Aug 16, 2026

Matt Sikes

We wanted to just make you all aware of something that’s come to our attention over the weekend, and we felt like it was best for us to tell you now rather than have you go this week and then experience anything that might happen and then be surprised.

So I know you’re all wondering what’s going on. So I’ll be quick about this and I'll share just brief details about what’s going on. 

So we got word that there’s more going on with people who recently left our church, specifically with Jonathan Frazier and Jarrod Wilson. We know that they have been spreading rumors about our church from the outside to other people. Specifically what concerns us is that we got an email on Friday from a man who runs a sort of gossip online blog that maybe some of you may have heard about before. It’s called Protestia, and he plans to run an article about Pray’s Mill Baptist Church and quote “the ecclesiological problems that he’s been made aware of”.

What’s important to know is that we know this man also, several months ago, talked to other former members who left our church who shared that we didn’t handle the Josh Buice situation correctly, according to them. 

So we don’t know all the details. He unfortunately didn’t share the article with us. We aren’t responding to him. He asked us for a comment, he asked us some questions, some very leading questions. We refused to comment to him and give him any information, and that’s our plan moving forward.

He told us he’ll be publishing something tomorrow. Maybe it’s a bluff, maybe it’s real. We wanted you to know about it before it happened so you could be aware of it. We don’t know what all he’s gonna say in that article, again, because he didn’t share it with us.

We do know one, at least one situation that we were made aware of, and we can give more details about all that if any of you have questions of what we do know. We’re happy to share. All the elders and deacons kinda know at least what we know, at this point we’ve shared those details with everyone. So feel free to ask any of us about those questions.

So that’s the summary of what’s going on. We want you to be aware in case there is an article read and you see that this week sometime. Again, if you have any questions, please reach out to us. We’re open, our doors are open, and we are happy to answer any questions that you might have. 

But as always, we want to remind you, remembering what Pastor Jon said in our most recent members meeting, that we’re going to keep on loving one another and we’re going to keep on serving Christ. And I think it’s appropriate that we are where we are right now in 1 Peter for the sermon tonight and the sermon last week. It all fits in so well with what we’re experiencing and what we’re facing right now. And for some reason Satan wants to continue to attack our church.

So again, if you have questions, please come to us and we’d be happy to talk to you later on. And obviously if anything does come up, yeah, I think I can answer those questions.
Thank you all so much. That’s all I have. And we hope you have a blessed week. Sorry to drop this on you at the end of the Lord’s Day, but as it has been otherwise a very joyful Lord’s Day and we’re thankful to be able to have worship together.