Kilpatrick Baptist Association
Connecting • Serving • Equipping
Tim Batchelor, Associational Missionary
Chanda Harbeson and Susan Batchelor, Ministry Assistants
Von Adkins, Financial Secretary
Upcoming Events
Pastors Conference, Tuesdays @ 10:30am Sweetwater BC Fellowship Hall​​​​​
​
Georgia Baptist Children's Home, Baxley Campus, Christmas Gifts due by noon on December 11th at the KBA Office
​​​​​​​​​​​
​
​​​​​​
​
Blythe BC is looking for a bivocational Family Ministry Coordinator.19
FBC Thomson, Home for Christmas Tour Concert, November 29th, 6pm
Sharon BC, Hayride Thru the Life of Christ, December 11-14, 7-9pm
FBC Thomson, Drive-Thru Nativity, December 7-9, 7-9pm
GBDR Unit 2F News
Unit 2F (Feeding) cooked and served the paricipants of GBDR Chainsaw and Heavy Equipment Training in Sandersville.
GBDR Unit 4R News
Unit 4R (Cleanup and Recovery) participated in Heavy Equipment Training in Sandersville. They were able to practice using their new to them skid steer and the heavy equipment owned by Georgia Baptist Disaster Relief.
As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, not to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. 1 Timothy 1:3-4 ESV
The trip from Ephesus to Macedonia is today a 12-hour and 22-minute drive. It is 1,091 kilometers or 677 miles. I can appreciate a drive like that. Stacyleigh and I were a 12-hour drive away from our families in Rincon, GA when we went to seminary. We had been married for a year when we left. One of our big expenses was a long-distance telephone bill each month. We couldn’t have Sunday lunch with the family so we developed friendships with other seminary students and church families. Being away from home and that far away from home does change the dynamic of relationships. We have others in our church family who went off to college or in the military deployed to other states or countries. I knew a missionary family in Jakarta, Indonesia. . .
​
Kilpatrick Baptist Association
October 2025
Missionary Moment
by Tim Batchelor
One evening while I was in Ecuador a couple of weeks ago, I found myself at a "wake" for an elderly church member who had died the day before. People from the church and community gather at the home of the deceased where might be a Bible message and a time of sharing along with a meal at some point. They will be there late into the night and generally, everyone sits silently. I broke protocol and began to introduce myself and converse with the folks around me in hope of striking up a gospel conversation. As it turns out, an elderly man sitting near me was the pastor of a church that meets in a little building high up on the side of a mountain eight or ten miles by road away. As we talked, he began to share the story of how he came to Christ
..​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.
​
You can see the new resources by clicking here!
​