Monday Death Notice


Donald Ray “Hot Rod” Simpson

August 19, 1947 – June 5, 2010

A resident of Kentwood, LA, died at 10:30PM on Sunday, June 6, 2010 at his home. He was born August 19, 1947 in New Orleans, LA and was 62 years of age. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Kentwood, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Wednesday and from 10 a.m. until religious services at 2 p.m .Thursday. Services conducted by Bro. Matthew Booty. Interment Woodland Cemetery, Kentwood, LA. Survived by daughter, Dawn S. Booty and her husband, Donnie, Kentwood, 6 grandchildren, Jessica and Ryan Cutrer, Macy Booty, Ciara, C. J. and Dalton Simpson, great-grandson, Gabe Simpson, 2 brothers, Buster Simpson and his wife, Charlene, Alexandria, and Jerry Simpson and his wife, Toye, Summit, MS, numerous nieces and nephews and many special friends. Special companion, Terry Jones and her family, Laurel, MS. Preceded in death by his wife, Frances B. Simpson, daughter, Theresa Lynn Simpson, son, Clayton J. Simpson, and parents, Earl and Mary Simpson.

Monday

All of you together are Christ’s body,

and each one of you is a separate and necessary part of it.

~1 Corinthians 12:27 (NLT)~

Lisa Piner requests prayer for Jerry Glass who is undergoing tests to  determine his problem.

She also requests prayer for her mother, Alice Faye Lee, who will see a doctor Thursday to determine if surgery is needed to heal her arm which was broken in three places.  They were told the humerus usually heals without surgery.

From Mrs. Ann Chapman

It’s me again Lord, standing in need of prayer.
You precious people have been so faithful to pray for me and my family, until it is just natural for me to call you back to the throne of God.
The doctor is finally sending me to therapy for my stiff neck. Since the removal of the halo (mid-January)
I have had very little head movement. My head continues to feel like it is in a vise and the therapist said I win the prize for the stiffest neck and shoulder muscles she has ever seen. Please pray, if it is God’s will, that I can regain my head movement.
Thank you in advance and may God bless each of you.
Ann Chapman

Don’t forget to pray for the many VBS that begin today.

TODAY’S PRAYER
IMB
JUNE 7, 2010

“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.” (John 14:14)

WORLD LEADERS. “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Please pray today for Prime Minister Hamad bin Jasim bin Jabir al-Thani of Qatar (Middle East, peninsula bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia).

MALI. Mali is in crisis. Referring to her two-pound newborn, A. spoke a proverb: “She who gives birth to a snake attaches him to her waist.” The meaning is that whatever the physical and mental condition of her baby, a mother is always ready to do whatever it takes to help her child survive. A. lives in Mali where organizations report that nearly one in five children do not survive to see their fifth birthday. Most of these children are dying from pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria, often exacerbated by malnutrition. Thirty-two percent of children under 5 years old are underweight. Mali is a landlocked country, so most Malians are farmers. Inadequate rainfall leads to smaller harvests, which results in less food for the family. Pray that this rainy season will bring sufficient rain for a bountiful harvest. Pray that a new way of farming introduced and modeled by our missionaries will gain acceptance by farmers who are slow to change traditional ways. Give thanks for the partnering church that is beginning a project of distributing packets of high-energy food suitable for the treatment of severely malnourished children. A project being introduced by another partnering church will demonstrate a gardening technique that uses less water and compost, and a well-digging technique that can be carried out without a lot of equipment. As missionaries and volunteers minister to hurting families, pray for emotional strength as they daily confront the effects of malnutrition on children.

PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL (all-LEH-gree). Please pray for the church-planting efforts among the urban poor in the city of Sao Leopoldo in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul. A simple/house church was planted under IMB leadership several years ago that ended up not surviving long term. However, one of the leaders who was trained in that church-planting effort later started a new group in his home, using what he learned. That group is now thriving and has 20 people participating in weekly Bible study and church life! Please pray for A and T as they lead this group, and ask the Father to multiply their reach and to use this group both as a mother church to other simple/house churches and an example to other leaders of how to plant new churches. http://www.teamgaucho.net/

Thanks for praying today.  Prayer makes a huge difference!

Anna Lee

Sunday

Each of us finds our meaning and function

as a part of His body.

