“In the day of my trouble
I will call upon You,
for You will answer me.”
~Psalm 86:7~
Our grandson, Mason Hatchel (5), was diagnosed with a contagious bacterial infection yesterday. Later, he broke his collarbone. Jennie pulled a muscle getting him to the hospital and is not feeling well. Boyd took Madison (6) in to be checked. She has had an allergic reaction to something. All this in less than twenty-four hours and after Jennie drove home from Poland. We would appreciate your prayers for these “bumps in the road”. Pray for Boyd. It seems he will have three patients!
Don Denton
11:20 P.M. Monday
Doctor came out the surgery went well so far. They had to make a larger incision, but they feel that they got a biopsy that may reveal something. He found an area that did not look normal.
The doctor still had to close, it will be another hour. Then Don will be in ICU. Please pray that he will not have complications.
And as always pray for a cure.
Diane
From Baptist Press
NOBTS Creates Fund for Dukes’ Recovery
By Staff
NEW ORLEANS (BP)–New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary has established a fund to help Jimmy and Retia Dukes with recovery and rehabilitation costs from severe injuries sustained when they were struck by an automobile near the campus April 4.
Jimmy Dukes, professor of New Testament and Greek since 1984, serves as the director of theological education/distance learning for the Florida Baptist Convention. In an arrangement with the Florida Baptist Convention, he also serves as associate dean of the seminary’s Florida extension centers and director of the seminary’s Orlando hub. Retia was a longtime NOBTS staff member before they moved to Florida in 2007.
The couple faces a long, expensive recovery from their injuries. NOBTS President Chuck Kelley created the Jimmy and Retia Dukes Recovery Fund to offset the many rehabilitation costs that will not be covered by insurance. These include treatment costs as well as travel and lodging expenses incurred by the Dukes’ two sons, Erik and Jason, who are making frequent trips to New Orleans. Erik is a physician in Booneville, Miss. Jason is co-pastor of Westpoint Fellowship Church in Windermere, Fla.
“Many of us who have been blessed and helped by the Dukes’ ministry through the years and want to help,” Kelley said. “We know that the recovery will take months and they will be away from their home and family.”
“This fund will be for expenses not covered by insurance. It offers a way for any who want to help to be able to help in a way that greatly assists them and their family,” Kelley said.
Jimmy Dukes received treatment for multiple fractures and injuries, including two broken legs, a broken arm, broken ribs, a cracked vertebra and a collapsed lung. Retia suffered a brain hemorrhage in the accident and was in coma for three weeks.
As bad as things were for Jimmy, doctors and family members were most concerned about Retia’s coma. For three weeks she was unconscious. Family members and seminary administrators urged churches and individuals to pray diligently about her situation. On April 24 Retia awoke and responded to questions from doctors. Now the couple is braced for months of rehabilitation.
The Dukes recently were moved to separate metropolitan New Orleans hospitals to continue their recovery. Jimmy Dukes is at Ochsner Hospital in Elmwood, Retia is at West Jefferson Hospital in Marrero.
The driver of the SUV that struck the Dukes waited at the scene for the New Orleans Police Department to arrive. The case is still under review, but no charges have been filed to date.
Contributions to the fund for the Dukes may be made by calling 504-282-4455, ext. 3252, or sending gifts to New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, Office for Institutional Advancement, 3939 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70126. Note “Dukes Fund” on checks. Online gifts may be given by selecting the “Click to Donate” tab at www.nobts.edu. Once in the online giving area, select the Jimmy and Retia Duke Recovery Fund before submitting a gift.
The president’s office at NOBTS will handle disbursements from the fund based on expense requests from the family. Records of the income and disbursements will be available to the NOBTS trustee board for review. Any remaining money in the fund after treatment and rehabilitation is complete will be used to establish the Jimmy and Retia Dukes Scholarship Fund.
The accident happened at dusk April 4. A vehicle traveling east on Gentilly Boulevard/Chef Menteur Highway struck the Dukes as they crossed the street from the seminary’s guest housing to the main campus. NOBTS Campus Police officers and witnesses contacted first responders immediately. Several New Orleans residents, who were on the seminary campus to vote in an election that evening, stopped to offer help as well.
The Dukes family is maintaining a Caring Bridge website with recovery updates for friends of the family. The site is a free, but requires registration: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jimmyandretiadukes.
Reported by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary’s public relations staff.
Mrs. Laura Bellavia Platzer
(September 29, 1906 – May 4, 2009)
Mrs. Laura Bellavia Platzer was born September 29, 1906 and passed away at 11:32AM, Monday, May 4, 2009 at her residence. She was 102, a native of Donaldsonville and a resident of Amite.
She is survived by numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and her dog Prissy.
Mrs. Laura was preceded in death by her parents Camello and Angelina Patti Bellavia; 3 brothers, Jack, Kelly & Frank Bellavia; 4 sisters, Josie Ardillo, Virginia “Gina” Fassula, Lucy Catalanotto Alessi & Mary Ard.
Special Thanks to her caregivers, Joyce Williams & Beverly Stewart.
Visitation will be at the McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 from 9:00AM until 10:40AM. Religious Services will be at the St. Helena Catholic Church at 11:00AM with Fr. Joe Camilleri officiating. Interment at the Amite Mulberry Cemetery.
An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com
McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, is located at I-55N & Hwy 16W behind Grand Prix Car Wash & Bond Eye Clinic.
