Poulan Baptist Church

Poulan Baptist Church Poulan Baptist Church is located in Poulan, GA. Regular Sunday Activities include:
Sunday School at 10:00 a.m. Morning Worship at 11:00 a.m.

Choir Practice at 5:15 a.m. Evening Worship at 6:00 a.m. Regular Wednesday Activities include:
Prayer Meeting at 6:00 p.m.

06/01/2026

June 2026 Points to Ponder with the Deacon Chairman, Ralph Willis, Jr.
“Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more…” Hebrews 10:25

Summer will be coming this month! June is my favorite month of the year. I love the long days and short nights. When I work until 8:30 p.m., I can get home before it is dark.
Father’s Day is the third Sunday in June. We will only have a morning service that day so we can spend more time with our fathers for those who still have fathers or are fathers. We need more men in our church. We no longer have brotherhood meetings because there are not enough men to have one. We are down to two deacons again due to men leaving the church. We need men to step up and lead the way back to church.
We have gone to a more contemporary style of music in our morning worship and hymns in the Evening Service in hopes of drawing more people in. We are looking for a pianist so we use “canned music” right now. We need more committed people to PBC.
As I said in last month’s newsletter, I got disgusted with the way things were going with PBC in 1990 and left the church. The church was not the problem, it was me. It took a stint in the hospital for God to change my way of thinking and realize that I needed to go back to PBC and be totally committed to it. So I came back and commented myself to PBC whatever came my way. God put me back to work in the church and put me in positions to try and make it better. I said that I would stand by PBC, even if the church went down, that I would be the last man standing. Well PBC is suffering right now from lack of attendance. We need more dedicated workers because we have a real shortage of workers. Some have had to take positions just to fill the need. We are still carrying on so we need you to attend and help us keep the church going. I was selfish when I left, but God changed my attitude and sent me back to be totally committed to PBC.
It is easy to get discouraged right now without a pastor, but we have already gotten six more people interested in being our pastor. Our new ads are bringing more prospects. I am now on the Pastor Search Committee so I can better inform you of the work going on. We have some fine men filling the pulpit in the meantime. It is a good time to commit to PBC like I am, and we will not have to say goodbye to PBC one day and close the doors permanently.

05/31/2026

Morning Service 05/31/26

05/26/2026

Sorry that we haven’t done a lot of live-streaming lately. The person doing it left us. I have been working on Sunday morning and we haven’t had preaching at the services at night that I have attended. This Sunday morning, I will be at the morning service so I can get the live-streaming going again. As i understand it, former pastor Fred White will be preaching so you will want to be there in person. If you can’t be there, I hope you will catch the livestream.

05/06/2026

Poulan Baptist Church is looking for a Piano player for Sunday morning and nights . This is a paid job .

04/16/2026

We are looking for a Bivocational Pastor. Send your resume to:
Pastor Search Committee
Poulan Baptist Church
135 S Cotton Street
Poulan, GA 31781
or email to [email protected]

03/26/2026

Points to Ponder with the Deacon Chairman, Ralph Willis, Jr.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Proverbs 22:6

Easter is early this year. Easter is my favorite holiday. I enjoyed as a child getting candy especially the chocolate Easter bunny and hunting colored boiled eggs. I almost always would find one or two after Easter when I was mowing the yard. Nowadays, they hunt plastic eggs with stuff inside but I digress. Even as a child (I became a Christian at six and a half years old.), I understood the true meaning of Easter and enjoyed going to church with my family. and hearing about the cross and the women finding the empty tomb because Christ had arose from the grave. My two favorite hymns are "He Arose" and "Low in the Grave He Lay" because we sing them each Easter. The latter really gets me when it hits the Chorus. I can see Jesus rising from the grave.
In the past, I did not like going to the Sunrise Service because since breakfast was afterward, we did not eat before we left home. I had a bad experience once when standing for thirty or so minutes on an empty stomach. I nearly passed out. Nowadays I eat something before I go. I am able then to just enjoy the beautiful service.I encourage you to come to this year's service in the City Park. Even though breakfast is being served at the Poulan Methodist Church after the Service, make sure to put something in your stomach so you don't experience what I did as a child.
I know that some of you are wondering how I feel about the changes in music that we are going through after my October 2025 article, but I am fine with it as long as we are not trying to just entertain folks. We have actually not been strickly a hymn singing church in times past. In the early 90's we had a homemade praise hymnal that we sang out of in addition to the regular hymnal. The church still had plenty of people coming then. The only thing that I did not like about it was having to change books so often. That is not a problem today with the words being put on TV screens. Even further back in the late seventies and early eighties when I was a youth and the church grew to 200+ attending, we had choreography as a youth choir and we even toured. So I do not have a problem with what is going on. If it will attract more young people, I am all for it. Music alone will not bring them in. You have activities for them too -- a whole youth program to be successful.

