Month: May 2012

Wednesday Update

Marsha Bankston is doing much better and was even scheduled to leave the hospital yesterday.  Continue to pray for her and her family.  Thank you for praying for her when she was so sick a few days ago.

Miss Laura Joiner called.  She is using a wheelchair in her home and will soon be able to do her job with the Council of Aging from her home.  Miss Laura likes it when she can talk to people on the phone.  I hope you will call and encourage her while she is homebound.  Her next appointment is June 4th.

David Allen is headed back to the doctor.  He’s still sick!  Please stop what you are doing and pray for him now.  Thanks!

Wednesday

“God has made us what we are.

In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works,

which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.”

~Ephesians 2:10 (NCV)~

Kay Forman had eye surgery in Bogalusa, but is home and doing well.  Pray she continues to improve.

Continue to pray for Mrs. Evelyn Bridges.  She’s better. but not great yet.

Pray for the workers in all our area churches as they prepare for VBS in the coming weeks.  Pray for good attendance at all the churches.  Pray for the boys and girls who will be taught the Christian A,B,C’s.  May each home be impacted because of the impact of VBS.

Devotional – Heart to Heart with Holley

http://www.holleygerth.com/

Baptist Press

http://www.bpnews.net/

Have a wonderful day!

Anna Lee

Tuesday Midmorning

From Stewart Miller

The young man who was killed in the prison riot in Natchez was a very close friend and neighbor of some good friends of mine. His name was Catlin Carithers from Franklin Co., was 23 and engaged to be married. Just an awful tragic thing, he was loved by many and I’m told he WAS a Christian. Please pray for Cat’s family and friends during this tough time.

Thank God Catlin was a Christian.  Pray for comfort the family and friends in knowing this.  Pray they will find peace in the days to come.

Tuesday

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,

for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes,

for the Jew first and also for the Greek.”

~Romans 1:16~

Continue to pray for the many folks we have been praying for.  Add names of those you know of with needs that were not listed here.  Contact me to have people/situations added.

VBS time is coming soon.  Local churches will beging VBS in June.  Be a part of something that is always fun and meaningful.  You can volunteer to help at your church or in multiple churches if you are available.  You’ll be doubly blessed!

Caring Bridge – Maggie Lee Henson – http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/maggieleehenson

Devotional – http://www.devotions.net/devotions/05may/22.htm

Have a great day!  We have rain this morning.  It is coming out of the hose pipe and providing nourishment to the flowers and the plants in the garden.  I’m thankful for a good supply of water to help when plants are dry.  I’m also thankful for the one who is holding the hose in the dark this morning.

Anna Lee

Monday Update

Mrs. Mary Alice Blackwell is out of surgery and will be in recovery for the next three or four hours.  The report is not as good as hoped for, but a biopsy report will be in in a few days.  She will be in ICU for a while and hospitalized for seven to ten days.  If needed, treatment will begin as soon as possible.  Please continue to pray for her and for her family.

Also, pray for David Allen who had to go to the ER for help with the cough that just didn’t go away.  Pray he gets relief soon

Monday

“. . . learn to fear the Lord [your] God,

to observe all the words of this instruction,

and to do these statutes.”

~Deuteronomy 17:19b, HCSB~

 

Miss Laura Joiner is now at her home in Kentwood.  Pray for her continued  improvement.

Pleas keep me in your Prayers! I had forgotten how Scary and Awful This Can Be!! My love to everyone!

Continue to pray for Mr. Raymond Anthony in North Oaks and Marsha Bankston in Ochsner.  They both are battling cancer.

Mrs. Mary Alice Simpson Blackwell will be having surgery at North Oaks today beginning around 11:00.

Mr. Donald Spring is headed to rehab in Kentwood.  Thank God for his progress.

Jesse Dean’s sister, Patsy, is better.  Thank God for seeing her trough a “rough spot ” in the road.

Please continue to pray for these and others this week.

Devotional

http://devotional.upperroom.org/

I trust you had a great Lord’s Day.  Now, have a good week.

Anna Lee

Sunday

“How tremendous is the power available to us who believe in God.

That power is the same divine power

which was demonstrated in Christ when he raised him from the dead.”

~Ephesians 1:19b-20 Phillips~

Always remember that God loves you and never gives up on you!

What a week!  Last week, Marsha Bankston was in church.  Now, she has been in Oschner since Monday and ICU since the middle of the week.  Keep praying for her and her family, Larry, Daniel,  Michael, Steven and the families of the boys.

Mrs. Laura Joiner was in church last week when she fell and broke her leg and hit her face on a pew.  She’s been hospitalized in New Orleans all week and has had surgery on her let.  Keep praying all goes well as she heals.

Mrs. Mary Alice Blackwell and Jimmy Schwartz did not have a diagnosis for their illnesses.  Now, we know she has a brain tumor and will have surgery midday tomorrow in Hammond and Jimmy has myelofibrosis with a choice of treatment plans.