Corinth Methodist Church in Four Oaks, North Carolina

Monthly message for November

Following is the monthly message for November from Pastor Gainus Sikes. Please join us in worship on Sundays at 10:00 am.

Thanksgiving is just around the corner. There is so much for which to be thankful. As I reflect upon my childhood, teenage years, and a few years of being an adult, I can see how the Lord has provided me with a wonderful family, friends, and congregations that

have been blessings to my family and me all along life’s way. Also, I can see how the Lord Jesus has been my protector in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms. As many of us gather around the Thanksgiving dinner table with family and friends in a few short days, it is my prayer that we will take a few moments to reflect upon those enjoyable times spent with our loved ones. Give thanks to God for those wonderful memories. Give thanks to God for the present. Give thanks to God for the future. Above all, give thanks to God for the forgiveness of your sins and the gift of everlasting life provided for you and your loved ones through the bruised body, shed blood, crucifixion, death, and resurrection of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. You have been forgiven for all sins, past, present, and future. You have been granted life that will last forever. As the composer Henry Smith so beautifully states, “Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the Holy One. Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ, His Son. And now, let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich because of what the Lord has done for us. Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the Holy One. Give thanks because He’s given Jesus Christ, His Son.” Give thanks! Give thanks! Give thanks! My entire family and I give thanks to God for our sisters and brothers of Corinth

Methodist Church. You have touched our lives with the love of Jesus through your words and many acts of kindness. Philippians 1:3-11 says, “I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for all of you, making my prayer with joy, and thankful for your partnership in the gospel from the first day I

arrived here. And I am sure that He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it by the time Jesus returns. It is right for me to feel this way about all of you because I hold you in my heart. You are all partakers with me of grace…in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. It is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and may be pure and blameless for the day Jesus returns, filled with the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. May Jesus our Savior and Lord bless you this Thanksgiving season and always! Gainus & Chong

UPCOMING EVENTS

Sunday, November 23

Thanksgiving Service, Mitten Line

Sunday, November 30

First Sunday in Advent, Hanging of the Greens

Saturday, December 6

Christmas Luncheon, 11:30 am

Four Oaks Restaurant

JCC Christmas Show, 3 pm

Featuring Julie Hamilton & Others

Sunday, December 7

Ornament Exchange

Christmas Cards Due

Sunday, December 14

Christmas Caroling, 5 pm

Tuesday, December 16

Methodist Women’s Christmas

Party, 6 pm, Parkside Restaurant

Sunday, December 21

Worship Service with Caroling and Testimonies, 10 am

Wednesday, December 24

Christmas Eve Service, 4 pm