03/26/2026

Devotional: "Don't Be Afraid"
"Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace." Acts 18:9
Devotional Passage: Acts 18:1-11

Have you ever tried to share your faith with someone and became discouraged because they wouldn't listen to you or rejected what you have to say? There have been many times in my 50 years of ministry when I became discouraged because the work God had called me to do got off to a slow start.
In the first century, the apostle Paul visited the Greek city of Corinth. It was a wealthy city also known for its immorality and corruption. When Paul faced opposition for presenting Jesus as the Messiah, the Lord spoke to him in a vision and told Paul not to be afraid and not to be silent because He would be with him.
This is such a great encouragement to us because we can be assured that no matter what happens to us, our Lord is walking beside us, giving us strength, loving us, and filling us with hope. When we realize this, all of our fears and doubts begin to go away. We can be encouraged no matter what our circumstances because of the Lord's promise to us -- His same promise to Paul -- "I am with Thee" (v.10)

---copied from "Open Windows" devotional for Tuesday, December 13, 2022

03/13/2026

Points to Ponder with the Deacon Chairman, Ralph Willis, Jr.
"Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are acheving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is seen is eternal.'
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (NIV)

After a long hard winter, Spring arrives this month. I love Springtime because the days are getting longer and warmer weather is ahead. The time changes this month so I will not be having to work late into the night like I have the previous months.Easter is the first Sunday in April this year so we will be singing Easter hymns late in the month.I look forward to that.
We have our air conditioner replaced so things are starting to normalize again unlike in my February article. We are getting back to livestreaming our services again which I really missed in February while I was working on Sundays. I believe we are reaching a lot of people who either have to miss on Sunday or are unable to attend our services for other reasons. I believe the Lord is really blessing this ministry given the number of views we get each week. February 22nd Evening Service had 98 views.
The important thing is that we are reaching people whether in person or on livestream. I want to thank the church giving us this ministry.
It keeps me connected to the Church even when I have to work on Sunday. I send the link out to some people every week.It reaches many more people than recording the services on audio tape or CD ever did.
Hopefully we can get people back in church too. Unfortunately, when you are without a Pastor, people tend to take a wait and see attitude. We need people to come be a part ofthe church even as we find a Pastor. It was good that in the month of February we had one preacher preaching the whole month. I do not know where the Pastor Search Committee is heading this month, but I think that everyone enjoyed Bro. Flaviu Ferche.I know I did, but I only got to hear him three times because of work and no livestream except for February 22nd. A day that I was at church anyway.
Let us make March with better weather I hope, a month that we get people back in church. Remember that we are reaching people that we may not see, but they are there. Keep your spirit up.

03/13/2026

Devotional:

"And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus." -- Luke 5:19

Have you ever been stuck in traffic with somewhere important to be? The clock ticks, the brake lights glow, and the tension rises. Now imagine that urgency not for yourself -- but for someone else. That's the kind of desperation these four friends felt. Their friend was paralyzed, and Jesus was his only hope.But the crowd was thick. The door was bocked. So they climbed to the roof, ripped through it. and lowered him down right in front of Jesus.
This verse reveals a faith that won't quit. These men didn't let the crowd stop them. They didn't settle for standing outside.They didn't say, "Maybe next time." Their friend mattered too much, and they believed deeply in what Jesus could do.So, they made room where there was no room.
Sometimes the most significant breakthroughs come when we are willing to do the unexpected for someone else's healing. Who do you know that needs to get to Jesus, and what are you willing to do to get them there?

-- copied from "Open Windows"
Devotional for Saturday, March 7, 2026 entitled, "Faith That Won't Give Up" written by Larry Grays. Larry holds a doctor of ministry degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the father of four children and enjoys writing, coaching, and consulting.

02/22/2026

Sorry for the poor quality of our livestream this morning. Our camera was not charged up. Hopefully we will have it working tonight.

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127 N Cotton Street
Poulan, GA
31781

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