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June 8, 2023 - Pleasant Grove MBC will be at Wal-Mart Saturday, June 17, 2023 from 10am-2pm with tickets available for Youth Fundraiser!!! There are 3 prizes that will be won on Father's Day.
We need your help and support in our effort to take our kids to Church Camp this year. Rose Jackson with Mama Rose Italian Ice will be there with her awesome Italian Shaved Ice too. So, come by and see us. We will be set up on the Pharmacy side. For more information, you can message me on Facebook or email me at joshcrawford99@gmail.com. Thank you and God Bless you.
June 8, 2023 - To those who know us, it would come as no surprise that other than the Longhorn Network, probably our favorite channel to watch on television is the Food Network. We have several shows that are among our favorites and one of those is “The Pioneer Woman”. The Drummond family owns a large cattle ranch in Oklahoma and part of the show us usually devoted to what is taking place on the ranch as well as the recipes Ree Drummond shares with her audience.
I remember a segment where they were branding cattle on the ranch. Branding season usually is in the spring of the year, and we know that the purpose of branding cattle is so that they will bear the mark of their owner.
Well, that started the old wheels turning in my head. You see, Jesus wants us to carry His brand. Paul said in Galatians 6:17. “I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus”. Paul possible was referring to the stripes he received in Philippi, or the emaciation of his body due to hunger. And yet, he might well have been referring to certain things about himself that identified him with the cause of Christ.
Jesus told us that the mark of discipleship was love. Before he went to the cross, he told His disciples in John 13:34-35, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” Just as cattle on the ranch will bear the mark of the owner, when we love each other we will be branded by Jesus, we will carry the mark of Jesus Christ to whom we belong.
It’s something to think about... tbp
Join Us for Worship this coming Lord’s Day at Center Church of Christ or online at www.centerchurchofchrist.com
June 5, 2023 - An Evening with Lady Nash - Honoring Pearlie Nash on July 9, 2023 at 3:00 pm at The House of Refuge Apostolic Ministries 215 Church Street, Center Tx 75935. Guest speaker - Carol Beard from New Birth Reconciliation Ministry Inc. Moss Point MS. Everyone is invited. If you have any questions contact tecosawalker@yahoo.com
June 5, 2023 - The New Prospect Cemetery Association will hold its annual Homecoming event on Sunday, June 11th at the church on FM 1645 near Timpson.
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Lunch will be served at noon and our supporters are invited as we honor the lives of those buried in our cemetery. Please bring covered food dishes, old family photos, genealogy records and join us for fellowship and financial support of our cemetery.
June 5, 2023 - I have told “my first sermon” story for my years now, but realized last week that I had almost forgotten my real “first sermon.” I didn’t preach it at Center’s Central Baptist Church in 1950 (as I have claimed) but preached it at the Mill Pond in Shelbyville, Texas. I had the year right but not the place.
In the fall of 1950 I enrolled in Panola Junior College in Carthage, Texas. As I was hitch hiking home to Shelbyville one day, I spotted a hungry little puppy abandoned at the roadside. I hitch-hiked home with him and named him “Spot.”
One day after school, Spot followed me to the pond and heard me preach my first sermon. My preacher expressions like “One more word” and “in conclusion” didn’t seem to bother Spot nearly as much they bothered our church members. I had three points (like preachers do) and after closing with “amen,” Spot followed me back up the hill without uttering a single amen or a word of praise.
When I later preached at Central Baptist Church, my Aunt Belvin Busbee told me that I’d be another Billy Graham and that I needed to buy a suit. And she was half-right.
I did need to buy a suit.
June 5, 2023 - Good Morning! It's Monday, June 5.
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This morning we begin Vacation Bible School at First Baptist Church Center. I've chosen 25 of my favorite Bible verses and will share five each day this week. No commentary. No teaching. Just the Word of God speaking for itself, speaking with power, speaking with wisdom.
- Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
- Matthew 6:33 - Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be given unto you.
