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Honoring first responders
For the 13th year, the congregation of Trinity Episcopal Church will host Blue Mass to remember those who perished September 11, 2001, in the attack on America. Trinity’s service honors first responders in this area, and all are invited to attend and be recognized. Lunch will be served following the service. The service will be this Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 10 a.m. The church is located at 203 S.…
Wives, widows hold meeting in Atmore
Area members of Ministers’ Wives and Widows met in Atmore Thursday, August 22. The ladies were honored to host Eartha Cross, National President of Ministers’ Wives and Widows of National Baptist Convention of America International. Shown are, from left, Nora Tucker, Mary Ann Roberts Davis, Eartha Cross, Centia Lee; back, Felicia Prince, Katie Grant, Annie Meeks.
Homecoming set at Bethel UMC
By SHERRY DIGMON News Publisher Bethel United Methodist Church is holding homecoming services August 25 and the congregation is pleased to have the Rev. Jean Spikes bringing the message. If you talk with most women in the clergy in the United Methodist Church, they’ll tell you whose shoulders they stand on – Rev. Jean Spikes’ shoulders. She was the first female ordained minister in the Methodist denomination and has been…
Atmore teen authors book
News Staff Report It’s not often a church member writes a book, but when the member is in only the ninth grade, that’s cause for recognition. The congregation of El Bethel Holiness Church honored LaAsia Sharnae Henderson for her book Super Galactic Heroes, The Flight of the Cyclops. LaAsia, 15, will be in the 10th grade this year. She takes all honors classes and is an all-A honor roll student.…