Litway Missionary Baptist Church

Litway Missionary Baptist Church LITWAY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
2335 SHELL ROAD
SAVANNAH, GA. 31404
1-912-355-1225

04/03/2019

eonard Small · 7:42 I have acquiesced to facilitate a meeting open to the public for a real discussion on the state of race in our community. An informed electorate is the best remedy to bad government. This is an attempt to put facts on the table and tear down the walls that separate our commonwealth. People have enriched themselves by dividing the masses. Last year I led a Christian Conference for Men in Jesup, Ga. There were three hundred men there; six were Black. We prayed to the same God, learned to love our families responsibly and collectively cherished the nation that God gave us at birth.I have been blessed to serve mankind on four continents for forty years In Asia, Africa, Europe and North America people are people. On .Sunday at 5 p.m. April 7th 2019 at Litway Baptist Church, formed by people born slaves, we will have a meeting that is not about slavery but about unity. We will remember the past but only as a reference to the future.The address is 2335 Shell Road in the Thunderbolt community.

02/17/2018

YESTERDAY, February 16th, 2018, was a pivotal moment in the history of the Litway Baptist Church. The Chairman Emeritus of the Deacon Board, Alvin Collins, passed away. As his pastor, I was with his wife of more than a half century,along with church clerk Gail Williams. Words cannot express our lost nor anticipate heaven's gain. His was a life of caring, giving, loving and serving. There are people that attend church and then there are those that become the church. Deacon Collins epitomized the latter.

10/19/2016

Last weekend on Saturday our deacon, Charles McMullen, had his mother's home going celebration in Brunswick, Ga. I could not attend as we were attending the same type service for Brother Nathaniel Drayton of Litway. Both families have our utmost sympathy and our prayers.

07/11/2016

When anyone attacks a “group” they invariably will harm innocent folk and undermine the commonwealth. Commonwealth is a term used but rarely understood. It simply means that we are in this thing, LIFE, together. The police in Dallas were people who deserved to live long lives and enjoy the fruit of their labor. The same is true for the two men, who happened to be Black, that were killed by police this week.
There were people of every race chanting Black Lives Matter and even the police were participating while protecting the demonstrators. The reason for the use of the phrase is that there is a question as to the comparative worth of Black lives in a country that once enslaved us and still devalues and sometimes deplores our presence. “Take America Back”, who has it?
Then this misguided fool decided that every White policeman was an enemy to Black people. It is the same as White fools that believe most Blacks are unwholesome in some sense. Yes, I am Black and have been the victim of unwarranted racism. I have been kept back from promotion, physically beaten, economically cheated, psychologically wounded, socially rejected, and publically ridiculed. But herein lies the difficulty; these were done to me by Blacks and Whites.
Newsflash: Blacks get treated poorly more often than Whites in many cases. A friend who lost a son to violence last year did a collage of homicide victims in Savannah there were more than fifty Blacks killed by Blacks and one killed by a White policeman. The one killed by the policeman wasn’t more dead or more valuable or his family more grieved. So I have coined this phrase, “Black Lives Must First Matter To Black People”.
Lastly, I propose that we have a summit on crime and let real people from the street come in and tell the city how to reduce crime. I gave the Chief a proposal last August. He COULD not support it because of who presented it. With limited funds we have done it anyway and changed hundreds of lives. We spent just under ten thousand dollars. I’m just saying, what I’m saying.

06/28/2016

We are in vacation Bible School this week. the theme is "Better than the Wiz-------GOD" If your searching for a home, heart, brains or courage don't look to a wizard---look to God. Our yellow brick road is a street paved with GOLD. Join us 5:30 Monday through Thursday this week. The Church is located at 2335 Shell Road in the Thunderbolt Area.

11/26/2015

6;00 pm LITWAY BAPTIST CHURCH 2335 SHELL ROAD
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28, 2015
BLACK WOMEN ONLY BLACK WOMEN ONLY
REDIRECT SAVANNAH will hold its meeting for Black women only. Our efforts to change the climate of violence in Savannah requires strong medicine. This meeting will deal with under employment, unemployment, business developement, jobs, men, children and reproductive responsibility. No matter where you are in this community if you need help come. If you can give help come, If you care come. If you don't care come. We are always saying in crisis that we need to come together as a people; come.The men's meeting three weeks ago yeilded great real results. ONE MOTHER SAID SHE KNEW THAT WE WERE THE ANSWER TO HER PRAYERS. We may have avoided some violence that was imminent. We will be providing funds to help those who can recieve TWIC cards. These cards cost $128 but since we started doing this people have given to this effort. Sisters need help with their son in the streets we have men that went through the system who will work with you to save your endangered Black children. NO POLICE; NO PRESS; NO POLITICIANS

09/19/2015

Tonight I attended a commemoration of the death of Charles Smith on this date September 18, 2014. Ironically it was the mayor's birthday and of course she was there doing what she should do, trying to keep the peace. I started not to come but had spent time with his mother earlier in the day and thought my presence would help her. I was about to leave when Beverly Trotter asked me to come back to the area with a dj and speaker and say something and give a prayer. I said no that i was leaving but she insisted. I was almost there when I heard someone say that no political statements would be allowed. Some of the people saying it were also saying no one could say Black lives matter. I spoke about the killing of Mr. Smith and prayed. I also said that not letting candidates talk to the community was unreasonable. When I walked away Beverly and another young man alluded to the fact that some people exploit these events.(i believe they were referring to me)
Let me be as clear as glass. I am a Black Lives Matter guy. Not that all lives don't matter but you are not as concerned with your healthy finger when you have a tooth ache. Young Black men are being put in harms way in ways that are dangerous and sometimes lethal. When Black ministers march and insist on not saying Black Lives matter, when activist declare that Savannah lives matter but tell those that say Black Lives Matter they would not welcome them in their gatherings; then the message is that maybe Black Lives don't matter.
Folk trying desperately to get along with White culture in Savannah are denying there is a specific problem within the Black community. After more than thirty years of helping people get off drugs and alcohol I know that you can't help yourself if you deny that there is a problem. Not just with what Whites or police do to us but Black on Black, also. Lastly, in more than forty years of being in politics I have never heard White leaders tell their candidates we are not campaigning at a public gathering. Several candidates for office were told they could not speak because that was not why we were there. Who made that decision and what was their purpose? Three women are running for City council were there. Alicia Blakely lost a brother; Bernetta Bryant Lanier, lost a son a few years ago; and Linda Wilder Bryan lost a son a little over a month ago. These were Black lives. Did they matter?

Litway and Resurrection House distributed food and some basic medicine in Liberia during the height of the Ebola crisis.
02/02/2015

Litway and Resurrection House distributed food and some basic medicine in Liberia during the height of the Ebola crisis.

05/29/2014

We are getting ready to celebrate our 31st pastoral anniversary at Litway Baptist Church. The privilege is honored only by dedication. The president of the pastor's aid group is Besena Smalls (no relation to me that we know of) and she has made each year something to look forward to. I honor all of the pass presidents. The first was Elizabeth Norman. She and Edvenna Frazier started the celebrations the first year I came. Next was Geneva Patterson who made the banquets an annual feast. Then was Cattie West, Ma West as we called her. She decided that money was no object and blessed us more and more each year. Now we have served the congregation twice as long as any pastor in the church's history. Also longer by more than ten years any tenure of any pastor in the more than five hundred years of Baptist church history in Thunderbolt. But the question remains what have we done in all this time? Coupled with now that you've stayed what will you do. With the help of God we trust our next days will be better days and our last days our best days.

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Savannah, GA
31404

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