Hodson Prayer Request 12/15/10

Hey guys,
Please pray for Ally we are on our way to the hospital for out patient surgery. She is a little nervous, more about me taking care of the kids and not the surgery.... lol

I will keep you all posted

Thanks for your prayers,
Brent

LGNS 12-5-10

Hi everyone,

Sorry I am a little late getting this posted to our blog site. Here is this week's blog. Hope everyone is having a good week.


Chad

LGNS 11-28-10

As I sent out, here is this week's LGNS

Life_Group_Sign-Up_Sheet

Here's the Sign-Up-Sheet for the Mission House, as of 11/22/10, at 3:15 p.m.


-- Chad

LGNS 11-21-10

Hello all,

I hope that everyone has a good & SAFE week this week. Be careful if you are traveling to family's houses. Enjoy the festivities, as well as the FOOD!! Here is the LGNS for this week.

Missionary Prayer Request

Here is the Missionary Prayer Request that Lisa sent out as an email to everyone for w/e 11/20/10.

Cline Prayer Request

Please pray for Vicki Waggoner, who has been undergoing treatment for Breast cancer. She was hospitalized today, for what I do not know exactly yet. Pray for her and her family. Thank you. Lisa Cline

Cline Prayer Request

Please pray for Storm's teacher Nikki Swisher, she is pregnant with twins and due in February. She was put on bed rest 2 weeks ago and returned to the doctor today for a check up to see if she could return to school to teach. The blood clot (I don't know where it is at) has not resolved in any way and they have now admitted her to the hospital. She has had difficulties becoming pregnant this time and last and has had in vetro to become pregnant. She is a very strong Christian woman and instills those values in children in her care at school She is also a leader in the Kids for Christ program in our county. I know that she would covet your prayers for her, her twin girls, and her family.

Thank you.

Lisa

Missions_Celebration

Hi everyone. I hope everyone is having a great week so far. Thank you for all your prayers for Brent. He had an x-ray done yesterday and he is back in therapy. We haven't gotten the results back yet, but we had to have this done and re-do therapy for the insurance to pay for an mri. The pain had subsided a little yesterday and he was able to go to work for a little bit. I told Brent Sunday morning missing church was awful and it was the first time in forever that all of us missed! It felt so weird! Here are just a few announcements:
Children's Mission Forum - Kindergarten and up
-Saturday, November 13 from 11-2
-You need to sign up your children by Wednesday, November 10th
-Lunch will be provided (Pizza)
-The children will have small group time with each of the missionaries, they will get a passport, and learn interesting facts about the different countries and missionaries. Our kids have always participated in this and really enjoyed it. I would encourage you to sign up your age-appropriate child!
Life Group Missions Dinner
-Saturday, November 13 from 6-8
-Art and Wendi Knight's home
-Childcare available under 5 from 5:30-8:30 (you will need to sign up your child and take a sack lunch)
-We will be having soup, salad, and dessert
-There is still a need for 1 more soup, salad, and dessert. If you haven't signed up for anything please respond to this email. There will be another sign up sheet passed around this Sunday at the Stock the Nursery shower.
If you have signed up for an item and aren't able to come, please make every effort to get it to Brent before the dinner.
-I would encourage each and every one of you to make an attempt to come. This is one of the best social's we have as a LifeGroup. And you will absolutely love who we are hosting! We are going back in partnership with Grace and Gideon Makuthi of Salama, Kenya. You will be blessed so please clear your calendars and plan on coming! Also, we are taking Eli and Emma, so please bring your school age children. Or if you want a date night with your spouse get a babysitter for them!
Thanks for all your prayers and SEE YOU SUNDAY!!
Love,
Allyson

LGNS 10-31-10

Hello everyone. Can you all believe that IT IS ALREADY NOVEMBER?!?!?!!? Christmas will be here before we know it! I know, I know, Leslie & I do not have kids; so all of the mothers out there are saying, "SHUT UP! We have not even started our shopping!!!" Ha, ha. Well, if we have been listening to Pastor Phil, then .... (okay, I don't want to get myself into any trouble this week, so I'll shut up & post the blog)

Here is this week's LGNS 10/31/10.

Have a good week everyone.

-- Chad

LGNS 9-26-10

Hello everyone. Sorry this post is so late this week. I know that the week is over & I am just now posting the Blog to the Web. I'll try to do better next week. See you in a couple of days.

LGNS 9/26/10

LGNS 9/19/10

Good Monday morning to everyone! Yesterday's Life Group turnout was FANTASTIC!!!!! It was great to see everyone there. We are having great lessons & discussions as we continue to go through the Radical book. Let's keep this up. Here is this week's LGNS 9/19/10. Everyone have a good week.

LGNS 9/12/10

Hi everyone. Here's the link to this week's post, LGNS 9/12/10. Good job Lisa. We had a great class yesterday as we started our new "Radical" study. Hope to see those who were missing back next week.

