I have two weeks or so worth of news to report in this article so I will see if I can keep everything in order. The first week in May was our Communion Sunday. Our crowd was down a little, but we still had a good service. I had my…
What an absolutely gorgeous day today was. This is the weather we think of as spring weather. I hope you remembered to thank God for giving us such blessings as this. My weather man is telling me that the forecast is going to change by this weekend. I guess we…
Hello from our mountain. We had a wonderful service this weekend. We started with a nice crowd for church and getting ribbons to wear in remembrance of child abuse month. Donald preached about what part of your body was the most important. Now I am sure everyone has their own…
As normal, I am a week behind. We had a great Easter weekend. We started out with breakfast at church. We fixed the works: sausage, biscuits and gravy, eggs and pancakes. We had a kitchen full of hungry people. Someone even made some cinnamon rolls, which I enjoyed. After we…
Okay its official, spring is here. You can’t tell it by the weather, but love is in the air. We had a wedding shower at church last Saturday. Even with all the snow and cold wind, we still had a fairly good crowd out for church Sunday morning. We even…
I said last week that we would all start getting spring fever and today I talked to a lady that already has lettuce, radishes and onions planted. I do not have anything in the garden, but we do have our tomato plants started. Just think fresh tomatoes, what could be…
I know it’s been a while since I have written to everyone. I hope you are looking forward to spring as much as I am. God has blessed us with some good rain to help our gardens grow and I know the farmers will appreciate the moisture to help get…
By the time you get your paper it will be Valentine’s Day. Did you remember to tell those around you how much you love and appreciate them? Even more important, did you tell God today how much you love him? If you want to truly understand about love you have…
Wow, what great weather we have been having. Sometimes it’s hard to believe that we are in January and then we have another day or two of cold temps just to remind me. Sunday was one of those days. It was not to bad at our house, and then we…
Happy 2013, I hope the New Year is treating you mighty fine. We brought in the start of the year at church the way it should be done. We started with getting together and having a wonderful meal. This of course led into some visiting. After a little clean-up, everyone…
Hello everyone. I hope you had a wonderful Christmas season. There wer lots of places to go and hear the true story of the birth of Jesus. We had our play the 15th and were glad to have a large crowd come out to see our kids put on their…
The Christmas season is in full swing. You can see it as you go walking through the stores, and now you can see it as you drive through the neighborhoods. Roger has even hung some Christmas lights for me this year. I appreciate him and Mike for getting my new…
Oh, yes the holiday meals have begun. We had our Thanksgiving supper at church Sunday night and it was wonderful. Lots of ham and turkey and of course several new dessert recipes that the ladies had to try out on us. No one should have left hungry because we had…
I hope you survived our trick or treats. We now get to move on and start thinking about Thanksgiving. There is always so much to be thankful for if we just stop and think about all the wonderful blessings that God gives us each and every day. I know that…
It seems the weeks just fly by. I was busy trying to get everything ready for our fall festival and I think everyone had a great time. We had several ride on the trailer as they made their way around the mountain to enjoy the beautiful scenery. From what I…
We have had another great week here on our mountain. God is blessing us with some beautiful Fall colors. Sitting on the front porch of our church you can look out and enjoy some of God’s work of art. It’s a busy time at church. We are making plans for…
It seems that fall weather has arrived. We did get most of our garden picked. I can’t believe here it is in October and we picked three gallons of green beans. We also hadn’t dug out potatoes and sweet potatoes until just this week. We were amazed how many sweet…
Hello I hope you are having a wonderful week. My garden is finally slowing down. It’s funny we hope and pray for an abundant garden with lots of produce and then glad when it quits producing so much so the work load lets up. We are hard to please aren’t…
I know it has been a while since I have written. My mother has reminded me I need to get my article in the paper and today at church Violet said she had missed my article. You know the old saying when it rains, it pours. Well, it seems to…
What an exciting time we have had here on our mountain this week. We have been in Vacation Bible School and we have had a blast. We had a wonderful group of kids and lots of helpers. We even had a group of teenagers that came and did a fantastic…
Hello to everyone from all of us here on our mountain. We are like you, hot and dry. I got an e-mail from a friend asking for a combined effort for prayer for rain for our land. Not just any rain, but a good ground soaking rain. God says where…
It has been such a blessed weekend. We have received rain two days in a row. It’s amazing how different even the air smells after a good shower of rain. I know our garden enjoyed a good drink of rain. We had already harvested our corn, but still have other…
I hope you all are finding a place to stay cool on these hot days. I know that God knows what is best for us, but that does not keep us from praying for some rain and a little cooler weather. We have been watering our garden to keep it…
I think only people in the great Ozark hills could possibly go through as many weather changes as we have lately. We went from 90 degrees to 60 in just a few days. We were praying for rain and God answered that prayer with a little bit of rain scattered…
Hello, I hope you are all having a wonderful week. I need to wish some of our kids, congratulations on graduation. We had several 8th graders graduate at Plainview and as far as I know only one senior. We are very proud of our youth here at Eastern Gate. I…
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers, I hope you had a great day and that your children took the time to tell you how much they love and appreciate you. If you have a Christian mother who taught you about the love of God, you are very blessed indeed. I…
I don’t know what happened to our warm weather, I guess it had to remind us it is till spring. We have three tomatoes planted and have covered them up three different nights. I feel sorry for those with a garden full of plants and having to get them covered…
