2023-2024 Odessa City Guide Page 35 We offer: Respect for the past. Compassion for the present. Support for the future. ▪ Adult Daycare ▪ Outpatient Therapy ▪ Short Term Care ▪ Long Term Care ▪ Knowledgeable Staff ▪ Caring Atmosphere CommunityChurch History Community of Christ, 515 S. First Street, the former Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, purchased the present church site in 1948, where the Western Literary and Bible College once stood. They also purchased materials from the Mt. Zion Methodist Church building, near Chapel Hill. The congregation used the authentic Chapel Hill church pews until new pews could be obtained. Those pews were then used in the Bates City RLDS Church until other pews were purchased. Woods Chapel Church, eight miles south of Odessa on 131 Highway, was built in 1884 and remodeled in 1984. The church burned to the ground October 10, 2019. It was rebuilt at the same location and reopened in October 2020. Cedar Grove Christian Church is located south on 131, then east on Route U to County Road 370, and south on gravel road 1 1/2 miles. The church was organized in 1883. Crown Christian Center, organized in 1996, meets at 7 p.m. each Sunday at 7411 Outer Road, the former Countryside Family Dining Restaurant building. Rolling Meadows Christian Church constructed a new building on Odessa Cemetery Road. The congregation formerly was known as Community Christian Church. New Hope Baptist Church, 110 S. First St.; Pastor Tyrone Thirkield; Evangelist, Wilbur Conway. Church holds Sunday School at 9 a.m. and Sunday worship at 10:30 a.m. Life Point Church, the former First Assembly of God, was organized in 1964. In 1979, the present structure was built on a triangular lot on 131 Highway, Phillips and First streets. Church members have completed a sanctuary which seats 400 persons adjacent to the present building, which was converted to an education wing.
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