Church News

December 11, 2008 11:43 pm

— Bethel AME Church, 101 N. Fourth St., invites you to celebrate the new year as the church will have a musical and “Claim What’s Mine in 2009!” at 6 p.m. Jan. 3. The theme will be from Psalm 150:6. This will be a “bring something” musical: Bring your voices to sing, and your hands to clap; bring your instruments to play, and your feet to dance; bring your ears to hear and your heart to praise; bring your soul to rejoice, and your spirit to be blessed. The Rev. R.C. Emanuel is pastor, the Rev. W.K. McDonald and the Rev. Leonard Johnson are assistant pastors, Minister Jason Forge is minister of music, and Sister Denise Freeman is president.

Church of the Living God, PGT, 517 S. Powell St., where Overseer Robert L. Newsome serves as pastor, will be holding a community bedding give-away from 2 to 5 p.m. Dec. 14. For more information, call (903) 875-8942 or (903) 875-8943.

Community Baptist Church is preparing a mission project in the last week of December to provide electricity to the chapel at Casa Hogar La Nueva Esperansa, but the mission project needs more funding to complete the first stage of the two-stage project.
Casa Hogar La Nueva Esperansa is an orphanage of about 28 children located in Cuidad Mier, Tamaulipas, Mexico, 20 miles southeast of Falcon Lake. For more information, contact Kevin Burns at (903) 641-9160.

Faith Temple Ministries, North State Highway 75, Fairfield, will conclude its revival at 7 p.m. Dec. 12. The speaker is Pastor P.A. Rischer. Everyone is invited. Also, at 6 p.m. Dec. 14 Rischer and Faith Temple ensembles will have a pre-Christmas concert. You are invited to come out and enjoy the blessed holiday with Faith Temple Ministries. For more information, call (903) 389-9030.

Lone Star Cowboy Church of Navarro County, 4495 W. State Highway 22, invites you to join in at 10 a.m. each Sunday for worship. On Dec. 14, Christian country music artist Cheryl Dunn will lead the worship service. After the service, everyone is invited to stay and fellowship as the church will have its Christmas dinner.
At 7 p.m. Tuesdays, there is roping practice. At 7 p.m. Wednesdays there is Bible study. For more information, contact Jarvis Smith at (903) 879-5824 or Jon Coe at (903) 872-1670; or visit the Web site at www.lonestarcowboyfellowship.org.

Men’s Community Prayer Breakfast will meet at 6:45 a.m. Dec. 17 at Trinity Baptist Church, 1200 N. 13th St. This meeting is open to all men in the community. The main emphasis is prayer for the community with interceding for leaders, schools, institutions, government and churches in the community. For more information, call (903) 874-5561.

New Bethel Baptist Church will have a marriage health clinic at 10 a.m. Dec. 13, and a Christmas musical at 7 p.m. Dec. 20 with various groups singing and dancing.

Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, 125 S. Fifth St., where Overseer/Bishop K.D. Davis Sr. is pastor and the Rev. H.P. Williams is associate pastor, invites everyone to “Three Nights of Praise Because of Christ” at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 18-20 honoring the Rev. and Sister H.P. Williams, Brother Richard Washington, Brother Lee Walker, Sister Sara Washington, Sister Constance Miller and Brother Clarence Miller.
You are also invited to wake up to good gospel in the morning as Sixth Avenue Baptist Church has its radio broadcast from 8 to 9 a.m. Sundays on KAND 1340 AM. For more information, call (903) 874-4873.

Unity Baptist Church, 406 S. 34th St., where Chad Owens is pastor, invites you to services: Sunday — Sunday school at 9:45 a.m., worship and children’s church at 11 a.m., Bible study classes at 5 p.m., and worship at 6 p.m.; and Wednesday — prayer meeting at 7 p.m. King’s Kids Class meets the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. A nursery is open for church services. For transportation to services, call (903) 872-2861. At 10 a.m. Tuesdays, a group from Unity visits shut-ins. At 7 p.m. Tuesdays, there is a Bible study at Northwest Apartments Community Center. At 7 p.m. today, the church will have its holiday meal. From 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, the church will sponsor its Christmas for Kids drive, and there will be special music and singers.