March 27, 2011
Well, most of you know by now that Doug Banks went home to be with the Lord this past Monday. He really went downhill quickly after they found out what was wrong with him. Continue to remember Bobbie and the family in your prayers. They had one son and three daughters, five grandkids and one great grandchild. Doug was a fun-loving person who I enjoyed being around. Listening to his family talk about him was a joy and a delight. Some of the events they shared with me were tremendous. I praise the Lord that God allowed Doug to be part of our fellowship. I shared at his funeral how it seems like he has always been part of our church. He came in with joy in his heart and brought a sweet presence about him. I am going to miss him and I know many of you will miss him too.
I know that some of you did not hear about his home going and for that I apologize. We do have committees to call people about a death who are on the food committee to fix food for the funerals, but we really are limited on how to contact all of our church members. With that being said, there is a program that we can purchase for the church which would call all the membership with a message from the church concerning announcements. We can notify each group in our church about upcoming things: Choir, C.M.T., Deacons, Seniors, Youth, Kids, food committees, VBS, and any other announcements that we need to send out. So if you see the need to purchase this, and I do, you can give money for this. On the back of the pew are some envelopes take one and write on it new equipment. The price for a system like this is around $650.00. You can give five, ten, twenty, fifty, hundred or whatever. We have needed this for a long time.
We have some other things that we are going to do in the upcoming days and weeks. Easter at the crosses with breakfast to follow, no Sunday school, and we will start our service at 10:30 because the kids and the choir will be having a program. Yes, I will be preaching. Mother’s day is coming the second Sunday of May and with that we have been asked to put together care baskets (16) for a battered women’s shelter. These will have shampoo, conditioner, deodorant, lip gloss and maybe a brush or something small. There are a couple of them made up which we will show you today.
Pastor Tommy
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