with Gayle Cox
Praying for all to have a great year. It is already hard to believe that we are almost half way through January. The Community Center Meeting for Jan. 10 has been canceled, and we will be meeting now at 6 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6. We will be discussing events to add to our 2023 year calendar and start some planning as well as needs for the center. We are providing a soup/sandwich meal for this meeting. We need more community involvement for our center and would like to invite people to join in. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend. We would like to get 2023 off to a great start. Annual renewal dues are $25 after your first initial year of joining. Payments can be mailed to Edith Sills at 4475 Sunshine Rd, Henderson, TN 38340. We appreciate all our members and would like to have more events if we can get enough help to do so. Call Ann or myself if you have any new ideas for the center or wish to get involved. People who want to rent the community center should contact Betty Cooper at 879-9078 for booking. We would like to send out a big “Thank You” to the Ed and Betty Morris Family for their generous donation to the Community Center. Old Friendship Baptist Church would like to express their thanks for Bro. Iran, Pastor and Ms. Sherry Smith, Sunday School Teacher for serving and all they have done for the church over the past 12 years. They will be very missed. The open positions have been filled already with Bro. Ron Hale stepping in as interim Pastor and Ms. Becky Cox as the Ladies Sunday School Teacher to fill these positions. Praises to God for his perfect timing in filling both positions and may the best be coming for Old Friendship during this time of transition and please pray for them through the Pastor search process.
I want to thank those that have called to check on my mom and bring her food during her time of illness.
Please be in prayer for all elected local and federal officials as decisions are being made, law enforcement, first responders, healthcare workers, teachers and administrators. With all the upside down happenings in our world around us, pray daily. There is much spiritual warfare with society accepting things that go against who God is and what HIS laws are that we are to follow. Every day of life has its challenges, but if we look to God for the right path, it can be a good one.
Please pray for those suffering from the flu, COVID and other seasonal illnesses and Kenneth Burkhead, Joann Fowler, Janice Morris, Dot Smith, Elecia Ellis, Lisa Bishop, Jeanette Walker, Paul Schilling, Jennifer Paton, Nancy Crouse, Martha Cooper, Jake Richardson, Ann Morrison, Faye Crouse, and others that are sick or healing. We especially want to remember the families of Linda Webb, Johnny Maness, Linda Gayle Ross, Cindy Barham, Richard Kirby, Charles “Sonny” Easley, Kathy Busby and other families that have recently lost loved ones.
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As always, until next time and wishing a very blessed week to all you readers!
