“In response to all he has done for us,
let us outdo each other
in being helpful and kind to each other
and in doing good.”
~Hebrews 10:24 TLB~
Don and Joshua Denton
We met with ENT for Joshua this morning. The ENT said that he does not usually recommend surgery for a child this age with broken nose, but he is strongly recommending surgery for Monday morning for Joshua.
This ENT is not a pediatric and when asked he does not have allot of experience preforming surgery on one so small. So we have a surgical consult at Childrens Hospital in St. Louis on this Monday. If this pediatric ENT surgeon recommends surgery is will happen this next week. So we will head up to St. Louis on Monday.
Also the specialist at Washington University wants to admit Don in the hospital up there for one week. Once we have all of records from every doctor and hospital, we will call her and she will start the admit process. They will bring specialist in to investigate the level of dizziness that Don has that does not diminish. So we will go this Monday for Joshua and then wait till all records come in for Don.
We feel really good about this. We believe we will find answers and feel there may be some resolve.
Please pray for Joshua. This is a very scarey thing for all of us if the doctor at Childrens says he needs surgery. It will be a somewhat simple procedure and he will be home from hospital within a day if all goes well.
I am really feeling like Job these days. Please pray that the surgeon for Joshua will have wisdom he needs.
Bless you all our family and friends.
Diane
Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North American Missions
NAMB Missionaries—On Mission To Share Christ
More than 5,500 missionaries serve through the North American Mission Board in the United States, Canada, and their territories. Though their areas of service differ, they are all on mission together to share the love of God with all people.
The largest number of missionaries are starting new Southern Baptist churches, more than 1,450 churches were started in 2007. Mission pastors serve English-speaking and language churches in rural and urban settings.
Sharing the gospel by ministering to people’s needs in church and community settings, including senior adults, nonreaders, non-English-speaking people, substance abusers, families, people in the criminal justice system, homeless people, disabled people, migrant workers, and even vacationers.
Mission Service Corps (MSC)
These missionaries serve more than two years and provide a majority of their own funding although they may receive some NAMB support through the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering®.
In addition to missionaries, Southern Baptist endorsed chaplains minister in many of the same ways as do missionaries. Almost 2,500 Southern Baptist Convention chaplains serve in the military, institutions such as prisons and hospitals, and in corporate settings.
Our mission efforts are also supported by more than 450,000 missions volunteers each year, including adult and youth mission teams, and World Changers groups.
Pastor’s Widow Points to ‘Celebration Day’
By Martin King
Baptist PressMARYVILLE, Ill. (BP)–Cindy Winters, widow of slain Illinois pastor Fred Winters told 1,900 people who attended his funeral that Sunday, March 8, was “celebration day” for her husband and that she refuses to harbor hatred.
“Fred and I talked so many times about how God is at work here in this church doing incredible things,” she said during Winters’ March 13 funeral at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill. “Nothing has changed. Our vision and purpose are the same. I refuse to let Satan win. He is not going to steal my passion and my joy.”
Winters was fatally shot while preaching at the 1,500-member Southern Baptist church east of St. Louis.
Speaking for 20 minutes during a two-hour funeral service, Cindy Winters said, “Our vision and our purpose still remains the same. … I refuse to let Satan win. … He’s not going to steal my joy. He’s not going to steal my passion. He’s not going to steal my desire to spread God’s Word. I’m not going to hate.
“And I will work to carry out the mission of this church and I know all of you will too,” she said. “And I’m not going to survive this thing; I’m going to be a better person because of this thing.”
She quoted one of her two daughters, ages 13 and 11 years, as saying, “I want to be just like my daddy. I hope the man who did this learns to love Jesus.”
Winters refuted a note the man accused of the shooting left on his calendar labeling March 8 as “death day.” She said, “Sunday was not death day, but celebration day — the best day of Fred’s life. On Sunday, my husband did not die, but got a promotion,” as she pointed upward to heaven. Then, the words of the theme song from the television show “The Jeffersons” — referring to “movin’ on up” — played throughout the church building as the congregation stood and applauded.
She told those in attendance in the 900-seat sanctuary and another 1,000 overflowing into the gymnasium as well as those viewing the service on the Internet a number of humorous stories about Winters that illustrated his reputation for being thrifty, athletic, intelligent and passionate about his ministry.
