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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.
July 8, 2025 - Patroon Baptist Church is hosting its Revival July 16 through July 18 at 7pm nightly. The message for the 3 night revival, Wednesday through Friday, will be brought by Bro. Mike Belgard.
The church is located at 310 FM2261, Shelbyville, TX 75973.
July 7, 2025 - Come join us for all the fun at Vacation Bible School at the First Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ this Thursday through Saturday, July 10-12 from 6pm to 8pm for ages 5-12. The church address is 480 FM 2026, Center, Texas 75935. Join us for kid oriented games, skits, crafts, music, puppet theater nightly, and meal and snacks!
July 7, 2025 - Good Morning. It’s Monday, July 7.
Texas is a big, big state. El Paso is closer to San Diego, California than it is to Texarkana. Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is larger than Manhattan. The entire state of Rhode Island could fit inside the King Ranch. Texas is so huge that it has at least seven distinct geographical regions. From the rugged Trans-Pecos mountains of West Texas to the verdant Piney Woods here in East Texas. From the majestic Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to the beautiful Padre Island beaches on the Gulf Coast. The Lone Star State has a little bit - or a lot - of everything.
But perhaps the most beautiful part of our state is at its center, an area called the Hill Country. When the early Texas settlers first saw it, they wrote back to their families in Tennessee and Kentucky, describing it as “paradise”. Growing up, my family spent every summer vacationing in New Braunfels on the lovely Comal River. The Comal is a quiet, cool (72 degrees) tributary of the much larger Guadalupe - the site of this past weekend’s horrifying disaster.
It was, in the most negative sense, a “perfect storm”. Freak amounts of rain, coming in the dead of night, on Independence Day Friday, the beginning of a 4th of July weekend. An area that attracts thousands and thousands of visitors, dotted with resorts and RV parks and youth camps. By this morning, the confirmed death toll had risen to 81, with many still missing, many of them children. These words do not adequately describe this catastrophe. It is an indescribable loss.
This morning our hearts go out and our prayers go up. And we claim the promise found in Psalm 34:18 - “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves those with a crushed spirit.”
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
July 4, 2025 - St. John Baptist Church of Center and Pastor Rev. Winston Kibbles are hosting its Annual Homecoming and Revival Services July 20 through July 23.
Homecoming service on Sunday, July 20 at 2pm will have a message brought by Rev. Mario Osby, Smith Chapel Baptist Church, Timpson.
The Three Night Revival starts Monday, July 21 and ends Wednesday, July 23 at 7pm nightly. Revival services guest pastor is Rev. Cedric Grace, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, San Augustine.
Revive, Revive, Revival!
St. John Baptist Church is located at 2308 County Road 2050, Center, Texas 75935.
July 4, 2025 - We would like to remind and invite everyone to the annual homecoming for Tennessee Cemetery on Sunday, July 20, 2025.
Homecoming will be held at the Tennessee Presbyterian Church on FM 947. The business meeting will begin at 11am with lunch following at 12 noon. Please come to enjoy a wonderful lunch and catching up with friends.
If you are unable to attend and would like to contribute to the upkeep of the cemetery, send your donations:
Tennessee Permanent Trust Fund
% Jeanie Rhodes
1434 CR 4916
Timpson, TX 75975
Tennessee Working Committee
% Billie Jackson
7607 RM 947
Gary, TX75643
July 3, 2025 - We are living in turbulent times. Our political landscape has become a minefield and it seems that every day the rhetoric becomes more hateful and divisive. Yet, there is a very significant passage of scripture from Paul in Romans chapter 12. Paul tells how we should treat each other. He tells us to be kindly affectioned toward each other, to bless them that persecute us, to rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with those who are weeping. He then writes this very meaningful statement in verse 18: “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.”
Have you ever thought, really thought about that passage? Paul wants us to understand there will be people we can’t get along with. There will be people we can’t be popular with. There will be people who just plain do not like us. If we are honest, this should not come as a great shock to us. You see, to be truthful, none of us completely likes everything about the way we are.
Yet, Paul says we are to live peaceably with others as much as possible. That means we are to understand that the Body of Christ, the Church, is bigger than any individual and more important than any individual. That means we must turn loose of the idea that “it’s all about me” and realize it’s all about the Lord. Until we do that, we will never please the Lord and the Church will never thrive and prosper the way the Lord wants it to.
It’s something to think about... tbp
Come join us for Worship at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com.
July 1, 2025 - Wallace Chapel Baptist Church 109 South Marcus Street Timpson, Texas 75975. Reverend Derrick Rhodes, Pastor; Sister Shaneeta Rhodes, First Lady.
Theme: "Dwelling in the Secret Place" Psalm 91:1
- Homecoming Speaker: Elder Donald Baker, July 6, 2025 12:30pm.
- Monday night speaker: July 7, 2025 - Superintendent Marvin Jackson I, Clayton Temple C.O.G.I.C. Timpson, Texas
- Tuesday night speaker: July 8, 2025 - Overseer Marvin Graves, Eagle Wings Ministry Carthage, Texas
- Wednesday night speaker: July 9, 2025 - Bishop Cedrick Grace, Sr., Mount Zion Baptist Church
- San Augustine, Texas
- Homecoming and Revival: Homecoming Sunday, July 6, 2025 Revival, Monday through Wednesday July 7, 8, and 9, 2025 7:30pm nightly.
Everyone is Invited!
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