I hope all you mothers had a great Mother’s Day Sunday as we all need to thank our mothers we have or had for who we are today. Our pastor, Bro. Benny Dewitt brought a good Sunday morning message on mothers beginning in Genesis, on our first mother, Eve and…
It was incredible and beautiful Monday that we’ve all been waiting for. It was a warm, sunny day. We spent the day in Springfield most of the day and will be again early tomorrow for an appointment. It is suppose to be rainy and cold again towards the end of…
John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”. 17, For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. …
Psalms 143:8, ” Cause me to hear thy loving-kindness in the morning for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.” I love some of these prayers of David’s and we’re told that God will…
The last few days have been beautiful, sunny days for January. We still have a couple of months in which we could get very cold weather. We need to continue to pray for moisture. We don’t want to start this year as dry as this. We made a trip to…
It’s a beautiful Tuesday morning with the sun shining through my front window. I appreciate our beautiful sunny days, but we’re desperate for rain and heard we were to get rain tomorrow night then forecasting maybe Thursday or Friday. This being Tuesday we will not be quilting today. Some of…
Its somewhat cold without the benefit of having the sun shining this Monday morning. My friend just left after a short visit and bringing me a variety of candy she and her mother had made. My mother-in-law and I had some good times making Christmas candy. One day when Jerry…
It’s a beautiful Tuesday morning here in Ava, but last night was quite stormy. The thunder and lightning woke me different times in the night. I saw snow on the news this morning in the California mountains and Tahoe areas and it was coming down. I was in that area…
It’s amazing how our weather changes so fast. We’re all so happy over the rainfall and cool weather. I think we even had the heat on for a while at church partly because of dampness and it was a little cool for awhile. Pastor Benny preached a good morning message…
It’s nice to look outside and see green grass again and after the rain everything looks cleaner and brighter. We need lots more rain and hopefully we will start getting some. I visited with my ister, Verda Komlo in Virginia today and she said they had been getting lots of…
The first thing we did at church Sunday morning was to thank God for our good rain. Jerry and I were on our way to the Oldfield Opry Saturday night and about Dogwood Hill when the rain started and we got hit by some hail. When we left the Opry…
Our tent revival is now over, but the good spirit that was there is still with us. I went every night and enjoyed all 9 nights of it. We had a different personministering every night and wish all churches would have come and been there to hear the good word…
Several Weeks Ago – The rain we prayed for, came this morning early. We need to pray for more since it was just a short and sweet rain, that just came and went. I hope everyone had a safe Memorial weekend. I finally got my family and Jerry’s family decorated. …
The rain we prayed for, came this morning early. We need to pray for more since it was just a short and sweet rain, that just came and went. I hope everyone had a safe Memorial weekend. I finally got my family and Jerry’s family decorated. I got to visit…
It has been a beautiful Tuesday here today. I love the cool nights and warm days, but we are getting desperate for rain. I’m sure everyone is praying this week for rain and we know God hears and answers prayers, not always on our time schedule though. Today my sister…
It’s a beautiful Tuesday morning. I thought surely we would get some more rain yesterday, but we didn’t and our gardens are needing it. It isn’t much fun to have to water so soon. Tuesday and Thursday are exercise classes and that has kind of changed some for me since…
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him, but God hath revealed them unto us by His spirit,” I Corinthians 2:9-10. This was our key verse Sunday morning, as we studied on…
The month of March went fast and now April is here with Easter next Sunday. I don’t know about weather for April but it has been very warm for March. The weatherman today said a chance for storms this week. We had a nice dinner at Church the last Sunday…
We have now begun Spring. It’s a beautiful first day of Spring, but look out for rain today. It rained Monday and supposed to rain almost every day this week. We need it. My neighbors have mowed twice already and we need to. Today we will be quilting at church…
We are in the second week of March and a beautiful week so far. I don’t know if winter is over, but it must be since I’ve seen people plowing gardens and trees budding. Spring may be here. Our time changes again this coming week also. We’re ready for a…
I haven’t written since we had the ladies from Teen Challenge with us. We enjoyed their testimonies. We hope and pray they all continue in this Christian walk that they have begun. The ladies at Faith Rock prepared them something to eat and they set up a table of things…
