Month: August 2010

Tuesday Obituaries

“Buddy” Eli Hiram Vickers
(April 5, 1939 – August 23, 2010)

A resident of Covington, he died at 3:45 p.m. on Monday, August 23, 2010 at Lakeview Regional Medical Center in Covington. He was born April 5, 1939 in Natalbany and was 71 years of age. Beloved husband of Carol Varnado Vickers for 53 years. Father of Monica Vickers Shaw and her husband, John, Clyde Dean Vickers and his wife, Tammy, D. Brent Vickers and his wife, Connie Lynn and Eric Hiram Vickers and his wife, Connie Ann. Proud grandfather of 12 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Brother of Agnes Vickers Miller and her husband, Charles and Mary Ellen Vickers Gulotta and her husband, the late J.B. Gulotta and numerous nieces and nephews. Son of the late Gladys Goings Vickers and Hiram Vickers. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 9 a.m. until religious services at 11 a.m. Thursday, August 26, 2010. Services conducted by Rev. Luke Walters. Interment Amite Memorial Gardens, Amite.

Lester Giles Campbell
(March 15, 1919 – August 24, 2010)

A resident of Kentwood, he died at 12:10 p.m. on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at Kentwood Manor Nursing Home in Kentwood. He was born March 15, 1919 in Schuyler County, IL and was 91 years of age. He is survived by his 2 daughters, Virginia Kay Allen and her husband, Joe, Kentwood and Carol Ann Muncy and husband, Don, Altus, OK; grandchildren, Richard Dodds, Robert Dodds, Rhonda Vega, Mark Muncy, Paul Muncy, Joe E. Walker, Jr., Michael T. Walker; step-granddaughters, Laura Poulus, Margaret Kindlimann and Kelly Goodlett; 9 great-grandchildren; 3 step-great-grandchildren; 2 step-great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Theora Grace Steele Campbell; daughter, Mary Ellen Dodds; father, James Eli Campbell; mother, Grace Stevens Campbell; brother, Homer Campbell; infant brother, Herbert E. Campbell; twin brother, Chester James Campbell; 2 sisters, Minnie E. Simpson and Annabell Croxton. Graveside Services will be held at Good Hope Cemetery, Rushville, IL. McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of local arrangements.

Tuesday Afternoon

Mr. Clifton Womack

Mr. Clifton Womack fell and broke his hip.  He has had surgery at North Oaks and is doing well.  Mr. Clifton is 93.  Please keep him in your prayers.

Caroline Crouch

(Update from Amy Walker Kent)

I heard from Maryann. They are trying another campath treatment (iv therapy) to stop the progression of rejection. Please pray that God allows this to help her and heal her so she can come home. She is in ICU in Houston. Maryann says that they have a peace now that they didn’t have yesterday so keep the prayers coming.

Tuesday

“So let us not become tired of doing good;

for if we do not give up,

the time will come when we reap a harvest.”

Galatians 6:9 (NLT)

Mrs. (David )Rhonda Cutrer of Roseland is finally without fever.  She was able to return home again.  Thank you for your continued prayers for her.

Janet Pike had surgery yesterday.   Pray for her as she begins the recovery process.

Caroline Crouch has been taken to Houston.  She transplanted lung is being rejected.  Caroline has cystic fibrosis.  Please continue to pray for the young lady from Amite.

CaringBridge

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/calliecole/journal?jid=5990578

Whitney Kliesch took a few steps yesterday.  He will be released from the hospital in Hawaii and after about a week sent home to continue his recovery.  Thank God for this wonderful report.

Micah Tolleson is still in the hospital, but his family hopes he will be able to come home tomorrow.  The results of the lasts tests were not good.  Please say extra prayers for Micah and his family.

From Lawana Carter

Sylvia Breeland Green (is my niece and Molly Carter’s grandchild) We know what is wrong with Tori (This is my great niece and mom’s great grandchild)!!!She has a relly hard to kill, not to common UTI. More tests will be done to make sure the ‘pluming’ in her kidneys is okay. Plus we have a few more labs, ultra sounds, and culters to get done. Thanks to all for the thoughts and prayers. We hope to be home in the next couple days.
Tori is 3 years.

