Pastor's Blog

They tell me the wedding shower for Deidra was well attended.  All I know is that when I got home a little after 10:00PM, the living room was filled with gifts.  Thank you to each person who attended and to those who hosted that event.  Deidra and Michael thank you for your generosity especially in light of the fact that our church has had like two million showers this summer!  By the way, some of our Yankee friends sent gifts which arrived in Memphis yesterday so thanks are in order there too! 

Speaking of Yankees, we have two who are scheduled to go to Guatemala next week but their passports haven’t arrived yet.  Would you please pray that these would arrive in the next day or two so their minds can be at rest? 

I will reiterate my belief that anyone who doesn’t have a passport and even thinks they might leave the USA for a mission trip, cruise, to visit Canada (you could go visit Mark Mast & family) in the next year or so should go ahead and apply for a passport immediately!  The only exception would be for those who are about to turn sixteen years of age – they should wait until their birthday so their passport will be in effect for ten years versus five years.  Otherwise, what are you waiting on? 

Speaking of Yankees, Dan & Heidi Smith and their children were flown via a corporate jet from Guatemala to San Antonio, Texas yesterday.  Dan was admitted to a hospital for some tests.  Thanks for your prayers for this situation! 

There have been no significant changes in the folks we have been mentioning as patients in the local hospitals.  Miriam Moates had a heart cath yesterday morning but I am not sure what the results of that test were.  There was a visitation for the Auld family last night and they appeared to be doing well all things considered. 

Tina (Kevin) Sprinkle’s daughter, Amber, is scheduled to be admitted to the hospital today in order to have her labor induced as she gives birth to her first child.  Pray for this family during this precious time! 

I did get an e-mail update from Trish Cohen yesterday.  She was discharged from the hospital this past Monday and sees the doctor again this coming Monday.  She is doing well and asks for your continued prayer support. 

The Friendship family will host a service at the Mission of Hope tonight.  That service begins at 7:00PM and you are invited to join them. 

Chris & Nicole Taylor will host “Endure” for our students tonight beginning at 6:00PM.  I don’t know all of the details but do know they will be going on a canoe trip tomorrow.  Pray for this event!  Also, please note that our student ministry will have a late night bowling fellowship this Sunday, 7/29, and all participants must attend the evening service.  The cost is $3 per person. 

Don’t forget the 50th wedding anniversary reception for Charles & Ann Clark tomorrow from 2:00 – 4:00PM in the fellowship hall.  Gary & Rachel will be united in marriage at 6:00PM at their home on Lakeside Circle.  You are invited to both of these happenings.

Deacons/staff meet this Sunday at 4:00PM as do the teachers/workers for the upcoming church year.  Baptismal candidates meet at 5:30PM as we will observe the ordinance of baptism as a part of our evening worship service. 

Life is so short and so uncertain.  Skip Prosser, 56, the basketball coach at Wake Forest, was found in his office yesterday having passed away from an apparent heart attack.  Here was a man in what seemed to be good physical health who had just gone for an afternoon jog.  Life is short – it pays to be ready!  Do you know Jesus as your personal Savior?

My sister-in-law, Sue, and niece, Jamie, arrived yesterday afternoon in order to attend the shower and the anniversary reception.  I think the real reason they came was so Sue could celebrate her birthday, which is today, with me!  (She always wanted to marry me and when I refused she married my brother instead)  Happy birthday Sue!  (Birthday wishes also go to Diane Vickers & Janiece Medrano today) 

Charles is not a happy camper as he found out that I mowed our lawn yesterday but didn’t mow his!  My first problem today is that I can’t find my shoes I wear when I mow which means that they are out in the shed!  This would mean “thanks” to the ladies who attended the shower last night because, according to my wife, you can’t have those kind of shoes in the house i.e. back utility room if company is coming!  So, it looks like today I will have to do like Deacon Dewayne & Deacon Dirk and simply go shoeless as I cut grass as it is too dark in the shed to locate my shoes!  Life is good! 

I pray that you will have a great day with Jesus!