Grace and Truth Church of Athens

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 7/19/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 7/26/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 7/19/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

  Song Written By: George Bennard, 1912 Worship Leader: Simon Welch Date: 7/19/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Here is just a small glimpse of our praise and worship time at GTC. The camera was set up to record the sermon, with no intention of keeping this in the video... much less putting it online for the world to see. This audio is just what the pulpit microphone picked up.  This was just a sweet few moments of our worship unto our glorious Savior, and I figured it might bless someone out there. Sing Written By: Ghostship Worship Leader: Simon Welch Date: 7/19/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Here is just a small glimpse of our praise and worship time at GTC. The camera was set up to record the sermon, with no intention of keeping this in the video... much less putting it online for the world to see. But it was just a sweet few moments of our worship unto our glorious Savior, right before the sermon, and I figured it might bless someone out there. Song Written By: Brooks Ritter and Rebecca Elliot Worship Leader: Simon Welch Date: 7/19/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

John Gill was a pastor for 51 years in England, at The Goatyard Chapel, which was originally pastored by Benjamin Keach, then later pastored by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (in a new location, called the Metropolitan Tabernacle). In 1769, two years before he went on to be with the Lord, Gill published the first ever systematic theology that was written by a Baptist. It was entitled "A Body of Doctrinal Divinity", and is still highly respected and used by pastors, scholars, and theologians today. In 2025 Particular Baptist Heritage Books took an excerpt from the first section of that large work of Gill's and published it in a book all by itself, which is entitled "The Holy Trinity". This class series is a class on the doctrine of God. We are using Gill's "The Holy Trinity" book to teach through this great doctrine, taking Gill's words and teaching them in our own words, over multiple weeks. May God be glorified, and His church be edified in this endeavor! Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 7/15/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 7/12/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 7/5/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

This was from an event for pastors that my oldest son and I attended, organized by End Abortion Ohio. Jeff Durbin is one of the pastors of Apologia Church in Tempe, Arizona, and is a co-founder of End Abortion Now. The Lord has used him greatly in many ways. It was an honor to meet him and to hear him speak on our need to make every effort to bring a true end to the evil and tragic genocide that we call human abortion. Location: Heritage Reformed Baptist Church; Canton, Ohio Speaker: Jeff Durbin Date: 6/30/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Mitchell Young Date: 6/28/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: David Leaphart Date: 6/21/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Location: Pine Ridge Bible Camp; Cedar Springs, Michigan Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/26/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Location: Pine Ridge Bible Camp; Cedar Springs, Michigan Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/25/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Location: Pine Ridge Bible Camp; Cedar Springs, Michigan Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/24/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Location: Pine Ridge Bible Camp; Cedar Springs, Michigan Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/23/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Location: Pine Ridge Bible Camp; Cedar Springs, Michigan Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/22/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Location: First Baptist Church of Wellston, Ohio Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/21/2026 Address of Grace and Truth Church: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/14/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 6/3/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/31/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/27/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/24/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/17/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/13/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/10/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/6/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 5/3/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/29/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/26/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/19/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Forest Welch Date: 4/15/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

This is taken from a sermon on John 10:31-42. Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/12/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

This is taken from a sermon on John 10:31-42. Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/12/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/12/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Forest Welch Date: 4/8/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

So sorry about the bad audio again. We are trying to get the problem figured out. Thanks for your patience. Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/5/2026 (Easter Sunday) Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 4/1/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

So sorry about the bad audio on this one. Preacher: Matthew Zartman Date: 3/29/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

So sorry about the bad audio on this one. Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 3/22/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 3/15/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 3/11/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 3/8/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 3/1/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 2/25/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 2/22/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

Preacher: Smiles Welch Date: 2/15/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

This video is the funeral of a precious and beautiful baby boy who was tragically stillborn at 35 weeks. It has been posted with parental permission for the purpose of hopefully being a helpful resource for other pastors who are faced with this most difficult task. May God comfort and heal this family, by the mercy and grace that is only found in Jesus Christ, God's holy and beloved Son who died for the sins of His people.

Teacher: Smiles Welch Date: 2/11/2026 Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701 Contact: [email protected] Sunday Services: 1:30pm Prayer; 2:00pm Sunday School; 3:00pm Worship. Potluck-   style meal afterward every week! Wednesday Service: 6:30pm Prayer and Study

David Thomas is an audio engineering student at Ohio University, and a part of the Grace and Truth family. He had a student project to record three musicians playing at the same time, so he asked if the three of us would like to come record a song.   Simon and Jenna usually lead the musical worship at GTC, but I do every once in a while (if Simon can't be there). So, the three of us have played together before in pairs, but never all three of us at once. Simon chose what song we would do, and he chose this one because his oldest daughter, Laura, loves it so much when we sing it at church.   The only open time slot for the studio at OU before David's deadline required us to meet up at 6:30am on Saturday, 12/6/2025. We had a total of two hours to get in there, set up all the equipment, record the song, and clean up. The next band was moving in as we were moving out!   We had not practiced this song together ever, and like I said, we had never once played together before. We got in there and got to work real quick. We figured out the arrangement of everything... the harmonies, echoes, who would sing and play what, and when. We just knocked it out as best and quick as we could. It was SO fun, as nether of us musicians have ever done studio work before. We would have nailed it in just two takes, but one bad note was hit on an instrument, so we ran through it one more time real quick. This is take three of three. I hope it blesses you.   If you are a worship leader and would like to bring this song into your church's musical worship rotation, email me (see below) and I will gladly send you the chord sheet for it. To God be the glory!   Email: [email protected]