Phillips Mill Baptist Church was happy to have Rev. Lem Clark, business administrator of Penfield Christian Home, to speak Sunday, October 23, in the absence of the pastor, Rev. Robert Rayner, who was on vacation. Penfield Home has touched and helped many lives. It is a home where men can go for help if they have a drug or alcohol problem. Sunday night we were blessed to have a bus load of men from the home to come share their testimonies and sing for us. Their theme song is “Victory In Jesus,” and they have their own way of presenting it that adds pep to it. Penfield will have its annual meeting on Saturday, November 5. They surely do appreciate churches and individuals who help sponsor the home. Many people have donated time and labor on their new addition which is very nice. The meeting is at 1:30. If you would like to attend lunch, contact the home or Mission Center so they will have an idea how to prepare. Thanks to all of you who are members of the churches of the Georgia Baptist Association who attended the 221st annual fall meeting with Union Point Baptist Church Tuesday night, October 22. There were 107 messengers attending. Carla Thaxton Brown who grew up at County Line Baptist Church sang two specials. She and her parents, Tommy and Fran Thaxton, surely do appreciate your prayers for Carla as she is having health problems. Delicious refreshments were served. It was good to have former member, Rev. Skip Padgett, now pastor of Robinson Baptist Church, to conduct prayer service at Phillips Mill Baptist church last Wednesday night. Phillips Mill will not have first Wednesday night meal in November. The annual churchwide Thanksgiving supper at Phillips Mill Baptist Church is planned for Wednesday night, November 16. We hope all interested in taking part will feel welcome. 6:30 p.m. Friends of Mrs. Susie Mae Edwards will be interested to know that she has returned to Sandy Cross after being in Athens Regional Hospital. She will be at the home of Danny and Alice Thornton. They surely do appreciate your prayers and loving concern for all the family. Priscilla Maxwell enjoyed attending the monthly meeting and luncheon of the XYZ at Prince Avenue Baptist Church in Athens Thursday, October 20, and went by to see Susie Mae Edwards and Alice Thornton at Athens Regional Hospital. They were all packed to go home. Priscilla received a nice box of candy as a door prize at the meeting. Mrs. Virginia Stevens Hunter was able to return home Sunday afternoon from Doctors Hospital in Augusta where she had surgery on Monday. Her daughter, Marcia Kirkland, has been right with her and her sister lives next door which is handy. Sons Franklin and John and others are in and out. She appreciates your prayers and all the pretty cards, phone calls, and other ways of showing loving concern. She is a faithful and active member of Phillips Mill. Mr. and Mrs. Dan McAvoy and Jerry McAvoy feel blessed to have a loving concerned family and friends to check on them. The extra food, phone calls, visitors and most of all your continued prayers which help give the lift they need each day; have been a real blessing. Among their visitors over the weekend were a longtime friend, Mrs. Grace Mathis Beazley, and her daughter, Virginia, and son-in-law, Thad Broome of Carter’s Grove. Grace and Mildred grew up together at Phillips Mill; her brother, Warren Nunn, and his wife Lois and brother-in-law, Tom Hardy. Tyler Scarborough visited Jerry McAvoy Saturday afternoon. Happy birthday to Mrs. Edith Davis Sherrer of Union Point and Mrs. Julia Nell Callaway Poss of Washington who will both celebrate birthdays Thursday, October 27. Both are special ladies. The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. Luke 10:2. Smile. God loves you.