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Sun, Sep 21
August 30, 2025 - The annual Folsom Homecoming will be held on the grounds of Folsom Cemetery at 12 noon on Sunday, September 21, 2025. Family and friends are encouraged to bring their lunch and donations for the upkeep of the cemetery. Donations can be mailed to : 3471 FM 2026 Center, Texas 75935.
Danny Paul Windham Secretary/Treasurer
September 16, 2025 - Homecoming for Mt. Herman Cemetery located on Hwy 7 West in the Mt. Herman community in Center, Texas will be held on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 12-Noon.
We will also be have the Historical dedication of the cemetery and the new marker will be unveiled. We invite you to come see the new marker and enjoy food and fellowship. The cemetery will be taking donations as well for the yearly upkeep. You may give to any board member or if you cannot make it but would like to donate please mail to:
Mt. Herman Cemetery
c/o Deanne Sample
1106 CR 4314
Tenaha, TX 75974
We are also collecting names and addresses of those whose loved ones are buried here so please get with a board member to leave your info. Hope to see you there.
Deanne Sample- Secretary/Treasurer
September 16, 2025 - The Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ will be celebrating their 111th Church Anniversary on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 3pm. Guest speaker will be Supt. Fremon Bryant, Superintendent of the Shelbyville District. Come and celebrate together!
The celebration will be held at 620 Greer Street, Center, Texas 75935 with Elder Cleon D. Williams, Sr., Pastor.
Sun, Sep 28
September 16, 2025 - The historical Old East Hamilton Cemetery will have its annual Homecoming and Dinner on the grounds on September 28, 2025, from 11am to 3pm. This is always a wonderful time of visiting, honoring our loved ones, and singing, as well as conducting the annual business meeting for the cemetery.
There will be a workday on Saturday, September 20, 2025 to set up the tables and arrange the benches in preparation for Homecoming on the 28th. Anyone who is available and can help for a couple of hours, please meet at 8am on the 20th at the cemetery.
As always, donations are welcomed and encouraged for the upkeep and maintenance of this beautiful cemetery. We look forward to seeing everyone this year!
If you are unable to attend but would still like to donate, please contact Doyle Miller at 936-368-2246, and he will be glad to accept your donation on behalf of the cemetery. For those who may not know, Dudley Cox passed away on August 21, 2025. He very diligently took care of the cemetery many years, and will certainly be missed.
Faith
September 19, 2025 - Did you ever wake up early Sunday morning, the neighbors are all in bed, the streets are quiet and the yards are empty? The world is asleep as you prepare for worship on the Lord’s day. That’s what you get for being a Christian.
Did you ever leave dishes in the sink, a blouse un-ironed and the floors un-swept to visit a sick friend or run an errand for someone confined to home? That’s what you get for being a Christian.
Did you ever work with a group of people who use profanity and live loose lives morally who think you are strange because you are a Christian and not like they are?
All of that is what you get for being a Christian. Yet, think what is yours for being a Christian:
- You are a child of the King.
- You are loved and cared for.
- You have a peace and happiness the world does not know and cannot take away.
- You shall inherit eternal life.
- You have a Father to whom you can take all your unresolved problems. A Father who abolishes fear and doubt.
All of those things are yours when you become a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ, living His kind of life, His way.
It’s something to think about... tbp
Center Church of Christ
www.centerchurchofchrist.com
September 16, 2025 - The Lily of the Valley Church of God in Christ will be celebrating their 111th Church Anniversary on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 3pm. Guest speaker will be Supt. Fremon Bryant, Superintendent of the Shelbyville District. Come and celebrate together!
The celebration will be held at 620 Greer Street, Center, Texas 75935 with Elder Cleon D. Williams, Sr., Pastor.
September 16, 2025 - The historical Old East Hamilton Cemetery will have its annual Homecoming and Dinner on the grounds on September 28, 2025, from 11am to 3pm. This is always a wonderful time of visiting, honoring our loved ones, and singing, as well as conducting the annual business meeting for the cemetery.
There will be a workday on Saturday, September 20, 2025 to set up the tables and arrange the benches in preparation for Homecoming on the 28th. Anyone who is available and can help for a couple of hours, please meet at 8am on the 20th at the cemetery.
As always, donations are welcomed and encouraged for the upkeep and maintenance of this beautiful cemetery. We look forward to seeing everyone this year!
If you are unable to attend but would still like to donate, please contact Doyle Miller at 936-368-2246, and he will be glad to accept your donation on behalf of the cemetery. For those who may not know, Dudley Cox passed away on August 21, 2025. He very diligently took care of the cemetery many years, and will certainly be missed.
