Bishop Eugene Weakley Releases New Book

Bishop Eugene Weakley, former Pastor, General Appointee and State Overseer of Tennessee for 14 years has written a new book entitled "God Keeps Good Books." The first printing has not been finalized but orders are being taken so that the the printers will have a good estimate of how many to print. You can order a copy from the White Wing Publishing House. The price of the book and Shipping will be listed at some point on the White Wing webb site. http://www.whitewingbookstore.com/

You may be able to get information from the Weakleys. Their email is

genewonnie@comcast.net

Update - State Convention and Appointment

The Tennessee State Convention is history now. It was a great convention. I did not get to post on Saturday's or Sunday's convention events until today since I was not feeling well for much of Saturday, Saturday evening and yesterday. Thank the Lord I feel better today.

Thank the Lord for a great time on Saturday with the Children and Youth ministry programs. Thank the Lord also for a powerful message from the North American Presbyter, Bishop Sam Clements. He preached from Acts chapter 2 and encourged us to minister the WORD - the message of Jesus Christ. He emphasized the need to preach the GIFT - Jesus Christ - and not to be caught up in the gifts but allow the Holy Ghost to lead us and minister through us as He will. He emphasized that the Holy Ghost was sent and is present today to lift up Christ and to show us and lead us into Christ. THANK GOD!

Sunday was another great time of worship and a timely message from Presiding Bishop, E. C. McKinley. He encouraged us to use every possible method of reaching the lost. He also emphasized the need for discipleship. He also encouraged us and challenged us to think "larger" and not be bound by small thinking. Bishop McKinley expressed his heart to the church in Tennessee by exhorting us to move forward in the things of Christ and realize that Christ has all "power" and "authority."

Sister Karen and I look forward to continuing in our appointment to the pastorate at Huntingdon. God is up to something in the Huntingdon area and we are exited about being right where God is moving and blessing - as vessels in His mighty hands.

Bishop McKinley noted that some had not been spoken to about a specific appointment. When my name was called for a newly formed Education Committee, I looked over at my wife and said, "Am I supposed to go up front now." She said, "Yes, thats what Brother McKinley said." Thats how surprised I was. I look forward to being actively involved in this committee and working with Bishop McKinley and the rest of the committee to serve the church in Tennessee.

Local Church Leadership

All leadership positions are open beginning the first of September. Efforts will be made to fill the positions that each one is willing to work in by October. Those in positions at this time will be considered if they express their willingness and desire to continue in that leadership. Local ministries with no leaders after October will be operated on a limited basis and/or be open for anyone to fill after speaking with the Pastor. The Ministry Position Leaderships that are open are, Education Ministries, Outreach (Evangelism) Ministries, Youth Ministries, Children's Ministries, Women's Ministries, Men's Ministries, Family Ministries, Communications Ministries, Music Ministries, Facilities (buildings and grounds) Ministries and Fellowship Ministries. Other ministries will come under one of the previous ministry leaderships. For example, Heritage Ministries will come under Communications Ministries. Small care groups will come under Fellowship Ministries. Sunday school and Continuing Ministry Education (Foundations, Bible Courses, Tomlinson Center, Beacon College, etc) will come under Education Ministries Director.

Your prayers for God's direction in your ministry are vital to this church. Each one is encouraged to pray and seek God for direction in your ministry. Be open and welcome to speak to the Pastor about what you feel God is leading you to do for Him and His kingdom. The final decisions will be announced by the Pastor on first or second Sunday in October.

State Convention

Karen and I are enjoying a great convention. Today's Pastor's luncheon was great. We fellowshipped, laughed, saw folks we have not seen for the last couple years and also met some new ministers who are coming to work in Tennessee and, of course, we enjoyed a great meal.

The meeting tonight was awesome. The worship singing, the singing by The King's Messengers and a testimony by a state Representative from upper Mississippi was great. Bishop Larry Dotson, Florida State Overseer, preached a great, inspirational message. Several were in the altar. We were challenged to seek the Lord until the Holy Ghost comes and moves among us. What a great time in the Lord tonight!

HUNTINGDON LOCAL CHURCH SCHEDULE FOR NEXT TWO WEEKS

The BI-annual Tennessee State Convention will convene July 27-28 in the Chattanooga Convention Center. The following schedule is for the next couple weeks until after the convention. Regular services will continue after the convention.

Sunday, July 22, Sunday School 10 am, Worship 11 am. Sunday Evening 6 pm.

Wednesday, July 25, N0 SERVICE: (several gone on Vacation and convention early)

State Convention Sunday, July 29, Sunday School 10 am, Worship 11 am. Leon Reynolds opening and closing. Sister Donna Crossno will be speaking.

Sunday Evening, July 29, NO SERVICE: (4th Sunday evening family night exchanged with 5th Sunday family night. Enjoy your family.

