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Mr. Jimmy Rice « Result #1 on Feb 8, 2010, 7:25pm »
Mr. Jimmy Rice Obituary
Mr. Jimmy Rice, age 67 of Bray Creek Road in Manchester, passed away Sunday, February 7th, 2010 at the Saint Joseph Hospital in London, Kentucky. He was born June 6th, 1942 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Roy David and Mary Rice. He was a heavy equipment operator for the Shamrock Coal Company and a member of the Macedonia Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife: Susan Rice of Bray Creek, his daughters: Kay Mills and husband Darryl of Burning Springs, and Kim Keister and husband Randy of Bowling Green, his son: James William Rice and wife Bobbie Jo of London, Kentucky, and 7 grandchildren: James Darryl Rice, Morgan Mills, Blake Mills, Paige Keister, Beca Keister, Chase Keister, and Brody Rice.
He is preceded in death by his parents: Roy David and Mary Rice, and his brother: Roy David Rice, Jr.
Funeral Services for Mr. Jimmy Rice will be Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 11 AM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Kenneth Felty will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Macedonia Cemetery in the Burning Springs Community.
Visitation will be Tuesday, February 9th, from 6 PM until 8 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
Rominger Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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Mrs. Leslie Helen Jones « Result #2 on Feb 6, 2010, 4:54pm »
Mrs. Leslie Helen Jones Obituary
Mrs. Leslie Helen Jones, age 27 of Manchester, passed away Friday, February 5th, 2010 at the Manchester Memorial Hospital. She was born October 11th, 1982 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Jesse and Carlita Walker Kemp. She was a homemaker and a member of the Potters House Holiness Church.
She is survived by her husband: John Jones of Manchester, her children: Alyssa Payton Jones of Manchester, Jonathan William Jones of Manchester, Alexis Paige Baker of Manchester, and her step-son: Brayden Kade Pennington. Also surviving is her parents: Jesse and Carlita Kemp of Manchester, her paternal grandmother: Betty Sue Kemp, her maternal grandmother: Audrey Campbell, her father-in-law and mother-in-law: Jim and Connie Jones of Manchester, her sister: Jessica Lynn Middleton of Bristol, Tennessee, and her nephew: Matthew Dylan Middleton.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Leslie Helen Jones will be 2 PM on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. George Roberts, Rev. Harold Byrd and Rev. Donnie McKissic will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Birch Cemetery in the Crawfish Community.
Visitation will be Monday, February 8th, after 11 AM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
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Mrs. Shawana Hoskins « Result #3 on Feb 6, 2010, 4:38pm »
Mrs. Shawana Hoskins Obituary
Mrs. Shawana Hoskins, age 33 of East Bernstadt, Kentucky, passed away Friday, February 5th, 2010 at her home. She attended the White Hall Church.
She is survived by her husband: John Hoskins, her children: Carrie Swafford of Manchester, Kentucky, and Timothy Swafford of Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. Also surviving is her father: James Birch, her mother: Wilma Birch, and these brothers and sisters: Tatum Sizemore of Manchester, Jagretta Birch of Laurel County, Kentucky, and Tabitha Gray of Laurel County.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Shawana Hoskins will be Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 11 AM at the Smith Hollow Full Faith Holiness Church. Rev. Roscoe Roark and Rev. Terry Reid will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Potter Cemetery in the Pennington Hill Community.
Visitation will be Sunday, February 7th, after 6 PM at the Smith Hollow Full Faith Holiness Church.
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Think About It..... « Result #4 on Feb 6, 2010, 10:46am »
Why and How You Should Vote by: Don Pinson
Recently a student at one of the High Schools in our region invited me to come and speak to a group of Junior and Senior students he had assembled. He wanted me to speak on the importance of voting; urging the students to participate in their governmental system. The following is basically what I said to them - George Washington said, in his Farwell Address to the nation, in 1796:
“I have already [indicated] to you the danger of Parties in the State....Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of Party…Domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention…is itself a frightful despotism.” (That is, life under a dictator.)
Keeping in mind Washington’s warning about ‘party spirit’, let’s ask some clear questions about “why” we should vote, and “who” we should vote for.
But before we ask, “Who should I vote for,” or even “Why should I vote?” we should ask, “What is the purpose of government?” Because it is government we will be operating---through the people we vote for. So let’s first answer: What is government?
The word govern means to control. Therefore, government exists for the purpose of controlling the “I want what I want when I want it” in me, from taking your God-given rights of life, liberty and property, as the Declaration of Independence teaches. Likewise, government is to protect my God-given rights of life, liberty, and property, from your selfishness. This is the purpose of government. It is the only legitimate purpose of government.
