Category: Missions

Saturday

“You will be made rich in every way

so that you can be generous on every occasion …

your generosity will result in thanksgiving to God.”  

~2 Corinthians 9:11 (NIV)~

 

It’s not in what you have acquired,

but what you are able to share that counts.

Be thankful for what you can share.

Riches are not counted in dollars!

 It’s hugs, smiles, words, and other actions!

It’s Jesus living in you!

I hope you gave and received this week.

I’m rich in blessings and so thankful!

Kathy Wales shared an update on Wayne Criswell.

I received a call from Mary Criswell this afternoon to let us know that Wayne had a doctor’s appointment today. Hospice has been called in for him. I know that Wayne knows where he’s going and is ready but his family and friends really need our prayers.
Thank you,
Kathy

Mallory is recovering from her burns well enough to get out among people again.  She is looking forward to going to church tomorrow and school Monday.  Thank you to each one of you who had a part in her healing by praying for her.

Nellie Jean Miller Davis Cook

Born: January 04, 1936
Died: November 27, 2014

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=2831359&fh_id=10545

Johnny Jones

Born: September 12, 1942
Died: November 27, 2014

         http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/10545/id/2830859

Devotional, Scripture, Quote, and a Song

  • “Happy Ending” –  http://odb.org/
  • I saw a new heaven and a new earth.                                                                                                        ~Revelation 21:1~
  • The gains of heaven will more than compensate us for the losses of earth.                                                                                                             ~ODB~
  • “10 Awesome Songs about Heaven” – http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/10-awesome-songs-about-heaven/

Reminder – Lottie Moon Tea

  • Tomorrow
  • 2 P.M.
  • FBC, K (an event of Two Rivers Association, not just for Kentwood ladies)
  • All ladies, ages 2-102
  • Bring your daughter, granddaughter, sister, mother, niece, neighbor, friend, etc.

Thankfulness – Day 29: Home

It’s always good to get away for special reasons, but eventually we all learn there’s no place like home!  I’m sure many of you are winding down from the holiday and looking forward to or beginning to enjoy being at home again.  Enjoy that too!  Thank God for homes!

Be generous and be blessed this very day.  Share from your heart.

Anna Lee

 

 

Sunday

 “The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,

and saves such as have a contrite spirit.” 

~Psalm 34:18~

(Holidays are extra difficult for some people.  Do something to help ease their pain.)

Bad weather will be in our area this morning.  Make wise decisions.

Tresa Rhodus

Born: August 23, 1964
Died: November 22, 2014

       http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/10545/id/2816425

New Zion Baptist Church will hold a Thanksgiving dinner this morning after morning worship.

Tonight, the  Community Thanksgiving Service will take place at the Kentwood Methodist Church.

Today ends the collection process for OCC Shoeboxes.  I’m thankful to hear the numbers in our area are good, but know we could always do better.  Our goal for next year has been set.  We hope to meet, and exceed, that new goal.  I trust our other local churches, schools, and organizations plan to do the same.  Blessings will abound!

Next Sunday, we will have the annual Lottie Moon Tea for our association in combination with Ladies’ Night.  All girls and youth are invited to come with their mother, grandmothers, and great-grandmothers.

Devotional, Scripture, Quotes, and a Song

  • “Outlasting Bitterness” – http://odb
  • If anyone has a complaint against another;                                                     even as Christ forgave you,                                                                                       so you also must do.                                                                                                                                                        ~Colossians 3:13~                                                 Notice that next to last word.  It’s not easy,                                                       but “must” leaves no room for doubt!
  • Hate hurts the hater more than the hated,

            no matter how justified it may seem.                                                                                                      

                                                                ~Our Daily Bread~

            When we forgive someone,    

             we look more like Jesus than at any other moment in our life.                                            

                                                                                                            ~Our Daily Bread~

Thankfulness: Day 23 – Today, I want to thank God for “timeless truths” (the site used above, but mainly the truths we have been taught which were taught to generations of families before us and will continue to be taught for generations of families until the Lord returns.

Hanging on to “timeless truths”!  We can both share them and still keep them!

Anna Lee

Saturday Addition

Mallory is on the way home!!!

Beth Brabham asked that we pray for her mother, Mrs. Mildred Birch, who will be having surgery in about three weeks.

