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Alright, fellow followers, let's keep digging into our Storyline of Scripture articles. Today, we are looking at the Church. As a reminder, here is our storyline: Creation, Fall, Israel, Jesus, Church, New Creation.
So, what does it mean to be a church? Nice sanctuary? Good numbers? Country club feel? Warm fuzzies? A place where you "get something out of it"? A place to give money so you can get a tax break? I'm not so sure any of those are the point of being church.

The Kingdom International Church Young At Heart gathered on Saturday evening 9/28. Brenda Braswell brought the devotion. There was a covered-dish supper including bbq chicken, ham, boiled potatoes, stuffed peppers, butterbeans, string beans, peas, rolls, chocolate cake, pineapple cake, coconut cake and pie. If you are a Senior Citizen and interested in coming to Young At Heart, please contact Rev. Loraine Thorne.

What a wonderful Sunday at Peachtree Baptist Church. Peachtree celebrated a Service of Ordination and Dedication of the Diaconate Mr. Roger "Glen" Brooks. Glen was honored by his family, church members, and friends with a celebration for him. Everyone present shared in a laying on of hands and support to Glen.
The sanctuary flower arrangement Sunday was presented to glorify God by Barbara Privette in honor of her son, John Privette, on the occasion of his birthday.

FRANKLINTON -- Two teams with much different short-term goals met on the tennis court last Thursday when Franklinton hosted Northern Nash for a Big East girls showdown.
For NNHS, the future is now as the solid Lady Knights' lineup has dropped just two matches overall to date this season -- and are destined to finish no worse than third place in the Big East Conference standings.

LOUISBURG - Northern Nash's Justin Marshall and Southern Nash's Shamir Small began the race 1-2 -- and that standing never changed during the boys portion of the latest Big East Conference cross country meet.
The event was held last Wednesday at the redesigned layout at Owens Park in Franklin County, with Franklinton serving as the host.

The Top-Two girls finishers at last Wednesday's Big East Conference Cross Country Meet in Franklin County were (l to r) Northern Nash's Elana Griffin (first) and Southern Nash's Jadiza Jimenez (second).

ROCKY MOUNT -- Despite what the final scores might say, there has been an air of predictability to date for the Nash Central High School football squad during its 2019 campaign.
The Bulldogs are currrently 3-3 overall and have experienced both sides of lopsided results.

WILSON -- The race for the Big East Conference Girls Golf Championship literally went down to the last shot Monday afternoon.
That's when the Big East golfers convened for the final time in the regular season, and Wilson Hunt appeared to be in good shape to take the team title heading into the 18-hole event.

RED OAK -- With a massive home crowd in attendance last Friday night, Northern Nash looked to upset Southwest Edgecombe, a team coming off its first football loss of the 2019 season just one week before.
Despite a solid performance and holding the Cougars to a closer matchup than the scoreboard indicated, the Knights dropped a frustrating 40-20 setback to SouthWest, falling to 4-2 on the season.

NASH COUNTY -- Here are updated Nash County Recreation & Senior Services Fall 2019 Youth Soccer Scores:

DELAND, FLA. -- The North Carolina Wesleyan College football team got off to a great start leading 14-0 early, but eventually fell 55-21 to FCS Div. 1 Stetson University (Fla.) on the road last Saturday afternoon.
The Bishops got out to their two touchdown lead as sophomore WR Tyler Roberts caught a 21-yard Touchdown pass from senior QB Donielle Totten.

GREENVILLE -- The East Carolina University baseball team held its first official fall practice last Thursdayat Lewis Field inside Clark-LeClair Stadium.
Throughout the six-week practice session, ECU will scrimmage every Friday, Saturday and Sunday leading up to its annual Purple-Gold World Series, which will be held Nov. 1-3 (timed to be determined) and is free of charge to the fans.

NASHVILLE -- This past Saturday, teams took the field again at Glover Park for soccer games in the Town of Nashville Youth Rec League.
In the 8U division, George's BBQ played Lauren F Photo and Video.
Georges bested Lauren F with goals by Nolan Parsons and Graham Kannan.

Caleb Sykes (right), of the Express Floors Team, works to get the ball down the field while Corbin Clark and Gavin Katkaveck try to defend in the 8 and under division.

ROCKY MOUNT -- The North Carolina Wesleyan College Volleyball team could not keep pace with the terrific attacking from the Angels of Meredith College on Wednesday as MC would go on to sweep the Bishops 3-0, (25-16, 25-15, 25-14) at Everett Gym on the NCWC campus in Rocky Mount.
Meredith totaled 14 kills in each set hitting .294, .375, and .414 apiece while the Bishops managed just 24 kills throughout.

Edward Jones-Cliff Joyner and Providence Bank battled it out during this exciting contest last Saturday as part of the Town of Nashville Youth Soccer League at Glover Park.