Jason's Birthday

Today is Jason's 23rd birthday. We enjoyed taking Jason to O'Charley's today. Jason is continuing to play the keyboard in our Praise and Worship team and also help with the singing, planning and preparation of songs. WE LOVE YOU JASON! Mom and Dad

Assemby of God General Superintendant Resigns

One of our Sister church's leader resigns. Go here to read more.

PRAISE REPORT

Sisters Donna Crossno and Delilah Mummel have been requesting prayer for several weeks/months and this week both were hired at the same place with a substantial increase. They are both thanking God for his provision and increase. We also praise the Lord with them and thank the Lord.

Brother Casey Duncan has requested prayer for a job that has regular hours and be off on Sundays. He will begin his new job this coming Monday. Praise the Lord!

Update & Prayer Requests

Wednesday evening's service was led by Sister Gordon. The praise team led in worship for a great time in the Lord. Sister Karen taught Bible study on the book of Jude. It was a very timely and pertinent study.

PRAYER REQUESTS: Sister Jennie Sanders continues to request prayer. She has pain and swelling in her legs. Karen visited and prayed with her yesterday.

Sister Peggy Heath continues to request prayer. She continues to recover from the fall. Karen visited and prayed with her yesterday.

Sister Donna Crossno requests prayer. She is scheduled for a job interview today.

Sister Cindy and Brother Casey request prayer for Ethan: He goes for tests this week in Memphis.

Terrorist Warning High

The terrorist warning is high. . .go here to read more.

Where Is God When It Hurts?

A sermon given on the Virginia Tech campus two weeks after the shootings.
By Philip Yancey

We gather here still trying to make sense of what happened in Blacksburg, still trying to process the unprocessable. We come together in this place, as a Christian community, partly because we know of no better place to bring our questions and our grief and partly because we don't know where else to turn. As the apostle Peter once said to Jesus, at a moment of confusion and doubt, "Lord, to whom else can we go?"

In considering how to begin today, I found myself following two different threads. The first thread is what I would like to say, the words I wish I could say. The second thread is the truth.

Read more here

Quote

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt

Dancing in the Son!

By Billy Wilson, Voice of Salvation Minister

"Saturday, July 7 or 7-7-07, was a great day. My wife Lisa, some of our team, and I spent the entire day at LP Stadium in Nashville attending "The Call." This was a hot event. It was hot spiritually, and it was hot physically! With temperatures rising above 95 degrees in Tennessee the heat on the stadium field was well over 100 degrees. Yet, some 70,000 came through the turnstiles to attend "The Call Nashville." Beginning as early as 7:00 a.m. in the morning with a repentance walk and ending after 10:00 p.m., attendees came to pray, fast, and seek God's face for this generation. Purity, cleansing, and a renewing of covenant love with Christ were themes for the day. There were times of great spiritual heaviness and times of great rejoicing."

Read more here

Great Weekend!

Thank the Lord for the Yard Sale. Several more Heritage Ministry Members are added to our number. We met some new people in the yard sale that afforded us the opportunity to invite them to church. We thank each one who made the yard sale a great success.

Thank the Lord for another great Sunday and the good spirit that we enjoyed. Thank the Lord for great local church leaders and each one who came.

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

Today, Karen and I arose early (5 am) to help set-up for the Yard Sale which we believe was a success. I've just now checked my email for the first time today and the following prayer request was emailed to me at 11:42 am. It is from fellow pastor and friend Vernon Caruthers.

Dear Milton,

"I would appreciate you placing this urgent prayer request on your blog. Sarah Creasy, age 20, one of our youth here at Campaign was involved in a very serious auto accident this Saturday morning about 1:30 am. Sarah was air lifted to Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga. I just returned from there and she is in a coma, she crushed her 7th cervical vertebrae and she has a severe cut behind her neck. She cut an atrery there behind her neck and she has lost over 1/2 of her blood supply. She is in ICU there. I will be returning in a few hours to check on her again. Both of Sarah's parents and grandparents are members here at Campaign and they would appreciate your prayers so very much, as well as the prayers of your readers."

Thank you, Vernon

Visit With Mahans

Karen and I traveled to the Reelfoot Lake area today and enjoyed a quiet, peaceful time there. We then had dinner with the Northwest Tennessee Presbyter, Bishop Clayton Mahan and wife Loudonna who live in that area and Pastor Ridgely, Tn. We enjoyed our first visit with them and for the first time visiting their new church building and their new log home on 70 beautiful acres. We had a great time.

PRAYER, BIBLE STUDY & BUSINESS MEETING

Tonight's service will emphasize prayer, Bible Study and there will be a short business conference after the service tonight.

Bishop Eugene Weakley's 80th Birthday Surprise

Brother Weakley's 80th birthday surprise celebration was this past Saturday. His daughter, Regina, and Sister Weakley planned the surprise. Karen and I mailed a card. We were unable to attend. Brother Weakley has been a great inspiration in our ministry. Karen and I served in his administration from 1986-1999. I remember asking him the question, what good advice would you give to a young minister? I have not forgotten what he answered. He said, "stay close to God and preach a balanced message." Below is a picture of Bishop Weakley fellowshipping with members during a Christmas Banquest visit a couple years ago. He could always be seen reaching out to shake hands and converse with each one. Brother Weakley is a giant Christian and powerful pulpit minister. We love him and Sister Weakley.

