MONDAY, 11/10/08
God is good! We agreed on that point yesterday morning! He blessed us with a good day in our services. I appreciate your kindness to missionary Michael Robertson during the evening service. He was very complimentary of your attentiveness. I appreciate your financial investment into the ministry the Lord has given him and his family.
We were blessed to have two of our charter members present yesterday morning – Miss Lillian Brinkman & Miss Vivian Ladnier. It was sixty-one years ago yesterday that Friendship Baptist Church was founded. Of course having those two ladies present was nothing out of the ordinary as they attend all of our services on Sundays and Wednesdays! I thank God for those who began this body of believers known as the Friendship family.
Our deacons met with Chris Taylor yesterday afternoon and we are one step closer to it becoming official that Chris is our Minister to Students. He has been doing a good job for us in this capacity since June.
We also established the date for our annual “Widow’s Nite” and that will take place on Thursday, December 11th beginning at 6:30PM. More details will be forthcoming!
Speaking of meals, our veterans are to meet me at the church at 10:30AM tomorrow and we will go enjoy a meal together – Lisa & my treat! (I borrowed this idea from Pastor Jack Bailey of Danville Baptist) Actually, two other members of the Friendship family gave money toward this meal and I appreciate their doing so.
Miss Frances Howard, Karla Cooper’s mother, is having a heart cath procedure done this morning. Pastor Gore, Desi’s grandfather, suffered a stroke and remains in an ICU room. Miss Joyce Bosarge, Liz’s mother, remains hospitalized but may come home today. Curtis Wilkinson, Raymond’s father, remains in rehab and is aiming for a dismissal before Thanksgiving week. Shea Childress gets her test results tomorrow and then will know her treatment options. Billy Smith continues to rehab his knee at home. Phyllis Bush, Carla Kyser, & George Taylor continue their respective battles against cancer. Pray for all of these folks!
Terry Stephan, Dauphin Way Baptist, is leading a team of eighteen to Guatemala today. They will be staying in the L.G. Camp, Jr. mission house as they do ministry for the next eight days. Pray for them!
Rashad Johnson of Alabama had three interceptions in their game this past Saturday. That tied a Bama single game record set by three others. Interestingly enough, the last player to do that for Bama was Kevin Jackson (#7) on September 30, 1995 against Georgia in Athens in a 31 – 0 Bama win. Kevin not only had three picks but also returned one of those twenty-six yards for a touchdown and had ten tackles that game. Why am I telling you this? Kevin Jackson was in our 10:30AM service yesterday morning and I just found that interesting! Folks, where else can you get this kind of information?
I pray that you will have a great Monday with Jesus!