It was also a great
blessing to attend our summer music celebration Saturday evening at the First
United Methodist Church. Aric Phinney, Yancey Moore, Dianne Glann, Dave Berry,
and Emma Brunson, the sweet singers and anointed musicians of Jesus, presented
beautiful and joyful music unto the Lord.
Yesterday, the Lord
blessed us with a beautiful day of worship at Wesley and Union Center. Following
the worship service, Alice went to Hamilton, NY to join in celebrating the 40th
wedding anniversary of her brother and sister-in-law, Gordon and Darla Maynard.
It was a great day for a party! In another part of the world our friends, Kirk
and Jayne Flanagan, celebrated their 23rd anniversary.
Alice and I started our
23rd year ministry here in Union Center. We moved to Union Center on Tuesday,
June 25, 1990, and I preached my first sermon here in Union Center on Sunday the
first of July, 1990. Our youngest daughter, Jessica, celebrated her birthday
yesterday, and she celebrated her 6th birthday on my first day preaching in
Union Center. Janice had just finished her 8th grade. Sunita had finished fifth,
and Laureen had just finished 3rd grade. I still had my pitch dark hair intact
back then.
We praise the Lord for the
church family here in Union Center. We have been loved, blessed and cared for.
This is the place we have spent the longest time than any other place in our
lives. The Church has just broken ground for a new addition to the Church
building last month. It is to be a two story building, and it is coming together
before our very eyes. We are excited and thrilled in serving the Lord. The Lord
has blessed us to be part of what He is doing around the corner and around the
globe.
We praise the Lord for
"America the Beautiful", the great place on earth to live. We praise the Lord
for the Church of Jesus Christ around the corner and around the globe. The Lord
has used the church to bless this great nation. In all seasons and at all times
Jesus reigns. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. He is the Prince of
Peace.
French writer Alexis de
Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said, "I sought for the greatness
of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile
fields, and boundless forests--and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich
mines, her vast world commerce, her public school system, and in her
institutions of higher learning--and it was not there. I looked for it in her
democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution--and it was not there. Not
until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with
righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is
great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America
will cease to be great!"
In Jesus Christ In Him alone we
have true liberty.
Brown
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