Worship Service - Sunday, 1/11/2026, 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
January 2026
Pastoral Musings
As a new year unfolds before us, I am so very grateful for all the blessings of the past year. For me, it has been a time of settling in as your “settled” pastor and looking ahead to what may lie before us. As I do so, I feel so blessed to be a part of this church family.
I want to start this new year by expressing my gratitude for all of your Christmas
greetings and wishes, and to thank you especially for the gift I received from the church on Christmas Eve. Your spirit of generosity and love is something that I treasure not only during this Season, but all year.
I know that for some of us, 2025 was a challenging year, and we may be grateful to see it come to an end, even as we know that the turn of the calendar doesn’t wipe the slate clean. Feelings and concerns may hold over into the new year. And for some, 2026 may bring new challenges. However, I know that as a church family, we will walk together into whatever the new year brings, holding each other in both our blessings and our concerns.
As people of faith, we also walk into the new year confident that we walk into it with our God. This is the blessing of the Christmas story, that God came to share our humanity. That the God of Creation would come in the form of a vulnerable baby to experience all the joys and pains of human life, to know us from the inside out, is a gift beyond all gifts. It is truly the gift of Love – abiding, steadfast, humbling Love.
May the message of Christmas enfold each of us in its Love and open our hearts to the blessings that the New Year holds.
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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Oak Lawn Community Baptist Church
229 Wilbur Avenue
Cranston, RI 02921-1016
Phone: 401 944-0864
Email: olcbc229@gmail.com
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