Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church
Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church

Worship Service - Palm Sunday, 3/24/2024

Bulletin for Palm Sunday, 3/24/2024
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Worship Service - Maundy Thursday, 3/28/2024

Bulletin for Maundy Thursday, 3/28/2024
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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!

OLCBC Church Profile

OLCBC Church Profile, Updated Spring 2023
OLCBC Church Profile 2023 v1.11.pdf
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From The Interim Pastor

March 2024

As I write this in late February, I’m noticing early indications of the season to come. There are more bird songs in the morning, indicating that the birds have begun their return. Along the foundation of the house next door, warmed by the afternoon sun and protected from the cold north winds, crocus have begun to poke their green leaves and purple heads out of the soil.

 

Nature is beginning to re-awaken from its winter rest when it was quietly preparing for its grand rebirth in the spring. We are reminded that even as winter appears empty sometimes, plants are at work storing up energy and renewing their strength. Nature reminds us of the ebb and flow of seasons, and that times of renewal are necessary.

 

During this Lenten Season in the church year, we too are reminded of the necessity for such times of renewal. In the early church, this forty-day period was a time set aside for new converts to Christianity to learn about Jesus and about what being a Christian required of them. It was a time of preparation for their baptism on Easter Day when they would enter into new life as followers of Jesus Christ.

 

For us, this season is a time when we prepare too. It is a time that bids us to examine our relationship with Jesus and what being his disciple requires of us. It is a time when we are reminded that God’s love for us holds us through all the seasons of our lives. It is a time when we walk together in the assurance of the season to come, looking forward to Easter Morning.

 

As we continue our journey together toward the glorious light of Easter Morning, I invite you to enter into all that this Lenten Season has to offer you as Jesus calls us to journey with him.

 

May God bless all our Lenten journeys,

Pastor Linda

The Search Committee was appreciative of those in attendance at the March 10 congregational meeting where the Executive Board made a recommendation for reducing the Pastoral position to a two thirds position rather than one of full time. After discussion, a vote was passed in the affirmative. The Search Committee has contacted Rev. Courtny to repost the updated Pastoral position. Once again we await inquiries.

 

Please continue to keep our search in your prayers.

Thank you,

Corinne

 

 

Search Team Covenant of Commitment

  • We will pray for the search team, our church, and our perspective pastor.

  • We will see the leading of the Holy Spirit.

  • We will agree on clear roles and responsibilities.

  • We will pursue with integrity the pastoral selection process

    upon which the team has agreed.

  • We will respect the opinion of others.

  • We will strive for peace, cooperation, respect, and unity in

    our discussions.

  • We will maintain confidentiality—candidate names, references, and team discussions will not be shared beyond the team and our consultant. We will not disclose confidential information to friends, family, or others.

  • We will be punctual and attend all meetings, if at all possible.

  • We will follow through on assignments.

  • We will respect and communicate support for the teams

    decision as we recommend a candidate to our congregation.

Bell Choir's Sounds of the Season from 12/11/2022

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

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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