More than 124,000 or one fifth of the 610,000 homeless people across the U.S.A suffer from a severe mental illness, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. They’re gripped by schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression. All manageable with the right medication and counseling, but debleating if left untreated.
Enon First Missionary Baptist Church hosted a Watch Night on New Year’s Eve from 10 p.m. to midnight. Pastor Jonathan Stanmore was the guest speaker and Reverend A.C. Williams also preached. Photo by Raydeen Edwards
Over the last several months we have been eager to explore the shared common ground existing between Christian believers and unbelievers. Those aspects of nature, and life, and history from which two people might engage in fruitful discussion. After all, it has been the Bible skeptic Michael that we have spent much time discussing over the months. We have explored common ground through observations of the cosmos: the moons, the planets, and the stars.
QC Methodist Church will be serving soup, beans, cornbread and desserts from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. every first Monday of the month, January through May. For more information contact Elouise at 903-796-7525.
The day of the Christmas Parade in Linden this year was Dec. 7. This was the date in 1941 of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor which started Work War II for the United States. Linden’s Paul Ellinger put up a black flag at the war memorial monument in Linden the day of the parade and on his own remembrance of that unfortunate occurrence. Photo by Neil Abeles.
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