It’s time to put down your phones and drive, Texas. Beginning Sept. 1, it will be illegal to read or send text messages, post on Facebook or update Twitter while behind the wheel of a moving vehicle.
“This law was put in place to save lives,” Shannon Worrell, Mason County Farm Bureau president, said.
MATTHEW
Matthew is another one of our senior cuties whose owner passed and now he needs help finding him a new family. Matthew is about 11 years old and is neutered and current on his vaccinations. That salt and pepper sprinkled face wants nothing more than to be loved on. He is an easy going guy but still has a spring to his step.
Mr. and Mrs. Foster (Frosty) Mitchell Miller of Pontotoc, will celebrate their 50th Anniversary on August 26, 2017.
Growing up together in Llano, only four houses apart, and attending LHS together, Frosty and Vicki (Virdell) were married at Lutie Watkins Memorial United Methodist Church in Llano. Both were attending Texas Tech University at the time.
On August 26, 1967, Johnny Beth Davis and James Martin Heidelberg Jr met in a Baptist Church in Oak Cliff in Dallas and made a mutual commitment to spend the rest of their lives making each other happy and entertained. The commitment has endured and they will celebrate 50 years together this Saturday.
The Mason County Ministerial Alliance invites you to join us on Thursday, August 24th at 8:00 AM to pray for our children, their teachers, and the Mason ISD administration. We will hold this 15 minute time of prayer at the tennis courts behind the school. There will be prayer, singing, and a short devotional.
Alive Inside is a cinematic exploration of music’s capacity to reawaken and uncover the deepest recesses in the very souls of people living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. This rousing documentary features Dan Cohen, social worker and founder of the nonprofit organization Music and MemoryTM as he works to demonstrate music’s ability to improve the lives of patients living in a nursing home.
The Mason Puncher Club will be auctioning off a 50 yard line box seat. Hurry to Meet the Punchers or the Chamber of Commerce to put in your bid! This will be a great opportunity to get a prime box seat if you miss out on the MISD box seat drawing.
Another great week is in the books. The Art United Methodist Church continues with some maintenance projects. This week the new carpet was installed in the sanctuary. It is beautiful. It was also the Sunday to bless the backpacks. We had children that attend out of town schools that have started school and local children that are anxiously waiting for the first day on Monday, August 28th.
We had a mini family gathering on Sunday.
Many folks have seen the large banner on the Highway 29 side of St. Paul Lutheran Church: “Celebrating the Reformation—500 Years of God’s Grace in Action—1517 to 2017.” Surely many are asking, “Well, what’s the Reformation?” Adults and children of St. Paul Lutheran Church will present the first of 5 chancel dramas called Papa Luther beginning this Sunday, August 20, during the 10:45 AM service of worship.
River Kid’s will be performing their summer play, Not Your Average Joe, on Saturday, August 26th at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday, August 27th at 10:30a.m. in the sanctuary at River of Life Church at 217 E. College St.
This year’s play is the classic Old Testament story of Joseph that is retold in the fun times and music of the 1950’s, but the gospel truth remains the same…trust in the Lord with all your heart at all times.
A collection will be taken for several of River Kid’s mission pr ...
