Monday

“The Lord does not look at the things people look at.

People look at the outward appearance,

but the Lord looks at the heart.”

~1 Samuel 16:7 NIV~

 

Flo Hatcher (Written by Julee)

Update on my mom Flo Hatcher tonight– she’s home and getting settled in. I’m having to beg her to eat which is stressing me out. But I guess that’s how she felt when I was in high school and I didn’t want to eat either because I was “fat.” And I hated when she hounded me to eat– so it’s a little payback for her!   …
My new worry: She is in pain — a new pain. Her left arm is hurting so bad that she can’t move it without tears in her eyes. She said it’s like a muscular pain. Please pray it’s not another tumor. That’s how all of this started back in June– she couldn’t move her other arm and it was a tumor in her shoulder. As I said good night and kissed her goodbye, I walked outside and the street light in front of the house went off. I took that to be a sign from my dad. He was telling me thank you for taking care of his love.

Georgia Barnette Mission Offering for Louisiana

The 2015 Week of Prayer for State Missions will introduce you to individuals around our state who are committed to “be something” for the kingdom. But they need help. They need the support you provide through the Georgia Barnette State Missions Offering.

This year’s Georgia Barnette goal is $1,800,000. As always, the funds raised through the offering will help missionaries around Louisiana share the gospel. It will let them be the kind voice sharing Jesus’ love to a broken soul or the helping hand serving food to a hungry family.

The Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home will be picking up the food area churches have collected today.  Thank you for participating/helping to feed these children.

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Numbers 21 – 24

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Women’s Ministry this Week

  • Tuesday – “Young” Ladies’ Birthday Party at the Cafe
  • Friday
    • Bible study – The Shunammite Woman
      • I Kings 4: 8-37
      • II Kings 8:1-8
    • Operation Christmas Child
      • Fold/construct the shoe boxes
      • Attack labels
      • Store until the packing party
      • Men are invited to help with this.

 

“To the Work”!!!

Anna Lee

 

Sunday

“I’ve tried everything and nothing helps.

I’m at the end of my rope.

Is there no one who can do anything for me?

Isn’t that the real question?”

 The answer, thank God,

is that Jesus Christ can and does.

He acted to set things right

in  this life of contradictions

where I want to serve God

with all my heart and mind,

but am pulled by the influence of sin

to do something totally different.

Romans 7:24-25 MSG

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Philemon

 

Georgia Barnette Offering for Louisiana Missions

 

Devotional, Scriptures, and a Song

  • “Tissue Boxes” –  http://odb.org/2015/09/20/tissue-boxes/
  • I trust in you, Lord;                                                                                                                                         I say, “You are my God.”                                                                                                                         My times are in your hands.                                                                                                                                           ~Psalm 31:14-15~                                                                                                                        Go back and read the Scripture at the beginning and then reread this Scripture.  It’s another “God wink”!  
  • “Trusting Jesus” 

 

This is God’s day, not our’s!  Remembers that as you plan what you will do today.

Anna Lee

Saturday Addition

This morning I failed to include some information from Frances Gay.  Her first great, grandchild who was born this week, Karsen Scott, weighed just over 10 pounds.  Join with the family as they celebrate this new life.

Also, the Shaw family of Kentwood is mourning the loss of Lance Shaw.  He will probably be remembered at a memorial service toward the end of the week.  I’ll update you when all this is official.  In the meantime, and in the coming days, please pray for Coach Shaw and the many other family members.

Saturday

“Cease from anger and forsake wrath;

Do not fret; it leads only to evildoing.

For evildoers will be cut off,

but those who wait for the Lord, t

hey will inherit the land.”

~Psalm 37:8-9~

 

Mrs. Theople Hurst asks for pray for her son, Randol Varnado.  He seems to have a throat issue that doesn’t want to go away.

 

Flo Hatcher by Julee Hatcher

My mom is finally home from the hospital! It was suppose to be a 24 hour stay and ended up being a week and a day. Prayers for a peaceful, uneventful weekend of rest and healing. Thank you!!

