Announcements & Terry Family Report

All right, class, aren't y'all glad Brother Jack's back? We had Jack, we've got Jimmy, we've had John, and another Jimmy, all a bunch of J's. Justin, get ready, you may have an opportunity, or a Jerry, we got plenty of J's around here for sure. Appreciate y'all being here. Don't forget the adult food luncheon is this week, March 19th, 11.30, you need to be paid up. Today, it's the music of Dana and Judy Hamilton. Dana and Judy have played traditional music for 40 years. Dana is the winner of several national dulcimer championships, nothing I've ever attended, nor you, but should be good. Linda knows them, good for you. Also, another note I've sent out to the class, we're having evangelism training on April the 6th, April the 6th at 5 o'clock, and so I'll need a volunteer or two to go if you'd like to go, I'll be there, so April 6th, 5 o'clock, see me at some point if you'd like to go. Y'all all know spring training, spring cleaning, not training, it's here too, spring cleaning is around at our house, don't put my chapstick on, my lipstick together. My wife brought a bug in a napkin to me and said, I found this in your bathroom, so what I do, I go in there, clean the bathroom, I wash the linens, I change the towels, I made it smell like pine thaw, come back in there, she's sitting in the lounge chair, crocheting, gives me another one, I found this one in the kitchen, no, no, fool me once, that's not happening again, fool me once, Brother Jack, I think Terri's got it in her pocket, rent a bug, yep, rent a bug, she's got it in her pocket. You know the difference between love and marriage, love is blind, marriage is eye-opening. Thank you Andy for that this morning, there's a good one, nothing I came up with, that's for sure. It's so good to have Brother Jack here, did you straighten out your boot, you did, okay, it's hurting you, a little bit tight, all right, so glad you're here today, did I miss any visitors, first time visitors, I see a couple of return visitors, good to see you here again, so I'm glad you all are here, how are you Charlotte, I'm good, I'm better now, all right, let's go to the Lord in prayer and ask his blessings on our class today. Hey Father how thankful we are for your saving faith, what you have done in our lives, how you chose us, we ask Lord that each and every day that we live to that faith, that our works might be there to show how much we love you, we're thankful Lord for Brother Jack today to see him back in our midst, we're thankful for what he does for our class, how he makes us whole when he's here, pray for his words today, the study of your word, may it strengthen our own hearts, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. How are you all doing, Barbara and I are doing better, I want to share a saga with you that happened to us beginning on the 8th day of February, and that's how long it's been since all of this began, we had a wonderful, wonderful evening with two of your class members at Vance Hall, and we had a wonderful concert, we're there to hear all of the wonderful music of Tony Bennett, and it was a magnificent night, the orchestra played all of his arrangements from all of his background, two men who sounded almost exactly like him, it was really eerie how much they sounded like him, and a young lady who sounded a great deal like, believe it or not, Lady Gaga, who did a lot of singing with Tony Bennett, and she sounded a lot like her, and it was a wonderful evening, tremendous music, San Francisco, New York, New York, somewhere over the rainbow, all the wonderful songs, you know, the Tony Bennett era, we came out, Charlotte was our chauffeur, and she brought the car up, and I helped Annabelle to get in the front seat, I helped Barbara to get in the back seat, trying to be the gentlemanly man that I am, walked around into the traffic to get in my side behind the passenger, and I had gotten my left hip in, and my left leg in, and my cane in, I was getting ready to sit down, and for some reason the car jerked, I don't know what happened, I don't know if the light changed, and Charlotte thought she needed to go, or, I don't know what, oh you had your foot on the accelerator, and when she went that way, I went that way, and it literally just threw me behind the car, and I fell under the car, and onto the concrete, and here's, I'm on the traffic side, and here's cars coming like mad, along the other side of me, and there were two big bruisers who had had dinner every day across the street at the, what's that place, Barbara, yeah, Cheesecake Factory, they saw me hit the ground, and they were there immediately stopping the traffic, both of them could make three of any of us, and they picked me up, just bodily picked me up, and said, can you stand up, I said, I think I can, and they stood me on my feet, they said, does that hurt, I said not yet, but it may later, so they said, okay, we'll help you get in the car, they put me in the car, shut the door, everything's fine, came home, got our car, came back to the house, got back to our house, and I told Barbara, I said, you know, my right foot is really wet, I wonder if maybe I've done something to it when I fell out of the car, so we sat in the den, I took my shoe off, my right foot, and I had a slash in the bottom of my right foot about that day, it was bleeding like mad, so I told Barbara, I said, call Patricia, we need to go to the emergency room and see about this cut, so about 1030, about 11 o'clock that night, we were right by the emergency room, the doctor had to