Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church

Worship Service - Sunday, 4/27/2025, 9:30am

Welcome to Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church

At Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church, we support people as they seek to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are an American Baptist Church in partnerships with American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island and American Baptist Churches, USA. We are ecumenically minded and seek opportunities for worship and service with other community churches.

Our church welcomes diverse families. We provide for Christian Education (Sunday School) for school aged children, as well as a nursery for pre-school children during worship services.

A very important part of our worship at Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church is our music program. We have been blessed with a strong music ministry consisting of a Sanctuary Choir, Hand bell Choir, two organists, and many musically talented members who readily share their gifts during the worship services throughout the year.

At the conclusion of worship every Sunday all are invited to the fellowship hall to join in conversation and refreshments.

Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church is located at 229 Wilbur Avenue in Cranston. We warmly invite you to worship with us on a Sunday morning at 9:30 am. Until then, may our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ richly bless you!

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From The Pastor

April 2025

Pastoral Musings

As I write this in late March, we are about halfway through our Lenten journey as we travel with Jesus toward Golgotha and ultimately Easter morning. Our Lenten Bible Study group has

been looking at this journey in each of the four gospels, noting the similarities and distinctions among the four. In our study, we have seen just how much this journey asked of Jesus. In his prayer to God on the night of his betrayal, we have noted the anguish expressed in his words and in his body. We also have noted Jesus’ determination to continue along this journey to its conclusion.

As we too walk along on our own individual and collective Lenten journeys, we acknowledge that we cannot fully grasp the depths of Jesus’ anguish. And in this acknowledgement, our gratitude for all that Jesus did on our behalf can only grow and deepen. That he experienced all that he did so we would know the depths of God’s love for us is something for which we offer our heartfelt gratitude and faithfulness.

This month, you are invited to journey along with Jesus, and with us, through the highs and lows of his last week. On Palm Sunday, April 13 th , we will celebrate Jesus’ entrance into Jerusalem with palms and hymns. On Maundy Thursday, April 17th at 7:00 p.m. we will hear the Scripture accounts of the last supper, Jesus’ betrayal, and his trials. This is a moving and somber service with Tenebrae, as the light dims with each reading.

We also hope you will join us on Easter Sunday, April 20th when once again we come into the light of that resurrection morning. I hope you will join us for all of these, for it is in the full journey that we can truly see and feel the depths of God’s love for us.

Blessings and Peace,

Pastor Linda

The Legend of the Dogwood

There is a legend, that at the time of the Crucifixion, the dogwood had been the size of the oak and other forest trees. So firm and strong was the tree that it was chosen as the timber of the cross.

That it was used for such a cruel purpose greatly distressed the tree. Jesus, nailed upon it, sensed this, and in His gentle pity for all sorrow and suffering said to it "Because of your regret and pity for My suffering, never again shall the dogwood tree grow large enough to be used as a cross. Henceforth it shall be slender and bent and twisted, and its blossoms shall be in the form of a cross... two long and two short petals. And in the center of the outer edge of each petal there will be nail prints, brown with rust and stained with red, and in the center of the flower will be a crown of thorns,

and all who see it will remember."

Submitted by: Robin Butzier

REPEAT DAILY

STAYING POSITIVE IS A MUST

PRAYING IS A MUST

IGNORING NEGATIVITY IS A MUST

STAYING FOCUSED IS A MUST

REMAINING HUMBLE AND GRATEFUL IS A MUST

BEING ON A MISSION TO BE AT PEACE, AND FINDING

A BETTER YOU, IS ESSENTIAL TO LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE

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