Grace and Truth Church of Athens

Preacher: Smiles Welch
Date: 7/19/2026
Address: 3374 Pleasant Hill Rd. Athens, OH 45701
Contact: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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: graceandtruthchurchofathens@gmail.com
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