Coal City News

Published 7:00 am Thursday, March 9, 2017

Southern Baptists are observing the Annual Week of Prayer for North American Missions beginning Sunday, March 5 – Sunday, March 12. Also the ingathering of the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering began and will continue through Easter Sunday.

Mt. Moriah Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU), held a church-wide meeting Monday Evening, March 6 to pray for the missionaries (North American) who are featured in the prayer guide. It was a very special occasion. There were tablescapes , which of course, were very beautiful. Mrs. Jessie Garrison, who was formerly an active member of Mt. Moriah and was a leader in WMU, was the guest speaker. Her testimony was, indeed, inspiring and when she reminisced and spoke of some of the fun times Mt. Moriah had, there was a lot of laughter. There were twenty-six men, women, children and youth present. A delicious meal was served and the fellowship was wonderful! Mrs. Redena King is the WMU Director and Rev. Mickey Jones is the church pastor.

Belated happy birthday to my long-time friend, Lenton Williams, who celebrated in February! Also, to Wayne Markham who celebrated March 4! And happy birthday to my friend, Lasonna Smith, March 9, my great-nephew, Devin Black and Mark Barber who both celebrate March 10! (Devin is the son of my niece, Amy Black, and is the grandson of my brother and sister-in-law, Joe “Cliff” and Beverly Black and Judy and Walter Wagner.

As I have stated before in this column, I have misplaced my list of birthdays. If you would like for me to wish you a happy birthday or anniversary, will you please call me at (205) 884-0040 and give me the date of either. I will greatly appreciate it.

Congratulations and happy anniversary to my son and daughter-in-law, Dr. CB (Carlos) and Karen Phillips Scott, who will celebrate their forty-third, March 9 and to my friends, Darren and Ena Hallman, March 14!

Please keep a continual prayer vigil for our nation and its leaders, the safety of our schools/Head Start, and college students and the personnel of these, our soldiers and veterans, those in nursing homes/assisted living centers and the personnel of these, the bereaved and the sick and shut-ins, those you know of who are patients in hospitals, the nation of Israel and all other prayer needs.

“And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE.” 1 Corinthians 13:13 – The Bible.