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Helen Hopkins Bowers, 91, of Petersburg, Tennessee, died January 9, 2021. She was an elder in the Petersburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery).

Charline Elizabeth Needham, 91, a member of Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Presbytery of East Tennessee), died January 20, 2021. She wrote a history of Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church  and its families which was published to celebrate the church’s 150th anniversary in 2009. She was a notable genealogist and helped many people research their family histories.

Ruth W. Gough, 95, of Owensboro, Kentucky, mother of the Reverend Ernest Eugene Gough (Nashville Presbytery), died January 18, 2021. She was a member of Mount Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Cumberland Presbytery) in Philpot, Kentucky.

June Smith, the widow of the Reverend Albert Smith, mother of the Reverend James A. Smith (Nashville Presbytery), and mother of Janiece Fleming, died January 23, 2021. This article is incomplete. More information will be added as it becomes available.

Focus Pay attention to the tension in your body. Let go of it and any expectations to do anything other than God’s will today. Prepare yourself to hear God’s word. Read Psalm 62:5-12; Jeremiah 20:14-18 New Revised Standard Version For God alone my soul waits in silence,    for my hope is from him.6 He alone is my […]

Focus Slow your breathing and become aware of the taking in and letting out of your breath. Focus on putting things aside so you will be open to what God is saying to you today. Read Jeremiah 20:7-13 New Revised Standard Version O Lord, you have enticed me,    and I was enticed;you have overpowered me,    and you have […]

Focus Prepare yourself to discern what is and what is not of God today. Still yourself so you can hear how God is calling you. Read Jeremiah 19:1-15 New Revised Standard Version 19 Thus said the Lord: Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jug. Take with you some of the elders of the people and some of the […]

Barbara Ruth Lynch Frost, 85, of Franklin, Tennessee, died January 12, 2021, of COVID-19. She was a lifelong member of Franklin Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Columbia Presbytery) where she sang joyfully in the choir and prepared the church bulletins for many years. For 25 years she assisted in the production, with her husband Don, of the […]

“Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.”  (I John 3:18).  Appropriate words for this week in the United States as we observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and we watched a peaceful transition of power during the U.S. Presidential inauguration ceremony.  In the third chapter of 1 John the […]

Focus As you quiet yourself for this brief time, be willing to be open to God in whatever way that may take place. Read Psalm 86 New Revised Standard Version A Prayer of David. 1 Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,    for I am poor and needy.2 Preserve my life, for I am devoted to you;    save your […]