Sunday, February 1st Prayer Requests

suzanne & tommy~
continue to remember the family and friends of chris ulmer (16 year old murrah student who was killed in a car wreck)

lori & kris~
kris was offered a job at barnes & noble

wendy & roger~
roger's aunt...cancer has come back

robbin & todd~
robbin's job situation

ashley & kurt~
ashley's grandparent's (h.d. and shirley mccarty) still without power in arkansas after storm

jennilee & brad~
family also still without power in arkansas

vanessa~
cousin (john) involved in a hit and run. has a long road of recovery

kecia & corey~
children at her center involved in child abuse suit. sonogram and other tests monday!

jenny & cory~
cory's job - may have the opportunity to change jobs

carley & jeff~
brayden is sleeping well. carley still recovering from c-section

mindy & denny~
14 week appointment on monday!

demetria & kevin~
kaden has taken his 2nd dose of medicind. they will go back to the doctor in birmingham 2/25

magnolia heights school (in senatobia) lost a player in a car wreck.

Care Sunday

This past Sunday was Care Sunday. The care groups have been redone a little, so if you are reading this and were not in LifeGroup Sunday, it may have changed. Your care group leader should have been in contact with you in the past week or so, though.

We are going to try to start getting together as a class at least once in the fall and once in the spring. This will be for everybody - kids included!

Demetria is going to start "party planning". She is also going to organize things for the girls to do!

Paul is going to figure out things for the guys!

Right now, we have 2 things set:

~~~GIRLS~~~

Thursday, February 5th

Malco in Madison

BRIDE WARS

(we will announce a time the week of....)

~~~GUYS~~~

Thursday, February 12th

Fannin Lanes

BOWLING

(we will announce a time the week of...)

Also - if anyone wants to get play-groups together, feel free to do so! Or other "get togethers". It does not have to be decided on in LifeGroup!

Individual care groups are going to try to get together once a month.

I know this is a lot that I just put on here - if you have questions, call your care group leader!

Sunday, January 25th Prayer Requests

suzanne & tommy~
family of chris ulmer (basketball player from murrah who was killed in a car wreck on the 23rd) - he was saved at "slam" (a basketball ministry that we had at the old campus) - and he was an only child. friends, heather & tyler, need prayers for their marriage. jeremy's surgery went well.

emily & jeff~
tracy (from arkansas) - 35 years old - has been diagnosed with a paralyzed stomach and had to have a gastric pacemaker placed - has 3 children. ray and kim causey - about 20 weeks pregnant - have found out that their baby does not have kidneys.

brandi & david~
1 of their companies is at a crossroad...

brie & tc~
tc got a promotion. regan is having tubes.

mary & lee~
our new president

lori & kris~
friend - celeste pickett - lump on colon turned out to be rectal cancer. another friend - her 8 year old daughter was sexually assaulted by her (the mom's) boyfriend - court date has been set.
(for dani & jason): dani had an allergic reaction to a shot & has strep! jason had a job he was about to start, but then they had a hiring freeze.
praise: won at ms theatre association - will be going to regional! there was a wreck going to mta, but everything is o.k.

demetria & kevin~
kaden's appointment was wednesday - no big resolution, but the pediatric dermatologist did confirm that it was a very severe case of psoriasis. started kaden on a low dose of a chemo drug. remember the lady that was in the wreck with demetria's mom - she is still in the hospital.

wendy & roger~
roger's aunt has a recurrence of cancer. gracia has a fever.

allison & wint~
allison's dad cut his finger really bad and is having surgery to fix it.

jennilee & brad~
brad's dad's back surgery went well

robbin & todd~
robbin is looking for a job.

New Baby!

Carley and Jeff welcomed their baby boy, William "Brayden" Parrot, yesterday!

6lbs 11 oz

20 1/2 inches

Carley ended up having a c-section and would like your prayers during her recovery. She and the baby are doing well. Jeff did not mention any problems related to him being early. They are at Women's Hospital Room 110.

We will have a sign up sheet for food Sunday!

CONGRATS, CARLEY AND JEFF!

