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Tinney Chapel is at it again.  And by "it" I mean whipping up some good Southern food and opening their doors to anyone who'd enjoy a great meal and terrific music.  We were at Tinney Chapel for the Easter Sunrise Service and breakfast and I can say without reservation, these folks know how to cook and entertain with country charm.

Here's your official invitation for tomorrow's event. . .

An old-fashioned iron kettle fish fry fundraiser is the centerpiece event in an evening of fun and fellowship

5:00 pm & 7:00 p.m., Saturday, June 19,
at the Family Life Center of  
Tinney Chapel United Methodist Church
two miles south of Winnsboro on FM 312,
then east one-quarter mile on CR 4620.

The Pleasant Mountain Boys Southern Gospel Band, of Mt. Pleasant, TX, will provide entertainment. Check them out at: www.pleasantmountainboys.com

“Delta catfish with all the trimmings: fries, cole slaw, hush puppies, iced tea and a choice of homemade desserts is our menu,” says event chairman Bob Deitering. “The chief cook is Bobby Thompson, and desserts will be provided by the Ladies
Group, and other volunteers, of Tinney Chapel UMC.

“The public is invited, and donations or love offerings will be gratefully accepted toward Tinney Chapel’s broad range of ministries,” explains Deitering.

Y'all come!

In case you've missed all my romance-laden communications, here's a quick round up of what's going on in town this weekend.

Three of our favorite B&Bs have special packages including Thee Hubbell House, Oaklea Mansion and The FARMHOUSE at Hunter's Moon Farm.

Thee Hubbell House, Double C Steakhouse and Crossroads have the Great Romance Package which includes the Master Suite at Hubbell, dinner at Double C and music at Crossroads.

Oaklea Mansion is offering $35 one hour massage for any guest staying two nights. The FARMHOUSE will welcome you with chocolate and champagne when you stay two nights.

The events start Thursday night with a return visit from Andrew McKnight performing at the First United Methodist Church. He weaves quite a speel with his Americana music laced heavily with the sounds of the Appalachian mountains.

A noon on Saturday, Tinney Chapel will be hosting a free Valentine's Day chili lunch at their location just a couple of miles south of town. You probably have to be from Texas to appreciate their reason: Nothing says love like chili.

Those lovebirds Adler and Hearne are performing at Brewbaker's Valentine Dinner and Concert, Saturday, February 13. The $30 ticket includes dinner and the performance with your choice of Royal Beef Tendeloin or Rainbow Trout.

Saturday also mean Rhett Butler will be back at Crossroads performing at the final concert in the current venue. Mayor Carolyn Jones is sponsoring this very special concert.

It's all here waiting for you. Come and enjoy yourselves!

Hi again - when I found out about the open invitation for a free Christmas dinner at Tinney Chapel, I asked Joe Dan Boyd to write a guest blog. As always, he captures the essence of the event perfectly. Anita

If you are alone on this Christmas Day, December 25, perhaps your family is out of town, or for whatever reason, you have nowhere else to go for a home-cooked meal and old-time friendly fellowship, please drive two miles south of Winnsboro on FM 312, then turn east on County Road 4620 for one-fourth mile, to Tinney Chapel—the quintessential country church, twice voted best in rural ministry by the North Texas Methodist Conference.

There, at 449 CR 4620, from 2 pm to 4 pm, expect a full-course meal from the ladies of Tinney Chapel, followed by the kind of coffee and conversation that reminds us all of flaming fireplaces, red-nosed reindeer, lamps in windows, hosannas in the highest, memories in a manger scene and ultimately the Reason for the Season.

For most of us, Christmas is one of the two most memorable meals of the year, ranking right up there with Thanksgiving turkey and crimson cranberries.

My Grandma Tinney, who helped raise me after I was orphaned at a young age, was no society type hostess, but she loved people, and always expected both family and friends to fill her rambling farmhouse for each year’s Big Dinner on Christmas Day. No invitation required: Just show up for the open latch, the larder, the ladle, the lamb and, of course, the love!

My Grandma Tinney introduced me to Tinney Chapel as an infant, and if she were still alive, and could be with us these days, she’d still want a crowd: our church’s 8,000-sq. ft. family life center would strain at the seams! I’d be grateful if all of you could have known her and the richness of having “company all over”—people drawn together by a single warm personality.

The next best thing might be today’s Tinney Chapel Folks, all of whom are steeped in the same rural roots and agrarian appreciation that made Grandma Tinney so special. Visitors to our church always say they have never been made to feel more at home than here at this 109-year-old monument to frontier Texas hospitality.

Please remember to be our guest on Christmas Day, December 25, for an unforgettable experience--and absolutely free!

Get all the details here.