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the office and money for improving the sound system. It was voted to take $500 from the Memorial Fund and purchase a 25 inch TV and a VCR.
Margaret DeHaan received her award for 27 years of perfect attendance in Sunday School. The Community Thanksgiving Service was held at St. Augustine Seminary Chapel on November 22. The Lottie Moon Christmas offering goal for our church was $4,000.
As we entered 1995, our budget was $222,360. The ?Super Bowl? offering was taken on January 29. $1,016.83 was collected and given to the new Baptist Student Union at Pearl River Junior College to help them pay for the building. Miss Yajaira (Heidi) Rincon, from Venezuela, became the new director of Hispanic Ministries, joining James and Dottie Gilbert in this work. A committee was appointed to plan the church?s Centennial on June 8 and 9, 1996. Ron Magee, Ethel Mae Fillingame, Rena Jean Raybom, Rene? Smith, and Dr. Ed Deuschle were the ones appointed.
Dr. Deuschle was asked to lead the Invocation prayer for the March session of the State Senate in Jackson. He was hosted in the Senate by Senator Alan Nunnelee from Tupelo, who is Dr. Deuschle?s nephew. The Easter Sunrise Service was held on April 16 at Christ Episcopal Church. Our church?s own missionaries, Mary Lee and Uless Bergeron, arrived home from Peru on April 29. The church welcomed them with an old-fashioned ?Pound-In? as they moved into our Missionary Home for a year?s stay. Dr. Deuschle held a revival in Paris, Tennessee, on March 26-29. Our Annie Armstrong goal for our church was $1,750. In May, Rev. Stephen Fusilier was called to the church in Bay side as summer missionary to rebuild the work of the church there. He replaced Dr. James Brewer who passed away the preceding month. During May, the church accepted the following gifts: a microwave oven, a hot water heater for the pastor?s home, a FAX machine, a CD Rom package for the office computers, a laminator, a book-binder, and a collater for the copier. The Vacation Bible School was held in June with 267 enrolled and high attendance of 227.
On June 23-30, the Senior High group of World Changers went to Bishopville, South Carolina, under the leadership of Lisa Wilboum, Minister of Youth and Children. The youth attending were: Kristie Pearce, Kristy Smith,
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