the Lord will receive me.”

Psalm 27:10

Pray for Mrs. Catherine Yarborough who will be having surgery Thursday.

Pray for Ellen Morris vande Vuss who will be having kidney stones blasted today.

Pray for Mrs. Katherine Sanders.  She has been “under the weather”.

CaringBridge

• http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/macygueldner/journal?jid=5852864

Mission Team News

• The Amite team had 70 in VBS yesterday.
• The Canadian team (Miranda Erwin and others) had camp in the morning and did service projects in the afternoon
• The Kentwood team is scheduled for VBS this morning and youth rally tonight.

Continue to pray for the Muse family today.

From Judy McElveen

Thank you for your prayers for my cousin, Frank and his family. God has released him from his pain. Our God is an awesome God.

Enjoy a cooler day today!

Anna Lee

that I am commanding you today

, love God, your God,

and serve him with everything you have within you,

he’ll take charge of sending the rain at the right time ….

Deuteronomy 11:13-14 (MSG)

Make preparations today in case “Bonnie” decides to visit us Sunday.  We all need to be prepared.  Pray for those she will “visit”.

Jennie said it rained and was cooler last night. Everyone slept much better.  Thank you for praying for them.

test me and know my anxious thoughts.

See if there is any offensive way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting.

~Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)~

Please pray for Mr. Edward Bridges and his family.  Mr. Edward is in ICU.

Continue to pray for the children and youth at camp or in VBS this week.

Don’t forget the time of food, fellowship, and devotional tonight at the cabin.  We begin at 6:30.  Ya’ll come!

I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.”

~Job 23:12, NIV~

Continue to pray for the children from FBC at kid’s camp at Camp Living Waters.  Pray for Tangipahoa Baptist Church as they continue VBS each night this week and the youth from Spring Creek as they attend camp in West Virginia.

Mr. Billy Dean has been experiencing problems with A-fib.  Please continue to pray for Bro. Charles’ dad.

Devotional by Rev. Rick Warren

http://profile.purposedriven.com/dailyhope/post.html?contentid=

Make the most of another day God has given you!

Anna Lee

and don’t stop them,

because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these,”

Luke 18:16b

CaringBridge

Read about Callie Cole’s new location and pray the therapy helps.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/calliecole/journal?jid=5774070

Mr. Billy Dean is doing better.  He has been transferred to a regular room.  Please keep him in your prayers a little longer.

Pray for Jennie and the children as they return to Kentwood today.

Baptist Press

http://www.bpnews.net/

Baptist Message

http://www.baptistmessage.com/

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

Anna Lee

Please add my dad, Billy Dean, to the prayer link. He will be having open heart surgery tomorrow morning (Wednesday). Also, please pray for Vickey and me as we move to Batesville, Arkansas next week.

Thanks,

Bro. Charles Dean

CaringBridge

• http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/averysmith1/journal?jid=5760180
• http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/calliecole/journal?jid=5755146

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS PRAYERLINE
IMB
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

“Another parable He put forth to them, saying: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches,’” (Matthew 13:31-32, NKJV).

Dear Intercessors, this is Eleanor Witcher of the Office of Global Prayer Strategy, encouraging you to pray for breakthrough in South America.

The REAPBolivia Team writes: “The ministry here in Bolivia is in its ‘baby stage’ and is still in need of volunteers to come and share in the work among the Bolivia indigenous who are bound in spiritual blindness.”

A simple/house church was planted among the urban poor in the city of Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, several years ago that ended up not surviving long term. However, one of the leaders who was trained in that church-planting effort later started a new group in his home, using what he learned. That group is now thriving and has 20 people participating in weekly Bible study and church life!

Members of the Bread of Life Church, Colombia, went on a mission trip to Oklahoma to help with a new church start for a Spanish-language mission. The response of the people was not very positive. The group returned with a conviction that people need to know the Lord but are often unaware or unwilling to admit to that need.

* Please pray for summer student workers in Bolivia as they lay the groundwork for church groups that will follow.

* Intercede for A and T as they lead the group in Brazil, and ask the Father to use this group both as an example of how to plant new churches.

* Pray that the Spanish-speakers who were contacted in Oklahoma will respond to God’s invitation and that those who participated in the mission trip will be faithful to continue to reach out and share God’s Word.

TODAY’S PRAYER
IMB
JULY 7, 2010

“I sought the Lord, and He heard me.” (Psalm 34:4a)

WORLD LEADERS. “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Please pray today for President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed of Somalia (eastern Africa).

