SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2006

Thank the Lord for anther great day. We enjoyed new visitors in our morning service. Pastor Tolbert, a retired minister of over 40 years, visited and blessed us with his testimony. He has pastored in the Assembly of God and Baptist churches. We were blessed to have two new youth, Coty and Montana, Brother Leon Reynolds' great niece and nephew. Their grandmother, Brother Leon's Sister, was also in worship. It was good to see sister Joann Blow with us again. She has been attending now for the past couple months. Her Son-in-law and daughter pastor the Assembly of God in another state. We were blessed to have several of our regular attenders and also the faithful leaders present.

After the morning worship, the Christmas program director and all those in the program stayed for pizza and practice. We are exited about the Christmas Program and details will be posted in the future. The Christmas play, singing and children's program will be presented in full on Sunday Morning and Evening of December 17th. The morning program will begin at 11:00 am and the evening program will begin at 6:30 pm.

Thank God for those who are working so diligently to present the message of the virgin birth of our precious Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Brother Everett Fulmer is in Vanderbilt Medical Center. He is in need of continued prayer. He has been in ICU since Thursday November 16 and is in critical condition. Sister Karen and I visited with Sister Fulmer and their daughter and offered prayer with them. The Fulmers were a great blessing to us when we pastored them at the Pelham Valley Church in the late 80's. We will continue to pray for them.

These are also in need of prayer. Pastor Jerry Payne is in critical condition and needs prayer. James Brown of Clarksville is in need of prayer after being electrocuted severely.

Sharon Caruthers is also in need of prayer after having her 5th hip replacement.

We are continuing to pray for these needs.

Thanksgiving With Family

Karen, Jason and I travelled to our oldest daughter's house in Lebanon, TN for Thanksgiving. It was great being with family and visiting with the many who came. Here is a list. . .

Danita and Shane Queener, oldest daughter and husband
Heather and Sammy Hall, second daughter and husband
Heather and Sammy's daughter Courtney and son Caleb
Sammy's younger sister, Myrna
Jason our only son and third child
Sarah and Chris Holman, youngest daughter and husband
Aviana, Sarah and Chris's daughter
Cassandra and Madison, Chris's twin nieces
My mother, Beatrice Cathey
My Sister Joyce and husband Ronnie Hooper
My Brother Tony and wife Pascha Cathey
Tony and Pascha's twin girls Anna and Carrie
Karen and I

It was an awesome day with family and being at my oldest daughter's place out in the country with their four horses, two dogs a cat and Shane and Sammy's four-wheelers. The food was great. We had an awesome time as we enjoyed being with family.

What a great sight to see over 20 family members form a circle and hold hands as Tony led in prayer and we thanked the almighty God for being God, for being our God and for bringing us into His family. We are most richley blessed.

Following are some pictures of present and past events. I have just gotten to posting them.

THANKGIVING PICTURES - 2006

The day was so filled with being with family (grandchildren, children, mom, brother and sister and their families) and petting horses, playing fetch with the Aussie Healer, LaRue, riding four-wheelers, having great family conversations and just being together, that I did not even pick my camera up until we were about to leave and most others were already gone. I did get a couple quick shots before we left.

Pictured above is Chris's twin nieces (I dedicated them about three and half years ago. Their names are Cassandra and Madison. I am not sure which is which. I even got their names mixed up when I prayed for them on their dedication day. I am just glad that God knows them perfectly well and they had understanding parents and grandparents. Aviana, our youngest granddaughter is in the middle. She is the first cousin to the twins.

This is my sweet, oldest daughter, Danita. She came on my birthday, 34 years ago, September 28. I took this close-up as we were getting into our cars to leave. Danita worked hard to get everything ready for our visit, to have each one a place to sleep and to help with breakfast and Thanksgiving dinner. She is a very fine homemaker and housekeeper. Shane and her have a beautiful three-level home in an awesome setting. We so much enjoyed being there and sitting out on the deck and watching the son set and seeing the blue haze settle over the hills of middle Tennessee. Shane also helped get things together and we do so much appreaciate them opening their home to all our families. Shane has done a lot of remodeling on the home and adding of space. The woodwork is awesome. WE LOVE YOU AND ALL OUR FAMILY! Mom and Dad.

PICTURES OF DANITA'S, SARAH'S AND MY FAMILY BIRTHDAY GET TOGETHER, Sept. 06

Heather, our second daughter. Do blonde's really have more fun?

Sarah, the youngest (red hair) who is now 20 (October 2) and Danita the oldest who is now 34 (Sept. 28).

Chris, Sarah's husband. Wake up Chris, its the middle of the day!

My birthday present. Isn't it nice?

Keyante, Chris and Sarah's son, with his friend, Turtle, that they found on the road on the way in.

HUNTINGDON HOMECOMING PICTURES - OCT. 29, 2006

Dear friends and a new couple at church, Rex and Lori Warmon.

The tables were spread at the homecoming. People fellowshipped and enjoyed the home cooking.

More of those who enjoyed the homecoming time together.

My mother got to be with us. Here she is with Sister Judy Reynolds who decorated the the dining hall for the homecoming. Great job Sister Judy!.

The Chris and Tammy Spivey family with their children.

THANKSGIVING

What a blessed time of the year we celebrate in our nation. Thanksgiving. We are admonished to be thankful. Not only do we have numerous temporal blessings to be thankful for, we have a host of spiritual blessings that God bestows on us daily. We are blessed with salvation, sanctification and the blessed Holy Spirit baptism. We are blessed with family and friends and the family of God.

