Religion
July 29
Health Fair
Love Fellowship Outreach Church, 205 East 25th
Street alth fair on July 29 from 6:30
8:30 p.m., that is open to the community. There will
?also be a cookout and free food, a bounce house, and
games for children.
July 29
Worship and praise service
The Inspiration of Faith Choir and the Young
Adult Ministries of Rising Ebenezer Baptist Church,
900 Free St., will have a worship and praise service on
July 29 at 9 p.m. Various choirs and ensembles will be
in attendance. The community is invited to attend.
July 29 |
Couples Event
Apostle Gloria Samuels and Great Commission
Community Church Presents An Evening In The
Garden. All married and engaged couples are invited
to experience a romantic night of food, fun, and music
on Friday, July 29 at 7 pjn. The address is 3733
Ogbum Ave. Tickets are $30 per couple. For more
information, or to purchase tickets, contact the church
office at 336-377-3420.
July 30
Yard sale
The North Carolina area of the Northwestern
District Missionary will sponsor a yard sale and fish
fry Saturday, July 30, on the grounds of Kimberly
Park Holiness Church, 1640 SM Caesar Dr., begin
ning at 10 am.
July 30
Married couples fellowship
Rich CDC and Holy Trinity Full Gospel
Fellowship Center, 5307 Peters Greek Parkway, will
sponsor a married couples fellowship on Saturday,
July 30, at 5 p.m. This program is a community out
reach program for married couples of all ages to come
together arid share issues and concerns as it relates to
having successful marriage. Contact the administra
tive office at 336-784-9347 for more information.
July 31
Service and Forum
The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of
Winston Salem, 4055 Robinhood Road, will feature
six middle-school youths in a Coming of Age Service
at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 31. The Rev. Lisa
Schwartz will be worship leader. At die 9 a.m.
Forum, Don Woodward will review "Dark Money" by
Jane Mayer. More information, go to www.uufws.org.
July 31
Missionary and Family and Friends Day
The Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church,
1905 N. Jackson Ave., will have its quarterly
Missionary and Family and Friends Day on Sunday,
July 31, at the 11 am. worship service. The speaker of
the hour will be Minister Eddie Moser of the Greater
Galilee Bafrist Church, Winston-Salem. All are invit
ed to this service.
July 31
Pastoral Appreciation Celebration
St. John CME Church will celebrate the pastoral
appreciation celebration of its beloved pastor, the
Reverend Omar L. Dykes, on July 31 at 11:00 a. m.
during the morning warship service. The theme is "A
Good Man Out of the Good Treasure of the Heart
Bringeth Forth Good Things" based on the Word of
God in Matthew 12:25.
Rev. Omar L. Dykes is a native .of Chester, Pa. He
holds a B.A. degree in History from Miles College in
Birmingham, Ala. and a Master of Divinity from the
Phillips School of Theology at the
Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta,
Ga. He is a candidate for the Master of Sacred
Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia, Pa.. A special presentation will be pre
sented by the Children's Ministry and the Pastor's
Aide Ministry. A reception in the Family Life Center
will immediately follow the worship service. The
public is welcomed to attend the service.
July 31
Fifth Sunday Session
The High Point Educational and Missionary
Association will convene few the 5th Sunday Session,
July 3 at 3:00 p.m. at Locust Grove Missionary
Baptist Church, 4707 Hwy 150 West, Brown
Summit. Some of the churches are located in
Reidsville, Wentworth, Madison, Winston-Salem,
Greensboro, Stoneville, and various other cities. The
Youth Literary Program will start at 3:15 pan. The
president is A. Mclaughlin and the moderator R.
Mclaughlin.
llS^Sfcphen Ministry at United Metropolitan
ist Church (UMMBC) is offering its
starting on
A broad rang are covered
ar, including n and growing
closer with God. Group facilitators have been trained
ve experienced divorce. Separated or
divorced people who would like to join the 13-week
program should complete an online registration form
a t :
https://beyondthesanctuary.wordpress.com/dtvorce
care-ministry.
