Category: Other Churches

Sunday

You will eat the fruit of your labor;

blessings and prosperity will be yours.

Psalm 128:2

 

Mrs. Flo Hatcher has been hospitalized, but doesn’t seem to have improved.  Please pray for a positive change in her condition.

Read the Bible in 2015 – Titus

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

Georgia Barnette Mission Offering for Louisiana

  • Focus Week – Begins today
  • Let’s make a difference in our state.
  • Find the map in the fellowship hall and mark the area of our state you will be praying for in the coming weeks.

Senior Adult Revival 

  • Three mornings
  • Monday – East Fork
  • Three different pastors
  • Music – Chris Wales
  • Pot luck lunch each day
  • Choir Practice at 9:30
  • 10 A.M.
  • Arrive early and visit.
  • FBC, K bus will leave at 9:00 Tuesday and Wednesday.

Third Thursday at the Cabin this week at 6:30.

Have a blessed day.  Be a blessing to others today.

Anna Lee

Friday

“I called to the LORD in my distress,

and I cried to my God for help.

From His temple He heard my voice,

and my cry to Him reached His ears.”

~Psalm 18:6, HCSB~

 

9-11

Let’s pray for our country and our world today.  I truly believe the world would be safer, happier, and more blessed if more people knew Jesus.  It’s our job/mission to pass on what we know so that others may know Him and through Him know peace and love.

Flo Hatcher

My mom went to oncologist today and they have admitted her to the hospital to give her IV fluids and hopefully get her feeling better. Until she’s better chemo and radiation have been postponed. We were told no need to panic, she’s stable but just needs a boost. Hopefully just 24 hours. Thanks for prayers.                                                         ~Julee Hatcher~

Callie Cole

Calli’s mom posted yesterday.  They live in Brookhaven.  Debi Crawford shared Calli’s name shortly after the accident.  I have shared her caringbridge posts here,

6 years ago today, Thursday Sept 10. she wasn’t drinking, she wasn’t texting, she wasn’t speeding….just a vehicle malfunction. The doctors said she wouldn’t make it, but she has come so far! It’s not easy being patient. I often wonder why God picked her and lets all the others walk away without a scratch. Only for them to get drunk and back behind the wheel…. or whatever the circumstance may be. What would she be doing today? Oh, how I miss her laughter!! All I know is, we serve the ultimate Healer, & one day, she will be herself again. Pray without ceasing. You only have one life, one shot… She dedicated herself to the Lord. What do you choose? Share her story. Save a life. Make disciples. ✨“Don’t stop believing”✨

                                                                                                                 ~Ann Marie Cole~

Logan McGregor

Logan was able to have surgery yesterday.  It had been postponed for a couple of days.  Let’s pray Logan shows some signs of improvement.  Join with many of Logan’s friends in praying for Logan daily.

Joey of “Joey and Rory”

http://thislifeilive.com/forty-horses/

David Alford

David saw two doctors Wednesday, had more bloodwork, and will see two more later this month as part of the  post-hospitalization process.  So far, his heart is staying in rhythm.  Thank-you for all the prayers for us over the last six weeks.

 

Tabetha Ann Harrell
(November 5, 1968 – September 9, 2015)

http://www.catchingsfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3301513&fh_id=12254

 

FBC, Covington

In our travels Wednesday, we stopped at Chick-Fil-A in Covington.  A lady walked over to our table and said “David and Anna Lee”.  It was Mrs. Helen Singleton’s daughter, Margie.  We enjoyed a few minutes of visiting.  She told us she was on the way home from Bible Study at FBC, Covington.  The pastor’s wife teaches the class which has about 300 in attendance each week.  I was sharing that with Jennie yesterday.  Surprise, surprise, surprise!  FBC, Covington has a mission team in Prague this week!  What a small world and tremendous outreach of one church!  The pastor is Rev. Waylon Bailey who has been there since 1985 and whose blogs I share periodically.

Read the Bible in 2015 – Amos 1-4

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Friday Morning Bible Study

  • Today – Jezebel
  • 10:00 A.M.
  • You are invited to join us.
  • Fellowship Hall of FBC, Kentwood

Fall Food Round-Up for Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home

Most needed Items – bathroom tissue, canned turnips and mixed greens, cleaning supplies, Clorox bleach, & crackers (Ritz and Saltine)

Any canned, non expired food products in regular size cans will be appreciated.

