Annual Meeting 2014

The Troup Baptist Association will hold its Annual Meeting Monday night, October 20, 2014 at the Troup Baptist Association Missions and Ministry Center located at 1301 Washington Street in LaGrange, Georgia.  (Formerly Southwest LaGrange Baptist Church.)

Each member church selects its messengers for the Annual Meeting as follows:  1) The pastor is automatically a messenger.  2) Each church with a membership up to one hundred forty nine members may elect four messengers.  3) Churches with a membership of one hundred fifty to one hundred ninety nine may elect five messengers.  Churches with two hundred to two hundred forty nine members may elect six messengers, etc…)  4)  Ten messengers is the maximum for any church, regardless of membership.

The meal for the messengers will be at 5:15pm in the fellowship hall, located downstairs in the building.  (*Please RSVP Dottie Henson at: 706-884-1975 or dottie@troupbaptist.com and let her know how many Messengers from your church will attend the meal portion of the meeting.)

The pre-music will start at 6:15pm in the sanctuary, followed by the meeting at 6:30pm.

Please note that we plan to honor the memory and ministry of the Southwest LaGrange Baptist Church during the Annual Meeting.   To that end, we are inviting any former member of Southwest, pastor, deacons, teachers, or otherwise, who would like to worship in the building one more time, to come and be our special guests.

Also, we would like for anybody who has photographs depicting the ministry and people of Southwest, during any time period of its existence, to please either bring those photos by the office and let us borrow them, (Please write your name on the back) or e-mail them, in JPEG format, to dottie@troupbaptist.com.  We want to post the photographs around the building to honor the memory and ministry of the congregation called Southwest LaGrange Baptist Church.

Concerning parking – we have a new parking lot across the street from the sanctuary that you may utilize.  We also have a small parking lot across from Berta Weathersby School that you may use.  You may also utilize on-street parking.

Stephanie Walker is in charge of our music, Stacey Dyar, GBC Church Revitalization Department, will speak about the Cooperative Program, and Pastor Terry Rainwater from Highland Baptist in Hogansville, Georgia will preach the evening sermon.  (His wife Cookie volunteered to head-up the meal portion of the meeting!)

Finally, the Book of Reports that you will be asked to approve will be available at the association office for you to pick up a day or two before the meeting should you desire to do so. (Note: We do everything possible to minimize the “business” portion of this meeting and “maximize” the worship portion!)

I hope to see all of you October 20th at the Troup Baptist Association Annual Meeting 1301 Washington Street in LaGrange, Georgia! – Brother Aaron