DivorceCare is a comprehensive. Christ-centered
divorce recovery ministry. The 13-week program
o hours. There is
a nominal registration fee of $15 to cover participant
workbooks. Child care is also available
For additional information, contact the church
office at church? unitedmetropolitan .org or call 336
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Photo by Timothy Ramsey
More than 30 vol
unteers came out
to help build the
Habitat for
Humanity "Unity
Build" home on
Wednesday, July
20.
Habitat for Humanity fosters
unity in latest home build
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BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
THE CHRONICLE
The Boston-Thurmond area was a thriving community
in the 1950s, but fell into a period of decline. The area is
now being revived with new homeowners by the Habitat
for Humanity.
In the past seven years, the Boston-Thurmond commu
nity of Winston-Salem has undergone a major face lift.
Habitat for Humanity of Forsyth County has built or
remodeled 112 homes in the community during that span.
They have also repaired 56 more homes in that same time
frame.
Alice Everett is next on the list. She will be the recip
ient of a home that stems from the "Unity Build." The
Unity Build is an interracial multi-faith collaboration to
build a home for a local family. The
build was brought toeetherdue to the
racial unrest in the countryand to signify
unity.
"We are doing a Unity Build here
today where we brought a number of reli
gions, churches, and congregations
together to help provide the sanctity in
what Habitat does as a Christian organi
zation," said Mike Campbell, Executive
Director of Habitat for Humanity of
Forsyth County.
BB&T has also partnered with Habitat for Humanity
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Photo by Timothy Ramsey
Members of Fresh Fire Worship Center listen to hymns during their annual youth conference July 22-24.
Local church inspires
youth during conference
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
TH^ CHRONICLE
Connecting with the youth of a congregation can be a
daunting task for some churches. Members of the millen
nial generation are the future, not only for the country but
for places of worship.
The Fresh Fire Worship Center, which held its youth
conference last week, July 22-24, has seen this fust hand.
This year's conference theme was Resistance. The church
is holding worship services a{ Waughtown Baptist Church
because of its growing number of members. With the ris
ing number of deceased members, Waughtown Baptist's
membership has fallen rapidly in recent years, so they
chose to allow Fresh Fire to worship at their location.
Fresh Fire has been worshiping at Waughtown Baptist
for about seven months and Pastor Phillip McCloud says
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Death Becomes Life
Lesson Scripture:
Romans 6:1-4, 12-14,
17-23
By the end of this
lesson, we will
Know that believers
are dead to sin
Recognize that
believers are instruments
of righteousness
Conclude that believ
ers are servants of God
Background: The
time is about A.D. 57 in
Corinth. Slavery in Rome
? during this time was'
quite common. About
one third of urban Rome was made up of slaves. Slaves
were acquired through warfare, piracy, kidnapping, seiz
ing infants and crimnal sentencing. Slavery was not
based on race and slaves could buy themselves out of slav
ery. Paul uses this type of slavery when referring to him
self and other believers as slaves to Jesus Christ.
Lesson: Paul sjtarts with the rhetorical question:
"What shall we say then?
... How shall we, that are
dead to sin, live any
longer therein? (Rom. 6:1
2). The answer is that bap
tism into the life of Jesus
means ... when we are
lowered into water, it's
like the burial of Jesus;
when we are raised up out
of the water, it is like the
resurrection of Jesus
(Pause, Eugene Peterson).
Theologically speaking,
when a person trusted in
Jesus, he or she died to sin
at that moment. The idea
here is that when the lost
trust in the Son, the Spirit joins them to the body of Christ
(see 1 Cor. 12:13;Gal.3:27).NowalivetoGod, vss. 12-14
is prefaced by the resulting reality of Jesus' resurrection.
Fust, believers were joined by faith with Him. Second,
they were to continually regard themselves as dead to the
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Sunday
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