Special Prayer Request - Retired Pastor Richard Lovvorn

I learned this afternoon that Pastor Richard Lovvorn will be undergoing open-heart surgery tomorrow in Nashville. I spoke with Sister Johnnie this afternoon and she reported that the surgery is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.

Please join me in prayer for Brother Richard and for his family. Please pray for a successful surgery and that God will guide the surgeon, nurses and all technicians involved in the surgery, and to bring to their minds the things they have learned.

Update on Woodrow Forsythe

Today, Debra and I visited Pastor Woodrow & Wilma Forsythe at the Cumberland Medical Center in Crossville. He did indeed have a stroke but seems to be progressing. I ask all of you to continue to pray for Brother Woodrow.

A very special thanks to Dr. Freddie Harding, the District Presbyter and several of the pastors in the area visiting him while I was undergoing a medical test. Also, Sister Wilma reports that their church at Mayland have been wonderful to visit and help with the work. I am so grateful to be a part of this wonderful family, the Church of God of Prophecy.

Update on Pastor Woodrow Forsythe

I had the opportunity to speak with Wilma Forsythe tonight concerning her husband, Pastor Woodrow Forsythe. He is currently in the Crossville hospital, having suffered a stroke. We are asking for everyone to join us in prayer tonight. I will post more information as I receive it.

Prayer Request for Pastor Woodrow Forsythe

I just returned home from and overseers meeting in Florida and have learned that Pastor Woodrow Forsythe of the Mayland church has suffered a stroke.  I am trying to get information as I write this post.  Please join me in prayer, I will update once I received more information.

North American Overseers Meeting

This past week, Debra and I attended the North American Overseers Meeting in Tampa, Florida. This conference convenes from time-to-time for the overseers to meet and develop policies for our states, to fellowship with one another and to hear from special guests.

Bishop Randall Howard, our General Overseer was with us and a member of the BDP committee, and both gave great presentations. I was challenged personally to continue to raise the bar of ministry in Tennessee, but also to remember how difficult it is for some of our other states/regions to carry out the simplest of ministry. This is due primarily to the lack of resources and a financial system that still doesn't meet the needs adjustment.

Today, Debra and I return to Tennessee. Its always good to get back to Good Ole' Rocky Top.

BAND OF BROTHERS

2012 TN Men’s Retreat

Band of Brother’s Presents - “I Will”

April 20 & 21 @ Camp Hickory Hills

Speakers: Paul Holt, Tim McCaleb & EC McKinley
(Applications are headed your way.)
Hope to See You There!

Thank you.
In Christ,


Pastor Mike Jennette - "Pursuing His Spirit"
Empowered Ministries Church
1415 Hwy. 70 East
Dickson, TN 37055

www.empoweredministries.net

Death Notice - Dean Herron

Dean A. Herron (58) was killed in a truck accident on Monday, February 27, 2012. He served the State of Tennessee as a licensed minister and pastor of our local church in Jamestown, Tennessee for one year. He was known by his sincere desire to reach all of the lost. He will be missed by his wife (Vickie), daughter (Angie) and her family, son (John) and his family and Brooke.

Services were conducted on Thursday at 2:00 p.m., please join me in prayer for this family.

Death Notice- Betty Hunter

From the Ralph Buckner Funeral Home announcement

Betty Lorene Hunter
January 22, 1927 - February 18, 2012

Betty Lorene Williams Hunter, a long-time resident of Cleveland, has joined her husband, Bishop Harper Hunter of 65 years, in the Celestial City of God. The culmination of years of ministry together has ended in reaching the glorious goal of her life—to rule and reign with the King of kings and Lord of lords! Her evanescent flesh gave up as she transitioned to a new life in Christ on Saturday, February 18, 2012, in the presence of family and friends.

Betty Lorene was born on a cold January 22nd in 1927 to parents James and Sadie Williams of Akron, Ohio and attended school in her home town until her graduation from Bucktel High School in 1945. She took piano lessons as a preteen and later joined her guitar-playing mother in the Akron Church of God of Prophecy band, playing piano, organ or drums—whatever instrument was needed.

