Community Thanksgiving Service

Community Thanksgiving Service Tuesday, November 25th 2008 Crain Baptist Church.  Special Music and message by "Bro. Robert "Peck" Boyett of Ava Missionary Baptist Church. A special offering will be taken and will be used to supply Holliday Food Baskets for the needy of our area.

     In the spring of 1621, after having landed at Plymouth and survived the first hard winter, the Pilgrims weren’t doing very well. Many people died during the winter. Two Native Americans named Squanto and Samorset, helped the Pilgrims learn how to survive in the new land by showing them farming techniques and by teaching them how to gather certain natural foods from the forest. By the fall things had greatly improved, and the Pilgrims had such an abundance of food that they decided to celebrate with a feast of thanksgiving.

     The Pilgrims celebrated by giving thanks to God for his provisions. Today, Thanksgiving appears to be the only time that some people give God thanks; but the Lord wants us to thank Him each and every day of our lives. At all times and in every situation of life, God wants us to do as Paul said in Ephesians 5:20, in which he declared, “Giving thanks always for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
     Think for a moment. Is our thanksgiving rooted in an overwhelming praise to God for our salvation? Or is our thanks rooted in earthly things? Do we rejoice in the God of our salvation as our strength? The question is really this: If the worst thing we could possibly imagine were to become true for us today, could we say “Yet, I will rejoice in the Lord, I will give thanks to the God of my salvation?”