“Thanks for Nothing” is the title of Pastor Daren Baldwin’s sermon for community Thanksgiving services at 6 p.m. Sunday at First Assembly of God, 1020 E. Carpenter St.
The service is sponsored each year by the Iola Ministerial Association.
Congregational singing led by Jessica Beine and special music by Lois and Tammy Murphy will precede Baldwin’s sermon. An offering will be taken to benefit the Community Pantry.
Baldwin and James Miller, Assembly of God minister, put finishing touches on the service Thursday afternoon and agreed more community church events are needed in Iola.
Miller, noting he and Baldwin were close friends, said they are “looking for ways to partner. We hope to have a speaker for a joint service in April that would look at how to effectively meet the needs of the community.”
“We’ve built a fellowship in Christ,” Baldwin added. “There is no way for one church to minister to all the needs of a community. We have opportunities to reach more people if we can work together.”
Miller ventured that a joint service some Sunday for his and Baldwin’s congregations — Nazarene and Assembly — featuring a dialogue between the two ministers would be intriguing.
“And it would be even better if we could involve other churches,” he said.
Thanksgiving service Sunday
