Category: Needs

Tuesday

“At daybreak, LORD, You hear my voice;

at daybreak I plead my case to You

and watch expectantly.”

~Psalm 5:3

Eva Smith

Eva fell yesterday morning, had tests at the hospital, and was returned to her room.  Thankfully, the tests did not show any broken bone.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers.  We just heard Phil Campbell, AL had bad weather last night.  It was exactly three years ago that Eva lost her home in a tornado there.

Steve Hatchel

I don’t have an update yet this morning, but keep on praying for Mr. Steve and his family.

Ainsley Grace VandeVuss

Ainsley Grace will be seen by a pulmanologist (lung doctor) today.  This should help her get better quickly.  Pray for that to happen.  She will be hospitalized a while longer.

William “Coon” Yarborough

“Coon” was released from the hospital.  Pray he will be able to keep his blood pressure under control.

Tornado Outbreak (again)

I have heard the names of places where many friends and family members live on the news since yesterday.  I know you are with me in praying for safety of people in the path of tornado destruction.

Samaritan’s Purse

http://www.samaritanspurse.org/?utm_source=6248-Arkansas-Tornado&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=m_YS4G-000E&utm_content=toplogo

Baptist Press

 BPNews.net

Southern Baptist Disaster Relief

https://www.namb.net/dr/

This site is not yet updated for today, but you can still read and benefit from it.  Pray for the individuals who are “on the move” already to help those with needs this morning that did not exist yesterday morning.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

“Christ in the Storm”

http://odb.org/2014/04/29/christ-in-the-storm/

How timely!  Yes, Jesus is with us in every storm of life.  That includes weather, medical problems, family situations, etc.  Always know, you can turn to Him, no matter what storm you are going through.

“Caught in the Storm”

http://www.juliabettencourt.com/dev/stormdev.html

These devotionals have the same message.

38 Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion.  The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”
39 He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
40 He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
~Mark 4: 38-40~

“Master, the Tempest is Raging”

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/a/mastertt.htm

This song is one of my standbys for days like yesterday and today.

I have family and friends in several kinds of “tempest” right now.  I know God is assuring all of us to be still and obey His will.  Claim that Scripture and song on days like this.

Anna Lee

 

Saturday

“Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness!

You have relieved me in my distress;

have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.”

~Psalm 4:1~

 

Ainsley VandeVuss

Little Anisley is doing better with treatment in the hospital.  Pray she continues to improve.  Pray for endurance of her family members as they stay with her at the hospital and care for three other children at home.

Macy Gueldner

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/macygueldner

Julee Ann Jarrell
(September 4, 1970 – April 24, 2014)

http://mckneelys.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=2497370&fh_id=10545

Bill Sellers (from David and Pam)

For those of you who have not heard and those of you who know – Bill
will begin a new phase of his life Monday, April 28. God has greatly
blessed him by placing him in the job of – Criminal Investigator with
the State Police. He will be working at Troop A Headquarters. He is
ecstatic and feels greatly blessed as we do as well. Thanks to all who
prayed for this to come to fruition and to all of you – keep him in
your prayers as he starts this new employment. We are very thankful
for this great blessing!!

Baptist Press

http://www.bpnews.net/

Pine Ridge Monthly Breakfast Benefit

At 8:00 in the morning, people will gather at Pine Ridge United Methodist Church for their monthly benefit.  I don’t know who will benefit this month, but I do know it is always a worthy cause.  The breakfast buffet is wonderful, as is the company.

Peanut Butter for God’s Storehouse

During the next month, we will be doing a peanut butter drive so God’s Storehouse in Amite will not run out of the “perfect food” for good nutrition and long shelf life that doesn’t need refrigeration.  Any donation, a jar or peanut butter by the case, will be useful and appreciated.  You may deliver directly to God’s Storehouse in Amite or drop off at FBC,Kentwood.  If you choose to take it to the church, enter at the office entrance and leave you jar(s) on the right by the stairwell.  Any jars left there will have a label applied to them that has the Scripture, John 3:16, added.  We hope to help hearts as well as stomachs.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

“Down the Up Stairs” – http://odb.org/?tz=-07

5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in very nature God,

 did not consider equality with God  something to be grasped, 

7 but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, 

being made in human likeness.

 8 And being found in appearance as a man,

he humbled himself and became obedient to death

— even death on a cross! 