 

Update on Ken by Ginger Simmons
HE IS GOING HOME!!
Praise God!!!
Still needs much prayer for continual healing and strength!!
And Extra prayer for Kasey Kirby Roberts she is def going to need it!! Thanks again friends for your prayers!😁 I’m doing the happy friend dance!!💃💃

 

 

Randall M. Wallace, Sr.

Born: June 20, 1951
Died: September 17, 2015                                           http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/10545/id/3312349

Georgia Barnette Offering for Louisiana Missions

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – John 19 – 21

 

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Next Week

  • Tuesday – “Young” Ladies Birthday Party
  • Friday – Bible Study followed by preparing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child

If you can help, please come to the fellowship hall at 12:45.  We would appreciate all the help we can get as we get ready for our packing party.  Friday, we will be folding the flat boxes into the proper size and shape and applying labels.  Then, the boxes will be stored until the night of the packing party.

We will need a number of boxes to hold the shoeboxes.  The size we need is that of the boxes that hold packs of paper towels or bathroom tissue (larger than copy paper boxes and smaller than refrigerator boxes).

 

Thank-you!

Ten ladies helped sort and inventory the items turning in for Operation Christmas Child yesterday.  We got the job done and are so please to know the items we will need to focus on getting in the next few weeks.  I’ll have that list for you real soon.

 

Yesterday’s devotional about 2 A.M. friends fit perfectly into the Bible study lesson yesterday!  I love the way God’s timing is always right.

Anna Lee

Friday Addition

There are always losses of the staff members of churches, but there are also new staff members of churches on a regular basis.  New Zion Baptist Church has extended a call to Rev. Mike Drurry and his wife to serve in interim positions.  They will begin on Sunday, September 27th.  Bro. Mike truly shares from his heart, although he calls in “sharing from his gut”.  The family has been serving in Washing Parish.

Friday

“Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.”

~Matthew 6:10 NIV~

 

Ken Roberts

Update on Ken (Written by Ginger Simmons)

Many have ask
Not much has been posted because right now it’s baby steps to get his strength back. Ken has been through so much in such a short time. He can be very impatience (like most men) and very stubborn (duh)!! These are actually good signs. Biggest thing he wants to go home and that is what they are trying to get him ready for. Please continue to pray not only for Ken and his healing and recovery but for his caregivers. I’m speaking from experience thats not an easy job even if it’s your loved ones. There were times I wanted to take a pillow to Wendell’s doped up head!!
Thx again for all the love and support yall have shown Ken and especially your continued prayers.

 

Johnnie “Lil Man” Santangello ( Shared by his sister)

Lil Man’s neuro-oncologist from Arizona located a former resident of Barrow’s, who is now a neurosurgeon in New Orleans, to adjust his shunts tomorrow morning. We are praying that the adjustment will improve his symptoms. Thank you all for the post helping us locate a surgeon. Our family greatly appreciated all the help and prayers.
I have to share with you all,
I spent today with him, cooked some of his favorite foods and I must say he is the funniest person I know. It made my heart full to hear him laugh and joke with us. I never hear this kid complain or pout even after all he has been through. I am so humbled to be his sister.

 

Flo Hatcher (Shared by daughter, Julee)

Today’s update on my mom: she’s being released from the hospital tomorrow! Going home!! Whoo hoo!!
Yesterday she told me “Dont make me eat chicken– YUCK” and today she asked “where can we get some fried chicken?” I’m a little confused now, but she ate that chicken and mashed potatoes like she hadn’t eaten in months!! She’s going to have a sweet lady from a home health agency helping her a few days a week– pray for her!!!

