Cleaning House
Announcements: A weekly Prayer service is held every Wednesday at the Scott County Courthouse in Forest. Starts at 10 a.m. everyone is welcome.
East Mississippi Baptist State Convention Mid-Winter Board meeting is scheduled for February 10th and 11th at Pineville Baptist Church, Waynesboro, Mississippi.
Pleasant Hill M.B. Church of Morton, MS will host their Pastor Marcus McDougle’s Anniversary on March 19, 2023. Guest speaker will be Rev. Vincent Hopkins of New Bethel MB Church, Forest, MS.
We Care Mission Food Distribution dates are February 10 and February 24. Time. 10:00 a.m. -12:00 noon at Morton United Methodist Church, 29 Church Street, Morton MS.
Happy Birthday To: Lodena Palm, Mrs. Lillie McCoy, Avonte Reese, Mrs. Mary Helen White, Charlene Lewis and Jerrell Chambers.
Congratulations To: The recipients of special awards given at the City of Morton Chamber Awards Banquet held on January 24, 2023.
Prayers and Concern For: Pauline Bryant, Clois Slocum, Peggy Lewis, Ida Burgess, Brenda Matheny, Connie Jackson, Jeannie Easterling, Steve Deering, Mary Louise Mays Dorothy Chambers, (aunt) Homer Matheny (uncle) Yonne Sheperd, Jean Manning and Arvell Palm.
Sympathy to the families of W.C. Lloyd and Dorothy Rosell.
On February 5, 2023 our morning message was brought by Rev. Marcus McDougle. Scripture reference Obadiah 1:1 with the subject little pride gets you nowhere.
Food For Thought: January is gone, we are now into February. Some of you may have already started your New Year’s cleaning. You know how we do it room by room this needs to go, I don’t wear this anymore etc. Drawing up a list of work that needs to be done. Perhaps we should take stock of our lives as well. Someone you invited to sit at your table in 2022. May not need to be at your table in 2023.
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