Monday

“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,

from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the LORD,

which made heaven and earth.”

~Psalms 121:1-2 ~

Pray for Mrs. Kathrine Sanders and many others who have that winter cough.  It is very hard to get ride of.

Jadon’s Story

Well mommy and daddy got a new puppy for my brother and I. My brother loves to play with him and me, I love to snuggle. I know this sounds weird but its like he is protecting me. He sits at my feet if I’m in my chair, comes and plays with me in my play area, and sits in my lap. This is a picture of us snuggling. My mommy just loves this picture. She said they mainly got the puppy for my older brother to play with and I’m stealing all the loving..LOL My seizures are still the same. I’m having way to many. Even though I’m having so many, I’m very alert. In fact I’m more alert than I usually am when I’m having this many. Seizures, I will never understand them. We still don’t know what is making them so increased right now. I have to do blood work Monday, so maybe that will reveal something. I did get to have some fun last night. I went to my cousins wedding. Mommy did the hokie pokie with me, and I just laughed. This is so exciting because I used to not be able to handle loud noise at all. Well the music was definitely loud and there were lots of people there. I was very content and we got to stay until almost 9:00. Well I will let everyone know how my blood work goes Monday. Thanks for praying for me. I love you all!!! Jadon

Hunting Season

Pray for safety for all the hunters in our area.  Pray others don’t stumble into hunting areas unaware of the hunters.

Pray for teachers and for students as they have classes for the last couple of weeks before Christmas.

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Vietnam – Not yet

In 1975 when communists took over, 16 years of Southern Baptist ministry suddenly stopped.

Or did it?

Thanks to Southern Baptist gifts, Grace Baptist Church, led by a national pastor, held its own deed to building and land. Years later, visiting personnel discovered the church alive and thriving, despite suffering leaders had endured.

“The Lottie Moon offering came through,” an emeritus missionary reflects. “Had we not had a location that we could say ‘This is Baptist, this is where our church is located,’ we might have ceased to exist as Baptists.”

Grace became the mother of many Baptist churches and was officially recognized in 2008. The churches organized into a Baptist convention with a bold vision to train leaders and start churches all over Vietnam.

Today we celebrate a greater opportunity for those in Vietnam to follow Christ.

Have all had the opportunity to hear about Christ? Not yet. Vietnam is still a communist country.  But there is movement, and Southern Baptists’ prayers, gifts, and presence have helped provide a solid base to complete that journey.

Thank you for praying and giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering®.

KneEmail

“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10

Mike Benson, Editor

IN 1958, A NEW York City father named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son “Winner…”

The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name.  But, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this boy.  Winner Lane: How could he fail with a name like that?

Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child.  For reasons that no one can quite pin down today, Robert decided to name this boy “Loser.” Robert wasn’t unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name. First aWinner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, could Loser Lane possibly succeed?

Loser Lane did in fact succeed.  He went to prep school on a scholarship, graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and joined the New York Police Department, where he made detective and, eventually, sergeant.  Although he never hid his name, many people were uncomfortable using it.  To his police colleagues today, he is known as “Lou.”

As for his brother, the most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his late 40s, is the sheer length of his criminal record:  more than 30 arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem.

Names can reveal one’s character and even shape it.  Names can provide a goal for which a person may strive to achieve.  Or, one can fail to live up to a name that he has been given.

What’s in a name?   There is conviction in a name that we all wear due to our wrong choices: sinner. “For ALL have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).

What’s in a name?   There is SALVATION in the Name of JESUS.  “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).  Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins (Matthew 1:21).  When we respond in trusting obedience believing in Him (Acts 16:30-31), turning from our sins in repentance (2 Corinthians 7:9,10), repentance His name before men (Romans 10:9-10), and being baptized (immersed) in His name, Jesus gives us a new name: CHRISTIAN.  Wearing the name “Christian” indicates that we have been forgiven of our sins and it also gives us a goal for which to strive: Christ–likeness.  God has promised that as a Christian walks in the light of His Word, that He will continue to cleanse that one of his sins (1 John 1:7).

What’s YOUR name?  Labels can hurt; titles can reward.  But the name above every name is JESUS and He wants to be your Savior so that He can give you a NEW name, a name filled with glory and honor as well as responsibility, the name “Christian.”   Won’t YOU become a Christian today?  Connor McLean and David A. Sargent, Minister

“A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, loving favor rather than silver and gold.”  Proverbs 22:1Do something special today to make the day better for someone!

Jesus is the reason for the season!

Anna Lee