So then, why should you participate in government by voting? Because you are choosing what kind of control you are going to have over the destiny of your life and the lives of your children. The privilege and responsibility of voting is a sacred gift from God secured by our Founders in America. America’s first dictionary defined the Latin word, from which we take our word vote, as “a solemn promise to God.” So voting has a spiritual dimension to it. Our Founders in America acknowledged this spiritual dimension in the concept of voting. Samuel Adams, the Father of the American Revolution said:
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual - or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”
Noah Webster, the Father of our original education system (not the current educational system:
“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, "just men who will rule in the fear of God.” If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”
What root idea will determine how you vote? Will you buy into man’s ideas expressed in great wordiness about the issues facing you? Or will you go to the source out of which America’s Founders built the greatest nation in world history, THE BIBLE? It says,
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…” (Proverbs 9:10)
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you, and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Missionary Moment « Result #5 on Feb 6, 2010, 10:44am »
Discipling Young Christians
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MIKE and VICKI MCQUITTY are North American missionaries working to reach the 75,000 college students located in central New York. Utilizing various methods to share the Gospel and disciple young Christians, Mike trains them to carry the Gospel and plant churches throughout the region. They also develop student leaders to take the Gospel overseas and work with our International Mission Board missionaries. It’s exciting to tap into the zeal and giftedness of these students, and our church is a partner in this effort through our consistent support of Cooperative Program (CP). Pray for the McQuittys and these students this week.
2 Timothy 1:12 …And that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.
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Think About It..... « Result #6 on Jan 30, 2010, 3:15pm »
Raising the Standard for Children by: Don Pinson
The conversation of a Ugandan boy of 11 with an 11-year-old from the West puts childhood into proper perspective. The Ugandan boy, an orphan, has been touched by the powerful revival which has been happening in his country for several years now. After meeting the young boy from a Western country, the Ugandan child asked him, “What are you going to do in life?” This was not a question of childhood play. He was completely serious. The other child was amazed and asked how was he supposed to know what he would do in life---he was only a child! The boy from Uganda replied, “You’re eleven years old and you don’t yet know what you’re supposed to be in life!” He really was amazed. You see the Ugandan child has been under the influence of a move of God’s Spirit in his nation that has had a profound impact on his country. Unlike the boy from the West, he has been taught that life is not about him and his pleasure; but rather it’s about the plan of God for him. He’s planning and is now taking steps to become what God has created him to be.
Before you dismiss this as just a child’s aspirations; or perhaps as the result of over-zealous parents and teachers who have “crammed” the Bible down his throat, you better consider history. It is a fact of history recorded in the Bible that God has used children, and has a plan for each child to whom He’s given breath.
God used the child Samuel to minister to the priest Eli in the Tabernacle of worship. His mother had left him with Eli as soon as he was weaned. He grew up knowing he was to minister to the nation of Israel as a prophet and a priest. He even, while still a child, delivered a strong prophetic warning to Eli about sin that was in his life and the life of his sons. (1 Samuel 3)
David was but a boy, perhaps only ten years of age or so, when he went into the fields to watch his father’s sheep. He would face both a lion and a bear during that time, and would kill them both! David learned to trust God by his extended times alone with Him in the wilderness. (1 Samuel 17: 32-37)
Daniel and his friends were probably young teenagers when they were carried off to Babylon and then picked to be trained for the king’s service. They would courageously refuse the king’s commands that disagreed with the Scripture, and would change the course of a nation because of their boldness when young. (Daniel Chapters 1 & 3)
Because of the Biblical understanding of early Americans, their children accepted responsibility much earlier in life that our children now. John Quincy Adams, at age 14, was ambassador to Catherine the Great, the queen of Russia in the late 1700’s.
Fisher Ames, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence, entered Harvard when he was twelve. And that was when you had to be able to read Latin, Hebrew, and Greek to get into Harvard! (Education and the Founding Fathers, David Barton, Wallbuilder Press, Aledo, Tx., 1993, p.21)
Another Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush, would later be the Surgeon General for George Washington’s Continental Army. He graduated from Princeton at age 14!
Likewise, Daniel Boone, as a 10-year-old boy in the 1740’s, went 10 miles from home and stayed with his father’s cattle on an additional farm his father owned. He would be mostly alone during this time, but God used it to prepare him to be the primary woodsman that would open the way to America’s western frontier.
Are we preparing our children to be used by God, depending on Him alone to be their Source? Or are we preparing them to live for themselves, which will lead them to depend on government to be their source.
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you, and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Missionary Moment « Result #7 on Jan 30, 2010, 3:13pm »
Baptist Friendship House, New Orleans
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As a North American missionary and assistant director of Baptist Friendship House in New Orleans, KARINA AMERICA ministers to hurting, and often homeless, women and children by seeking to meet their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. Ministries such as Bible studies, literacy training, tutoring, food and clothing closets, mentoring, and health fairs are tools Karina is using to share the hope and love offered by Jesus Christ. Your love for people and participation in the Cooperative Program (CP) help Karina and her staff reach hurting families who are desperate for hope. Pray that these women and children will experience Christ’s love and allow Him to transform their lives for eternity.
