Concerning the infirm...

Here are a few of the sick and infirm I know about.
Willa Jean has fluid on her knee. Cathy is taking her to the doctor in the morning.
Roger is recovering at home from back surgery.
Elaine is in ECM hospital being given blood.
Susan is still having a lot of trouble with her back.
Sommer and Sandi are still icky this evening, but will hopefully feel better soon.
I think there may be several others, but don't know enough to report.

Mother is to go to ECM tomorrow to receive blood. She is dangerously anemic. The doctor said that he would try to get it done during the day, but she should be prepared to stay overnight. He also mentioned further tests. Please pray for her.

Who's 50?

Oh, yes, isn't it nifty? Someone we know is turning 50!!!!

VBS DATES!!!

The elders would like to have VBS from July 7-11 this year. I think this will enable us to miss conflicts from teacher workshops, vacations, camps, etc. in June. Everyone check your calendars and hopefully this will be a good week for most of us to participate. Let me know what you think.
thanks,
Steve

Caleb

Has anyone heard from Caleb Thornton? I believe his surgery was scheduled for today.

This Shall Be a Sign Unto You

New Georgia has a new sign in the yard in front of the building. It has a place accross the bottom that we can put short messages with magnetic letters we've purchased. So, if you come up with a catchy/scriptural saying, pass it on to me... maybe we can use it.
Here are some I found on the internet. Anybody want to vote for their favorite?

Be Fishers of Men.... You catch 'em, He'll Clean 'em
A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
Are you wrinkled with burden? Come on into Church for a faith lift!
Coincidence is when God chooses to remain anonymous.
Do your best and then sleep in peace. God is Awake.
Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
Don't wait for 6 strong men to take you to church.
Exercise daily. Walk with the Lord!
Fear knocked. Faith answered. No one was there.
For all you do, His blood's for you!
Forbidden fruits create many jams.
Give God what's right, not what's left!
Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.

Joyce Cagle

Joyce had to go back to the hospital Monday. She was having chest pain and shortness of breath. They wound up putting in a stint to repair blockage Tuesday morning. She was doing well as of Tuesday afternoon, for which we thank God. She's in room 366 at ECM.
Steve

What's new?

I think Malissa is having her back surgery this morning. Does anyone else have any news? How'd everything go at New Georgia yesterday?
I got to see Jason and Amanda yesterday morning -- they visited at Mt. Olive in Gardendale where I'm preaching the gospel meeting this week. It was nice to look out and see a couple of familiar faces!
Steve

My weekend

Hope everyone had a good day Sunday. I talked to Bob Waldron & Greg Chandler, and they both indicated that they enjoyed their time on Sunday with New Georgia.
The gospel meeting went well in Albertville [except for the preaching ;-) ] The audio and lesson material from the Albertville meeting are posted on their website if you want to see what I was up to over the weekend -- the URL is http://theinstructor.org
Hope to see everyone Wednesday night.
Steve

The Sick and wounded

We had several mentioned as sick or not feeling well tonight. I thought I'd post the list:

• Bert (dizziness)
• Agnes (fell)
• Elaine
• Caleb T. (flu?)
• Derrick Richardson family
• Willa Jean
• Carter Newton in Helen Keller hospital with RSV, room 404
• Also, Eugene has been having some tests and Doyce is to have an MRI on his shoulder.

Doris Butler's Aunt Alma Haraway died Sunday night. Her visitation and funeral will be tonight at Limestone Chapel Funeral Home in Athens. She was 95.

Missed Sunday Night

Hello all,
Just wanted to let you know that we worshipped with West Rogersville on Sunday night because we were running too late to make it to New Georgia (imagine that!). Anyway, we had a lovely song service. Unity was the theme and Eph. 4 was the primary passage. With the LCD, they would project a few passages that someone read. Then, another would sing a couple of songs that went with it. Next, a new display was up and someone else would read new passages displayed, then songs were sung that went with them. At the end, Joel got up and brought it all together with a short message. It did remind me of some Wednesday night singings. I just liked the way it was all centered around one thing.

