March 6, 2024 – Abundant Love Ministries will celebrate our 15th Annual Church's Anniversary, Sunday, March 24th at 2pm. Pastor Norris Cloudy of Divine Faith Tabernacle, Houston Texas will be our guest minister. ALM Sunday school and regularly scheduled noonday service are cancelled for the day.

You are welcomed and invited to join us in celebration of this milestone anniversary, in addition to any of our other regularly scheduled weekly services.

Abundant Love Ministries is located at 1426 Shelbyville Street, Center, Texas 75935.

March 6, 2024 – The St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church located at 617 Hopkins Street, Center, Texas will be honoring our Pastor Dr. Freddie D. Wilson and First Lady Sister Lula Wilson for 31 years of service, on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 3pm. The speaker will be Pastor Timothy Teel of the Bell Chapel Baptist Church, San Augustine, Texas. Everyone is invite to celebrate and worship with us.

“Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Deuteronomy 10:19
“These things I command you, that ye love one another.” John 15:17

March 4, 2024 - “I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like” was a famous quote by Will Rogers. And as much as I admire Will Rogers, I never understood why this quote is so widely admired. I‘ve never read a scripture that reads, “Thou shalt like thy neighbor.”

Every neighbor we have is an eternal soul and will live forever… somewhere. Saying I don’t love someone is like saying I don’t care where they go when they die. When there was nothing to like about us, Jesus loved us enough to die for us. And all who truly love God love their fellow man, too.

But unlike Will Rogers, I’ve met folks I didn’t like and there have been times that I didn’t even like myself. When my habits and disposition aren’t noble, I don’t expect to be liked.

We can’t like everyone – and it’s silly to try. But we can love and be kind to everyone…

… especially those who are not likable.

March 4, 2024 (Calendar) - Wallace Chapel Baptist Church 2024 Annual Programs and Dates

  • March 31 - Fifth Sunday Fellowship - Sunday, TBA
  • April 7 - Family and Friends Day - Sunday, 2:30pm
  • July 7 - Homecoming - Sunday, 12:30pm
  • July 8 - Annual Revival - Monday night, 7:30pm
  • July 9 - Annual Revival - Tuesday night, 7:30pm
  • July 10 - Annual Revival - Wednesday night, 7:30pm
  • September 1 - Church Anniversary - Sunday, 3pm

Wallace Chapel Baptist Church is located at 108 South Marcus Street Timpson, Texas, 75975. Rev. Derrick Rhodes, Pastor, and Sister Shaneeta Rhodes, First Lady.

"And we know that all thinks work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose," Romans 8:28.


Already held programs

  • March 10 - Pastor and Wife's Appreciation - Sunday, 3pm

March 1, 2024 - Bright Morning Star Baptist Church invites you to our Pastor, Anthony and Wife, Aretha Jackson’s, 5th anniversary service on Sunday, March 10th at 2:30pm.

Our guests will be Rev. Tory Barnes, Co-Pastor of Roberts Baptist Church of San Augustine Texas.

March 1, 2024 - According to the teachings of Jesus, every person is going through one of two gates. Either they are choosing to enter the narrow gate and the narrow way or they are choosing the broad way which leads through the broad gate.

Of course, these two ideas represent two ways of life. One represents the way of good while the other represents the way of evil. The thought taught by Jesus in Matthew 7 is that more people will follow the easy, popular way of life than the one prescribed in the scriptures.

This teaching is harmonious with another of the teachings of Jesus in Matthew 22:14. Here he says, “For many shall be called, but few chosen.” That indicates that there will be only a few people comparatively speaking, interested in the Lord’s way enough to follow it and be saved. Jesus puts it this way, “Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat. Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

Jesus is warning folds to be careful how they live. Many people, thinking they are on the narrow path, might be surprised to find themselves on the broad way. Jesus wants everyone to be saved, but He must have their cooperation in living His kind of life, and living it His way. Are you living for Jesus, and living life His way?

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.