9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place

and gave him the name that is above every name,

10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,

 in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

11and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord

to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5-11

“More Like the Master” – http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/m/o/morelike.htm

Thanks for praying.  Have a great day!

Anna Lee

Monday Addition

Wendell Miller of St. Helena Parish

Wendell Miller, J.C.’s brother, had heart surgery this morning in Baton Rouge.  All went well. Thanks, James Rimes, for the update.

Louisiana College

Pray for the administration, faculty, and students today.

Camp Living Waters

The camp is in need of nurses for several weeks this summer.

Dear Medical Professionals,
Camp Living Waters needs your help as “Camp Nurse” during the 2014 camp weeks. We are located outside of Hammond, LA in southeast Louisiana. We will provide a private hotel type room and all meals for you.
Children’s Camp #1 June 2-5 Monday 1 p.m. – Thursday 5 p.m.
Children’s Camp #2 July 7-10 Monday 1 p.m. – Thursday 5 p.m.
Children’s Camp #3 June 16-19 Monday 1 p.m. – Thursday 5 p.m.
Youth Mission Camp July 14-18 Monday 1 p.m. – Friday p.m.

Please contact our director, Bro. Keith at 985-351-8514 or Monica 985-345-1831 for more information.
Thank you so much!
In His Service,
Monica Maddox
Volunteer coordinator

Young at Heart

New Zion Baptist Church has a monthly meeting with a pot luck lunch each month. They will meet tomorrow at 10:30.  Anyone in the area who is interested is invited to attend.

Friday

“He said to them,

‘Follow me,

and I will make you fishers of men.’”

~Matthew 4:19~

Mrs. Ruby Dillon

“Miss” Ruby is now on the road to recovery.  Thank you for praying for her.  Pray for all the others who have had that bad “bug” lately.  Let’s also pray it ceases to be so hard on people and clears out of our area.

Mrs. Kathryn Kuss

“Miss” Kathryn’s test showed she needed a stent.  She had that done yesterday.  Thank you for praying for her.

Donnie Travis

Donnie had heart surgery at North Oaks yesterday.  All went well.  Pray for a problem-free recovery.  Thank you for praying for him.

Mr. Edward Garner

Mr. Edward had a stent implanted.  Let’s pray it continues to work well for him.  Thank you for praying for him.

Our Daily Bread – “Still Working”

http://odb.org/

Hymn of the Day – “Sweet Hour of Prayer”

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/s/h/shop.htm

Third Thursday Meeting

What a sweet time we had last night.  If you haven’t heard James Rimes singing from his heart, you need to put that on your “bucket list”.  Thanks for sharing, James.

Bible Study

I’m looking forward to our Bible study this morning.  What a special group of people who gather to dig into God’s Word.  Afterward, we will eat at The Cafe today.

“Young” Ladies’ Birthday Party

The monthly birthday party will be Tuesday to celebrate the March birthdays.  We will meet at The Cafe at 10:00.  Feel free to joy us.

Mission Opportunity

You can help with a project of the Baptist Friendship House in New Orleans.  They frequently give items to ladies who are homeless.  You can help by providing hotel items such as soap and shampoo, snack packs of crackers, or bottles of water.  You will be a part of helping them in their current efforts.

Let your light shine for Jesus today.  

Anna Lee

Monday

“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~

 

Peggy Stinson 

Peggy has been placed on hospice care.  Please pray for her and for her family.

Susie Sharkey

Susie will be having shoulder surgery tomorrow.  Pray for her surgery and her rehabilitation.

Wanda Smith

Wanda’s food surgery is Wednesday.  Pray for her surgery and rehabilitation.

Harry Goynes

Harry, of Roseland, is hospitalized with a weak heart and fluid around his lungs.   Thank God for continuing to watch over Harry and his family.

Tristan Grice

Tristan Grice left early this morning for ten months of mission work in Honduras.  As you pray for her ministry there, pray for Tristan and her family here in Kentwood.

Jadon’s Story

Pray for Jadon as he sees he doctor in Detroit today for a check-up.

Daily Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “True Greatness”

http://odb.org/

Quotes – “Positive Quotes”

http://academictips.org/blogs/positive-quotes/

Hymn of the Day – Southern Gospel – “God on the Mountain”

Written by Tracy Dart (http://www.darttmusic.com/)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWwfQ_3iY4s

WMU Quarterly Meeting

10:00 This morning at Spring Creek Baptist Church

Memorial Service; Message by Rev. Gibby McMillan

Bring a “covered dish”.

