200th Birthday
Sympathy is extended to the family of Jason Towery.
Salem Church (Hwy 487) will celebrate its 200th birthday 1825-2025) on Sunday, February 2, at 2 p.m. There will be no Sunday school or morning worship on this Sunday. Bro. Randall Creel will be bringing the dedication message on this day. Everyone is invited to attend this milestone event as the newly renovated church building will be rededicated at this time. Also February is the month that celebrates the beginning of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church (1810). If you or any member of your family has ever attended Salem, we invite you to come and be a part of this time of dedication and celebration,
Reminder: Salem Church (Hwy. 487) has new hours for services. Sunday – Sunday School at 10 a.m., morning worship service at 11 a.m.; Wednesday night services – adult Bible study at 6 o’clock in the fellowship hall and youth activities at 6 o’clock in the youth room. Food will be served on Wednesday night. Bro. David Rives will be bringing the morning messages. All are welcome to attend.
Please continue to pray for a special group of young people who need the continued touch from the Great Physician: Salem Bennett, Lee Wilson, Sam McNaugh, Bentley Strickland, Matthew O’Neal, Lestat Ellingburg, Eden Gilmore. These are tough little fighters who have endured and continue to endure daily pain. Please continue to pray for these amazing young people. Please add a new name to our young people’s list – newborn Danny Ray Thrash who needs us to pray for him as he had surgery the day following his birth.
Prayers for the following people (some for physical needs and some for other needs): Jimmy and Lynda Gainey, David Tadlock (our Forest neighbor), Renita Wilcher, Imogene Brown, Ricky Comans, Eden Gilmore, Penny Settlemir, Patricia Lathem, Larry Loper, Teresa Breedlove, Fay Henderson, Dale McCann, Charlotte Abel, Amanda Taylor, Margaret Gilmore Jones, Breann Nicholson, Melody Starling, Ted and Ann Musgrove, Harold Shaw, Bobby Thrash (son of Thomas Gene Thrash), Jimmy Wilson, Paige Spence, Marty Killen, James Underwood, Linda Grayson, Clay Tune, Renae Leach, Cody Lepard, Sam Allen Smith, Rose McCann, Max Lang, Jackie Wilson, Steve Davidson, Margie Hillman, Cynthia Arthur, Karren Abel, Scot King, Amy Gomillion, Evonne Hudson, Tammy Bennett, Elaine Sistrunk, Jean Creel, Bill Abel, Rita Kennedy, Freddie Ezell, Joan Gilmore, Mike Lang, Hope Cooper, Dawn Barnes, Bobby Earl Green, Barney Green, Clara Brown, Lisa Johnson, Paul Morgan, Charles Ware, Sherry Thrash, Rodney Thrash, Jason Towery, John Thrash, Gary Kiddy, Linda Ware, Mike Ware, Jim Phillips, Jimmy Anthony, Shane Madden, Sally and Billy Green, Diane Vance, Shelia Hedrick, Katherine Madden, Betty Maxey, Shelia Towner, Kameron Buffington, Kolby Buffington, Kemper Gomillion, Wyatt Gomillion, Shirley Boxx, Sada Sistrunk, and Johnny Thrash.
A very special happy 97th birthday to my cousin Imogene Brown of Forest. Imogene grew up in the Sebastopol community.
Happy birthday to the following people: Destiny Foley, Dempsie Estep, Josh Moore, Sylvia Price, Sandra Lathem, Pam Hudson, Andy Sagona.
Please continue to pray for our nation and for the world as a whole. Pray for each other and especially for the states that have suffered much natural disaster in recent weeks and months. Please pray for the people of Israel and the people of the Ukraine, President-elect Trump, the Christian people in Syria, and for the restoration of families. Pray for the victims of the terrorism in New Orleans. Pray for the family of former President Jimmy Carter.
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Thought to ponder: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
