Category: Family

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Monday, May 3, 2010

“Let them give glory to the LORD

And declare His praise in the coastlands.”

~Isaiah 42:12, NASB~

Dear Intercessors, this is Eleanor Witcher of the Office of Global Prayer Strategy, interceding with you for followers of folk Islam.

The Highland Singers of Central Asia blend Ismailism with folk beliefs. There are some new Christians, but no churches exist in their homeland. Religion is woven throughout their lives. They revere the Agha Khan; they look upon him as a living prophet. His word is law, and he may countermand the Quran. Some look upon him as god.

The Non-Turkic Settlers of the Caspian coastlands also practice folk Islam. Special spiritual significance is often placed upon certain trees or locations, and people regularly practice rituals for protection against evil spirits and curses. Rural communities are usually closed, and marriage outside of the clan is discouraged or prohibited. There are very few Settler believers.

Folk religious beliefs and practices have developed as West African women who believe that God doesn’t intervene in their problems have tried to deal with the felt needs and concerns of daily living. It is a major step in faith for a woman to abandon her folk practices and trust that God will protect her. Some of these practices include: using the evil eye as a curse, practicing sorcery, wearing amulets, going to a medium, visiting a saint’s tomb and praying there, trying to divine the future through the use of certain objects or rituals, and the use of special charms or actions to provide personal protection from evil spirits. Discipleship for these women when they become believers includes choosing Bible stories that the Holy Spirit can use to help the new believer see what God’s Word says about these practices.

* Please pray for believers who have left folk Islam to receive the spiritual nourishment and training they need from God’s Word.

* Intercede for those who are resisting salvation and ask God to continue knocking at their hearts’ door.

*Ask the Lord to reveal any false practices in your own life and repent as He leads.

Continue to pray for Jesse and Majel Dean.  Jesse continues to have complications requiring a return to the hospital.

Daddy seems to be getting better.  Thank-you for your prayers for my parents.

Continue to pray for grieving families.  Our area has had a number of deaths in recent weeks.

Devotional: “Death”

http://www.forthright.net/kneemail/2009/02/death.html

Now that May is here, the number of school days for the 2009-2010 school year is coming to a close.  Pray for a good ending and a long, happy summer vacation before 2010-2011 begins.

Have a great day!

Anna Lee

“You cannot serve both God and money,”

~Matthew 6:24 NIV~

“Wherever your treasure is, your heart will be also.”

~Matthew 6:21 NIV~

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Ashley Sue Miller

(September 27, 1988 – April 28, 2010)

A resident of Kentwood, died at 6:02 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at her residence. She was born September 27, 1988 and was 21 years of age. She is remembered as being bubbly and full of life and is known for lighting up any room with her big beautiful smile and magical presence. She is now in heaven with all the other angels. She will be missed terribly by all who knew her and loved her. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Sunday and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 10 a.m. Monday. Services conducted by Bro. Bob Simpson . Interment Hyde Cemetery, Roseland, LA. Survived by mother, Deborah Wall Miller, father, Perry Miller, her only child, Preston William Wright, brother, Ben Miller, sister, Brandi Miller, grandparents, Sandra and Ivy Wall, Jr., and Myrtle Miller, father of her child, Matthew Wright, uncles, Greg Wall, Huck Wall, and Steve Miller, aunts, Sgt. Major Carolyn Miller, Pat Miller Harn, and Dorothy “Dottie” Winters, many cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. Preceded in death by great-grandparents, Ivy Wall, Sr. and Zula Wall, grandpa Doyle Dude Miller, aunt, Pauline Miller White, and cousin, Brian Saxon.

BOTH BORN AND ADOPTED

The following was reported by WESTERN MORNING NEWS in 1994:

Ian Lewis, 43, of Standish, Lancashire, England, was interested in finding out about his family.  He spent 30 years tracing his family tree back to the seventeenth century.  He traveled all over Britain, talked to 2,000 relatives and planned to write a book about how his great-grandfather left to seek his fortune in Russia and how his grandfather was expelled after the Revolution.  Then he found out he had been adopted when he was a month old and his real name was David Thornton.  He resolved to start his family research all over again.

How frustrating!  However, it reminds me that, for a Christian, it makes no difference whether we trace our spiritual lineage by way of birth or adoption because both images are used to express our relationship to God our Father.

“Jesus answered, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.’ ” (John 3:5)

“…having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will…” (Ephesians 1:5)

God is our Father by (re)birth and by adoption (we are chosen!).  What a privilege to be a part of His family!

Have a great day!

Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina

Continue to pray for all those we have been praying for lately.

Anna Lee

It is not that we think we are qualified

to do anything on our own.

Our qualification comes from God.

~2 Corinthians 3:5 (NLT)~

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Walter Green Harper

(July 13, 1928 – April 27, 2010)

A resident of Roseland, died at 2:05 p.m. on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite. He was born July 13, 1928 in Gatesville, MS and was 81 years of age. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 9 a.m. until Masonic and Religious Services at 11 a.m. Saturday. Services conducted by Rev. Tommy Hicks. Interment Arcola-Roseland Cemetery, Arcola. He is survived by his wife, Maxine Primes Harper, Roseland; a daughter, Keri Wickham and husband, David, Amite; 2 sons, Darell “Pete” Harper, Charleston, SC and Walter “Bo” Harper and wife, Linda, Amite; 8 grandchildren, Kimberly Parent and husband, David, Pumpkin Center, Gwendolyn Pedelahore and husband, Kenny, Livingston, Justin Barrilleaux and wife, Amanda, Holden, Blake Barrilleaux and wife, Traci, Lugoff, SC, Clay Barrilleaux and wife, Marjorie, Walker, Kevin Harper, Amite, Brian Harper, Charleston, SC and Caroline Harper, Charleston, SC; 8 great-grandchildren; a sister, Bettye Jo Hughes and husband, Earl, Roseland.