Please pray for seventeen (17) members of Montpelier Baptist Church are are serving as missionaries in Nicaragua this week.  This is their second trip this year.  They have been going for several years.

 

 

Saturday

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations…

teaching them to observe all that I commanded you.”

~Matthew 28:19-20a, NASB~

 

Susan Rimes continues to improve.  Let’s hope and pray with her that this surgery will enable her to live a healthier life.

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes

David and James took the 222 shoeboxes packed by our church to FBC, Franklinton Friday morning.  They saw, at the one collection site,  over 1,800 boxes that had already been collected and witnessed a very organized collection process.  Thank-you to each one who helped in any way.  Think of all the little children who will have an opportunity to “meet” Jesus because of the shoeboxes.  God bess you for your efforts!

Christmas cards with stamps on the envelopes will be given to the prisoners in the parish jails through the associational Women’s Ministry.

Cards have been donated, but need stamps.  Please place stamps, in multiples of ten in the jar on the table under the stairs to the balcony of FBC, Kentwood.  The deadline for the stamps is November 30th.  Thank-you for helping provide an opportunity for families to be reconnected at Christmas.  Thank-you to those who have already donated stamps.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scriptures, and a Song

  • “The Warmth of the Sun” –  odb.org
  • “I am weary with my groaning;                                                                               all night I make my bed swim;                                                                               I drench my couch with my tears.                                                                           My eye wastes away because of grief.”                                                                                                                  ~Psalm 6:6-7~                                                                   
    “The Lord has heard my supplication;                                                               the Lord will receive my prayer.”                                                                                                                            ~Psalm 6:9~   
  • “At Calvary”
     https://www.hymnal.net/en/hymn/h/342    
     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vvMPD0iwGk

Thankfulness: Day 22 – Retirement

Today, as I reflect back over the last few years, I can truly say I am thankful to be retired.  It’s not that I sit and rock all day though.  It’s that I have the opportunity to do so many things I could not do while I was working.  I think God that I had a job that allowed me to earn my retirement, health to be able to enjoy retirement, and all the opportunities these years have provided.  God has richly blessed me.

Have a great weekend!  Be a blessing to someone!  

Anna Lee

Thursday

“Tell to the generation to come

the praises of the LORD,

and His strength

and His wondrous works that He has done.”

~Psalm 78:4b, NKJV~

 

Thankfulness: Day 20 – Today, I want to share how happy I am that God sees and plans the “big picture” of our lives. My newest example is that Boyd and Jennie, who were living in Prague, were offered a job for one year in the States.  God had it all arranged, even though those who do this special assignment are usually older and more experienced.  Since that time, Boyd’s dad was diagnosed with a brain tumor and passed away.  Being stateside made it much easier for the family to have some quality time with his family.  Now, Mallory has been burned and is being treated in one of the best burn centers.  It doesn’t just happen by accident that they are living only 20 miles from one of the best burn units in the country!  God is so good.  He sees the “big picture” and plans our lives in accordance to what is best for us!

Those who need our continue special prayers:

  • Mr. Bud Callihan – North Oaks
  • Mr. Bobby Lawson – home
  • Sherman Cutrer – doing well and soon to come home
  • Theresa Rhodus and her family – Lafayette
  • Mallory Hatchel – Richmond
  • Jimmy Schwartz – completing radiation this week
  • Martha P. Drago – getting ports today for treatment to begin soon
  • Macy Gueldner – home, but continuing treatments
  • Mrs. Nyra Rigby – home in Alabama
  • Ray Blackwell – home
  • John Alan Blackwell – home
  • Susan Rimes –  home
  • Don Dickinson – home
  • Anne Hurst – home

Pray for the youth of many churches as they attend the Youth Evangelism Conference which begins this weekend.

