State Convention I am thrilled to announce that we have paid off our 1.8 million debt and I am so proud of our President, President Clearance Moore!!!

I started a series at the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church on "Relationships" because the divorce rate is high in the church!!! I believe it has been a tremendous blessing to our house!!!

Our Thanksgiving Service was a tremendous blessing, the family showed up and showed out!!! Well December is our "Rest Month" so there will be no Bible Classes or meetings going on!!! This is the time we spend with our families!!! So of course I will be in New Orleans, LA!!!!

I love ya'll very much keep praying for us!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, November 2, 2009

Sunday November 1, 2009

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, we pray that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

Let's first start with Brother Samuel David Carter. Brother Carter was put up for appointment for a Deacon. On Friday he went through the examination process that morning at 10:00am. The examining council was Pastor Xavier Maddox of the 24th Street Baptist Church, Pastor Albert Suggs of the Parkwood Full Gospel Baptist Church, Pastor Vincent Wilson of the New Life Baptist Church, and Pastor Quinton Dorsey of the Concord Baptist Church. Thank you brethern for supporting the work that God has assigned to my hands.

Well they examine Brother Carter from 10:00am to about 11:45am. Brother Carter passed his examination with a 86.4 score.

The appointment service was at 7:00pm where Pastor Xavier Maddox and the 24th Street Baptist Church was our guest. The word came from Luke 14:28 and the subject was "The Cost" The Service was great as usual. I've got to say to Deacon Samuel David Carter that I am so very proud of what God is doing in your life!!!

Now let me deal with the title of this service, it was call an appointment service. I believe the present day church is so out of order!! We have been using the term ordination service for Deacons which puts them on the same level as the Pastor/Preacher and its not so. In Acts 6 it says that we may appoint over this business. Which simply means that the Deacons serve out of the office of the Pastor! Watch this, the Deacons serve the Pastor, not the church. The Pastor serves the church!!!! Preach JD!!!!!!!

On Saturday from 5:00pm to 10:00pm we Hallelujah Night! Hallelujah night was an alternative to Halloween. Now we as believers do not participate in Halloween but I was always taught that if you can take something away from the children you need to put something in place to replace it. Well to my surprise Pastor Scott(our Youth Pastor) and his team did an awesome job!!! They had bobbing for apples, pin the tail on the donkey, dart boards, PlayStation 2, the Wii, Etc... We even played spades and Sister Amanda Peoples and I ran the spades table!!!(You Go Boy) Now there was a Pie tossing event where members paid to toss pies at Pastor Scott and I. Can you believe a member paid $20.00 to toss pies at me. It was $1.00 a toss!!! We had so much fun!!!!!

We started this Sunday off at 9:00am with New Member's class, and Sunday School started at 9:30am. The Sunday School lesson was, The Beauty of Nonconformity coming from I Peter 1:13-25. We had an awesome time! Class #4 my class won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance today!! We had a baptism this morning!!! The Lord is still doing an awesome work at the New Beginning Church!!!

Service started at 11:00am and I saw some new faces in the choir and they did an awesome job!! This month of November I am teaching a Series on Family and Relationships. We have a lot of engaged couples that are planning to get married in 2010. So we want to make sure that they are well prepared! 3 people came to the Lord this morning, look at God!!

Anyway wanted to do my blog earlier today, because I'm about to get on the road and head home to watch the New Orleans Saints beat up on the Atlanta Falcons!!! Who Dat Baby!!!! Please pray for my safe travel and return, plus I get to go and see my mommy and nem!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

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

Monday, September 28, 2009

Sunday September 27,2009

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 with our New Member's Class at 9:00am, and our Sunday School started at 10:00am. The Lesson this morning was: "Overcoming Problems" Nehemiah 2:5, 11-20. Sunday School as usual was awesome. The banner attendance went to class #1 our children's class and the banner offering went to class #3 our adult class(my class)

Service started promptly at 11:00am. This was our Youth Sunday so the Youth Ministry was in charge of the service. Our Junior Deacons did an awesome job with the devotion, our Youth Choir did an awesome job with the song service, and our Youth Dance Ministry, did an awesome job as usual. I must say we have an awesome Youth Ministry!!! Keep up the great work Pastor Scott and your team!!!!!

