Living Word Church is Covered!

Taylor Lake Village, Texas, -- Living Word Church is loving the progress on our new church home and community center at 1111 Kirby Rd. Taylor Lake Village, Texas.

Internal framing is done and we are working hard on electrical, plumbing and dry wall. Pray that the 11,170ft facility of a 300 seat auditorium, children’s classrooms, a 60 seat community room and offices, will be ready by early summer 2023.

“We believe that God has given us land to build a new church home and community center,” said Pastor Brad Heintz. “It will be a place where neighbors, friends, families and organizations can gather to worship, study, serve and share together. I invite you to build with us a place where everyone is welcomed home and loved.”

Living Word Church of the Bay Area, is a vibrant family-style, nondenominational gathering of believers who take a pure, simple and real approach to faith and life. Until the building is comple, Living Word Church is worshiping at G.W. Robinson Elementary, 451 Kirby Rd. El Lago, TX at 10:30am. Everyone is invited to join us and help build a church!

For more information and building updates go to https://lwcba.org/building-advance

It was a night of glitter, glam, and excitement as South Shore Harbour Hotel and Resort hosted the very first Miss League City Pageant on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Twenty-three beautiful and amazing young women from all over the Bay Area competed for the titles of 2023 Miss League City and Miss League City Teen. With an audience of almost 400, the crowd cheered on all of the contesants and watched as Avery Doubenmier (League City) was crowned 2023 Miss League City, and Carys Moran (Friendswood) was crowned 2023 Miss League City Teen. Kelly Williams, Miss League City Pageant Producer, award-winning Pageant Director, and Host of The Kelly Williams Show, was absolutely thrilled with the event. "These events take a year of hard work to plan and I always want pageant weekend to be an unforgettable experience for the contestants and their families. This fabulous pageant event happened only because of the support from the City of League City, our generous sponsors, all of our amazing judges, the entertainers, and my incredible pageant staff that I could never do without! I am truly blessed to have some amazing people in my life."

The newly crowned winners will now work to get ready to compete in the Miss Texas USA® Pageant and Miss Texas Teen USA® Pageant coming in July. Stay tuned for information on how to get tickets for the State Pageant to cheer on our Miss League City queens! www.MissLeagueCityPageant.com

(pageant photos by: Dustin Estrada) dustin.estrada@ymail.com / @texasvideographer

My wife says that sometimes I am an airhead. Don’t get me wrong. She never questions my intelligence—just my “presence”— am I here, or “out there somewhere?” It’s a fair question, I suppose. I blame it on my profession. For the last 50 years, I’ve been a writer—usually part time, but always doing it. Most of us have something that we have to do to be “alive.” For me, that has always been writing. But that comes with a whole host of issues, not the least of which is lousy pay. Tell someone you are a writer and the first question they ask is “Have you been a waiting tables long?” So you learn to not say anything at all about it, and I just passed myself off as a professor, my day job, all those years. But then retirement came. I was still alive, so that meant I was still writing, only now I could no longer hide behind the day job.

We were at Pedernales Falls State Park, and my running buddy and I had spent part of the morning examining the falls in minute detail. The water was low and we could nearly cross the entire river without getting wet. It was a great opportunity to see, up close, formations that were normally underwater, to study things like what makes the water appear to be running uphill in places. After a couple of hours of combing the rocks, we decided to part ways for the afternoon and have some quiet, alone time. We made a plan to meet back at the Jeep at sunset. He decided to hang out there at the falls a while longer and I walked downstream.

I followed a trail along the river, the Hackenberg Loop. But, as way leads on to way, the trail led me to . . . lost? I found myself in the middle of the woods with no trail in sight and no idea how I even got there. I tried backtracking to find the trail I had apparently strayed from. That got me even more lost. It had happened yet again! I was frustrated. I blame it on the writer thing. You know how you sometimes walk into a room with a purpose in mind and then suddenly forget why you were there? Well, at least I do it—almost daily. But how often do you find yourself somewhere strange and not have a clue where you are or how you got there?