“Fred loved being a pastor. He had a pastor’s heart. When you hurt, he hurt, and when you were happy he was happy. He never got tired of being your pastor,” she told the First Baptist members attending the funeral.
Winters brother and father-in-law also spoke during the service, while three former staff members brought messages.
Bob Dickerson, pastor of First Baptist Church, Marion, Ill., who met Winters in seminary, held his Bible aloft and said, “If Fred were here, he would speak from the Word of God, so that’s what I will do.” Dickerson read from Genesis 50:20 quoting Joseph speaking to his brothers, “What you intended for harm, God intended for good to accomplish the saving of many lives.”
“Fred was intense about sharing Christ. He wanted everybody to know Jesus, and good will come if 100 people, or 1,000 people or 10,000 people, will help others find God” because of what has happened, Dickerson said.
“Evil did not take Fred Winters life because he gave it to Christ many years ago. Evil did not stop the message that Jesus saves,” Dickerson said.
Adam Cruse, pastor of First Baptist Church in Mt. Zion, Ill., another former staff member at First Baptist Maryville, said Winters “was always there for us. He was a rock for us. He cared for us. I know you are hurting and sad, but this is not a time of defeat or surrender because the mission that we shared with him is still our mission.”
The service ended with a video Winters had made several months before his death answering the question, “Why do you exist?” as a way to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In the videotape, which had been on the church’s website during the week, Winters gave the “A-B-Cs of salvation” and ended with an invitation to pray to accept Christ.
Following another presentation of the Gospel by First Baptist’s minister of worship, Mark Jones, the service ended on what Jones called “a note of praise” as they sang “My Savior Lives.”
(Martin King is editor of the Illinois Baptist, newsjournal of the Illinois Baptist State Association.)
Vyette Baham Reid
(August 20, 1928 – March 13, 2009)
We will miss our wonderful mother, Nanny, and friend who died at 9:00AM on Friday, March 13, 2009 at St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington, LA. She was a native of Folsom, LA and a resident of Loranger, LA. Age 80 years. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Sunday and at Lee Valley Baptist Church, Uneedus, from 10 a.m. Monday until religious services at 2 p.m. Monday. Services conducted by Rev. Johnny Shaw. Interment Noah Cemetery, Loranger. Survived by children, Richie Reid, Husser, Patsy Husser, Omaha, AR, Weda O’Keefe, Bush, Kimberly Gray, Moffatt, CO, Cherrie Humphries, Bush, sister, Inez Pelitere, Madisonville, 13 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by husband, Hulon Reid, parents, Forrest Baham and Bella Baham, brothers, Virgil Baham, Ernest Baham, Wade Baham, Arlee Baham, Ancil Baham, sisters, Weda Willie, Phine Couget, Dorothy Rainey.
Died at 8:52 p.m. on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, LA. She was a native of Red Bay, AL and a resident of Amite, LA. Age 87 years. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, 9 a.m. on Monday until religious services at 12 Noon Monday. Interment Killian Chapel Cemetery, Amite, LA. Survived by daughter, Ivies Fay Harper, Amite, son, Charles Harper, Amite, 5 grandchildren, Michael Harper, St. Amant, Crystal Brown, Amite, Shannon Husser and husband, Shelby, Husser, Kimberly Bankston and husband, Josh, Husser, Blake Harper and wife, Jessica, Tickfaw, 6 great-grandchildren, nephew, Carlton Williams and wife, Audrey, Greensburg. Preceded in death by husband, Doris “Buddy” Harper, son, Johnny Lee Harper, parents, Sam and Nellie Williams, brother, Dossie Williams.
Pray for Mansell’s family.
Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 9 a.m. on Saturday until religious services at 10 a.m. Saturday. Services conducted by Rev. Butch Revere. Interment Amite Memorial Gardens, Amite, LA.
Pray for “Miss” Ann’s family.
Ann L. Schilling
Visitation will be held at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 1 p.m. until religious services at 3 p.m. on Saturday, March 14, 2009. Interment will be at the Mulberry Street Cemetery in Amite.Set construction for the Easter drama at FBC, Kentwood will begin this morning. Work if you can, if not pray for those working, those who will participate in the drama in any way, and for those who will worship with us by viewing the drama.
Have a fantastic weekend!
Anna Lee
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