Operation Christmas Child

We will begin to get organized for packing the shoeboxes next Friday.  If you are interested in helping, please let me know.  There will be opportunities for all to help in the next month.  We hope everyone will get involved.

 

Coming Soon – Georgia Barnette Missions Offering for Louisiana

  • “Be Something” – Be Imitators of Christ – Ephesians 5:1
  • September 13-20
  • State Goal – $1,800,000.00
  • FBC,K Goal – $8,500.00
  • We’ve been surpassing our goals.  I see no reason for us to limit what we give toward the goal this year.

 

This is a day full of potential opportunities.  Let’s make the most of them.

Anna Lee

 

Thursday

“I call on You, God,

because You will answer me;

listen closely to me;

hear what I say.”

~Psalm 17:6, HCSB~

 

Macy Gueldner

Macy’s grandmother said Macy improved enough to go home from the hospital yesterday.  Please continue to pray for the Gueldner/Drago family.

Koltyn Gafford

https://www.facebook.com/groups/teamkoltyn/

Ken Roberts 

Please continue to pray for Ken, the medical staff, and the family.  We don’t need a daily update to pray.

Logan McGregor

Please continue to pray for Logan and all those surrounding him.

Doug Toney

Doug has been moved to North Oaks CMR today. The address is 1900 S Morrison Hammond, La 70403.  Doug is in room 1702.  Let’s pray for continued improvement with his ability to walk.

Read the Bible in 2015 – Proverbs 23-24

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

Operation Christmas Child 

  • Bring your items to our collection point near the coffee pot in the fellowship hall.
  • Contribute funds to help pay the postage ($7.00 per box)
  • Join with your class and/or contribute as a family and/or individually
  • I’m looking forward to our packing party and sending the boxes on their way to boys and girls around the world.
  • Let’s fill the boxes with love and with “Jesus”.

 

Senior Adult Revival for Two Rivers Association

  • Monday – Wednesday next week
  • Three host churches
  • Three local pastor sharing
  • Music led by Chris Wales
  • Good food and fellowship each day

 

9-11 Memorial Services

I know there will be numerous opportunities for you to participate in a service.  I’ll mention two.

  • Kentwood – 9 A.M. at the city hall
  • Amite – 11 A.M. at the memorial site by the railroad and the police station.  My cousin who played the bagpipes for them before (and for Daddy’s service) will again participate.

 

Coming Soon – See You at the Pole – September 23

 

I hope all of us will go through this day with our eyes and our hearts open to ways we can honor God and reach out to others.

Anna Lee

Friday

“‘I have the right to do anything,’ you say —

but not everything is beneficial.

‘I have the right to do anything’ —

but not everything is constructive.”

~1 Corinthians 10:23 NIV~

 

Please pray for Barbara Hutchinson as she sees a doctor today and hopefully is closer to having the surgery she needs.

Please continue to pray for Susan Rimes as she continues to battle kidney stones.

Debbie Miller has seen and will see more doctors to help solve some medical issues.  Pray for JC and the doctors as they they work to make daily living easier on her.

The doctors are working hard to help Ken Roberts.  The family is finding hope in what is being done.  Please continue to pray.

Mary Lyle Russell Ellzey

Born: August 03, 1926
Died: August 19, 2015

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=3283377&fh_id=1054

Mr. Paul Douglas Howard

Born: Wednesday, June 20, 1962
Died: Wednesday, August 19, 2015

http://www.webcemeteries.com/memorials/Obituary.asp?Id=14488282

Read the Bible in 2015 – Hosea 1-7

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

  Third Thursday 

We had a great meeting last night.  We were blessed to have two people there for the first time and at least seven churches represented;  What of wonderful spirit!

Ladies’ Bible Study

  • 10 A.M.
  • This morning
  • Fellowship Hall of FBC
  • You’re welcome to join us.

Pine Ridge United Methodist Church Breakfast

  • Sunday morning at 8 A.M.
  • Donations accepted; Benefits a needy family or cause
  • You can leave after breakfast and attend your own church.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

I trust you will decide to follow Jesus if you have not already done so.

Anna Lee

Tuesday

Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror;

then we shall see face to face.

Now I know in part;

then I shall know fully,

even as I am fully known.

 

Alice Faye Lee’s doctors decided to keep her one more day.  She’s coming home today.

