Shelby County Today

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 - 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 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 - 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