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October 23, 2024 - Hallelujah Night is a community event, where everyone is welcome. This year we will have the “Creature Teacher” in attendance. She will be bringing some pretty interesting friends with her, including “Quigley the Kangaroo,” among other interesting animals for your kiddos to take their pictures with. The event will be on Thursday, October 31st, from 6:00-8:00pm. There will also be a Hay Ride and plenty of ways for your kiddo to have a blast!
We believe Jesus is working 365 days a year, and everyone is welcome to come and Fellowship from 6:00-8:00pm at Center Christian Fellowship, 2471 Highway 96 North, Center, Texas 75935.
October 23, 2024 - St Paul Baptist Church at 617 Hopkins St Center, Tx will be celebrating their 115th church anniversary at 2pm on Sunday, November 3, 2024.
October 22, 2024 - Scare Tactics starts this Sunday night at 6pm. Monday-Thursday at 7pm. Scare Tactics is an annual production presented by New Life Church in it's 13th year. This is a free event!
This production includes: Live-action drama - Video scenes
- Costumes & Make-up - Lights, sound effects
- Interaction with the audience, and a short gospel message.
Each year's production is totally new! NEW storylines, characters, scenes, and everything in between! It's our goal to keep the experience new and fresh each year. 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 i.e.; Heaven or Hell. Children under 12 may find portions of the production frightening or intense, so parental discretion is advised.
October 21, 2024 - The 2024 Women’s Conference will be held October 26, 2024 at 10am at Open Door Women Ministries, 900 Cotton Ford Road, Center, TX. Speakers are Minister Sogunda Strange, Prophetess Donna Martin, 1st Lady Pearl Nash as well as Minister Isha Brown.
October 21, 2024 - Providence Missionary Baptist Church (Providence MBC) is hosting its annual fall festival, and you are cordially invited to join the festivities. This event promises an evening filled with Fun, Friendship, and Food.
The festival will take place on November 2, 2024, from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. The event will be held at the church's location on County Road 1265.
We warmly welcome you to come and experience the vibrant community of Providence MBC. Enjoy the array of engaging activities, connect with friends, and indulge in delicious food.
This annual fall festival is a cherished tradition that brings the congregation and the broader community together. It's an opportunity to celebrate the changing seasons, foster meaningful relationships, and create lasting memories.
We look forward to seeing you there and sharing in the joy of this special occasion. Mark your calendars and join us for an evening of Fun, Friends, and Food at the Providence MBC Annual Fall Festival.
October 21, 2024 - Abundant Love Ministries will continue honoring our ministerial leadership during Clergy Appreciation Month, by honoring and celebrating Pastor Marlin and First Lady Felicia Cloudy, Sunday, October 27, 2024, at 2:30pm.
Minister Stan Cloudy, Sr., of Houston, Texas, will bless us as our guest minister for this joyous occasion.
Regular morning services are cancelled and this will be our only Sunday service for the day. Please join us! You are invited and welcome.
October 21, 2024 - Bright Morning Star Baptist Church is celebrating 116 years on Sunday, October 27, 2024. Service starts at 11am with Minister Deshmond Johnson as speaker.
"He has saved us and called us to a holy life..." 2 Timothy 1:9
Bright Morning Star Baptist Church is located at 623 Martin Luther King Drive, Center, Texas. Church leaders are Anthony Jackson, Pastor; Stephen Fields, Minister; and Deshmond Johnson, Minister.
Good Morning! It's Monday, October 21.
Today our focus is on the subject of control.
What do you say when you answer the phone? I guess there's more than one way to do it, but I'm 99% sure you say "hello". In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and he decided on the word that people should use when they used his invention. He decided we should say "ahoy!". If that had caught on, we'd all sound like sailors every time we got a phone call.
So, even the man who created the phone didn't have complete control of it. I'm thinking that Bell was probably annoyed by that. It can be annoying, frustrating, even terrifying when we lose a sense of control. Have you ever been driving in winter and suddenly started skidding on a patch of ice? Not a nice feeling. Control - of our health, our finances, our time, our lives - is important to us.
