Friday

“The shepherds returned,

glorifying and praising God

for all they had seen and heard,

just as they had been told.”

~Luke 2:20, HCSB~

Mrs. Martha Traylor has been taken to Southwest Hospital.  Please pray for her and her family.

Continue to pray for Randy Taylor and his family.

Christopher Joseph Binder

Born: October 05, 1984
Died: December 10, 2014

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=2859003&fh_id=10545

Woodrow “Woody” Henry Ford, Jr.

Born: January 26, 1954
Died: December 09, 2014

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/10545/id/2859033

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Snug as a Bug in a Rug” –  http://odb.org/2009/12/03/finding-jesus/
  • He who did not spare His own Son,                                                                       but delivered Him up for us all,                                                                             how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?                                                                                                                ~Romans 8:32~
  • “Blessed Assurance” – http://www.hymnary.org/text/blessed_assurance_jesus_is_mine

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions

Who’s Lottie?

Lottie Moon – the namesake of the international missions offering – has become something of a legend to us. But in her time Lottie was anything but an untouchable hero. In fact, she was like today’s missionaries. She was a hard-working, deep-loving Southern Baptist who labored tirelessly so her people group could know Jesus.

Why was the offering named for this early missionary?

Throughout her career, Lottie Moon wrote numerous letters home, urging Southern Baptists to greater missions involvement and support. One of those letters triggered Southern Baptists’ first Christmas offering for international missions – enough to send three new missionaries to China.

There’s many events scheduled in the next few weeks.  Don’t let the business of the season take your focus from the reason we are celebrating.

Anna Lee

Thursday Afternoon

Robert Wayne Criswell

Born: July 17, 1943
Died: December 10, 2014

A resident of Hammond died at 1:05 PM on Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at Hospice House in Baton Rouge. He was born July 17, 1943 in Greenville, MS and was 71 years of age. Robert and his wife, Mary lived in Kentwood for over 40 years and have lived in Hammond for the past 10 years. He was retired from Entergy Corporation with 38 years of service and U.S. Air Force Veteran of Vietnam. He is survived by wife, Mary Brent Criswell; 2 sons, Brent Wayne Criswell and wife, Cheryl and Blake Lewis Criswell and wife, Nelia; 4 grandchildren, Claire Elise Criswell, Brenna Elizabeth Criswell, Evan Blake Criswell and Ethan Lewis Criswell. Preceded in death by parents, Fred and Leona Criswell; grandson, Logan Blake Criswell; brother, Fred Criswell and sister, Carolyn Landers. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, from 9 AM until religious services at 11 AM Saturday, December 13, 2014. Services conducted by Rev. Scott Thompson and Rev. Joe Baugh. Interment Woodland Cemetery, Kentwood. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Youth Ministry at Woodland Park Baptist Church, 1909 J.W. Davis Drive Hammond, LA 70403. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Ray Allen Booty

Born: December 01, 1930
Died: December 10, 2014

He was born December 1, 1930 and passed December 10, 2014 10:45 PM at the age of 84, at Hood Memorial Hospital in Amite, Louisiana. He was a member of Spring Creek Baptist Church. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He was a diary farmer for over 50 years. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Shirley Rhodus Booty; daughter, Marcia Booty Cutrer and husband, Mike (Watson); son, Talmadge Booty (Kentwood); grandchildren, Stephanie Booty Arnone and husband, Sal (Kentwood), Ashley Booty (Clinton), Adam Cutrer (Watson), Allen Booty (Metarie), Melissa Young (Baton Rouge); great grandchildren, Jenny, Cameron and Halie Arnone, Jalen Roberts, Aubree Booty, Anna, Emily, Claire and Gracie Young. He is preceded in death by one son, Thomas Ray (Tommy) Booty; parents, Wilma Roberts Booty and Fountain Booty; sisters, Alyne Betz Hebert, Estelle Booty Strickland, Mrytis Booty Dyzar and Willie Mae Booty Bordlee; brother, Homer Booty, infant brother and infant sister Cleo. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood from 9 AM until religious services at 2 PM Saturday, December 13, 2014. Interment Spring Creek Cemetery, Spring Creek. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Thursday

The true light that gives light to every man

was coming into the world.

He was in the world,

and though the world was made through him,

the world did not recognize him.

~John 1:9-10 (NIV)~

Mr. Bobby Lawson is in North Oaks again.  Please continue to pray for him and his family.

