Memorial Day honors those that gave their lives for our freedom
This holiday is set aside to honor those Americans that gave their supreme sacrifice loss of life in battle. (November 11th is time all military personnel is honored). If you look back at the number of casualties in war time the number of wounded, sick and missing and lives forever changed it is very high. Ephesus Baptist Cemetery had 84 flags flying for all veterans buried there. God bless all the families who lost their loved ones in protecting us. We all take our freedoms too lightly and the flag does represent those freedoms! Long may she ever wave in the home of the brave and the free!
“Our Flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each Soldier who died protecting it! We don’t know them all, but we owe them all!”
“Only two defining forces that have ever offered to die for you; Jesus Christ and the American Soldier. One died for your Soul and the other died for your freedom. Thank them both today!”
I have a Niece who lives near Tulsa, Ok. (Sally Emmons and her son, Coulter Featherstone). She has posted several things about the horrible weather they have experienced the last several days. She said, “we are experiencing hundreds of tornadoes, massive flooding, barges crashing into dams, earthquakes, warning sirens and no power, just to name a few. Keystone Dam is releasing water faster than Niagara Falls, 50,000 to 65,000 cubit feet/second. Flooding reportedly will surpass the flood of 1986! Please pray for all affected by these events!”
EBC News: Vacation Bible School begins this week. June 2-6 from 5:30-8:30 p.m. with Family night on Friday, June 7 at 6 p.m. Please take time each day to pray for everyone involved in VBS. Pray for all the children attending and their families and all teachers and workers. The devotional books “Our Daily Bread” for June, July and August are now available. Please get your copy today.. Take two, and share one with a friend.
Prayer needs: Joyce Everett, Willie McTurner, Doug Moore, Judy Burns, Ralph Irving, Sue Fortenberry, Butch Barton, and several unspoken request. Sincere sympathy to the families of Charlie Montgomery, Jim Armstrong and Penny Barrett Clark in their loss of loved ones
Coming Sunday, June 30 at 11 a.m. we will welcome the One Way Quartet. Everyone is welcome to attend. You don’t want to miss this fabulous time of Southern Gospel Music and Testimonies. A love offering will be taken. We will have a potluck luck meal following the concert. Please bring your favorite dishes to share!
Housewarming for Bert and Brandy Sharp and their daughter Baylor, next Sunday, June 2nd from 2:00-4:00 p.m., 3978 Ephesus Road. Their new home features a Farm House theme and colors are white, gray and turquoise. Please join us as we officially welcome this family to our community and celebrate their new home.
“If we are pronounced dead when our heart stops, we should be pronounced alive when our heartbeat starts!”
“Ships don’t sink because of the water around them. Ships sink because of the water that gets inside of them. Moral of the story, a Don’t let what’s happening around you, get inside of you and weight you down.”
“Senior Citizens can stay safe, when living alone and maintaining their health. Quit smoking; Exercise regularly; Eat a nutritious diet; Keep up with immunization and health screenings; Manage stress; Stay in touch with friends; Keep list of medications handy and Prevent falls.”
“Opossums are the Unsung Heroes in the Lyme Disease Epidemic. They are groomers. harvesing up more than 95 percent of the ticks that try to feed on them. A single possum can kill a whopping four thousand ticks a week. They can can get rid of a whole bunch of other stuff that most folks had rather not have around. They eat garden snails, slugs and beetles, keep roaches at bay by competing for their food or simply killing them. They can consume rattlesnakes and cotton mouths without being affected by their venom. They earned the title of sanitation workers of the wild.” I have shot a few, at night back in our chicken farming days, only never see them again. They are good at “playing possum.” I feel different about them now if they would just stop grinning at me!
I am a Seenager (senior teenager). I have everything I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later! I don't have to work or go to school. I get an allowance every month (Social Security), I have my own pad, I don’t have a curfew, I have an I.D. That gets me on an airplane or hospital. Boy, Life is GOOD!
PRAY, not because you need something, but because you have a lot to thank God for!
Have a blessed week!
