Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Do you think that in such a short time you can persuade me to be a Christian?”  Paul replied, “Short time or long—I pray to God that not only you but all who are listening to me today may become what I am, except for these chains.”

~Acts 26:28-29~

Read the Bible

• Friday
• Acts 6:8 – 7:60
• “When I have been wronged, I need to ….”

Barbara Birch McDaniel

April 13, 1935 – September 12, 2023

“…and now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love.” Barbara Birch McDaniel was called home on 9/12/2023. Born 4/13/1935 in Bluff Creek, Louisiana to Clifton and Rena Chaney Birch, Barbara was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.

She came to know the Lord when she was 12 yrs old at New Zion Baptist Church and has been active in many different churches, presently a member of Woodland Hills Baptist Church in Longview, TX.

After graduating Greensburg High School in 1953, she attended La. Baptist College, receiving her Business degree in May of 1957. She then began working as Social Worker for the State of Louisiana.

Barbara married the love of her life, Riley E McDaniel, on 8/31/1957 and they made their home in Opelousas, La. until Riley finished college.

Due to the flooding in Baton Rouge on 8/14/2016 Barbara started living with her daughter and family in Allen, Texas, moving to Longview, TX in June of 2017.

Her hobbies included sewing, cooking, photography, and genealogy. She wrote a book of the Birch family, Chaney family and Lee family and helped with the McDaniel and Bennett books.

She is preceded in death by her parents Clifton and Rena Birch, husband, Riley McDaniel, brothers Jack, James, Donald Ray Burch and sister, Carolyn Easley.

She is survived by sisters Jane Duncan, Grace B. Williams, Cheryl B. Scott and Beverly Birch; daughter, Marcia M. Dupree and son-in-law Todd and their 2 sons, Grant and Connor Dupree; her son, Darrell McDaniel and daughter-in-law Michelle and their 2 sons, AJ and Christopher McDaniel and 2 daughters, Briley and Emma McDaniel.

Visitation will be at McKneely Funeral Home, 501 Avenue G, Kentwood, LA on Friday, September 22, 2023 from 6:00PM until 9:00PM and from 9:00AM until religious services at 10:00AM on Saturday, September 23, 2023. Interment will follow at Killian Chapel Cemetery located at the intersection of Hwy 16 and Hwy 43 west of Amite, LA.

Prayer Focus Today

Today is a good day to focus some thoughts and actions on those who are homebound. Being homebound is lonely. You cannot imagine how lonely that is until you are there yourself!

Bring some hope and love into some homes with those who don’t get out much.

Ways to focus on those who are homebound:

Phone calls

Small, practical gifts

Visits

Magazines

Food

Music

etc.

How about starting with one home and gradually increasing the number?

Operation Christmas Child

Packing of our shoeboxes will be done in less than a month. We have already started to collect items we will pack next year. What a joy the shoeboxes are! How blessed we are to participate in international missions and know many lives will be won for Jesus because of the shoeboxes!

LA. Baptist Children’s Home

The truck picked up our donations Monday morning. Our people were very generous, as usual. The families will be benefiting all through the coming year because of the goods and checks that were turned in.

Thank-you for participating in your very generous ways!

Anna Lee