“Five of you will chase a hundred and a hundred of you will put ten thousand to flight…” Lev. 26:8

February 26, 2024 - Last week my brother told me about a stray dog that kept getting in his garbage. He said it wasn’t such a problem until other strays began to show up. “The boldness of the first stray became something fierce when he joined with the others.” “Running together, they’d attack about anything… even a new-born calf.” “It’s amazing what dogs can do when they run together,” he said.

And church members need to realize the value of working together. My Pastor used to tell me, “If you work real hard as a pastor, you’ll see good rewards from it.” “But if you get all the members working together, your results will be limitless.”

The Church is facing tremendous enemies in these last days. And pop guns are no match against Satan’s artillery. Churches need to quit arguing over petty differences and start pulling together. 

We get more done in packs.

February 26, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Monday, February 26.

One of the regular features of our Sunday morning worship service here at First Baptist Center is the Children's Sermon. It's always a joy to see the kids hurrying toward the stage to join our children's minister for their special time. And, as they come, I usually play a special song, This is the story behind that song.

Sisters Anna and Susan Warner never married, living together during the latter half of the 19th century. They supported themselves by writing novels - more than a hundred between them. In 1860, Susan had a bestseller titled "Say and Seal". There was a scene in the book where a very sick boy was visited by his Sunday School teacher. The child, as he lay dying, asked his teacher to sing a song, and the man sang these words -

Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so
Little ones to Him belong, they are weak, but He is strong

The scene, of course, was fiction. There was no little boy, no Sunday School teacher. There was no song. But the publisher was so taken by the lyrics, that he approached the great gospel hymn writer, William Bradbury, to compose a tune. The new song became hugely popular all across America.

And now for the rest of the story.

When missionaries went to exotic China - missionaries like a woman named Lottie Moon - they took this little song with them. It quickly became the favorite hymn of that vast, mysterious country. Today we call this tune "China". In an interesting side note, Bradbury's melody uses the pentatonic scale, just five notes. Most of our music today uses a seven-note scale (Do-Re-Mi). The pentatonic scale is seen mainly in folk songs and in blues music. Oh, and by the way, it's the foundation for the music... of China. Written by an American composer, "Jesus Loves Me" must have seemed, to the children of China, like it was written just for them. And, of course, it was. God works in mysterious ways!

Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org

February 22, 2024 - Recorded in Matthew chapters 5 through 7 we find what we commonly refer to as “The Sermon On The Mount.” As a part of that sermon, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth. He tells that audience in the long ago and us today of the influence that His followers are to have on the world around them. Jesus tells them and speaks to us today to say that Christian character is to be a positive force in this world.

However, sometimes we misunderstand the role that we play in being the salt of the earth. Do you remember the words of Job in Job 6:6? He said, “Can that which is unsavory be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?” Yet, for salt to have any effect on “unsavory food” it must come in contact with that food. It cannot just sit in the salt shaker on the table.

Salt does its work by being brought into close contact with the food it is to season. God’s people cannot influence men and women for good by withdrawing themselves from all contact with the world. It is the Lord’s will that his people be scattered throughout the world so that their influence might be felt in all walks of life. Jesus calls us to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. However, we must always remember that we are to be in the world but not of the world.

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.

“They that come to the Lord must believe that He is......” Hebrew 11:6

February 19, 2024 - When I was in the eighth grade, the Curtis Publishing Company came to our school to get the students to sell popular magazines for them. (Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, etc.). And we could win special prizes if we sold enough subscriptions.

I knocked at Mrs. Munnerlyn’s door and said, “You don’t want to buy any magazines, do you?” “Come in, Henry,” she smiled. “I need to talk to you.” She stood me over a hot heater grate in the floor and gave me one more pep talk. “You’ll never sell anything with that negative approach. To be a good salesman, you’ve got to believe in what you sell.”

Hey, I took her advice and became the number one seller in our class. I won a brand new Schaeffer fountain pen!

One reason some church members never sell anyone on Jesus is because they don’t act like they believe in Him…

… and some of them probably don’t!

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