 

Charles E. Battalora

Born: January 31, 1952
Died: September 15, 2015

 http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=3311698&fh_id=10545
Randall Walace 
Please, I am asking for prayers for my family in the passing of my brother: Randall M. Wallace 64 at 5:38 a.m. (Thursday)  The wake for him will be held at McKeely Funeral Home in Amite, La Sunday Sept. 20 from 6 pm to 9 pm. The funeral will be Monday. Other arrangements are yet to be made….
                              ~Rev. Marshall Wallace, Landmark Missionary Baptist Church, Amite~
Georgia Barnette Offering for Louisiana Missions – Day 6

 

 

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Amos 5-9

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “2 A.M. Friends” –  http://odb.org/
    • There are several groups of people we might include in a list of our 2 A.M. friends: Sunday School members, Bible study group, many family members, neighbors, and friends.
    • The question is – Whose calls are you willing to respond to at 2 A.M.?
  • He is always wrestling in prayer for you,                                                                                         that you may stand firm in all the will of God,                                                                         mature and fully assured.                                                                                                                                                                                 ~Colossians 4:12~
  • “The Bond of Love” 

 

Operation Christmas Child 

Today, at about 12:30, we will begin organizing and inventorying the items brought in for Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes.  If you are interested in helping, please come to my Sunday School classroom next to the choir room.  This is one more step in getting all these items to boys and girls and sharing Jesus at the same time.

 

Third Thursday

Our group meeting was  very good last night.  We didn’t have any first time people, but we did have people from a number of churches ( Kentwood, Spring Creek, Line Creek, Osyka, New Zion, Roseland, and Greensburg.  I’m sharing this to say that the love for God and others is the factor that unites us.  What a blessing that is!  The music was provided by Mr. Halon Toney, Kim Chadwick, and Bubba Roberts.  If you would like to come some time, just come at 6:30 P.M. on the third Thursday of any month.

 

Enlarge your 2 A.M. group!  Our love for God should make the group that we respond to limitless.

Anna Lee

 

Thursday

“For God did not send his Son into the world

to condemn the world,

but to save the world through him.”

~John 3:17 NIV~

Kaitlyn Simpson’s baby was born yesterday afternoon.  He’s Karson Scott.  Shelly and Jeff are ready for the wonderful grandparent experience.  Frances Gay is now a great grandmother!

Koltyn Gafford

Please continue to pray for Koltyn, his family, and his medical workers.

Lisa Whitner Carruth will have surgery on September 29th.  Please keep her on your prayer list.

Johnnie “Lil’ Man” Santangello 

Prayers are needed now.  He has had some changes in his condition.  Thanks for your prayers for him, his doctors, his family, and his friends.

Georgia Barnette Offering for Louisiana Missions

Day 5 –  The WAY Church, Denham Springs – http://georgiabarnette.org/day-5/

Read the Bible in 2015 – Proverbs 25

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Doesn’t God Care?”  –  http://odb.org/2015/09/17/doesnt-god-care/
  • “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,                                                                        neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.                                                                                                                                           ~ Isaiah 55:8~
  • “Does Jesus Care?” 

 

Revival – A great few days!

  • The senior adult revival was wonderful, as usual.
    • Christian friends from many churches
    • Wonderful music
    • Sermons from the heart
    • Food, plentiful and delicious
  • Montpelier Baptist Church
    • Invited by a friend who told us how wonderful the services were
    • Found lots of friends, former students, and parents of former students
    • Wonderful spirit, both leadership and congregation
    • Talented musicians who sang a combination of  hymns and praise songs and did so very well
    • Evangelist from Texas who shared God’s Word and his own heart

 

Third Thursday at the Cabin

  • Tonight at 6:30
  • Music by Bubba Roberts on the harmonica and guitar
  • Everyone invited

 

Women’s Ministry

  • Friday Morning Bible Study at 10:00
  • Operation Christmas Child – organization and inventory of items for shoeboxes

 

What a blessing it is to have these opportunities to be with Christian friends and others to visit and share God’s Word.

Anna Lee

 

Wednesday

“LORD, hear my voice when I call;

be gracious to me and answer me.”

