Dec 25, 2014 | Blog
When I was about the age of three, I had my first chance to sit on Santa’s knee. He was in the back of George Shipman’s Dixie Dandy, Close to the bottle drinks, meat section, and Christmas candy. A “Ho! Ho! Ho!” came from a mouth I could not see, Words...
Dec 12, 2014 | Blog
The Bricks for Ricks Foundation recently contributed $2500 to the Care for One Hundred Campaign along with $1500 from the First Baptist Church of Jefferson to Dr. Olu Menjay on his recent visit to Gainesville First Baptist Church. Dr. Menjay is the Principal of Ricks...
Dec 6, 2014 | Blog
During Advent, stories of the miraculous emerge from our scripture readings. An angel appears to Mary, then Joseph, to ready them for a virgin birth. Angels appear to shepherds as they keep watch of their sheep during the night. Ananias and Sapphira, long awaiting the...
Dec 4, 2014 | Blog
An Advent Devotional On our trip to Finland last summer, we were greeted by days filled with eighteen hours of sunshine. Now this sounds nice, but our biological clocks actually crave darkness. Like chickens that know it’s time to roost because the sun goes...
Nov 3, 2014 | Blog
Helen Cooper is a writer for the New York Times. Her coverage of the Ebola crisis is unique because she was born in Liberia and she still has family living there. Having immigrated to the United States, she escaped many of the civil war’s atrocities which...
Sep 28, 2014 | Blog
A friend recently asked me, “Did God ever wonder where he or she came from?” Wow! That’s not your everyday question and it required a lot of thought, like a math problem. Strangely, my mind raced back to geometry class and discussions about lines and...
