SHADOWS IN JERICHO

 Our Assistant Pastor, Stacey Cormier, has released a devotional book, drawn from her life experience. “From the Comfort of My Chair” contains more than six months of daily devotions , (undated), and additional teaching online that is accessed by a special QR code. One copy for $12.95 or 2 for $20, includes shipping. A great Christmas gift, and best of all, you will support her ministry, Enabled By Grace. Enabled By Grace Ministries provides teaching, counseling, benevolent support and resources to individuals and families with disabilities. You may order books by contacting Pastor Stacey directly: 661-333-2986, by mail PO Box 40175, Bakersfield, CA 93384, (make checks payable to Stacey Cormier), or online: www.meetatthecross.com, select the give tab, and under the Enabled By Grace tab, type “book” in the memo.

  My Worst Christmas Ever Pastor Darius Walden Southwest Christian Center DECEMBER 3, 2021 During the War Between the States, Henry Woodsworth Longfellow wrote “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” For Longfellow, the war was very personal. He was an abolitionist, and despite this, his son Charley joined the Union Army. Merely a year before, Longfellow had lost his wife in a tragic fire; she had accidently lit herself on fire. Now with his son in the war, before Christmas of 1863, Charley lost his leg in battle. Longfellow’s testimony in the poem was that hearing the bells of the church that day transformed him from despair to hope. In 1990 Faith and I lived in Ft.Riley, Kansas. I was a Sergeant in the Signal Battalion. Desert Shield was already engaged, and Desert Storm was on the horizon. On December 22 of that year, we were deployed to the Persian Gulf. We arrived in Saudi Arabia on 25 DEC 1990. There were no bells on Christmas Day. As Dorothy said, “we’re not in Kansas anymore.” Ba