A resident of Greensburg, LA, passed away on Monday, September 18, 2023 at St. Helena Parish Nursing Home in Greensburg, LA. She was born January 7, 1933 and was 90 years of age. She is survived by her son, Charles Allen and wife, Rita; daughter, Rayann Cleveland and husband, Bob; 3 grandchildren, Bryan Allen and wife, Melissa, Brad Cleveland and wife, Louisa, and Chauntel Snoddy and husband, Nathan; great-grandchildren, Tayten Allen, Jaedyn Allen, Ashton Cleveland, Emilyann Cleveland, Julye Gros, and Mason Gros and wife, Kaylee; great-great-grandchild, Atlas Charles; sister, JoAnn Havard Achord. Preceded in death by her parents, J.D. and Juanita Redmond; husband, Ed Whitmire; second husband, Paul Ray Allen; sister, Virginia Redmond; and brothers, Edward Redmond and Eddie Louis Havard. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 11:00AM until religious services at 1:00PM on Thursday, September 21, 2023. Interment Greensburg Cemetery, Greensburg, LA. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.
We had a great meeting at Greensburg yesterday. This morning, we will meet in Kentwood.
Prayer Focus Today
Today, let’s focus on day two of the senior adult revival.
FBC, Kentwood on Facebook
If the missed the service Sunday morning and have not seen the video, I urge you to watch the video today. You’ll be blessed.
Tomorrow’s Bible Study at Pine Ridge
The ladies’ study of Woven by Angie Smith meets at 1 P.M. Wednesday. We will be studying chapter five of the book.
Hello, my friend!
Yesterday, a friend shared that a former teaching friend reads this blog daily. That made my day. Thanks for sharing, “Miss” Colleen! Hello, “Miss” Irene. Two special ladies!
Pray for the truck and driver this morning as they pick up all the items donated for the children and staff there. Thank you for you donations. What a worthy cause!
Packing Parties for Shoe Boxes (OCC)
October 14 – Girls
October 21 – Boys
November – FBC,K will serve as the drop-off location for this area November 13th – 20th.
Thank-you to alll who have helped purchase items, prepare items for shoeboxes, tell others about OCC, etc.
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
A resident of Kentwood, LA, passed away on Thursday, September 14, 2023 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, LA. She was born April 10, 1958 in Landstuhl, Germany and was 65 years of age. Patricia was a registered nurse who is remembered for her work in ICU, Home Health, Nursing/Rehab Centers, and as a nursing instructor at Northshore Community College in Greensburg, LA. She enjoyed sharing her knowledge and talents with others through teaching and crafts. She especially enjoyed spendingtime with her grandchildren, nieces, and nephews.
Patricia is survived by her son, J.B. Needham and his wife Crystal of Luling, TX; grandchildren Jed and Jaycee Needham, Cameron McLin, Haley Davis, and Hunter Haydel; mother, Mildred Cade; siblings Becky Crow (Danny) of Ellicott City, MD, James Cade (Melonie) of Hattiesburg, MS, Bobby Cade and Terri Bourgoyne of Kentwood, LA, and 15 nieces and nephews. Patricia is proceeded in death by her father, Staff Sgt. Arthur B. Cade, United States Army; maternal grandmother, Pearl Mulkey; paternal grandparents, Willie and Bertie Cade; and sister-in-law Betty Dees Cade.
Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, from 9:00AM until religious services at 11:00AM on Tuesday, September 19, 2023. Services conducted by Pastor Danny Crow. Interment Silver Springs Cemetery, Osyka, MS. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com
The annual Two Rivers Associational Revival begins tomorrow. I’ll post more information later today so you can be ready tomorrow.
La. Baptist Children’s Home
The truck will be in Kentwood early tomorrow to pick up our donations. This will be your last reminder. It is not too late to donate today! You can purchase items to send or send a check so they can purchase fresh foods as needed.
Prayer Focus
Today, let’s think about and pray for all the families who are helped by the work of the La. Baptist Children’s Home. Because of the home, the children are raised in a loving environment, have adequate homes, food, get an opportunity to go to school, can participate in sports, learn to take care of a family, can enjoy and develop musical skills, and get to learn about Jesus. These children deserve out support.
“So far, 28 projects in the Houma area have been completed including homes, a church, and an associational office.”
Today’s Prayer Focus
Today, let’s thank God for the many Georgia Barnette projects we have learned about this week and realize they are a few of many projects we can be a part of by giving to the Georgia Barnette Offering. Even though the focus on this offering will end tomorrow, you can give to the offering at any time of the year. Let’s pray for adequate funds and workers to meet the needs, trained leadership to continue, and lives to be changed as homes, churches, etc. are being rebuild.
