Month: October 2009

Friday



“May the Lord be praised!

Day after day He bears our burdens;

God is our salvation.”

~Psalm 68:19, HCSB~

David Allen is about the same.  Please keep praying for David, the family, and the medical staff caring for David.

Margurite Vernon has been at Landmark Nursing Home three weeks.  Pray for her, her family, and those caring for her.

Mrs. Maxine Turner has been in North Oaks,  She’s waiting on a specialist to see her before she is released.  Pray for the family, especially Frances, her sister, who misses her so much.

Mrs. Nadine Rimes got good news Tuesday.  She has now been released from the doctor’s care following her recent hip surgery.  She’s looking good and getting around very well.  Thank God for her progress.

Mr. Cete Dillon continues to improve from his recent eye and sinus problems.  Thank God for his progress.

Mrs. Faye Price has been back in North Oaks.  Pray for her and her family.  This long journey began early last December.  It’s been a long, hard journey for all of them.

Thursday

“Continue earnestly in prayer,

being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.”

~Colossians 4:2~

Please add Mrs. Maxine Turner to your prayer list.  She is hospitalized at North Oaks.  As you pray for her, please remember to add her family, especially her sister, Frances Strickland.  I know your prayers will be greatly appreciated.

Continue to pray for David Allen.  Pray for his lungs to improve today.  Also, pray for his family, especially Fannie, the children, and his parents.  The family is very thankful to know you are praying.

Pray for those who are undergoing tests and/or treatment for various problems.

Continue to pray for my family as we are in the midst of numerous appointments for my parents and continual monitoring of my mother.  I’m thankful for the progress that has been made and the assistance from my sisters.  It’s a real blessing that we all live in this area.  Keep us in your prayers.

Caring Bridge sites

Eddie Jean Hodges
(March 29, 1926 – October 11, 2009)

Died at 7:10 p.m. on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at Kentwood Manor Nursing Home in Kentwood, LA. Age 83 years.

A memorial service will be held at a later date. More information will be added when available.

McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements.

Shortfall stirs quick response; 25 more missionaries able to go overseas

http://www.imb.org/main/news/details.asp?StoryID=8115&LanguageID=1709&cid=imbel

I know of one area church that took on the challenge of sending one of this missionary units above and beyond their usual mission offering.  One Sunday they collected more than enough to meet the needs for an entire year.  That’s what missions is about!  Those who cannot/do not go can support others through prayer and giving.

KneEmail
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10
Mike Benson, Editor

BOOKSTORE SHELVES ARE full of books on marriage, many of them describing the reasons marriages fail…

Such books are usually written by therapists, who spend their time working with clients whose marriages are experiencing meltdown.  A great deal can obviously be learned from marital pathology.  We need to know why marriages fail.  But the absence of death doesn’t mean the presence of health.  Many marriages are sick but never die in divorce or separation.  So the most important question is why some marriages thrive and enjoy vigorous good health.  Models of succes are priceless in a world filled with failures.  That’s why Ephesians 5 helps us, by illuminating three essential qualities of a thriving marriage: sacrifice, intimacy, and Christ.  Gary Inrig

“Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”’ This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.” Ephesians 5:21-33
I’m thankful for models of long-time, Christ centered marriages.  What a blessing these folks have been on my life!
Anna Lee

Wednesday

“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~

Sherry called last night to report David Allen is being treated for double viral pneumonia.  Plans are to keep him less sedated.  Eli, his son, posted on David’s facebook page,  Your prayers are greatly appreciated.

Please continue to pray for Ronnie Hayden as he recovers from surgery at North Oaks.

Caring Bridge Sites

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/calliecole

http://www.caringbridge.org/visitadriunnacavanagh

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/larkindorris

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/coltonfrazier

Baptist Press

October 13, 2009

PHILIPPINES–Manila relief teams ‘git busy, git ‘er done’.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31450

TENNESSEE–Pew study aligns with previous data to fix Muslim population at about 1 in 4 persons globally.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31451

WASHINGTON–Sen. panel OKs abortion-funding health care bill.
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31456

CALIFORNIA–Calif. schools to learn about, honor gay pioneer.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31452

VIRGINIA–25 more missionaries to go overseas.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31453

TENNESSEE–CP EMPHASIS: Profiles of passion for cooperation.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31454

LOUISIANA–FIRST-PERSON (Keith Manuel): Introduce Jesus at your fall festival.
http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=31455

KneEmail
“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10
Mike Benson, Editor

