TUESDAY

Prayer Focus

Today, let’s focus our prayers on the real reason for Christmas. Let’s pray peeople understand that and celebrate Jesus!

Read Luke 15 today.

Read the Bible Every Day

  • December 17
  • Joel 3:1-Amos 2:16
  • Psalm 143:1-6
  • Proverbs 30:21-23
  • Revelations 7:1-17

Pray for the various classes and groups as they celebrate Christmas that they will be celebration Jesus, not decorations, music, food, or anything else.

Pray for families as they meet to do so as honoring Jesus, not each other. Pray for families that haven’t been together to be able to gather and celebrate this year.

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering: Pray for churches as they gather that they will focus on our most important missions offering, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering that enables missionaries to serve in many other parts of the world, not just North America. May we always strive to provide for those who dedicate many years of their lives to tell others about Jesus. Give so others may go!

Obituary

Maybelle Forstall Givens

October 27, 1941 – December 12, 2024

A resident of Kentwood, LA, passed away on Thursday, December 12, 2024 at Lakeview Regional Medical Center in Covington, LA. She was born October 27, 1941 in Harahan, LA and was 83 years of age. She is survived by her 2 daughters, Penny Null and husband, Charles and Lisa Graham and husband, Joe; 2 grandchildren, Brandon Dufreche and wife, Kayla and B.J. Graham and wife, Robyn; 3 great-grandchildren, Caiden Graham, Kylan Graham, and Sebastian Dufreche; 2 sisters, Barbara Piediscalzi and Irma Wehner. Preceded in death by her parents, Elmer and Maybelle Forstall; husband of 60 years, Leon Givens, Jr.; 2 sisters, Darlene Marquez and Roblyn Pitre. A Memorial Service will be scheduled at a later date. McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Christmas Card for the Prisoners to Write and Send to Family Members

The Two Rivers Women on Mission and Women’s Missionary Unions met earlier this month. I do not have a count of cards the the St. Helena ladies gave, but the ladies of Tangipahoa Parish gave 270 stamped Christmas cards so prisoners who cannot be with family in their usual celebrations can at least write and send the cards to family members.

Ladies, thanks for investing in the lives of the prisoners. Pray for families who meet together, but without some members who are behind bars. That is surely a hard position to be in during the Christmas season. Ladies, you made a difference in some lives at Christmas this year!

Christmas Lights: I hope you will find time to enjoy some Christmas programs at churches and/or schools this year, experience Christmas music and or Christmas lights and other decorations. May you be able to do these things and focus on Jesus and what His life means to our lives.

Operation Christmas Child: I have not checked on the destination for the shoeboxes the churches in our area packed, but I understand many of the boxes who went through Dallas this year went to Honduras. Think how happy the boys and girls there will be as they open ane enjoy the contents of the red and green boxes. Also, realize each box gives eight people the opportunity to hear about and take Jesus into their lives. Shoeboxes are much more than Christmas gifts. They include Jesus to the children and their families! I can think of no gift that would be better!

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

Anna Lee