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Think About It..... « Result #8 on Jan 29, 2010, 9:40am »
Repairing the Hedge by: Don Pinson
If you have a fenced in yard, and all the sudden you notice there are animals trampling your flowers and destroying your vegetable garden, you know there’s something wrong with your fence. So you look for where the fence is broken, where it has a gap, and you fix it. To stop the flow of intruders into your property, you must repair the gap in your fence.
God uses this very picture in the Bible to describe what happens when His people start to disobey Him. God evidently places a “hedge” of protection (Isaiah 5: 1-7) around each individual at birth. As we grow in age and size we learn from parents, teachers and others about life. If what we learn is the truth as revealed in the Bible, and we choose to consistently obey that truth, the “hedge” stays up. But if what we learn either is not the truth, or if we choose to disobey the truth, then our “hedge” of protection starts to break down. The more disobedience there is to God’s Word, the more our fence comes down; and the more satan and his evil spirits, who come to “kill, steal, and destroy,” (John 10:10) break into our lives. Thus, the destruction in our lives will, generally speaking, be in direct proportion to how much of God’s truth we know and are walking in. Generally speaking---and let’s leave the exceptions to God---the Bible teaches that obedience brings blessing to the life; disobedience brings destruction. Life really is that simple---for both individuals and nations. The Bible says,
1“Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments… the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: 3“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. 4“Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. 7“The Lord will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face;” (Deuteronomy 28)
So let’s not kid ourselves: With drugs destroying so many of our children, our nation’s economy in shambles, and as small a military force as Ben Laden’s resisting us for 8 years, something is desperately wrong with most of our nation. Our hedge is broken down in a number of places. Let’s admit it. So can it be fixed? Yes! God’s Word to the Jews through the prophet Ezekiel tells us how. Ezekiel writes:
23And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 24“Son of man, say to her‘ You are a land that is not cleansed…in the day of indignation.’ 25The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; 28Her prophets…[told] lies for them.” (Ezekiel 22)
God called His ministers to stop telling people that things were okay when they weren’t! He called them to speak the truth to the education, governmental, and economic systems as well as to individual families. Then he called His people to admit that they had believed lies. They were described by God to Ezekiel;
“30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” (Ezekiel 22:30)
We “stand in the gap” when we speak the truth, and pray the truth for ourselves and others around us, including our nation as a whole. Will you speak the truth and fast and pray like our Founders in America did in times of crisis? Latter on, how will your children evaluate the way you live? How will God evaluate you?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you, and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Mr. Lee B. Sizemore « Result #9 on Jan 22, 2010, 12:50pm »
Mr. Lee Sizemore Obituary
Lee Bowling Sizemore of Manchester departed this life on Thursday, January 21, 2010, at the age of seventy. Lee was born on February 14, 1939 to the late Steve and Mae Bowling Sizemore.
Lee wore many hats during his lifetime. He was a well-respected educator teaching at Crane, Buzzard, Beech Creek, Manchester B, and Manchester Elementary Schools. He served as the guidance counselor at Goose Rock Elementary and as the long-time principal of Hacker Elementary School. Lee was also a business owner, land developer, coon hunter, pond builder, philosopher, and poker player. He was even a part-time moonshiner for a while.
He loved the outdoors and cherished the time spent with friends and family on his family farm on Greenbriar. Most importantly, Lee was a man of faith. Though neither typical, nor traditional, Lee’s relationship with God was his own. Lee Sizemore was a Christian, and because of this we each can celebrate rather than mourn!
Lee is survived by his wife of nearly fifty years, Henry Ann. He is survived by his children, Teresa and John Collette of Corbin and Shawn and JoAnna Sizemore of London, as well as by his most prized possessions, his Grandchildren: John Dantley Collette, Kasey LeAnne Collette, Haley Sizemore, Victoria Sizemore, and Kennedy Lee Sizemore. Lee was preceded in death by his beloved son, Shannon Lee Sizemore. He is also survived by his sister: Jewell Dean Stivers and husband J. P. Hillier of Knoxville, TN.
Lee leaves behind a host of treasured family and friends whom he loved! Lee will be missed!
Funeral Services for Mr. Lee B. Sizemore will be Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 at 3 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Pastor L. J. Harrison, Rev. Todd Hicks, and Rev. Tim Rogers will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Sizemore Cemetery in the Greenbriar Community.
Visitation will be Saturday, January 23rd from 1 PM until funeral time at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
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Think About It..... « Result #10 on Jan 5, 2010, 4:11pm »
Triumph Will Come Out of Tragedy by: Don Pinson
While this has been the worst year in American history, because our national Congress and Mr. Obama have literally changed the very form of government which our Founding Fathers gave us, God is yet at work. The story He is writing through the course of time is filled with triumphs that came out of tragedies. One of these was when the Jews were carried away to Babylon for 70 years. Their temple was torn down and the palaces of their kings destroyed. Nothing was left of their previous civilization. And yet, in that darkest of all days in their history, God was still writing His-Story. He promised them that this tragedy would be used to work their repentance, which would bring them back to His order---and, in His order, there is always the flow of His blessing.
