Kilpatrick Baptist Association
Connecting • Serving • Equipping
Tim Batchelor, Associational Missionary
Chanda Harbeson and Susan Batchelor, Ministry Assistants
Von Adkins, Financial Secretary
Season of Prayer & Offering for
Georgia Baptist State Missions
September 1-30
Giving to the Georgia Baptist State Missions Offering fuels Mission Georgia to equip more churches and more people to tackle the change that needs to happen. Through your partnership, Mission Georgia is able to do more...more education, more training, more modeling, more mobilization.
Upcoming Events
Pastors Conference, Tuesdays @ 10:30am Sweetwater BC Fellowship Hall​​​​​
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Sept 1-30 Season of Prayer & Offering Emphasis for Georgia Baptist State Missions ​
Sept 28 SPARK Conference, 4-8:15pm at Lakeside Church of Oconee at Greensboro See flyer on this page.
Sept 29 KBA Women's Fall Leadership Mtg, Sweetwater Baptist Church, 6pm.
Oct 29 KBA 111th Annual Meeting, 6:30pm at New Hope Baptist Church
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Bethesda BC Debra Perry & Jaidyn's Call Concert, Friday, September 12, 2025 @ 7PM
FBC Warrenton Senior Adult Conference, September 15-17 @ 5PM
FBC Thomson Fall Festival, Saturday, September 20th @ 11AM - 2PM
Second BC Homecoming, October 5 @11AM
Second BC Revival, October 6-8 @7PM
New Hope Fall Festival, Wednesday, October 29, 6-8PM
KBA Women's Fall Leadership Meeting
"Are You the Missing Piece?"
September 29, 2025, 6pm
Speaker: Pam Murphy
Georgia Baptist WMU President
Sweetwater Baptist Fellowship Hall
Registration fee: $15 (includes Chick-fil A meal). Please RSVP/register at the KBA Office by Thursday, Sept, 25th.
Kilpatrick Baptist Association
September 2025
Missionary Moment
by Tim Batchelor
Those of you who love aquariums know that a fish will not outgrow its environment. For instance, one of the most popular aquarium fish is the shark. If you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium. Sharks can be six inches long yet fully matured, but if you turn them loose in the ocean, they grow to their normal length of eight feet. Far too often our churches or the various ministries in the church such as a Sunday school class, a youth group, or a children’s ministry, get caught up in the aquarium principle. Their ministry growth is limited because their ministry world is too small, and of course their ministry world is too small because their ministry growth is limited in its current context. This is also true of our own spiritual growth. Too often our spiritual growth is limited by the size of our faith.
It is when we enlarge our vision for a ministry in which we serve that we begin to see growth...​Read more
KBA Media
Center Update
KBA Library is growing!
Please see the list of new items available for checkout. There are many other resources available as well. Stop by the office to see if you find something that meets a need for you, your small group, or church.
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You can see the new resources by clicking here!
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Our economy exists on the principle of getting us to acquire more or other than we need. It works because we are all "hungry"; we all have desires. Desires can be normal and healthy for any living creature. It's what we desire that becomes unhealthy. We should desire food and companionship and meaning. We should desire health and purpose and safety. In Romans 8, Paul creates the broad categories of spiritual desires and sinful desires -- desires that are promoted by the Spirit of God in us and desires that are promoted by the sinful nature in us.
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