![]() “He’s the one that God used as a catalyst to set the church up for our new worship center,” Prows said. Gerald Haley, who served from 2004-2013, for the groundwork he laid to make possible the growth the church enjoys today. Prows is quick to credit his predecessor, Dr. The church is on mission around the world supporting missionaries and going on mission trips. Earlier this month the church officially launched the Pilgrim Rest in Crestview. Pilgrim Rest broke ground on its current worship center in October 2014. ![]() Under the leadership of Prows the church has seen its greatest growth. Church records indicate that Donald Smith was the longest tenured pastor, serving the church from 1980-2004. Prows, who began his ministry at Pilgrim Rest in December of 2013, is the 28th pastor of the church. “They sacrificed to have this church,” Prows said. The church first held services outside and sat on rough wooden benches split from logs of trees the men of the church had harvested. The only two SBC churches older than Pilgrim Rest are First Baptist Milligan, which was established in 1864, and First Baptist Holt, which was established a few months prior to PRBC. Prows said it is his understanding that Pilgrim Rest is the third oldest Southern Baptist church in north Okaloosa County and is one of the oldest churches in the area of any denomination. “I would love to tell them, ‘Job well done,’ because they had a vision bigger than themselves and that’s why we are here today.” “I don’t know what the vision of those pioneers planting Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church,” the pastor said. Pilgrim Rest Pastor Geoff Prows said the men and women throughout the generations of the church have been faithful. Former associate pastor Darren Williams, who twice served at Pilgrim Rest, first as the Youth Pastor and then as the Children’s and Worship Pastor, will return to help lead the Sunday morning service. ![]() ![]() There will be one worship service at 10 a.m., followed by a church family meal. The church will celebrate its 135-year anniversary at the annual Homecoming Sunday, April 30. The date isn’t as important as the fact the men and women of Pilgrim Rest have been faithful to pass along the heritage of godly lives through the generations that have followed. The exact date the church incorporated has been lost to time. Maintain family and secret devotions, to religiously educate our children, to seek the salvation of our kindred and acquaintances.Green could have been singing about Pilgrim Rest with these words found in the first verse, “But as those who’ve gone before us, let us leave to those behind us, the heritage of faithfulness passed on through godly lives.” To contribute cheerfully and regularly to the support of the ministry, the expenses of the church, the relief of the poor, and the spread of the Gospel, through all nations. To strive for the advancement of this church in knowledge, worship, ordinances, discipline and doctrines. Therefore, by the aid of the Holy Spirit, to walk together in Christian love. Joyfully enter into covenant, with one another, as one body in Christ. Having been led as we believe, by the Spirit of God, to the receive the Lord Jesus as our Savior, and on profession of our faith, having been baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, we do now in the presence of God, angels, and this assembly, most solemnly and ![]()
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