{"id":2555,"date":"2025-10-04T16:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T20:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2025-12-04T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:06:20","slug":"144th-wbaud-annual-session-elevate-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/?p=2555","title":{"rendered":"144th WBAUD Annual Session – Elevate 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our 144th Annual Session of the Wateree Baptist Association Upper Division will be held October 14-17, 2025, at Jerusalem Baptist Church in Hopkins. This year our annual session will be a little bit different! We introduce to you the Elevate Conference!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will have workshops during the day and come back together for our nightly worship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, October 14 <\/strong>– Business Session<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, October 15 & Thursday, October 16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

8:30 a.m. <\/strong>– Morning Glory Prayer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9:00 a.m. -10:15 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday Workshop: Support & Opposition <\/em>– Facilitator, Minister BJ Jones, Antioch Baptist Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday Workshop: <\/em>What Are We: Defining Your Relationship with Christ, Facilitator, Pastor Travien L. Capers, Zion Benevolent Baptist Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Break<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday Hour of Power (Praise & Preaching) – Preacher – Reverend Joseph Wilson, Sweet Home Baptist Church<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday Hour of Power (Praise & Preaching) – Preacher – Moderator Donnie Chambers, Red Hill Baptist Church<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panel Discussion<\/strong> on Thursday, October 16th at 6pm – Topic: Spirit-Led Innovation Balancing Tradition and Transformation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nightly Worship Speaker on Wednesday Night, October 15, at 7pm will be Reverend Chris Keesee, <\/strong>Interim Pastor of New Light Beulah Baptist Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nightly Worship Speaker on Thursday Night, October 16 at 7:00 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reverend Marion Newton, Pastor of Jehovah Missionary Baptist Church in Sumter, SC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may register for the Elevate Conference<\/strong> on Eventbrite (https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2025WBAUDElevate<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Annual Session will end with the Annual Scholarship Banquet<\/strong> on Friday, October 17th,<\/strong> at 6 p.m., at Red Hill Community Development Complex in Gadsden.  The speaker for the banquet will be Erika Hursey. Please reach out to your church’s missionary ministry president if you are interested in attended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our 144th Annual Session of the Wateree Baptist Association Upper Division will be held October 14-17, 2025, at Jerusalem Baptist Church in Hopkins. This year our annual session will be a little bit different! We introduce to you the Elevate Conference! We will have workshops during the day and come back together for our nightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watereebaptistud.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}