Mrs. Fay Shoemaker is in rehab and doing well.  Keep her in your prayers.

Please continue to pray for Mr. Frankie Gehringer.  His medication is being adjusted to help him feel better.

Sherman Cutrer seems to go from one issue to another.  He is at Kentwood Rehab.  Pray for him to have some better days soon.

Please continue to pray for Randy Taylor.  He’s been fighting a long, hard battle.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Third Thursday at the Cabin –  We will meet one week from tonight.  I’m already looking forward to our sweet time together.

First Baptist Church, Kentwood will present the Christmas musical “Joy, Joy, Joy” Sunday evening at 6:00.  Bro. Jonathan Statham will be directing the choir and orchestra this year.  You are invited to attend.  Pray for all those participating in the musical.

This week, the Friday morning Bible Study will focus on Mary, mother of Jesus.  Our Scripture passages are Luke 1-2 and John 2:1-11.  Please feel free to join us at 10:00 in the fellowship hall of FBC, Kentwood.  Contact me if you have questions.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Christingle”  –   http://odb.org/2013/12/25/christingle/
  • That was the true Light which gives light                                                  to every man coming into the world.                                                                                                                                      ~John 1:9~                                                            The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world….                                                                                                                     ~John 1:29~
  • “This Little Light of Mine” – http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/this_little_light_of_mine.htm

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering – It takes $139/day to support a mission family and their work.  If we meet our goal at FBC,K. we will be able to support a missionary unit for five months.  I know it is early in the month, but it is interesting to know we have already collected money to cover 15 days.  I’ve never considered our goal that way before.

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering from the Perspective of the past of FBC, Lafayette –http://stevehorn.org/2014_12_08/a-new-perspective-on-the-lottie-moon-christmas-offering-for-global-missions/

I think you will find this very interesting.

I like that word “shatter” that was used.  Let’s pray and give again this year with the purpose of supporting missionaries (and to “shatter” that goal to do so).

Anna Lee

Wednesday

This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about:

His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph,

but before they came together,

she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.  

Because Joseph her husband was a righteous man

and did not want to expose her to public disgrace,

he had in mind to divorce her quietly.  

But after he had considered this,

an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said,

“Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife,

because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.  

She will give birth to a son,

and you are to give him the name Jesus,

because he will save his people from their sins.”  

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet:  

“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son,

and they will call him Immanuel” –which means, “God with us.”  

When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him

and took Mary home as his wife.  

But he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son.

And he gave him the name Jesus.  

~Matthew 1:18-25~

Martha Pevey Drago had her first chemo yesterday and let her granddaughter take one link off the chain of steps in her treatment.  She thanks you for praying, but also asks for continued prayers.

Theresa Flores reports that Claire is doing well following her kidney transplant.  She is staying at Brent House at Ochsner so she can be close to the lab for frequent tests.  Theresa has been able to return to work some.  Thanks for your prayers for Claire and her family.

Friday Morning Bible Study 

  • FBC, Kentwood
  • 10:00 A.M. Fridays
  • Studying women of the Bible
  • This week – Mary, Mother of Jesus
  • Join us any Friday you are available.

Baptist Press – bpnews.net

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

  • Every penny of the Lottie Moon offering supports nearly 4,900 missionaries.
  • Meeting the $175 million goal would send more missionaries to the field.
  • More than half the world’s people groups are still unreached and people are dying every day without ever having heard the Gospel.
  • This requires sacrificial giving to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering – gifts that truly honor the Lord.
Jesus is the ONLY reason for this holiday season!
Anna Lee

Tuesday

But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid,

Mary, you have found favor with God.

You will be with child and give birth to a son,

and you are to give him the name Jesus.

He will be great a

nd will be called the Son of the Most High.

The Lord God will give him the throne

of his father David,

and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever;

his kingdom will never end.”

“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel,

“since I am a virgin?”

The angel answered,

“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,

and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

~Luke 1:30-35~

And the government will be upon His shoulder.

And His name will be called Wonderful,

Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father,

Prince of Peace.”

~Isaiah 9:6, NKJV~

 

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions –  Because of your giving, missionaries and their national partners recently reported:

  • Nearly 1,700,000 heard a Gospel witness
  • More than 235,000 became new believers
  • 141 new people groups were engaged

Baptist Press –  bpnews.net

I saw Rita Tate last night.  She is doing very well following her knee surgery.  Thank God for that and for physical therapists who help in so many ways.