Danny Paul Brignac
(March 22, 1959 – May 1, 2009)
Born March 22, 1959 and died May 1, 2009, a native of Algiers, LA and resident of Ponchatoula, LA. He is a former employee of Entergy Waterford III. Survived by beloved wife of 27 years, Sheila Ockman Brignac, 2 sons Derek Brignac and Shane Brignac and 1 precious granddaughter, Brooklyn Jaide Brignac, mother of his granddaughter Casey Fernandez, 4 brothers Donald, Bryan, Kevin, and Randy Brignac, 1 sister, Shanon Brignac, mother-in-law, Helen Ockman, numerous godchildren, sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by parents Donald Brignac, Sr. and Gertrude Weckesser Brignac, father-in-law, Earl Ockman. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Friday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 11 a.m Saturday. Interment Amite Memorial Gardens, Amite, LA.
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| Mrs. Cecil Reinken Bedsole, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, died at Hood Memorial Hospital on Sunday, May 3, 2009, surrounded by her family. She was 88, a native of Baton Rouge and a resident of Hammond. She graduated from Baton Rouge High School in 1937 and LSU in 1941 where she worked as a secretary to the LSU dean of men. After marrying and moving to Hammond, she was secretary to Luther H. Dyson, president of Southeastern Louisiana College (now SLU). She was a retired real estate agent and former member of Les Mesdames and other campus, civic and church organizations. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Hammond and the United Methodist Women. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Robert G. and Brenda Bedsole Ricks, of Amite; two sons, G. Alan Bedsole, of Hammond, and Robert L. Bedsole, of Baton Rouge, and his special friend, Marcia Colvin; five grandchildren, Mike Ricks, Rachel, Laura and Joseph Bedsole, of Baton Rouge, and Robert W. Ricks, of Amite; four nieces, Barbara Griffin Wiltshire and husband Rick, of Richmond, Va., Jane Griffin DeMatteis and husband Denny, of Raleigh, N.C., Jan Woods Gray and husband Bob, of Dothan, Ala., and Betty Sue Woods Rash and husband Bobby, of Slocomb, Ala.; nephew, David Griffin and wife Mary, of Raleigh; and numerous other family members. Preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, George W. Bedsole, retired department head emeritus of the department of sociology, social welfare and criminal justice and professor emeritus of sociology at SLU; parents, Granville B. and Bertie Dixon Reinken; sister, Nell Reinken Griffin and husband Percy; brother-in-law, Vergil L. Bedsole; sister-in-law, Blanche Bedsole Woods and husband Hubert; and three nephews, Hubert “Trump” Woods, Edward Woods and Jimmy Woods. Friends will be received Wednesday, May 6, from noon until service at 2 p.m. at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home, Hammond. Entombment in Greenlawn Mausoleum. The family extends a special thanks to all of her wonderful friends, neighbors and caregivers. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the George and Cecil Bedsole Criminal Justice Scholarship through the Southeastern Louisiana Development Foundation, SLU Box 1073, Hammond, LA 70402. An online guestbook and family forum are available at http://www.harrymckneely.com. |
Mrs. Wilda Westmoreland’s photograph has now been posted.
Kne
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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” (Philippians 2:10).
Mike Benson, Editor
WILLIAM TYNDALE WAS born in A.D. 1494, near the middle of the Dark Ages…
The times were dark because the Scriptures had long been kept from the people by the Roman Catholic church. Church leaders believed that only members of the clergy should read the Scriptures. For that reason, the Word of God was neither taught nor made available.
Tyndale devoted his life to changing all of that. He built on the work of John Wycliffe, a man who died a hundred years before Tyndale was born. Wycliffe risked his life on a daily basis to translate the Bible from Latin to English, then to have handwritten copies distributed to the people. Wycliffe was so hated for making the Bible available that several decades after he died, his enemies condemned him for heresy, dug up his body, burned it, then threw the ashes into a local river.
Tyndale built on the foundation Wycliffe laid down, except that Tyndale bypassed the Latin version entirely ad translated the Scriptures from the original Hebrew and Greek, directly into English. Because his work was so violently opposed in England, the land of his birth, he fled to Germany. In answering a priest who criticized his work, Tyndale said, “If God spare my life, ere many years, I will cause a boy that drives a plow to know more of the Scriptures than you do.”
Like those in the time of Josiah, the people did not know the Scriptures, but neither did the priests. Most of them were ignorant of the Bible. Their source of “truth” was the Pope.
One bishop in Tyndale’s time did a survey of the 311 priests in his diocese:
. 168 of the priests couldn’t repeat the Ten Commandments.
. 31 of the 168 had no idea in where in the Bible the Ten Commandments could be found.
. 41 could not locate the “Lord’s prayer.”
. 31 of the 41 could not name the author of the Lord’s prayer.
When Tyndale completed his translation of the New Testament in 1525, more than 15,000 copies were smuggled back into England over the next five years. Officials did their best to stop the distribution. They delighted in burning Bibles whenever they discovered any. In May of 1535, Tyndale was finally captured and thrown into prison. Approximately one year later, he was burned at the stake. And why was he burned in the flames? Because he was committed to the idea that average people should be able to read the Bible. That was his crime. (Steve Farrar)
KneEmail: “Then the king sent and gathered all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. The king went up to the house of the LORD, with all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—the priests and the Levites, and all the people, great and small. And he read in their hearing all the words of the Book of the Covenant which had been found in the house of the LORD. Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the LORD, to follow the LORD, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.” 2 Chronicles 34:29-32
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Anna Lee
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