“IT IS MOST likely that in the Apostolic age when there was but ‘one Lord, one faith, and one baptism,’ and no differing denominations existed, that baptism of a convert by that very act constituted him a member of the church, and at once endowed him with all the rights and privileges of full membership…
In that sense, ‘baptism was the door into the church.’  Now it is different…” (Edward T. Hiscox, The Standard Manual For Baptist Churches, Published by The American Baptist Publication Society, 1890, p. 14).
Kind questions:
.  Why is it different today?  Should it be different?
.  Why do we have so many different churches today, when it is freely admitted that there was only one system of faith (cf. Ephesians 4:5) in the Apostolic age?  (Denominationalism, by its own admission is composed of thousands of religious groups, often wearing different man-made names, teaching conflicting religious doctrines, and endorsing contradictory practices).
.  Since Jesus prayed for unity and oneness (cf. John 17:20-21), how can we justify religious division today?
.  How did Paul respond on those occasions when weak and immature brethren in the first century attempted to denominate and fracture themselves (1 Corinthians 1:11-13; cf. 3:1ff)?
.  How many churches did Jesus promise to build (Matthew 16:18)?
.  Since Christ is the bridegroom and the church is His bride, how can He be married to thousands of different churches and not be guilty of polygamy?  Did Jesus endorse “one man for one woman for life” (cf. Matthew 19), yet practice “one Man for thousands of women” Himself?
.  Since a bride wears the name of her bridegroom, why would anyone wish to wear any name other than that of Christ’s?
.  How many approved denominations can you read about in the New Testament?
.  Did the apostles, who were guided into all truth (John 16:13), ever encourage men to join the church of their choice (Galatians 3:27; cf. Acts 2)?
Consider the words of John Wesley, noted Methodist leader of long ago.  He wrote, “Would to God that all party names and unscriptural phrases and forms which have divided the Christian world were forgotten: and that we might all agree to sit down together as humble, loving disciples at the feet of a common Master, to hear His word, imbibe His Spirit, and transcribe His life in our Own” (Wesley’s Notes on the New Testament, p. 7).
“Now I plead with you, brethren,
by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
that you all speak the same thing,
and that there be no divisions among you,
but that you be perfectly joined together
in the same mind and in the same judgment.”
1 Corinthians 1:10

Tuesday Afternoon

Roger Dale Coon, Sr.
(July 24, 1945 – October 10, 2009)

Roger Dale Coon, Sr.

Roger Dale Coon, Sr. was born July 24, 1945 and passed away at 7:45 p.m., Saturday, October 10, 2009 at North Oaks Medical Center, Hammond. He was 64, a native of Tylertown, MS and a resident of Kentwood and owner of Coon’s Auto Salvage & Wrecker Service since 1963.

Roger is survived by his wife, Marie P. Coon, Kentwood; a daughter, Lisa “Janelle” Pitre and husband, Nolan and their children, Katelyn and Cassie all of Kentwood; 2 sons , Roger “Dale” Coon, Jr. and wife, Stephanie, Kentwood and their children, Justin Carl Coon; Ashley & husband, Shay Robertson and their children, Alleigh & Alyvia: Steven Skipper-Coon and wife, Jennie, Lafayette and their children, Ian, Aiden, Lilam and Lukas; 3 sisters: Tinsey DeBlanc & her husband, George, Kentwood; Penny Cook & husband, Darrell, Kentwood; Norma Jean Gibbs, Ethel; brother, James R. “Buddy” Coon & wife, Kathleen, Kentwood; honorary son, Patrick Sanders and wife, Jeana, Easleyville; employees of Coon’s Auto Salvage & Wrecker Service, Earl Leonard, Claude Brumfield, Darrell Felker, Donnie Self, & John Faller also numerous nieces, nephews, & cousins.

Preceded in death by his parents, James V. & Murial Prine Coon; a grandson, Christopher Dale Coon; long term employee, Otis Elzey, Sr.

Pallbearers are Rodney Pittman, Rowdy Fitzgerald, John Faller, Earl Leonard, Donnie Self, Claude Brumfield, Walter Dykes, & Otis Elzey, Jr.

Visitation will be at First Baptist Church, Kentwood, on Friday, October 16, 2009 from 9:00 a.m. until Religious Services at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Joey Miller, Rev. Russell Kirkland and Rev. Clay Spinks officiating. Interment in Coon Family Cemetery, Kentwood.

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

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, in charge of arrangements.

Cleo Smothers Clark
(May 30, 1918 – October 12, 2009)

Died on Monday, October 12, 2009 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, LA. She was a native of Lepanto, AR and a resident of Kentwood, LA. Age 91 years. Graveside Services will be held at Line Creek Cemetery, Line Creek, LA at 11:00 a.m. Thursday. Services conducted by Rev. Ken Irwin. Interment Line Creek Cemetery, Kentwood, LA. Survived by son, Jerry Clark, Kentwood, daughter, Betty Allen, Kentwood, sister, Goldie Mock, Dexter, MO, 4 grandsons, Clay Clark, Baton Rouge, Clint Clark, Kentwoood, Mike Allen, Nashville, TN, and Curt Allen, Kentwood, 4 great-grandchildren, Dylan, Olivia, and Annaliese Clark, and Zack Allen. Preceded in death by, husband, Lee Clark, parents, Beulah and Lynn Smothers, brother, Lloyd Smothers.