It is our prayer that you have a blessed Thanksgiving and that your time with family will be blessed abundantly. Karen, Jason and I will be with family at our oldest daughter's house. We will also be with Karen's family for a visit as well. May God keep and bless each one.

GREAT, AWESOME!

We are praising God for another great Sunday of worship services. The presence of the Lord has been especially close today. People were challenged as we continue to pray during this time of 100 days of prayer. The spirit of intercession has gripped our hearts and the Holy Ghost is moving among us in ways beyond our comprehension. People are weeping, shouting, lying prostrate, drunk in the spirit. The enemy is being defeated in people's lives, in family's lives and in the church here. We simply say, "To God be the Glory for how great He is and for what He is doing among us!

YOUTH RETREAT

Jason came back early to be in church this morning and reported that he enjoyed the conference. He said there was a great spirit of worship and unity there. The youth are going forward for the Lord. Certainly, I believe this is the generation that will see the coming of our Lord.

TENNESSEE YOUTH RETREAT

YOUTH CONFERENCE: The Tennessee Youth Conference Retreat is presently underway (Nov. 17-19, 2006) at the Hickory Hills Campground in Dickson. Sister Karen and I visited last evening. The worship was outstanding as the State Youth Directors moderated. Jeff Jones ministered what I believe is a much needed message for today that dealt with listening to God and how our days are inundated with noise and visual messages that distract from hearing God. I look forward to hearing about the rest of the retreat and what God is doing with and among the youth of the church. Jason is there and we look forward to hearing when he gets back home.

LOOK WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE

Just a quick summary of some great things God is doing.

We praise the Lord for the following blessings at Huntingdon over the past three weeks.

One recently saved.
Several healed and delivered.

New Families attending services.

Over $5000.00 in New Property indebtedness paid off.

Over $600.00 offering for The Walker Family on Homecoming Day.

A $3000.00 offering (above the payoff) given to the furtherance of the New Property Development.

Over $1400.00 given and raised for World Missions to Uganda and Sudan.

A great spirit of unity and revival moving in the local church.

We give God praise and honor for all He is doing and thank him.

Milton Gordon, Pastor

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Thank God for another great Sunday of worship. We thank the Lord for over $1400.00 dollars being turned in to World Missions for the month of October. Brother Ntezimana James, Overseer of Uganda and Sudan will be needing this to help with new tires and other needs as he noted in an email. We are continuing to pray for this country. I received an email from him a few days ago. Here is part of the email.

Hello Milton

We just finished our Leadership Conference. It endend yesterday. The attendence was 700 pastors with many blessings. Thank you for your prayers. Getrudha , my wife has not yet gone through operation and seems God has done his operation. Please keep praying for her complete Milacle. I will be sending you june programme very soon so that you start praying about it. . . How is your wife and the Church. We are praying for you. Coming soon is Ladies Retreat which starts 22nd Nov.-26th.Pray for the move of the Spirit upon the ladies. I will get back to you this week but per now, let me wish you big blessing.

Bishop James.

PRAYER REQUEST

I received a prayer request from a friend of mine, Vernon Caruthers. Sharon is going through some very difficult times. Here is the request from Vernon's email.

Milton, I need you to pray for Sharon. She had an awful hard time trying to walk this past week. She thought it was her knee but it kept getting worse. Friday night she bent down to get something out of a bathroom cabinet and she heard her hip pop. The pain was intense and she could not stand to put weight on it at all. I took her to the ER and they did an x-ray which showed that her hip joint that she had totally replaced ---- the big long iron stem has broken into two pieces straight across and they are sitting on top of each other. She will have to have another total hip replacement. They have to order the hardware and it will probably be done on Tuesday here at McMinnville. She was in some terrible pain this morning with severe muscle spasms. They gave her a shot of Nebane and she had some bad reactions to it and she jerked her entire body so hard it took 2 of us to hold her on the bed. She is discouraged. This will make 5 big surgeries on that right hip. That hip replacement was done only 2 years ago. When it rains it pours. The only insurance she has is her Medicare. Oh Well. Here we go again. Have the church to please pray for us. Vernon

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2006

We praise the Lord for a great time yesterday. Even during the classes the spirit of the Lord moved and one person, Gloria, was saved. She is one of the new people here at the church. She gave her heart and life back to the Lord after being away for the past three years. She also sang a song during worship in Spanish. She said, "I haven't sung this song in over three years but today I can sing it with peace in my heart." Our Hispanic folks enjoyed the song and the rest of us rejoiced as she sang to the glory of God. The angels in heaven rejoiced as this one came back home. She said, "God has accepted me back and changed my heart and now I am changing my life-style to please the Master." We are continuing to pray for her and her friend Tay.

After the message each one was given the opportunity to receive Communion. There was a special presence of the Lord.

The service was charged with the presence of the Lord last night as people came to the altar. Prayer was the focus for the whole service. God's presence was very evident. Some were prostrate in His presence. Others were rejoicing and weeping as the Holy Ghost swept through. We are seeking God for revolutionary revival. Thank God for the precious Holy Ghost and for our Savior and Lord.

Update

It has been several days since I have posted here. Karen and I have been very busy. We have been doing a lot of traveling and working. We have also been with Jason who is in need of prayer at this time.

Tuesday was the "Trunk or Treat" activity for the children and youth. Due to rainy weather we did not have the candy in the trunk but we did have several to come to the parsonage. We gave out candy as we greeted the children.

Wednesday evening's service was very refreshing as the presence of the Lord met with us in a special way. Tears flowed as the presence of the Lord melted our hearts into prayer. Prayer was the emphasis and we asked the Lord to help us get aligned with His will and with His desires for ministry here.