Community Thanksgiving Services 

  • Sunday, November 23rd at 6 P.M.
  • Kentwood Methodist Church
  • Fellowship to follow

Lottie Moon Tea

  • 2 P.M. Sunday, November 30th
  • Fellowship Hall of FBC,K
  • Ladies of all ages from all churches are invited.
  • Music, Skits, Missions, Lottie’s special cookies, etc.
  • Program involves people from a number of churches

Mission Project – Bring postage stamps in multiples of ten and place in the jar on the table under the stairs to the balcony of FBC, K or turn in to Anna Lee or the church office.  The stamps will be placed on Christmas cards for prisoners to send to their families.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Third Thursday Meeting – 6:30 tonight at the cabin

“Young” Ladies’ Birthday Party

  • 11:00 A.M. Tuesday at The Cafe
  • Honoring Fran Walker, Kim Schwartz, Velma Anthony, Billie Jo Hutchinson, Fay Gehringer, Rita Tate, Ruby Schwartz, Bessie Hayden, Theople Hurst, Kay Forman, and Hazel Smith

Friday Morning Bible Study

  • Meets tomorrow, but not the day after Thanksgiving
  • 10:00 A.M. at Fellowship Hall of FBC,K
  • Studying women of the Bible

Team Kid

  • No meeting on the 23rd due to the community Thanksgiving service
  • Meets of Nov. 30th and Dec. 7th before a Christmas break

Devotional. Scriptures, Quote, and a Song

  • “Can You Help?” – http://odb.org/
  • Faith by itself,                                                                                                               if it does not have works,                                                                                           is dead.                                                                                                                                                      ~James 2:17~                                                                                          

             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8zbLfPjkos

Thanks for praying each day.  After praying, decide how you can best be a doer, not just a hearer, today.
Anna Lee

Monday

“My heart’s desire and prayer to God

concerning them is for their salvation!”

~Romans 10:1, HCSB~

This is the greatest decision any person could ever make!

I’m so thankful to be able to report that Joe Easley was at Sunday School and church (NZBC) yesterday.   He even was able to be in the choir.  I know there were many people thanking God as for the progress Joe has made.  Joe and his family were surely saying “Thank-you” the loudest!

Mallory is back in the burn unit in Richmond.  We are so thankful the family is right where God placed them this year.  What a blessing it is for her to receive such specialized treatment.  She continues to take everything in stride.  She’s a real inspiration!

This is the week for Operation Christmas Child Shoebox collections to be turned in.  All those boxes will be on the way for little children soon.  I thank God for knowing each box is an opportunity to introduce a child to Jesus.  Pray with me that many of the children will be saved because of the boxes packed in many churches, schools, etc.

I have two announcements to share.

  1. Young at Heart will be at 10:30 Tuesday at New Zion Baptist Church.  Mrs. Yvonne Curtis will be the guest musician.  Young at Heart is for the senior adults in this area. You will be welcomed and blessed by being there.
  2. David and I invite you to our cabin for the Third Thursday gathering this week at 6:30. Young and old are invited to join us.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Defeated Adversary” –  odb.org
  • Be sober, be vigilant;                                                                                     because your adversary the devil                                                         walks about like a roaring lion,                                                             seeking whom he may devour.                                                                                                                   ~1 Peter 5:8~
  • “Day by Day” –  http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/d/a/daybyday.htm

(This great hymn was written over a hundred years ago.  It is still so meaningful to us because God doesn’t change.  He is just as faithful to us today as he was to those who lived when the hymn was first written, played, and sung.  We are all so much better because of God’s faithfulness to us!)

May you be a witness of God’s faithfulness this week.  May you see Him all around you.

Anna Lee

Saturday

“The Lord is good to everyone who trusts in him,

so it is best for us to wait in patience —

to wait for him to save us.”

~Lamentations 3:25-26 GNT~

 

Mrs. Bobby Lawson was transferred fron McComb to a rehab in Hammond.  Please continue your prayers for him.

“Miss” Judy Liberto was able to be in Bible study yesterday morning.   Let’s pray the change in medicines was all she needs to get well.

Karen Miller’s mom, Mrs. Rigby, is in UAB.  Yesterday, the family learned the cancer has returned.  Please say special prayers.

Nathan Daniels was injured in the football game last night and is hospitalized in Rayville. Please pray for this young man.

Baptist Press –  bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Windfall”  –  http://odb.org/?tz=-06-
  • Give us this day our daily bread.                                                                                                              ~Matthew 6:11~
  • “Living for Jesus” – http://www.hymnary.org/text/living_for_jesus_a_life_that_is_true

Thankfulness – Day 14: Encouragement  –  It is always to have someone speaks words of encouragement to us.  It validates what we do and motivates us to do more, but being the encourager is even better.  It is so special to see a person change right before your eyes as they learn you have noticed and appreciated something they have said and/or done. Today is a perfect day to encourage someone.

