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October 31, 2023 - Abundant Love Ministries celebrates Hallelujah Night, October 31, 2023, beginning promptly at 6pm. All area youth are invited to join us for an evening of Praise and Worship.
Abundant Love Ministries is located at 1426 Shelbyville Street, Center, Texas.
To our family, church family, friends, and community:
October 31, 2023 - On behalf of the Ministerial Leadership of Abundant Love Ministries, First Lady Felicia and I would like to take a moment to thank each and every one of you who participated and showed your appreciation to us during Clergy Appreciation Month.
Your generous endowments, acts of kindness, thoughts and prayers, visiting or traveling to shower special love on us during our October Sunday services where each of our ministers and their wives were recognized and honored, and supporting our Annual Clergy Appreciation Banquet, reflected greatly your love and affection for this ministry. Each gift received, whether individually or as a whole, was received into our hearts with joy and gladness; treasures to behold.
From each of us to each of you, Thank you and ABUNDANT BLESSINGS to you all. We look forward to seeing you in any of our regular scheduled services.
Yours In Christ,
Pastor Marlin Cloudy, Sr.
October 31, 2023 - Clever Creek Baptist Church 199 CR 1042 at FM 417 West, Center, Texas 75935 will host Evangelist Lee E. Thomas from Westlake, Louisiana, for a special study event on Sunday, November 12, 2023. Evangelist Thomas will be teaching his important study book on “Living the Exceedingly Victorious Life.” The study will begin at 10 a.m. and will continue through the morning until lunch-time and then after lunch will continue until finishing. Books and other materials will be available to assist in the study and prayer time.
A free lunch will be provided for all who attend the victorious living study at around 12 noon in the church fellowship hall. After finishing lunch, around 1 p.m., the prayer study will resume in the auditorium, concluding about 3 p.m.
October 30, 2023 - First Methodist Church Center invites the community to enjoy Trunk or Treat at 211 Porter Street, Center, TX 75935 on October 31, 2023 from 5pm-7pm. Join the Joy and bring your vehicle, decorate your trunk and hand out candy or stop by for some treats (no tricks). Set Up begins at 4:15pm in the parking lot. If you'd like to participate with your vehicle but cannot arrive until after 5pm, call the church office at 936-598-2707 and we will reserve a spot for you!
October 30, 2023 - Hallelujah Night 2023 is coming up, Tuesday, October 31, 2023 from 6pm until 8pm. It will be filled with fun stuff for the kiddos, Jesus Music, Jesus people, and Jesus Atmosphere!! Everyone is welcome!! Location is at Center Christian Fellowship, 2471 Highway 96 North, Center, TX 75935.
October 30, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Monday, October 30.
The weather has turned cold here today! And so, just on the threshold of Halloween and the month of November, we're getting in the holiday spirit! First Baptist Center is busy preparing our holiday event, Journey to Bethlehem, and you can find out more about it on Shelby County Today website.
This morning, however, we focus on a different Bethlehem. It's located just five miles from Jerusalem, but has the feel of an entirely different place. Modern Bethlehem is part of the West Bank, that area where three million Palestinians live, fifty thousand of them Christians.
Bethlehem, today, is surrounded by walls, fences, gates, check-points. It is something of an armed camp, filled with soldiers, filled with danger, filled with despair. In typical years, thousands of pilgrim-tourists journey to Bethlehem during the holidays. But this year, at Christmas, the hotels may very well be empty.
Pray for Israel. Pray for Bethlehem.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
October 27, 2023 - Come join us tomorrow night, October 28, at 6:30pm for our Annual Family Fall Fun at the First Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ in Center Texas. There will be bounces house; volleyball; snow cones; hayride; lots of food, fellowship, and fun; and pumpkin painting. Hope to see you there!
October 26, 2023 - It was in the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:9 that Jesus said, “blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.” For more than 20 centuries this great word has been knocking at the closed door of the hearts of men and women, largely in vain. We have said yes with our lips. Yet, in our hearts, we have said, “blessed are the sowers of discord.” Blessed are the war makers and blessed are the fomenters of strife. We see it every day in our land and in our world.
We must understand that to make peace is to do far more than merely abolish strife. It is to do more than cause folks to be peaceable. It is quite possible that we may keep the peace without having peace. We may bring about the cessation of strife without in any real sense being peacemakers.
The peacemaker Jesus speaks of does a positive work. This individual puts an end to strife by bringing in the opposite of strife. This person does not pull up the noxious weeds of discord and enmity and hate only by one and leave the garden bare. Rather, this person sows and cultivates such a luxuriant crop of love, joy, peace and long-suffering that the disturbing weeds are all crowded out.
We live in a world that is filled with and characterized by fighting. It affects every level of our society. In this continual strife, God calls His people to be peacemakers. However, to be a peacemaker, it involves first making peace with God through Jesus Christ.
It’s something to think about... tbp
Join Us for Worship this coming Lord’s Day at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com.
October 23, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Monday, October 23.
Yesterday, we welcomed a guest teacher to our church. He was an expert in the area of Apologetics. That's a term that, perhaps, isn't widely known or well understood. The word comes from the Greek "apologia." That sounds like our word "apology," but has more in common with the legal term, defense.
In Acts 26, when we see the Apostle Paul in court, defending himself before the Roman governor, Felix, and the Jewish king, Agrippa, the word apologia is used. And the Apostle Peter uses it in I Peter 3:15 - "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."
In our world today, an era that some have called "Post Christian," it becomes more and more important that believers be able to give a reasoned and thoughtful argument (another legal term) concerning what we believe.
Titus 1:9 - "We must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that we can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it".
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
October 19, 2023 - Scare Tactics is an annual production by New Life Church now in its 12th year. The production includes live action drama, video scenes, costumes, make-up, lights, sound effects, interaction with the audience, and a short gospel message. Scare Tactics presents an all-new production each year to keep the experience exciting and fresh. So, if you’ve seen Scare Tactics before you haven’t seen this one! This presentation is based on a TV show by the same name, in which participants wish to scare friends or family. In our version they are trying to scare others about the importance of our decisions concerning eternity (Heaven or Hell).
- Sunday, October 29 from 6pm to 8pm
- Monday, October 30 from 7pm to 9pm
- Tuesday, October 31 from 7pm to 9pm
- Wednesday, November 1 from 7pm to 9pm
- Thursday, November 2 7pm to 9pm
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