Homecoming 2013

We will have our Homecoming next Sunday, October 6. Everyone is welcome to join us. Please bring a covered dish if you can. We will be having dinner after service for a great time of fellowship. See you there!

Mule Day Fundraiser

Well, we survived another Mule Day! Thanks to everyone who came out to visit our food booth and purchased food from us. We had an awesome time working to raise money to build a new house to worship God! We raised a total of $1,438.95! See y'all again next year! 

Men's Conference Camp Boothe November 1-2, 2013

Men, get ready for Men's Conference November 1-2 at Camp Boothe. This camp is for men ages 16 and older. The cost is $45. Click the link below for an application or see Brother Smith. I'm sure you will be blessed by attending.

Men's Conference Camper Application

Baptism Service Sunday Night, October 20, at Carbon Hill

We will be joining service with our Carbon Hill Church on Sunday night, October 20 for baptism. If you would like to be baptized, see Brother Smith and join us Sunday night, October 20. We will be meeting at our church first and take the church van to Carbon Hill.

Happy Birthday Andrea!

Tonight after service, we celebrated Andrea's birthday. She will be 35 tomorrow, September 30. She has really blessed us. We love you Andrea!

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Alabama Update

Women's Conference Camp Boothe September 20, 2013

What an awesome time Sister Joan and Sister Amanda had at Ladies Retreat! If you haven't been to camp, you are missing out! It is a one night camp especially for ladies age 16 and up. We arrived at 3:30, unpacked, rested for a bit, then went to eat a delicious dinner in the cafeteria at 5:30. The cafeteria was decorated so nice:

Church service was at 7:00. This year's theme was "Safely Home." Worship was led by Sister Stephanie Christmas and the worship team from Cliff Haven Church. Sister Pat Green from Short Creek brought us the message from Mark 11:1-8 and the Holy Spirit showed up in a mighty way! Following the service, we had fun time and snack in the cafeteria were the Christmas sisters blessed us with their humor. Door prizes were also awarded. Then it was back to the cabin for some rest.

The following morning at 7:30, we met in the cafeteria for a full breakfast (yummy!) then broke into our TAP (Talk and Prayer) groups for almost an hour. We headed back to the chapel for worship led by Sister Stephanie Christmas and the worship team from Cliff Haven Church. Sister Donna Howard brought us the word from Luke 1:5-50. Sister Donna shared this song with us that blessed us. Here is a video of the song from YouTube:

After service, we headed back to the cafeteria for lunch before departing for home.

LADIES: Make plans to attend Ladies Retreat next year. Sister Joan and I were so blessed and had such an awesome time worshiping with other women from across the state. We hope to have enough women from our church next year at we can take the church van!

Groundbreaking Ceremony August 18, 2013

We held our groundbreaking ceremony on Sunday, August 18, at the tent on our church property. Everyone who pledged $1,000 to our building fund received a golden shovel made by Brother Wesley Hallman. He made 15 shovels and we received pledges for every one! State Overseer Brother L.V. Jones joined us and blessed us with pledging $10,000! Praise God! Anyone interested in making a pledge or a donation to our building fund, please contact Pastor Dewayne Smith at 205-269-8010. God Bless!

Tent on property for Groundbreaking Ceremony

Setting it up and getting ready!

Brother Dewayne Smith opening service

Worship Time!

State Overseer Brother L.V. Jones

Fellowship after the ceremony

Journal Record article of the ceremony
Left to Right: Brother Mike Knight, Sister Lois Harris, Mayor Randy Price, Brother L.V. Jones, Pastor Dewayne Smith, Brother Mark McDonald, Sister Beverly Foster

Welcome to our newest church members!

We are blessed to have Brother Wes Hallman and Sister Libbie Hallman to transfer their membership to our local church! Welcome!

PeeWee Camp June 23-26, 2013

Sara Seals and Caroline Smith attended Pee Wee camp this summer. Sister Amanda also attended as a helper in the kitchen. What an awesome time we had! The theme was "Put on the full armor of God". Here are some pictures from Pee Wee camp:

Sara and Caroline with roommates and cabin leader Pam Hitt

Princesses!

The Royal Table: This is the reward for having a clean cabin

Praise and Worship Time!

Girls praying for their cabin leader, Sister Pam Hitt

The cooks!
 I had a great time working with these folks in the kitchen!
They taught me how to play Dominoes in between cooking meals! :)

Cook Parade!
The kids love to see the cooks perform a cook parade for them!

Here is Caroline leading the camp in reciting Ephesians 6:11:

Here is Sara telling everyone at camp what it means to put on the full armor of God:

More pictures from camp can be found at http://www.facebook.com/camp.boothe

Senior Camp June 9-15, 2013

We had some of our youth attend camp this summer. The theme was "Rise Up Brave Hearted." Zoe Smith, Emily Smith, and Breanna Carruth attended Senior Camp. Breanna Carruth was baptized at camp!

Here are some pictures of our youth from Senior Camp which was held June 9-15.

Drama team with Zoe Smith & Breanna Carruth participating

Banquet

Teamwork!

Zoe and Breanna with their roommates and cabin leader (center) Jameri Williams

Breanna getting baptized!

More pictures of Senior Camp can be found at http://www.facebook.com/SeniorCamp.

For more information regarding camp, visit the following sites:
http://alcogop.org/campboothe/
http://www.campboothe.org/Home.asp
http://www.facebook.com/camp.boothe

State Convention News

Our Alabama State Convention was held August 1-4 at the Embassy Suites in Hoover, Alabama. The theme was "Season of Revival". We had an awesome time at convention. If you weren't able to attend, you can watch the recordings on Ustream.

Here is the link: Alabama State Convention on Ustream

Our next state convention will be in 2015.

Yard Sale Updates

Thanks to everyone who donated items to our church yard sale! We held several yard sales to raise money for our building fund. We had 3 yard sales on our church property under the tent. Our first yard sale was on August 24 and we sold $534.68! WOW! We had so much left over that we decided to have another one the following Saturday on August 31. Since it was Labor Day weekend, we also sold hot dogs. We sold $355 that weekend so we had a total of $889.68. We decided we weren't going to stop until we got $1,000 so we setup again on September 7 and sold $133. After we purchased drinks and hot dogs to sell, we ended up with a total of $1,025! But we didn't stop there! Sister Shirley has had 2 more yard sales with the items and is planning on having another this Friday, October 4th. We also donated some of the items to others in need. Thanks to everyone who contributed to the yard sales whether you donated items, purchased items, donated money, or donated your time to help in any way.