Popes Chapel Community Church in Wattsville will host the annual National Day of Prayer meeting Thursday, May 5 at 7 p.m. Pastor Jeff Sherrill invites everyone. Also, this annual event will be broadcast on radio and television.

Mt. Moriah Baptist Church will have annual homecoming at the ninety-seventh anniversary celebration Sunday, May 15 at 10 a.m.-3-.m. This is always an all-day event. Debra Perry and “Jaidyn’s Call” group from Dahlonega, Georgia will be the guest singers for both the morning and afternoon services.

Dinner will be served at noon. The church will provide the meat, coffee and tableware. Attendees are asked to bring side dishes, desserts and drinks. Attendees will reconvene at 1 p.m. for singing in the afternoon. Mrs. Redena King and Landon King will chair this event. Rev. Dwayne Banks is the church pastor. Everyone is invited.

Those of us who knew and loved Mrs. Brenda Bush of Pell City were very sad when we learned she passed away recently. Brenda was the mother of Ashley Higginbotham Davison, who is my great-niece. Our prayers and condolences are with Brenda’s family.

Sunday, May 8, is Mother’s Day, a day set aside to honor mothers. I wish to pay tribute in memoriam to my mother, Orene Thornburg Black. She was a loving wife, mother grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great grandmother. She was a devoted Christian and faithful church member. She taught a Sunday school class until her death, was Woman’s Missionary Union director in the local Baptist church and held other church offices. The death angel took her to heaven twenty-one years ago. We, her children, are very grateful to God for giving us a Christian mother who was so precious to us.

I wish you all mothers who read this column a happy mother’s day! God Bless you always.

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