KneEmail

“At the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow.”  Philippinas 2:10

Mike Benson, Editor

DURING THE GOLD rush days in Colorado, a man named R.U. Darby and his uncle went west in search of gold…

With only a pick and a shovel, they dug and dug until they finally struck the shiny gold ore.  But they needed specialized machinery to bring the gold to the surface.  They quietly buried their small mine and went back east to Williamsburg, Maryland and told a few relatives and neighbors of their find.  They convinced them to invest and loan them the money they needed to buy the equipment and have it shipped to the mine.

They brought up the first car of ore and shipped it to the smelter.  The results showed that they had one of the richest mines ever found in Colorado.  A few more cars of this gold would pay their debts and then they could start reaping enormous profits.  But then tragedy struck.  The vein of gold disappeared.  They searched and searched — desperate to pick up the vein of gold again.  But no luck.  They continued drilling in vain and after a few more weeks of frustration, they gave up.  They sold the machinery to a junk man for a few hundred dollars and took the train back home.

In the meantime, the junk man called a mining engineer to look at the mine.  The engineer took some calculations and concluded that the project had failed because the owners were not familiar with “fault lines.”  The junk man took over drilling and found the vein of gold within three feet of where the Darbys had stopped drilling.  The mine turned out to be one of the biggest gold mines ever discovered in Colorado.

Thomas Edison wrote, “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” When you quit, you create a permanent solution to a temporary problem.  When you quit, you guarantee the result you fear most — that you won’t succeed.  The fact is, success makes all your suffering count for something.  Turn your pain into a purpose.  Daniel R. Castro, “Heroes Focus on the Purpose on the Other Side of Pain,” Critical Choices, 87-88

“And let us not grow weary while doing good,

for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

Galatians 6:9

Thanks for entrusting us with your prayer requests.  We will pray.

Anna Lee

Monday

“Now to Him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think,

according to the power that works in us,

to Him be glory in the church

by Christ Jesus to all generations,

forever and ever.”

~Ephesians 3:20-21~

Whitney Kliesch had a good report on the MRI.  He is getting feeling back and seems to not need surgery.  Pray for him as he begins physical therapy.  His family is very appreciative of your prayers.

Please keep George Eddie Lee on your prayer list.  Alice Faye says he is better in some ways.  As you pray for him, pray for her too.

I talked with Rev. David Cutrer yesterday.  His wife, Rhonda, is recovering from a second surgery.  This one was to clear up infection.  Hopefully, she will be able to come home today.

The AWANA crowd at FBC, Kentwood seemed to be having fun in their first Sunday of a new year.  This is the sixth year for them.  They will begin regular meeting next week.  Pray for the children attending and for the adults who will be helping them.  May young lives be changed because of what they learn at AWANA!

Leslie Rush Allen
(December 30, 1946 – August 22, 2010)

A resident of Roseland, LA, died at 9:18AM on Sunday, August 22, 2010 at his residence. He was born December 30, 1946 in Dubach, LA and was 63 years of age. Visitation at First Pentecostal Church of Roseland, on Tuesday after 8:30 a.m. until religious services at 11 a.m Tuesday. Services conducted by Rev. David Cutrer. Interment Arcola-Roseland Cemetery, Arcola, LA. Survived by wife, Donna Sue Allen, Roseland, daughter, Tracy Allen Newman and her husband, Denman, Walker, 2 sons, Sidney Allen, Bossier City, and David Allen and his wife, Jessica, Kentwood, 2 sisters, Peggy Barlow, Tickfaw, and Bonnie Gail Peacock, Bossier City, 1 brother, Alfred Eugene Allen, Loranger, 7 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by parents, Alfred Rush Allen and Bronice Ethel Allen, sister, Christa Jane Allen, 4 brothers, John Wesley Allen, Forrest Glenn Allen, Freddie McClane Allen, and Tommy Lynn Allen. McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, in charge of arrangements.

Have a great Monday!

Anna Lee

Sunday

You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God,

you will receive what he has promised.

For in just a very little while,

“He who is coming will come and will not delay.”

~Hebrews 10:36-37 (NIV)~


From Debbra Smith

Please say a special prayer for Jamie Wallace who is in North Oaks in ICU..

Whitney Kliesch had a MRI last night.  The results were good.  Thank God for that.  Keep praying.

Gentle Persuation

Stan Mitchell (August 19, 2010)

“Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city” ( Proverbs 16:32, ESV).

One of Aesop’s fables tells of a competition between the rain, the wind and the sun. All three were looking down at a man walking along the road on a cold day, his coat and collar pulled tightly around him.

