Pastor's Blog

Happy fourth birthday to our grandson, Cooper Burch.  At this point he is the youngest of our grandchildren which presently numbers ten.  He is deeply loved and both of his grandmothers are good at spoiling him!  I hope Cooper will have a great day today!  We love Cooper!

Visited Carol Lucky in the hospital yesterday.  She was taken to dialysis early in my visit.  Spent a few minutes more visiting with Terry.  Carol wants to be discharged from the hospital but not sure when that will happen.  Keep praying for Carol & Terry.

Stopped by to see Andy & Betty Hamil.  He did have a bad day on Sunday per his own admission but he was doing better yesterday.  Andy & Betty each have a hospital bed in their living room.  I do not see Andy being up and about much, if any, from this point on.  Pray for Andy & Betty.

Stacey Sessions (Saturday) and Laura Fosmore (Sunday) had their respective MRIs and are awaiting the results.  Pray for these ladies.

Thank you to each person who personally gave to the special need in Guatemala this past Sunday, 8/2.  You know who you are but, more importantly, God knows.  Again, thank you.

Regular schedule on our campus tomorrow – morning and evening.

We received an unexpected, but welcomed, rain shower at the house late yesterday afternoon.  Thank you, Jesus.

I am absolutely loving the fiber optic cable internet.  I just did a speed test and it shows a download of 610 with an upload of 462. A bit better than the 14 and o.6 from pre-fiber optic cable days.  Three men buried the cable yesterday.  Really nice men from Oklahoma.  So, hopefully we are now all set internet wise.

By the way, thanks to Rhett Butler we are now set with fiber optic cable on our church campus too.  Folks, Rhett does so much behind the scenes that is never noticed until something goes wrong or does not work.  Here is the deal – Rhett never asks for any recognition.  The same goes for those who help him with various projects.  I am thankful for Rhett!

Speaking of being thankful, my 2026 garden has now run its course.  John Milton Ladnier, Jr and Scott Fontenot did so much work in my garden this year that I cannot even begin to describe it all.  I just sat on the back porch “smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo” (just kidding) as they worked in my garden.  The one downer is that Larry Whitehurst never showed up with his hoe – what is up with that!  God blessed the garden and I am thankful to Him and these two men.

One more thank you – my brother, Eddie, got my new laptop set up last Friday when I went to visit Mama.  He has forgotten more about computers then I will ever know.  That may be why he is number one and I am number five on Mama’s list.  If she tells me one more time how smart Eddie is. . .

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