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Welcome to Pleasant View Baptist Church Online!
The Mission of Pleasant View Baptist Church, as a body of redeemed believers, is:
To provide, by the leadership of God's Holy Spirit, worship experiences through prayer, praise, fellowship, and proclaiming the Word of God.
To lead lost souls to the saving Knowledge of Jesus Christ through preaching, witnessing, and the support of missions
To disciple Christians through a nurturing atmosphere, proper teaching of the Holy Scriptures, and other activities that enhance the Christian experience
To support our community through prayer, encouragement and helping those in need.
Our Theme for 2026
We exist to GLORIFY God through worship,
SHARE the gospel of Jesus Christ.
DISCIPLE believers,
and SERVE our community in love.
This week's devotion for June 21, 2026
AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE FRUITFUL
EXODUS 1:7a
Exodus Chapter One and Verse Seven is a very fruitful verse. It says “And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.” God wants that to be said of the Church. In the beginning God told man to be fruitful and multiply. When life started anew with Noah, God told him to be fruitful and multiply. The church that Christ has established has the same commission.
In the Exodus account of the children of Israel, it speaks of seventy being the number of souls that made up the family of Jacob that came into Egypt and occupied the land of Goshen. According to Adam Clarke, two hundred fifteen years later they were numbered at six hundred thousand, not counting the old men, women and children. Any way you look at it, that’s growing rapidly. To be fruitful was to be healthy like trees; to increase abundantly was to increase like the fish. The same word was used in Genesis One Verse Twenty; to wax exceeding mighty means, that they increased in strength beyond measure or miraculously.
As a church we should be winning people to the Lord; as we become fruitful we must maintain a healthy spirituality that we may continue to win souls to the Lord. One of my favorite trees on our property was hurt badly by the drought Two Thousand Sixteen. Limbs are falling off as it struggles to stay alive. It has no acorns anymore. There are some places on the tree that I would call cancerous. It is not a healthy tree. Instead of being fruitful, it is diminishing fast. Sad to say but many churches are in the same shape.
It is my prayer for the church to wax exceeding mighty. “Oh God, may your church increase in strength beyond measure! “ The church is well past due to strike fear into the enemy. We have done very little to even make the world get concerned about us. Notice that the children of Israel did not do anything to scare Egypt except grow. Maybe that is what we as a church should set our minds and hearts to do, just grow. If we grow as God wants us to, the world will pay attention.
Yours in Christ,
Brother Randy Burtram
(Originally published June 10, 2018)
Services and Times
- Sunday Morning Sunday School-9:45 Sunday Worship-11:00
- Sunday Evening Worship-5:00
- Tuesday Morning Prayer Meeting-8:00 AM
- Wednesday Evening Bible Study, Youth Praise and Worship, RA's & GA's, Mission Friends-7:00
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Pleasant View Missionary Baptist Church
12476 Highway 278 East
PO Box 373 (Mailing Address)
Holly Pond, AL. 35083
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