Church Events

Pumpkin time!

By Caleb M Soptelean on October 1, 2019 Church Events, Community

Nancy Hoover, on left, and Charles Culley unloaded pumpkins from New Mexico on Wednesday, Sept. 25, at Trinity United Methodist Church. The pumpkins are shipped from the Navajo reservation near Farmington, N.M., and sales also support the Hopi, Pueblo and Zuni tribes. The annual pumpkin sale at 6600 Greenyard Road will run through Oct. 31. Hours are 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturdays and 12:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sundays. For more information, call (804) 748-2439 or 777-9163. (Caleb M. Soptelean photo)

FBC Centralia hosting auditions for Christmas play

By Press release on September 10, 2019 Church Events

Auditions for the musical, “Christmas: The Untold Story,” will be held Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 16-17 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at First Baptist Church, Centralia, 2920 Kingsdale Road, N. Chesterfield. http://www.aletheamccollin.com/auditions.html

Community meal: Local church continues offering free suppers twice a month

By Caleb M Soptelean on September 10, 2019 Church Events, Community

Shirley Wright cuts cake before last week’s Community Fellowship Supper. (Caleb M. Soptelean photo) Chester Baptist Church offers some food and fellowship twice a month. The congregation has been hosting free evening dinners on the first and third Thursdays from 5:30 to 7 p.m. from September through May since 1999. This year the church decided to change the name from “companion dinners” to “community fellowship suppers.” The dinners averaged 45 last year, but the church is hoping to attract as many as 75. “We thought it would get more attendance,” Wright said, referring to the name change. She speculated that…

GCA building gym for community

By Caleb M Soptelean on July 30, 2019 Church Events, Community

Construction of a new gymnasium was progressing on Friday, July 26. Lankford A 21,000-square-foot gym is planned for Guardian Christian Academy, a facility that will be available for the nonprofit XZone after-school program and other community functions. Wynne Lankford, the lead pastor at Southside Church of the Nazarene, which uses the 68,000-square-foot GCA building for services, spoke about the plans last week. “Guardian is building it for the community,” he said. “We’re trying to impact and empower families to transform our world. We’re setting this up for the people of Chesterfield.” “We have a dream to see the [293 acres]…

Ivey Memorial UMC and Gettings scholarships awarded

By Press release on June 18, 2019 Church Events, Community, Honors, Schools

From left, sponsor Linwood Gettings, Matthew ‘Teddy’ Lipscomb, Rickey Booth, and Pastor Anita May Lucord are pictured above. Benjamin Holt is not pictured. Lipscomb, Booth and Holt each received $1,000 scholarships. Booth was awarded the Ivey Memorial United Methodist Church Scholarship, which is given to a church member. Booth is majoring in engineering at John Tyler Community College. Lipscomb and Holt each received a Tammy Gettings Memorial Scholarship, created in memory of longtime church member Tammy Gettings. Lipscomb, a recent Dinwiddie High School graduate, will attend Shenandoah University and major in criminal justice. Holt is pursuing a master’s degree in…

Village News goes to Israel!

By Caleb M Soptelean on November 20, 2018 Church Events, Community

A group of 22, mostly from Chester United Methodist Church, journeyed to Israel in October for a spiritual pilgrimage and vacation. In the background is the ancient walled city of Jerusalem as viewed from the Mount of Olives.

Navajo Nation pumpkins made trip to Chester

By Press release on October 2, 2018 Church Events

An 18-wheeler packed full of pumpkins and gourds of different shapes, sizes, and colors recently arrived at Trinity United Methodist Church. Volunteers of all ages unloaded the produce onto the church’s front lawn at 6600 Greenyard Road. The church has partnered with Pumpkin Patch, pumpkinusa.com, each of the last 19 years to supply a variety of pumpkins and gourds. The New Mexican pumpkin farm employs more than 500 Native Americans on the Navajo reservation, including some from the Pueblo, Zuni and Hopi tribes. “They are expected to harvest nearly two million pumpkins in six weeks,” pumpkin patch organizer John Morris…

Good Friday Jazz

By Caleb M Soptelean on March 20, 2018 Church Events

A local congregation will be offering something unique for its Good Friday service this year. Second Baptist Church, 5100 W. Hundred Road in Chester, invites the public to its 7 p.m. service on March 30, which will feature four jazz selections led by the church’s music minister, Cory Brown. The Rev. Johnnie Fleming said this is the first time the church will offer jazz at its Good Friday service during his 24 years as pastor. Shillita Moore, an associate minister at the church, will preach a “sermonette” during the one-hour service. Fleming also invites the public to a community sunrise…

Church celebrates 168 years

By Press release on October 18, 2017 Church Events, History

Enon Baptist Church has had a rich history and has always been a big part of the Enon community. Enon Baptist Church celebrated their anniversary on Oct. 8. John Alexander Strachan started holding worship and prayer services in his home at Point of Rocks in 1845. He and his friend from Mount Blanco, William Francis Gill, decided to build a Baptist church for the little community of Enon. Strachan donated some of his farmland and Gill donated lumber from his sawmill. They started out in 1845 with twenty-two members. Enon Baptist has endured many hardships in those 168 years.…

Briefly: Deductions

By Mark Fausz on October 17, 2017 Church Events, Honors

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