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Lack of rural pastors

Posted in Pastoring, Rural Life on February 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Collin Hansen at Out of Ur has some good comments about the lack of rural minister:
HERE

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Hospitality

Posted in Pastoring, Religion, Rural Life on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We had two visitors with us last night for our Wednesday evening fellowship meal and Bible study.  Andrew and Jacob, two young men from Wisconsin are bicycling through the area.  Apparently they got off course yesterday after biking from Jackson, TN in the rain.  One of our church members found them in the area and [...]

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My Little Girl is on ESPN

Posted in Alabama, Family, Rural Life on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »

ESPN outdoors has a story about the coon dog funeral.  We thought it was such an educational event we checked Keelyn out to attend.  Someone snapped a photo and she’s in the picture accompanying the story:
http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/hunting/news/story?id=3666924

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Coon Dog Funeral

Posted in Funny, Rural Life on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

It was a beautiful day to bury a dog.  We had a funeral up at Coon Dog Cemetery today, the organizer is a member of my church and so I was asked to give the invocation which I was happy to do.
Ray Frost brought “the Merch” down from Pennsylvania.  He was a champion Treeing Walker [...]

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Prayer Requests

Posted in Pastoring, Rural Life on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Wednesday nights are great fun. We have a meal followed by our group Bible studies and prayer meeting. Tonights menu was Baked Ham, White Beans, Corn Bread and Turnip Greens, unfortunately all of the Chocolate pie was gone before I got to dessert.
Prayer requests in the country are always good too. We [...]

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Goat Arrest

Posted in Rural Life on July 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I saw this story about a Goat being arrested this morning on the MSNBC site and the Sun.  It might be that I’ve lived here too long but I don’t see what’s so strange about this story – sounds like the right thing for the deputies to do.  I mean it’s not like they cuffed [...]

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A Letter of Apology

Posted in Funny, Rural Life on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »

The church I serve is out in the County, our closest town in state, that is where our kids go to school and where our post office is, is Cherokee.  Cherokee is not large enough to support a newspaper, even a weekly like our neighbors in Iuka, MS who have the Vidette.  (Sorry no link, [...]

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Cat’s and Squirrels living together … mass hysteria!

Posted in Funny, Rural Life on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Our local paper the Times Daily had a story today about a grieving cat who lost her kittens and an orphaned squirrel.

Potential Mother’s Day sermon illustration?

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MSgt Harmon C. Hastings: 1910-1945

Posted in Pastoring, Rural Life on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ministering in a rural area gives me interesting opportunities, this weekend I participated in a memorial service for a soldier who was lost behind enemy lines in World War II.
His nephew, who has been keeping up the small family cemetery that is on a hill overlooking a branch of the Tennessee river, wanted to put [...]

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It would have made a great song!

Posted in Funny, Pastoring, Rural Life on December 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We gather, as many churches do for a devotional reading and song before we divide up into our Sunday school classes. It’s led by a layman so I was sitting in a pew and just before the the service started a wave sorta rose through the pews (back to front instead of side to [...]

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