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Calendar of Events

Friday

• Friday Night Fight Night Kimbrough Chapel Church, pastor, Rev. J.W. Smith. Guest speaker, Rev. E. Jones and Hill Chapel of Memphis, Tenn.

• REUNION Cunningham family reunion, scheduled for May 23-25. Family meet and greet, Kirkwood Golf Course - May 23, family banquet, Kirkwood Golf Course - May 24, family picnic, Olive Branch Park - May 25. Contact Brenda Watkins 662-536-0349 or Wanda Payne 662-544-1954.

Saturday

• Decoration Day/Reunion of the Red Banks Cemetery will be held at 9 a.m. Families with a Red Banks or cemetery connection are to bring a covered dish, supplies for cleaning and repairing gravesites. For more information, e-mail: hatnglove@aol.com

• Reunion meeting The Holly Springs High School Class of 1999 will hold a class reunion meeting on Saturday, May 24. The meeting will be held at the Multi-Purpose Building, located in Holly Springs, at 12 p.m. If you have questions please contact Chereda King at (662) 298-4417.

• Horse Show, 5 p.m. at McGhee Ranch, 3412 Marianna Road, Holly Springs. Contact Robert McGhee for more information, 252-6298 or 564-3969. Everyone welcome.

• Singing The King’s Clay Singers of Corinth will be featured in the fourth Sat. night singing at Evangel Full Gospel Assembly, 766 Evangel Dr., Holly Springs. Also local singers and congregational singing for everyone. Everyone is invited to attend. Singing time is 7 p.m.

Sunday

• Homecoming Rising Star MB Church, Pastor Robert McClain, 2519 Higdon Rd., 11 a.m.

• Men and Women’s Day Shady Grove CME Church, Sun., May 25, 2:30 p.m. Rev. Billy Williams and Adolphus Chapel CME Church will be special guests. Rev. Cornelia Booker, pastor, Izolar Harper, sponsor. Everyone is invited.

• Homecoming Kimbrough Chapel Church, pastor, Rev. J.W. Smith. May 25, 11 a.m. Guests will be Rev. Etoy Bogard, Sandhill and New Faith churches. The public is invited.

• Singing and homecoming will be held at Friendship Baptist Church, Old Hernando Road, with the Tate Family singers. Megan, a gospel music solo artist, is one of the singers. Services begin at 11 a.m. and fellowship at noon. Singing afterwards. Bro. Charles Knight and members invite all.

• Youth day Free Branch MB Church, Pastor A.V. Warren Jr., Sun., May 25, 11 a.m. Minister A. Neely will be the speaker.

May 31

• VBS Clear Creek Baptist Church VBS, 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., May 31-June 5, ages 3-teen. Theme “Cactus Canyon.”

June 1

• Church anniversary True Vine MB Church will celebrate its eighth anniversary, Sun., June 1, 2:30 p.m. Speaker, pastor John Harris from Old Nonconnah in Memphis, Tenn. The public is invited. Darrell E. Cunningham.

• Homecoming Marianna Baptist Church, Hwy. 309 S., 11 a.m. Preaching, dinner and singing in afternoon with the Gatewoods. Everyone is invited.

June 2

• VBS at Mt. Pisgah CME Church, 3877 Cayce Road, June 2-6, 7 p.m. nightly. Topic will be “Doing A New Thing.” Bus will run nightly; call for ride, 901-299-0121 or 901-299-9072.

• VBS at Smith Grove MB Church, June 2-6, 6 p.m. nightly.

June 3

• Fire dept. meeting All citizens in the Chulahoma and surrounding area are asked to come to the Chulahoma Community Center to discuss establishing a fire department, June 3, 7 p.m. President, Kent Faulkner, vice president, Victor Peyton.

June 5

• Blood drive Thurs., June 5, Red Banks Baptist Church, 1:30-7:30 p.m. Call Verna McAlexander, 662-252-2048 for appt.

• Yard sale Christ Episcopal Church Parish Hall, 9 a.m. -- 2 p.m. JB’s barbecue dinner plates for take-out 5-7 p.m. $10/plate. All proceeds go to benefit the Marshall County library system.

• Meeting The Lessye Lee Davis 4-H Club will meet at the Marshall County Library, 6 p.m. Everyone interested in becoming a member is invited to attend.

June 6

• Social meeting All former General Electric Company employees, Fri., June 6, Barnhill’s Country Buffet, 6191 Stage Rd., Memphis (Bartlett), 1-3 p.m. Call Dot Bowers, 838-5231 for more info.

• Huge yard sale at Apostolic Church of Jesus, 178 Stonewall Rd., Byhalia, June 6-7, 7 a.m. until? Knick-knacks, clothes, piano, little bit of everything, lots of nice stuff. Don’t miss it. For more info. call Pastor Garland Loveless, 901-870-1934.