James Albert Davis

(August 12, 1941 – April 27, 2010)

James Albert Davis was born August 12, 1941 and passed away on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans after a brief illness. Mr. James was 68, a native of Magnolia, MS, a former resident of St. Helena Parish and a resident of Destrehan, LA.

Mr. James was a graduate of Woodland High School and Southeastern Louisiana University where he was a member of Sigma Tau Gama Fraternity. He served in the US Army, Civil Air Patrol, a member of the Jefferson Amateur Radio Club and a retired employee of Tulane Medical School.

Mr. James is survived by his wife of 41 years, JoAnn P. Davis, Destrehan; daughter, Jeanne D. Peres and husband, Tony, Metairie; son, Jevin A. Davis, Pearl, MS; grandchildren, Megan, Mason, Morgan & Logan Peres, Metairie; 2 brothers, A. Thomas Davis, Montpelier and David M. Davis, Alvin, TX.

He is preceded in death by parents, John Albert and Myrth Bornes Davis; brother, Joel A. Davis.

Visitation at St. Helena Catholic Church on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. until Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m. with Fr. Joe Camilleri officiating. Interment in Amite Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers the family request donations in his memory to the American Cancer Society.

McKneely & Vaughn Funeral Home, Amite, in charge in arrangements.

An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.mckneelyvaughnfh.com

Devotional

http://www.devotions.net/devotions/04april/29.htm

Have a great day!

Anna Lee

“Never be lazy,

but work hard

and serve the Lord enthusiastically.”

~Romans 12:11, NLT~

From Cheryl Hughes Greene:

I wanted to let everyone over there to know that Aunt Viola’s husband, Uncle Gene passed away at 9am yesterday morning. His obit is in the Morning Advocate; his full name Eugene Cody from Georgetown, Ms. and lived in Watson, La.

I also ask for prayers for John. He had his tonsil and ulvea removed a couple of weeks ago. Last Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning he was having a pretty bad bleeding from this. He is home now, but still under strict orders from the doctor.

Eugene W. Cody

A native of Georgetown, Miss., and a resident of Watson, he passed away Sunday, April 25, 2010, at his home surrounded by his loving family and a host of friends. He was 80, a member of First Baptist Church of Central and Boilermakers Local 582. He worked for Dow Chemical for 21 years. Survived by his wife of 60 years, Viola Hughes Cody; daughter, Marcia G. Fauver; sons and daughters-in-law, John W. and Cheri Cody and David C. and Donna Cody; sister, Alice Merle Berry; brother, H. Mitchell Cody; grandchildren, Matt Cody, Misty C. Sharpe and her husband, Josh, Christy C. Gardner and her husband, Gary, Jessica F. Semons and her husband, Todd, Marissa Fauver and Jacob Fauver; five great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his parents, John Lee and Nancy Mae Cody; grandson, Josh Cody; five brothers and a sister. Visitation at Seale Funeral Home, Denham Springs, Monday, April 26, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Visitation resumes Tuesday, April 27, from noon until service in the funeral home chapel at 2 p.m. Burial in Evergreen Memorial Park.

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Pray for Jesse and Majel Dean as they get into their new (and temporary) routine involving home health nurse, therapy, drip, etc.  Pray Jesse gets better and Majel has the strength, endurance, and wisdom to help Jesse get better.

Pray for my sisters and me as we continue to deal with health issues of my parents.  Pray for us to have medical wisdom to make good decisions.  Pray for Momma and Daddy as they help care for each other.

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“At the name of Jesus every knee should bow…” Philippians 2:10

Mike Benson, Editor

LEADERSHIP MAGAZINE RELATES the following story…

A young Englishman was in Germany when the Nazis degrade the Jews in the streets.  At first he was sick at the sight and rushed down a side street.  The next time he felt he could look and stopped for a full minute.  The third time he watched.  The fourth time, as he stood with the jeering crowd, the sight seemed less revolting.  He was becoming, he told himself, “objective.”  And with this came the realization of his peril.  This was not a part of life, a social phenomenon for study,  It was the breath of hell (E.M. Blaiklock, Leadership, Winter, 1983).

How can can one reach such depths that he becomes desensitized?  How sad that so many have become callused to the things that go on around us:

.  An unborn child is killed every 20 seconds.

.  There were over 1,750,000 last year.

.  God and the mention of Jesus have become a matter of abhorrence and have replaced in schools trumpted with condoms, safe sex, and godless humanism.

.  Our society glorifies murder, rape, adultery, homosexuality, nudity, profanity, and fornication through movies and television.

.  Churches have reached out to those in immoral relationships and accepted them.

Many have become desensitized to sin.  Mark S. Aites, “Indifference,” Life’s Daily Struggles, The 31st Annual Lectureship–ETSOPM, 256-257

“‘Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?

No!  They were no ashamed; nor did they blush.

Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;

at the time I punish them, they shall be cast down,” says the LORD.”

Jeremiah 6:14

Have a great day!

Anna Lee