Wednesday

“We give thanks to You,

O God,we give thanks!

For Your wondrous works declare

that Your name is near.”

~Psalm 75:1~

New baby in Tate family

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce the birth of our little sister! We don’t have a name yet but will soon.
She was born today ( 2/3/09 ), by C-Section, at 12:10 p.m. and weighed 8lbs. 14oz. and was 21” long!
She and Mama are doing well and hope to come home on Thursday. Thanks for your prayers! We will try to get a name for her soon!

She is so sweet!

Hannah

(Hannah Tate, oldest daughter of Chuck and Jeanne Bond Tate)

Kathy Dyer’s surgery was successful in that the tumor in the colon was removed. However, 3-4 small tumors (of the same type as the original one)were found in the small intestine and could not be removed during this surgery. She is to have 6 more months of chemotherapy. Kathy is recuperating well and thanks everyone for the prayers. Please continue to lift Kathy and her family up in prayer.

Don Denton

We were up at 6am this morning. Don and I headed down to Springfield for his Lumbar puncture. We did get very good news. The opening pressure of the brain is normal! We feel really good about this. It means that healing is happening. He still has Hydrocephalus and inflammation, but it is getting better.

WE have more doctor appointments this week and next. No improvement with the vertigo that continues to be a source of discouragement for Don.

No news as of yet with respect to the insurance issues, but I did get some good advice today from one of Don’s students mother. I am so grateful to her for the advice.

There are two special prayer requests that I have today. When Don, Josh and I were up at Mayo our friend Arwen introduced me to a friend of hers whose son has had brain cancer. I saw allot of hard things that families go through while at Mayo.

This young man’s name is Will. He is 10 years old. The doctors believe his cancer has returned again. He has medulloblastoma. Please pray for this boy and his family.

Also please pray for my brother’s wife Lynn. Her cancer has returned and it looks like they won’t be able treat her with anything other than a hormone drug.

Joshua continues wake up every night. But he is wanting to play with his friends more and that is huge. Well, I better go….I get to put dishes in my new dishwasher that came…..yeah! Whirlpool replaced it for us.

Don gets his new glasses tomorrow. Hopefully that will help him see better so he can read.

Take care,

Diane

MISSIONARY PERSONAL NEEDS. “Family members of several of our team members are suffering from major health issues. Pray that the Lord will provide His peace and comfort for everyone involved. Pray that team members can continue to focus on their work in spite of their desire to be with family to offer support. Ask the Lord to send others to minister to these families in the place of team members who are so far away.”

Nancy Sue Morgan
(May 18, 1948 – February 3, 2009)

Nancy Sue Morgan was born on May 18, 1948 and passed away at 8:51AM on Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at her residence in Independence, LA. She was 60 years old.

Arrangements are incomplete at this time.

An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, in charge of arrangements

HE SAT ALONE in the right hand corner of the front pew — just left of the pulpit…

As I recall, he was a relatively short man in terms of physical stature. He wore thick, black-framed glasses and had a red flat top hair cut. He had a broad smile. He always wore a dark suit on the Lord’s Day to the worship assembly. He sang bass — I mean real d-e-e-p bass. His loud voice would resonate throughout the auditorium during services. I learned to love singing bass largely because of Joe. He sang well, and it was obvious that he loved to lift his gift of praise to the Father.

Joe was my Wednesday night Bible class teacher one year. Always prepared. Very knowledgeable. Concerned about his students. Friendly. Supportive. Personally interested.

One of Joe’s classes sticks out in my memory above all others. For some reason, the rest of my fellow students didn’t make it to Bible study this particular night. So this evening I was Joe’s only pupil. Other teachers might have been tempted to send me to another classroom, since I was the sole student. Not Joe. Like I said, he took a personal interest. To him Bible class wasn’t just about imparting information, it was about making connections with people. Nobody had to “strong arm” Joe to teach the Word; he did so gladly. Well, he sat down with me that night and talked to me about my soul — about my salvation. We didn’t go through the Bible class workbook, we just talked about how to become a Christian — what I needed to do to be saved and why. A few days later — May 17, 1972 — I put on Christ in baptism (Gal. 3:27). Much of the reason I did so was because of Joe Flannary and out little one-on-one Bible study that one Wednesday night at the Overlook church in Dayton, Ohio.

Observations:

Jesus valued people as individuals. He talked one-on-one withe Zacchaeus (“…For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost”– Luke 19:10). He held a night study with the Pharisee, Nicodemus (“…Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”– John 3:3). He conversed with the Samaritan woman at the well “…Whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst”– John 4:14). It’s not surprising that Jesus gave His attention to individuals like these; He knew the worth (cf. Matt. 16:26; 10:29-31) of one soul.

Like the Master, Philip knew the worth of one. Remember Philip (Acts 8)? He left his work with many in Samaria (Acts 8:6, 12) to speak to just one from Ethiopia (“…Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him”– Acts 8:26ff). It has been suggested by some that the eunuch made his way back home to Ethiopia following his conversion and then, in turn, preached the Word to his fellow-countrymen and spread it through the region. I have no way of affirming or denying that proposition, but I do know that even if the eunuch lived and died the only Christian in Ethiopia, it was worth Philip’s efforts and time.

What if only one student came to your Bible class this week? Like Jesus, would you give him your individual and undivided attention? Like Philip, would you get in your vehicle and drive a long distance, even if you knew only one person would be present to hear God’s message? Like Joe, would you stay with him in class and talk to him about eternity and his soul, or would you send him over to another teacher because you only had one student?

Jesus practiced one-on-one teaching. So did Philip. So did Joe. All three were effective. What about you, dear Christian…? Would you be willing to teach just one…?