At this, the lowest moment in all their long history, God gave them an encouraging word through the prophet Jeremiah. He boldly declared to the nation that, out of this tragedy, He would,
“…give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God; for they shall return to me with their whole heart.” (Jeremiah 24:7)
He said, “I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord.” They had gone into captivity because they had forgotten He was “the Lord;” that is, He was the Owner and Master of everything---including them! He owned their possessions; and those should have been used for bringing their children and others into agreement with God’s way of thinking. Instead, they had used them for their own pleasure. He was the rightful ruler of their time and abilities. Yet they had treated both time and abilities as if they had created these themselves; as if these existed for their selfish pleasure. Does this sound familiar, as if it was America’s nightly newscast? They had gone into captivity to a foreign nation because they had forgotten He was sovereign, meaning supreme in power. Through their captivity they would again acknowledge that God was the rightful ruler of their personal, family, and national life.
God promised that, because of oppression from government, they would “return to Him with their whole heart.” In other words, God would no longer be just a part of their life. He would be their life! They would no longer control what they did with their time, and only “pull God off the shelf” when they had a crisis. Now they would start their day trying to hear His voice from the Scripture, and then listen for Him all through the day. Their aim would be to join God in what He was doing; not to try to get God to join them in what they were doing---you know, by asking Him for His blessing on their projects! Sound familiar?
And because they would “return to [God] with their whole heart,” God would again claim them as “[His] people.” He would also commit to them to “be their God.”
The lesson for us is plain. While we are under God’s judgment for giving our nation, over the last one hundred years, to the control of those who hate Him and His Word, He yet promises that we can again be a nation He will use---if we will repent of our selfishness and return to Him with our whole heart: returning to live, once again, by the standard revealed in the Bible.
The Pilgrims came to know God out of their great sufferings for His cause. Knowing Him well gave them the ability to create the greatest nation in world history. Should not we return to the faith of our Fathers - and teach it to our children?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you, and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Missionary Moment « Result #11 on Jan 5, 2010, 4:05pm »
Recovering Addicts Ministry
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ANDY LEININGER helps recovering addicts in the Ural and Siberia region of Russia push past their addictions. There is much need for that ministry, as nearly 43 percent of Russian men are likely to die from alcohol dependency. Andy is grateful for your commitment to reaching people through the Cooperative Program (CP) that enables him to meet with the leaders of the six recovery centers in Novosibirsk Oblast. All of the centers’ leaders are recovering addicts who have given their lives to Christ and are passionate about seeing positive change in their own lives and in the lives of those with whom they work. Take a moment to pray for Andy and the Russian men who are struggling with addiction.
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Mr. Robert "Bob" Reid « Result #12 on Jan 1, 2010, 12:19pm »
Mr. Robert "Bob" Reid Obituary
Mr. Bob Reid, age 86 of Manchester, passed away Thursday, December 31st, 2009 at the Laurel Creek Health Care Center. He was born August 24th, 1923 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Willie and Stella Deaton Reid. He was a member of the Horse Creek Baptist Church; he worked for Manchester Wholesale, and was a veteran of the U. S. Army.
He is survived by his son: Keith Reid of Marysville, Indiana, his daughter: Treasie Bledsoe of Marysville, Indiana, 4 grandchildren: Andrea Reid, Robert Reid, Eric Reid, and Tiffany Parks, 3 great grandchildren, and these brothers and sisters: June Mills of Pigeon Roost, Kentucky, Willie Reid of Marysville, Indiana, Pearl Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Gilbert Verner Reid of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Funeral Services for Mr. Bob Reid will be Sunday, January 3rd, 2010 at 2 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Ken Bolin and Rev. Anthony Lovett will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Reid Cemetery in the Pigeon Roost Community.
Visitation will be Saturday, January 2nd, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home.
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Missionary Moment « Result #13 on Dec 28, 2009, 11:55am »
A Faith-Based Shelter
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DaySpring Villa Women and Children’s Shelter in Oklahoma is a certified domestic violence shelter housing up to 55 women and children escaping from domestic violence situations, as well as women who are homeless for other reasons. Missionary director VANESSA KEHL notes that this faith-based shelter provides timely opportunities to share Jesus with these people in crisis. This important ministry opportunity needs your prayers and your continued faithful participation through the Cooperative Program. Pray for the staff of DaySpring as they minister to women and children in difficult circumstances. Pray for ANTHONY, Vanessa’s husband, as he encourages her in this challenging ministry.
