Tyrone News

Phillips Mill Baptist Church will have its annual homecoming day August 13 which is the second Sunday in August as usual. This will be followed by revival services Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights with a different visiting speaker each night. The homecoming meal will be covered dish with the church providing the meats. Pastor Robert Rayner will speak at both services on Sunday. Phillips Mill welcomes his brother, Elmo Rayner, as a new member. Congratulations to Mickey and Nancy Sisson of Phillips Mill Baptist Church on the birth of their first grandson, Thomas Andrew Meech, son of Katie and James Meech. He was born Wednesday, June 28, and weighed six pounds, six ounces. The WMU Summer Memorial Service of the Georgia Baptist Association will be held Tuesday night, July 25, at the Georgia Baptist Mission Center in Washington. Churches of the association are encouraged to call in the names of ladies who have passed away during the past year. Christmas in August is coming up in the Georgia Baptist Association. Churches are encouraged to collect school supplies, personal items, Bibles etc. for the Georgia Baptist Children's Home. Your support will be greatly appreciated. Mrs. Reba Thornton of Rehoboth Baptist Church is in charge of this project. Among recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Dan McAvoy have been Thomas McAvoy, Billy McAvoy, Gloria Hardy, Warren and Ann Newsome, and all the children. We are sorry to learn that Vivian Tucker, wife of Mrs. McAvoy's first cousin, Howard Tucker of Harlem, passed away in June. I would like to thank each of you who has been praying for me (Priscilla). I had quite a shock Monday night, June 26, when I entered the emergency room at Elbert County Hospital. I had been in lots of pain and mighty weak, but had no idea I had already suffered a heart attack. After several hours of tender loving care I was transferred to St. Mary's Hospital in Athens where I was in intensive care a week, then transferred to Athens Regional Hospital for cardiac catheterization, and given two pints of blood. Among visitors during this time were Pastor Robert Rayner, Associational Missionary Rev. James Bland, Reba Thornton and daughter-in-law Alice (Mrs. Danny) Thornton, Wallace and Martha Woods, Charles Sherrer, Mrs. Curtis McAvoy, Henry and Faye McAvoy, Corrie and Myra Maxwell and Miranda, Virginia Crawford, Rev. and Mrs. John King. Sonny and Helen Callaway of Monroe visited us a few days before. They heard of me being in the hospital all the way from Florida. I feel so blessed to have such a caring and loving family. Our son Lee of Atlanta met Morrison, Mary Jane, Tyler, and me at St. Mary's and returned home July 4. Mary Jane brought me to her house on Friday night, July 7. Thanks again for caring. - Priscilla and family.