Tuesday

From Bill Frazier

Please add Laken Parker to the prayor list, He is just 17 years old and the doctors told him today that he would totally lose his sight. Please pray that the doctors are wrong, and something can be done.

I also had a message yesterday from Laken’s grandfather requesting prayer for this situation.

Wallace B. Carney, Sr.
(September 10, 1926 – December 7, 2009)

Wallace B. Carney, Sr. was born September 10, 1926 and passed away at 11:30 p.m., Monday, December 7, 2009 at his residence in Tunica, LA. He was 83 and a native of Independence, LA. Mr. Wallace was a retired security officer from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola and also served our country during WWII in the US Army.

He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Eva Mae Jones Carney, Tunica; 2 daughters, Ann Carney Lane and husband, Michael, Amite and Denise Carney Lemoine and husband, Donald, Mt. Hermon; 2 sons, Wallace “Sonny” Carney, Jr. and wife Nancy Ritchie, Tunica and Johnny Carney and wife Alana Courtney, Tunica; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild; numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents Alex Bradford and Lillie Ballard Carney; a sister, Eloise Mamie Carney Lilly; 2 brothers, Herman Redell Carney and Glen Leland Carney.

The family would like to extend special thanks to Jess & Jerry Ridgedell, Malcom “Coon” & Kathy Willson, David & Jane Regan, Senior Hector Barrios, P.T. and to all those who helped care and pray for Mr. Wallace when he needed it most. Also a special thanks to Pinnacle Home Health and Dr. Medina & Staff.

Visitation will be at McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, on Friday, December 11, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. until Religious Services at 12:30 p.m. Interment in Ford Cemetery, Independence.

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

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy 16W behind Mr. Tom’s Car Wash and Bill Hood Chevrolet.

LOTTIE MOON

Southern Baptist Missionary to China

Lottie Moon was born in 1840, third in a family of five girls and two boys, on the family’s fifteen-hundred-acre tobacco plantation known as Viewmont. Her father, Edward Moon, was the largest slaveholder (fifty-two slaves) in Albemarle County; he was also a merchant and a lay leader in the Baptist church. But Lottie was only thirteen when her father died in a riverboat accident.

The Moon family valued education, and at age fourteen Lottie went to school at the Virginia Female Seminary [e.g. high school] and later the Albemarle Female Institute, where she earned both her bachelor’s and Master of Arts degree in teaching. A spirited and outspoken girl, Lottie was indifferent to her Southern Baptist upbringing until her late teens, when God touched her heart during a spiritual revival at Albemarle.

There were precious few opportunities for educated females in the mid-1800s, though her older sister Orianna became a physician and served as a Confederate doctor during the Civil War. Lottie helped her mother maintain Viewmont during the war, once hiding the family silver in a field from approaching Union soldiers, but when the threat evaporated, she was unable to find it again.

After the Civil War, Lottie taught at female academies first in Danville, Kentucky, and later helped set up Cartersville Female High School in Georgia. The school was thriving academically (though not financially) under her leadership as associate principal when she felt a quite different call: to go to China as a missionary.

Single women on the mission field? Most mission work at that time was done by married men. But the wives of China missionaries T. P. Crawford and Landrum Holmes had discovered an important reality: Only women could reach Chinese women, and they needed help. To everyone’s surprise, Lottie’s younger sister Edmonia accepted a call to go to North China in 1872. Lottie followed a year later. She was thirty-three years old.

(To be continued tomorrow)

I saw photos of the Lottie Moon Tea at FBC, Ponchatoula.  It was beautiful!  I’m looking forward to the Lottie Moon Tea at FBC, Amite on the 19th at 2 P.M.  All ladies and girls are invited to attend.  Just let me know so I can put your “name in the hat”.

Merry CHRISTmas!

Jesus is the reason for the season!

Anna Lee