We had a wonderful time at this month's Yahweh Sisterhood meeting. There were 17 terrific women in attendance. We had delicious food as you can see my favorite part in one of the pictures below (the dessert table). Sister Cynthia Stidham presented a devotion that was a true blessing.
We also discussed ordering t-shirts and contact cards for our Ministry; we talked about having a booth at Neighbor Day; and, we discussed other planning matters.
The best part of the meeting was our sharing and prayer time. Each one of us shared our three most important prayer requests as we connected to each other via a ball of string. We then went the Father in prayer for every one of those needs. This was such a sweet and touching time as we shared from the depths of our hearts with each other and with Jesus as he interceeded between us and God.
I want to say a special thanks to Angela Fincher who was a great help in getting prepared for the meeting; special thanks to Sister Cynthia for the devotion, game and the t-shirt design. And, thanks to those who joined in at this meeting. It was such a blessing to me; and I hope it was to all of you. For those of you who could not be at this meeting, I pray that you will be at the meeting in March.
Love and Prayers,
Tina Stults, Director
Yahweh Sisterhood Women's Ministry
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST
As some of you know, Martha was hospitalized last week. She is not doing well. They ran that test to see how well and if the treatments were doing any good.
Nina called me just a few minutes ago, terribly upset. Martha was at Winfield meeting with her cancer doctor there. The cancer has spread and grown tremendously, almost overtaking her liver also. They are undecided what to do. Whether to continue the treatments, or to discontinue them.
This family has gone through an awful lot in the past 6 months. We need to pray and believe for a miracle healing in Martha's body. I believe Martha's life is right with God and she is ready to go.
I had intended to be at the Women's ministry meeting tonight, however, I feel the need to be with Martha and Nina. If any of you would like to stop by and pray with Martha and Nina, I KNOW they would love this. If you would like to come as a group after the meeting, that would be wonderful.
Martha is a very dear dear friend to me, and I know she believes in the power of prayer. So please keep her and Nina and Burt in your prayers.
Love to all,
Nancy
Nina called me just a few minutes ago, terribly upset. Martha was at Winfield meeting with her cancer doctor there. The cancer has spread and grown tremendously, almost overtaking her liver also. They are undecided what to do. Whether to continue the treatments, or to discontinue them.
This family has gone through an awful lot in the past 6 months. We need to pray and believe for a miracle healing in Martha's body. I believe Martha's life is right with God and she is ready to go.
I had intended to be at the Women's ministry meeting tonight, however, I feel the need to be with Martha and Nina. If any of you would like to stop by and pray with Martha and Nina, I KNOW they would love this. If you would like to come as a group after the meeting, that would be wonderful.
Martha is a very dear dear friend to me, and I know she believes in the power of prayer. So please keep her and Nina and Burt in your prayers.
Love to all,
Nancy
MEET - LISA STIDHAM
My name is Lisa Stidham. I am 35 years old. I was born Lisa Ann Mclemore in Hayti, Missouri in 1971. My mother is Evelyn McLemore and My father is Edward McLemore. I have two sisters, Angie, Wellington and Crystal Huggins. My parents were divorced when I was very young and so my mother became my everything. There was nothing she couldn't do. We were very close growing up and still are today. My dad lives in Sikeston, Missouri and is remarried with two other children.
I wasn't raised in church, so I experienced a lot of things as a teenager. My sister was a Christian and I watched her take a stand when it wasn't popular. But, I decided to follow the crowd. I started dating Greg Stidham in December, 1989. Greg was one of a kind. He lived in Prattville, AL with his parents. He went to church with his mother, who had raised him very well. He was a very good person.
I went to college to be a cosmetologist and graduated in 1994. My sister Angie and I moved in together in my grandmother's house and she started to minister to me. She made a huge impact on my life. She lived a life that showed Jesus to me. I finally gave my life over to God; what a wonderful day that was.
Greg and I decided to get married in June 1994. We had a struggle for the first year. I went to church and he wouldn't go with me. It was very hard for me to continue going alone, but God was with me.
In 1999, we had our only child, Bailey Brooke Stidham. She was born very sick and was flown to Huntsville Hospital the next morning. Greg and I were scared to death, but we had so many people there with us who loved us. Finally Greg gave his life to the Lord during this time that Bailey was sick. Our lives changed so much that three months.
