Church
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Stanfield: Finding and following God
“The Lord himself will be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you.” God never leaves you alone. As I’m sitting with my wife, son, grandbabies, friends and other loved ones, I can’t help but to think about the veteran who served his country who doesn’t have a…
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Youth groups donate collections
Rocky River Baptist Church’s youth and mission groups presented the Anson County Sheriff Landric Reid with supplies March 4. The supplies will be used when deputies encounter individuals that are homeless. Mission’s leader Karen Emrich stated that they incorporate with their youth the importance of mission work and wanted to…
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Wagner: Day and night shall not cease
Given Betty Friedan’s prediction of the soon coming ice age in Harper’s Magazine of 1958, I suppose it makes sense that my dear late Grandpa installed a wood stove in the house. In general, older folks never have been too keen on extreme cold; their circulation slows as they age,…
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Faith calendar
Items for the church calendar will be accepted by mail to The Anson Record, PO Box 959, Wadesboro, N.C. 28170, brought by our office at 123 E. Martin St., Suite 400, Wadesboro, or emailed to ndavis@ansonrecord.com. Deadline is 3 p.m. the Thursday before publication. Calendar items must be complete and…
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Wagner: In marriage and M&Ms, ‘couple’ just isn’t the same
The Scriptural basics about marriage are both lovely and easy to be understood. Genesis 2:21-24 says, “And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the…
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Stanfield: Hold on to those Winfreds in your life
I met Winfred Garner when I ran for sheriff at the tender age of 28. Winfred was my friend and agreed to be my campaign manager and treasurer. He took this job seriously and wanted to win badly. I’d stop by his house to see him and his beautiful wife,…
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Kesler Chapel honors Crowder as Woman of the Year
Ester L. Crowder has been selected as Kesler Chapel’s Woman of the Year. Each year, the church recognizes a woman who has shown outstanding commitment and faithfulness to her church. The Kesler Chapel AME Zion Church will hold its annual Woman of the Year program on Sunday during the morning…
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Wagner: Someone else is dying in your place
As he lay bound in the prison, he must have thought back on his life and wondered how it all ended up like this. Some kids have parents that are cold and distant, and can lay some blame at those feet. But not him. Even his name was a reflection…
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Stanfield: Stay firm in your love and commitment to God
Most of you who know me know that, other than being a police officer, I have spent most of my adult life as my own supervisor at different business ventures. After losing everything we had back in the recession, I had to go to work for a company and it…
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McBrayer: Little confidence in the fruit of any faith that must be forced
Dr. Bill Leonard was the one who best described my religious upbringing. Speaking for many who came to Christianity in the fire-and-brimstone of Appalachian fundamentalism, he said, “Some of us were saved hard, sweating like we had been to hell that morning, and came back to the revival to tell…
