The Shriner’s Shopping Spree of Fentress County started in the 1950’s serving ten needy school children. Each child was allotted ten dollars to purchase Christmas gifts for their families. In 1976, Mrs. Faye Stephen’s son Stacy, then a third grader at York Elementary...
Devotions
Christmas is Coming!
Christmas is coming! I am excited, are you? I love everything about Christmas from shopping to wrapping to decorating trees! Seasonal décor lines the shelves in stores, trees are appearing in homes and the shopping season is officially started. I often get...
The Untold Story
"So Nana, he was dreaming of when he was a boy?", asked my sweet six year old granddaughter. Anna had no trouble following the story of THE LEGEND OF CHRISTMAS An Untold Story of the Real St. Nicholas by Theresa White. Children are inclined to accept truth over...
Fruitful Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving evokes thoughts of actively thanking God for His blessings. Food, shelter, clothing, freedom and salvation might come to mind. But does the act of thanksgiving require more? The word "thanksgiving" means the act of giving thanks and is found nine times...
Like a Leaf
Life is like a leaf: green, colorful, fading, and falling. It seems only yesterday my mommy, as I called her then, was thirty-three and I was five. I cried every morning of Kindergarten but she insisted I go. Overcoming tears and anxiety was important as she knew. I...
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