~Romans 12:5 (MSG)~

Pray for all the children who will be in VBS next week and/or the coming weeks.  Pray they hear the Word and accept Jesus as their Savior.

Update on Callie Cole

Good Morning,
We hope all is well in your household today.  God is continuing to heal Ms. Callie.   We remain excited about her accomplishments and what is to come.  She is spelling away to communicate and she is trying to speak as she spells.  This new stage in her healing will cause you to work a little too.  Several require a pen and paper to write each letter as she points indicating which one.
She tells everyone she wants to go home with them.  We have told her that she can visit but the spend the nights will come later.   She is okay with our answers, but “no” doesn’t sway her to ask one more time!!
Callie thinks she is 14 years old and in the ninth grade.  She thinks we are picking at her when we tell her she is 16 and will soon be 17 later this month!!  She will ask several times a day how old am I?
She has also cried out and said “I’m confused.”  We just reassure her and let her know that the Lord is continuing to heal her and we don’t know how much she will be able to remember.  We tell her that her injury is similar to a turned over filing cabinet.  There are files thrown around everywhere in her brain and we have to pick them all up and put them back in order.  Just continue to work hard and talk to the Lord.  He will clear the confusion for you.  She often has a real quiet time after she has been really confused and aggravated.  We give her her space, but wonder if she is talking to the King.  We just pray that those mighty arms are embracing her and whispering “be still and know that I am God!”
We have quit using the feeding pump for nightly feeds and have put Callie on a four times a day feeding schedule.  This seems to be working well.  She goes to therapy everyday as an outpatient during the week.  The therapy is harder for her.  Friday she started to cry when we pulled up to the gym.  It did not last long.  She does well once she begins.  Why is it always difficult to start something?  Things really aren’t so bad once you dig in.
I can’t help but put myself where she is and liken the circumstance to growing in the Word with the truth.  As Christians we sometimes drag our feet to begin living the new truth that His word has revealed.  Why?  I don’t know.  But once we are living as He commands us, life is much easier.  I find so much freedom when I am obedient to His word.
Thanks for the continued prayer and the encouragement.  Keep it real!

Love,
Frances

Camilla Ammons Davidson Hughes
(September 15, 1928 – June 5, 2010)

Beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother succumbed to her courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, June 05, 2010 at the age of 81. She was a native of Troy, AL and a resident of Amite. She was employed for over 30 years at Thrift Town Pharmacy in Amite. She is survived by her daughter, Ann Davidson Wax, Denham Springs, LA and son, Thomas H. Davidson, Sr. and wife, Judy, Denham Springs, LA; 3 grandchildren, Benjamin T. Wax, Denham Springs, Thomas H. Davidson, Jr., Slaughter and Jennifer M. Davidson, Baton Rouge; 4 great-grandchildren, Sophie Claire Wax, Kayleigh and Colesie Davidson, and Nathan Lachney; step-daughters, Ann Marie Hughes Banos and husband, Orlando, Austin, TX, and Brenda Darlene Hughes, Walker, LA; step-sons, Johnny Lamar Hughes and wife, Gaisha, Tickfaw, LA and Michael Wayne Hughes and wife, Tracey, Walker, LA; 14 step-grandchildren; sisters, Margie Harvell, Birmingham, AL and Pauline King; brother, Henry Eugene “Bud” Ammons, Camden, NC. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Ivy Thomas Davidson; second husband, William F. “Bill” Hughes; son, Dennis Davidson; daughter, Donna Lynn Davidson; parents, Henry Randal and Polly Ammons; sister, Helen Buford; brothers, Joe Russell Ammons, Sr. and Billy Morgan Capps. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, 64671 Hwy. 1054, Roseland, LA 70456. The family would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the staff of Generations Hospice for their very special care and comfort and to her “extended family”, the E. R. “Bud” Glasgow family, Anita Hawkins and Jeanette Relan for their love and support. Visitation at McKneely Funeral Home, Amite, from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Sunday and from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Monday. Religious services will be held at Mt. Nebo Baptist Church, Roseland, at 2:30 p.m. on Monday conducted by Pastor Larry Blades. Interment in Tangipahoa Cemetery, Tangipahoa. For an online guestbook, visit http://www.mckneelys.com.

Have a wonderful Lord’s Day!  Don’t leave him out!