The following men are doing well for the procedures they have been through in the last few days:
  • Ken Roberts
  • Mike Lambert
  • Walter Dykes

 

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – I Chronicles 5-9

 

 

Young at Heart at New Zion this morning.

  • 10:30
  • Program by the Miller family with the girls playing the violins

 

 

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Under Siege” – http://odb.org/
  • Let each of you look out not only for his own interests,                                                               but also for the interests of others.                                                                                                                                                                                    ~Philippians 2:4~
  • “Others” 

I think I may have first grown to love this hymn by seeing/hearing Tennessee                               Ernie Ford on television.

I think missionaries, including Kyra Karr, live their lives thinking of others.

                           http://bpnews.net/45321/missionary-remembered-as-godly-mother-wife

 

 

If we died today, would our obituary say we lived for others?

Anna Lee

 

Monday

Consider it pure joy, my brothers,

whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faith

develops perseverance. 

Perseverance must finish its work

so that you may be mature and complete,

not lacking anything.

~James 1:2-4~

A quote I heard at church last night:

“Christians need the patience of a farmer

and the perseverance of an athlete.”

                                                ~Caleb Smith~

I love to have Scripture show up in timely ways.

Who would have thought this verse would come to my computer

shortly after the quote I heard?

God has a way of making his points clear to us!

May we all be more like farmers and athletes!

I talked with Wendy L. Alford at church last night.  She said her dad, Mike Lambert, is now in rehab and improving some.  Please continue to pray for Mike and his family.

Last night, Lisa Piner, said her mother, Alice Faye Lee, did not need a stent or a by-pass. She will be treated with medication and will possibly be coming home Monday.  Please continue to pray for this family.

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Numbers 1-4

 

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Baking with Jess” – http://odb.org/
  • Do not labor for the food which perishes,                                                                                           but for the food which endures to everlasting life.                                                                                                                                                        ~John 6:27~
  • “Seek Ye First” 

 

New Zion Baptist Church would love to have you attend their monthly senior adult gathering, “Young at Heart”.  They meet on the third Tuesday each month at 10:30.

Thursday at 6:30, David and I will host the Third Thursday Gathering at the Cabin.

Pine Ridge United Methodist Church would love for you to attend their breakfast at 8 A.M. the fourth Sunday of each month.  Donations are used to support needs of individuals.

Friday, all ladies are invited to attend Bible study in the church fellowship hall at 10 A..M. We are studying Women of the Bible: The Wise Woman of Abel  – 2 Samuel 20:14-22.  Our group is growing!  We are learning great lessons of life.  Contact me for more information.

Tuesday of next week will be the “Young” Ladies Birthday Party at The Cafe at 11 A.M.  Come help us honor ladies who have August birthdays.

Thursday of next week, the ladies will host “Ladies Night: Follow the Ants to the Picnic”.  All ladies from 3-103 are invited to come picnic with us at the FBC fellowship hall of FBC.  You do not need to attend church at Kentwood to come.  All ladies are invited. Don’t miss out!

One of our on-going projects of Women’s ministry is Operation Christmas Child.  It is exciting to watch as our gifts are accumulating waiting for our packing party.  The party will only be a success if we purchase and donate items for the children’s shoe boxes. Check the area in the hallway of the fellowship hall closest to the coffee pot to get ideas for your purchases.

I need to borrow three or four  Scrabble games for a missions lesson.  If you have one I can use, please let me know.  You can bring it to me at church Sunday or Wednesday.  Please put your name on a sheet of paper inside the box.  Thanks!

 

 

Make this a week where you work for things that can have eternal value/meaning to others.

Anna Lee

Monday

“For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro

throughout the whole earth,

to show Himself strong

on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him.”

~2 Chronicles 16:9a, NKJV~

 

Please pray for Walter and Kathy D. Boone.  Walter will have by-pass surgery Friday.  Pray for the patient, the medical staff, and the care givers.

Mike Lambert continues to had various serious medical issues.  Keep him and his family in your prayers.

Read the Bible in 2015 – Lev. 25-27

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “I’ve Come to Help” – http://odb.org/2015/08/10/ive-come-to-help/
  • Be doers of the word,                                                                                                                             and not hearers only,                                                                                                                   deceiving yourselves.                                                                                                                                                   ~James 1:22~
  • “Let Others See Jesus in You” 

I learned the revival at NZBC will continue through Friday.  Services begin at 6:30 each night.  You are invited and encouraged to join them and the Crowe family this week.