The thing I want you to know most is that God was faithful to us. When we weren't strong enough to walk, God walked with us and carried us at times. There are so many other things I could share with you, but the main thing is that no matter what you face in life, God is enough for you. This was a very difficult time in our lives, But I wouldn't trade it for anything. Because of what we came through, our marriage is stronger, our faith is stronger, and we have a beautiful, loving, full of life daughter who makes us feel very blessed.
In June we will be married 13 years and we are very happy. God changed our lives; He healed us in so many ways. We are partners in this journey and we are growing closer to each other and closer to God everyday. We are always here to help any of you who need us. We thank God for all of you, our church family. We love you all very much. Just as Greg, Bailey and I are going to make it, with God's help we all can make it together.
Love,
Lisa Stidham
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST!!!
Please begin praying immediately for Martha Hill. Nina called me last night in tears. She had to admit Martha last night. Martha was due to have that scan done today that shows the progress (or not) of the treatments she had been taking. She should have taken 8 treatments by now, but she has only been able to take 4 because she gets so sick. She has not been able to recover from her most recent treatment, which was about 3 weeks ago I think.
Nina is afraid that the treatments are not working on the cancer. They will know after this test.
Nina called and asked me to pray with her and for Martha. She then asked "PLEASE call your praying friends at church. So much good comes out of that church." - It's a wonderful compliment to know that people think we can do go things.... But I had to remind her that "we" are just instruments....GOD is the one who does good things"
Please pray as soon as you get this and let's lift this family up in prayer, in healing and every way possible!
Nancy McCarley
Nina is afraid that the treatments are not working on the cancer. They will know after this test.
Nina called and asked me to pray with her and for Martha. She then asked "PLEASE call your praying friends at church. So much good comes out of that church." - It's a wonderful compliment to know that people think we can do go things.... But I had to remind her that "we" are just instruments....GOD is the one who does good things"
Please pray as soon as you get this and let's lift this family up in prayer, in healing and every way possible!
Nancy McCarley
Yahweh Sisterhood Meeting - February 20 @6:30 pm - Church Kitchen
Attention: All Yahweh Sisters (that includes our young ladies in the JOY Club and the older ladies in the Youth Group "Consumed"). Our next Women's Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 20, @ 6:30 pm, in the Church Kitchen.We need about 5 or 6 people to volunteer to bring snacks and drinks. If you would like to help, please see Tina Stults or Lisa Stidham no later than Sunday, February 18th. This is a time for us to share our lives with our sisters and pray for each other's needs. Please join us. You are missed when you cannot attend.
Please pass this message along to all of our congregation that you know who don't have internet access. Thank you all for your support of our Women's Ministry. I hope to see you and an un-churched friend at this meeting.
Love and prayers,
Tina Stults, Director
Yahweh Sisterhood
DR. BILLY GRAHAM
In what might prove to be the crowning achievement of an illustrious career in ministry, the 87-year-old evangelist, Billy Graham shocked the 16,300 in attendance at the Celebration of Hope crusade in New Orleans Arena on Sunday Night.
Touted in advance as possibly his last Evangelistic crusade, Graham invited the packed house of evangelical Christians and the hundreds of new converts to join him on the one mile walk from the arena to New Orleans' infamous Bourbon Street.
"While we have seen God do tremendous things here the past couple of evenings. Yes, it is true that a great healing and a great many salvations have occurred within the confines of this auditorium. Still yet, there lies a great mountain in this city which needs to be conquered."
Then taking from the Biblical Book of Joshua Chapter 14 he read, "I am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day," his voice suddenly sounding more forceful than during his 22 minute sermon.
"I last preached in the City of New Orleans in 1954 and I felt then that there was some unfinished business. Tonight, in what very well might be my last evangelistic service, I aim to finish that business and lead as many of you that would follow me to the multitude of lost souls that fill Bourbon Street tonight. That is my mountain! That is where we shall see the harvest!" said Graham as the stadium erupted in cheers that lasted the next several minutes.