Health Kit for Angola Inmates

Your health kits are due at FBC, K Sunday morning or at your local church as announced.  Let’s all help to get a health kit to each of the 6,2000 inmates.

Have a blessed day.  Many of our friends are sick with the flu or the “crud”.  Be careful.

Anna Lee

Saturday Addition

Mrs. Betty Catherine Hatcher

Please continue to pray for Mrs. Betty C.  She has an appointment at the end of the year at Ochsner to consider surgery.

Mrs. Anne Newton Ellzey

Anne of Roseland had a stroke and a fall.  She’s in room 3112 at North Oaks.  Pray for her and her children as she is evaluated.  Your prayers will be greatly appreciated.

Pine Ridge United Methodist Church of St. Helena’s Sixth Ward

Pine Ride will hold their monthly breakfast tomorrow morning at 8:00.  The meal is free, but donations are accepted for the chosen community/area need selected by a committee.

 

Tuesday

“Let the peoples praise you, God;

Let all the peoples praise you.”

~Psalm 67:5~

 

Jimmy Schwartz has been doing very well.  Today, he goes for a blood count.  Pray it continues to be good.  Jimmy will also see a dermatologist.  Pray for good results there.

Larry Hendry had done amazingly well.  He got off the vent yesterday evening and was eating ice.  His family thinks he is being spoiled by all the attention in the hospital.  I assume that says he is getting plenty of attention.  Keep him in your prayers.

Infant John Varnado (from Lawana Carter)

This is the last I have heard about Little John Varnado. His Maw Maw
posted this on Nov. 23. Little John is just now tonight getting
feeding tube to strength him up for a few days. Then they will stop it
for a few days, before they tried to stop the ventilater.

Macy Gueldner – Focus some of your prayer time on Macy and her family.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/macygueldner/journal

Holly Kliesch continues to be carefully watched.  Her unborn baby is about three weeks from his due date.  Pray for the baby, Holly, RC, and those anxious grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc.  God is richly blessing this baby by placing him in this special family.

Thankfulness – Day 26 – Babies

Today, I’m thankful for babies.  No, we don’t have a new baby in our family or one on the way, but I enjoy all the news and photos of babies here on the computer and in person, especially at church.  Each baby represents a new life (new personalities, new dreams, new smiles and giggles, new relationships, a blessed family, etc.)  We can all enjoy the new life of each child.  Thank God for each and every one of them.

Daily Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Real Love”

http://odb.org/

This devotional really touches my heart as it describes the new relationship between my aunt and my cousin in Texas.  Please pray for them.

Moral Stories – “Lean from Mistakes”

http://academictips.org/blogs/learn-from-mistakes/

Unless you are not human, you have and continue to make mistakes.  Unlike Edison’s mistakes here, we often need to repent and to ask forgiveness.  Then, we need to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them.

Hymn of the Day – “A New Name in Glory”

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/n/e/newnamei.htm

“Where Camera Lights Don’t Shine”
This story is about IMB help that has been arriving in the Philippines since the typhoon.  You can help make more work like this continue.
“Faith Stirs Isaiah to Persevere toward Turnaround Season”

This true story is inspiring.  I hope you will take time to read it in its entirety.  As you look at the pictures, you will see that Isaiah’s great personality shines through his facial expressions.

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=41554

This morning at 11:00, we will be celebrating the “Young” Ladies’ birthdays.   Join us at Nyla’s for a special time.

Anna Lee

Sunday

“And I pray this:

that your love will keep on growing

in knowledge and every kind of discernment.”

~Philippians 1:9, HCSB~

 

Community Thanksgiving Service

  • 6:00 P.M. Tonight
  • FBC, Kentwood
  • Fellowship (fingerfoods) after the service

Ladies online Advent Bible Study, Dec. 1 – 24  

You will need to have both Facebook and email. If any of you would like to join us, please let me know by sending me your email address and your Facebook name.  I just completed the Thanksgiving study.  It is not very demanding, just about twenty minutes a day at any time that is convenient for you.

Thankfulness – Day 24

Today, I would like to thank-God for pastors/ministers, youth/children’s directors, senior adult pastors, music ministers, educational directors, outreach/hospital pastors, etc.  Some church leaders are bi-vocational, while others are full time.  Some churches only have one staff member, but others have several.  No matter the number in a particular church, I thank God for their dedication and leadership.  They set the tone for what happens in the church.

