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If you are, or have ever been, a Methodist, you know that summer is fruitbasket-turnover time in the Methodist church, New seminary graduates are assigned their first charge, established ministers are shifted around, student ministers (probably very nervously) approach their first student pastorates, and everybody has covered dish dinners, showers and all sorts of gatherings to make sure all are settled in with a minimum of discomfort and inconvenience.

LDS church to present musical program in Jonesboro Sunday

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints (LDS) will present a musical salute to America in Jonesboro this Sunday, June 25, featuring singers from Fayette, Clayton, Spalding, Henry, Lamar, Butts, Upson and Pike counties. The progtram starts at 7 p.m. at the Jonesboro Chapel of the LDS Church on Jodeco Rd.

New A.M.E. church holding services at Fayette Elementary

Rivers of Life Community Church, a new A.M.E. ministry, is now holding services at Fayette Elementary School each Sunday at 10 a.m. Rev. Andrew J. Young, II, is the teacher, pastor and founder. The name, “Rivers of Life,” is taken from John 7:37-39.

St. Peter A.M.E. to dedicate new 17,000 sq. ft. sanctuary

Members of historic Greater St. Peter A.M.E. Church at River's Edge will hold a dedication celebration of their newly erected building in Jonesboro this Sunday, June 25 at 3 p.m. A reception will follow the dedication.

Kids invited to Summer Fun Days at F'ville First Methodist

Fayetteville First United Methodist Church is offering summer activities and field trips each Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. for children ages four through fifth grade. Reservations are due Sunday prior to the scheduled event.

Religion Briefs

North Fayette UMC carnival is Saturday

Members of North Fayette United Methodist Church will have their annual Summer Fun Carnival this Friday, June 23, from 6-9 p.m.

PTC UMC presents Tennessee choir Friday

Members of a youth choir from Hendersonville, Tenn. will perform this Friday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bryan Fellowship Hall of the Peachtree City United Methodist Church.

Rev. Brenton Osgood will speak at Trinity Fellowship July 2

Rev. Brenton L. Osgood, Director of Development for the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) in Springfield, Mo., will be the guest speaker at Trinity Fellowship Assembly of God Sunday, July 2 at 10:30 a.m.

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New discovery made concerning Judas in Old Testment Bible code cluster

Judas, the man whose name is synonymous with betrayal, is the central figure in a newly discovered cluster of Bible codes found in a controversial section of the Old Testament.

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