Welcome to Our Church

It's a pleasure to welcome you to the Buford Presbyterian Church website. Whether member, friend, or visitor - we hope that this site reflects the friendly and open nature of our congregation. If you are searching for a church home, we'd like you to know that there's a special place here just for you.   Our Church is...

  • A Place for Worship. The primary reason we meet together is to focus our attention on God, giving Him our worship and receiving His blessing and inspiration. Each of these occasions is a special time of spiritual refreshment.
  • A Place for Learning. To us, studying the Bible is vital because it not only instructs us intellectually, but also guides us spiritually. We believe it and accept it as God's Word to us, a Book that is alive and relevant to life today. Learning its truths is a thrilling adventure.
  • A Place for Enrichment. For every person at every age level we offer a wealth of opportunities - special programs and ministries for children, youth, and adults which fill the church calendar. You can be sure that in this kaleidoscope of activities there's more than one place where you can be personally enriched.
  • A Place for Friendship. Nothing quite compares to the joy of Christian friendship. That's why we make it a priority to build lasting bonds between the members of our church family - bonds of concern and genuine commitment to one another.
  • A Place for Service. Just as Jesus Christ came "not to be ministered unto, but to minister..." we accept our responsibility to reach out in service to others. This applies both within the church family and outside our fellowship.

Best of all, this circle of care is ever-widening. We'd love it to include you too.

Inspiration for the Week

Quote for the Week:
“A man prayed and, at first, he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized that prayer is listening.” ---Soren Kierkegaard

Inspiration for the Week:
The scriptures sometimes portray Jesus going to a “deserted place” when he felt he needed the time and space to pray for the concerns of his life and the world. These excursions to quiet places were often interrupted by the demands others placed upon him, but the few hours of time he did spend alone in retreat always seemed to re-focus his spiritual energies. Those brief respites from the expectations of the crowds or even his own disciples helped Jesus to sustain himself and nourish his more personal spiritual needs. 

Here he models some good things for us. In the most general sense, he shows us that we all need to be intentional when it comes to our spiritual lives. We need to carve out time in our busy schedules for prayer and devotional activities. If we don’t do it for ourselves, it is likely that no one else will. 

This Sunday’s text from Mark 1:29-39 and the meditation based upon it will take up the topic of the tension we live in between sustaining our private lives of faith and our public lives and how Holy Communion helps to sustain us in our journeys. I hope to see you for worship and partaking of the sacrament this coming Sunday.

Prayer for the Week:
“Almighty God, you are the source of our life, strength, and ministry. In your presence alone we find help, hope, and life. Send us from this hour as a healing reminder of your love to all whose lives we touch this day. We offer our prayers in the name of Christ. Amen.” ---- A Guide to Prayer

From the Pastor's Desk

It’s impossible to believe that I have just completed my first full calendar year as your pastor here at Buford Presbyterian. The past year has continued to be a time for settling into the community and church life. It has been a time for getting to know some of you better and thus deepening our relationships. 

My hope for the members of our congregation in the start of this New Year is that we grow spiritually, as we have done, both as individuals and as a body. Numerical church growth seems always to be a desired goal, but I hope it never comes at the expense of qualitative spiritual growth. I find that this congregation has a hunger for knowledge about the scriptures and how to live a more faith-filled life. I also sense a hunger to serve and do more for people in the larger community. I pray that I’m not wrong about these things. 

Blessings to all of you in this New Year and coming time of transition. May God go with us and those we love in the days and months that lie before us!

Peace in Christ,
Pastor Corey