2016

Holy Smoke #13

The thirteenth annual Holy Smoke Christian Grilling Competition was held Saturday April 2, 2016 at the old school in the Centerpoint community of Preston Ga. The event is sponsored by Macedonia Baptist Church.

It was a great day with cool weather in the morning and lots of sun in the afternoon. Fifteen Christian oriented teams donated entry fees to the cause for a total of $1,460.00 between them. Gospel singing began at 10:30 a.m. and lasted until 5 p.m. with well-known singers from the surrounding area and as far away as Jacksonville Florida. Each of these individuals or groups gave of their time to help in this mission project. They were: (Chapter 41 from Macedonia church) (William Herndon, Jax Fl.) (Mercy’s Bridge, Sasser) (Dayspring Trio, Americus) (Russ Kern, Macedonia) (REDD Youth Group, Ellaville) (Bubba Cobb & Harvey Wills) and last but not least (The BUMS, Bronwood United Methodist Singers). There was also a group from Overflow and a worship music performer that were both great.

Bar-B-Que plates were sold for the noon and evening meal with all proceeds of the day being divided equally between the Ga. Baptist Children’s home in Meansville Ga. and the Methodist Children’s home in Americus.

After the evening meal the judging totals were announced with trophies being given for the first three places in each category and for Grand Champion.

The Grand Champion of the 2016 BBQ competition (that included all entries except cakes) was Schley Co. Ministerial Association with 1st & 2nd runners up being Macedonia Baptist and Pleasant Hill Baptist, respectively.

The evening ended with local auctioneer, Billy Black, auctioning off the cake entries. This part of the event itself raised $2,830.00 . And all together, team donations, cake auction, T-Shirt sales, concession stand sales and BBQ sales during the day, the GRAND TOTAL for the day that will be divided equally between the Methodist and Baptist Children’s Homes was $7,303.80. ($122.52 more than last year)

This is proof that being able to do more with less really is possible. Only with Him! It has been said “we’ve done more with less for so that it’s getting to where we can do anything with nothing”…. Hmmmm, I think we know that this statement is false, (Matt 19:26) …. but with God all things are possible. Thank Him for a great day.

And thank you to each of the cooking teams, singers, judges, workers and supporters that made this year’s Holy Smoke another huge success.

Also we give a special thank you outside of Macedonia to Terry @ Adams Food Center for their continued support and to Paul Stull for the trophy decals.

**************** The donating teams this year were: **********************

Preston Methodist (Preston
Pleasant Hill Baptist (Dawson)
Shiloh Baptist (Americus)
Macedonia Baptist (Centerpoint)
Richland Methodist (Richland)
Preston Baptist (Preston)
Oakland Baptist (Oakland)

Red Hill Christian (Richland)
New Bethel Baptist (Dawson)
Sasser Baptist (Sasser)
Antioch Baptist (Seminole)
Unadilla Baptist (Unadilla)
Bluffton Baptist (Bluffton)
Overflow Worship Ctr. (Ellaville)
Schley Co. Ministerial Assoc. (Ellaville)