Monticello Live

Immanuel Baptist Church is having an online dessert auction all day today.   Click Here To Go To Their Facebook Page and bid on some yummy desserts for your Easter celebration.  All money raised goes to help send children and youth to church camp.

24 year Anniversary Appreciation Program Honoring Pastor & Sis. D. J. Buffington,  Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church.

312 East Oakland, April 2nd, 2023 at 3:00pm.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Glenn D. Barnes, Pine Hill Missionary Baptist Church, Pine Bluff Arkansas.

The Shady Grove Disaster Relief Team is deploying this week for Mississippi to help and serve those that have been devastated by last week’s storms. If you would like to help by going along crews will be Leaving Wednesday through Friday. If you would like to donate go to Shadygbc.com scroll to give and tab down to disaster relief. Your prayers are always needed. Any questions call the church at 870-367-3298 or Bill Horn 870-224-1116

Keep Arkansas Beautiful visited Monticello and Drew Central Elementary Schools last week and brought Otto the Otter to visit with kids, hand out coloring books and talk to them about keeping Monticello clean.

Mayor Akers is encouraging a city wide clean up on March 24th and 25th. On the 24th, city employees will pick up litter and trash in town and any institution wanting to help on Saturday the 25th can contact City Hall to arrange a time to obtain clean up materials furnished by Keep Arkansas Beautiful.

So far, several Churches have volunteered to help on the 25th, including Morning Star Missionary Baptist, Church of Christ, The Revival Center and Immanuel Baptist.

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

To have your church’s events included, email them to joe@MonticelloLive.com or text them to 870-367-0000.

The SEARK Baptist Network disaster relief foodservice trailer is set up at First Baptist Church, to assist electric outage victims, servicemen and women working the area,  along with those using the warming shelter at FBC, for lunch at 11:30am and supper at 5:00pm, today.

There will be no meal Saturday, due to the number of outage victims who now have electricity.

The food and service are provided by local Baptist churches, working together, to serve Drew County.

First Baptist church is located on N. Main St., behind Union Bank.

The gym currently has electricity, and has a generator backup.

Do too short notice, no food service is included, at this time.

The churches of the SEARK Baptist Network came together during the aftermath of the tornado in Montrose to help feed the city and workers.  The feeding unit was deployed Tuesday through Thursday.

Focus now has shifted to supporting chainsaw crews as they do cleanup.

Members of Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church are combining their efforts with Hamburg’s Promise Land church and the ABA, to help the storm victims from Montrose’s Monday night tornado with cleanup.

Members of the church, along with equipment are meeting other members in Montrose, this morning, to help in their time of need.

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Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church will Celebrate its 135th year Church Anniversary,

Sunday Dec. 4, with 10:00 A.M. Morning Worship and 3:00 P.M. with Oak Grove Assembly of God Pastor Brandon Laudell as the guest speaker.

Theme “Stronger Together” John 17: 20-23.

Pastor Buffington invites the public to attend.

Lunch will be served after Morning Worship.