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Tomorrow, the 17th, is the last day to give items needed to feed and meet other needs of many children during the coming year. Let’s help stock their huge pantry for all the cottages with food and other items that will be needed in the coming year. Your checks can also help by allowing them to buy items like meat, fruits, and vegetables. The food truck only comes once a year, so let’s make their stop in Kentwood worthwhile.
Children’s Christmas Program
The practices have begun. If you have a child, grandchild, niece, nephew, neighbor, etc. who would like to be in annual Christmas program, please get them to church on Sunday nights, 6:00 – 7:00 P.M. Our team of workers is well experienced and very excited about the children and the program they have chosen for this December. Practice will be on the second floor in the children’s area.
OCC Coming Events
October 14 – Packing of girl’s shoeboxes beginning at 9 A.M.
October 21 – Packing of boy’s shoeboxes beginning at 9:00 A.M.
November 13th – 20th – Our church will again serve as the collection center for all those collecting shoeboxes in our general area. Then, our boxes will be trucked to Dallas where they will be inspected before being shipped to children all around the world. The daily collection times vary, so be sure to check with the Samaritan’s Purse website to get the correct times. Also, by November, the church office will be able to give you the collection times.
The Lord’s Day
Tomorrow, FBC, Kentwood and many other churches in this area, will be prepared to receive you for any and all activities. We pray you will attend the church of your choice.
Associational Senior Adult Revival
The annual Two-Rivers Revival will be Monday – Wednesday. It certainly is good to visit, worship, and eat with many of our Christian friends. I hope you will join us if possible.
Thank-you for reading and praying today. If you ever have any questions, call or email me. You can easily send me a message by clicking on the “CONTACT”” button at the top of this screen.
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
“…and now these three remain: Faith, Hope and Love, but the greatest of these is Love.” Barbara Birch McDaniel was called home on 9/12/2023. Born 4/13/1935 in Bluff Creek, Louisiana to Clifton and Rena Chaney Birch, Barbara was a loving wife, mother and grandmother.
She came to know the Lord when she was 12 yrs old at New Zion Baptist Church and has been active in many different churches, presently a member of Woodland Hills Baptist Church in Longview, TX.
After graduating Greensburg High School in 1953, she attended La. Baptist College, receiving her Business degree in May of 1957. She then began working as Social Worker for the State of Louisiana.
Barbara married the love of her life, Riley E McDaniel, on 8/31/1957 and they made their home in Opelousas, La. until Riley finished college.
Due to the flooding in Baton Rouge on 8/14/2016 Barbara started living with her daughter and family in Allen, Texas, moving to Longview, TX in June of 2017.
Her hobbies included sewing, cooking, photography, and genealogy. She wrote a book of the Birch family, Chaney family and Lee family and helped with the McDaniel and Bennett books.
She is preceded in death by her parents Clifton and Rena Birch, husband, Riley McDaniel, brothers Jack, James, Donald Ray Burch and sister, Carolyn Easley.
She is survived by sisters Jane Duncan, Grace B. Williams, Cheryl B. Scott and Beverly Birch; daughter, Marcia M. Dupree and son-in-law Todd and their 2 sons, Grant and Connor Dupree; her son, Darrell McDaniel and daughter-in-law Michelle and their 2 sons, AJ and Christopher McDaniel and 2 daughters, Briley and Emma McDaniel.
Visitation will be at McKneely Funeral Home, 501 Avenue G, Kentwood, LA on Friday, September 22, 2023 from 6:00PM until 9:00PM and from 9:00AM until religious services at 10:00AM on Saturday, September 23, 2023. Interment will follow at Killian Chapel Cemetery located at the intersection of Hwy 16 and Hwy 43 west of Amite, LA.
Shirley Jean Stevens Hayden
December 12, 1930 – September 12, 2023
Surrounded by her loving family, Shirley Jean Stevens Hayden went to her heavenly home peacefully on September 12, 2023, at the age of 92. The youngest of seven children, Shirley was born in Amite, Louisiana on December 12, 1930. In 1949, she married Roy Hayden and together they raised three boys.
Mamaw, as she was affectionately called by her grandchildren, was quite a character that had a sense of dry humor and kept us laughing, even until the end of her time here. She was happiest when she was amidst kinfolk, working in the yard, having daily coffee at 2:00 with her family, and spending time in the kitchen listening to the Statler Brothers’ hymns. As a young lady, she worked in the office at Hood Automotive until she had children. She then spent several long years rearing three rambunctious boys on “The Hill” on Chicken Farm Road and taking care of Papaw and her home. Once their boys were grown, she and Papaw enjoyed traveling to the Smoky Mountains with her sisters and their husbands. Her sisters were her best friends and they talked daily and went shopping together often. She knew that this earth was not her home and that she was only passing through on her way to be with her Savior, and for that we can all be thankful.
