Urgent prayer needed

My Dad, Meredith Jones, will be facing either triple or quadruple bypass surgery. Please pray for him and I will post updates as soon as I get them.

Wow, God is so good!

I am so glad that the Lord saved my soul! He saved my family! He put us in a great church! Whooo weeee!!! Praise the LORD!!!!
Church Hill Baptist has added two great couples over the last three weeks! We welcomed the Mosher family to our church tonight! What a blessing! Praise the Lord we are adding to the church the right way, not by compromise (so prevalent today) but by the preaching of the Word of God!
I had a great blessing attending the New England Baptist Preacher's fellowship this past Monday at Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford. The great folks at CBC spent very considerable time and effort putting on a great event! Pastor Todd Bell was an excellent host, and the preaching from Pastor Jeff Faggart (president of the Baptist Historical Preservation Association) and Preacher Cal Fuller (Saving New England for Eternity ministries) preached the Word of God with POWER!
What a great week, indeed! I wonder what this week will hold! What a joy to serve the Lord of Lords, Jesus Christ!

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

I don't know quite where to begin this post. I am feeling so unbelievably blessed that I really don't know what to say, except PRAISE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!!!! The Lord is moving in Church Hill Baptist Church! The vision that He has given Pastor Wiley is simply incredible. The Lord has led our church to bring the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ not only to the Augusta area, but throughout Maine through church planting and rescuing. In order to plant all of the churches that the Lord has called us to, we must raise up men, both young and old to preach! We believe the Lord has called Church Hill Baptist to create a school where men, young or old, can be trained to be Independent Fundamental Baptist preachers! Maine needs preachers! America needs preachers! For many families the call of the Lord means selling all and going to a Bible School to learn the ministry. There are precious few schools in America that train up King James only, soul winning, sold out, sin stomping, devil hating, Independent, Fundamental Baptists. We believe that Church Hill Baptist can be one of those schools. Please pray for us as we move forward down this path the Lord is blazing for us. As long as there is a man left to preach the Amazing Gospel of Jesus Christ, there is hope. Our hope is the preaching of God's word. We need more preachers!

Showers of Blessing........

What a treat it was for me to come home on Friday night! After a great meal of baked chicken and all the fixings my kids had a special presentation for me. They have memorized Hebrews 11:1-10. They accomplished this in 24 days of classroom learning! Oh, how the Lord is blessing my family through this first year of home schooling! Praise the LORD!

Weekly update

What a blessed couple of weeks we have had at Church Hill Baptist. We have had many students leaving for college, some for the very first time. We are in constant prayer for them.
Our Sunday school and AWANA programs are now up and running. What a blessing it is to serve in these ministries! These precious children and young adults are the future preachers, preachers wives, missionaries, deacons and general servants of Christ. This past Sunday and Wednesday we welcomed Evangelist Seth Ferguson to Church Hill Baptist. For his Wednesday sermon, you can click on the bottom of this page. For a young man, he certainly brought an old-fashioned fire with him. He is off to Howland, Maine to preach this coming weekend. We wish him very well.
Since we are talking about preaching, I have to say I have never, ever heard a boring sermon here..... Pastor Wiley has been on fire lately and if you have missed any installments of his "But we preach..." series, please download them and listen. Wheeeewwwiiiieeee, talk about fire from above!
We want to congratulate Pastor Josh Lovelace, as he was officially voted in as the Pastor of Truth Baptist Church in Jefferson. Praise the Lord! Woo Hoo!! (Hankie raised in the air!)

Looking forward we have missions week beginning Saturday October 3 with a "meet the missionary" night at 5 pm. Please sign up to bring casseroles and salads. I am getting hungry already (it does not take much). Be prepared to spend the rest of the week with us as the conference goes straight through Wednesday night. We have missionaries and preachers lined up. Look for a blessing and plan to be there!
As for the Jones family, the Lord is moving! We will be making some major changes soon, please pray for us as we enter the next very exciting part of our life! This time we are stepping out of the way and letting the Lord have the reigns. For 37 years I followed me. Now it is the Lord's turn.
Thank you all and may the Lord richly bless you.

Matthew Jones

God is at work on Barters Island!

God is moving on Barter's Island! Praise the Lord!

Are you a pig or a chicken?

Sometimes we can look to simple things of this life to learn deep lessons. Consider your breakfast of bacon and eggs. A chicken and a pig both contribute to the meal. There is a very big obvious difference between the two. The chicken has provided a contribution by giving the egg that was laid. The pig lost it's very life so you can enjoy that bacon.
Now, consider your spiritual life. Are you giving the Lord a contribution, or giving yourself a sacrifice? Which is Biblical?
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

Hmmm, God's word answers that question, huh?

So again I ask: are you a pig or a chicken?
Are you giving the Lord a contribution, or providing yourself a living sacrifice? The Lord Jesus Christ condescended to us, endured the shame of the cross for us and died and rose again the third day for us. The least we can do is be obedient to God's word and "present your bodies a living sacrifice". You make the call.........