"This church has meant for my family and I, a place of
happiness! The Promise Church is a place to meet new friends,
and a place to come and feel welcomed, and feel as a part of
the family." - Zach Powell
happiness! The Promise Church is a place to meet new friends,
and a place to come and feel welcomed, and feel as a part of
the family." - Zach Powell
| The Promise Church I 281.972.9015 I PO Box 331198 Houston TX 77233 |
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| Worship Time Sundays from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon Meeting at Worthing High School |
By Pastor Maceo W. Smedley Gratitude is one of the most powerful emotions that any human can experience. No one could every say that they have arrived to any level of success without having an equal level of gratitude. Those who refuse to be grateful will always be subjected to planting themselves into the mud of mediocrity. However, those who are grateful will experience success that supersedes their expectations. There are a number of individuals in whom our current luxuries warrant our gratitude. During this month we are undoubtedly grateful for monumental figures such as Martin Luther King and President Barack Obama. These are just two of the individuals who overcame the unbreakable barriers of this nations past, and inspired generations to believe in themselves and in the goodness of others. On the other hand, most of us have individuals in our own lives whose names and reputations may not be immense, but there impact on us is immeasurable. For me personally two of the greatest people to influence my life and to whom I am grateful are two educators. Both of them broke color boundaries by becoming the first African Americans to hold recognizable positions in their school districts. Both of them reached beyond the walls of their classrooms to embrace those whose futures did not seem promising due to the absence of parental guidance or adequate finances. Both of them where regulars at sporting events and extra curricular activities to support children that where not their own and raising loud voices of cheers to overcompensate for the silence of absentee parents. For me, these two individuals where called mom and dad, but for others they where called “more than mom” and “more than dad.” These titles could not have been clearer than during the untimely death of my father this year on January 19th. Those who knew him as “more than dad,” traveled from around the country to show there gratitude for his influence on their success. Because of their impact on me, I am proud to be the founding pastor of The Promise Church. A church that in three short years has continuously fed the hungry, provided clothes for school aged youth, and seen many lives transformed. To some I may be Pastor, but my ultimate desire is to be “more than Pastor.” |