Prayer Focus for Today

Today, let’s pray for God’s will as we care for others (parents, siblings, children, grandchildren, husband, wife, neighbor, friend, etc.). Being a caregiver is not easy, but is happens all the time.

Read the Bible Today

December 4
Ezekiel 45:1-47:5
Psalm 136:17-26
Proverbs 29:15-17
I John 3:1-24

Christmas Cards with Stamped Envelopes

Please try to get your Christmas cards with stamps applied to the envelopes to the church today. There is a green basket in the entry to the church where you can turn in your cards. I will deliver them to the Tangipahoa Parish Jail in Amite so prisoners can write to loved ones during the Christmas season. It won’t be the same as being at their family gatherings during the holidays, but it is better than no contact at all.

This is a small way we can share the joy, and the meaning, of Christmas with others who may not be able to attend a religious service or visit with family. This is what is needed:

Cards, hopefully religious ones
A stamp placed on each envelope

That’s not asking a lot. Put yourself in the place of the family members and think how happy they will be if they get a card from a family member who is incarcerated. Hopefully the cards will inspire the prisoner and/or family to think about Jesus and why we celebrate Christmas.

Lottie Moon Christmas Tea/Offering

Come to Spring Creek Baptist Church at 10 A.M. Saturday to celebrate international missions and learn how we can give to support those who tell about Jesus in countries far from home. They give their time and energy for years to focus on spreading the Good News of Jesus. We don’t go, we provide funds for their ministries around the world. It’s our way of “going”.

You can contribute at your church by placing your “gift” in the specially marked envelope or indicating on your check or regular envelope your desire to support international missions with your “gift”. If you can’t be present, mail in your offering to your church or ask someone to take it for you.

Baptist Press

https://www.baptistpress.com/

I hope you have time to read some of these excellent articles.

Obituary

Kristan Haley Travis

November 14, 1989 – November 27, 2024

A resident of Hammond, LA, passed away on Wednesday, November 27, 2024. She was born November 14, 1989 in Hammond, LA and was 35 years of age. Kristan loved the outdoors and was an avid fisherman. She was a free spirit with a giving heart and a very hard worker. She is survived by her 8 children, Brooklyn Bankston, Lynen Evans, Westin Travis, Spencer Sloane, Knox Travis, Alycen Peters, Sage Travis, and Halei Shonk; mother, Mona Denese Phillips; father, Sonny Travis; 2 brothers and 1 sister, Tyler Travis, Jordyn Tantillo, and Sawyer Tantillo; grandparents, Joan and Wayne Martin and Lauree Phillips. Preceded in death by grandparents, Adrian Phillips, Houston Earl Travis, Sr. and Peggy Thornhill Travis. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, from 9:00AM until religious services at 12:00 Noon on Wednesday, December 4, 2024. Services conducted by Bro. Sonny Travis. Interment New Zion Cemetery, Kentwood, LA. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Christmas Bible Reading

Luke chapter 1 – Yesterday

Luke chapter 2 – Today

I listed this last so you can go directly to it and read it now.

Thanks for reading TPL today. Pass on the information about reading Luke this month. Hopefully, others will join us.

Anna Lee