Sunday, January 4th Prayer Requests/Praises

jeff/becca:
will be getting married on 12/12/09! they have a friend who needs to go to church, but is reluctant

ty/jennifer:
ty's sister having surgery 1/5/09 - gallbladder.

kevin/demetria:
demetria's mom was in a wreck before Christmas - she is o.k., but needs to get back to work. the elderly lady who was in the other car is in bad shape. kaden - psoriasis is still bad...they have an appointment with a pediatric dermatologist in march. demetria's brother - work. demetria's cousin, julie, got engaged and her fiance is deployed now for a year.

lee/mary:
lee is traveling. lee's mom is having surgery for chron's

shan/jenny:
shan's grandfather had a hard time through the holidays (his first without shan's grandmother)

wint/allison:
friend has a blood infection

tommy/suzanne:
suzanne's cousin, stephanie gillespie, had a little girl premature. she is in the nicu at umc. also, the pastor of suzanne's home church is in methodist rehab

scott/mollie:
the wright family - the mom just had a baby and thew a blood clot that killed her.

david/brandi:
brandi is having problems sleeping

brad/chasity:
friend, steve harrison, is being deployed in february

kurt/ashley:
having braxton hicks contractions

general requests:
~johnney alford's mom passed away
~israel, our troops

ATTENTION LADIES!!!

SHOPPING FOR CHILDREN'S NIGHT AT CHRISTMAS!!!

Thursday, December 18th

6:30

Anthony Z's (beside Coldstone on Main Street in Madison)

after we eat, we will go shop for the 3 children that we have!

hope you can join us!

Sunday, December 14th Prayer Requests

lisa/geno
remember the wallace family - their mom (a friend of lisa's) was killed in a car wreck a week ago. she leaves 2 daughters - 1 is about to get married and the other is a 10th grader at madison central

brandi/david
david's cousin's child committed suicide. they are agreeing on house stuff (praise)! david's mom - spot on her breast

chasity/brad
friend of chasity's family (stanley hayes) has stomach cancer - while undergoing surgery, he suffered from kidney failure. van (chasity's brother) is going to be a father in the spring.

kim/paul
kim's grandfather - lymph nodes removed

mary/lee
lee passed the series 7 exam!

jennifer/ty
a friend went to the MEA for bronchitis - had a reaction to the rocephin. a friend's mom died. ty's mom died 6 years ago and this time of the year is hard.

suzanne/tommy
a customer of tommy's died in his sleep (32 years old). some of tommy's family had their home broken in to.

erin/mike
erin's mom - lung disease, but not as bad as what they thought. sunday was erin/mike's 6 year anniversary!!!

susanna
expecting baby #3!

beth/shaun
engaged!

remember ryan goolsby (mom and dad are vicky and jerry). ryan is a senior at mra and is in our youth group. he has had some heart issues and had a procedure on tuesday, 12/16.

A PRIZE!

we were with mindy and denny the other night after church and were talking about the blog. i told them that i never know if people are reading (i know some of you do read regularly) and nobody says anything when i don't update it, so i assume that it's not being read or missed!

SO - we decided that we could give a prize to the first person to leave a comment!

this prize is simple - just a little something. but i may continue these prizes!

so if you want it, you need to post a comment!!!

tommy and i will be out of town for care sunday tomorrow. but next week, everything will be back in full swing. december is loaded with activities, so please remember to slow down and remember the REAL meaning of CHRISTmas!

from allison mcgee

"Today" (this was monday...) "I went to George Elementary School to Mrs. Brasfields class (1st grade) and hosted their Fall party for our lifegroup. They were so sweet and appreciative. I also gave two prizes away one boy prize and one girl prize (it was hello kitty and spongebob electric toothbrushes and both a pumpkin flashlight) I told the class I was a "Dental Hygienist" and asked if anyone knew what I did at work everyday as a dental hygienist and then asked if they know how many teeth they had and gave out the two prizes and then gave them instructions about their oral health. Kim Sims the one helps us going to George told me to see if our lifegroup class would contribute money towards the party I gave. I spent $75. I made cupcakes, punch and treat bags. I also had strawberries and cheese puffs. I was helping the 3 years old this Sunday and forgot to tell Geno to collect money, but if you would post the party and ask to bring money next Sunday that would be great!!!!!
allison"

so, class, come this week prepared to give, again! i know that there are several things we have been giving to lately, but consider it a blessing that we are able to give!

don't forget, too, to be working on your SHOE BOXES!!! if our class JUST did our part, it would be almost 20% of the entire goal!!!!