I'm still preaching the Series, "When the Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do" I came from I Samuel 30:1-8, 18-19 and the sermon title was A Church that Recovers All!! While David was absent with the army of Achish, the Amalekites invaded Ziklag, and burn it with fire, and carried away captive David's wives and the wives of his men. The men gets angry with David and wanted to stone him, but the bible says he encouraged himself in the Lord!!!!!
Have you ever been there, where you couldn't talk to anyone, the people you thought were on your side is now talking about you!!! Can I just tell you to encourage yourself!!!! God did not bring you this far to leave you, weeping may endure for a night but JOY is coming in the morning!!!! (SHUCKS NOW) Don't make me preach!!!!

The word went forth in a mighty way this morning!!! Three more souls were added to the kingdom!!!!!

Pastor Daniel Thomas the Pastor of the New Life Missionary Baptist Church of Marvin, AL was in the house. He is one of my sons in the ministry.

At 4:00pm Brother Richard Harris in our Men's Ministry had a Pew Rally! Pastor Albert Suggs and the Parkwood Full Gospel Baptist Church was our special guest. Pastor Suggs word came from I Kings 17:8-9 and His subject was: "Fear not, God is more than Enough" He bless the house tremendously!!!

After Service I was rushing home to see the New Orleans Saints beat the Buffalo Bills!!! Who Dat talking about beating them Saints!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, September 21, 2009

Sunday September 20, 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.

This Sunday started with New Member's Class at 9:00am and Sunday School at 10:00am. Of course our Sunday School as doing awesome! Class #1 our children class won the banner attendance, and Class #3(my class) our adult class won the banner offering!

Service started promptly at the 11:00am hour, I am still preaching the series: "When the Foundations be destroyed what can the Righteous do?" This morning my text came from Isaiah 6:1-5 any my subject was: Dealing with the Man in the Mirror! The word went forth powerfully and 2 souls responded to the call!!!! Hallelujah

At 3pm one of the sons of the house, Brother Scott and I traveled to our Moderator's church, Pastor E. Merle Brown and The Locust Hill Missionary Baptist Church to hear Deacon Carlton Williams preach his initial sermon.

At 4pm was our choir, The Voices of New Beginning, anniversary! Let me tell you something blog world, God has tremendously bless the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church with an awesome choir!! They marched in with all their white on(well Brother Harris just walked)(LOL) and may I tell you the looked MARVELLOUS!!!!

It was just a sang out for their anniversary but it was awesome, The Raspberry Singers from the 4th Street Missionary Baptist Church was present. The Carver Senior High School Gospel Chorus was present, and Pastor Vincent Ellison of the Shady Grove Baptist Church of Hurtsoboro, Alabama was present.

Can I tell you something Pastor Vincent Ellison blessed us in song that it was ridiculous!!! I mean totally insane, nobody should be able to sing like that!!! Man I tell you what he better be thankful that he is living in this generation because singing like that, he would have to be ducking form some purses, bibles, hymnals and hats, because granma nem would clear a couple of pews listening to that man sing. Keep up the good work Pastor Ellison!!!!

Sister Tina Harris who is the President of our Music Ministry, thank you for leading your ministry with excellence I am so very proud of you and the Voices!!!

Well got to run but will see you next week!!!


Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Sunday September 13, 2009

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!! This Sunday we started with New Member's Class at 9:00am. Sunday School got started at the 10:00am hour. Class #1, our children won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance this morning.

Our Worship experience started promptly at 11:00am. Our new male chorus was in charge of the music this morning and I need to let the brothers know, that they did an awesome job on this morning. I continue to preach from the series, "When the Foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do?" The text this morning came from Mark 2:1-5. My subject today was, "Teamwork" It was an on time word that blessed the house!!!

That afternoon we went to the Greater Miracle Christian Church, Pastored by, Pastor Branddon Mays. Where they had their building dedication. We had an awesome time there!!!!

We now have a website, please check it out at newbeginningbaptistchurch@cwwsites.com. Tell me what you think about it!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, September 7, 2009

Sunday September 6, 2009

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

We started this Sunday at 9:00am with New Member's class and Sunday School started at 10:00am. I am so proud of our Sunday School Ministries because it is growing tremendously. I have to say that today the Adult Class(the class that I teach) has won both the Banner Attendance and the Banner Offering!!! Way to go class!!!

Worship service started promptly at 11:00am. This was our Lord's Supper service. We had 5 candidates that went down in the Liquid grave, so we gave them their new Birth Certificates(Baptism Certificates) and Bibles. The choir did an awesome job as usual!!!

