Carolyn and Bailey

March 08

Max, Bailey, Callie Rae

Jimmy & Donna

Ross Bridge, 2007

Loveless Park Baptist Church's Anniversary

Loveless Park Baptist Church's 

28th Anniversary, 1971

RECORD OF MINISTRY

Record of Ministry (mostly from memory) 1953 First Message before student body....Rome Senior High School

1953 First Marriage Ceremony....Gene Adams to Doris Ann Willingham
1953 First Funeral.....Uncle Remus (aunt suzie's brother or b-i-l?)
1953 First year at Tennessee Temple....Preached on the Streets of Cattanooga
1955 Transferred to Howard College
1955-56 Music and Youth...New Hope Baptist, Irondale (non paying)
1955- Preached on H-Day programs across the State While at Howard College
1957 Music....Cedar Grove Baptist, Leeds, Al (first paying job in Ministry)

1958 Pastor, Mt. Olive Baptist, Goodwater, Al

Howard College moved to new Campus...Became Samford University

Married Nov 27, 1958

Virginia Born, Jan 7, 1960...Birmingham

1960 Pastor, Goodwater Baptist, Winfield, Al (now Eastside Baptist)
Also pastored First Baptist, Brilliant for less than one year.

9/4/61 Kathy Born in Winfield

11/2/62 Debbie Born in Winfield

1964 Moved back to Birmingham to go back to school at Samford
Served one year as Associate Pastor and Music Minister at Tenth Avenue Baptist

1964 J.C. Penney....Manager of Men & Boys Department
Nov 1965-May 1968 Pastor at New Hope Baptist in Irondale (Now Grantswood)
Feb 19, 1966 Jimmy was born.
June 1968-Dec 1969 New Orleans Baptist Seminary
Dec 1969-Sept 1972 Loveless Park Baptist
Sept 1972-Jan 1980 Bellevue Baptist (Now First Baptist, Sandusky)
Jan 1979-Oct 1982 First Baptist Carbon Hill, Al
Oct 1982-Jan 1991 Second Baptist, Bessemer
Feb 1991-May 2005 Owned and operated The Master's Shoppe, Bessemer
Interim Pastorates: Garywood Baptist, Southcrest Baptist, Second Baptist, Woodland Hills Baptist
May 1992-1995 Pastor Prudes Creek Baptist, Tuscaloosa County (Bi-Vocational)
1995- Members At Hunter Street Baptist
2005-2006 Associate Pastor/Music at Cornerstone Baptist, Bessemer
Feb 2007 Moved membership to Loveless Park Baptist

Why seniors citizens break things!

FIRST VIDEO PUBLISHED

Debbie, Ryan, Adam and (Callie Cox?)

A proverb

Heard this yesterday at a Bible Conference. Spoken by an Irishman.

"The path of least resistance makes both rivers and men crooked."

NOVEMBER 2008, NOVEMBER 1958

1958-2008

Max & Carolyn

Thankfully, everone in our family is well.  We look forward to getting together on Thanksgiving Day at Kathy's.  This is also the actual day of our Fiftieth Wedding  Anniversary.

50TH ANNIVERSARY

Yesterday was a RED LETTER DAY!  Our children had planned our fiftieth anniversay celebration at Loveless Park Baptist Church.

The day began with Worship at 8:30 am, then Sunday School. Back home to eat and dress for the occasion. Back at the Church at 1:30pm.

Then just before 2 pm a great inflow of family and friends.  It was awesome to see so many from so many places in the past.  We received many wonderful gifts and cards.

Thank you Ginny, Kathy, Debbie and Jimmy for putting this all together.

You'll never know just how much it meant to me and Carolyn.

IN-THE-HOLE-HE-GOES

After a hardy rainstorm filled all the potholes in the streets and alleys, 
a  young mother watched her two little boys playing in the puddle through her 
kitchen window.  The older of the two, a five year old lad, grabbed his
sibling by the back of his head and shoved his face into the water hole.

As the boy recovered and stood laughing and dripping, the mother runs to 
the  yard in a panic.  "Why on earth did you do that to your little brother?" 
she  says as she shook the older boy in anger.

"We were just playing church mommy," he said. "And I was just baptizing 
him..... in the name of the Father, the Son and in...the hole-he-goes."

COMPLAINERS

Subject: Illustration, Patience, Impatience, Attitude, Complainers

 

A guy joins a monastery and takes a vow of silence:

 

He's allowed to say two words every seven years.

 

After the first seven years the elders bring him in and ask for his two words.   "Cold floors," He says. 

 

Seven more years pass.  They bring him back in ask for his two words.   "Bad food."he says. 

 

Seven more years pass.  They bring him in for his two words.   "I quit." He says.

 

"That's fine." The elders say, "You have done nothing but complain  since you got here."

DON'T TOUCH ME

A conservative Republican in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee. The Republican looked across the restaurant, notice a bearded man with a halo, and asked, "Is that Jesus sitting over there?" The waitress nodded "yes," so the Republican requested that she give Jesus a cup of coffee, "On me".

The next patron to come in was an independent Libertarian with a hunched back. He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea. He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, "Is that Jesus over there?" The waitress nodded, so the Libertarian asked her to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, "My treat."

The third patron to come into the restaurant was a liberal on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered, "Hey there, honey! How's about getting' me a cold glass of Miller Light?" He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, "Is that God's boy over there?" The waitress once more nodded, so the Democrat directed her to give Jesus a cold glass of beer. "On my bill," he said.

As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Republican, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Republican felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.

Jesus also passed by the Libertarian, touched him and said, "For your kindness, you are healed." The Libertarian felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.

Then Jesus walked towards the Liberal. The Democrat jumped up quickly and yelled,

"Don't touch me ... I'm collecting disability."

Pun Intended

Pun Intended

1. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.

2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

3. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.

4. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because - it was a weapon of math disruption.

5. The butcher backed into the meat grinder - and got a little behind in his work.

6. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

7. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road - and was cited for littering.

8. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in - Linoleum Blownapart.

9. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

10. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

11. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.

12. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

13. Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, 'You stay here, I'll go on a head.'

14. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

15. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab centre said: 'Keep off the Grass.'

16. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'

17. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

19. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was - a small medium at large.

20. The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now - a seasoned veteran.

21. A backward poet writes inverse.

22. In democracy it's your vote that counts. - In feudalism it's your count that votes.

23. When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

24. Don't join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!

NEW PHOTO (Max and Carolyn Youngblood

Kathy shot this yesterday (10/31/08) in our back yard.

New Motivation

I have been motivated by following ChadClem.com. Chad keeps his blog up to date. Also learned about Twitter through it. There is now a link to Twitter Updates on here. Twitter is free. You can post short comments only. You can do it thru your phone if you use text messaging. I don't.

Praying for Jimmy. He had chest pains; had a nuclear stress test yesterday. Waiting on results.

Praying for Ken Browning. (Virginia's husband) Through blood tests they noticed a possible liver problem; He had a liver biopsy yesterday.
As a resuslt of MRI's they also found a growth on his gall bladder. He will have to be hospitalized for that biopsy

Sunday, Oct 5 2008 Church

Great day in Sunday School this morning. Buddy and Pat Whitfield were not there and Diane Snyder is now in New York.

We looked at Week 5 in our 11 week study, Living The Extraordinary Life.
Our subject today was Obedience.

Steve Thomason Funeral

Donna's dad died last Sunday after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a very short time ago.
I was called upon to conduct his funeral yesterday, June18, 2008. I was honored to do it; I only wish I had know him better. He was a good man.