The Youth Christian Center is inviting all teens and young adults out to Tiffany’s, 110 Garnett St., Henderson, today, from noon-3 p.m., for an afternoon of information and sharing about sex. The center’s “Saved and Sexually Responsible” workshop is designed to provide strategies that youth can use to hold onto their spirit-led convictions about sex.
Pleasant Hill Missionary Baptist Church will celebrate the Rev. Charles W. Faulcon and first lady Bernice Faulcon, and their 17 years of service as pastor and first lady, on Sunday at 3 p.m.
Shiloh Baptist Church will host “Woman’s Day” at 11 a.m. on Sunday. The guest preacher will be the Rev. Brenda Taylor Rice.
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For the last three years I have shared life and the journey among the people of Cokesbury United Methodist Church and the larger community of Vance County and beyond. I once was a stranger coming into what was for me a strange land. We shared life together. We prayed, worshipped, did ministry, ate, played together. Friendships formed. Family was born.
The power of shared experience is we move from strangers to friends to family. We break the comfort zones and find it hard to leave our new joy.
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On May 7 and 8, West End Baptist Church served lunch to the Henderson Police Dept., the Henderson Fire Dept., Vance County Fire/Rescue, the Vance County Sheriff’s Dept. and the N.C. Highway Patrol to show their appreciation for the services they provide to the Henderson community.
On Jan. 19, citizens of Vance, Warren, Granville,and Franklin counties gathered at Area Christians Together in Service, 305 S. Chestnut St., Henderson, for this year’s MLK Service Day/Youth Explosion. This event was organized as a way to give back and participate in a “day on.”
The Daily Dispatch publishes announcements about events and special services at area churches each week in Saturday’s edition. The deadline for submissions was changed recently.
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This year, in the churches in Newtown, Conn., there will be mothers facing Mother’s Day without their children for the first time. They are not the only ones for whom this day may be difficult. There are children without mothers and mothers without children. There are children who have known only abuse from their mothers and mothers who have been abused by their children. There are women who long for motherhood but it has been denied.
It is both a day of great joy and deep grief.
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For people who are not guided by any type of faith or belief, their guiding force can sometimes become the pleasure of the moment. This is marked by the overconsumption we see in our society today. We have overeaten, overspent, overindulged and yet, there is still something missing; a soul longing for completion. We have tried to fill that longing with more things or different people or more activities, but they only provide a temporary fix.
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So much of what I am I owe to you. Sometimes we went a long time without being together. Sometimes thousands of miles separated us. But your shadow of influence was always with me. I think I understand better now the old saying, “God couldn’t be everywhere so God made mothers.” It may be poor theology, but its good sense.
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Vanessa Hicks Mitchell, youth leader at God House of Deliverance, will preach her initial sermon at Room at the Cross Pentecostal Holiness Church, 715 South Carolina Ave., Henderson, on June 23 at 4 p.m. All are invited to attend the sermon.
