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Centenary Celebration - The Story Of Providence Methodist Church

2.  Introductory letter from Rev Aaron Smith
    (Former District Chairman)

To belong to a Church which has given without a break, one hundred years of witness and work for the Kingdom of God should rouse within us some of the finest qualities of character.

The Centenary celebrations should surely beget ADMIRATION for the memory of those who began the Church. They had little in the way of education, and not much of this world's goods. But they could tell of the Grace of God, and what that meant to them; they could bring men from their lostness and loneliness into the warm fellowship of the Church; and they could help them to find purpose in life instead of aimlessness in the Kingdom of God.

These centenary celebrations should fill us with GRATITUDE to God for the Church, persisting through the years by which there have come to us the knowledge of His love and the call to His service. We are apt to take the Church for granted and forget what it has cost during the years of devotion and sacrifice.

These Centenary celebrations ought certainly to evoke in us a fuller DEDICATION. The world needs the gospel as much now as a hundred years ago. No thinking Christian can be indifferent to the woeful need of the world for wisdom to guide and power to achieve. The spiritual and moral bankruptcy of the world is God's clarion call, “Who will go for us?” and we should rise up individually and say, “Here am I, Lord, send me.” Make sure that admiration, gratitude and dedication, mark these celebrations.

 

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