The preceding "Missionary Moment" was made possible by gifts to the Southern Baptist Association Cooperative Program, which is supported by several Clay County churches who are members of the Booneville Baptist Association which consists of 25 churches in Clay and Owsley counties which are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Kentucky Baptist Convention. For more news and information go to..... Booneville Baptist Association
Think About It..... « Result #14 on Dec 28, 2009, 11:52am »
Characteristics of a Dictator by: Don Pinson
Stephen McDowell is one of the best analysts of what’s happening in government that I know. He recently wrote concerning ways Mr. Obama has lied to the American people (Providential Perspective, Nov. ’09). I quote him as he says Obama promised, “he would not rush legislation…but rushed through the stimulus bill.” Obama promised “he would not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations” but then told “Hondurans whom they should choose for their president (siding with the communist friend of Chavez)” McDowell says Obama has also lied by saying “that the government can provide health care for millions of uninsured without increasing the deficit nor diminishing quality” which contradicts even “the impartial Congressional Budget Office.”
Having leaders like Obama, America is in her worst crisis in all her long history. The very system our Founding Fathers enacted, and for which many gave their lives, is now being trashed by this present administration in Washington. But, America has seen threatening times before. In the War for Independence, by September of 1777 the American cause looked hopeless. The American army had won few battles. We had been driven out of New York; and then our Congress was forced to flee Philadelphia. Twenty members of that scattered Congress managed to get together in York, Pa. to discuss if they should continue this fight. After dejected statements by some there, Samuel Adams, the man who had fought the longest for this Revolution, rose and said some of the most inspiring words I’ve ever read. He stated,
“Gentlemen, your spirits appear oppressed with the weight of the public calamities. Your sadness…reveals your disquietude. A patriot may grieve at the distress of his country. But he will never despair of the commonwealth…We have proclaimed to the world our determination ‘to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.’ If we despond…the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more…Our losses, though great, can be retrieved. We have been reduced to distress, [but] the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up. Let us still rely…on Him who is mighty to save. Good tidings will soon arrive. We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection.”
Indeed, Adams was right. Just a month later, by two miracles, our forces were able to capture the British-held fort of Saratoga in New York. This may well have been the turning point of the War. It so lifted the American spirits (as well as greatly adding to our arsenal) that the National government called for a special “Day of Thanksgiving to God… through the merits of Jesus Christ.”
Yes, we are in a desperate time in America. But God is still God! He says in His Word,
“Trust ye in the Lord forever; for in the Lord Jehovah is the rock of ages. Thou wilt keep him in peace, peace, whose imagination is stayed on thee.” Isaiah 26: 4, 3; the literal Hebrew reading.
Let us resolve in our hearts that we will pray for our national leaders; and that we will fight this battle to take away the liberty of our children to hear the purpose of God for them through Jesus Christ. Let us commit to send our emails and letters; and make our phone calls to our government servants and insist that they do what the Bible teaches concerning religious liberty, health insurance, and how to do business. Let us repent for electing leaders who are so against God and His Word. Then we can trust His Word that says,
“He who covers his sin shall not prosper; but whoever confesses and forsakes it shall have mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13)
Will you repent?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you--and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Mr. James Russell Minton « Result #15 on Dec 26, 2009, 5:51pm »
Mr. James Russell Minton, age 62 of Manchester, passed away Saturday, December 26th, 2009 at the St. Joseph Hospital in London, Kentucky. He was born January 19th, 1947 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Marshall Minton, Jr. and Mattie Hampton Minton. He was a retired auto mechanic and a member of the Lebanon United Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife: Cheryl Minton, one son: James Dewayne Minton of Ohio, one daughter: Sherry Lynn Minton of Ohio, and one step-son: Anthony Bilbrey of Indianapolis, Indiana. Also surviving are 13 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, his mother: Mattie Minton of Manchester, and these brothers and sisters: Joey Minton of Manchester, Bobby Minton of Manchester, Christine Harris of Manchester, Geraldine Hampton of Louisville, and Christie Hoskins of St. Louis, Missouri.
He was preceded in death by his father: Marshall Minton, Jr.
Funeral Services for Mr. James Russell Minton will be Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 at 1 PM at the Lebanon United Baptist Church. Rev. Wayne House and Rev. Mike Philpot will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Minton Cemetery in the Urban Community.
Visitation will be Monday, December 28th, after 6 PM at the Lebanon United Baptist Church.
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Mr. Caleb France, Jr. « Result #16 on Dec 26, 2009, 5:51pm »
Mr. Caleb France, Jr. Obituary
Mr. Caleb France, Jr., age 60 of Sharonville, Ohio, passed away Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at the Mercy Hospital in Fairfield, Ohio. He was born October 25th, 1949 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Caleb and Anna Minton France. He was a manager for Hartwig Transit.
He is survived by his daughter: Ruth Ann Marcum of Corbin, Kentucky, 2 grandchildren: Brooke Nicole France and Cayla Ann Marcum, 2 sisters: Ruth Smiddy of Sharonville, Ohio and Helen Helton of Chicago, Illinois, and one brother: Larry France of Manchester, Kentucky.
He is preceded in death by his parents: Caleb France, Sr. and Anna France, and one brother: Albert France.
Funeral Services for Mr. Caleb France, Jr. will be Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 11 AM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the France Cemetery in the Blue Hole Community.
