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Cherry Lake First Baptist Church will be having a yard sale on Saturday, July 1, beginning at 8 a.m. and lasting until about 2 p.m. All proceeds from this sale will go to missions.
The sale will be held inside the church’s fellowship hall where shopping will be comfortable. Rain or shine the sale will go on! There will be many different items to choose from. Donations are coming in from church members, friends, family and the community. When the sale is over, any items collected for this sale, which are not sold, will not go unused; they will be donated to a local mission to be put to good use.
The church mission statement is "We are a group of committed people who desire to know God and to make Him known to others."
Their pastor, Dr. Murrell Bennett, goes to Haiti a couple of times a year with a group of local Christians to minister to the Haitian people. While there, they minister, evangelize and work. They put roofs on Haitian churches and build church pews/benches for these churches. The churches are also used as schools for the children. All the money they send from their church goes toward the building supplies for these projects. None of it is used for expenses of the missionaries themselves.
The funds raised from the church’s yard sales help make it possible for the Haitian people to worship under a shelter and sit on a bench while worshiping. Americans are so blessed to have beautiful, comfortable churches in which to worship. In Haiti, the people walk for miles to worship in a church building with no roof and nothing to sit on but a dirt floor. The mission projects that they support make worship a little more comfortable and safer for these Christians.
Rev. Bennett and a group of local Christians have another mission trip planned for July.
Cherry Lake First Baptist also helps support some local missions, prison ministries, benevolent causes and worldwide missions through the Southern Baptist Convention. The church’s members believe that it is their mission to spread the Word and do what they can to bring people to Christ and to help other people whenever possible.
For anyone who has a heart for missions, this is a great place to be on Saturday, July 1. If you love yard sales, this is the place for you! Church members look forward to seeing you at Cherry Lake First Baptist Church, 1308 NW County Road 150, in Madison, at 8 a.m. on Saturday, July 1.