WARE COUNTY  GA  Church  Millwood Baptist

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                       WAYCROSS JOURNAL HERALD
                   Waycross, Ware County, Georgia
                           April 22, 1974
                  Millwood Baptist Organized in 1890
                         By Mrs. Odessa Bennett
     (The Millwood Community is Located in G.M.D. #1256, Off Albany
Avenue, US Highway 82 West, GA Highway 520, Near the Atkinson County,
Georgia Boundary.)
     Millwood Baptist Church was organized in 1890.  In the logs of
the minutes of the earlier years of the church it is not certain
which of the nearby ministers organized it.  The Rev. John F. Smith
of Pearson was pastor in 1894 when Mrs. Minnie Rouse Minyard now of
Waycross, joined the church, so it is probable that he organized it.
     Having been a "Wet foot" Baptist church and belonging to the
original Smyrna Missionary Baptist Association, Millwood Baptist in
1924 became affiliated with the Piedmont Baptist Association.  After
1938 it joined the newly formed Okefenokee Baptist Association.
     In the arly 1930's the church went from quarter time to half
time under the pastorate of the Rev. W. R. Beall, who became resident
pastor.  Sunday school and training union rooms were also built into
the church at this time.
     IN FEBRUARY 1960 Millwood Baptist Church became full time under
the pastorate of the Rev. W. D. Thomason, students at Norman Park at
that time.
     There has also been a Womans Missionary Society for many years.
     The church had had many consecated men of God as pastors through
the years and from time to time had provided young ministers of the
gospel their first pastorate.  The present pastor of the church is
the Rev. Kenneth Lewis of Waycross.  the approximate active
membership of the church is 50.
     Among those serving the church as pastor in former years both
living and deceased are as follows:  The Rev. S. M. Murray, the Rev.
T. N. Cady, the Rev. J. R. Thigpen, the Rev. J. F. Harbin, the Rev.
Walton Tison, the Rev. Hiram Thomas, the Rev. Dave Douglas, the Rev.
L. R. Wadkins, the Rev. Needham Harrell, the Rev. W. R. Beall, the
Rev. Lambert Jones, the Rev. J. C. Sheppard, the Rev. W. C.  Rice,
the Rev. J. D. Bowen, the Rev. W. D. Thomason, the Rev. Ray Eller,
the Rev. Henry Carpenter and the Rev. Malcolm Mathison.



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