From our February 22, 2001, edition.

Clarendon's newest church seeing growth 

Clarendon’s Community Fellowship Church held a Valentine dinner at the Bar H Dude Ranch on Wednesday, February 14.

Twenty-one couples, two singles, and four children attended. Brother Bryan Knowles regaled the attendees with some amusing anecdotes prior to the steak dinner. During the dinner, Katrina Burrows provided musical entertainment. After dinner, the couples played games and sang songs to the accompaniment of Wes Thomas on the guitar. The food was excellent, and the fellowship even finer.

Community Fellowship was chartered on December 10, 2000, as a member of the Texas Southern Baptist Convention with 51 charter members. The past two months have seen this fledgling church become the fastest growing church in the Texas Panhandle with membership already swelling to the mid sixties.

Presently the church has been holding Sunday morning services in the Panhandle Community Services building with Sunday School at 10 a.m. and the church service at 11 a.m. The Sunday night fellowship and services begin at 6 p.m.

The crowd has the little building bursting at the seams. Attendance each week is in the 80s.

A family in the congregation has donated seven acres to the church, and the church building committee is looking at ways to begin a building to house this rapidly growing fellowship of Christian believers. Everyone is invited to join or visit.