Anna Lee

Saturday

Each of us will have to give a personal account to God.

Romans 14:12 (NLT)


From Debbra and Bennie Smith

Please say a prayer for our son Benjamin Smith who underwent surgery Friday at North Oaks for a Broken Ankel.. He is in a lot of pain..Pray for a speedy recover to get him back on his feet..Thank You

Please continue to pray for some people we have had on our prayer list.

Harrell Sharkey – Improving slowly

J.D. Smith – Still having headaches

Micah Tolleson – Sees oncologist Thursday

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/micah_tolleson

Please add Mrs. Ruby Dillon.  She has had cold/congestion that is slow in clearing up.

$148.9M is 3rd-largest Lottie Moon offering

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33071

Thanks, Southern Baptists!

Do you remember the Henson family?  Maggie Lee Henson was injured in a church bus accident last July.  Her mother “penned” these thoughts.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/maggieleehenson

Please continue to pray for the Hensons and others who have lost loved ones.  We all know the the pain and grieving doesn’t end at the conclusion of a funeral.  You can think back to grieving families you know and say special prayers for them.

As always, your prayers make a difference in the lives of many others.  Thank-you so much for taking the time to pray now and throughout the day today.

Anna Lee

Friday

“I sought the Lord, and He heard me.”

~Psalm 34:4a~

Pray for Alice Faye Lee.  She fell yesterday.  She now has a sling for a broken bone near her shoulder.  Pray the arm heals properly and no other problems develop.

Pray for VBS (Vacation Bible School).  Thank God for the workers who are planning, studying, and decorating for next week.  VBS will be held in several churches, including Kentwood and Spring Creek, next week.  Contact you local church to learn when your children, grandchildren can attend.  Volunteer to help. Good help is always appreciated. Especially pray for children who will be in attendance at VBS. Say a special word of thanks to the person who coordinates VBS. Without them, VBS would not happen each year.

INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS PRAYERLINE

IMB
Friday, June 4, 2010

“As they were going along the road,

they came to a place where there was some water.

The official said, ‘Look! Here is some water.

Why can’t I be baptized?’”

~Acts 8:36-37, CEV~

Dear Intercessors, this is Eleanor Witcher of the Office of Global Prayer Strategy, expressing joy with you in the baptism of many around the world.

T planned a baptism for a small group in South Asia of about 10. He was going to baptize them very near where they live, but they all complained that the water was “dirty.” T asked them where they would like to go. They agreed that a not-too-far-away temple would be best. T told them that if they were not afraid to go there and be baptized, then he surely was not afraid. They went there and took baptism at the temple’s lake/bathing area as many looked on. Pray that many more in South Asia will obediently follow the Master.

A worker among a Last Frontier people group writes: “I had an opportunity to meet a middle school teacher who is the mother of two children. One day she told me that her older daughter, who had studied overseas, asked for her blessing to believe our Lord. She said that she gave a nod. So I asked her whether she wanted to hear more about Him. She wasn’t interested at that time. That was a year ago. Throughout on and off contact and at our Christmas gathering, she began to open her heart. Finally she decided to follow our Father. It wasn’t only her, though. Her younger daughter also committed herself. They both got baptized on the same day. Who do you think I will turn my attention to next? Yes, you are right–her husband.”

* Please pray for this school teacher’s family so that all of them will have the same heavenly Father.

* Give thanks for bold believers who are willing to proclaim their testimonies of salvation before everyone in their community.

* Intercede for those in your congregation who are currently resisting the Lord’s call to be baptized.

Baptist Press Stories for Jun. 3, 2010
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Along oil-marred coast, chaplains to deploy
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33052
1st Buckets of Hope clear Haitian customs
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33053
Afghan lawmaker calls for death of converts
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33054
PERSPECTIVE (Morris H. Chapman): The Great Commission Task Force Final Report: An Analysis and Thoughtful Questions
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33055
Yeats to be re-nominated recording secretary
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33058
Wells to be re-nominated regis. secretary
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33059
TRUSTEES: New Orleans fills faculty posts
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33060
Coalition targets Christ-mocking cartoon
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33056
Obama expands benefits to gay partners
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33057
Key figure in Windermere battle dies
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33061
FIRST-PERSON: Making wise use of your time
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=33062
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THE NAME WE WEAR

When the 1960s ended, many hippies moved down the coast to Santa Cruz.  They got married and had children.  But they didn’t name their children Melissa or Brett.  People in the mountains around Santa Cruz grew accustomed to their children playing with little Time Warp or Spring Fever.  And eventually Moonbeam, Earth, Love and Precious Promise all ended up in public school.