~Psalm 27:7, HCSB~

 

New Baby Today – Frances Gay will become a great-grandmother this afternoon.  Pray for Kaitlyn and all the family as they welcome this new life.  The new baby will be Karson.

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – Psalm 108 – 110

 

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

 

Georgia Barnette Missions Offering for Louisiana

Day 4 -Progression Church, Baton Rouge – georgiabarnette.org/day-4/

 

Third Thursday at the Cabin – Tomorrow at 6:30 P.M.

 

Friday Morning Bible Study – The Widow of Zarephath

 

The Senior Adult Revival has been wonderful.  If you like seeing Christian friends, singing and hearing wonderful music, great and plentiful food, and outstanding preaching, you should find your way to Friendship Baptist Church this morning.

  • 9:00 – Fellowship time with light breakfast foods
  • 9:30 – Choir practice
  • 10:00 – Worship followed by lunch – Rev. Trey Waldrop of FBC, Amite will share.

The first two days have been so wonderful, I think most of us would love for it to continue for a few more days, but today is the last one for this year.

 

Have a great and blessed day!

Anna Lee

 

Tuesday

“The Good News about God’s kingdom

will be preached in all the world,

to every nation.

Then the end will come.”

~Matthew 24:14 NCV~

 

Read the Bible in 2015 – I Chronicles 25-29

 

Baptist Press –  bpnews.net

 

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

 

Senior Adult Revival – September 14-16 

  • Monday – East Fork Baptist Church
    • Preaching – Rev. Mike Stafford of Greenlaw
    • Music – Chris Wales and choir
  • Tuesday – Hillsdale Baptist Church
    • Preaching – Rev. Daryl Miller of Hillsdale
    • Music – Chris Wales
  • Wednesday  – Friendship Baptist Church
    • Preaching – Rev. Trey Waldrop of FBC, Amite
    • Music – Chris Wales

Daily Schedule

  • 9:00 – Begin to bring food of the day assigned to your church/Fellowship
  • 9:30 – Choir practice in the sanctuary
  • 10:00 – Worship service followed by lunch for everyone

 

Third Thursday at the Cabin

  • This week
  • 6:30 P.M.
  • Come be blessed.
  • Call for directions, if needed.
  • Music – Bubba Roberts with his harmonicas and guitar

 

Georgia Barnette Offering for Louisiana Missions

Day Three – Care and Hope Ministry, Bastrop   –  http://georgiabarnette.org/day-3/

If you are available this morning, I urge you to come to the Senior Adult Revival for Two Rivers Association.  I hope to see you at Hillsdale Baptist Church this morning.

Anna Lee

 

Monday Addition

Mrs. Mimi Sneed asks us to pray for her daughter-in-law, Sherrie Lynn Brown, who deals with a long term health issue.

Flo Hatcher Update – Written by daughter, Julee

UPDATE ON MY MOM — what a wonderful sight when I walked in–my mommy was awake and smiled at me!!! She said she is feeling better and she definitely looks better. No word yet on when she will be able to go home but her blood pressure is down which is gUPDATE ON MY MOM — what a wonderful sight when I walked in–my mommy was awake and smiled at me!!! She said she is feeling better and she definitely looks better. No word yet on when she will be able to go home but her blood pressure is down which is great news! And as I’m typing this a male nurse just walked in with a stretcher to take her on a date to radiation in the next building so I guess she is starting that again today. Prayers please that it goes well and she doesn’t get sick again.reat news! And as I’m typing this a male nurse just walked in with a stretcher to take her on a date to radiation in the next building so I guess she is starting that again today. Prayers please that it goes well and she doesn’t get sick again.

J. Robert Fortenberry 

Born: August 18, 1925
Died: September 13, 2015

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Debbie Bales asked that we pray for the Goings siblings and her brother’s family.

Ronald Clayton Goings

Born: Sept 3 1954

Home-going: Sept 14 2015.

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