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Vol 19, No. 7 • December 2019
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13-year-old lives and breathes the sport of motocross was watchBy Lucy ing Weber Supercross Teagan racing on Billiard TV. She describes told her herself as a parents she daredevil wanted to who likes to race. At take first, her chances. mother How else said no would you and her describe a father, who 13-year-old used to who has race dirt been racing bikes, said dirt bikes yes. For for five her eighth years in the birthday, sport of she got a motocross? 50cc "The first Honda dirt time I got bike. The on a bike I following was 7 and at weekend, my aunt's she went house. I felt to her first like I had race. been riding She's my whole been raclife," said Teagan Billiard ing ever since. the eighth-grader "I wasn't scared to start," Teagan said at Alcorn Central. about her first competition. "This is what I Her love of the sport started when she was meant to do. I could ride Return Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835 dirt bikes before I could ride a regular bike. This makes me happy." The family moved from POSTAL PATRON Logansport, Ind., in June 2018 to enable Teagan to be see TEEN pg 4
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Betts brings a world of experience to lead Macedonia MB Church
Dr. Eric Betts
By Lucy Weber A missionary who has traveled the world, Dr. Eric Betts has found his church home in the pulpit of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Corinth. Betts started leading the church, which celebrated its centennial last year, on Easter Sunday this year. He and his wife of 21 years, Trina, live with their three children in Florence, Ala. Betts also serves the Athens State University Religious Studies program, teaching on leadership, strengths finding, interfaith relationships and ethics. "In my life I've realized that everything happens for a reason. What you went through in the past is preparing you for what you do right now," he said. "When you get outside your area, you expand and see the world through different lenses. My traveling prepared me for Macedonia."
Betts' missionary work took him to Betts to Botswana, Barbados, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Cook Islands, Fiji, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, France, Rome and Germany. In Uganda, Betts said stayed with people living with no electricity and no running water but they showed their hospitality over and over again. "It helped me get my priorities together. That teaches you to appreciate what you have and when you're blessed." Macedonia MB Church has a warm and welcoming congregation, Betts said. "One of the things that stand out to me is that the doors are open to grieving families. Macedonia reaches out to grieving families, even if they're not a member of the church. We have a very strong benevolent ministry - I've never seen one on that see BETTS pg 4