Come to Hope Center between 9:00 and 1:00 today.  We would love to see you.

Anna Lee

Friday

“All humanity will come to You,

the One who hears prayer.”

~Psalm 65:2, HCSB~

 

Thankfulness – Day 14: Warm home on a cold night!  

I have good reports/updates we have been looking forward to hearing.

  • Don Dickinson was scheduled to come home yesterday.
  • Chris Wales is scheduled to come home today.
  • Susan Rimes’ thyroid surgery is still scheduled for the 18th as previously planned.

Karen Miller is in Alabama with her mom.  Pray for them as they check on Mrs. Rigby‘s current situation with treatment.

Reminder – Next week is the time for churches to turn in their “shoeboxes” so they can be shipped to needy children around the world.  Remember, the boxes take “Jesus” along with the gifts.

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/drop-off-locations/

The closest location to us is FBC, Franklinton.

First Baptist Church Hours
950 Self Street – Franklinton, LA 70438

Mon: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Tues: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Wed: 12 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Thurs: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Fri: 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Sat: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Sun: 8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Mon: 8:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

  • Gay marriage, ‘faith’ spur judges to resign

At least six magistrates in North Carolina have resigned after receiving a memo from the state’s Administrative Office of the Courts threatening criminal prosecution if they refused to perform gay wedding ceremonies.

  • Housing allowance survives at appeals court

A federal appeals court overturned Thursday (Nov. 13) a decision striking down the 60-year-old ministerial housing allowance, and Southern Baptist leaders applauded the ruling.

  • Ellis first black pres. of Tenn. convention

The election of Michael Ellis as the first African American president of the Tennessee Baptist Convention is a “long-overdue historic thing,” nominator tells annual meeting. “Race doesn’t matter,” Ellis said after his unanimous election. “That’s what I love about our convention.”

  • No church too small for global missions, pastor says

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering: Pastor encourages churches of all sizes to keep banding together to extend missions reach.

  •        Fla. & Cuban Baptists thank John Sullivan

Florida & Cuban Baptists show their thanks to John Sullivan, who retires as the state convention’s executive director in February. The convention, at its annual meeting, also adopted a budget that continues toward a 50-50 allocation of churches’ Cooperative Program gifts with Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries.

(Bro. John has played an important part in the lives of my Texas relatives.  I cherish the memories of hearing him preach and staying in his home after a hurricane caused the Tollesons to abandon their home until services could be repaired in their area.  Momma and I drove to Texas to pick up my aunt and three cousins.  Thankfully, they survived a close call when their new church gave in during the second half of the storm.  They had moved from the new building to the old building during the eye of the hurricane.  God protected all those who found refuge at the church that night.  Bro. John and Uncle Charles served together on staff of two churches in Texas.)

  • Ky. Baptists urged to ‘Tell Your Story’

Kentucky Baptist leaders share their salvation testimonies at annual meeting; convention parts company with one of its universities and severs ties with a Louisville congregation over its stance on homosexuality.

  • Arkansas Baptists: ‘Every One Matters’

An estimated 1,000-plus Arkansas Baptist messengers and guests converged on Trinity Baptist Church in Texarkana Oct. 27-29 to conduct business, worship and hear inspiring sermons and entity reports during the 161st annual meeting of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention, Pastors’ Conference and related meetings.

  • Bible Study: November 16, 2014
  • First-Person
    Erich Bridges
    WORLDVIEW: The rise & fall of walls
  • Bob Phillips
    MORMONISM: Joseph Smith & polygamy — a teachable moment
  • Catherine Parks
    FIRST-PERSON: The wedding & the marriage

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Heartbreak and Hope” – http://odb.org/
  • The Lord is good to those who wait for Him.                                                                                                    ~Lamentations 3:25~
  • “….My anchor holds and grips the solid rock.” – “In Times Like These” – http://www.namethathymn.com/christian-hymns/in-times-like-these-lyrics.html
    • Be sure to read the story of this hymn – who wrote it, who sang it, etc.

As the weather turns to winter, be sure to think about and do something to help someone else who might not be blessed with a warm home, sufficient clothing, sufficient heat, etc.

Anna Lee

Thursday

“That is why we never give up.

Though our bodies are dying,

our spirits are being renewed every day.

For our present troubles are small

and won’t last very long.