DUTCH INDIGENOUS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Pray for workers who have decided to move to a new location within the city where they serve. They have felt led to a subdivision community that has been recently built in an area where there are no nearby churches. Pray as these workers begin networking with a Dutch church that also has a vision to plant a church in this community. Ask God to help them as they relocate, and pray that He will provide ministry opportunities and inroads into this new, thriving neighborhood of young families.

WORLD SOCCER JOURNEYS. “During long school breaks, parents in the United States and here in Cape Town, South Africa, wonder what to do with their children,” writes the Cape Town Metro Evangelism Team. “In the U.S., the children might go to camps and/or Vacation Bible School. Here in Cape Town and other World Cup cities, there are Holiday Bible Clubs led by local Baptist churches. What is unique here is that parents have another option: World Cup Sports Clinics led by missionaries Mike and Amy Boone, Bruce and Sheri Erickson, Ronnie and Gail Davis, and Bonnie Doughtie. The local township churches are assisting the missionaries, as are students of Cape Town Baptist Seminary. During the three- to five-day clinics, the 1,000-plus children (aged sixth through ninth grade) of three township schools learn soccer and basketball skills, hear the Gospel, and memorize Bible verses. This is an opportunity to win these children and their families for Christ. These children, if not engaged by us during this time, could easily be led astray by the lowlier elements in their society: gangs, drugs, alcohol, theft and prostitution. God has a plan for their lives, to give them a hope and a future. We show them that this hope becomes real by believing in Jesus Christ as their Savior. Please be in prayer for these children, asking that they will be able to fend off temptation. Be in prayer for these missionaries and their safety and leading of God.” http://worldsoccerjourneys.com/

Please take time to read the following Baptist Press article.  I think we could all do better than we are doing….

FIRST-PERSON: Coming to your church Monday morning …
Diana Davis

http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=33292

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Anna Lee

you won’t be faithful in large ones.

If you cheat even a little,

you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.

~Luke 16:10 (NLT)~

Joan B. Hagan sent word to add her name to our prayers.  She is experiencing problems with her blood pressure/heart.  Please pray for her.

Continue to pray for the extended Tolleson family in Texas - Micah, Scott, Brenda, Sharla and others.  Their physical burdens have been large.  Pray God will continue strengthen them as they walk difficult journeys with their complicated health issues.

A God-blessed America: obligations and responsibilities
Richard Land

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Baptist Press)–America is fundamentally distinct from all other countries in its founding, in its national life, and in the values, rights and privileges it confers upon its citizens. In other words, America is exceptional. And if it is exceptional in its domestic character, in what it offers to immigrants in search of a better life, then it would follow that America is exceptional in what it has to offer to the global community.

America is not an ethnicity or mere geography, but a creed, a set of first principles to which we pledge allegiance — freedom, human dignity, self-government, and equality. Anyone who pledges allegiance to these values can consider himself or herself an “American.”

America has been blessed by God in unique ways — we are not just another country, but neither are we God’s special people. I do not believe that America is God’s chosen nation. God established one chosen nation and people: the Jews. We are not the new Israel. We cannot assume “God is on our side.” We are not God’s gift to the world.

America does not have a special claim on God. Millions of Americans do, however, believe God has a special claim on them — and their country.

The concept of American “exceptionalism” was first popularized in the early 19th century by Alexis de Tocqueville, although the idea was hardly invented by him. The roots of this view go back to the beginnings of Puritan settlements — how else do you explain the Puritan understanding of a “shining city on a hill” to light the way for the Old World? Or Francis Scott Key’s imagery of “the heav’n rescued land” in our national anthem, which he wrote in 1814 after he saw the Stars and Stripes still waving over Fort McHenry after a night of fierce bombardment from British ships?

American exceptionalism is the understanding that America is a unique nation with a unique sense of purpose that started with the nation’s settlement and has since morphed through various meanings, all of them centered on the observation that America is distinct from other countries in the world — in its founding, in its government, in its social and economic structures, and in its religious and cultural character.

America has been blessed in manifold ways. When you look at our resources, our protection by two oceans, our standard of living, can you argue that America has not been uniquely and providentially blessed? The natural resources that lie within the confines of our borders are without parallel anywhere in the world: not just rich, arable land, but vast resources of iron, coal and oil under the ground. We didn’t put them there; we were just led to the place where they were.

We have had the opportunity to enjoy them and to benefit people around the world with them. Perhaps the most fertile land on the planet is our Great Plains.

We have become the breadbasket for the world. We feed much of the world’s population, in part because we are good farmers, but also because we believe in private ownership of land and property. Can you name a nation that in any way can claim to have been the recipient of God’s unearned blessings to the measure that we have been?