Here's a link to another great document that Lisa sent out to everyone, entitled "The Crosswalk." (sorry, the pictures that were in the original doc aren't in this one).

Have a great week.

New Radical Study

Good Morning everyone I hope that everyone is off to a great start to this short week. Sunday I handed out David Platt's book Radical for our new study that will start this Sunday Sept. 12th! I'm so excited this will be the first time I have ever taught through a book study and I know that it will be a beneficial series for all of us. So please make every effort to be in LifeGroup. With this past Sunday being an holiday weekend there were many of you that did not have the opportunity to be in LifeGroup and seeing that I handed out the books, you do not have one. So... I will make it very easy for you I have all the books and they are $8 (if you don't have the money now thats ok bring it when you do) and if you will call, text, or email me I will meet you and give one to you. If your going to be at church tomorrow night let me know and we can set up a meeting place.

Everyone needs to read Chapter one "Someone Worth Losing Everything For" page 1 - 21. This is an easy read so everyone should be able to find the time to read these pages.

LGNS 9/5/10

9-12 Long

9-19 Hodson

9-26 Bates

Announcements:

1. Dive in and get involved with the many opportunities available to our class through Western Heights.
2. Please pray and consider if you are not helping with ETC. (Extended Care) to start taking part of a wonderful chance to share God's love with children by getting plugged into the ETC rotation.
3. DON'T FORGET THE NEW TELL CLASS IS STARTING SOON!!!!!!!

Praise/Prayer Requests:

1. Pray for church in Western Heights, Grace Community Church (Richard, David, Lynn, Nicki)
2. Pray that God will lead and direct us as we beging to get involved with Western Heights.
3. Pray for Stephen & Lisa Burnett in the loss of Stephen's father
4. Bates: continue to pray for Marci - she is needing lots of pain medication now, as her pain has gotten worse
5. Praise -> Hipshers -> able to get up and make it to life group and church Sunday morning
6. Praise -> Pritchards -> Ty does not have to go back to New York until December
7. Praise -> Bates -> Marci was able to take trip to the beach with her family

If I haven't told you that I love and appreciate all of you in a while, I DO! It is a pleasure leading you each Sunday and I'm filled with joy each time you are in LifeGroup.

Love in Christ,

Brent

Cell: 865-660-9750

LGNS 9/5/10

LGNS 9/5/10

9-12 Long

9-19 Hodson

9-26 Bates

Announcements:

• Dive in and get involved with the many opportunities available to our class through Western Heights.

Praise/Prayer Requests:

• Pray for church in Western Heights, Grace Community Church
• Pray for Stephen & Lisa Burnett in the loss of Stephen's father
• Bates: continue to pray for Marci - she is needing lots of pain medication now, as her pain has gotten worse
  
  
• Praise -> Hipshers -> able to get up and make it to life group and church Sunday morning
• Praise -> Pritchards -> Ty does not have to go back to New York until December
• Praise -> Bates -> Marci was able to take trip to the beach with her family
  

LGNS 8/23/10

LGNS 8/23/10

8-29 Goodman

9-5 Dunlap

9-12 Long

9-19 Hodson

9-26 Bates

Announcements:

• Ginger and I plan to attend Western Heights on August 31st to do either the food or the clothing ministry there. If you are available and would like to go, please let one of us know.
• Dive in and get involved with the many opportunities available to our class through Western Heights.

Praise/Prayer Requests

• Pritchard: Tyler heads back to NYC on Thursday 8.26.10 for a pressure check.
• Dupler: Pray for Denise Keifer in the untimely death of her mother. Pray for her to get out and meet new people and get involved with the community around her.
• Bates: Prayer for Marci and her family especially her small children. Pray for her to be out of pain.
• Western Heights: Pray for the community and where you can become involved.

LGNS 8/23/10

Sorry for sending another email with the same LGNS that Lisa did for us out to everyone......

Chad

LGNS 7/25/10

Hope you have started off to a great week. These are the requests from LG on Sunday. Please lift them up in your prayers.

Bates: Prayer for Chad as he is looking and needs to find a job. Leslie's cousin Marci has received news of the cancer spreading to her bones. She is in an extreme amount of pain. She also has two very young children.

Pritchard: Tristan goes to the orthodontist to have an appliance placed in the roof of her mouth. This will widen her upper jaw. She has been the relatively healthy child without many health issues, so please pray for her and that this apparatus will help her not suck her thumb any longer.

