We are actively involved in our local community as well as regional and  world missions.  We further seek to be a more diverse body as God uses  us in these times.

Pastor Robert A. Whitehead, Sr.
 

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“You are not what you think you are. What you think, you are”
Author Unknown

“Holy Spirit, think through me till Your ideas are my ideas.”
Amy Carmichael
 

Our mantra for 2012

We love God
We love others
We serve humanity
 

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“Some Things to Think About in Year 2012”
Psalm 73:1-8 & 28
January 8, 2012

“Some Things to Think About in Year 2012”

I. GOD IS GOOD TO HIS PEOPLE (V 1)
Now we know that God created all people. When we think about it, God is good to all people. One reason that we know that He is good to all people is because He offers salvation through His son Jesus. The people that we refer to as God’s people are people who are obedient to Him and follow Him as opposed to following the ways of Satan. That is why in some translations, it is using the word pure in heart, a term that is used to specify those whose motives are right and are seeking to obey God. God is good to His people. If we think about that and keep thinking about it in the New Year, then it is only logical that if God is good to His people, shouldn’t we want Him to be good to us? We do this by just obeying Him and following Him. It starts with a thought. This year, let’s reflect upon how good God is to His people. God provided for us last year. He can provide for us this year.

II. WE CAN MISS GOD’S GOODNESS (VS 2-8)
When we read the text, observe what the psalmist was focused on as he wrote the text. He almost lost his way. He was thinking about and looking at the evil folk. He was envious of them. He thought that they had it easy. He thought that they were strong. He thought that they did not have troubles. The psalmist thought they were full of pride. He thought they were engaged in violent behaviors and he thought they oppressed people and bullied people. Now to be quite honest with you, some if not all of those things that Asaph listed were true to a certain degree; but when we focus on the negative we miss out on God’s goodness and what He is doing in our lives. We can miss out on the fact that God loves us and has given us another opportunity to live ...

III. OUR CONFIDENCE SHOULD BE IN GOD (V 28)
Our confidence cannot be in things, people, conditions, circumstances and things of this world. Our confidence or trust should be and must be placed in God. As Asaph sung this psalm, and the psalms were meant to be sung to music, the psalmist concluded by putting his confidence in God. When we read the entire psalm, the incident that changed Asaph’s thinking was when he went to the sanctuary or in our case the church. That occurred in verse 17. In the sanctuary or church or let’s just call it the place of worship, it can influence our thinking and when our thinking is right, we discover that our confidence or trust is in God and no one else. That is why attending worship is so important to our thinking and our living.

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Trustee Jerolene Brown was elected to serve as Church Clerk at the 2012 annual church  Business Meeting in January. Mrs. Brown often filled in as church clerk during the illness of our former clerk, Mrs Geneva Wallace, and has volunteered

Meet Our New
 Church CLerk

Trustee Jerolene Brown

to perform the church clerk duties since the passing of Mrs. Wallace in December 2011. Trustee Brown became a member of the trustee ministry in 2010. We extend our heartfelt thank to trustee Brown for assuming this vital role in our church leadership.