Jeremiah 17:9 “The hurt is deceitful about all things and desperately wicked; and who can know it” We had a good Sunday school class with Bro. Fleetwood teaching from the book of Jude. It just has the one chapter, but powerful teaching in that one book. We celebrated one anniversary…
It has been a beautiful day here in Ava today, but tomorrow is suppose to be colder, but I’m sure we will keep warm in our church basement as we do our quilting. I appreciate the Douglas County Herald for the nice gift we received for writing our church news.…
We have now began a new year. A chance to begin again because yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. We can begin again. I always read Dear Abby’s New Year’s Resolutions that are only possible one day at a time, one of them was…
We had a beautiful Sunday weatherwise for our Christmas dinner yesterday. We appreciate everyone that prepared and brought so much good food. We were glad to have several visitors for church and stayed for dinner. We had so much that we could have shared with many more. Christmas always brings…
It’s a cold snowy Tuesday morning here in Ava. We will be quilting this morning and getting ready for Christmas dinner next Sunday. Time has sure went fast this year and seems we just get going and the year has come and gone again. It’s hard to get our minds…
It’s a cold Tuesday morning here in Ava today. The sun has come out so that will help our spirit today. Today is our quilting day. We didn’t meet last Tuesday as we were all getting ready for Thanksgiving and our families getting together to celebrate a special day of…
As of today October has come and gone and we’re going into November. I suppose we will be seeing a little snow as they did 100 years ago I read in lastweeks 100 years ago items. We saw Colorado had a good snowfall over the weekend. I have my candy…
We had good services Sunday morning and evening. Bro. Dewitt preached on the compassion of Jesus in Luke 7:11-15 about the young man, the only son of his widowed mother, who Jesus raised from the dead and delivered to his mother. Jerry and I with daughter, Sherry and granddaughters, drove…
We are all loving this beautiful fall weather and hope it will last awhile longer. My hummingbirds have left to fly south so I’m sure cold weather will be coming before long. The Glade Top Trail picnic is this coming Sunday and I’ve seen it pretty cold and windy up…
We had a good day quilting today and visiting and of course eating out. Our Pastors, Bro. Benny and Sis. Loretta Dewitt and Bro. Hesterlee came and worked in the kitchen painting and cleaning out cabinets to be painted. Bro. Fleetwood and Bro. Hesterlee are putting in a new hot…
Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me oh God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” We had very good services Sunday. Bro. Benny Dewitt brought us a good sermon from Mark 9:14-29…
We had a beautiful Tuesday with a good rain this morning. We had a good morning quilting with eight ladies coming to help. We gave out a few and had some to send out this week. We had good service Sunday with Pastor Benny Dewitt bringing the morning message from…
Psalms 9:10 “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.” That doesn’t let any of us think we can do nothing. We can’t all be leaders but we can be…
We had a good week and enjoyed the good Fourth Sunday Singing we had at Faith Rock. We had a good crowd and lots of musicians and singers who did a great job. Our ladies set a wonderful dinner and just out did themselves with all the good food. I…
We’ve had a good week, even if the weather has not changed and I suppose this week will be as hot as last week. I’m looking forward to fall coming and then we can complain about how cold the winter is. The kids will all be heading back to school…
We have a beautiful Tuesday morning with a very hot forecast for today. July and August are always hot, but can be dangerous if we have to be outside for very long. Thank God for air conditioning. We had a very good service Sunday with Bro. Hershel Letsinger from the…
Psalms 143:8, “Cause me to hear they loving kindness in the morning: for in thee do I trust: cause me to know thy way wherin I should walk: for I lift up my soul unto thee.” God is so good to us. I’m thankful this Tuesday morning for the rain…
We had a wonderful Sunday, worshiping the Lord and dwelling on His goodness. We are so thankful for the goodness of God, we have a home and food, when so many of our neighbors have lost everything. Thank God for the Dads. Hope they all had a good Father’s Day.…
This week will be a substitute for our dear, sweet Audrey, as she ison a deserved vacation in Florida, meeting up with her relatives there. Audrey is a blessin to our church and our community. We pray she will have a safe and joyful trip. We are having some very…
Faith Rock Full Gospel Church want to invite each and everyone to come hear and be blessed by the Higher Vision Quartet from Hartville, Missouri this Sunday at 6 p.m. June 12. We appreciate and hope that God richly blesses each and everyone is our prayer for the money donations…
