Living Word Ministry of Millen, Inc

08/18/2026

08/01/2026

We will have Teacher Boxes too! Don’t miss out!

07/25/2026

Were you on vacation? 🌴 Missed the back-to-school giveaways and community prayer events? Don’t worry—we’ve got you covered! 📚🙏

We are excited and grateful that True-Balance Realty Group has partnered with Living Word Ministry of Millen to help equip our students for a successful school year by providing FREE school supplies for students in Pre-K through 12th grade.

In addition to the school supply giveaway, we are inviting pastors, ministers, evangelists, church leaders, and the entire community to join us in prayer for our students, teachers, administrators, school staff, families, and our community as we prepare for a new school year.

📅 Saturday, August 1, 2026
🕙 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
📍 Living Word Ministry of Millen
623 Cotton Avenue, Millen, GA

Let’s come together in faith as we ask God for His blessings, protection, wisdom, guidance, and favor over every child, educator, and school in our community.

🎒 FREE school supplies (while supplies last)
👧🧒 Students must be present to receive supplies.

Whether you’re coming for the school supplies, the community prayer, or both, we’d love to see you there!

Together, we can build stronger communities and brighter futures. 💜💛

01/25/2026

Can’t You See You’re Drowning? Rise Up for Air!

In today’s message, Evangelist Shanelle Carr delivered a loving yet urgent warning to the church: drowning doesn’t always look dramatic. It can be quiet, hidden, and internal. You can be present, productive, and still slowly losing air.

Using the powerful symbolism of a whale, Evangelist Carr illustrated a spiritual truth grounded in both Scripture and biology. A whale is a mammal—created to breathe air—yet it lives in water. The water may be its natural habitat, but it is not its source. If the whale does not continually rise to the surface for air, it will drown. In the same way, believers live in the world, but our life does not come from it.

Drawing from John 17:14–16 and John 15:19, Evangelist Carr reminded the church that Jesus never promised removal from the world, but protection from its suffocation. The danger is not our location—it is what we are breathing. The Word of God is our air, and without it, even the strongest believer will begin to suffocate. Comfort, compromise, and complacency are not signs of strength, but signs of spiritual oxygen depletion.

The message carried a strong sense of urgency to surrender our will for God’s will. Staying connected to heaven is not optional—it is essential. Prayer is air. The Word is air. God’s presence is air. When we attempt to live on our own strength or remain too long in environments that cannot sustain us, we begin to drown—not from weakness, but from disconnection.

This message was both a wake-up call and an invitation. For those feeling heavy, dry, or worn down by the weight of sin and life’s pressures, the altar was presented as the surface—the place to rise up, breathe again, and live. The call was clear: rise out of despair, guilt, shame, and hopelessness. We don’t just need relief—we need God.

Rise up for air… and live.

01/17/2026

Living Word Ministry has partnered with Community Works to Sound The Alarm. On Saturday, February 7th AND March 14 from 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, we will be volunteering to install FREE smoke alarms for this first time ever event in our community. To request an alarm installation please email: jenkinscommunityworks .com

YOU MUST SIGN UP FOR INSTALLATION

12/28/2025

Sunday Sermon Recap | “Give Thanks”
📖 1 Thessalonians 5:18 | Psalm 119:133

This Sunday, Pastor Steve reminded us that gratitude is not a reaction—it’s a discipline. Scripture calls us to give thanks in everything, even when the process is uncomfortable.

Using the powerful illustration of a blacksmith forging a sword, we were shown how strength is developed through intention and repetition. The metal is chosen, placed in the fire, cooled, hammered, folded, and returned to the fire—over and over—until it is strong enough for purpose.

In the same way, we are God’s instruments. Life’s challenges are not meant to destroy us but to shape, strengthen, and prepare us. The fire refines. The hammer forms. The cooling seasons restore. And every step is ordered by God.

As we reflect on our 2025 theme, “Order My Steps” (Psalm 119:133), we are reminded that even the difficult seasons were part of God’s divine process. Because of that, we can still say—Thank You, Lord.

Gratitude recognizes that God is working, even when we don’t understand the heat.

🙏 Give thanks in all things—God is forging something strong within you.

12/28/2025

LATE POST

December 21, 2025 | Sunday Message Recap
“It’s ALL About Jesus: The Question That Changed Everything”
📖 Acts 16:25–31 | Luke 24:25, 30–31

This Sunday, Evangelist Shanelle reminded us that Christmas—and salvation—are ALL about Jesus. Through the stories of Paul and Silas, the Philippian jailer, and the disciples on the road to Emmaus, we saw how God opens eyes through breaking and shaking.

Before the jailer asked the life-changing question, “What must I do to be saved?”, God shook the prison and broke the chains. Before the disciples recognized Jesus, He was revealed in the breaking of bread. Revelation always comes before recognition.

At midnight moments—when hope feels lost and strength runs out—God steps in, interrupts despair, and brings light. And when eyes are opened, the response is clear:

“Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”

Christmas is God stepping into human skin to break chains, open eyes, and bring salvation.
It’s ALL about Jesus—and that question still changes everything.