She is what one would think of as a Proverbs 31 woman. A lifelong member of Hayden Grove Church of Christ, she was a virtuous wife that provided for her family. She girded herself with strength and her children call her blessed and her husband did also. Shirley was a godly woman that loved the Lord and she set an example for her family and for others to follow for generations to come.
Shirley is survived by her sons: Jon Rory Hayden, Kenneth Roy (Angela) Hayden, and Kelly Nelson (DeDe) Hayden; grandchildren: Erin (Timothy) Verberne, James (Jacy) Hayden, Kody (Alison) Hayden, Holly (Michael) Hightower; great grandchildren: Carrie (Donovan) Hartman, Sarah (Shelton) Starkey, Roy Hayden, Beric Hayden, Robyn Hayden, Danielle Hightower, and Edmund Hightower; great -great grandchildren: Kate Hartman, Cohen Hartman, and Rhett Starkey who is due to be born in December.
Joining her in heaven is her husband, Roy Alton Hayden. She is also preceded in death by her parents, Leon and Carrie Stevens, siblings, Sue Lott, Willie Ruth Bennett, Marguerite Durnin, Jimmy “Rip” Stevens, Robert Stevens, and Charles Stevens.
A special thank you to the staff of The Lodge at Tangi Pines for the wonderful care they have provided.
Read the Bible
Numbers 32: 1-15
“If the Lord were angry with me, it would be because . . . .”
Prayer Focus Today
I know some people study their Bible more than others. Today, I pray for people to begin reading the Bible even more. I desire to be in the number who study more and more. Pray for more Bible study in every home.
We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
As Americans, we will always remember 9-11. Today, think back on that day and pray for our country to never have another 9-11. Thank God for the wonderful Americans who prevented the situation from being any worse.
What a way to start the day! 9-11 and Disaster Relief! May Christians always be willing to help in times of need!
READ the BIBLE
Week 35 – The Enemy Within
Genesis 4:1-16
Proverbs 14:17
“The last time I was really angry was . . . .”
PRAY FOCUS TODAY
Today, let’s pray for those around us who have real needs – health problems, more month than money, troubled family members, family disasters, etc. What can we do for others when we learn of a need? May God put these situations in our paths and on our hearts. As we minister to these needs, may we also be able to minister to spiritual needs or find someone who can.
We only have one more week to turn in food and cleaning items. Checks are also acceptable to purchase fresh items such as fruits, vegetables, and meats.
Have a marvelous Monday! Be sure to thank God for the blessings He has provided. Also, ask Him to give you opportunities to minister to others.
Covid is showing up in our community again. Please be in prayer for those with Covid, those exposed to Covid, and those whose health is most threatened by Covid.
GEORGIA BARNETTE WEEK of PRAYER
Brocchures are available at Southern Baptist churches today.
The greatest evangelistic opportunity on the church calendar is Vacation Bible School or VBS. Many churches find it difficult to conduct a dynamic VBS because they have more kids than workers. But what if a church had six energetic, talented college students who could stay the whole week and focus on making the best VBS experience a child could have in a local church? This is exactly what happens every summer through Go Louisiana, or GOLA. Teams of six college students are chosen from Baptist Collegiate Ministries (BCM) across the state and are assigned to churches for a one-week VBS.
Morgan, a GOLA team member said, “In one of our first VBS weeks, there was a sixth grader who didn’t have the best home life … it was just such a blessing to be able to say, ‘Hey, we have a perfect father that perfectly loves us unconditionally, solely because we are his children and we get to have a relationship with Him.’ It was just so great to see how that perspective of fatherhood changed for him.”
Stories of changed lives happen every day during GOLA led VBS weeks thanks in part to your generous support of the Georgia Barnette Louisiana Missions Offering.
Prayer Needs
Pray for strong leaders with a passion to share the gospel with children and their families.
Pray for BCM directors as they select and train the student missionaries.
Pray for the churches as they prepare to reach their community through VBS.
LOUISIANA BAPTIST CHILDREN’S HOME
There is only one more week to turn in food items needed by the children’s home. The truck will make a pickup one week from tomorrow. Checks are accepted at any time. They can be given through your local church.
DATES FOR SHOEBOX PACKING AT FBC, KENTWOOD (Each church makes their own packing schedule, but drop-off locations such at FBC, Kentwood will be receiving packed shoeboxes in mid-November. You can find the locations and times on the Operation Christmas Child website.
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