Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church
Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church

Worship Service - Sunday, 5/25/2025, 9:30am

Bulletin for Sunday, 5/25/2025
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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

May 2025

Pastoral Musings

 

Happy May Day!

As you read this, our annual May Breakfast may be in the books. Last year I watched this well-choreographed event with awe as over 500 people were fed in four hours. It was really something to behold as preparations unfolded in weeks prior and everyone worked in such dazzling rhythm the day of the breakfast. As I have told my ministry colleagues, this church is truly amazing!

 

And now we have moved into our season of Eastertide, the fifty days after Easter when we explore in more depth Jesus’ resurrection. With fifty days to explore this topic, Eastertide is

longer than the forty days set aside for Lent. This not only reflects the importance of Easter to our Christian faith but also the realization that we cannot fully understand the message of the

resurrection in only one day.

 

Certainly, the disciples did not fully understand the message of Jesus’ resurrection that morning when the women found the tomb empty but for the angelic figures who first proclaimed the Good News that Jesus had risen. Some of the disciples left Jerusalem that very day for another town, their grief too great for them to remain. Some of the disciples decided to return to their former occupation as fishermen as they wondered what to do next. Only after the risen Christ walked with them and talked with them did they understand all that they were still called to do.

 

And so, we too take this period of Eastertide as a time for us to explore what the risen Christ is calling us to do. It is a time for us to walk with the disciples and to hear Jesus’ words of encouragement that our faith also may be strengthened and renewed. Come walk with Jesus and with us as we explore the message of Eastertide!

 

Blessings, 

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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Worship Service

Sundays, 9:30am ET

Contact Us

Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church

229 Wilbur Avenue

Cranston, RI 02921-1016

Phone: 401 944-0864

Email: olcbc229@gmail.com

 

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