LGNS 7/4/10

LGNS 07-04-10
Praise and Prayer Requests:

• Pritchard: Praise -- Tyler was able to come off one of his medicines and his pressure is considerably lower. Prayer -- Andy and Ty return to NYC this week. Pray for travel mercies and a great report.
• John Miller: Prayer -- He is at St. Mary's Main Hospital and has fluid around his heart. Pray for the physicians to determine the cause and for him to get better.
• Coffey: Prayer -- Andrea received a call that one of her best friends from college was in a 4- wheeler accident with her boyfriend. From her understanding the 4-wheeler landed on her head/shoulders, and she was wearing a helmet. She has fractured her upper and lower jaw, lost some teeth, and broke her collar bone for certain. They are transferring her to a trauma hospital. Her name is Alayna Adams and she lives in Memphis. At the time she was in Alabama with our other good friends. Please pray for pain control and fast recovery. She also loves to talk and will most certainly have to have her jaw wired.
• Prayer Ministries for the class -- Prayerfully consider how the class should proceed in the ministries we offer. Pray for guidance for the entire class and to agree on how to best allocate the monies the church has allotted us for these ministries through the church budget.
• Cline/Riddle: Prayer -- travel mercies as we travel for vacation next weekend.

Have a great week.

LGNS 6/22/10

Hi everyone. This week's going to be a "scorcher" so make sure everyone is careful. Hope that everybody is having a good week so far. Here is the link to this week's LGNS. Be careful and see you all next Sunday.

Chad

Hey All -

Hey All -

Just wanted to let you know that there will not be a formal newsletter for this week.  If you have any updates you wish for me to get out for you this week, please feel free to get those to me.  I apologize for the newsletter not coming out last week.  On top of the holiday weekend, my internet was in and out and it was not able to be fixed until late Tuesday afternoon.  Brent and I talked about the newsletter and I'm sure with all of the events last week we just got our signals crossed and the newsletter just did not get posted.  I guess things like this may happen through the summer.  I am truly sorry for those requests that were written down and did not get out to the class for prayers.  Please know this is NOT a normal occurrence.  

 

Some prayer requests that I am aware of are:

• Praise we had two new couples in class today and a third that has attended for a couple of weeks.         Remember if you have not been in a while, we certainly are missing your smiling face.  Attendance in class is up and down with the onset of summer.  If there is someone in class that you do not recognize upon your return, please introduce yourselves and make them feel very welcome.   
• The Hodson's and Dunlap's are vacationing this week. Keep them in your prayers as they are away and come home. 
• Erin's grandmother passed away this past week and her grandfather was the primary caregiver for her.  This has been the primary thing he has done for some time.  Please pray for closure during his mourning process and for him to be able to move on.  Pray for his time and that he will be able to fill it with positive things.
• Ashleigh and Jonathan will be checking into the hospital next Sunday night for delivery of Mr. Jon-David (I hope that I have spelled it correctly, forgive me if I did not Ash). 
• Pray for the Morton's and their family situation.  Pray for Allie as she has returned to Virginia and she desperately wants to be back here which she considers home. 
• The Yearwoods as Jeff goes to mediation tomorrow and all the dealings that will come with this.  Continue to let the Lord be the leader of Jeff's time management and that Jeff and Stephanie draw all of their strength from the Lord.
• Don't forget about Vacation Bible school either June 14-18. 

 

Have a great week and we are off to a busy SUMMER. 

 

Lisa M. Cline for
the Hodson LifeGroup
your CONNECT Leader
494.6444

Pritchard -> TY -> PRAISE THE LORD!

Subject: Ty


Pressure is 15 & vision 20/30. We come back on 5/27 and see Knox doctor in between. If pressure is good next week he wants to take him off of one of his meds. All in all a great visit. Flying back today at 1:30

LGNS 5/2/10

Attached is this week's LGNS 5/2/10 . Everybody have a good week & we hope to see you next Sunday.

Urgent Prayer Request for Lora Davis

Subject: Urgent prayer request

Hey, Lisa. Could you get this out please.

A lady my mother works with had her first grandchild born 4 days ago. He lacks an enzyme and is unable to digest protein. He is sick and keeps getting worse. He was born in Kentucky and they air lifted him to Children's Hospital in Lexington and then he continued to get worse so they air lifted him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati. Please pray for him and his family.

Thanks,

Lora

Stock Nursery

Here's info about the Stock Nursery

LGNS 4/25/10

Good Monday afternoon to everyone. Lisa's done her great job as usual & got the newsletter out fast. So, I'm able to put it up on the blog for us. Here is this week's LGNS 4/25/10. If anyone needs anything; i.e., needs me to add anything to the blog, please let me know. Contact me @ bates.chad@gmail.com. Have a good week.

Life Group Socials & Summer Fun Days

Hi everyone. If you notice on the right side of the page, I have added a new section to our blog. Check it out, it's got all of the activities that are on the "green sheet," only they are added to our blog now.