Utilizing a waiting mobility scooter, the elder Graham joined his son and heir to the ministry, Franklin, across the Arena floor and through the opened doors leading towards the French Quarter. In a show of solidarity and determination reminiscent of civil rights marches of the 1960's, nearly the entire capacity crowd joined in the 20 minute trek while singing, "When the Saints Go Marching In".
As the march crossed Canal Street and headed northward towards Bourbon Street, many onlookers stood in stunned silence as the massive crowd of people began singing in unison the Christian hymn, "Amazing Grace". Upon entering the west end of Bourbon Street, Billy Graham was soon recognized by partiers.
Soon, those joining in the march began to approach those partying on Bourbon Street with the Gospel message that they had heard preached just a half hour before. Graham himself joined with a group of local street evangelists in ministering to a man who had survived Hurricane Katrina in the lower 9th Ward.
Within 30 minutes, the entirety of Bourbon Street was packed with Christians and the once blaring music of nightclubs and strip joints had been replaced by weeping and worship as people poured out their drinks and sought prayer from the Christians who were now reaching out to them.
"I have never seen anything like this in my life," said 20 years New Orleans Police Department veteran, Tom Phillips. "This is unbelievable! We thought a riot was going to break out, but this looks more like a Revival than a riot!"
Two hours later, a glowing Graham sat back down on his scooter, smiled and said, "Now I know how the Apostle Paul must have felt at the end of his ministry. Do the work of an evangelist; make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."
Hours later, hundreds of Christians remained on the street ministering to the many people eagerly waiting to receive prayer and ministry. New Orleans will never be the same. And the press remained mute on this "news item?" Did anyone see it on TV/hear it on radio/read it in the paper? Why are we not surprised? Can't have THAT just prior to a major election, now, can we?
Well, just on a whim, spread the news, anyway. It cost our elder brother, Billy Graham, more than any of us know to make that effort. The least we can do is publicize it .
Touted in advance as possibly his last Evangelistic crusade, Graham invited the packed house of evangelical Christians and the hundreds of new converts to join him on the one mile walk from the arena to New Orleans' infamous Bourbon Street.
"While we have seen God do tremendous things here the past couple of evenings. Yes, it is true that a great healing and a great many salvations have occurred within the confines of this auditorium. Still yet, there lies a great mountain in this city which needs to be conquered."
Then taking from the Biblical Book of Joshua Chapter 14 he read, "I am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day," his voice suddenly sounding more forceful than during his 22 minute sermon.
"I last preached in the City of New Orleans in 1954 and I felt then that there was some unfinished business. Tonight, in what very well might be my last evangelistic service, I aim to finish that business and lead as many of you that would follow me to the multitude of lost souls that fill Bourbon Street tonight. That is my mountain! That is where we shall see the harvest!" said Graham as the stadium erupted in cheers that lasted the next several minutes.
Utilizing a waiting mobility scooter, the elder Graham joined his son and heir to the ministry, Franklin, across the Arena floor and through the opened doors leading towards the French Quarter. In a show of solidarity and determination reminiscent of civil rights marches of the 1960's, nearly the entire capacity crowd joined in the 20 minute trek while singing, "When the Saints Go Marching In".
As the march crossed Canal Street and headed northward towards Bourbon Street, many onlookers stood in stunned silence as the massive crowd of people began singing in unison the Christian hymn, "Amazing Grace". Upon entering the west end of Bourbon Street, Billy Graham was soon recognized by partiers.
Soon, those joining in the march began to approach those partying on Bourbon Street with the Gospel message that they had heard preached just a half hour before. Graham himself joined with a group of local street evangelists in ministering to a man who had survived Hurricane Katrina in the lower 9th Ward.
Within 30 minutes, the entirety of Bourbon Street was packed with Christians and the once blaring music of nightclubs and strip joints had been replaced by weeping and worship as people poured out their drinks and sought prayer from the Christians who were now reaching out to them.
"I have never seen anything like this in my life," said 20 years New Orleans Police Department veteran, Tom Phillips. "This is unbelievable! We thought a riot was going to break out, but this looks more like a Revival than a riot!"
Two hours later, a glowing Graham sat back down on his scooter, smiled and said, "Now I know how the Apostle Paul must have felt at the end of his ministry. Do the work of an evangelist; make full proof of thy ministry. For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."
