Senior Adult and Education Ministries
You can go to heaven without wealth, fame, great name, learning, or friends but not without christ.
New Sunday School Literature is here. We are starting a different series - Bible Book Series. This literature covers a book of the Bible in a series. March, April, May will cover 1 & 2 Peter and Jude. Get your new pupil book from your Sunday School classroom.
February Mission Emphasis
New Jerusalem Church (our host church). Joseph's Pantry - clothing and food. Food - nothing specific other than homeless items - ready to eat and easy open canned items.
Gwen Cannon is their coordinator for this ministry which serves hundreds of people each month.
March Mission Emphasis - Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for International Missions. March 2-9 Week of Prayer for International missionaries. We will receive our mission offering through Easter Sunday, April 20.
Thank you received from the Port Ministry of New Orleans (GMM - Global Maritime Ministries). "Thank you so much for the personal items you donated. We immediately put them on the shelf and they have been very popular! Thank you for collecting the items and keeping us in mind and in your prayers." (We, AWBC, collected items and the Roberts' daughter delivered them. November 2024 donations)
Thank you received from the Children's Hospital of Mississippi. We are so grateful for your in-kind gifts to Children's of Mississippi. With this gift you help make possible a future where all Mississippi children can grow up and reach their full potential. Your generosity makes you our partner in meeting the needs of Mississippi's children. Amber Magee, Coordinator (January 2025 donations)
Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
In 2000 when Nell Rose's father and only brother died, we prayed and asked the Lord, if it was his will, that he let us stay close enough to take care of Mrs. Daniels, her mother. HE DID! BOTH AT WOODVILLE HEIGHTS AND ALTA WOODS.
You all know that for some time we have wanted to be closer to our children and grandchildren. When the California kids moved to Birmingham this past summer, we began to ask the Lord again for his guidance and wisdom. God had it all planned that they would be here when Nell Rose's mother died August 1. He had fulfilled his promise to allow us to stay close by and take care of her for the past 24 years.
We have continued to pray in earnest about our future and we believe he is opening a door for us to move to Tuscaloosa to watch our grandchildren grow up. There are still many prayers to be answered but we have found a place and if everything goes according to what we understand so far, we are planning to move to Tuscaloosa in late March. We still have a house to sell but that is in His hands too.
We have experienced his faithfulness over and over again through you as you have shown us his love and patience and kindness. We love you and thank the Lord for leading us here to serve him with you almost 23 years ago. It was May 1, 2002 when we came after meeting with your personnel committee members, Bill Loveless and Vernon Smith.
We ask you to continue to pray for us constantly, that we will find a place to worship and serve him there.
Love in Christ's service
Sid and Nell Rose Johnson
Philippians 1:3-6
When Christ took your place on the cross, he locked you in his love and threw away the key. Because of his brutal love demonstrated on the cross, you are completely reconciled to God, reinstated into his family and lavished in his care. Because of the cross you are never helpless and alone, no matter what this world may throw at you.
