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Mandy Snell Harris

Use it wisely

Hi everyone!! Haven’t written in awhile and trust me. … I’ve missed y’all.  

SO much going on in my household that I couldn’t find the time.  From my husband having a stroke to us losing our precious Sophie.  

By Jonathan Howes, Lead Pastor, Graystone Church

A meeting with God

As a small boy growing up in South Mississippi, I spent the majority of my summer vacations shirtless and shoeless.  We only had three channels of the TV and video games had yet to be invented (I’m old.), so I was pretty much outside from dawn to dusk.

Letters I never intend to mail

Letters I never intend to mail
By Will Zant

On some weeks as I prepare my sermons, I often write letters I never intend to mail.  I do so to help remember a sermon is directed to people. It helps me process my life too. Recently, I did this exercise.

Photo by Loralee Beard, Magic Moment Photography

Gwinnett’s hot bed of talent

Gwinnett’s hot bed of talent
By Loralee Beard, Magic Moment Photography

I was looking from computer to computer today for a special picture today of my sisters, Linda, Janet and me taken in 2013.  The warning, I have smugly given to numerous clients over my 20 year photo career came back to haunt me: Back up digitally, back up in print.

July 2016

For Your Thoughts
July 2016

By Jannetta Johnson

Read Proverbs 1:8

J. Sterling Morton was Presisdent Cleveland’s Sec of Agriculture. While in office his wife died and a month later he took his three children to see the new tomb that had been erected.

The Gwinnett Roadrunner – On The Run July 2016

The Gwinnett Roadrunner – On The Run July 2016
By Mary Frazier Long
 
QUIPS AND QUOTES

The honesty of many politicians has never been questioned. In fact, it has rarely been mentioned.

A woman in Arizona married so late in life that Medicare paid for her honeymoon.

For Your Thoughts June2016

For Your Thoughts
June2016

By Jannetta Johnson

Read Psalm 33:21

I met Don’s Uncle, Forest and his wife Shirley, in 2008 and still write to her on special occasions. She told me of their romance when we first visited in their home in Florida. At age 10, she said, she dreamed of the man she would one day marry.

Everything Ella - Ella Thomas

Freshman feelings

Freshman feelings
By Ella Thomas

It is finally that time of year again. For 10 months I have anxiously sat at my desk and awaited the time when I could trade school for the pool, the chill of the classroom for the heat of the sun. I think you know what I am talking about…