The blessings are not just material, however. It is remarkable that the one generation that produced our Founding Fathers emerged and put together the Constitution that has served us so well for more than two centuries and has brought unparalleled freedom for an unparalleled number of people — unequaled by any other country in the world.

We enjoy freedoms that most of us have not risked our lives to establish, protect or preserve. All of us, unless we are immigrants to this country, have by the providence of birth been bequeathed an incredible legacy. Over the last two and a half centuries, there has been no other country in the world within which such a high percentage of the population has had the guaranteed freedoms we possess: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly. We have guaranteed freedoms in our Constitution that even Canadians and Britons don’t have.

There was either a fortuitous or a providential set of circumstances in the development and rise of this nation. Since I’m a Christian, I believe in providence more than fortune. I believe that it was a uniquely providential set of circumstances that allowed the flourishing of this triumph of freedom and the dignity of human beings. It certainly didn’t happen that way in the French Revolution, and I believe it is no coincidence that the philosophy and convictions fueling that revolution were not based on a transcendent divine authority. They were based in human reason (or what the revolutionaries mistook for reason) alone, and the upheaval quickly degenerated into a maelstrom of chaos, violence and power struggles.

The Founding Fathers of the American Revolution, by contrast, affirmed that human rights are not mere human constructions, but are unalienable rights conferred by God.

Government could not create those rights; all it could do was recognize, support and protect them. This idea of divinely ordained rights had not taken root anywhere else in the world. It was a new and unique concept.

“Blessings,” by definition, are undeserved. From the richness of our undeserved legacy comes obligation. If we have been given much, we are obligated to give much to others. If we love our neighbors as ourselves, we will seek not only to preserve and protect our liberties, but to assist others in their efforts to attain these same liberties for themselves.

American exceptionalism is not a delusion of national grandiosity. American exceptionalism is not a doctrine of pride and privilege. It is a belief that God has blessed this nation in amazing ways, and those blessings invoke a reciprocal obligation and responsibility to seek to share, but not impose, the blessings of freedom and democracy with others around the world.

Let’s all pause this Fourth of July weekend to give praise and gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the manifold blessings of being an American and to say thank you to all those who have sacrificed to protect and defend those precious liberties.

(Richard Land is president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.)

Thank God for our great nation and pray we can continue to have a great, God-fearing nation for many years.  Also, pray for those in other nations to have the opportunity to know and serve out great God.

Anna Lee

I will sing to You among the nations.”

~Psalm 57:9~

As we continue to have very hot days, pray for those who have to be outside and for those who do not have air conditioning.  Help out your neighbors if they are in danger because of the heat.

Roma Conference

http://imbeurope.org/2010/05/roma-conference-emphasizes-hope-in-christ/

Several churches are having VBS this week.  Pray for those who will be leading and for the children who will be attending.  May young lives be changed.

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the flock of God that is your responsibility …

Not domineering as arrogant, dictatorial, and overbearing persons

but being examples, patterns, and models of Christian living ….

~1 Peter 5:2-3 (Amp)~

Jimmy Muse

Jimmy had a problem with an electrical charge at home and is hospitalized in Baron Rouge.  Please keep him in your prayers.

George Dees

George Dees is very ill.  Please pray for him and his family.

High Temperatures

Be careful to stay hydrated if you are working or playing outside.  The high temperatures we have been having are very dangerous.

Have you got a few minutes to read?

http://www.bpnews.net/

Devotional thought

http://www.upperroom.org/devotional/

TODAY’S PRAYER

IMB
JUNE 22, 2010

“I have set you as a light to the Gentiles, that you should be for salvation to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 13:47)

WORLD LEADERS. “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Please pray today for Prime Minister Joachim Rafael Branco of Sao Tome and Principe (Gulf of Guinea, western Africa).

HIDDEN MOUNTAIN PEOPLE OF EAST ASIA. Ask the Father to impress upon local believers not only the great need to reach their neighbors and friends for Jesus, but also the great need to go to the remote places and do whatever it takes to reach the Hidden Mountain people with the Gospel.

KASHMIRI MUSLIMS OF INDIA (KASH-meer-ee). Give thanks to God for answering your prayers by providing amazing opportunities to interact with several government agencies and tourism groups in the area through a visiting expert. After visiting several new areas in the valley, workers believe that a new project might open doors in new villages for local believers to earn a livable wage, and for lost families living in poverty to hear the Good News.

Pray for Jennie and the children as they prepare to travel here for a brief family visit.

Thanks for taking time to read this and to pray.  If you have something you would like to share, please feel free to contact me so I can post it.  Have a wonderful day!

Anna Lee