http://www.crossbrandcowboychurch.org/
I don’t know where to begin. The main building is a pre-engineered metal building, which seats over 600. We attended the 9 AM service, they also have an 11 AM service.
Ron said that this church has already "birthed" two other Cowboy Churches in the area.
There were over 200 people at the 9 AM service. I didn’t notice one person who was not wearing jeans. There were maybe a dozen of us guys who were not wearing big cowboy hats.
One thing that you couldn’t miss when you pulled into the parking lot was the rodeo arena that was under roof. Ron said that a couple of times a year they have “church in the dirt” in the arena. From looking at their web site it appears that they get lots of use out of it.
The greatest thing about this is finding two churches, so quickly, that appear to really have their heads screwed on straight. By that I mean churches made up of people who are willing to admit that they are just "sinners saved by grace." They realize that they aren't perfect and they don't expect anyone else to be perfect. Of course they do work to become better people, the people that Jesus would have them be.
Both of these churches appear to strive to have a family atmosphere, and not just on Sunday morning. They both want attenders/members to become family with one another. Church members should provide a support group (family) for one another, to share both joys and sorrows. It is sad that many churches do not seem to "get" this simple principle
A group of folks from the Cowboy Church were going to go over to Athens, TX this week to show their support for the Henderson County commissioners who refused to remove a nativity scene from the town square. Apparently someone who remains anonymous contacted some atheist group in Wisconsin and got that group to threaten the county commissioners. Some of the story is below:
After an unnamed individual in the community supposedly called the group’s Madison, Wisconsin, headquarters to complain about the harmless display, the FFR’s legal team quickly moved into action, sending a threatening letter to the county commissioners demanding that the display be removed immediately.
The response by county officials to the atheist group’s demands was quick and unanimous: the nativity scene will stay. According to the local Malakoff News, county officials “had no intention of moving the nativity scene based on the letter.” In fact, County Judge Richard Sanders put the county’s intentions in no uncertain terms. “They are going to have to make us move it,” he told the paper.
I LOVE this guys response
The response of Henderson County Commissioner Joe Hall was stronger still. “I’ll tell you this — I’m going to fight this until hell freezes over,” Hall told Fox News, adding, “It’s been up there for decades without any complaints.”
I read several articles about this and the comments left at the sites of the articles were overwhelmingly in favor of telling the Wisconsin group to mind their own business and supporting keeping the nativity scene.
Today Kathy finished painting in the lunch room restrooms and then she cleaned and painted the front doors on the chapel. I did some "go fer" work for the first hour and then worked from 10-5, with the exception of a 45 minute lunch break and a 30 minute afternoon coffee break, staining one of the new entrances. The entrance is ROUGH sawn cedar and it takes a LOT of brushing to get the dark stain to cover.
The low last night was 42 and todays high was 56. Tonights low is supposed to be 44 and tomorrows high is supposed to be 66. This is the warmest it has been while we have been here. We will need to hit the staining hard tomorrow (only 9 more gallons to put on) because it is supposed to rain Wednesday & Thursday. Two other people helped stain in the afternoon. Between the three of us we applied around 2 gallons of stain. Hopefully we will get started a little earlier tomorrow and can maybe get 3 gallons on. That will get us close to half way.
Goodnight to all and may God bless you and yours.
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