- John 16:33 - I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. In this world you shall have tribulation. But be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.
- Isaiah 40:31 - Those who hope in the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall soar on wings like eagles; they shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not faint.
- 2 Timothy 1:7 - God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self control.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
Bro. David
dmathis@fbccenter.org
June 2, 2023 - Lydia Missionary Baptist Church 2023 Revival starts Sunday at 11am and 6pm, Monday - Wednesday at 7pm located at Hwy 139 in Huxley. Everyone invited.
June 2, 2023 - The annual New Hope Cemetery Homecoming will be held Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 12:00 noon. Bring your favorite dishes and come enjoy a time of food and fellowship. If you are unable to attend please send donations to: New Hope Cemetery, 1597 FM 2974, Center, TX 75935.
Blount Chapel Missionary Baptist Church Center, Texas and Pastor Byron Coutee, Jr. is hosting their Annual Usher's Day program on Sunday, June 4th, 2023 at 3pm.
Guest speaker will be Rev. Rayford Caraway from New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church Timpson, Texas.
Dinner will be served. Everyone is invited to attend.
Church Clerk, Sis. April N. Moore
June 1, 2023 - Clever Creek Church, located at 199 CR 1042 at FM 417 West in Center, Texas will be bringing the “Love Worth Sharing Meeting” first week in July, 2023. Beginning on Sunday, July 2nd, Sunday School will be at the regular time of 10:00 am, followed by the 10:55 am Worship, with Brother Jim Moss preaching. Prayer meeting will return at 6:00 pm, followed by Brother Dwayne singing, and Brother Jim preaching. Services will continue Monday, July 3rd, with the same schedule as Sunday evening.
On Tuesday, July 4th, beginning at 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, there will be an all-day of preaching and singing. A free lunch will be provided at 12 Noon and then preaching resuming at about 1 pm and concluding at 3 or 3:30 pm. Then at 6:30 pm services will resume with a prayer meeting and Brother Dwayne’s singing, followed by Evangelist Jim’s preaching. Services will wrap up on Wednesday, July 5th, with 6:00 pm prayer meeting, 6:30 pm, with Brother Dwayne’s singing, and concluding with Rev. Jim’s preaching at 7:00 p.m.
Evangelist Jim Moss, from Nacogdoches, Texas, will be one of two key speakers during this patriotic week in July. Rev. Moss was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and called to preach at the age of 14, preaching in over seventy-seven churches in his young years. When he turned eighteen, in 1978, he became the pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in Arkansas in a year’s time, which included over two-hundred-fifty baptisms. He moved to the Shelbyville area in 1981, pastoring Ephesus Baptist Church, before he became pastor of the First Baptist Church in San Augustine. In the year 2000 Pastor Moss felt called to be involved in evangelism. He began a ministry in the Love Worth Sharing Evangelistic Ministries where he has shared the gospel to over fifty church meetings a year.
Brother Dwayne Williams will also be sharing his music and testimony at Clever Creek as a full-time “cowboy evangelist. He is better known as the “Texas Teddy Bear” and is also a Nacogdoches native. Dwayne grew up loving music. It wasn’t long before he was performing with a country music band, The Rolling River Band, living out the dream of a sought-after musician in Nashville. Nominated as New Male Vocalist of the Year in 1996, he felt he had reached the Nashville recognition with record contracts that he had only dreamt of.
“But God had bigger plans”, said Brother Dwayne, as he surrendered his music over to the Lord, first through studying God’s Word and then again through the music that he felt within. This time, with the Lord’s prompting. Dwayne has followed the leading, recording Christian music and sharing his love for Christ through music and the Gospel.
The July 2023 meetings at Clever Creek Baptist Church will be a good time to enjoy the food and fellowship with friends and partake of the great music and preaching of these two evangelists. You won’t want to miss out. For further information you may contact Dr. Jerry Hopkins, pastor of Clever Creek, at (936) 591-1936.
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