Updated April 16, 2024
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
Jesus Christ was crucified... he shed His blood and died on a Roman cross in Jerusalem witnessed by hundreds, perhaps thousands. BUT THREE DAYS LATER, HE AROSE FROM THE GRAVE AND WALKED ON THE EARTH FOR FORTY DAYS BEING SEEN BY HUNDREDS. He was the Sacrificial Lamb, making a way for us to be right with God by paying the debt for our sins on that old wooden cross.
Jesus promised that one day he's coming back! He will come back for you if you will believe in your heart that Jesus Christ came to earth as God in the flesh... taking on the form of a man... that He died a sacrificial, substitute death on the cross for your sins and mine, was raised from the dead. If you will confess with your mouth that you accept him as Lord of your life; then on the authority of the Word of God, the Holy Bible, you can avoid the punishment of sin, you can inherit eternal life, and you can begin a new life with God... a life that will never end. You can do that today right where you are. If you truly mean it - and He will know if you are serious about Him - then He will come into your life and give you a new life, a new hope, a new purpose, and a new commitment to live a selfless life, surrendered only to Him.
My dear friend, all my sins are forgiven because I have put my faith and trust in my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He is preparing a place for me in heaven and for all those who will receive Him as Savior and Lord.
Praise God... Jesus took our place on the cross so we could have a place in heaven!
His grace is sufficient for you. He still saves all those who will come to him. Romans 10:13... "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Revelation 3:10... "Behold I(Jesus) stand at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come in to him." You must open the door from the inside. Jesus will not force himself into your life.
"A Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge." A.W. Tozer
BIBLE STUDY
Sunday School classes meet at 10:00 am.
The Ladies Sunday School class is meeting in the Fellowship Hall.
Del Slone's Class is meeting in the old chapel.
The Men’s class is meeting downstairs in what used to be the conference room near the church office.
WORSHIP
Sunday Morning Worship at 11:00 am.
PRAYER MEETING
Wednesday morning prayer meeting, 11:00 am
Change of address or telephone number!
Please let us know by April 15 if you have changed your address or phone number in 2023 or 2024. We are planning to print an updated church directory. Thank you.
Church Business meeting, March 27 - notes
1) For January and February- your tithes and offerings exceeded our church expenditures
2) Terry gave us an updated pianist plan for 2024.
3) The Mission Committee told us their proposed 2024 monthly Missions emphases and projects:
January - Children's Hospital of Mississippi; February- NJC Food Pantry; March - NAMB Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missionaries; April - Buried Treasures; May - Prison Ministry; June - Mercy House; July - Children's Hospital of Mississippi; August - Gateway Rescue Mission(desserts); September - Billy Brumfield House & Margaret Lackey State Missions Offering; October - Christmas Child Shoeboxes; November - Seaman's Center; December - IMB Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missionaries
Wednesday, April 3 we had a great time with Mary Callahan, Prison ministries missionary. They baptized 35 recently.
Brother Steve's Sermon Topic
April 14 - 2 Foundations. Matthew 7:24-29
April 21. Pastor out. Martin Hayden to supply
May 5 - Papaw Caleb (Senior Adult Sunday) Joshua 14:6-12
May 12 - Faith Casts the Longest Shadow (Mother's Day) 2 Timothy 1:5
May 19 - Life's Formula for Success. Philippians 4:12-13
May 26 - Remember. Hebrews 10:32 (Memorial Day)
Activities
April Mission Emphasis - Buried Treasures Home for Women -
April 10 - Singing at Brookdale, Clinton, postponed due to bad weather
April 15 - Luncheon 11:30 at Buried Treasures on Henderson Road - They will share their testimonies after the luncheon. We will need to know how many are planning to go. Sign up in the church office. We will provide food, drinks, paper goods.
I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live; yet not I but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20
Daniel Hall, MBCB Foundation Director, organizer of the Rally
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Livi Cate Osborne is a Freshman at Mississippi College this fall, 2023. She has been awarded the AWBC Scholarship for the year. We were so pleased to meet her and hear the calling of the Lord on her life. We pledge to pray for her as the Lord opens His will for her in the future.
Here is a copy of God's call on her life.
"In the months before my junior year in high school began, I had been praying to God asking for guidance. I was starting to consider colleges, and I had no idea what I wanted my major to be or what I wanted to do after college. Then, on August 22, 2021, I felt God calling me to be a missionary. I was at a Youth Retreat when the speaker asked us to bow our heads and pray for just a few minutes in silence as a way to reflect on what God had taught us that weekend.During that prayer, God answered my questions about my future by calling me to be a missionary. God called me through the Great Commission. Soon after I realized I happened to be wearing a pair of pants I had gotten during a mission trip to Ecuador. It was a beautiful coincidence that also solidified my wandering thoughts. It confirmed that I had just spoken the words to myself, but that they were divinely placed in my mind.
The year that followed this calling was filled with many reminders of the calling of God in my life, along with instances that I did not then realize were going to be as impactful as they were. I happened to meet new people who were either current missionaries or were on the track to becoming missionaries. I became more devoted to Christ than I was before. For the first time in my life, I had a disciplined devotional in the mornings. Through this I realized that the beginning my day with God brought and still brings me so much joy.
After my junior year of high school, I was just beginning to explore the calling God
had asked me to live my life in accordance with. The summer before my senior year, i started to apply to Mississippi College. During the application process, I had a chance to speak with my head pastor, David Ethridge. I explained how I felt God working in my life, and he asked me the following question, 'At this point in your life, do you feel as if following any other path would be almost disobedient to God?' This opened my mind to how deeply I felt this calling, and I agreed to the question he asked.
After this ultimatum, I decided to make a public commitment to full-time vocational ministry. On August 24th, 2022, I shared this with my church. The purpose of this was to share with them how God was working in my life, and to ask them to join me in prayer as I follow where God leads. I am pursuing a major in Christian ministry, specifically missions. Now that I am in college at Mississippi College, I am studying Christian Studies with a concentration in Missions. I cannot wait to see what God has in store for me, but for now I am simply following where He leads."
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Steve Davis with Gifts Coordinators, Amber and Pepper
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Mary Ann Cooper, daughter of 3rd Pastor, Percy Cooper
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