That’s when the kindergarten teachers first met Fruit Stand.  Every fall, parents applied name tags to their children, kissed them good-bye and sent them off to school on the bus.  So it was for Fruit Stand.  The teachers thought the boy’s name was odd, but they tried to make the best of it.

“Would you like to play with the blocks, Fruit Stand?” they offered.

And later, “Fruit Stand, how about a snack?”  He accepted hesitantly.  By the end of the day, his name didn’t seem much odder than Heather’s or Sun Ray’s.

At dismissal time, the teachers led the children out to the buses.

“Fruit Stand, do you know which one is your bus?”  He didn’t answer.  That wasn’t strange.  He hadn’t answered them all day.  Lots of children are shy on the first day of school.  It didn’t matter.  The teachers had instructed the parents to write the names of their children’s bus stop on the reverse side of their name tags.  The teacher simply turned over the tag. There, neatly printed, was the word “Anthony.”

We often hear folks say, “There’s nothing in a name!”  But there is very much something in a name.  Our name identifies who we are and where we came from (and sometimes where we’re going).  That’s why Abram’s name was changed to Abraham (“father of a multitude”), and Simon’s to Peter (“the rock”).

As Christians, we are proud to wear the name of the one who is our Lord, our Savior and our head.

“If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.  But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters.  Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in this matter.” (1 Peter 4:14-16)

It truly does make a difference what name we wear.  If you don’t believe me, just ask Fruit Stand.

Have a great day!

Alan Smith
Helen Street Church of Christ
Fayetteville, North Carolina

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Have a fantastic Friday!
Anna Lee

Thursday

“In You, O Lord, I put my trust.”

~Psalm 31:1~

Judy Liberto‘s surgery is today in McComb.  Pray for her, her family, and those caring for her.  Pray Judy’s faith will remain strong through this health issue.

Daddy’s appointment Tuesday wound up taking a day and a half.  Then, we saw the general practitioner.  Daddy got good reports.  Thank you for praying.

TODAY’S PRAYER
IMB
JUNE 3, 2010

“For this cause everyone who is godly shall pray to You

in a time when You may be found.”

~Psalm 32:6a~

WORLD LEADERS. “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Please pray today for Prime Minister Jose Socrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa of Portugal (southwestern Europe, west of Spain).

KANO KATSINA FULBE OF NIGERIA (KAH-no kat-SEE-nah FUL-bay). The Kano Katsina Fulbe Team writes: “Last year when we tried to show the ‘JESUS’ film in an area, the District Head, who is not a Kano Katsina Fulbe, asked us to leave. The Kano Katsina Fulbe were not happy with the decision he had made. We left cassettes and told them we would be back. The Kano Katsina Fulbe believers have made five subsequent visits to the area, each time showing the film with a small DVD player, and have been threatened further not to return. Since that time, six different Kano Katsina Fulbe fellowships have been started in the area, with 40-plus believers. God is truly working there! The believers will likely make one more trip there in June before the rains come. After the rains come, it will be a good five months before they can make a return visit. Pray for the June visit, asking that the believers will be strengthened in their faith and that more people will come to Christ. Pray for that five-month time period when the believers will not be able to visit, asking that the fellowships will grow in number and in faith so that when the believers do return, we will see God’s harvest increased.” jkgombe@aol.com

UZBEKS OF POST-SOVIET CENTRAL ASIA (OOZ-beks). Prayer works. After months of daily crying out to the Lord in intercession for one young Uzbek couple in southern Kazakhstan to open their hearts to Jesus, a worker asked God if her prayers were being heard. That very night, the young wife stopped the worker and told her that she is no longer fearful of the Bible and Christians because she sees that there is nothing wrong in our faith; she has witnessed only good. Rejoicing in God’s answer to prayer, the worker continues to pray for the young couple’s salvation. Please pray with her. NUzTeam@rememberus.net

The “Jerusalem of the East”

Have a terrific Thursday!

Anna Lee