Volunteers Provide Masks During COVID-19

Volunteers Provide Masks During COVID-19

This past week, April 19 – 25, 2020, was National Volunteer Week in the United States and Canada. Established in 1974, it was created to recognize the impact of volunteer service and to acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of selfless people who sacrifice their...
Heroes Work Here

Heroes Work Here

Over the last few weeks Mississippians have been adjusting and coping to a new ‘normal’. Staying at home and homeschooling children (many households have several) and keeping a distance from aged parents and grandparents is now a daily practice. High school and...
Sunshine, Food, and Medicine for the Soul

Sunshine, Food, and Medicine for the Soul

It has been said that “flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul (Luther Burbank).” Flowers often remind us of home and of happy times during seasons of life. It is doubtful that there is anyone who...
Brandy and Randy Byrd

Brandy and Randy Byrd

 When the Mississippi Braves played their season opener a few weeks ago, their biggest fan was missing from the stands. Randy Byrd had been a baseball fan, and particularly an Atlanta Braves fan, his entire life. He loved them in the good times and in the bad. Randy...
Easter Sunday and  Baked Cookies

Easter Sunday and Baked Cookies

Easter Sunday will be celebrated around the world this weekend! Churches will be full of people who are acknowledging the resurrection and  hope that only comes from believing that life on Earth is temporary, and that the true meaning of life lies in our eternity with...