Monday

“Consider it a sheer gift, friends,

when tests and challenges come at you from all sides.

You know that under pressure,

your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. “

~James 1:2–3 MSG~

Mrs. Faye Price is in North Oaks for a few days, but will soon return to her home in Kentwood.  She no longer stays at Kentwood Manor.  Keep her and her family in your prayers.

Mr. Morris Easley has been hospitalized in Greensburg.  Please pray for him.

Pray for Frances Gay as she has work done on her shoulder next week.

Continue to pray for Mrs. Ann Chapman as she has physical therapy and as final preparations are made for Mr. Quincy’s memorial service.  Also, please continue to pray for Krisa and Emma as they continue to heal.

Pray for teachers, staff, and students in the beginning days of a new school year.

Maggie Lee Henson

Dearest Friends-
Words cannot express our gratitude for your generous prayers and concern for the life of our daughter, Maggie Lee.  It was remarkable to hear so many of you, friends and complete strangers alike, passionately pray for MLH.  She was a light to the world and since I don’t ask questions which have no answers, I will not begin to try to explain to you why she did not survive despite all the prayer. Horrible tragedies happen every day. That is part of life here on earth. Peoples’ lives play out without the slightest hint of a ripple. We are grateful that Maggie Lee’s impact has reached so far and wide. Her life and now death will not be in vain. We will make sure of that.  Please do continue to pray for us, we cannot carry on without that support from the Body of Christ.

Maggie Lees service will be archived as of Monday on http://www.fbcshreveport.org
We love you, please keep the faith and know that God is good ALL THE TIME!!!!
In His unexplainable peace and ridiculous joy,
Jinny

Quincy McDaniel Chapman

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A resident of Denham Springs, he was welcomed home by his Lord and Savior on Saturday,
Aug. 8, 2009. He was 79 and a former resident of Kentwood. Visitation at Seale Funeral Home,
Denham Springs, on Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visiting resumes on Thursday
from 12:30 p.m. until service in the chapel at 2:30 p.m. The clergy will be Dr. Terry Booth, the
Rev. Clyde Northrup, the Rev. Ragan Courtney and the Rev. Joe Baugh. Burial in Evergreen
Memorial Park. Survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Martha Ann Abernathy Chapman, of
Denham Springs; daughters, Debbie Seale and husband Mickey Seale, of Denham Springs,
and Brenda Pettit and husband Audie Pettit, of Columbus, Miss.; son, Deloy Chapman and
wife Krisa Chapman, of Denham Springs; sisters, Nan Bartholomew and Ann Parsons, both
of Amite; sister-in-law,-Lois Chapman, of Baton Rouge; eight grandchildren, eight great-
grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.
Preceded in death by his parents, Amos Kent and Emma Melissa Brumfield Chapman;
daughter, Melissa Jo Chapman; brother, Shelton “Pokey” Chapman; and sister and brother
-in-law, Sybil Courtney and Frances Courtney. He was a devoted Sunday School teacher and
ordained deacon formerly of First Baptist Church, Kentwood, and most recently serving at
Amite Baptist Church, Denham Springs. He was a member of the Louisiana Rabbit Breeders
Association. He retired from South Central Bell with 30 years of service and then worked for
the Louisiana Department of Agriculture. Memorial donations may be made to the Amite
Baptist Church Deacon’s Special Need Fund or the Deacon Scholarship Fund.

KneEmail

Purification

abjewelry.jpgLAST YEAR WHILE hiking in the mountains of North Georgia, I came across a very large unusually shaped brick…

The brick was almost completely covered in green, fur-like vegetation. After I scraped the green goop away, I carefully inspected the brick and discovered that it was a brownish-yellow color instead of the traditional red. I also discovered some unusual markings and identification numbers on the brick. When I returned home, I was able to do some research and found that this particular type of brick was used in the early-to-mid eighteen hundreds to construct smelting ovens. These ovens melted and purified gold after it was mined from the mountains of North Georgia and Carolina. The purpose of the melting process was to remove any impurities that were attached to the gold.

God compares the difficulties and trials that each of us must experience in our lives to the purification or smelting process that gold goes through in order to become valuable. It is kind of like the refining process that the old yellow brick had been a part of over a hundred years ago. The brick had actually facilitated the fire’s ability to remove impurities from the gold after melting, and thereby increased its value. And more than likely some of the very gold which was purified in that particular type of brick smelting oven is still around today, possibly in the form of antique jewelry that has been passed from one generation to another. (Mitch Temple)

“The genuineness of your faith,

being much more precious than gold that perishes,

though it is tested by fire,

may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

I Peter 1:7

Posted by Mike Benson

May you know God’s presence in your walk this week.

Anna Lee

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