HOSPITAL AND SPECIAL NEEDS – SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Martin Atkins –  Shot in right eyeball Sept. 9 and cataract surgery Sept. 15

Ophelia Atkins – (Martin’s mother) – At daughter’s home – Hospice Care

Pop Bramlett (Carolyn Dyer’s father) – tests and hernia surgery

Tomye Brown – Home – Undergoing Radiation Therapy

Ray & Sue Cash – Home

Frances Doolittle (Lucille Dyer’s sister) – Cancer

Lucille Dyer – Heart Surgery Sept. 4 – Greenville Memorial  - Surgery went well

Wayne Lenderman – Surgery on Arm – Sept. 2

Jeanine Mostella – Greenville Memorial 2320 – to go to Nursing Home in Brevard, NC

Rainey Family – Home

Brian Rasmussen (Lucille Dyer’s Grandson) – Cancer Treatment

Billie & Charles Shepherd – Home

Frances Vest – Dr. Thursday, Sept. 4^th – facing arm surgery - more antibiotics

MESSENGER – SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH

6:00 PM – SUPPER

6:45 PM - PRAYER MEETING

7:30 PM – CHOIR REHEARSAL

CHILDREN’S CHOIR

There have been requests to begin Children’s Choir again.   If anyone would like to help with this, please contact Diane Atkins as she is unable to get to the church from school in time.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8^TH – 6:30 PM – MEN’S FELLOWSHIP

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9^TH – SENIOR ADULT FELLOWSHIP

SENIOR ADULT BEACH TRIP – OCTOBER 13 – 15

If you are planning on going you need to contact Carolyn or Larry Dyer to get your reservation made and to pay your deposit for the trip.

PASTOR’S PEN – SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

            I hope that each of you had a wonderful Labor Day week end and are now rested and ready to go to work.   Those of you who were away this past week end were greatly missed here at Piedmont Park.  I hope that you will all soon be back with us so that we can fellowship and worship together. 

            I was just thinking today that it is hard to believe that on September 9^th, I will begin my eighth year of ministry here at Piedmont Park.  Time has flown by and we have seen so many things happen that it is almost beyond comprehension.  I thank God daily for each of you and for all the good work that God has done in and through you and will continue to do as you surrender to His Holy Will. 

            Thank you for your understanding and your prayers for me and my family.   I am looking forward to my eye surgery that is upcoming so that I will be able to get my new glasses and hopefully be able to see well again.  I never thought that I would say that I was glad to face any surgical procedure but due to God’s blessings and the good work of my doctors I am looking forward to my upcoming eye surgery. 

            God bless each of you and use you for His Glory.  Give Him praise for every opportunity to worship, pray, minister and witness.

In Christ’s love,

Pastor Atkins