It would not take long before a young visiting evangelist holding a revival at her local church decided to snatch her up as she seemed the perfect minister’s wife. She married Harper Hunter in 1945 in between two scheduled revival campaigns he was holding and the rest of the story more or less became history. The young evangelistic team traveled far and wide, pulling a trailer behind with her Hammond organ and other musical instruments the two played. This was the infancy of a ministry that later became well known—covering her duties as the spouse of an evangelist/pastor/state overseer/general headquarters official—as Betty dutifully took her husband’s ministry as her own and made it better.

To this union was born a son, Harold, and several years later a daughter, Deborah. Betty also worked at Preston Printing, White Wing Publishing House, and various state offices of the Church of God of Prophecy. The ministry with Harper resulted in taking up residences in Wisconsin, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wyoming, South Dakota, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama, South Carolina, and Mississippi as she served as First Lady of the states where her husband served as overseer or headquarters official. During the years of the Hunters’ ministry as state overseers, the youth and children at the many state youth camps fell in love with “Grandma Hunter” (as she would instruct them to call her) due to her fun-loving games and pranks.

Betty Hunter is survived by her son, Dr. Harold D. Hunter and wife Sondra of Oklahoma City; her daughter, Deborah S. Hunter Jones of Smyrna; granddaughter, Heidi Jones Bradley and husband Blake of Nashville; grandson, Matthew Landon Jones of Nashville; great-grandchildren: Ceylon, Lennon, Jude and Aerelyn Lorene Bradley of Nashville; her brother, Richard L. Williams and wife Barbara of Kansas City, Missouri; her brother-in-law, Thomas Dudding of Cleveland; her sister-in-law, Helen Hunter Batson of Roseburg, Oregon, and a host of nieces and nephews.

Betty was preceded in death by her husband, Bishop Harper Hunter; her parents, James W. and Sadie D. Williams of Akron, Ohio; her brothers, James W. Williams, Jr., and Clifford Williams of Akron, Ohio, and Bill E. Williams of South Carolina; a sister, Roberta A. Dudding of Cleveland, Tennessee; mother and father-in-law, Harper and Edith Hunter of Ashland City, Tennessee; her son-in-law, Rev. Mikey Jones, Jr. of Smyrna; and brother-in-law, Rev. Charles Batson of Roseburg, Oregon.

Family visitation will be Saturday, February 25th, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m., with the memorial service starting at 1 p.m. at the Peerless Road Church of God of Prophecy. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum. Officiating ministers will be Bishop Fred S. Fisher Sr., former general overseer of the Church of God of Prophecy, Rev. Kay Horner, National Coordinator of Cry Out America, Rev. Terry Fowler, Assistant to Presiding Bishop of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, and Rev. Steven Spears, Associate Pastor of the Peerless Road Church of God of Prophecy.

Betty Williams Hunter will be remembered as having inspired hope in many, shown compassion to more than most, and having embraced those rejected by others. Her memorial service will be dedicated to the theme “I Surrender All” as depicted in this famous hymn.

Ralph Buckner Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

We invite you to send a message of condolence and view the Hunter family guestbook at www.ralphbuckner.com.

Service times for Pastor Lamar Dotson

Here are the visitation and service times for Bishop Lamar Dotson.

Visitation: Wednesday 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Funeral: Thursday 2:00 p.m.

Location: Coffee County Funeral Home located on Highway 55 in Manchester, Tennessee.


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Death Notice - Dr. Roland Harding

Dr. Roland Harding passed away Sunday, February 12, 2012 in the VNA Hospice at 95 years of age.

Born in North Dakota, he served in Congress for the state of North Dakota, was a registered Pharmacist and obtained a Doctor of Science Degree from NDSU. He was Director of the VA Pharmacy Services in VA Central Office, Washington, DC before retiring and relocating to the Butler area in 1988. Serving in World War II as a forward observer and artillery officer with the 3rd Armored Division, he retired after attaining the rank of Lt. Col. He loved God, his family, his country and the people in his life.

Surviving are his wife, Fern and two sons, Dr. Freddie (Juanita) and Stephen (Dari) Harding.

Viewing will be Tuesday, February 14, 2012 from Noon to 2 p.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. at the Thompson-Miller Funeral Home, Inc., 124 East North Street, Butler, PA 16001, where the funeral service will be held at 6 p.m. with Reverend Bobby Hile of Family Life Ministries officiating.

Interment will be in the National Cemetery of the Alleghenies with full military honors on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 2 p.m.

Expressions of sympathy may be sent c/o Harding Family, 446 Cherokee Drive, Butler, PA 16001.