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Vol 15, No. 9 • February 2016
Cutting Down Trees Means Much More than Shouting "Timber"
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Literally Soul Food: Learning to cook gift from God By Sarah Rowland hen you hear the word "soul food," your empty stomach may growl, but you also get a deep down warm feeling that fills you up; even before that first bite ever reaches your mouth. In the same way, from the first cheerful ring of Deborah Hunter's voice, she evokes warmth and charity that touches the soul. Deborah, a "true southerner" and "Mississippi girl through and through" as she described herself, is a personality of Mississippi Public Broadcasting's radio show Deep South Dining and television show Cooking with Honey and Friends. Now a successful cook, you would expect to hear that Deborah began cooking at an early age, but her answer to when she started cooking is unconventional. As she asked before spilling the beans, "Are you sitting down for this?" Just about six years ago, Deborah said she had just moved to a new home. While admiring her beautiful kitchen she prayed a simple prayer: "Holy Spirit, teach me how to cook."
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By Angela Rogalski It doesn't matter a person's age when it comes to the reality that we all need a purpose to get up in the mornings. If you have your health; your numerical maturity is irrelevant. In fact, some people believe if you think of yourself as old, you will be. And Arbie Baxter is one of those people. Baxter has been cutting down trees for 50 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Baxter is a Selmer, Tenn. resident and is 85-years-old. But placing the word "old" behind his number of years on this earth is very misleading. "One thing I'm not is old," Baxter said. "And I can tell you right now; if I wasn't still cutting trees down, I probably wouldn't be here today. I really enjoy what I do. It's hard work, but I've always liked to work. And if I don't have any trees to cut down, I still stay busy around the house. But in the wintertime, I'm usually busy with my tree-cutting. I use it for firewood." These days Baxter cuts down trees mostly for himself, see BAXTER page 4 Return Address: P.O. Box 1292 Corinth, MS 38835
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A Profound Voice By Alfreda C. Hill Mother Mattie Young is a small woman of stature with a profound voice in the ministry. She has worked in the ministry for over thirty-five years and still going strong. The apostle Paul exhorted the believers in Corinth. "Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain" (1 Corinthians 15:51). Sometimes it is easy to forget that amidst the fun of ministry, the real nature of ministry is nothing short of hard work.
Mother Young is a member of Charity Temple Church in Baldwyn, MS for the past fifteen years and serving in the ministry teaching on a regular basis. Mother Young has also been speaking on television with Unity Broadcast Station in Booneville, MS for the past sixteen years for special occasions spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. She expresses that positive words is evangelical in doctrine, believing that the rightly divided Word of God is the sole guide for faith and practice. It teaches a positive, practical, and positional expressee YOUNG page 4