Today

Today has been somewhat busy with doing some work around the church and the property on Northwood. I helped Brother Leon Reynolds with some cleaning at the sanctuary. Then, Karen and I picked up some sticks on the property so Brother J. E. Moore could mow the Northwood property. While he was mowing, I cleaned the pavilion along with the help of Brandon Moore's two young stepsons. This evening, I continue to mow the parsonage lawn until dark. In between all these activities, I went and took care of some business at the electric department and went to the dentist to have some adjustments made on my temporary two front teeth crown. I also called about the payoff on the new property since we have not received any notice of payoff or records other than our cancelled check that was received back in December of 2006. Still waiting on a response.

Sunday, July 8, 2007

Thank the Lord for a great day of worship. The attendance was up yesterday and several who have been on vacation or away visiting families were back. I began a series of messages on the book of Hebrews. In context, Hebrews was written to Christian Hebrews who were looking back or had gone back to the Old Covenant laws and practices during the time of Moses. While the same God led them, we are now under the New Covenant. Hebrews speaks to any Christian who tends to look back with longing or desire to be under any system that does not worship and lift up Jesus Christ as the perfect complete sacrifice. As the writer encourages, "looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. . ." and "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today and for ever. . ."

Sunday evening was our monthly time of worship in singing, testimony, poetry, scripture sharing and any other edifying presentation. We enjoyed the video, "That's My King."

Update

What a great time Karen and I had with our youngest granddaughter, Aviana. Sarah and Chris celebrated their anniversary by going on a short trip, so we kept Aviana for a 2 days and a night. We spoiled her. Isn't that what grandparents do? Now she is gone back home with them.

Today

Karen and I visited with our youngest Daughter, Sarah, husband Chris and our youngest granddaughter Aviana. Aviana is spending the night with Mamaw and Papaw. What a treat!

Prayer Request

Sister Lois Thomas called requesting prayer. She is having some medical tests tomorrow. Remember her in prayer.

July 4, 2007

Today has been a day of rest after having two front teeth crowns started yesterday. Jason worked today which gave him double time pay. We were invited to the lake with the Leon Reynolds family but declined since Jason is working and my front teeth are temps and my gums are very sore.

After Jason got home, per his request, Karen cooked cabbage, turnip greens, battered okra and chicken. We had a quiet, peaceful day at the parsonage.

I called Sister Ruth King who has not been feeling well and she stated that she is doing much better. She was visited by her Sister today and the past few days.

Karen and I went to the TN river bridge to watch the fourth celebration. It had been cancelled.

4th of July Article By David Barton

Exerpts from the above named article.

This year marks 231 years since our Founding Fathers gave us our National Birth Certificate. We continue to be the longest on-going Constitutional Republic in the history of the world. Blessings such as these are not by chance or accidental. They are blessings of God. . .

According to John Quincy Adams, Christmas and the Fourth of July were intrinsically connected. On the Fourth of July, the Founders simply took the precepts of Christ which came into the world through His birth (Christmas) and incorporated those principles into civil government. . .

Have you ever considered what it meant for those 56 men – an eclectic group of ministers, business men, teachers, university professors, sailors, captains, farmers – to sign the Declaration of Independence?. . .

Dr. Benjamin Rush, the father of American Medicine and a signer, recorded that day in his diary. In 1781, he wrote to John Adams “Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the House when we were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress to subscribe to what was believed by many at that time to be our death warrants? The silence and gloom of the morning was interrupted, I well recollect, only for a moment by Colonel Harrison of Virginia (a big guy) who said to Mr. Gerry (small in stature) at the table: 'I shall have a great advantage over you, Mr. Gerry, when we are all hung for what we are now doing... From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes, but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead.' . . .

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY

Enjoy your family this fourth of July.

Yesterday & Today

Yesterday was a day of rest (mostly), although I did do some office work and paying of bills, etc.

Today, I have been to the dentist and had a double crown started on my two middle front teeth. I have been gargling salt water and trying to get use to these temps until a couple weeks and then I will have to get used to the crowns. My face, from my upper lip up to the bridge of my nose feels wierd. Oh well, it will wear off soon.

Stanley Reynolds called wanting what pictures I took of VBS so he can include them in the DVD that he is making.

SATURDAY EVENING AND SUNDAY

The youth event very well last night. We enjoyed the food, fellowship and fun. The video "Thou Shalt Laugh" was hilarious and enjoyed by all.

Both of today's services went well even though several are away on vacation or being out of town with family.

NOTE: No Wednesday evening service since folks want to be with family and friends on the 4th.