be praying, too, about giving to the children's night at Christmas. we are going to start taking up money so that when the time gets here, we will have it ready!

i will post this week's prayer requests tonight - i'm sorry that i didn't do it sunday afternoon.

arrangements for jenny's mom

arrangements for jenny's mom (barbara forrest) are as follows:

visitation: thursday, october 23rd
5:00-7:00
riles funeral home
vicksburg

funeral: friday, october 24th
10:00
first presbyterian church
vicksburg

if some want to get together and ride, please post a comment below and we'll see what we can arrange!

update

cory sent me a text a little while ago to let me know that ms barbara passed away this afternoon around 2:30.

i will post arrangements when we find something out.

please keep their family in your prayers!

update.....

tommy and cory were texting a few minutes ago - cory said that they have called the family in and ms. barbara continues to decline.

please pray for comfort for jenny and her sister leeann, as well as the rest of the family....

i will update as we hear....

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

please, please keep jenny, cory, and their family in your prayers.

jenny's mom, as you may already know from yesterday's prayer request, has taken a turn for the worst and is in the hospital still. the doctors have said that she has 48 hours left - short of a miracle (which we know can still happen!!!).

right now, lisa has parker and jenny is at the hospital. cory had gone to the coast with work and he just sent me a text to say that he is 5 minutes south of jackson.

i will update the blog again as i know information. just stop RIGHT NOW and pray.

Authentic Relationships...Week 3

1 Samuel 18:1-9

Intimacy - closeness. Society has made intimacy to mean sexual relations

God created Adam for a close, intimate relationship. He was lonely.

3 types of friends:
1) proximity: work, neighbors, school
become friends by talking, spending time together, etc.
2) like minded: political, etc.
become friends because we share similar interests.
3) true friends: intimate
kind of slide past the first 2! cry together, sacrifice, spend time, confide in, and are vulnerable around.
***proximity friends are those you spend time with, like minded friends are those you can get angry with, and true friends are those you can cry with (thanks, jeremy!)***

To build an intimate relationship, you must give some of yourself to your friend! Jonathan gave up his identity for David - his robe (the prince's robe), tunic, sword, bow, and belt. Do you have a friend now that you would give ANYTHING to?

As a child, we made friends in some of these ways:
let them in our tree house, share toys, "egging", sharing bracelets - necklaces - etc, blood brothers/sisters
As we got older, some of the ways we made friends:
speaking pig latin, through fraternities/sororities (certain handshakes, etc)

Satan's #1 took that he uses to destroy intimate relationships is jealousy!

To build an intimate relationship, you have to share things that you don't necessarily want to - being completely honest - even in the flesh. If you don't, eventually there will be a problem.

If you're going to have friends, you have to trust them! One way to do this is through listening!

In building true friends, you must have these 3: trust, time, vulnerability

Geno's challenge this week:
~share something with someone this week
~entrust someone to do something you do well - help teach them!
~give a gift to someone that says something about YOU - yes, even the guys!!!

next week is care sunday!!!

Sunday, October 19th prayer requests

jerry welch
has been throwing up since yesterday. geno asked that we pray for him to get well and for none of the rest of the staff to get sick!

jenny & cory
jenny's mom is back in the hospital. the bad cells are back and she is dehydrated. they are trying to regulate everything with medicine.

susanna
her husband's cousin lost their 7 year old child in a car wreck

lori & kris
pastor of lydie's church (kris' mom) possibly had a heart attack - they are doing more tests. also, lydie's health has gone down - she is praying about a new position. she is a music leader at a church and would like to be able to just play instead of leading the music. lori's friend, dani, needs prayer.

robbin & todd
robbin's best friend, sue, lost her dad

adelle & jeremy
adelle is talking to her boss this week about possibly going part time. there has not been a part time worker there in YEARS. they will need someone on wednesdays to keep ella (cheap!). pray that this will all work out!

wendy & roger
roger's mom and grandmother traveling back home to memphis this afternoon

suzanne & tommy
suzanne's dad will be traveling in the next month - going to orlando and then when he gets back, he and her uncle will be going on their motorcycles to california for about 3 weeks

kecia & corey
expecting baby #2!!! due april 24th

keep the turkey mission team in your prayers.