Visitation will be Sunday, December 27th, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
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THINK ABOUT IT « Result #17 on Dec 24, 2009, 3:05pm »
Obama and King George III
We live in a desperate time. It is not unlike the day our forefathers faced in 1776 when they first wrote our Declaration of Independence. They listed in that Declaration 27 violations which King George the III of England had committed in stealing their God-given rights. Our current national government is committing many of those same violations today. Consider the words of the Declaration of Independence, which identifies those violations.
Our national government has “attempted to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us” in the following ways:
1. It has, as the Declaration of Independence says, “Refused…assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.” The national government ignored Public Law, Section 108, which requires a three-day waiting period before a law, that has been read once, can be considered for a vote. The current Congress ignored this law when they passed the so-called “stimulus package” earlier this year.
2. This current national government has, in the language of the Declaration, “Erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” The huge growth of this current administration is going to mean a huge growth in taxes; and through the Internal Revenue Service, “eat out our substance!”
3. Mr. Obama and the current Congress have “combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws.” If Obama has his way he will commit us to the Copenhagen treaty, which, in the name of a clean environment, will move us toward being under the complete control of the United Nations. This would completely nullify our National Constitution.
4. The Declaration said of King George III, “He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.” It could truthfully be said of Mr. Obama that “He has abdicated Government here by declaring [innocent human life] out of his protection and waging war against [the unborn]” of our land: Note how one of his first acts upon taking office was to restore government funds for various international groups that promote abortions.
5. Likewise Obama is like King George III in that he has, in the words of the Declaration, “altered fundamentally the forms of our government.” His so-called “stimulus” bill will, in effect, transform us from an economic system of free enterprise, which values the individual and his ingenuity, to a socialistic one that values the state. An individual will be worth only so much as he can contribute to the good of the state.
6. Obama has, as the Declaration says, “Abolished our most valuable laws…”, that is, our state constitutions. He did this by pushing into law the “hate-crimes” law, which removed the right of our individual states to define what marriage is. He has forced on us the acceptance of homosexuality as being normal. He has attempted to overturn our God-given right to call homosexuality what the Bible calls it---perversion.
Our Founders said in the Declaration of Independence that King George III was, quote, “…unfit to be the ruler of a free people.” You decide if Mr. Obama is such!
The Bible says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet!” (Isaiah 5:20)
For the sake of your children, so they can have the liberty to hear the truth: Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you, and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Mrs. Myrtle Gibbs « Result #18 on Dec 22, 2009, 5:27pm »
Mrs. Myrtle Gibbs Obituary
Mrs. Myrtle Gibbs, age 103 of Horse Creek, passed away Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at her home. She was born September 7, 1906 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Harve & Susan Jones Brumley. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by her daughters: Brenda Roberts and Cassie White both of Horse Creek, 12 grandchildren, several great grandchildren and several great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents: Harve and Susan Brumley, her husband: Gilbert Gibbs, and these children: Harve Gibbs, Leander Gibbs, Geraldine Buttery, Gettis Gibbs, Stanley Gibbs, Stafford Gibbs, Norma Jean Baldwin, Cecil Gibbs, and Hershel Gibbs.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Myrtle Gibbs will be Thursday, December 24th, at 11 AM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Bro. William Hugh Hudson will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Gibbs Cemetery in the Paw Paw Community.
Visitation will be Wednesday, December 23rd, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
Rominger Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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Mr. Ted "Bear" Woods, Sr. « Result #19 on Dec 8, 2009, 12:30pm »
Mr. Ted "Bear" Woods, Sr. Obituary
Mr. Ted “Bear” Woods, Sr., age 97 of Otter Creek in Manchester, Kentucky passed away Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at the Manchester Memorial Hospital. He was born August 30th, 1912 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of James and Nannie Spurlock Woods. He was a retired night watchman, a farmer, a member of the Liberty United Baptist Church in the Elk Creek Community, and a veteran of the Navy where he served in World War II.
He is survived by his children: Gladys Sizemore and her husband James F. of Lexington, Kentucky, Imogene Griffin and her husband Ray of Lexington, Kentucky, Ted Woods, Jr. and his wife Brenda of Fogertown, James L. Woods and his wife Kim of Manchester, Mary Gail Thompson and her husband Michael of Manchester, and Frankie L. Woods of Manchester, Kentucky. Also surviving are 10 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.
He is preceded in death by his parents: James and Nannie Woods, his wife: Essie Woods, 9 brothers and 1 sister.
Funeral Services for Mr. Ted Woods, Sr. will be Thursday, December 10th, 2009 at 1 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Herman Mills and Rev. Harold Jones will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Bob Woods Cemetery in the Otter Creek Community.
