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July 18, 2025 - Yellowpine Baptist Church is planning revival services with Bro. Levi Cohorst as evangelist.
These services will begin at 7pm Thursday,-Saturday, July 24-26, 2025. There will also be special music during the services.
Pastor T.A. Lane states that the church is excited to welcome Bro. Cohorst to Yellowpine and Sabine County. The guest speaker lives in Timpson, where he serves as pastor of Timpson Missionary Baptist Church and has served on the faculty of Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary (LMBIS) in Minden.
Growing up in Gary, he was saved at the age of 9 at Pine Springs Baptist Camp and was baptized by Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Gary. When he was 17, he answered the call to preach and was licensed by Hopewell. He graduated high school a year later and began attending LMBIS in August of 2012. In 2016 he received his Bachelor's of Theology and in 2017 his Master of Divinity. While attending seminary he worked with the youth at Mt. Bethel Church in Gary from 2012 to 2016. In February of 2016 Timpson Missionary Baptist Church called him to be their pastor and it was there he was ordained and still pastors today. He serves as the clerk for the Shelby County Local Association of Missionary Baptist Churches, and on the Board of Directors for the Texas Mission Builders.
Everyone is invited to attend revival at Yellowpine Baptist Church, located at the intersection of State Hwy. 87 South and FM 2343 in Sabine County's Yellowpine community (125 Scrappin Valley Road). For information, contact Bro. Lane at 409-382-8765.
July 17, 2025 - Old Salem Missionary Baptist Church will have revival services July 30 through August 1, 2025 at 7pm each night. Bro. Charles Williams will be preaching. Please come join us!
The church is located at 325 County Rd 1297, Center, Texas and is lead by Bro. Gordon Vaughn, Pastor.
July 15, 2025 - Join Blount Chapel Baptist Church for their 11th Annual Pastor and Wife Anniversary Celebration Honoring Pastor Byron Coutee Jr and First Lady Sis. Larissa Coutee.
This event will take place Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 3pm at Blount Chapel Baptist Church with Speaker of the Hour, Pastor Derrick White Bethesda Baptist Church, Lufkin.
Scripture: 1st Thessalonians 5:12-13.
July 14, 2025 - Bro. Steven Berry and the members of Neuville Baptist Church would like to invite you to join us for our annual Homecoming services on Sunday, August 24, 2025.
The Southern Plainsmen Quartet from Hornbeck, Louisiana will be holding the services which will start at 10am with NO Sunday School that day. We will have a meal following the services. Please plan on staying to fellowship with us and feel free to bring your favorite dish.
July 14, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, July 14.
Have you ever taken a wrong turn in your life? Found yourself going in the wrong direction? Douglas Corrigan became famous for doing just that. He was born in Galveston, Texas in 1907, and was always fascinated by one thing - airplanes. He became a pilot and flight mechanic, and was part of the team that prepared “The Spirit of St. Louis”, the plane that Charles Lindbergh piloted across the Atlantic in his historic flight.
Corrigan was obsessed with following in Lindbergh’s footsteps, but was never able to get clearance for a Trans-Atlantic journey. Officials took one look at his plane - a cobbled together rattletrap - and turned him down time after time. And then, on July 14, 1938, Corrigan was supposed to take off from New York City and fly to California. Instead, he took a wrong turn, headed east, and 27 hours later, landed in Ireland.
When “Wrong Way” Corrigan returned to New York, he was greeted with a ticker-tape parade bigger than the one they gave Lindbergh. He became a national celebrity, and made a fortune endorsing products like a watch - that ran backwards! He died in 1995, and until the end of his life, continued to swear that it had all been a mistake, an accident, a wrong turn.
Wrong turns in our lives don’t usually lead to fame and fortune. They typically lead to damage and disappointment. So, if you find yourself moving away from God, headed away from His best for your life - don’t be like Wrong Way Corrigan. Turn around!
Acts 3:19 - Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
July 13, 2025 - Mt. Zion C.M.E. Church is hosting its 7th Annual Pastor and Wife Appreciation for Rev. Richard Edwards and First Lady Sharren on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 11am.
Guest Speaker: Minister Nathan Kendell, Jr., Associate Pastor, New St. Matthew Baptist Church Nacogdoches, Texas and Rev. David Avant, Pastor.
"Honor those who are your leaders in the Lord's work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual guidance. Show them great respect and wholehearted love because of their work. And live peacefully with each other." 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13
The church is located at 921 MLK Drive, Center, Texas.
July 11, 2025 - Abundant Love Ministries will be celebrating their annual Family and Friends Day on July 20, 2025, at 2:30pm. Bishop W.C. Martin, Bennett Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, is our guest minister of the hour.
Our morning worship services will be conducted as usual, with Sunday School (Diving Deeper), beginning at 9am and regular midday services at 10am.
Please join us for this time of celebration and fellowship. As well, you are welcome and invited to any of our regularly scheduled services.
Abundant Love Ministries is located at 1426 Shelbyville St., Center, TX; Pastor Marlin Cloudy, Sr., Senior Pastor
July 10, 2025 - First Methodist Church - Center is hosting a Blood Drive on Saturday, July 19th from 10am until 2:30pm. The church is located at 211 Porter Street, Center, TX.
Register at https://www.commitforlife.org/
Visit First Methodist Church online to find out about other upcoming events or ways to help at www.CenterFirst.org.
July 10, 2025 - In a world such as ours, we are often appalled at man’s inhumanity to man and the brokenness of life we see around us every day. We see broken homes, broken health, broken hearts and broken hopes. The Psalmist writes in Psalms 147:3 “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
Throughout the gospels, we see Jesus healing. He healed those who came to him blind and deaf. He healed the lame and he raised the dead. But we also see Jesus healing the brokenhearted. We see him healing those who were broken in spirit. There was an outcast woman at Jacob’s well, a tax collector named Zacchaeus and an unnamed woman caught in adultery, just to name a few. You see, Jesus had a special place for those society had cast away. He did not choose the apostles from the cream of society. They were not highly educated and they were looked down on by society. Yet, Jesus chose them. He remade them. He used them to change the world.
No matter how broken our lives might be by sin, no life is too broken to be mended and used by Jesus. If we are suffering from the brokenness of life, we must submit our stubborn will to his will, obey his commands and live his kind of life. Then he will heal our broken hearts and bind up our wounds.
It’s something to think about. . . tbp
Come join us for worship at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com.
July 10, 2025 - Mt. Gillion Baptist Church, Center, Texas, cordially invites you to come and worship with them on Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 2:30pm for a Pastor and Wife's 2nd Appreciation Service for Pastor Rayford and Sister Judie Caraway. Guest Speaker will be Rev. Anthony Jackson, Pastor of the Bright Morning Star Baptist Church in Center, Texas.
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