Wednesday

Today’s verse is compliments of the International Mission Board’s Today’s Prayer.

“For God is not unjust;

He will not forget your work and the love

you showed for His name when you served the saints–

and you continue to serve them.”

~Hebrews 6:10~

Russ and Ashley Guzzardo have a new baby daughter.

The newest member of my family is here.  Blakely Nickole Guzzardo arrived at 5:25 on August 20,2013.  She weighed 7lbs 8 oz and was 20 inches long.  Thank-you to everyone for your prayers. Please say a prayer of thanks for a healthy baby.  God is good!!!!!!!!!!

Kathy Jo Thompson and her mother are flying to Maryland today so Kathy Jo can have another surgery.  Pray for her as she continues her battle.

There is a young man from our area who, with his wife, is teaching in Egypt.  Pray for them during this time of unrest.  Pray for their families here to have peace about the location of their loved ones.

FBC, Kentwood will switch from AWANA to Team Kid this year.  They will also switch back to Sundays for their meetings.  Stay tuned for more information.

Bible Study – Don’t forget the ladies’ Bible study which will begin on the last Friday morning of this month.  It is based on the main character and clips from the “Lucy” series.  I’ve been previewing some of the material.  I have found great depth to the lessons which will be presented.  All ladies are invited to  attend and learn with us.

Missions – Heath Rohner of Re-Store said his greatest need is for shoes.  We are collecting gently used shoes to give him for his ministry in Amite.  If you have some shoes to share, drop them in a basket at FBC, Kentwood on Sundays or during the office hours during the week.  Our collection project for him next month will be school uniforms.  In the months following that we will collect jackets and blankets.  What a blessing you will be to some people in our area!

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Living Beyond the Odds” – http://odb.org/

Baptist Press – BPNews.net

Hymn of the Day – “Trust and Obey” – http://cyberhymnal.org/htm/t/r/trstobey.htm

I hope you will take time to listen to this simple hymn which has a powerful message.  May the tune “follow” you around today as a reminder of how we are to live our lives.

Have a blessed day.  Be a blessing to someone today.  Let’s let His light shine brightly, even brighter that last night’s blue moon, for Jesus!

Anna Lee

Tuesday

“Call to Me, and I will answer you,

and show you great and mighty things,

which you do not know.”

~Jeremiah 33:3~

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Image Conscious” – http://odb.org/

I think this speaks to all of us to “improve our ways”.  I can see some improvements I have made, but there are still more I could improve on.

Baptist Press – BPNews.net

You can get an idea of how Christians in Egypt are being treated.  We need to pray for this situation there, and in other place,  and pray it never happens in America.

Baptist Press Sports – http://www.bpsports.net/

Baptist Press Cartoons – http://www.bpnews.net/BPCartoons.asp

Baptist Press Story Collections – http://www.bpnews.net/BPCollections.asp

Happy reading!

Anna Lee

Monday Afternoon

Roseanne and J.B. Needham

Roseanne and JB Needham welcomed their little girl “Jaycee Dell” on Thurday August 15th at 5:10 p.m. Jaycee Dell weighed 5.12. She is in the NICU at St. Tammany Hospital, but doing very good. Heart and Lungs are good. She justed needs to eat enough to keep her sugar up. As of this morning August 19th she is eating well.
She is welcomed home by her BIG Brother Jed. And grandparents Charlene and Skip Blades, Vince and Sherry Estes and Patricia Needham. And her Aunt Monica Smith, and numerous other family members.
Thank you for all your prayers, phone calls and text. Please continue to pray for Jaycee Dell to get strong enough to come home.
We are so Blessed!

The Titus twins and mom should be back in Kentwood by now.  Thank God for the health of both mom and baby girls.

Debi Luce is also headed home today.  She already notices a difference in the way her heart if functioning.  Thank God that Debi got help she needed in a timely way.

Jack Nicholas Liuzza, Sr.
(November 22, 1940 – August 19, 2013)

A resident of Amite, he died on Monday, August 19, 2013 at his home. He was born November 22, 1940 in Independence and was 72 years of age. He was a retired from Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office and was a life-long produce farmer with Liuzza and Sons Produce. He is survived by his wife, Beverly Alessi Liuzza, Amite; 4 children, Mike Liuzza, Amite, Kenny Liuzza and wife, Brenda, Independence, Mark Liuzza, Sr. and wife, Charlynn, Independence and Richelle Liuzza Bellavia and husband, Deke, Amite; 11 grandchildren, Nicholas Liuzza and wife, Dani, Michael Vincent Liuzza, Brett Liuzza and wife, Jessica, Brooke Liuzza, Samuel Liuzza, Kaitlyn Liuzza, Mark Liuzza, Jr., Faith Liuzza, Zack Liuzza, Emma Claire Bellavia and Jackie Claire Bellavia and one great-grandchild on the way; brother, Anthony “Fuzzy” Liuzza, Independence. Preceded in death by son, Jack Liuzza, Jr.; parents, Nick and Jennie Liuzza; sister, Antoinette “Ann” Mason. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Tuesday and at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church, Independence, from 10 a.m. until Religious Services at 12 Noon on Wednesday, August 21, 2013. Services conducted by Deacon Roger Navarra. Interment Colonial Cemetery, Independence. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Monday

“He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth,

having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

that they would seek God.”

~Acts 17:26-27a, NASB~

I’m a little late, but Dennis Price has a wreck Friday, a week ago.  He is still recovering.  Pray he heals with no permanent effects from the accident.

Linda Huckaby was in church Sunday.  She has made a good recovery from her snakebite.  I thank God she recovered as quickly as she did.

Pray for Rev. Ronnie Nielson as he begins service in a different church.  Next Sunday will be his last time to serve as interim at Kentwood.

