Hopewell News
My week started out really great. Sunday, Pastor Charles Maples started our service on repenting from Acts 17:30 and being serious about it. That repentance is more than walking an aisle and asking for forgiveness; it is something you work on every day with the Lord. It is also something you spread around with the ones who have not turned to the Lord. We all need to work as the Lord did to save souls.
We came home and I took a nap while John went to the jail and did a service there. Hopewell does not have a Sunday night service, so John and I usually go to Camp Ground and listen to Pastor Jerry King, but Wednesday they were having a night of singing, which I really did enjoy and was truly surprised to learn that Brother Jerry had a twin, and as they sang together it was so obvious, but I was slow to pick up on the fact that they were twins, just that they looked so much alike. The members at Camp Ground are like the ones at Hopewell, always so glad to see you and make you feel at home with the Lord.
I look around and everyone is getting ready for Christmas, and I think it is a shame that this month has gotten so commercial that you do not hear what the season is really for. I guess in a way we are all doing this.
With Water Valley having a new mayor bringing so many great changes to the town, and Coffeeville also working toward improvements under its new mayor, I hear a grocery store is coming there as well. I haven’t been down to see it yet, so I don’t know if they have one open. Also, I am happy to see that Oakland has been growing the last several years and has a small grocery store.
I believe between the mayors and businesses in each town backing all of this, our county will grow, especially with the work they are doing on the industrial park.
John and I are putting up lights this year. It will be the first time in a few years we have done so due to our health, but I wanted a cross made out of clear lights, so John is going to put it up on the cabin’s front porch, and I am going to try and find some red bulbs for His hands and feet if I can.
Not much news that I have heard in the neighborhood. Everyone at Hopewell Church has been faithful in coming to the Lord’s house even with the change of weather. Keep Kathy and Rex Boswell in your prayers; it seems like we have so many to put on our prayer list, where even with this you know it will be handled as the Lord wants it to be, but we also know that He wants us to pray for each other and see to each other’s needs.
Have a blessed and wonderful week.