Yet they produce for us a glory

that vastly outweighs them

and will last forever!”

~2 Corinthians 4:15-17 NLT~

 

Thankfulness: Day 13 – I’m thankful for medical care.  No, David and I are not sick or seeing a doctor, but I have a number of friends who are.  I’m thankful they can get medical care and for the most part, be “good as new” soon.  For others, the medical care eases their life or their last days, for which I am thankful.

Mrs. Judy Liberto is hospitalized in Hammond for a few days of testing.  Pray they get her problem “figured out” so she can return to her normal life.  She in room 4108.  (She was sweet to call for an address to send a card to Mallory last week.  You know she will be receiving one from me now!)

Don Dickinson continues to do well following heart surgery.  He should be coming home today or tomorrow.  Continue to pray for Don and Judy during the recovery time.  Thank God Don’s appointment was scheduled for that particular day.

Pray for the Blackwell family.  They seem to have a “full plate”, but thankfully God has given Alan Ray and Mr. John Alan such sweet spirits.  Pray for them and for their family members.

Mr. Bud Callihan continues to be in North Oaks.  Thank God for the faithfulness of “Miss” Verna and others.  Pray for peace and comfort for Mr. Bud and continued strength and faithfulness for the family and friends.

Theresa Rhodus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. “Red” Rhodus, is hospitalized in Lafayette.  She is very sick.  Please pray for the family.

Sherman Cutrer has had one surgery this week and will probably have another on tomorrow.  Thank God for His faithfulness to Sherman and his family.

Mr. Bobby Lawson is still hospitalized in McComb.  He is a little better.  Continue to pray for him.

Mrs. Anne Hurst is better.  Thank you for praying for her.

Jimmy Schwartz will be completing his radiation treatment Thursday of next week.  Thank God for those who took turns getting Jimmy back and forth to Mary Bird Perkins for his treatment.

Mr. Nick Salidino has suddenly become very ill.  Please pray for “Miss” Peggy, Nicky, and other family members and friends.

Cindy Juban, Andy Taylor’s sister, was prepped for surgery when the medical staff found she had a slight temperature.  The process was shut down.  Pray for Cindy as she deals with the delay.  May she she God’s hand in the delay.

Continue to pray for Donna Fay Miller and others undergoing medical tests.  May the tests reveal what needs to be done in each situation so these people can have a better, less stressful life.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Believers in trailer park ‘give everything they have’

Believers in an impoverished trailer park in Monroe, Ga., are making a difference in the world through their gifts to international missions.

Desperate prayer leads ‘Miracle’ to trailer park

Missionary Pam Whitehead lives out her heart for the nations in an impoverished trailer park in Monroe, Ga.

Spurgeon lectures held at MBTS; Mohler honored

On the heels of Midwestern Seminary’s October announcement about launching the Charles Spurgeon Center for Biblical Studies, the school held its second annual Spurgeon Lectures on Biblical Preaching on Nov. 4-5.

John Perkins: Historic time for race relations

Race relations pioneer John Perkins, in a lecture at Southern Seminary, sees “a pivot place in history.” Perkins, 84, points to “an underlying movement today that now people are wanting to do mission with people, and they want to learn from people,” and they see the diversity of human beings as “a value in life.”

‘Be the church,’ Colo. Baptists urged

The Colorado Baptist General Convention approved a budget that designates more than half of Cooperative Program receipts after shared expenses for Southern Baptist Convention missions and ministries and gathered around the theme “Be the Church” at its annual meeting Oct. 13-14 in Centennial.

Check the site for additional stories.

Hope Center

As the first freeze approaches I think of the people who do not have a warm coat that fits them and keeps them warm on the days like we are facing later this week. If you have some extra winter clothing you will not be wearing this year, please consider donating it to Hope Center in Roseland. You can drop the clothing off there, leave it just inside the door to the office of FBC, Kentwood, or let me know. I will make arrangements to have it picked up or pick it up myself. It would be nice to have more long sleeve shirts, sweats, sweaters, robes, jackets, and coats to offer at Hope Center. The sooner you can drop off the items, the better. That old thermometer is dropping!