Hours later, hundreds of Christians remained on the street ministering to the many people eagerly waiting to receive prayer and ministry. New Orleans will never be the same. And the press remained mute on this "news item?" Did anyone see it on TV/hear it on radio/read it in the paper? Why are we not surprised? Can't have THAT just prior to a major election, now, can we?
Well, just on a whim, spread the news, anyway. It cost our elder brother, Billy Graham, more than any of us know to make that effort. The least we can do is publicize it .
Prayer Request
Lacy Galbreath, a girl that I work with, her dad died this morning. His name is Richard Galbreath. He had been battling cancer. They are going in the morning to do his arrangements. Please keep the family in your prayers.
Thank you,
Sherry
Thank you,
Sherry
Praise Report
I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY THAT PRAYED FOR J.J.'s EYE. WE GOT GOOD NEWS TODAY WHEN WE WENT BACK TO THE DOCTOR. ALL THE RUST HAS COME OUT OF HIS EYE. HIS EYE SIGHT IS FINE AND THE SCAR IT LEFT WILL HEAL WITH TIME. THANK YA'LL AGAIN AND I WANT TO GIVE A
VERY BIG THANK YOU TO MY FATHER, GOD. BETHANN AND J.J.
Leadership Conference at Camp Boothe
Angela Fincher, Lisa Stidham, Cynthia Stidham, and I attend the annual Leadership Conference - Women's Ministries session at Camp Boothe this weekend. Our instructor was Sister Cathy Payne who is the International Women's Ministries Director. This class was well worth the travel to Green Pond. Sister Cathy is an awesome leader who takes no credit for her talents; she gives God ALL of the Glory for everything she is able to do.
We enjoyed this conference so much and we learned a lot. In this class, we spent time with women from other Alabama churches as a group and one on one. We shared personal information, as well as new ideas with each other. Cathy was so inspiring with her teaching and the stories she from her mission trips over seas. We were blessed by the presence of the Holy Spirit in the morning session. We laughed. We cried. We prayed. I'm already looking forward to going back next year.
If you and/or your husband work in any ministry in the church (children's church, men's ministry, youth ministry), you should attend at least one of these conferences. It will make a difference in your life as well as in the lives of those you minister to.
We love all of you very much and we're so excited about what God is going to do for you this year. We brought back many ideas, refreshed minds, and hearts burdened with love and compassion for the women of our church and of our community. We want to make this year an awesome year for all of the women we can touch with our Women's Ministry. And you can help by encouraging the leaders; attending monthly meetings and special events; reaching out to the un-churched in the community; offering ideas for new ministry projects; sharing your needs, problems, prayer request, and victories with all of us; and praying daily for the women of our church and community, praying for their families, and praying for our church.
Let's make a difference in the lives of the women around us, as well as in our own lives.
Love and prayers,
Tina Stults, Director
Yahweh Sisterhood
We enjoyed this conference so much and we learned a lot. In this class, we spent time with women from other Alabama churches as a group and one on one. We shared personal information, as well as new ideas with each other. Cathy was so inspiring with her teaching and the stories she from her mission trips over seas. We were blessed by the presence of the Holy Spirit in the morning session. We laughed. We cried. We prayed. I'm already looking forward to going back next year.
If you and/or your husband work in any ministry in the church (children's church, men's ministry, youth ministry), you should attend at least one of these conferences. It will make a difference in your life as well as in the lives of those you minister to.
We love all of you very much and we're so excited about what God is going to do for you this year. We brought back many ideas, refreshed minds, and hearts burdened with love and compassion for the women of our church and of our community. We want to make this year an awesome year for all of the women we can touch with our Women's Ministry. And you can help by encouraging the leaders; attending monthly meetings and special events; reaching out to the un-churched in the community; offering ideas for new ministry projects; sharing your needs, problems, prayer request, and victories with all of us; and praying daily for the women of our church and community, praying for their families, and praying for our church.
Let's make a difference in the lives of the women around us, as well as in our own lives.
With God all things are possible!
Love and prayers,
Tina Stults, Director
Yahweh Sisterhood
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