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You're invited to an Operation Christmas Child Decorating Party - Sunday, August 24th at 3 p.m. in the Game Room. Come join in the fun and paint, wrap and add stickers to shoe boxes. If you have shoe boxes, Christmas wrapping paper, stickers, or brushes, bring them. We'll have supplies on hand but can always use more! Come join the fun and get on mission for God.

All ladies, teens, and girls - 4th grade and up with moms are invited! Get in the Christmas Spirit NOW!

The Youth Choir from Harrisburg Baptist Church in Tupelo, Mississippi - Zamar - will be in concert here at First Baptist Church, Booneville, on Sunday night, August 24, at 6:30 PM.

This group has traveled to Spain, Washington D.C., and most recently to Cancun, Mexico. They will be leading the service through songs, testimony, and choreography.

You won't want to miss it!

One evening last week I was sitting on the patio eating a dessert, when a fly got the same idea. Since we had only one dessert between us, we got into a fierce contest for the dessert. I finally won out, but, since he couldn’t have it, the fly did his best to keep me from enjoying it. As I sat there swatting at the fly with one hand and trying to eat my dessert with the other, I thought of Ogden Nash’s couplet. He wrote: “God in His wisdom made the fly. . .and then forgot to tell us why.”

When I was growing up in Plainview, Louisiana, one of the significant dates on our yearly calendar was the Saturday before the third Sunday in August. That Saturday was Memorial Day at Prewitt’s Chapel Cemetery. All of my folks who had died on Daddy’s side of the family were buried in that cemetery. Each August we made our annual pilgrimage to that cemetery to pay our respects. We visited the graves, went inside the church for a memorial service, went to stand by the graves of family members for a prayer, and then had a big dinner-on-the-grounds beneath the trees.

In a “Calvin and Hobbes” comic strip, Calvin’s mother was sitting in her chair reading a book and drinking a cup of coffee. All of a sudden Calvin walked in wearing a space helmet and cape. His mother asked, “What’s up today?”

Calvin replied, “Nothing so far.”

“So far?” his mother asked.

“Well,” Calvin said, “you never know. Something could happen today. And if anything does happen, I’m going to be ready for it!”

Calvin left the room, and his mom said, “I wish I had a suit like that!”