Month: June 2012

Tuesday Afternoon

Update on Kim Newell Landry from her mother, Rose Emma

Kim’s surgeon just called her and said first pathology report was wrong! She does have thyroid cancer! Now he’s got
to go back and take whole thyroid out, lymph nodes and surrounding tissue! She will probably have to have more cancer treatments! This is awful news! We need your prayers to help us get through this! I know God is with us and He will be there! Love all of you!!! RE

Add Kathy Jo Thompson’s name to your prayer list again.  She will probably have surgery to repair/adjust (not sure of the right word) a shunt.  After all she has been through, I know she would appreciate your prayers.

Tuesday

Everything on earth has its own time and its own season.

~Ecclesiastes 3:1 (CEV)~

I forgot to share that Mr. Burnell Simpson was able to be back in Sunday School this week.  We thank God for the procedure that returned his health to him.

Pray for the people who are receiving so much rain due to the storm named Debby.  Pray she will not cause any more deaths as she crosses Florida or wherever she goes.

Baaptist Press – Good articles, as usual

http://www.bpnews.net/

Enjoy this day provided by God!

Anna Lee

Monday

                                                         “If anyone is thirsty,

                                             he should come to Me and drink!

                                                   The one who believes in Me,

                                                   as the Scripture has said,

             will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

                                                   ~John 7:37b-38, HCSB~

“Sundae on Sunday” was very good.  People enjoyed visiting while they ate.  The trio of Reviere, Taylor, and Rimes sang and lead a sing-a-long.  Bro. Tom shared a brief message on missions.

FBC, Amite has made it to New Mexico where they will begin their mission work with the Navaho today.  Keep the teams and the people of the reservation in your prayers.

Several churches have taken their youth to camp this week.  Pray for the youth and the adults who accompanied them from Spring Creek, Osyka, and New Zion.

Pray for the Vacation Bible Schools that will begin today/tonight at East Fork and Bethel Baptist Churches.  What a great week for children and youth in our area.

Devotionals: Heart to Heart with Holley – Things Our Hearts Forget (2)

http://www.holleygerth.com/heart-to-heart-with-holley/?currentPage=7

Monday is usually my least favorite day of the week because I get up tired from all the activities of the past two or three days.  I had been very busy, as usual, but I’m going to make this Monday a good day, just because God has blessed me with this day and so many other things.

Anna Lee

Sunday Afternoon

Miss Laura Joiner was at church in a wheelchair, but still at church.  Thank God for her improving condition.

Bock Sims (11) is back on the ventilator.  Otherwise, he is about this same.  (This report comes through Michelle Hendry Bridges.)

Mrs. Grace Helen Felker is still hospitalized in Greensburg.  Pray she will begin to show signs of improvement.

Marsha Bankston is still in ICU at North Oaks.  Pray for some signs of improvement.

Bethel Baptist Church, west of Kentwood, will be having VBS this week from 6:00 – 8:00.  You are invited to attend.

Sunday

“Rejoice always,

pray without ceasing,

in everything give thanks;

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

~1 Thessalonians 5:16-18~

VBS Schedules

  • East Fork, Kentwood – June 25 – 29 @ 6:00 – 8:30 P.M.; Commencement Sunday @ 6 P.M.
  • Hillsdale, Amite – July 6 & 7 (7th – 12th grade); 6:30 – 8:30
  • The Lord’s Church, Kentwood – July 9 – 13 @ 6:00 – 8:00
  • FBC, Roseland– July 9-13  5:30 P.M. – 7:30 P.M.; Family night – July 13
  • Greensburg – July 23 – 27 @ 5:30 – 8:00 – Registration on July 22

 

Heart to Heart with Holley

http://www.holleygerth.com/heart-to-heart-with-holley/?currentPage=6

Happy Lord’s Day!  Be sure not to miss your appointment with Him today!

Anna Lee

Saturday Night

I want to let everyone know that Rev. Tom Higginbothan will be preaching tomorrow while Bro. Joey is vacationing at the beach.  Bro. Tom was our interim several years ago.

Tomorrow evening, at 5:30, we will meet for “Sundae on Sunday”.  Bring store bought ice cream and anything you can think of to go with it – whipped topping, blueberry syrup, bananas, cherries, nuts, sprinkles, candy, chocolate, brownies,  cobbler, pound cake, etc.  We will have a great time enjoying what we combine.  I have information that music will include several guitars.  Bro. Tom will lead in a brief devotional.  All of this will be in the fellowship hall.  Remember, we start early – 5:30!

Saturday’s Obituary

Marguerite “Teach” Howard McClendon
(March 20, 1924 – June 22, 2012)

Marguerite “Teach” Howard McClendon, beloved Basketball Coach and Teacher at Amite High School from 1948-1989 passed away on June 22, 2012. Born on March 20, 1924, in Ft. Collins, CO, to Gladys Watson McClendon and Robert “Bob” Broussard McClendon, Jr. She is survived by her sister-in-law, Nelda McClendon, nieces, Martha Davison and Donna Graeff, and their children, Trey Davison, David Graeff, Sarah Cormier, and Jessica Davison, and a great-nephew, Sean Raday. Preceded in death by her parents, Gladys Watson McClendon and Robert Broussard McClendon, Sr. and brother, Robert Broussard McClendon, Jr. As basketball coach, she lead the Warriors to 2 State Titles and numerous District and Region Championships. She also served as the coach for the various other women’s athletic squads throughout the years. A proud member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, she served for 59 years. A member of the First United Methodist Church of Amite. She greatly enjoyed such outdoor activities such as golf, fishing, and skeet shooting. Marguerite was the first female Student Body President at Southeastern Louisiana University where she received a B.A. in Education. She later received her Masters in Education from LSU. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 9 a.m. until religious services at 11a.m. on Monday, June 25, 2012. Services conducted by Rev. Brady Whitton. Interment Arcola-Roseland Cemetery, Arcola, LA. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

“Teacher” was a person who believed in what she did and gave it her all.  I can hear her “laugh” now, as I smile and think of her.  She was the same every time you saw her.  I clearly remember standing in our assigned places for  roll call and then the two laps around the football field before doing our exercises and the activities she had planned for us each day all four years of high school.  She taught me the rules for sports that I have used from that time on to be understand what I saw in person or watched on TV.  She had insight to teach rules of sports as well as rules of life.  I know she impacted every girl who attended Amite High School.  She often used me to help her and I treasured all the assignments from her.  They wound up being learning experiences for me.  “Teacher”, the mold was broken when you were born, so there has never been anyone else like you!

 

 

Saturday Midday

Bock Sims

The MRI showed that he has a broken his jaw on both sides and a broken collar bone. A family friend visited today and she said he was squeezing her hand when she spoke to him. Please continue to pray for him and his family and the drs and nurses whom are taking care of him. Thank you all!

First Baptist Church, Amite sent about 2 dozen people on a mission trip to the Indians in the Southwest.  Pray for the team, but especially pray for those to whom they will minister this week.

Pray for my niece, Kristin, as she makes final preparations for her mission trip to Haiti with the Mission Church.  Pray hearts are prepared and receptive to the Lord’s call on their lives.

Pray for the children who have just completed a week of VBS and those are are about to begin a week.  VBS is very effective in leading children to the Lord.