Sunday October 5, we had a double celebration in our church. Since October is Pastor Appreciation month, we honored our pastor and his family. We had a carry-in dinner, and the pastor and his wife were given a place of honor – a small table all to themselves, with candles. Of course, it wasn’t candlelight, because it was broad daylight, and besides, the entire fellowship hall was lit up. The parsonage family was honored with a card shower. I usually make all my greeting cards, and I hadn’t got one made for them, so I made it the following week, and handed it to the pastor on Wednesday.
On Sunday, we also celebrated 100 years of the official existence of our denomination. One hundred years ago, in Pilot Point, Texas, the Church of the Nazarene was officially organized. We were made up of several groups of churches with like beliefs. The person known as the father of our denomination, Phineas Bresee, came from a Methodist background.
Our denomination was honored with a video clip from Willard Scott of NBC, and a letter from President George W. Bush.
Several of our members, in past weeks, have bought tee-shirts to commemorate this event. On the front, the shirt has our church emblem in the background, and the words “His Century” and underneath that “100 years of Holiness.” Of course, we don’t pretend that we invented holiness, but that is the defining doctrine of our church. On the back of the shirt, we had the name and location of our local church – Calvary Church of the Nazarene, Brookville, PA.
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What neat celebrations!
Do you think sometime you could write about the beliefs of the Nazarene church?
Well, if it's just that you want to know, they're virtually identically to the Free Methodist Church, that your grandparents grew up it, so if you ask them, they could tell you, or perhaps they already have?
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