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The Gilmer Christian Learning Center Updates

by PGBC

Counting Our Blessings As we begin the second half of the 2023-2024 school year, we are humbled at how fruitful the Fall semester was. Here are a few exciting figures we want to share with you. Help Us Get Ready For Spring Semester did you know there are multiple ways you can help the CLC? […]

It’s Shoebox Time!

by PGBC

Share the love of Jesus, through the power of a simple gift, with children around the world. Please give what you can. It costs $10 to ship a box & $20 to fill a box. Write OCC on the check memo line. There will be a Packing Party in the Fellowship Hall on Nov. 1st […]

Family Night Updates

by PGBC

July’s Game Night & Ice Cream Social was a blast for all ages! If you weren’t able to make it we will definitely do it again soon. There were many requests for more game nights! Brush up on your talents for Christ because we are going to do a Talent Show & Apple Bake Off! […]

Pre-Thanksgiving appreciation!!

by PGBC

As the Thanksgiving season approaches, our family would like to give thanks to PGBC and to everyone who has helped with our transition here to Ellijay from Romania. The awesome response from the church body has been overwhelming, and we truly feel blessed and welcomed here. I am reminded of the Apostle Paul in response […]

The Story of the Fourth of July

by PGBC

The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn’t the day that the Continental Congress […]

How did the Fourth of July become a national holiday?

by PGBC

For the first 15 or 20 years after the Declaration was written, people didn’t celebrate it much on any date. It was too new and too much else was happening in the young nation. By the 1790s, a time of bitter partisan conflicts, the Declaration had become controversial. One party, the Democratic-Republicans, admired Jefferson and […]

Wasted Ointment

by PGBC

by Viola Walden Sixty dollars’ worth of perfume wasted! It wasn’t stolen or spilled: simply poured on the head of a Man. Bystanders turned on the woman indignantly. “Why this waste?” they demanded. “It could have been sold and the money given to the poor.” Love rarely makes sense to those not in love. An […]

Christian Fellowship

by PGBC

Fellowship, according to Bible.org, is the sharing together in a common life with other believers through a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Fellowship is first and foremost a relationship, rather than an activity. The principle is that any activity that follows should come out of the relationship1. In Acts 2:42 the early church was […]

Join the Sanctuary Choir for The Risen Christ

by PGBC

 The Pleasant Grove Sanctuary Choir is beginning rehearsals on the Easter musical The Risen Christ. This musical is a celebration of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. The story of Christ’s life, crucifixion and resurrection is told through the characters of John the disciple, Peter, and Mary Magdalene, using narrations that are literally adapted […]