Laurie Stroud
Service Recognition: Prince of Peace Hoover
Church Leaders The Prince of Peace (POP) Catholic Church Knights of Columbus received four awards at the recent Knights of Columbus Alabama state convention. Vic and Bette Graffeo received the “Alabama Family of the Year” award for their dedication and service to the POP community. Nick Cvetetic was awarded “Knight of the Year” for his …
Business Today
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Best Books
Always Fall Forward I love to watch a great game, especially if a team I favor is winning against a superior opponent. Tell me who the under-dog is, and I’ll cheer them on like the most ardent alumni. Even so, I’ve never really understood why anyone would want to play high school or collegiate football. …
Packed & Ready to Go!
Laurie’s Blog It recently occurred to me I’ve been packing school lunches for 14 years! And as silly as it may sound- I wouldn’t trade that time for anything. My older son “graduated” to school lunch in high school, but my younger two always preferred a sack lunch. As their senior year ended last week, …
Helping Families in Crisis as an Extension of the Church
Special Feature Brought to you by: White Plume Technologies www.whiteplume.com Transformation Ministries(TM) provides local churches and the body of believers in our community with a resource for helping families in crisis, particularly families touched by addiction. “Our mission is to set at ‘liberty those that are bruised’ in this world through counseling, prayer ministry and discipleship. …
“He Is Risen!”
Photo Fun Under the direction of Andrea Billingsley Whitfield, Sixth Avenue Baptist Church youth recently participated in a special presentation, The Meaning of Easter. Pictured here are Deon Arnold, Jaliyah Pruitt, Kennedy Head, Morgan Durant, Cullen Durant, and Sa’Riya McMahon.
“Rosie the Riveter”
Photo Fun March 21 was declared by Congress as National Rosie the Riveter Day, honoring working women of World War II. On March 21 this year, Brookdale University Park held a ribbon-cutting for a Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden, which includes three of the newly created and patented Rosie the Riveter Rose bushes. Brookdale …
“Remembering the Last Hours”
Photo Fun Eighth grade students at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School(OLS) reenact the passion and death of Jesus Christ, as they presented a live version of the Stations of the Cross in a school assembly. Fifth-grade students at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School reenacted the Passover Meal or Last Supper that took …
Pay Yourself First
Money Matters presented by: Vision Financial Each month you settle down to pay bills. You pay your mortgage lender. You pay the electric company. You pay the trash collector. But do you pay yourself? One of the most basic tenets of sound investing involves the simple habit of “paying yourself first,” in other words, making …
Sowing the Seeds of Christ-Centered Learning in Fairfield
Mission Makers “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”Proverbs 22:6 With a dedication to Christ-centered teaching and service, Foundations Early Learning & Family Center has quietly grown from an ambitious vision to a thriving preschool in Fairfield, Ala. Foundations opened in 2013 …