God's Word, however, urges us to lose control or, rather, to relinquish control to someone else. That can be a very difficult thing to do. I'm thinking it was very difficult for one particular New Testament character. He was an ambitious guy, some might say driven. He was a builder, a motivator, a leader. God gave Paul all those characteristics so that He could be the man to grow the new, young church. But those same characteristics would have made Paul a man who valued a sense of control. And yet he wrote in Galatians 2:20 -
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
October 17, 2024 - In our world today, it seems that more and more people care little or nothing for the things of God. There are many who never think of being in the assembly when the saints of God have gathered. Often we speak of these as “waiting for the hearse to take them to church.” Let me ask. Have you ever thought about that statement? I read the following somewhere, many years ago and saved it. I have no idea of the original source, and would like to claim it as my own, but sadly, I cannot. It does however provide some food for thought. Here are some things that will happen if you wait for the hearse to take you to church.
1. You will go regardless of the weather.
2. You will go regardless of how your family feels about it.
3. You will go regardless of the condition of your body.
4. You will have beautiful flowers but you will not enjoy them.
5. Regardless of how good the singing is, you will not enjoy it.
6. Whatever the minister says will do you no good.
7. You may have a great need, but no one will be able to help you.
8. You will never be able to attend an assembly on earth again.
9. There will be relatives and friends there, but you will not worship with them.
10. You will go regardless of how many hypocrites are there.
All in all, waiting for the hearse to take you to church doesn’t seem like such a good idea. Perhaps it would be better to attend on your own before that happens.
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 14, 2024 - Good Morning! It's Monday, October 14.
Today we focus on Change, on Christianity, on Columbus. Happy Columbus Day, by the way, or maybe you had forgotten about this holiday. That would be understandable - Columbus Day isn't what it used to be. But if you've studied the history of this holiday, you know that it has always been marked by change.
Christopher Columbus, on October 12, 1492, landed on an island in what is now the Bahamas. He thought he had reached the Far East, what was then called The Indies. And so, the native people who greeted these strange visitors were given the name "Indians", a name that unfortunately stuck, and forever after has been a reminder that Columbus had no idea where he was. With the way history usually works, it's amazing that we don't call our nation "Columbia". But Amerigo Vespucci, another noted Italian navigator, recognized that this was a New World, and so we live in America.
The first official observance of Columbus Day in America came in 1792, the three-hundredth anniversary, with a celebration in New York City. During the 1800's it was celebrated mostly in major cities, especially those with large Italian immigrant communities. New Orleans was one of those places, but along with Italian immigrants came violent racism. And there, in 1891, the largest single lynching in U.S. history occurred, as 11 Italian Americans were seized by a mob and brutally murdered.
President Grover Cleveland, partly in response to that tragedy, declared a one-time commemoration of Columbus the next year, the 400th anniversary. But it wasn't until 1934 that Franklin Roosevelt signed a proclamation declaring the second Monday in October to be Columbus Day. Before Congress could make it a federal holiday, though, the United States found itself at war with Italy, and during the 1940's many Italian immigrants were put into containment camps, some right here in Texas.
It wasn't until 1971 that Columbus Day was officially established. But in the last 50 years, public opinions about this holiday have continued to change. Most states - Texas included - no longer officially observe it, and many have changed the name to Indigenous Peoples Day. Change has always been a part of Columbus Day.
Christopher Columbus' first name means "bearer of Christ". He reached the new world on a ship called Santa Maria - "Holy Mary". And when he stepped out on what he thought was Asia, he called it San Salvador - "Holy Savior". An initial goal of the Spanish was to spread the gospel of Christ. But that goal soon gave way to another purpose - greed.
Still today, we who call ourselves Christians struggle with change, struggle with finding our purpose, struggle to keep our faith relevant in this ever-changing new world.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
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