PINEVILLE – Among Louisiana College’s 155 graduates from four states and two other nations on May 12, 20 received a BS degree in nursing, and one of those, Sara Irene Jarrell of Anacoco, received a commission to the U.S. Army Nurses Corps.
Another 82 graduates received a BA degree; 19 earned a non-nursing BS degree; five earned a bachelor’s degree in social work and nine graduated with a bachelor of general studies degree.
MONTEREY – Brad Mount, a member at Lismore Baptist near Jonesville is an up-and-coming country gospel singer, with performance dates May 26 at Welcome Home Baptist Church in Winnfield and May 31 at Cross Trails Cowboy Church in Kilbourne.
Listen to snippets of his down-home country voice at www.bradmount.com.
A third annual golf tournament to benefit Mount’s Walking By Faith Ministries is set for June 2 at the Duncan Park Golf Course in Natchez, Miss. Cost is $85/person for a two-person scramble (includes green fee and cart) and a 9 a.m. shotgun start.
Trophies for top three winners, and for everyone, a drawing for a 26-inch HD flat screen LCD TV.
For more information email eddiewaltman@bellsouth.net or call 318.308.4684.
COVINGTON – Pilgrim Rest Baptist needs a new building and the Carpenters for Christ from Alabama are to help June 6-15.
START – Start Baptist youth and adults plan to go to La Trinidad, Mexico May 26-June 2, for international missions, and to Nashville, Tenn., July 16-21 to work in homeless shelters, boys and girls homes, and construction sites for the elderly and infirm. Jeff Thomas is youth minister; Brad Brazellis Mexico missions coordinator.
BLANCHARD – First Baptist raised $25,000 for missions with their recent fish fry and auction. A special Memorial Day service to honor military serving in harm’s way is planned for May 27.
Men’s prayer meeting is at 7 p.m. Mondays. Duck Commander Phil Robertson is to speak during the church’s annual Sportsman’s Expo Saturday, June 2. James Hill is pastor.
DENHAM SPRINGS – Hebron Baptist’s second annual Golf Scramble to benefit Hope Outdoors is set for an 8 a.m. June 16 shotgun start at Beaver Creek Golf Course. For more info call Dennis Garcia at 2225-664-8483.
ALEXANDRIA – Baptist Temple plans a mission trip to Clarksdale, Miss. June 25-29. Members are collecting items for health kits: Band-Aids, cotton balls, Q-tips, alcohol wipes, Kleenex individual paks, ChapStick, Vaseline.
RUSTON – Southside Baptist plans its 54th homecoming for June 2-3 with a 5 p.m. Saturday potluck supper and gospel concert by the group Practissing for Heaven and message by Gray Allison. The event also is to include special recognition of former staff and a video presentation of Southside: “Connecting Yesterday’s Dream to Today’s Vision” and “Decrease the Debt and Increase the Dream.”
ZACHARY – First Zachary plans to present Freedom: A Salute to American Liberty at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 1. “The presentation will feature the Celebration Choir and the Kidz Choir in a thrilling and poignant musical tapestry created by David T. Clydesdale and Deborah Craig-Clear,” reports Messenger, the First Zachary newsletter. Billy Causey is putting this together “to give us an opportunity as a church, a community and personally to pause and reflect, to honor, and to celebrate this ideal that birthed our nation, that so many have died for, and that still represents the dream of countless people around the world,” Messenger reports.
PONCHATOULA – Boarders for Christ – some of the top professional and amateur riders from the West Coast – performed recently at First Ponchatoula with skateboarding tricks and testimonies.
HOUMA – First Baptist is enrolling youngsters grades K-8 in its Covenant Christian Academy, and youngsters ages 1-4 in Covenant Christian Preschool. General Mills and Community Coffee UPCs are being collected to help raise extra money for the start of the new school.
BAKER – Some women at First Baker started painting a hallway at the church and things started happening, Pastor Dennis Allen reports in the church newsletter.
“All of our hallway and most of our class rooms have been painted; a new floor has been installed in part of our nursery; a new ceiling installed in the gym; the ditch behind the parking lot has been trimmed and cleaned; we have some new furniture and other materials for our children’s department; many new signs have been installed along with a safety buzzer for the nursery; flowers have been planted and shrubbery trimmed, and our security cameras are all in place.”
MINDEN – Nearly 400 people and 48 exhibitors showed up for First Minden’s recent Arts & Crafts Show & Sale, despite dismal weather. Woodcarving, ceramics, Brazil artifacts were among the displays. Money raised from the event was earmarked for summer missions.
RUSTON – Rolling Hills Disaster Relief Training is set for 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, June 16, at Temple Ruston. Lunch will be served. Registration required. Call 318.251.0065 for more info.
HAMMOND – Clip art on the front of a recent issue of First Hammond’s newsletter, the Progress Ledger, catches the eye. It’s a trash can filled with “good intentions,” “excuses excuses” and “absent from Sunday school.”
“What a waste” is the legend beneath the trash can. “You can help eliminate such spiritual waste in our church….” Spiritual waste. Hmmm.
SWARTZ – First Swartz is moving its Sunday evening services to Mondays this summer, and has special guests lined up: Bob Pittman July 16; Carroll Marr July 23; Rick Byargeon July 30, and more.