Lottie Moon Tea 

Ladies of all ages, if your church has not already made plans to send ladies and girls to the Lottie Moon Tea, it’s time to start. The tea will be Sunday, November 30th at 2 P.M. at FBC, Kentwood. This is for ladies from all our area churches. There is no cost, just show up, but be sure to do that. The program will be varied this year with special music led by and presented by Diane Simmons, skits by EGBC and NZBC, and information about Lottie Moon and the offering we take in her honor so you can share with your church. Mark you calendar. Begin announcing at your church. Plan to be a part and learn something you didn’t know. I hope to see all of you there. Feel free to bring a friend or two with you.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

I hope you are already getting in the Thanksgiving frame of mind.  If you are not there every day, this is certainly the time of the year to get there.

Anna Lee

 

Wednesday

“In the day of my trouble I will call upon You,

for You will answer me.”

~Psalm 86:7, NASB~

(I know God is happy to hear from us during our difficult times,

but surely He is even happier when we talk to Him on regular and good days.)

Sue Lavene, Eleanor’s sister, is doing well.  Sue will be in ICU for 24 hours before going to a regular room.  Thank you for praying for this family.

Don Dickinson is progressing and has been moved to a room in the telemetry unit on the second floor.  His room is 2229.  All the tubes have been removed, but Don is still on a heart monitor.  Thank you for your continued prayers for Don and Judy.

J. Santangelo‘s doctors are again saying they do not see tumor growth.  Join the family in thanking God for his progress.

Mallory Hatchel is progressing very well.  She continues to be at home and monitored by family and a home health nurse.  Keep praying.

Thankfulness: Day 12 – Meals!  Yes, I’m thankful to have food, but I mean the sit-down meals we have with family and/or friends.  What a blessing they are!  Much more important than the food is the company!  Meals with an individual, a small group, or even a large group can be such a blessing if we are focused on the people with us and not distracted by other things such as a television.  Take time to really enjoy some meals this week.

Baptist Press –  bpnews.net

  • Hardened marine ‘rocked’ by loss, surrenders to Christ

As a drill instructor in the Marines, Brandon Graham was fierce, tough and fearless, with crass language and harsh treatment all part of the package. That all began to change, though, when driving to work one day Graham had what he calls a “Damascus Road experience” that left him weeping on the side of the highway.

  • Family with 5 ‘heroes’ reaches out to veterans

For Wes and Judy Pierce, founders of a veterans resource organization called Heroes Night Out, a large family and service to their country go hand in hand.

  • Southern Baptists in Congress now 36

Southern Baptist representation in Congress dropped as a result of the Nov. 4 election, leaving 30 members of SBC churches in the House of Representatives and six in the Senate.

  • Kelly Boggs accepts post at alma mater

Kelly Boggs, editor of the Louisiana Baptist Message, has accepted a development post at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, his alma mater, and is ending his Baptist Press column after 14 years

  • ETS meeting to feature Southern Baptists

Some 90 representatives of Southern Baptist Convention seminaries will make presentations this month to the Evangelical Theological Society, the world’s largest society of evangelical scholars.

  • FROM THE STATES: Okla., S.C., Mich. evangelism/missions news; ‘… desperate prayer and a crying out to God’
  • First-Person – David E. Crosby
    VETERANS DAY: Meditation at a flagpole
  • Jason K. Allen – VETERANS DAY: The ‘war to end all wars’

 Recent News

Iraq war vet to plant church in Washington state
Pro-gay ad blitz aimed at Miss. Baptists
TRUSTEES: IMB’s Platt unfolds five-point strategy
Platt: ‘God saved you to send you’
‘My heart continues to ache,’ Bae says

Friday Morning Bible Study

  • 10 A.M in the Fellowship Hall of FBC, K
  • I Samuel 1:1 – 2:21  (Hannah)
  • Contact me for a study guide if you want one.

Sunday School Lesson (“Bible Studies for Life”) for Sunday

  • “Overcome Bitterness”
  • Genesis 45: 3-11

Hope Center

I’m going to be working on the work schedule for next week, so if you want to sign up, please let me know.  Be a “missionary” here on the home front for a part of a day or a full day at a time.  Be blessed!

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song 

  • Lift up your eyes on high,                                                                                                                                   and see who has created these things.                                                                                                                ~Isaiah 40:26~
  • “I Know Who Holds Tomorrow” –  http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/gospel-songs-chords/i_know_who_holds_tomorrow.htm

 

Thanks for “tuning in” and praying.  You make a difference in many lives.

Anna Lee