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March 2, 2026 - Center Missionary Baptist Church is hosting a Lineman and Utility Worker Appreciation Service at 11am on Sunday, March 15, 2026. Lunch will be served at 12 noon.
March 2, 2026 - Bright Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church (MBC) is hosting Ignite Youth Revival. The two-day revival is Thursday, March 12 and Friday, March 13 at 7pm nightly.
Guest speaker, Pastor Brian Bass from Greater Shiloh MBC of Lufkin, and host, Pastor Anthony Jackson, will ignite the revival with anchor verses: Psalm 85:6 and Timothy 4:12.
Bright Morning Star MBC is located at 623 Martin L. King Jr. Blvd., Center, Texas 75935.
March 2, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, March 2. Welcome to my favorite month! March has St. Patrick’s Day, the first day of Spring, and this year it features Palm Sunday. Ok, it also has the bad time change - the one where we lose an hour of sleep - but no month is perfect. March, at least here in Texas, brings wildflowers and hummingbirds and warm breezes. And, speaking of Texas, March also brings Independence Day - today!
On March 2, 1836, a group of 28 men, meeting in a place called Washington on the Brazos, signed a document that declared Texas to be free and independent. It mirrored the moment that occurred 60 years earlier in Philadelphia, when America was begun. And just like the American Revolution, the declaration wasn’t the end of the struggle, but was just the beginning. Four days after Washington on the Brazos, the Alamo fell, and many brave men fell with it - men who, as the song goes, “more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life”.
Human beings have been struggling for independence, for freedom, throughout human history. It is a struggle, a desire, that seems to be born within each of us. Here’s what the scriptures have to say about this need.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17 - The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- John 8:35 - If the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed.
- Galatians 5:13 - You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free.
- Ephesians 3:12 - in Him, and through faith in Him, we may approach God with freedom.
- Galatians 5:1 - It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
February 27, 2026 - Give Blood, Blood donations, save lives! Lainee Griffin was diagnosed with leukemia this past October. She has received multiple transfusions, plus a February bone marrow transplant at Texas Children's Hospital. You are her Heroes! The family, members of our church, are very thankful for your Commit for Life donation for patients.
Neuville Baptist Church Blood Drive In Honor of Lainee Griffin Sunday, March 15, 2026, 12-noon - 4:30pm in the church Fellowship Hall located at 2158 FM 2140 - Center, TX 75935.
Successful donors will receive a Gulf Coast Blood power bank.
Health Benefit: Free A1c screening with donation.
To schedule an appointment, click here.
All blood donations are in honor of this patient and will go into the general blood supply for all patients in the Texas Gulf Coast region. FDA policy requires blood donors to be unpaid volunteers. No individual may receive a financial benefit or credit from your blood donation today.
February 26, 2026 - The Joaquin Church of Christ will hold a Gospel Meeting from March 1 - March 5 with Kyle Campbell of Lufkin, Texas as guest speaker. Service times on Sunday are 9am Bible Class, 10am Morning Worship and 6pm Evening Worship. Monday thru Thursday evening services begin at 7pm.
We encourage everyone to take this opportunity to come and worship with us as we strive to grown in the knowledge of God's word. We are located at 10674 US Hwy 84 East in Joaquin.
February 26, 2026 - Ruth Graham wrote a book entitled, “In Every Pew Sits A Broken Heart”. All of us need to remember that from time to time. There is also a familiar passage in I Peter chapter 5 and verse 7 we need to remember. Peter writes there, “Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you”.
You and I are in this verse! There is so much in our world that is impersonal. We live in an age of bigness and numbers. Everyone wants to know “the last four of your social” when you call wanting information on some account that you have.
Yet, God still knows us, you and me, as individuals. God doesn’t keep track of us by a computer or an account number. You see, it’s just the way we read in John chapter 10, he knows us.
But we are not only in that verse in I Peter as individuals. In that verse are our cares, our concerns and our problems. Every care that you and I are carrying is in that passage. Cares that often can be roadblocks to blessings. Yet, Peter tells us to cast our cares upon Jesus and with our cares removed we can truly experience the joy of the Lord.
Never forget, no one cares like Jesus and no one understands like Jesus. For those who will surrender their life to Him, obey His commands and live His kind of life, Jesus will carry their burdens. The question is, are you living life Jesus’ way?
Come and join us for Worship
Center Church of Christ
www.centerchurchofchrist.com
February 24, 2026 - Mt. Gillion Baptist Church is hosting their Annual Cemetery Clean Up Day on Saturday March 7, 2026 from 9am -12 noon. Come to the Mt. Gillion Baptist Church cemetery, bring your lawn equipement, and let’s spend the morning together.
Lawn equipment needed: rakes, mowers, weedeaters, trash bags, shovels, chain saws, leaf blowers, and handyman tools.
Water and gatorade will be provided.
Cemetery Committee:
Rev. George Grace - President
Deacon Curtis Hamilton - Vice President
Sis. Shirley Watts - Treasurer
Sis. Lillian Wyatt - Vice Treasurer
Sis. Sharon Hamilton - Secretary
February 24, 2026 - New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church in Timpson is having their Choir and Usher Day program on March 15, 2026, at 2:30pm.
Pastor Desmond Johnson of Mt. Horeb of Center will be the guest speaker
Rayford Caraway, Pastor
New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church is located at 8033 FM 2026 Timpson, Texas 75975.
February 23, 2026 - Pleasant Grove Baptist Church (Pastor Johnny R. Jones) at Hwy 96N., CR 4356, Center Texas 75935 is hosting their Annual Family and Friends Day program, Sunday, March 22, 2026, at 2:30 pm.
Guest speaker will be Bishop William Nash of the House of Refuge Ministries.
February 23, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, February 23.
The Bible is a book that teaches us in many different ways. There are verses that explain doctrine, there are poems of praise, there are characters who serve as examples. And then there are the stories. As children, these stories are the gateway to understanding who God is, and these stories guide us throughout our lives. One of the most dramatic stories in the Word is the Tower of Babel.
This story is found in Genesis 11. You won’t find the term “Tower of Babel” there, but you will find people who became so full of themselves that they tried to build a structure that would reach to heaven, that would make them as powerful as God. The story speaks to the constant temptation to rely on our own strength, forgetting that we should be completely dependent on Him. But the story also speaks about language, about how God punished the people by dividing them into many different tongues.
Today there are over 7000 languages in the world. Over 400 of them are spoken here in the United States, where 20% of the population has a first language other than English. When I served on staff at First Baptist Rosenberg, a suburb of Houston, we did a study and found that there were 125 languages spoken within 30 minutes of our church. Even here in rural East Texas there are dozens of different tongues. In a time of great division in America, some count language as a dividing line.
But we are connected by our humanity, and by a common desire to be connected. And, no matter our language, we are connected by the love of God, and by the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Bible has been translated into over 3000 languages. I’ll share this verse in English.
Galatians 3:28 - There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David cindertex50@yahoo.com
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