Indian Creek revival services set
The Rev. Dr. Jamison L. Work of Georgetown, Tenn., will appear at revival services at Indian Creek Baptist Church in Mill Run Oct. 20 at 10:40 a.m. and 7 p.m. and Oct. 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. The Rev. John B. Davis is pastor. There will be special music nightly.
Dr. Work is pastor of the Candies Creek Baptist Church, which is the oldest church in Bradley County, founded in 1834 when the Cherokee Indians still occupied the region. Candies Creek Church has approximately 800 members and in 2002 averaged 475 people in two morning worship services. It has an average 362 people in Sunday school attendance.
As pastor of Candies Creek, Work is involved in partnership ministries across the country and the world. The church partners with Builders for Christ in Birmingham, Alabama, building churches in the Northeast and Midwest; New Hope Crisis Pregnancy Center in Cleveland, Tenn.; Campus Crusade for Christ; church planting among the Huichol Indians in southwestern Mexico; Chosen Children Ministries in Nicaragua; and a church planting effort in Uzbekistan. The church has two families serving in international missions: one in Ukraine and one in Mexico.
Other partnerships Dr. Work is involved with include missionaries in Mongolia, South Africa, Kenya and Mexico as well as local ministries in the Bradley County Jail, an I-75 truck stop ministry, an Hispanic mission church in Bradley County, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Student Venture.
Dr. Work is a frequent revival preacher, speaker for Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Student Camp pastor, marriage conference leader, men’s ministry speaker, equipper of deacons, speaker at evangelism conferences and provider of evangelism training. Rev. Work has also authored several Bible studies and two church histories. He has served in the leadership of both the Georgia Baptist State Convention and the Tennessee Baptist State Convention as well as been a leader in local evangelistic crusades and local ministries.
Dr. Work earned his bachelor of business degree in 1984 from Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.; his master of divinity degree in 1987 from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and his doctor of ministry degree in 2000 from Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta, Ga. He is a 1977 graduate of Connellsville Area High School. His parents are Eugene and Virginia Work of Mill Run.
He has been married to Dana since 1985 and they have two children, Reid, an eighth-grade student, and Mary Kate, a seventh- grade student. Dr. Work has pastored five different churches in the past 20 years. He has been the pastor at Candies Creek since 1998.