I am still preaching from the series, "When the Foundations Be destroyed, what can the Righteous do." I came from Revelation 2:8-11, I started the series with 1) We must become Transformers. 2) We must get back to our first love. and today my subject was, "Be faithful unto Death"!!! The word went forth powerfully.

We served the Lord's supper to the new candidates and to the rest of the family and called it a day!!! See you at the National Baptist Convention in Memphis, Tennessee next week.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, August 31, 2009

Sunday August 30, 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 with New Members class at 9:00am and then went right into our Sunday School hour. Let me say to our Sunday School Superintendent Sister Nakita Bell, Thank you for doing an awesome job with our Sunday School. We had Sunday School attendance month this month which made our attendance at Sunday School spike. Sunday School attendance month is when every member of our church make a special effort to commit themselves to Sunday School. Hopefully that commitment will continue even after the month is over. Our Sunday School lesson was The Promise of Life. We had an awesome time. The Banner attendance went to class #1 which is our children class and the Banner offering went to class #3 which is our adult class(the class I teach).

Worship service started promptly at 11:00am, our mass choir was in charge, The Voices of New Beginning, they did an awesome job in setting the atmosphere. I continued the series of: "When the Foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do" I came from Revelation chapter 2 verses 1-4, the sermon was entitled getting back to our first love!!!

Man when I tell you the Lord showed up and showed out, it was a high time at service and a wonderful experience. 2 more souls were added to the church family.

Please continue to keep us lifted up in prayer as we continue to Win the Lost at any Cost!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, August 24, 2009

Sunday August 23, 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 last Wednesday night Bible class. We started off with prayer service at 6:00am and New Members Class. Bible Class started off at 7:00pm and again I am so proud of those members who constantly press their way to be in Bible Class. We are still studying the Vision of the House. We have 13 vision statements. We have covered the first two vision statements which are. 1) A Church that must fulfill the great commission. 2) A God-glorifying, Christ centered, Holy Spirit Empowered, people oriented church.
Bible Class was great as usual.

This Saturday we had our Youth Ministry meeting at 10:00am, they broke off at 10:30am to their different groups: Youth Choir, Youth Ushers, Junior Deacons and Youth Praise Dancers. I must tell you that I was very impressed to see our children being active in the Youth Ministry. That afternoon at about 4:00pm we took our Youth Ministry to Dave & Busters in Atlanta, Georgia. Man when I tell you we had a blast, it was off the chain!!!!! It was so fun, and can I tell you I brought my fun with me!!!(Smile)

Sunday started at 9:00am with New Members Class and then we with in to Sunday School at the 10:00am hour. Class #2 which is our teen class won the banner attendance and class #3 which is the adult class(the class I teach) won the banner offering. The lesson was awesome.
We started morning worship at the 11:00am hour, our Youth were in charge of service. The youth were really awesome!!!! I preached from Psalm 11:3 and Romans 12:2. I started this series last week, "When the Foundations are being destroyed, What can the righteous do?" Today I preached "Transformers". The word was awesome!!!!

At 6:00pm went to a friends fellowship service at New Life Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Vincent L. Wilson. Pastor Branddon Mays of the Greater Miracle Christian Church was the speaker. We had an awesome time!!!! Please keep us lifted up in prayer!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Monday, August 17, 2009

Sunday August 16,2009

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.

Let me first start with our Bible class that was held on Wednesday night. Again we are studying the series, "The Vision of the House" making sure that all disciples that worship at the New Beginning Church understand the assignment of our church. I'm excited that the family presses there way to be there.

On this past Friday we had our "Back to School Explosion" Pastor Quinton Dorsey was our speaker ministering to our children. Pastor Dorsey did an awesome job. We were able to give out free school supplies. Also on this Friday after service we had 5 souls to go down in the liquid grave. Hallelujah!!!!

On this Past Sunday Morning New Member's class went forth at 9:00am and then at 10:00am we started our Sunday School. Class #1(Children) won the banner attendance and Class #3(Adults) won the banner offering.

Service started promptly at 11:00am, as usual our choir did an awesome job. This Sunday I started a new series called, "Going back to the Basics" coming from Psalm 11:3 When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? I think we all can agree that our world is Topsy Turvey, our world is in a mess, but if the church would take its rightful place we can save this generation!!!! Thank God for another soul being added to the kingdom.

At 3:00pm was our annual Men's day, Pastor Jeffrey Dancey of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church was our very special guest. He preached from Psalms 37:11 "The steps of a good man" The service was off the chain. We concluded our day with our associational music at the Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28