Daily Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “What Time is It?”

http://odb.org/

Moral Stories – “Helpless Love”

http://academictips.org/blogs/moral-tale-helpless-love/

Hymn of the Day – “Living for Jesus”

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/i/livingfj.htm

This is a good day to remind you to bring new or gently used blankets to FBC, Kentwood so they can be shared with those who need them to stay warm.

Have a great Lord’s Day!  Don’t shortchange Him!

Anna Lee

Thursday

“Therefore let everyone who is faithful pray to You at a time that You may be found.”

~Psalm 32:6a~

Cara Goodrich

I am asking for prayers for my boyfriend sister Cara Goodrich she has just found out that she has a mass by her trac. an going up by her neck,she will be seeing a surgery next thursday to find out what they are going to do. Lets pray that it can be takeing out an not gone any wr else. An it not cancer.

Sherry Rosamond

Macy Gueldner

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/macygueldner/journal

Mrs. Maxine Turner, 95,  is in North Oaks.  Pray for this sweet lady who recently thanked God for her good health.

It good to be able to report that Jimmy Schwartz is doing well this week.  Keep him in your prayers.

Baptist Friendship House

Tomorrow is snack pack and hygiene kit today and we are running very low on travel size shampoo and conditioner. We just added an item to our wish list and hope that you will check it out. If anyone knows where we can get affordable travel size hygiene items in bulk- please let us know.

119- the number of people that have come to our door in a matter of 1 hour and 40 minutes to receive snack packs and hygiene kits. We met many new people this week and hope that we will be able to continue forming and building these relationships.

Baptist Press 

http://www.bpnews.net/

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Eyes of Love” 

http://odb.org/

Values – Making a Difference – “Out of a Job but Making a Difference for Our Community”

http://www.values.com/your-inspirational-stories/1451-Out-of-a-Job-but-Working-Hard-for-our-Community

Hymn of the Day – “Open My Eyes that I May See”

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/p/openeyes.htm

May our eyes be open to the needs and opportunities God has for us to address.

Thank-you for reading this site and for praying.  You make a difference for so many people.

Anna Lee

Thursday

“Our fathers trusted in You;

they trusted, and You rescued them.

They cried to You and were set free;

they trusted in You and were not disgraced.”

~Psalm 22:4-5~

 

Continue to pray for Betty Taylor and others who have a “bug” this week.  Pray for a timely recovery.

Mrs. Yvonne Birch‘s back surgery went well yesterday.  She should be in rehab by the end of the week.  Keep her on your prayer list.

Mrs. Annie Bell Harrell continues to be hospitalized in Greensburg.  Pray for her and for her hospital caregiver, Phylis.  Pray for Mr. Phillip who is at home.

Smiley Conerly continues to improve, but the pain is still there.  Pray it will be lessened as he does more therapy.

Ray Blackwell is in week two of treatment.  Pray for him as the side-effects are beginning to show up.

Pray for Peggy Buberette, Ladd Turner’s mother-in-law, as she begins to learn how her tumors will be treated.

Andy Taylor’s sister, Cindy Juban, has completed her first visit to M.D. Anderson.  She learned of several options for her, all positive.  The best news is that the doctors think she will recover the vision she has lost.

Macy Gueldner – The news is not what the family (or doctor) hoped for.  Pray for a good results to the coming treatments.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/macygueldner/journal

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Re-Creation”

http://odb.org/

Values – Friendship – “True Friendship”

http://www.values.com/your-inspirational-stories/1469-True-Friendship

Hymn of the Day – “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”

http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/w/a/f/wafwhij.htm

Operation Christmas Child – It’s time to fill the shoe boxes for children who might not otherwise receive gifts for Christmas.  You can pick up information Sunday at FBC, K.

I hope this cooler weather will cause some of us to check out the winter clothing we have and donate what we can in the line of jackets, sweaters, sweats, mittens, scarves, and hats.  You can drop your items off at FBC,K at either the office entrance or the main entrance.

The youth of FBC, K will have a jambalaya fundraiser after morning worship Sunday.  Your donations will help fund winter trips for our youth.

There will be a Family Fun Night Saturday, November 2nd from 6:30-8:30.

I hope you feel refreshed by the weather today and doing something special for someone else.  

Anna Lee