Please keep our Minister of Music, Janice Goff. in your prayers as she morns the passing of her brother.

Services for Darrel H. Laws
Friday, May 28, 2021
Visitation 9:00 a.m.
Service: 11:00 a.m.
Ford and Joseph Funeral Home
907 N. Market Street
Opelousas, LA 70570

Please keep the Smith family in your prayers as they mourn the passing of two loved ones:

Service for Betty Adams Hightower, mother of Sis. Heidi Smith will be held
Saturday, May 22, 2021
Viewing: 10:00 a.m.
Service: 11:00 a.m.
Mount Olive Baptist Church
3515 Yellowstone Blvd.
Houston, Texas 77021

Service for Thane Lee Smith, Sr., brother of Dec. Bruce Smith will be held:
Monday, May 24, 2021
Visitation: 10-10:55 a.m.
Service: 11:00 a.m.
Silverlake Church
1865 Cullen Blvd.
Pearland, Texas 77581

May 9, 2021

Praise God for the divine institution of Motherhood and for loving caring mothers everywhere.  If you are reading this (and for those who are not), you owe a debt of gratitude to your mother. It is altogether fitting and proper that there is a special day where we honor our mothers.  The woman who has given birth to us, nourished and provided for us as we grew from dependent children to independent adults.  Mothers wear many hats; maid, cook, nurse, doctor, chauffer, counselor, just to name a few of the tasks lovingly performed by these extraordinary women.  Whether she is called, mother, mom, mama, ma or dear; mothers we honor you and we thank God for you.  We love you and we recognize your contributions to the Kingdom through Godly children.  Of course you know that our love for you transcends one day of recognition, however, today is tangibility.  What we feel and say today is representative of everyday of the year.  Mothers, we honor you today and every day.  Be blessed on this, your day.

Pastor J. Amos Jones

Drive through elements pick up for May 2nd Communion will be available Saturday, May 1, 2021 from 12 p.m.-2 p.m. at the church.

April 4, 2021

He is alive!  This proclamation has thundered a message of hope across the centuries.  He is risen as He said He would! “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up” (John 2:19).  He is faithful to His word.  In all things, Jesus can be trusted to keep His word.  He said He came that we might have life and that we might have life more abundantly.  For your life and for my life, Jesus has regard for its preservation, protection, perpetuity, provisions, punishment, and ultimately its perfection in glory.  Because He lives, we can have life in its fullest measure.

As the people of God, we have resurrection power.  We can (and should) experience His resurrection power in every facet of our lives.  That power will keep us and deliver us out of life’s difficult circumstances.  If it is a dying relationship, He is able to resurrect it.  Be it husband and wife, parents and children, neighbor and neighbor, most of all, man and his God.  Fractured relationships are not the will of our heavenly Father.  It does not matter how foreboding life’s experiences are, we have His resurrection power in us.  Let Him live in your relationships.  He is alive and we enjoy His protection.

I know what the Chronicle and Time Magazine has to say about terrorist and terrorism, the pandemic, but I choose to let the word come alive in my spirit.  “Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple” (Psalm 15:4).

Happy Resurrection Day!

Pastor J. Amos Jones