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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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Happy Christmastide!

I’d like to share an interesting story as we move into the cold, dark days of winter. It was during the winter of 1864. At Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. The war was now 3 1/2years old and the glorious charge had long since given way to the muck and mud of trench warfare.

Late one evening one of Lee’s generals, Major General George Pickett, received word that his wife had given birth to a beautiful baby boy. Up and down the line the Southern Camps began building huge bonfires in celebration of the event.

These fires did not go unnoticed in the Northern camps and soon a nervous Grant sent out a patrol to see what was going on. The scouts returned with the message that Pickett had had a son and these were celebration fires. It so happened that Grant and Pickett had been contemporaries at West Point and knew one another well, so to honor the occasion Grant, too, ordered that bonfires should be built.

What a peculiar night it was. For miles on both sides of the lines fires burned. No shots were fired. There was no yelling back and forth. There was only light celebrating the birth of a child. But it didn't last forever. Soon the fires burned down and once again the darkness took over— the darkness of the night and the darkness of war.

The news of Christmas is that in the midst of a deep darkness there came a light, and the darkness was not able to overcome that light. It was not just a temporary flicker. It was an eternal flame. In the troubled times we are living we need to hold on to that. There are times, in the events of the world and in the events of our own personal lives that we feel that the light will be snuffed out. But the Christmas story affirms that whatever happens, the light still shines.

Have a blessed 2021 everyone!

Gracefully yours,

Pastor Barbara