Monticello Live

The Children’s Choir of First United Methodist Church, 317 South Main, will present a Christmas Musical, “Fear Not Factor”, TONIGHT,  at 5:30 p.m. in the Family Life Center.

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Bro. Zan Pierce and the congeration of Immanuel Baptist Church of Monticello Arkansas would like to invite you to join them during the morning service at 10:30am on Sunday December 15th.  The choir will be presenting their Christmas cantata entitled “Behold The Star”.  The Children’s Choir will be presenting their Christmas program at 6:00pm during the evening service.

Immanuel Baptist Church is located at 939 Barkada Road.  For more information you can contact the church office at 870-367-3342 or visit them on the web at www.ibcmonticello.com

First United Methodist at 317 South Main in Monticello invites you to their Candlelight, Communion & Carols Christmas Eve Service!

The Christmas Eve Service will be enhanced by the vocal talents of Christopher Todd Hall and Rebecca Lephiew Hall. The two will sing the amazing duet, The Prayer… A fitting piece that expresses the feelings of Joseph and Mary as they traveled to that ancient town of promise so long ago. Dr. Juan Serna, an accomplished violinist, will perform a lovely rendition of O Holy Night and also join Mary Donaldson, church pianist, in accompanying the vocal duet.

Tuesday, December 24,  7:00 p.m.

A nursery will be provided

All offering collected will go to Heifer International. Make the holidays even happier with a HEIFER or give the gift of a GOAT, Gifts of SHEEP are a Shear Delight! All money collected will provide a gift that keeps on giving!

Bro. Zan Pierce and the congregation of Immanuel Baptist Church of Monticello would like to send out a big “Thank You” to the students and faculty of UAM for their donation of canned and dry goods to their food pantry.

Pictured with the donated goods are Linda Caldwell and Joe Akin, volunteers with the IBC Food Pantry.

MLive is proud to feature all of the local Church activities, revivals, singings, and other events, every Sunday morning, here in the Sunday Bulletin.

Everyone is invited and welcome to attend the 5th Thursday night singing at Mt. Pleasant “Campground” United Methodist Church, Thursday at 7:00 PM. As always there will be a time of class singing as directors choose from our 5 current convention books or the Heavenly Highway II songbook. There will also be some specials mixed with the class singing. If you have never attended this type of singing we invite you to give it a try. There will also be a time for refreshments following the singing.

The church is located approximately 7 miles North of Monticello. Turn left off Hwy 425 on Campground Road and the church is less than one mile on the right. For more information contact Joyce Pevey – 870-367-3849.

Governor Mike Beebe announced that the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, has awarded $2,009,349 in grants for projects in 41 Arkansas counties – including Drew County – through its County Courthouse Restoration Subgrant, Historic Preservation Restoration Grant, Certified Local Government Subgrant and Main Street Downtown Restoration Grant programs.

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First Baptist Church’s Bruce Venable and Kevin Henry are shown delivering FBC’s “Buckets of Love” to Second Baptist, Thursday afternoon.

Immanuel Baptist also contributed to the project, which has collected a total of 58 5-gallon buckets of supplies for Oklahoma tornado victims. 

Each”Buckets of Love” contains water, flashlights, batteries, and other important hard-to-find items, in a time of disaster.

The buckets will be delivered to the Arkansas Baptist Convention, and forwarded to Oklahoma.

For other suggestions on how you can help the Oklahoma storm victims, check out the related MLive stories on how Monticello residents are performing similar projects.

The Arkansas Baptist News, a statewide publication of the State Baptist Convention, has named Amy Brunson, as Monticello, as their 2013 “Arkansas Mother of the Year’.

Brunson is a teacher at Monticello High School and a member of Second Baptist Church.

Click here to read their full story.

Monticello native David Leonard, along with the male members of All Sons and Daughters, recently led a worship service at the MBSF at UAM.

The group began forming in 2009, where they worship at Journey Church in Franklin, Tennessee.  Leslie Jordan of the group was not able to attend, so this was a unique event, even before you consider the personal ties that David has with Monticello.

The center was filled to capacity with students, alumni, and others who enjoyed the time of worship.

Click here for the All Sons and Daughters website.

Three southeast Arkansas juvenile males, age 15-16, have been arrested, and will likely be charged with the vandalism of  Bethel Temple Church, located near HWY 165 at Jerome, and Oak Grove Freewill Baptist Church on HWY 144, near Lake Village.

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