Another Memorial Day has come and gone. The cemeteries are so beautiful. We went to Spring Creek, Mt. Tabor , Ava, Jenkins. They were especially beautiful and well maintained. I remember going to Arlington Cemetery years ago with my sister and family that live in Virginia. It’s something to see.…
Hope all yu mothers had a wonderful Mother’s Day. We appreciate our children and husbands. We probably have flowers to plant for a week. We’re all so glad to have beautiful weather after all the rain. It’s awful to still see all the devastation in Tennessee and others where the…
Hope everyone had a blessed Easter Sunday with good attendance for all church services over the weekend. Actually Easter should be our most celebrated holiday of the year, being the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We had a good morning worship service with Pastor Benny Dewitt bringing a message…
First of all, I want to say happy birthday to my granddaughter, Albany. She was 9 years old the 19th. Our pastor, Bro. Benny Dewitt, had a birthday last Saturday with a surprise party from all their family at a restaurant there. I heard he was a little depressed thinking…
Ephesians 4:27, “ Neither give place to the devil” was Pastor Benny Dewitt’s message Sunday with scripture from Proverbs 1:20-33. It was a very good message with good congregational singing. I came home and hurriedly fixed lunch and went back for afternoon services at the nursing home. Sis. Betty Hesterlee…
Today has been another great day in the Lord. The Lady Quilters at Faith Rock Church had a day of quilting, fellowship and we had a lot to pray about. Bro. Benny Dewitt brought the message Sunday morning on ”Who Is God” using several different scripture from The Holy Bible…
It has been a cool, wet morning here in Ava on this Tuesday. It’s our quilting day and most of our regulars are here today and we always enjoy our time together. We want to say happy birthday to Sis. Jean Heinlein, Sis. Dessie Miller and Bro. Jerry Miller. We…
I guess we’re all back to cold weather again, but spring is just around the corner. I cleaned a little in a flowerbed because the easter lilies are getting ready to bloom. We are quilting today and enjoyed eating lunch out today. We appreciate Kathleen Sparks for the new material…
Pastor Denny Dewitt brought a great message Sunday morning titled “Running From God.” His scripture was the story from Jonah 1 and Matthew 12:39-41 and II Kings 14:25. The scriptures were all pertaining to Jonah and what can happen when we run from God’s doing His will. Bro. Bob Fleetwood…
Psalm 8:3-4 “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; what is man that thou art mindful of him?” Aren’t we glad that God is mindful of His children on a day like this Tuesday. We were given plenty…
A very damp, chilly day here in Ava today as we are quilting here at church today. We just got back from eating out for our lunch. There is seven of us here today working. We’ve had several things we came together and prayed about. We have a beautiful quilt…
It’s a beautiful, sunny, white day today as I write this. Most schools were closed because of this snow today and we didn’t quilt today, just a little too cold we thought. I guess the flu is going around, both my granddaughters were sick Sunday and Monday. I haven’t called…
We’ve enjoyed a beautiful sunny Monday here and the weekend wasn’t bad either. Anyway, the days were sunny, not so cold. I was sorry about the tornado storms reported. The Ava area did okay, but several counties weren’t so lucky. Jerry and I went to Branson last Monday. Tuesday, I…
I haven’t written since our anniversary party, but I appreciate Sis. Wanda Ray and Sis. Betty for writing. We had a very good service Sunday morning with Br. Benny and Loretta Dewitt preaching and singing. Bro Dewitt preached from Matthew 20:30-34 and Acts 6:10-15 if you want to read the…
We opened church with prayer request. We are praying for Larry Vinson’s grandbaby, Cory Rush, Norma Fry, Bob Fleetwood, Dessie Miller, Chase (Little Man), Betty’s niece – “Patty Jennings, Ellie Doran, Loy and Jean and daughter, Gayle, Marie Long, Jerry and Glenda Miller, Robert and Dorothy Grisham. Sunday, December 19…
We have had a beautiful week and hopefully we can enjoy the good weather a few more days. We do need rain and are expecting to get some before the week is over. I think Ava had a good turnout for the election. I suppose not everyone was happy with…
We’ve spent a wonderful day quilting, visiting and working on our basement here at church. We had a nice visit with Sis. Marie Long this morning. Five of us went to her home and some stayed and quilted. Our pastor had a desire to have communion with Sis. Marie and…
It was another beautiful fall day in the Ozarks. It’s either one of the most beautiful falls I can remember or as you get older you are more appreciative of all that’s around us. We are quilting today as we do most Tuesdays and have given away several quilts lately.…