Anna Lee

Sunday

That if you confess with your mouth,

“Jesus is Lord,”

and believe in your heart

that God raised him from the dead,

you will be saved.

For it is with your heart

that you believe and are justified,

and it is with your mouth

that you confess and are saved.

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – 2 Thessalonians 1-3

Devotional, Scripture, a Quote, and a Song 

FBC, Greensburg is celebrating homecoming today!  I forgot how many years!

East Fork Baptist Church had a great revival last week.

New Zion Baptist Church is beginning revival this morning.

Pleasant Hill Baptist Church, Pine Grove, was preparing for a back-to-school bash when I passed yesterday.

Judson Baptist Church in Walker hosted a state WMU day yesterday.  The ladies were very surprised and blessed by the number of men there to help serve and make our day flow nicely.  Thanks to the state leaders, led by Janie Wise, in planning and carrying out a wonderful training session.  The missionary speaker certainly was one of the highlights of the day.  I wish I could hear him again today.  (I got to speak with Mrs. McCon, formerly of Line Creek Baptist Church and eat lunch with ladies from Bethel, Amite, Minden, Old Zion Hill, and Judson Baptist.)

I get to teach Sunday School at 9:15 at FBC, Kentwood.  I am so blessed.

Anna Lee

 

Monday

“The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,

and His ears are open to their prayers.”

~1 Peter 3:12a, NKJV~

Two sweet ladies from Amite (Written by their sister, Virgie Vining Morgan)
Dear friends and family, I really need your prayers this week. My 2 remaining sisters will be going through some surgical procedures in the next few days. Gloria will be having her carotid arteries cleaned tomorrow. The Dr. told her this would be very serious surgery for someone her age (85). Edwina will be having heart cath and endoscope on Wed. She is 81. Both will be under anesthesia which is risky to some extent. Prayers are really appreciated at this time.
Harrell Family
Jimmy said his mother broke a rib.  Pray for the family as they care for his mother daily.
Doug Toney
July 26, 2015
Doug is doing so much better.
He is medically stable!
He does physical therapy twice a day Monday-Friday.
We still desire your prayers for complete healing. Thank you all for prayers and kind actions. Will update in a few weeks. I return to teaching August 3rd. I will teach second grade at Tylertown Primary School.
Myrthe Conerly Walker