Visitation will be Wednesday, December 9th, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
Rominger Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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Mr. John E."Big John" Melton « Result #20 on Dec 7, 2009, 1:54pm »
Mr. John E. "Big John" Melton Obituary
Mr. John E. “Big John” Melton, the ninth child of John and Laura D. Gabbard Melton, passed away Sunday, December 6th, 2009 at the age of 73 at the Hazard ARH in Hazard, Kentucky. Born September 13th, 1936, he lived most of his life on Sexton Creek. He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers & three sisters.
He was a member of the Ellis Branch Baptist Church.
He is survived by his son: Charles Melton of Manchester, his daughter: Leona Dwelly of Manchester, his former wife: Marlene, one brother: Tommy Melton and his wife Geneva of South Lebanon, Ohio, two sisters: Bernice Reese of Norfolk, Virginia and Doris McCoy and her husband George of Dayton, Ohio.
Funeral Services for Mr. John E. “Big John” Melton will be conducted on Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 at 12 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the McDaniel Cemetery in the Sexton Creek Community.
Visitation will be Tuesday, December 8th, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
Rominger Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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Basketball Head « Result #21 on Dec 6, 2009, 9:31am »
ATTENTION ALL CLAY COUNTY YOUTH!
Playing of too much basketball may cause a rare but serious condition known as basketball head. The condition results in the spontaneous changing of one’s head into a basketball. As you can see from the below picture, this rare condition strikes instantly and can happen at any time. Please be careful when playing basketball this winter, and don’t turn into a basketball head. Thank you.
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THINK ABOUT IT « Result #22 on Dec 4, 2009, 5:24pm »
The Economy of the Pilgrims by: Don Pinson
It wasn’t working. The spring of 1623 saw the Pilgrims into their third year in America. But there was a serious problem. They were hungry: And because of it they had no energy with which to plow their fields and plant their crops. They knew winter would come again and with it death by starvation if they didn’t go to the fields. Yet many of them just seemed unable to get themselves moving.
Recognizing the seriousness of their situation, their Governor, William Bradford, called for a meeting of the leaders of the colony. They didn’t have to discuss their problem very long until they pinpointed what was wrong. It was the socialistic economy they were trying to labor under. They had long known this. The businessmen who had financed their trip had insisted they live by a common storehouse. In other words, they were to put all their produce into one storehouse, no matter which family had raised that produce. Then, they were to take out as little as they could get by with for their own needs, and send the rest of it back to England to their financiers as payment for their debt. The Pilgrims knew this would not work, but the businessmen insisted this is how they must do it. The Pilgrims knew the Scripture taught that, “If any would not work, neither should he eat.” (2 Thessalonians 3:10) And they knew that even Christian people, like themselves, had to know they could “reap what they sowed,” if they were to produce well. However, they felt they had no choice. They had to pay for their voyage, and they certainly did not have that kind of money themselves. Thus, they submitted to an anti-Biblical economic system.
They had tried diligently to make it work for 2 1/2 years. But an economic system outside the order of God revealed in the Bible, simply was not going to work well. They knew they had to change this. The leaders agreed that each family should have their own private property; that they should stake a plot of land and be able to keep most everything they raised on that spot for their own families. However, they did owe a debt to the businessmen in England who had paid for their trip. So they agreed to take 20% of the crops of each family as a means of paying their debt. The tax would cease once the debt was paid. It worked wonderfully! Governor Bradford would report,
“It made all hands industrious…” (Of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford)
They were soon collecting more from the 20% than they had before when the government was keeping most all of the produce. The Biblical principle that a man should be able to do with his own what he chose (Matthew 20:15), was proving to be true. Families worked harder and produced more when they could keep the proceeds from their labor.
Our national government should take a lesson. Government ownership of business, including the medical insurance industry through a so-called “health care system,” is a recipe for disaster! The Pilgrims already tried socialism in this land and it didn’t work. Let’s not buy this lie again!
The Pilgrims were never hungry again after instituting a Biblical Free Enterprise system. The greatest economic engine in world history grew out of that simple change to private ownership that took place in the spring of 1623. It made the American economy the most prosperous in all of history.
Why would we want to change back to a poverty economy? Do we want to give a dead economy to our children?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you, and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you.
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Missionary Moment « Result #23 on Dec 2, 2009, 7:35am »
Operation GO
Missionary Moment
Every time you pray and put love in action by supporting the Cooperative Program and the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, you join LOREN and KAREN DICKEY in their ministry in Nicaragua. As strategy coordinators for Operation GO, they help local churches plant new churches through prayer support, Scripture distribution, and teaching prayerwalking. In addition, they show the JESUS Film in the evenings to make the Gospel message accessible to nonreaders. In one year, Loren and Karen distributed 37,000 copies of Luke’s Gospel, providing God’s Word potentially to more than 250,000 people. Pray for the Dickeys and the people of Nicaragua this week.