Pray for the Kentwood’s search committee as they continue to search to find the minister of music God has already selected for Kentwood.

Pray for Rev. Richard Sandburg and his family as they move to Springfield  to minister there.  Pray for New Zion Baptist Church as they will begin a process of finding a new pastor for their membership.

Pray for New Zion Baptist Church as they have two men connected with the church who will be laid to rest there Tuesday.

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “The Gift of Remembering” – http://odb.org/

Find the good God wants you to see in this day!

Anna Lee

Sunday

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel,

for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes,

to the Jew first and also to the Greek.”

~Romans 1:16, NASB~

 

Debi Luce, a former student who is now a teacher in Mississippi, had heart issues and wound up with a stent.  Pray for her as she goes home and returns to her daily routine.

Jerry East is improving and my get to move to step-down today or tomorrow.  Pray for him as he continues to improve following a heart attack.

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Always an Upgrade” – http://odb.org/

Have a great Lord’s Day.  “Clothing ourselves with Jesus’ attitudes and actions shows His presence in our lives.”

Anna Lee

Saturday Evening

Please add 13 month old John Wyatt Welch to your prayer list.  He has a brain tumor.

 

Robert “Lynn” Huff
(June 9, 1940 – August 17, 2013)

A resident of Kentwood, LA , died at 6:15 AM on Saturday, August 17, 2013 at his residence in Kentwood. He was born June 9, 1940 in Franklin County, MS and was 73 years of age.Survived by, wife, Ann Huff, Kentwood; 6 daughters, Vickie Rutter, Natchez, MS, Deborah Holliday and Jerry, Walker, LA, Ruthann Thompson and Randy, Natchez, MS, Katie Huff and Jeremy, Kentwood, Jaime Huff, Kentwood, Julee Jarrell and Dinky, Osyka, MS; 3 sons, Bobby Huff, Natchez, MS, Terry Huff, Natchez, MS, Keith Jarrell and Amber, Progress, MS; sister, Christine Jordan, Natchez, MS; brother, David Huff, Oregon; 15 grandchildren, James and Jimmy Nettles, Shannon Holliday, Timmy Huff, Ben Slaven, Phillip and Joseph Fredenburg, Tiffany Collums, Jeremy and Kadon Anderson, Theresa Thompson, Christine Allen, Willie McGuff, Allison Church; 17 great-grandchildren, Adalynn, Waylon, Hannah, Ashley, Brandon, James, Hayden, Brookley, Olivia, Angelina, Jayla, Austin, Lisa, Tristian, Dakota, and Connor. Preceded in death by, daughter, Nan Adams; son, Robert William Jarrell; parents, Bud and Lola Huff; father n law, Robert McNabb; mother n law, Nanniebell McNabb, Visitation at New Zion Baptist Church from 6:00PM until 9:00PM, Monday, August 19, 2013, and from 8 a.m. until religious services at 1:00 PM on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Services conducted by Rev. Richard Sandberg. Interment New Zion Cemetery, Kentwood, LA. McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, in charge of arrangements. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Saturday Afternoon

Patrick Hoosier

Dad’s (Pat) 3 weeks of radiation is finished and he is doing amazingly well. His cancer is stable so the doctors will keep a close watch

on him and it is all in Gods hands. We continue to pray for a lot of time to pass before he will need to start chemo again. We are so thankful

for the awesome time God has given our family and continues to give us on our journey.

Austin Rose

Well it happened again.. Austin spiked a fever last night and we ended up back in the hospital. STUPID FEVERS!! I guess that’s just the cycle.

But we had 5 days home instead of 4 like last time so we are getting better!

Pray for Jimmy Dufrene (granddad to Lara of Lara’s Gowns for Smiles) as he has an angiogram Monday and possibly stents.

“Connected” was wonderful today.  It is such a blessing to see ladies from many area churches gather to learn more about missions and learn

how to teach missions to others.

Lynn Huff, husband of Ann Huff, passed away.  I’ll post arrangements when they are available.

 

 

Saturday

“Faithful love and truth will join together;

righteousness and peace will embrace.

Truth will spring up from the earth,

and righteousness will look down from heaven.”

~Psalm 85:10-11, HCSB~

Pray that “Connected” at FBC, Kentwood today will be effective in training women to improve missions and missions organizations within their churches.

Anthony “Bud” Taylor Distefano
(May 29, 1932 – August 16, 2013)

A resident of Roseland, he died at 12:15 a.m. on Friday, August 16, 2013 at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond. He was born May 29, 1932 in Roseland and was 81 years of age. He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Marie Distefano, Roseland; 5 children, Lisa Davis and husband, Lyndon Earl, Amite, James Kelly Distefano, Roseland, Kenneth Wayne Distefano and wife, Angela, Ponchatoula, Linda Baughman and husband, Ricky, Columbia, MS and Jeffery Taylor Distefano, Roseland; 14 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by his parents, Michael Kelly Distefano, Sr., and Marie Easley Distefano; a brother, Michael Kelly Distefano, Jr. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 5:30 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. on Monday and from 8 a.m. until 9:40 a.m. on Tuesday. Religious Services at St. Helena Catholic Church, Amite, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, August 20, 2013. Services conducted by Fr. Mark Beard. Interment New Zion Cemetery, Kentwood. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.Devotional – Our Daily Bread –

Baptist Press – Egypt’s Christians suffer amid deadly crackdown on opposition: Baptist church among 14 hit in Minya –http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=40916

Baptist Press – CALL TO PRAYER: For persecuted believers– http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=40923

Devotional – Our Daily Bread – “Slack Tide” – http://odb.org/

Have a wonderful day.  Be sure to spent part of the day in preparing for the Lord’s Day.

Anna Lee