Lincoln Leadership, New Baptistery, and La Style Fish Fry

Lincoln Leadership
For the past 9 months I participated in a class sponsored by the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce called Lincoln Leadership. Lincoln Leadership's mission is to raise up citizens that become leaders in the community. Throughout the class we learned the intricacies that make Ruston the unique place that it is. We toured everything from schools to local businesses to a pregnancy crisis center and everything in between. We topped it all off by taking a trip down to the State Capitol during the current legislative session and met with some of our area legislators. Thanks to Judy Copeland who administrated the class on behalf of the Chamber and Sue Billberry who served as our fearless class president. The class was not just educational, but was also tons of fun and introduced me to some great new friends.

Receiving my "diploma" from Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce President Scott Terry.

Our class photo: Adam Hohlt, Angela Lee, Joanna Allen, Derrance Nichols, Sue Billberry, Blair Walpole, and myself. Not pictured: Chris Craighead and Neill Kirkland.

New Baptistery
We are very excited about our new baptistery. We will be even more excited when start using it! Yes, it has a built in water heater. Yes, we are going to put a few coats of really nice stain on it. And yes, we are taking baptismal requests.









This tank is very, very, heavy and was extremely difficult to unload. A huge thank-you to those that dropped what they were doing to come help.



FISH FRY
On Saturday, June 6th, about 70 people turned out for a Louisiana Style Fish Fry. Not only was there a strong showing from the LifePoint family, but lots of guests joined us as well. The weather was absolutely perfect, the fish cooked just right, and the fellowship was ever better. The kids made sure we got our money's worth out of the spacewalk and the adults were a wonderful audience for the worship and bluegrass singing.

Sarah's sidewalk art

Ben Christmas and his crew catered for us.

Well you didn't think I was there JUST for the fellowship did you?

Hurry up and serve the food!

Isn't Dylan a little too old for this?

Look at those two politician smiles.

A politician smile on performance enhancing supplements.

Sarah hanging out with the Warren family..by the fan.

The bluegrass brothers..the Chipmon family and me.

Jessica, Alan, Caleb, and me doing some worship songs.

There's our raffle winner! A digital camera.

" A Man of Constant Sorrow", just for fun. And it was fun!