Pastor's Blog

Welcome to the family, Hunter!  I had the glorious privilege of leading Hunter to the Lord last Monday evening.  He was in church Wednesday night, Sunday morning, Discipleship Training and then the evening service.  Praise the Lord!  God gives the increase!  Lee Fore was very involved in this young man’s salvation.  Great story!

Steve Morris has an appointment with his doctor this afternoon and should learn the results from the biopsy taken last Monday.  Pray that all goes well.

Spoke to Larry Whitehurst early yesterday morning.  He is recovering but is not jumping any fences.  Pray for Larry’s recovery.

Speaking of Larry, his and Judy’s oldest son, Rodney, has been diagnosed with a malignancy and will be receiving radiation treatment for the next six weeks.  He will go get fitted for the treatments today.

Tonie Lee spoke to me in the service yesterday morning and talked about her son’s diagnosis.  Andrew has a very rare disease – like six hundred cases total (not sure if that is in the world or just the states).  Pray for young Andrew.

As far as I know, Tim Knighten remains in a holding pattern.  Keep praying.

Andy & Betty Hamil missed a second consecutive Sunday yesterday due to Betty’s fall.  They never miss two consecutive Sundays.  Pray for Betty’s recovery.

Myrtle Bowden was in our services yesterday.  Not sure what the next step is for her but do ask you to pray.

A very close relative of three of our church members had a serious surgery last week and remains in ICU.  Pray!

Jeanette Bates will soon see the surgeon and will hopefully get rid of her walker.  She seems to be doing well.  Keep praying for a complete recovery.

Our ladies will be hosting a diaper giveaway tomorrow morning.  This is a monthly happening.  Pray for this ministry.

The egg hunt will take place this Saturday, April 16, beginning at 9:15AM.  Bro. Dylan needs folks to help as early as 7:00AM.  Contact him if you can help.

We are down to a precious few of the tumblers.  Like two or three tops.  Contact me if you want one as I will not be placing another order for here.  The next ones will go to Guatemala and will sell for twenty five dollars each.  Just FYI.

Ok, a member of the Friendship family called out Big Bob’s bar-b-que last week in an email to me.  I was highly offended!  So, we will be having a church fellowship on Sunday evening, July 3.  The main fare will be bar-b-que and this offending member will be the lead chef.  More details coming but please save the date!

Speaking of church fellowships, we are going to have a crawfish boil (probably shrimp too) on Sunday, May 8.  This will be a church wide event that will begin at 5:00PM.  Here is what I need – some men who know how to boil the crawfish to step up and take the lead.  Contact me via email at pastor@friendshipfamily.net.  The sooner, the better.  More details coming.

The church office is open today through Thursday this week.  Normal hours.

FYI, I had three blog readers respond to last Thursday’s post.  One of them was not even being truthful.  So, I think we are probably down to five regular readers.  Let’s go Dragnet – “just the facts, ma’am, just the facts!”

I pray that you will have a great Monday with Jesus.