Focus Stop and thank God for being present with you today. Ask for God’s guidance as you hear God’s voice through scripture and the writer. Read Ezekiel 33: 1-6 33 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 O Mortal, speak to your people and say to them, If I bring the sword upon a land, and the people […]

July 4, 1929 – January 4, 2017 Boyce Wallace was born on July 4, 1929, on a farm near Albertson, N.C., into a family of seven children. He graduated from B. F. Grady High School in 1948. He served in the North Carolina National Guard before serving two years of active duty in Berlin during […]

Focus Experience silence in the midst of your busy day. Take some time to relax into a time to be with God. Read Psalm 119: 33-40 33 Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes,     and I will observe it to the end. 34 Give me understanding, that I may keep your law     and observe it with […]

Virginia Gould, elder at Salem Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Grace Presbytery) in Sebastopol, Mississippi, died unexpectedly on August 29,2020. She was extremely active in Women’s Ministry and in the presbytery’s camp, Camp Bailey. She is survived by her husband Charles and daughter Sondra Gould Spell.

All times and dates listed here have been confirmed as of press date. Unless otherwise stated, all cancellations and postponements are due to concerns over COVID-19. East Tennessee Presbytery, postponed, date to be determined. Emmaus Presbytery, date and location unknown. Andes Presbytery, June 13, 2020. Virtual meeting.† Missouri Presbytery, June 27, 2020. Met via ZOOM. […]

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 2 Corinthians 12:11-21 11 I have been a fool! You forced me to it. Indeed you should have been the […]

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 Matthew 12:22-32 22 Then they brought to him a demoniac who was blind and mute; and he cured him, so […]

Focus Take time to rest in the comfort of the Lord today. Read Revelation 3:7-13 7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the holy one, the true one,     who has the key of David,     who opens and no one will shut,         who shuts and no one opens: […]