First United Methodist Church, 900 Spring St., Johnson City: For the First Sunday of Lent, our online worship service will feature the sermon “Won’t You be a Neighbor” by Associate Pastor Gary Ihfe. The sermon is from the series from the Gospel of Luke and will focus on chapter 10:25-42. The service can be found at 10:30 a.m. at 1stchurchjc.org, on Facebook, or YouTube. All in-person meetings remain suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church, 197 Suncrest St., Gray: During our renovation project we will meet in the Family Life Center for all services. In-person Sunday services will be held at 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m and on Wednesday at 7 p.m. Nursery is available for Sunday’s 11 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. service and Wednesday’s 7 p.m. service. All services and Sunday school will be available online also. Buses will not run. Information, visit buffaloridgebaptist.org or call 423-477-3311. Radio station 96.3 FM will broadcast the 11 a.m. Sunday ser
Red Cross calls for healthy blood donors following severe weather in the midst of the Pandemic Feb 22, 2021 at 07:00 am by WGNS
Following record-breaking cold and winter storms that forced the cancellation of more than 10,000 blood and platelet donations in parts of the U.S. in February, the American Red Cross is urging healthy individuals, especially those with type O blood, to give now to ensure blood products are available for patient emergencies when help cannot wait.
Everyday thousands of patients rely on lifesaving blood donations. The need for blood is constant, even during ice and snowstorms and the COVID-19 pandemic. To help ensure lifesaving patient care is not impacted, individuals are urged to make appointments to donate in the coming days and weeks by downloading the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.
Murfreesboro Organization that Focuses on Helping the Elderly in need of a New Home Feb 18, 2021 at 09:00 am by WGNS
Do you know the perfect location for Mindful Care? Call 615-653-6209.
A non-profit organization that focuses on helping the elderly in Murfreesboro is in need of a new home.
Mindful Care Adult Day Services has operated in donated space at New Vision Baptist Church for 13 years, ever since the organization’s inception. However, New Vision is expanding its programs and will need the space that Mindful Care presently occupies.
Mindful Care s last day at New Vision will be Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
Georgia SBC church faces banishment for accepting LGBTQ members
As the South changes, its dominant denomination faces defining decisions over inclusion. Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia. Photo by Maina Mwaura
February 19, 2021
(RNS) When the Reynolds started attending Towne View Baptist Church in Kennesaw, Georgia, in 2019 after moving to the Atlanta suburb next door, they felt as if they had found a spiritual home.
Midwesterners who had grown up in Baptist churches, the couple had adopted three young children a few years earlier. “We felt strongly that we wanted our boys to have the opportunity to attend a Bible-based church,” said John M. Reynolds, “to have the best opportunity to develop their own personal relationship with God.”
Where seconds before there had been a bedroom ceiling, Robert DeNitto looked up into a howling maw of wind, rain and darkness.
DeNitto and his family had just started to live the whole retirement dream, he said, when they moved into their house in Ocean Ridge Plantation near Ocean Isle Beach on Feb. 10.
That dream would turn into a nightmare less than a week later when the home at 6960 Cambria Court that DeNitto shared with his wife, Debra, and son, Zachary, exploded during an F3 tornado packing 165-mile-per-hour winds late at night on Feb. 15.
The DeNittos suffered injuries, but their next door neighbors, Richard and Phyllis O Connor, whose home was lifted up and thrown into the DeNittos , died in the storm.