“Let’s see who can take the man’s coat off,” they said. The rain began, pelting the man with a heavy downpour. But the man simply pulled his coat up higher in an effort to protect himself from the elements.

So the wind began to blow, gusts of wind tearing at the man’s clothes in an effort to blow the coat off. But the man simply pulled the coat around himself tighter.

Then the sun began to shine. The sky was blue, the warmth began to seep into the miserable man’s body, and it comforted him. It took a little time, but inevitably it happened. It was so warm and pleasant that the man took off the coat himself.

Many times we try to dominate others, to demand that they do things our way. Not surprisingly, our kids, our spouses and our churches simply pull their coats tighter, in a defensive posture. There is a saying that honey accomplishes more than vinegar. Sometimes where force fails, patience produces.

When manipulation doesn’t work, warm them with the sunshine of your love.

“Warn them with the sunshine of your love”!

Have a great Lord’s Day!

Anna Lee

Saturday Afternoon

Frances Gay’s niece

Marsha Horton is having surgury on August 23, at 7:00 a.m. in Dallas. She will be out of work for over a week. Her son is staying with her and when she comes home a cousin is staying for 2 days to give her a hand. No lifting or exercising for 6 weeks. I pray that all goes well and she can be completely recovered. She just recently lost her brother so her son Eric and cousins are the only family she has. Pray for them as they care for her.

Whitney Kliesch, son of Rev. Milton and Pam Kliesch

My son Whitney, was on Army exercises in Hawaii (where he is statined), fell 15-20 feet into a ravine when he walked near the edge. He was paralyzed below the waist. Movement is gradually coming back. His spine was injured. He will be okay, at least that is what they are saying now. We forget how dangerous even practice operations can be for our military folks.

Saturday

“Never boast about tomorrow.

You don’t know what will happen between now and then.”

~Proverbs 21:1 GNT~

Pray for Holly K.  She will be returning from West Africa in two months.

Please continue to pray for Micah Tolleson.  He has been hospitalized again.  As you pray for him, pray for his entire family.  His mother wrote…

Once again Micah needs your prayers, as does our entire family. Micah is in the hospital again…the chemo, the radiation, etc. is all taking a toll on his body, physically and mentally. Our entire family is so tired and our hearts are broken for Micah for what he is dealing with tonight—too much for a 22 year old. Good thing with have the Lord on our side, I don’t know how we would deal otherwise.

Jimmy Tolar did not come home Thursday, but was scheduled to come home Friday.

Brace yourself for a hot day!

Have a great day of preparation for the Lord’s day!
Anna Lee

Friday

“I am the Lord, and there is no other;

there is no God besides Me. . . .

they might know from the rising of the sun to its setting

that there is none besides Me.

I am the Lord and there is no other.”

~Isaiah 45:5-6, NKJV~

CaringBridge

PUTTING LOVE INTO PRACTICE
The following story seen in “Sunshine Magazine” about a professor of psychology illustrates how difficult it is to love others.

Although he had no children of his own, whenever he saw a neighbor scolding a child for some wrongdoing, he would say, “You should love your boy, not punish him.”

One hot summer afternoon the professor was doing some repair work on a concrete driveway leading to his garage.  Tired out after several hours of work, he laid down the towel, wiped the perspiration from his forehead, and started toward the house. Just then out of the corner of his eye he saw a mischievous little boy putting his foot into the fresh cement. He rushed over, grabbed him, and was about to spank him severely when a neighbor leaned from a window and said, “Watch it, Professor!  Don’t you remember?  You must ‘love’ the child!”

At this, he yelled back furiously, “I do love him in the abstract, but not in the concrete!”

That’s so true.  It’s easy to love people “in the abstract”.  It’s easy to talk about love and the importance of love.  What’s much more difficult is to love people in “concrete” ways, especially when we’re dealing with people are very unlovable, who have been unkind and irritating to us.

But love is not something for us to talk about — it is something for us to demonstrate in some very practical ways, as John makes clear in this familiar passage:

“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.  But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?  My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.” (1 John 3:16-18)

How about it — are you loving in the abstract, or in the concrete?

Have a great day!

Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina

Thank God for the lightning display and the liquid sunshine we had last night.  We had a great group at the cabin last night even though our expectations were very low.

May you be richly blessed this day!

Anna Lee