Weather

The dry heat of Texas summer has suffered its first blow. After a high of 111 degrees yesterday, last night a cool front blew in. As I speak, the temperature is only 65.
Has anyone else ever noticed the difference between the coolness of spring and the coolness of fall? In the spring, I can never concentrate on what I am supposed to be doing. I want to be out and about, running around, playing outside. In the fall, I feel content, cozy, and sheltered. I like sitting here in our church office, doing various and sundry things, from punching paper and re-doing the rolodex for our church of 2200 to cutting out paper Noah's ark figures covered in laminate. I actually did math of my own free will this morning. (I did terribly.)
I found the perfect word for this kind of weather in a book by Edward Eager, "coolth."

Chesterton Quotes

Thieves respect property; they merely want the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbor.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

(and last but not least)

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

Be careful what you wish for...

9 MONTHS TILL HARMONY HILL!!!!!!!!

OH yeah......

See anyone you know?

UPDATE: I imagine all of you recognized everybody, but here 'tis just in case:

front: Kathryn B, Emily, Caitlin, Kathryn G, Rebecca B, Eleanor, Elsie and Ellen.

back: Carol B, Claire, Caroline, Molly, Kim with Elliot, Kathy S with Ann-Marie, and Connie Weyel.

To give you some idea of their ages, Caitlin and Kathryn B were 8; Claire, Eleanor and Caroline were 5.

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Hint: September 1997. Virtual M&Ms to anyone who can guess more than 12 people correctly.



Can you guess the name of this gentleman?

Q with no A

What do people call recurring dreams?

Another MS update

A note Elder Mike Ivey sent to the Lewisville PBC this evening:

I just received a call from Elder Lonnie Mozingo Jr. He had just delivered supplies to 3 PB churches in Southern Mississippi for distribution to neighboring communities. He indicated the scene is beyond comprehension. There is no gas and people who are trying to leave the area are stranded on the hiways. They had to carry enough fuel with them to make the delivery and get back. They delivered medical supplies, water, tarps, toilet paper, non-perishable food, etc. He is heading back to Atlanta to get more supplies and will be returning tomorrow night. He urged me to contact anyone I can to ask for more help. He indicated people are dying from dehydration and lack of medical attention. When he arrived at Ideal PB Church some members were there trying to remove fallen trees off the church. One 70 year old sister collapsed in his arms. She had eaten very little and had little to drink for 4 days. They delivered a generator to another brother who had been without needed oxygen supply due to lack of electricity.

Please keep praying for these and others. And please be generous with your help when we take up funds tomorrow.

May God be merciful,

Bro. Mike

Update on MS churches

Just heard today that there are about FORTY Primitive Baptist churches in the devastated areas of south Mississippi.

Please keep praying.

MS brethren need our help

Please pass this information on to your parents and churches.

Our Primitive Baptist brethren in south Mississippi are in dire need of help. Some of our elders have managed to have brief contact by cellphone with Elder Lonnie Mozingo, Jr, who has been in Hattiesburg helping his family cope with the aftermath of the hurricane. He reports that the devastation is endless. Their homes and possessions are destroyed and all the trees are down. Many roads are blocked, and there is no gas, no power, no phone service.

He is en route back to Atlanta today to pick up supplies gathered by the Bethany PBC brethren and will return immediately. He told my brother David that he is seeing lines of homeless people wandering all along the roads. He says it is pitiful and indescribable.

Bro. Lonnie's family members in Mississippi have relocated to a relative's home.

The best way to help our brethren there is to send checks to Bethany Primitive Baptist Church and specify that the money is for hurricane relief supplies.

Bethany Primitive Baptist Church
PO Box 178
Tyrone, GA 30290

You may also wire money. To do so, contact Bro. Chris Taylor, a deacon at BPBC, at 404.668.2937.

Lynn