FRIDAY

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:9

Read the Bible Every Day

  • February 2
  • Exodus 9:1 – 10:20
  • Psalm 18: 13 – 19
  • Proverbs 4:1 -2
  • Matthew 21: 28 – 46

Illness

  • Coach Shaw – Hospitalized
  • Jackie Babin – Improving after a setback
  • Dorothy Wall – Slowly improving
  • Mildred Birch – Fell again yesterday

Obituary

Thomas “Tom” Floyd Shaw

March 24, 1959 – January 30, 2024

A resident of Robert, LA, passed away on Monday, January 30, 2024 at Lakeview Regional Medical Center in Covington, LA. He was born March 24, 1959 in Napoleonville, LA and was 64 years of age. Tom spent most of his life in sales management in the travel industry. He recently retired and opened Coach’s Fencing. He was an avid outdoorsman, an animal lover, loved LSU and supported SLU Alumni and many local athletic teams that were Coach Shaw’s legacies. He is survived by his spouse, Kim Skipper; father, Elton “Coach” Shaw; 2 brothers, Ronald Elton Shaw and wife, Donna, and Mark Clay Shaw; and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his mother, Jewell Maxine Shaw; and brother, Lance Milton Shaw; grandparents, Floyd “Slim” and Alma Fowler and Henry Clay and Hazel Shaw. A celebration of Tom’s life will be announced at a later date. McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Operation Christmas Child

We had a successful Cutting Party Wednesday and have now scheduled another one of the 21st of this month. If you are available to cut some fabric to be used to make totes, feel free to join us. You don’t have to be a seamstress to mark and cut. We will meet in the fellowship hall that morning at 9:00 and stop about noon.

International Missions

We, as Southern Baptists, have about 5,000 missionaries serving in different ways all around the world. The Lottie Moon Offering supports them and their projects with many lost people. When you give, you can be confident that 100% of your gift will be used for that purpose. 

Until Tomorrow …

Anna Lee