Chad

Cline / Riddle Prayer Request

From Lisa ---

Please keep my aunt and uncle in your prayers. My Aunt Brenda went for a stress test today for chest pains she had felt and they said she had blockage and sent her straight to the ER. They felt they were going to be able to do a stent to open up the blockage, but once viewing the heart, arteries, and where the blockage actually was they have determined it would be too risky to proceed with the stent. They have elected to do a double bypass in the morning as of now. They say she is one of the very few that has chest pains this early and has probably prevented her from having a stroke or a heart attack which is a praise. Please pray for her and the surgery she is about to undertake tomorrow. Also, her husband David, has been scheduled for several months with a neck/back surgery due to take place on Thursday morning. He is unable to reschedule this surgery at this point and is an extreme amount of pain. Therefore, she will be in Oak Ridge and his surgery is scheduled in Knoxville. If all goes well with Aunt Brenda she will be home by this weekend. My Uncle David will be recovering for several days in Knoxville. (FYI these are the parents of my cousin Brian you all were praying for a couple of months ago for chest pains as well. He had finally broke down and scheduled a doctor's appointment to start digging deeper on his chest pain issue -- which is a huge praise and it happens to be Thursday morning as well. WOW...)

I know this is rather long and detailed.... However, my entire family covets your prayers during this time for them.

Lisa

LGNS 4/4/10

Hi All! Boy, wasn't it a B----eautiful Easter this year? We had a great turnout in LifeGroup and Brent shared a great lesson as well. Hope that everyone's week is going well. Here is the newsletter for this week LGNS 4/4/10 (thank you Lisa). Hope everyone has a good week.

Chad

LGNS 3/28/10

Good Monday morning to everyone. Well, the rain has gone away (for now) and hopefully everyone will have a good week, leading up to Easter weekend! We had a great turnout yesterday for LifeGroup. (even though there were many low-blows taken by one particular college fan --> Just kidding, it's all in good humor, I know) ;o) Besides, it all worked out for the better yesterday afternoon, right Brandon? That being said, here is this week's LGNS 3/28/10. Everyone have a good week!

LGNS 3/21/10

Happy Spring everyone! Hopefully the temps will be warming up soon. Hope everyone has a good week. Here's the LGNS for this week. If you need to add anything, please let Lisa or me know & we'll pass it around.

Chad

LGNS 3/14/10

Here is this week's LGNS 3/14/10 blog. Hope that everyone has a good week. If you are not coming to LifeGroup, we sure would like to see you there. Brent & Brandon are doing a great job teaching the lessons!

LGNS 3/7/10

Here's the LGNS for this week, if you are having trouble viewing this, please contact Lisa or me.


Chad

Humphrey's Prayer Request

Tim will be having his surgery at 2:00 on Thursday afternoon. We have to be
at Parkwest Hospital at 12:30 and they said if all goes well we should be
able to leave around 8:00 that evening. Please pray that all does go well
and that Tim does well with the pain and such afterward. Thanks for the
prayers!

Heather Humphrey

LGNS 2/28/10

Link to this week's newsletter. Hope that everyone has a good week.

LGNS 2/28/10

LGNS 2/14/10

Hope everyone is having a good week. Here is this week's post: LGNS 2/14/10.

Urgent Prayer for Jill Belue via Brent

Jill Belue will be going to St. Mary's North in the morning at 8:00 to have a CT Scan. Yesterday she had an x-ray and her spleen seems to be enlarged. She has been battling illnesses since November and her enlarged spleen could possibly be part of the issue or vice versa. Please Pray for Jill, she is very nervous about the CT Scan and pray that they will find out the cause for all the illnesses and the enlarged spleen.

Thanks
YBIC

Brent

From Jeff & Stephanie

All,

Please keep Stephanie's uncle in your prayers, he had some biopsies taken and the results came in today, he states that "all of the biopsies were malignant. I do have aden carcinoma of the right lung and will be discussing possible treatments with my oncologist." His name is Carl Spellbrink so if everyone could please lift him up in your prayers we would appreciate it.



Thanks
Jeff and Stephanie

LGNS 1/17/10

Here is the link to this week's newsletter. LGNS 1/17/10. Hope that everyone has a good WARMER week this week.

From Lisa -- Additional Prayer Request

I forgot to add this on the prayer request today.

Please pray for the Atkins family. A little girl Storm goes to school with lost her grandmother to cancer on Wednesday. The parents of this little girl are having a very hard time, please keep them in your prayers.

Thank you.

LGNS 1/3/10

Howdy folks! Hope everyone's week is starting off well. I know, I know for those of us who have been able to have, even a week off, it may have been tough going back. :o( But it's almost to "hump-day," so that's a bright spot!

Anyways, here is this week's LGNS, if you have questions about anything, please contact Lisa or myself. I'd contact Lisa first, b/c she's more likely to know the answers. Everybody have a good week and we'll see you Sunday.


Chad