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Carolyn Joy Hollis Simms, 82, of Pulaski, Tennessee, wife of the Reverend E.G. Sims, died February 6, 2022. She was best known as Joy. The daughter of Howard L. Hollis and Nina Mary Moore Hollis, Joy was born September 30, 1940, in Jackson County, Alabama. She was a 1958 graduate of Jackson County Technical School […]

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 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 New International Version 2 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come […]

Roy Kirkland, who grew up in the Cumberland Presbyterian Children’s Home in Denton, Texas, died January 16, 2023. He was an employee at the University of North Texas in Facilities Maintenance from 2008 to 2022 when he retired.

Two teams of Bethel University anglers have qualified for the 2023 Bassmasters national championship which will be held in August. Over 500 student anglers competed for the chance to extend their season. Sophomore Sawyer Williams and freshman Jackson Smith had a total two day weight of ten fish for 36 pounds, fourteen ounces to place […]

The Edmonton Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL) signed Bethel University graduate Nick Andrews Tuesday January 31, 2023. The six-foot-four defensive lineman played his senior year at Bethel University (2022), registering 23 total tackles, one sack, one forced fumble and two fumble recoveries in eleven games. The Edmonton Elks, formerly the Edmonton Eskimos, are […]

Megan Nichols of Fairfield, Illinois, was not a Cumberland Presbyterian but she numbered Cumberland Presbyterians among her friends and relations. She was buried during a private ceremony at Union North Cumberland Presbyterian Church (North Central Presbytery) on February 2, 2023. Megan, then fifteen, disappeared July 13, 2014, and was originally classified as a runaway until […]

Ella R. Coppinger Shipley, 65, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died January 31, 2023. She was a member of the Jasper Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Tennessee-Georgia Presbytery) where she played the piano for several years.

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 Mark 7:1-8 New International Version That Which Defiles 7 The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who […]

Focus Are you tired? Take this time to rest. Relax every part of yourself. Breathe slower. Be ready for what God has before you today. Read Joshua 4:1-7 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition Twelve Stones Set Up at Gilgal 4 When the entire nation had finished crossing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, 2 “Select twelve men […]

Dear Friends in Mission, We have been asked to return to Waverly, TN where the flooding was a year and half ago. They still have around 35 or so houses which need either repairing or rebuilding. Many of you have been there on an earlier trip, and well know the extent of damage.  We will […]