• Relay for life benefit The Hopewell #1 Missionary Baptist Church Relay for Life Team will present a “Cancer Survivors’ Fashion Extravaganza” Friday, June 6 at 7 p.m. at the the Eddie L. Smith Multi-Purpose Center at 235 North Memphis Street in Holly Springs. A five-dollar donation is requested. All proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society. Your support is greatly appreciated.

• Meeting Marshall County Retired Education Personnel will meet Fri., June 6, 1 p.m. at the Marshall County Library. Laverne Jones, president.

June 7

• Praise night A solo night and praise program will be held at Pleasant Hill CME Church, Mt. Pleasant, at 6 p.m. Rev. Willie Hoey, pastor, invites everyone to come.

June 8

• Benefit program for Pastor A.V. Warren Jr., Sun., June 8, 6 p.m. The Christian Crusaders of Oxford will be guests, along with a host of choirs, male choruses and groups.

June 10

• Meeting The Lessye Lee Davis 4-H Club will meet at the Marshall County Library, 6 p.m. Everyone interested in becoming a member is invited to attend.

June 13

• Marshall County Relay for Life, 6 p.m.-6 a.m. at Sam Coopwood Park, Hwy. 4 East, Holly Springs. All night party with live entertainment, food, games, luminaria ceremony and contests. Fun for the whole family. Benefits American Cancer Society. Everyone is invited.

June 21

• Concert Smith Grove mass choir will be in concert, along with the New Community mass choir of Aurora, Ill., Sat., June 21, 6 p.m.

June 22

• Friend’s Day Chewalla Assembly of God will be having “Dinner on the Grounds and All Day Singing.” We invite all our friends to come and be with us. Special singer will be Megan Tate.

• Appreciation Day Program Pastor Harold and Minister Renee Stanfield will host Appreciation Day at Grays Chapel CME Church located in Hudsonville on June 22, 3 p.m. The speaker will be Elder Joseph Grantham. All are invited to come and help us celebrate this special occasion.

• Homecoming Smith Grove MB Church, Sun., June 22, 11 a.m., with pastor George Rayford and the New Community MB Church of Aurora, Ill., as special guests.

July 4th

• Reunion The Byhalia High School classes of 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 are having a combined class reunion on July 4-6, 2008. The events will be held at the Byhalia High School gym. The cost for the reunion is $50 per individual, $75 per couple. For more info. please contact Gloria Jean Malone at 901-491-2440 or James Jones at 901-216-2545.

FYI

• Time change Free Branch MB Church, Pastor A.V. Warren Jr., announces morning worship hour changes: first and third Sundays, 11 a.m., Sunday School 9:45 a.m.; second, fourth and fifth Sundays, 9 a.m., Sunday School the Wed. before those Sundays at 6 p.m., prior to Bible study. Bible study, Wed., 6 p.m.

• 30 year reunion Sand Flat School (now H.W. Byers) class of 1978 is planning a 30-year reunion. Please contact Velma Garrison Tate at 662-851-7954.

• REUNION Byhalia High School, class of 1987-88 is planning a reunion. For more info. call Angelo Hardin-Poole, 901-268-0135, Shelia Liggins-Sims, 901-602-9560 or Melissa Shipp-Bowles, 901-849-8623.

• BUS MINISTRY The Apostolic Church of Jesus is now offering a bus ministry. If you need a ride to church, please call Bro. Bobby, cell, 662-560-3946 or home, 662-562-6765; or Pastor Garland Loveless, 662-838-8110. Services are Sun. morning, 10 a.m.-12 noon, Sun. evening, 6:30 p.m. and Wed. evening, 7:30 p.m.

• Awana at Red Banks Baptist Church. Every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Please call 544-0531 for van transportation. Supper, $5 per person, 5:30-6:15 p.m.

• RECOVERY PROGRAM The Most Excellent Way, a Bible-based Scriptural recovery program for all types of addictions. Women’s and co-dependent meetings every Tues., 7 p.m. Men’s group meeting every Thurs., 7 p.m. Meetings are at Longview Heights Baptist Church, 4501 Goodman Rd., Olive Branch. Contact Mary or Mike, 662-893-3912.

• AA MEETING - New, open to public: AA meeting, every Tues. and Fri. night, 8 p.m., in Ashland at the Women’s Bldg. at the Fairgrounds. If you want to drink that’s your business. If you want to stop, we can help. For more info. call 662-224-6151.

• CEMETERY MAINTENANCE Spring Hill Baptist Church has started a maintenance fund for cutting grass in the cemetery. If you would like to make a donation toward this fund in memory or in honor of a loved one, we would appreciate your help. The cemetery is maintained only by donations. Please make your donation to Spring Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, Maxine Palmer, P.O. Box 55, Waterford, MS 38685.

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