Martha Pevey Dagro will begin chemotherapy tomorrow.  Let’s give her good prayer support as she goes through this time.

Sherman Cutrer is at Kentwood Rehab for a couple of weeks.  Then, he will need one more surgery.  Please continue to support this family with your prayers.

Marty Simpson’s celebration of life service was surely one of the most fitting and most stirring funerals I have ever attended.  There were numerous firefightera and police officers from different departments as well as at least ten ministers, church member, family members, and friends.  Marty was deserving of all the special comments that were made.  I was blessed to be there yesterday, but much more blessed to have know Marty!  Continue to support the family with your prayers and your actions.

Devotional, Scripture, and a Song

  • “Our Life is a Primer” –  http://odb.org/
  • You shall teach them diligently to your children . . .                                      when you walk by the way,                                                                            when you lie down,                                                                                              and when you rise up.                                                                                                                                                               ~Deuteronomy 6:7~
  • “Living for Jesus” –  http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/i/livingfj.htm

 

Jesus is the only reason for this wonderful season of the year!
Anna Lee

Monday

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign:

The virgin will be with child

and will give birth to a son,

and will call him Immanuel.  

~Isaiah 7:14~

 

Miss Fay Shoemaker is doing well in rehab following her shoulder surgery.  Please continue to pray for her.

Robbie Lynn Kirby is recovering nicely from pneumonia.  She and her family appreciate your prayers.

Mrs. Kathryn Kuss asks that we pray for her brother in Hammond, Henry Clay “Cush” Shaw. He is possibly facing some serious surgery.

Don and Judy Dickinson were in church yesterday.  They were blessed with God’s perfect timing to get him to the doctor and into surgery.

Devotional, Scriptures, and a Song

  • “Stones Cry Out” –  http://odb.org/
  • I tell you that if these should keep silent,                                                           the stones would immediately cry out.                                                                                                                     ~Luke 19:40~                                                         “[He] took upon Him the form of a servant,                                                        and was made in the likeness of men.”                                                                                                                ~Philippians 2:7~
  • “Down from His Glory” –  http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/d/f/h/dfhglory.htm

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

Southern Baptists send missionaries from their churches, through IMB, to go into the world making disciples in the name of Jesus. In that partnership, Southern Baptists provide the funding to send and support these missionaries and their ministries. The more resources they provide, the more missionaries can be sent.

Jesus is the ONLY reason for the season!

Anna Lee

Sunday

Mary kept all these things

and pondered them in her heart.

~Luke 2:19~

 

Devotional, Scriptures, and a Song

  • Johnny’s Race –  odb.org
  • Comfort each other                                                                                             and edify one another.                                                                                           ~1 Thessalonians 5:11~                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Out of all your gifts ye shall offer                                                             every heave offering of the Lord,                                                               of all the best thereof,                                                                                       even the hallowed part thereof out of it.                                                                                                      ~Numbers 18:29~
  • “Our Best” – http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Our_Best/

Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, Day 8 – “Planting Seeds for Planting Churches” 

http://www.imb.org/main/lottie-moon/weekofprayerview.asp?PageNavID=112&StoryID=13048&LanguageID=1709

Frozen Food for Two Families

  • Family #1 – One dish meals, sugar free desserts, vegetables and cornbread, greens and cornbread
  • Family #2 – Non-processed food without lots of additives, fresh fruits and vegetables you picked, fruits and vegetables you picked and froze
  • Bring to my classroom before our 9:15 A.M. Sunday School this morning.  Delivery will be made this afternoon.

You are more than welcome to visit any class at any church today.  If you don’t have a church home, maybe this is the day you will find yours.

Stephen Lewis Voight

Born: December 02, 1983
Died: December 05, 2014

http://www.mckneelys.com/home/index.cfm?action=public:obituaries.view&o_id=2850772&fh_id=10545

Have a blessed day as you attend the church our your choice.

Anna Lee

Saturday Addition

Juanita Booty‘s problem has been diagnosed as a medicine issue.  She’s back at home.  Thank you for praying.

Landon Walker is having surgery this morning to remove fluid.  He’s not doing well.

Pray for Porgy Scarle.  He’s at home in Fluker.

Sherman Cutrer is a little better.  Thank you for your continued prayers for him.