9 The Georgia Department of Defense and U.S. Air Force Reserve’s 94th Airlift Wing hosted the 2020 cohort of Leadership Cobb March 3, 2021, in Marietta, Georgia. U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Dwayne Wilson, commanding general of the Georgia Army National Guard, was the ranking officer hosting the guests.
“We are here today because of the outstanding support we get from the community,” said Wilson. “From everything like every day commodities to lining up meals for us, it’s just a great outpour of community support that’s an example of what makes the relationship that we have here in Cobb County, in Dobbins, and in Clay so special.”
Georgia SBC church faces banishment for accepting LGBTQ members
As the South changes, its dominant denomination faces defining decisions over inclusion. Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia. Photo by Maina Mwaura
February 19, 2021
(RNS) When the Reynolds started attending Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, in 2019 after moving to the Atlanta suburb next door, they felt as if they had found a spiritual home.
Midwesterners who had grown up in Baptist churches, the couple had adopted three young children a few years earlier. “We felt strongly that we wanted our boys to have the opportunity to attend a Bible-based church,” said John M. Reynolds, “to have the best opportunity to develop their own personal relationship with God.”
When Baptists realize they have sinned and are grappling with the right response to that sin, we call it âbeing under conviction.â A news article in the Marietta Daily Journal this past Tuesday reminded me of two times when I was convicted of not being a giver. I felt âcondemned at the bar of my own conscience,â as one theologian puts it.
The MDJ article reported on a speech by Acworth Mayor Tommy Allegood. At a Cobb County Chamber of Commerce gathering, Allegood encouraged business leaders to make giving a priority during the Christmas season. Acknowledging that Cobb County is already a giving community, the mayor challenged chamber members to dig a bit deeper this year to help the needy.