I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend. Roger and I both had Good Friday off of work so we had a three day weekend. I think we made good use of the time, but it sure went by fast. Sunday we started off our Easter services with a big…
It is truly unbelievable the wonderful weather we have been having. The sunshine is warm and it feels like summer. I know several have gotten bitten by garden fever. I have put out a couple of tomatoes. I hope it doesn’t come a cold spell. Imagine I could have tomatoes…
What a gorgeous week this has been. The sun has been shining and the weather warm. Who could ask for better? I have a hero at church. Larry Hutchinson called this week and told us that he had managed to vacate our friendly neighborhood church skunk. Just in time too,…
Hello, I know it’s been awhile since I have written to everyone. Things haven’t changed too much. We still have our friendly skunk at church. Larry has poured three bags of concrete filling up his holes. This shunk is more dedicated to church then most people because even with all…
We had a wonderful weekend at our church services. I was beginning to wonder how the morning was going to be when I opened the door of the church and what should I encounter the not-so-wonderful aroma of skunk. You will never know how much I detest the smell of…
Old man winter has finally arrived. We have a couple of inches of snow on the ground. I do enjoy the beauty of snow, but I do not like driving on it. We can’t really complain, it has been a very pleasant winter. We had a good crowd out for…
I just can’t believe the wonderful weather, we have been enjoying. I do recall it is January and going into February. I heard on the radio the other morning that the Farmer’s Almanac had predicted a mild winter and so far they are calling it right. We had discussed calling…
It has been another great week, here on our mountain. God is still blessing us with good weather this winter. It’s hard to believe that January is already half over. Sunday at church was our youth night. We had the youth gather in early and we had different things for…
Welcome to the year 2012. I was watching the news the other night and they were showing the year in review. I know the news has a habit of showing the bad, but I was amazed at all we went through this past year. It started with a blizzard, a…
What a truly wonderful time of year this has been. God has blessed us with great weather to get to all the places we needed to go. We had services at church Sunday, and I was pleasantly surprised to see such a large crowd gather for our services. We started…
Merry Christmas to everyone, I don’t know about you, but I have made my list and checked it twice. I hope I have everything about done. I know this season sometimes seems to bring out the worst in people, or so it seems when you are out shopping. In reality…
I was in trouble at church this weekend. Guess what for, for not getting my article in the paper again last week. I made up all kinds of excuses, which I thought sounded pretty well, but they were just excuses. Sometimes we do that in our lives too. God wants…
It’s amazing how fast the holidays come and go. We barely get through with Halloween and then it’s time for Thanksgiving and on to Christmas. I must tell you, I had some wonderful Thanksgiving meals this year and memories to store for later use. It started with our Thanksgiving dinner…
A lot has been going on around our mountain the past two weeks. I know a lot of people are out deer hunting. It all started with the youth season. Several took their kids out and taught them how to hunt and hopefully get a deer. I know a few…
Hello, I hope you have enjoyed the beautiful colors of nature that God has given us this year. Just the drive home from work has shown us some amazing views. Many people have tried to paint and photograph such scenery, but no one can truly capture God’s work of art.…
Hello on this beautiful fall evening. Some people say this is their favorite time of the year. All seasons have something to enjoy, and everyone has their favorite one. I guess that is why we live in the Ozarks where the seasons have such a difference. At church Sunday, we…
Did you think you weren’t going to hear from me again? I did have good intentions, but I would get started on the work week and the next thing I knew it was too late to get my article into the paper. That is also how we get in our…
What wonderful weather we are having. I don’t think we could describe more perfect days than the last few days have been. At church is is so nice to have the windows open and feel the breeze blowing. Friday night we went to Breedon’s singing, I have to admit we…
Labor Day has come and gone. What did you do? Some people used it as a last excuse to spend some time at the lake or like me and my husband, we spent the weekend doing some extra labor around the house. We had an extra day off work, so…
Sometimes we forget just how blessed we truly are, and then we get reminded. At church Sunday night we had our youth night. The crowd was a little slow in arriving, but we did have a good group of kids show up. We had a special songs by Bud Hampton…
God is so good to us. As I am writing this, we are getting a gentle rain outside. As a matter of fact, it has rained all day. I know my garden sure appreciates the good drink of water and our spirits enjoy the coolness it brings to the day.…
There’s an old saying “when the cats away the mice will play,” well our pastor Donald was away preaching at another church Sunday and I want him to know that we were on our best behavior.That is to say, our behavior was good for us. After all we have to…
God truly blessed us with a wonderful rain this weekend. We need to keep praying for rain and cooler weather. Our church is in VBS this week and we could use some cooler temperatures. I’m sure whatever God has in store for us, He knows what it best. By the…
I do hope everyone is warm enough. Larry, Jimmy and Jerry were discussing the heat at church Sunday morning. I know it may be hard to believe, but even I am glad for air conditioning. They all tease me at church because I am so cold natured. Our attendance was…
Happy 4th of July to you! I hope you celebrated the birthday of our great country in some way. I was explaining to my Sunday school class that our country was based on the idea of freedom of religion, the freedom to worship God without fear. Yet, today so many…
Eastern Gate Church appreciates everyone who came to the one year memorial for Ethan Hutchinson, especially the young people. Thank God for so many old and young that gathered around the altar and looked at their own lives in need following the next night a revival started. Rev. Ray Dobbs…