OK, that was my "blog" for the week! Hope everyone has a wonderful, safe, and HEALTHY week!

Funeral Arrangements for Bill Nave

Bill Nave’s funeral arrangements are: Tuesday 6-8 p.m. Visitation atMcConnell Funeral Home. Wednesday there will be a graveside service at11:00 at Sunny Hill Cemetery (right behind Sunny Hill church of Christ.)
Brother Nave was a former member of New Georgia and a distant relative of some of our current members.

Cathy

I am forgetting to check out the blog. Beth reminded me yesterday. I had not heard about Ann's baby. When I tried to log on to post a blog, I had already forgotten my password. How's that for a senior moment?

Hope everyone is feeling well. I am taking Mother to the doctor today. Hopefully, we can find out why she is having trouble walking. Please keep her in your prayers.

TREY IS HERE!!!

Baby Boy Trey arrived - 7 lbs. 2 oz. Ann and Trey are doing great!!!!

Ann

Ann is scheduled to go to the hospital Sunday night at 12:00 to be induced. Let's keep her and the baby and Doris in our prayers!

Sarah's Surgery

Hi everyone! I know it is late, but I wanted to let everyone know that my niece, Sarah, will be having her adnoids (sp?) removed tomorrow morning (Tuesday) at 7:30. She will also have her left sinus flushed out. Please keep her in your prayers. Also, say a prayer for Chris and Hope. It is very hard to have your baby be put to sleep for surgery. I hope everyone is doing well. How is Elaine doing?

Update from the James Cagle family

Mother just called from Birmingham. Carolyn is out of surgery. Dr. said everything went well. Aubrey is still breaking out with chicken pox. She had the vaccine at 1, so she is only having a mild case. Dr. said to expect around 50 spots. Keith said she is growing feathers! :) He had a touch of the stomach bug yesterday. Better today. Haley has moved in with my parents - she doesn't want the diseases! HA! :) Have a good week!

It's COLD!!!

I just thought I would see if this works.

I hope everyone is staying warm today. I hear we may be getting even colder weather tomorrow and this weekend. Don't anybody get sick, ya hear?

I thought I might let everyone know that I won't be at services Sunday. John and I plan to go to Auburn to visit his parents for the MLK holiday this weekend. We will be attending services somewhere down there. I will miss all of you, though.

I hope Sommer is feeling better and that Katie is being a good nurse.

How did Mr. Beavers' knee surgery go? I re-learned from his grandson, Drew Miller (also grandson of Don and Brenda Miller, with whom I stay), that Mr. Beavers was having his surgery a couple of days ago. Small world, huh?

Ok. I'll quit. I hope you all have a wonderful week and stay really, really warm.

The Deal With Sommer (Part 2)

As we announced today, Sommer had a fall on a sailboat and cracked a rib. When she went to the doctor to have it checked this afternoon, he pushed on the rib and broke it. She spent this evening in the emergency room getting checked out. X-rays and CT scan showed no signs of complications like a punctured lung, so they sent her home, but she's in a lot of pain. Please keep her and and her mom in prayer.
thanks,
Steve

Russell's grandfather, Christy's grandmother

Russell's grandfather, Jimmy Casteel, and Christy's grandmother, Gladys Traylor, both passed away last night. Visitation for Christy's grandmother will be Thursday night and the funeral will be Friday. Not sure about Russell's grandfather's arrangements yet.....

Willie T's phone

Just wanted everyone to know, Mother (Willie T.) has decided to cancel her home phone and use our phone number 247-0096. This will be effective on Wednesday, Jan. 9. This will help her because she can use the caller ID before she answers and not be bothered by the solicitors anymore. Wanted everyone to have her new number.
Thanks,
Susan

The deal with Sommer

Sommer finally headed back to Florida today (Saturday). She'd planned to leave Thursday, but stayed an extra couple of days because of health concerns. She'd been having stomach problems (nausea, etc.) since before coming home for the holidays. The doctor thought it could be a side effect of some medication she's taking, so he changed the medicine. But her stomach problems continued, and even got worse over the last couple of weeks. She lost about 8 lbs over the holidays! Anyway, she went back to the Doc this past Thursday. They ran tests on her gallbladder Thursday and Friday but everything came back normal. So, now they've started her on some ulcer meds, but the doctor isn't sure that's really the problem.
Just thought I'd let everyone know what's going on with her. Keep her on your prayer list!
thanks,
Steve

Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a good time last night. Byron is still in bed, or I would ask him if he had fun! I hope everyone has a wonderful year, full of happiness and good health. You are all a wonderful family! Let's all remember to pray for Ann and her baby.
Jena

Lots of sickness!