September 16, 2025 - Homecoming for Mt. Herman Cemetery located on Hwy 7 West in the Mt. Herman community in Center, Texas will be held on Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 12-Noon.
We will also be have the Historical dedication of the cemetery and the new marker will be unveiled. We invite you to come see the new marker and enjoy food and fellowship. The cemetery will be taking donations as well for the yearly upkeep. You may give to any board member or if you cannot make it but would like to donate please mail to:
Mt. Herman Cemetery
c/o Deanne Sample
1106 CR 4314
Tenaha, TX 75974
We are also collecting names and addresses of those whose loved ones are buried here so please get with a board member to leave your info. Hope to see you there.
Deanne Sample- Secretary/Treasurer
September 15, 2025 - The Askew reunion will be held Saturday, September 20, 2025, from 10am to 2pm in the Clever Creek Baptist Church Fellowship Hall.
All Askews and those related are invited. Bring your favorite dish and join the fun. Meal served at 12 noon.
September 15, 2025 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, September 15.
“Tinkers to Evers to Chance”. If you’re a fan of baseball, you know that those three names mean only one thing - double plays! In the first decade of the 20th century, these three infielders turned over 500 of them for the Chicago Cubs. The very first one came on September 15, 1902. And they led their team to four pennants and two world series victories.
Their names, over a century later, continue to be a metaphor for smooth efficiency and successful teamwork. Fittingly, Joe Tinker (shortstop), Johnny Evers (second baseman), and Frank Chance (first baseman) were inducted into the Hall of Fame together. An interesting side note - the three great players weren’t great friends. Tinker and Evers frequently feuded and once came to blows on the field during a game! Somehow, though, they put all that aside to reach a common goal.
The two greatest characters in the New Testament (after Jesus) are Peter and Paul. These two men, more than any others, shaped and inspired the new faith that they called “The Way”, and that we call Christianity. But they were two very different personalities, and scripture tells us that they clashed, sometimes publicly. They were both A type guys and so conflict was probably predictable.
What wasn’t predictable, was that Peter and Paul worked out their differences and found a way to work together. In his second book, Peter calls Paul his “beloved brother”. We, too, can work through our differences. We can choose to see value and humanity in each other. We can find common ground. Our success depends on it.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
September 14, 2025 - A prayer service will be held on the Downtown Shelby County square at 6pm on Sunday, September 14, 2025. This is a multi-church event and everyone is invited.
September 12, 2025 - First Methodist Church of Shelbyville would like to invite anyone in need of a loving and supportive church family to come grow with us. We are a church that loves God and stands firm on his word.
We meet each Sunday with Sunday School Classes starting at 10am and Worship at 11am. The church is located at 252 FM 417 West, Shelbyville, Texas 75973.
The church's mission is to make disciples of Jesus Christ who worship passionately, love extravagantly, and witness boldly. For more information, contact Pastor Sherry Harding at saharding1969@gmail.com.
September 11, 2025 - The Roberson Family will be in concert at Old Home Baptist Church on Saturday, September 20th at 6pm. Come on out for a night of good music and fellowship. Old Home Church is located at 635 CR 3455 Joaquin, Texas, 1/4 mile off of FM 699.
September 11, 2025 - Have you ever seen items on sale at a greatly reduced price and in the fine print you read “minor imperfections?” Have you ever thought about how that describes us? The church is composed of folks that have imperfections. There are members, preachers, bible class teachers, song-leaders and others with “minor imperfections.” Amazingly, over the years God has been able to work wonders through imperfect people. In fact, God has never had a chance with any other kind.
If a preacher ever finds a congregation with no faults, he will have found a place where no teaching, preaching or training is necessary. If a congregation ever finds a perfect preacher, he will seem unreal, completely without understanding of the difficulties and burdens and sorrows people with minor imperfections struggle with.
It is imperfect Christians, working together, forgiving one another’s faults, who come nearest to presenting Christ the “perfect” church.
If you know of someone who stays away from the church, away from the worship because there are people there with imperfections, invite them it. There is always room for one more imperfect person. Also, just how perfect does it make you when you refuse to forgive the imperfections of another? How perfect does it make you, when you try to destroy the usefulness of another in the kingdom of Christ because they might have “minor imperfections?”
I don’t guess we should take a personal inventory. We might find that we have “minor imperfections.”
It’s something to think about... tbp
Center Church of Christ
www.centerchurchofchrist.com
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