Born: September 13, 1914
Died: July 25, 2015

Myrthe Conerly Walker went to meet her Lord on Saturday, July 25, 2015 at Maison de Lafayette in Lafayette. She was born September 13, 1914 in Tylertown, MS and was 100 years of age. She was dearly loved and will be missed. She is survived by her children, Holland Elizabeth Walker LaGraize and husband, Gerard David LaGraize, Lafayette, and Kent Pitt Walker and wife, Joyce Elizabeth Beck Walker, Covington; grandchildren, Gerard Kent LaGraize, and wife, Laurie Wilkins LaGraize, Thompson Station, TN, Casey James LaGraize, Houston, TX, Jason Kevin Walker, Covington, Taylor Townsend Walker, Covington, and Holland Elizabeth Walker Miller and husband, Nathaniel Miller, Austin, TX; great-grandchildren, Graham Conerly LaGraize, Grant Matthew LaGraize, Ryan Thomas Walker, and Keeley Holland Miller; 2 nieces and a nephew, Rae Catherine Conerly Murphy and husband, Earl Murphy, Elk Cove, OK, Judith Fae Conerly, Baton Rouge, and Marc James Conerly and wife, Nancy Frey Conerly, Amite; 2 great-nephews, Stuart Hampton Murphy and wife, Jennifer Sanders Murphy, Arcola, and Rayford Elias Conerly and wife, Kelli Shuttleworth Conerly, Prairieville. 2 great great nieces, Emma Catherine Conerly, Prairieville and Elizabeth Ann Conerly, Prairieville; 5 great-great-nephews, Braydon Stuart Murphy, Ashton Blake Murphy, William Reid Murphy, Patrick Conerly Murphy, and Cullen Burke Murphy. Psurreceded in death by her husband, Pitt A. Walker; parents, James Cullen Conerly and Alyce McDaniel Conerly; siblings, Rayford Elias Conerly, Wanzie Conerly Cutrer, Holland Elizabeth Conerly, and Elvis James Conerly; niece, Alyce Jo Cutrer Stuart; nephew, William Robert Cutrer; great-nephew, Patrick Conerly Murphy. Visitation at Spring Creek Baptist Church from 9 a.m. until religious services at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 31, 2015. Services conducted by Dr. Danny Smith. Interment Spring Creek Cemetery, Spring Creek. Pallbearers will be Gerard Kent LaGraize, Casey James LaGraize, Rayford Elias Conerly, Jason Kevin Walker, Taylor Townsend Walker, and Marc James Conerly. Honorary pallbearers will be Robert Cecil Conerly, Russell Warren Conerly, and Fernie Ray Gill. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Spring Creek Baptist Church, 73072 Hwy 1054, Kentwood, LA 70444. McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, in charge of arrangements. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Kristie Alford Coppock, 46 years old of Loranger, Louisiana, passed away Saturday, July 25, 2015, at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge. She was born on Sunday, April 27, 1969, in McComb, Mississippi.
Surviving are her husband, Frank Coppock; 2 daughters, Marisa Coppock and Grace Coppock; 2 sons, Kyle A. Wheeler and Corey Wheeler; granddaughter, Annabelle Lynn Wheeler; mother, Connie Esch Alford; sister, Kim A. Bullock and husband Todd; 3 nieces, Hannah Bullock, Emily Hood, and Christina Hood; nephew, Jared Bullock; and numerous other relatives and friends.
She is preceded in death by her father, Ralph Alford.
Friends will be received at Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home in Hammond, Wednesday, July 29, 2015, from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Visitation will continue on Thursday, from 9:00 am until the funeral service at 10:00 am in the funeral home chapel.
Interment will follow in the Loranger Community Cemetery.

http://www.actionnews17.com/Obits/kristie-alford-coppock-1116346

As summer comes to an end, I’m so thankful for all the Vacation Bible Schools is our area. Each one touched young lives.  It blesses my heart to learn of all the baptisms that were done in various churches as a result of all the Vacation Bible Schools this summer.  As Bro. J.P. Miles would say, VBS is our greatest ministry and outreach of the year.  I’m so thankful for all the churches and individuals who have invested extra time in our children this summer.  Your efforts have eternal results!

Women’s Ministry This Week

  • “Young” Ladies Birthday Party 
    • Tomorrow
    • 11:00 A.M.
    • The Cafe
    • Honoring ladies with July birthdays
    • Please remind a few ladies who do not have computers.  Thanks!
  • Friday Morning Bible Study
    • 10:00 A.M.
    • Women of the Bible – Michal
    • Coming soon
      • The Woman of Endor – I Samuel 28: 3-25
      • Bathsheba – II Samuel 11:1 – 12:25
      • The Wise Woman of Abel – II Samuel 20: 14-22

Read the Bible in 2015 – Leviticus 19-21

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

Live today like it is your last day.  It might be….

Anna Lee

 

Sunday

If you only love on and off like a light switch,

you do not love others like God wants you to love.

Jesus said,“If you love those who love you,

what credit is that to you?

Even sinners love those who love them.”

~Luke 6:32 NIV~

 

Doug Toney

I saw  Sandy today.  She said Doug is  still at Hood Memorial.  He is doing well, just trying to learn to walk again.  Please continue to pray for Doug and Sandy.

 

Johnnie “Lil’ Man” Santangelo

Overall Lil man had a good night. He rested, and got into a deep sleep here and there. Seems to be in a deep sleep now which I’m glad. He talked to me a little more this morning when he was awake. But he still doesn’t seem to really be aware of everything that has happened. Praying he wakes up more today! Thank you for the prayers and please keep them coming!
Love, Megan

 

Read the Bible in 2015 –  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=I+Thessalonians+1-3&version=NLT

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Reminders 

  • Breakfast at Pine Ridge United Methodist Church at 8:00 this morning.  Donations will be used to help someone from this area.
  • “Young” Ladies Birthday Party – Tuesday at 11:00 at The Cafe – honoring ladies with July birthdays
    • Call to remind some ladies of our gathering.
    • Bring someone with you.

 

Today, let’s also pray that we strive to give God out best each day.

Anna Lee