The St. Clair Baptist Associational WMU is having a Ladies Retreat Saturday, September 26 – 9:00 a.m. till 3:00 p.m. at Camp Chula Vista, Pell City, (I-20 Exit 153). Special guests include: Mrs. Rosalie Hunt—Bible Study Leader, (Mrs. Hunt was a former missionary to China and is immediate past president of Alabama WMU; D-Team Angels – Music and Testimonies; Kristy Carr –Volunteer Connection with National WMU, (Kristy will be sharing Missions and Ministries opportunities).

The cost is $10.00 per person (Includes lunch). There will be coffee, juice and snacks for early arrivers. Please buy your ticket from a lady in your church before September 21, which is the registration deadline date. (Note there was an error RE the deadline date in last week’s paper).

The correct deadline registration date is Monday, September 21. One person from each church will call the St. Clair Baptist Association to register ladies from their church who are attending the Retreat.

Our community was deeply saddened when we received the news that Mr. Billy Wayne Vaughan, 67, passed away September 2, 2009. He had lived in the Mt. Moriah neighborhood all of his life and had been sick a long time. He was an active member of Mr. Moriah for the most part of his life. And his lovely family, wife, Linda Murphree Vaughan, sons, Jason, Jeff and Joey are members of Mt. Moriah. Jason’s wife, Holly, is an active member. Wayne’s sisters, Juanita Vaughan Savage, her husband, Howard and Jean Bishop and her family are also active members of Mt. Moriah. In fact, the Vaughan family is known as the “backbone of the church”. Wayne’s parents, J.B. and Essie Vaughan who preceded him in death were active members of Mr. Moriah.

A number of memorial donations were given to Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Building Fund.

The tributes paid to Wayne by the pastor of Mt. Moriah, Reverend Zane Smith and Wayne’s former pastor, Reverend Ted St. John conveyed the kind of gentleman Wayne was: a good husband, father, brother, uncle, cousin, neighbor/friend and a good citizen. (Wayne was a member of the Alabama National Guard).

The funeral service was held at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. Reverend Zane Smith, current pastor of Mt. Moriah and Reverend Ted St. John, former pastor of Mt. Moriah officiated. It was a beautiful service for a devoted Christian gentleman.

Interment was in St. Clair Memorial Gardens in Coal City. Our prayers and condolences are with the family.

Belated happy birthday to my friends, Mary Bryant Isbell, September 11, Sue Thomas, September 12 ad Sharon Gant, September 14! And happy birthday to Randy Hurst, September 17, Brian McNutt, September 19, Dave Disspain, September 23 and Mr. William “Bill” Tipton who will be 90 years young September 26!

Congratulations and happy anniversary to y brother and sister-in-law, Joe “Cliff” and Beverly Black and Joe and Tammy McNutt who will celebrate September 24!

Let us keep a daily prayer vigil for the sick and shut-ins, the recently bereaved, residents and personnel in nursing homes, school, Head Start, and college students and their teachers/administration all personnel of our education institutions, our troops and their families, our nation, the leaders of our nation, state and local officials. Please pray for Chris Phillips, the son of Kenny Phillips and Bobbie Moore who has recently been deployed to Afghanistan.