For those who were not able to be at services Wednesday night.... you were not alone! Seems that there's a cold going around that several people have caught.
Besides that, Doris was with Ann, who was admitted to ECM because of her high blood pressure and because the doctor thought the baby was stressed. They're giving Ann steroids to boost the baby's lung development in case he comes early. The baby's situation seemed better this morning, and Ann is hoping to come home tonight.
Phil's dad, Glen Keenon, was in Huntsville Hospital with congestive heart failure, but he was improving as of Wednesday night.
Jerry is having a lot of pain in his knee; he was to see the doctor today to get the results from an MRI and discuss treatment -- probably surgery.
Sure hope the sick improve and the well stay that way!
brotherly,
Steve

What's happening?

Hey! How's everybody doing? It's a busy time of the year! My sister Pam and her husband are coming in from Missouri on Friday, Lord willing. Sommer and Katie both have part time jobs for a few days. Actually, KT is just babysitting for a couple of days, but Sommer is working for Verizon in Decatur through a temp agency.
Does anyone know if there will be a New Year's get together this year?
Steve

Enjoyed the gathering, loved the gift.

We really enjoyed being together with everyone last night. New Georgia people are just the best! (and the food was pretty good too)
Sandi and I were really touched by the gift. A lot of love is in that quilt, and we want everyone to know how much we appreciate it and how much we love ya'll.
The video was cute; it looked like the ladies had quite a bit of fun doing the quilting.
Steve

Wednesday's announcements

Those we mentioned for prayer in the announcements tonight included:

• The James Adams family; James' brother-in-law Glen Ingram past away this morning.
• Joyce Cagle had a medical test this week (I believe to check her aorta) and is to have another test on the 12th; she's having a lot of leg pain.
• Doyce Richardson's nephew's wife (Malissa Richardson) has a malignant tumor in her eye. They are planning to do surgery.
• Elaine P. and Caleb T. are both under the weather.

Pray without ceasing!

Steve

Just an update on Mother. She is feeling better every day. She was very tired Sunday after being up so long but really enjoyed being at Church. She misses being there and was so happy to be able to go. Thank you all for your prayers on her behalf. We really do appreciate everyone at New Georgia.

Love you all, Susan

By popular demand...

I got a couple of requests for copies of the poem I read at the end of Sunday night's sermon. Here it is:
Second Coming of Christ: 'Twas The Night Before Jesus Came
'Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house
Not a creature was praying, not one in the house.
Their Bibles were laid on the shelf without care
In hopes that Jesus would not come there.
The children were dressing to crawl into bed,
Not once ever kneeling or bowing a head.
And Mom in her rocker with baby on lap,
was watching the Late Show while I took a nap.
When out of the East there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash!
When what to my wondering eyes should appear But angels proclaiming that Jesus was here. With a light like the sun sending forth a bright ray I knew in a moment this must be The Day!
The light of His face made me cover my head It was Jesus! returning just like He had said.
And though I possessed worldly wisdom and wealth I cried when I saw Him in spite of myself.
In the Book of Life which He held in His hand Was written the name of every saved man.
He spoke not a word as He searched for my name;
When He said "It's not here" my head hung in shame.
The people whose names had been written with love He gathered to take to His Father above. With those who were ready He rose in the air While all the rest were left standing there.
I fell to my knees, but it was too late; I had waited too long and this sealed my fate.
I stood and I cried as they rose out of sight;
Oh, if only, if only I’d been ready tonight.
--- Adapted from Bethany Farms