The preceding "Missionary Moment" was made possible by gifts to the Southern Baptist Association Cooperative Program, which is supported by several Clay County churches who are members of the Booneville Baptist Association which consists of 25 churches in Clay and Owsley counties which are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Kentucky Baptist Convention. For more news and information go to..... Booneville Baptist Association
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Mr. Chester Arthur Hacker « Result #25 on Nov 30, 2009, 5:03pm »
Mr. Chester Arthur Hacker Obituary
Mr. Chester Arthur Hacker, age 97, passed away Monday, November 30th, 2009 at the Baptist Regional Medical Center in Corbin, Kentucky. He was born January 10th, 1912 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Dan and Sarah Ellen Barrett Hacker. He was a foreman for the Kentucky Department of Highways and a member of the Church of God Worship Center.
He is survived by these children: Paul R. Hacker and wife Lillie of Somerset, Jacqueline Hacker Hobbs and husband Don of Williamsburg, and Barkley Hacker and wife Connie of Manchester. Also surviving are a host of grandchildren, nephews, and nieces.
He is preceded in death by his parents: Dan and Sarah Ellen Hacker, his wife: Helen Cobb Hacker, his son: Wayne D. Hacker, & these brothers and sisters: Bill “Crow” Hacker, James Pearl Hacker, Henry Hacker, Herbert Hacker, Harvey Hacker, Joe Hacker, Frank Hacker, Mary Hacker Robinson, and Elsie Hacker.
Funeral Services for Mr. Chester Arthur Hacker will be Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 2 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Joey Burns will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Carnahan Cemetery in the Greenbriar Community.
Visitation will be Tuesday, December 1st, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
Rominger Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
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Hazel Proffitt « Result #26 on Nov 28, 2009, 4:25pm »
Hazel Proffitt Obituary
Hazel Proffitt, age 87 of Laurel, Indiana passed away Friday, November 27th, 2009 at the Sycamore Springs Rehabilitation Center in Liberty, Indiana. She was born September 20th, 1922 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Willie and Ella Hounchell Deaton.
She is survived by the following children: Gerry Ladd of Laurel, Indiana, Daniel Proffitt of Brookville, Indiana, Penny Bellamy of Connersville, Indiana, Greg Proffitt of Laurel, Indiana, & Kathy Corbin of Connersville, Indiana. Also surviving are 8 grandchildren, her brother: Jennings Deaton of Manchester, & her sister: Helen Gross of Manchester.
She is preceded in death by her parents: Willie and Ella Deaton, her husband: Ray Proffitt, her son: Gene Proffitt, and these brothers & sisters: Ray Deaton, Pearl Deaton, Evelyn Robinson, Dorothy Nicholson, Beatrice Bowling, and Reffie Fields.
Funeral Services for Hazel Proffitt will be Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 2 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Joey Burns and Rev. Scott Emond will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Hacker Cemetery in the Gray Fork Community.
Visitation will be Monday after 11 AM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
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Mrs. Lela Hibbard « Result #29 on Nov 27, 2009, 6:06pm »
Mrs. Lela Hibbard Obituary
Mrs. Lela Hibbard, age 86 of Independence, Kentucky formerly of Clay County, passed away Thursday, November 26th, 2009 at the Hillenbrand Nursing Home in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born December 11th, 1922 in Clay County, Kentucky to the union of Moten & Allie Abner Smith. She was a homemaker and a member of the Gray Fork Baptist Church.
She is survived by the following children: Phylis Marcum of Hamilton, Ohio, Otis Hibbard of Cincinnati, Ohio, Ora Lee Marcum of Hamilton, Ohio, David Hibbard of Cincinnati, Ohio, Michael Hibbard of Manchester, Kentucky, & Debbie Maggard of Independence, Kentucky. Also surviving are 16 grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, & 4 great great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents: Moten and Allie Smith, her husband: Cecil Hibbard, her daughter: Donna Gail Hibbard, and these brothers and sisters: Virgil Smith, Lois Proffit, Moten Smith, Jr., & Dollie Rowland, and her step-mother: Edna Mae Smith.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Lela Hibbard will be Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 2 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Anthony Lovett will be officiating. Burial will follow in the Hibbard Cemetery in the Ephram Creek Community.
Visitation will be Saturday, November 28th, after 6 PM at the Rominger Funeral Home Chapel.
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Missionary Moment « Result #30 on Nov 26, 2009, 9:49am »
325,000 College Students in Philadelphia
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Philadelphia’s diverse residents include more than 325,000 college students and those who teach them. No less than one out of every four people in the United States lives within 325 miles of the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection. Thanks in part to your participation through the Cooperative Program, STAN and TRINA WILLIAMS are serving there as North American missionaries in collegiate evangelism and have a heart to share the Gospel with the people in this beautiful and historic city. Pray for the Williamses and for increased receptivity to Christ. Ask the Lord to remove any barriers to sharing the Gospel.
The preceding "Missionary Moment" was made possible by gifts to the Southern Baptist Association Cooperative Program, which is supported by several Clay County churches who are members of the Booneville Baptist Association which consists of 25 churches in Clay and Owsley counties which are affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Kentucky Baptist Convention. For more news and information go to..... Booneville Baptist Association
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