take eight stitches in my heel, took x-rays, and discovered that I had two minor fractures, a fracture of the tibia and a fracture of the fibula, and they were both on the right side, and he sewed me back up, he put a boot on me, and he said, go home, and you check with your doctor, so that's where we are, I've been through three boots, I do have a boot at home, I got this brace yesterday, and I'm trying it for the first time, this is our maiden voyage on this brace, and so far it's working really well, it's feeling good, and you know, you never get something on real well and it doesn't cut you somewhere, and so it's pushing and pinching, but it'll make it alright, so in the midst of all this saga, now I am Hopalong Cassidy, you know, I can't get anywhere, I'm on one foot, and on boots, and on canes, and on crutches, and on a walker, and trying to get around the house, helping Barbara, old Hopalong Cassidy, and in the midst of it all, Barbara wakes up on Tuesday morning, two weeks after the February date, and she's hemorrhaging, hemorrhaging really bad, and so we called the children again, we picked her up, took her to the emergency room, and she had a patch of diverticulosis, where one of the little diverticulitis had burst forth, and it was hemorrhaging, and in a matter of about four hours, we were in the emergency room at Greybond, in a matter of about four to six hours, she lost four units of blood, and finally the doctors came in, took her to a minor surgery, thinking that they would just coincide with a groin entrance, and maybe cauterize that little polyp, and by the time they got in there, it had stopped, and it was no longer bleeding, and the doctor said, that often happens, sometimes it stops, sometimes they'll start bleeding again in two hours, sometimes they won't bleed for two months, sometimes they won't bleed again, and up to that point, sweetheart, we haven't had a problem, haven't we, we haven't had a bleeding at all, but as you can imagine, having lost four units of blood, it's left her very weak, and she's very anemic to begin with, and weak and weary is not a good sound for a person who's anemic to begin with, so you all pray for her, we're seeing the doctor in the morning, hoping that we can get some blood infusions this week sometime, we're waiting to hear from them, and so we are trying to get on our way, and trying to thank God, and we have been claiming scripture all the way through, Brother Jimmy, and the one we've been trying to claim that's really hard to chew on, is, in all things, give thanks, that's a toughie, folks, in all things give thanks, because this is the will of God concerning you, and so, and we've been re-reading the book of Job, you know, you need to go read the book of Job, and get toward the end of it, when all three of his buddies try to get him to curse God and die, and even his sweet wife comes along and tries to get him to curse God and die, and Job, in his terrible condition, with all of the boils, and the dust, and the sand, and the dirt, and the scraping, he says, though he slay me, yet will I trust him, and so we have been claiming Job, we've been claiming the Psalms, and we've been claiming the fact that this too shall pass, and it is on the way to pass, and things are looking up, I'm able to walk down with a cane, and with this new brace that I got yesterday, I'm feeling pretty good, and my ankle is kind of stable again, if I can just get it healed, and get away from the little cane, and just walk like a human being for a change, we hope, and Barbara's, you all pray sincerely for Barbara's appointment tomorrow, we must see the infusion tomorrow, so you all pray that we have an opportunity to do that, have you ever tried to get to a doctor? We called our family doctor, and they told us that you can see her April the 4th, now this is March, and we can see her April the 4th, so we went and saw her PA instead, we hope to see her tomorrow, so anyway, you all pray for us tomorrow, and pray that God will just continue healing us, it's been a good healing along the way, and Barbara and I have had a lot of chance to sit down and look at each other and talk, and see where are we going, you know, 91 and 90, you begin to look at the world a little bit differently, and things, and by the way, we want to thank all of you, many of you have called, offered food, many times we had to say, please don't bring anything, we have stuff in the fridge, others of you have called, written notes, offering food, thank you, others of you have brought food, thank you, we appreciate all of the food that you brought, we've enjoyed it all, thank you, now that we can kind of hop around, we're doing pretty good, before I got injured, I could drive the car, and Barbara was the one who sat at home, now that I'm injured, she drives the car, and I'm the one who sits at home, so you pray that I'll be able to get this foot to the place where I'll be able to drive a car, pretty soon, and we'll get to it, but in the midst of it all, would you believe that I don't have a driver's license? My driver's license went away, and I've been trying to get a birth certificate from Louisiana where I was born, have you ever tried to get anything from Louisiana? It's next to getting something from Oklahoma, it really is, so anyway, I've been trying for six weeks to get a birth certificate, because I have to have it to get my driver's license renewed, and I can't get it here, they've said it to me three times, it's been wrong all three times, and I've had to sit in the back, so anyway, thank you all.