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“The jail room had gotten so quiet that we could hear a pin drop.” By Daniel Torres ormally I have been writing about N my experiences in Mexico, but today I decided to take a slight detour
and write about my visit to White County Jail this past Tuesday night. I have been going there for the past year and a half. During that time I have seen many inmates come to the Lord and many of them grow in Him. I have even had the pleasure of baptizing some of them in the jail baptistry. At times, I have had some rough experiences, but the blessings of going there and seeing lives transformed, far outweigh some of the challenges of dealing with some of the rough, bitter, and hateful men. My experiences last Tuesday were not uncommon but I just wanted to share the moment. I walked in to my assigned “pod” carrying my usual container of 13 hymn books. Immediately the men scramble about, the television is turned off by the toughest and bravest, and those who do not wish to be part of the “church services” go to their bunks and carry on a conversation, stare at the walls, or read a book. The ones who stay reach for a hymnal and begin to search for a favorite song. Usually Amazing Grace, I’ll Fly Away, The Old Rugged Cross, When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder, and such old favorites are sung first. On this day I only had 5 men to sit around the table and sing. I usually have more but I had lost some to prison and some had been released since the previous Tuesday. I have learned to just 8
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trust God and He always brings the men to me. As the men flipped the pages of the hymnal for “one more song”, one of them found Silent Night, Holy Night. He requested the we sing it, but in a tone of voice and strong laughter as if it would be a silly thing to do. But I knew in my heart that he was just covering up the desire to sing it with his male pride. I said, “Oh, yes, let’s sing that”. Immediately the other men found it in the hymnal and we proceeded to sing it, even among the laughs. Once we got going the laughter dwindled down and they were really enjoying the song. They were really getting with it. I noticed a few of the men who were lying down began to sit up on their bunks. They started singing slowly and quietly, but their voices eventually caught up with ours. Before the last few lines we had quite a choir of male voices singing the sweet song of Christ’s birth. Once again, when we finished the song the laughs started again. Again, a coverup. I just knew it. So, then I said, “Hey, guys, what about this song?”. I gave them the page number and we all broke out in a chorus of “Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong, I am weak but He is strong, ohhhhhhhhh Jesus loves me...”. No, we would not win a Dove award and any church choir would brake out in laughter at the many keys we all sang in. But Jesus loved it!! More men’s
feet touch the floor and made their way to us. They sat around and when the seats were filled, they began to sit on the steps that led to the second floor of bunk beds. I had a captive audience. All together, I now had about 20 men. I brought the singing to an end and completely changed my lesson for the night. I began to share with them about why Jesus had come to die for us. About God’s plan for our salvation before creation itself, about God in the flesh as Jesus coming as a baby. About His horrific suffering, about Gethsemane, the brutal punishment before the cross, about the crucifiction, and the Vail at the temple being ripped from top to bottom. The jail room had gotten so quiet that we could hear a pin drop. I explained to them the significance of the “lamb” of God that takes away the sins of the world. About the fact that Jesus did not have to suffer and die, he could have called in an army of angels to rescue Him, yet He chose not to. Why did he choose not to? What gave Him the strength? I pointed to each one of them and told them that it was for each one of them PERSONALLY. They were the ones who gave Him the strength. The Bible says that “For the JOY set before Him, He endured the cross.” Each one of them gave Jesus the strength because He loved them so much that He actually found JOY in dying for us so that we would spend eternity with Him. As I spoke many of them whispered “I didn’t know that”. I heard that many times. I knew that most of the men were in deep, deep thought. The mood was peaceful, quiet, reverent. I closed and asked for prayer requests. Some whispered something about families and loved ones. I quietly led in prayer as heads were bowed. We shook hands and some hugged me. I slowly left the stillness of pod H with the assurance that Jesus did not leave. He remained there to work in the hearts of men. As he once worked in my own heart.
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Calvin Mitchell has leather gifts you can buy for everyone on your list! Travel accessories, wallets, purses, shaving kits, and money folds are just a few of the items on our endless list of products available. We do custom personalization also: initials, names & logos.
814 S. Remington • Searcy 501-268-6854 • 1-800-888-3872 www.calvinmitchell.com
Bulldog Restaurant
Everyone loves the Bulldog! Give a gift certificate to your friends and family this holiday season.
3614 Hwy 367 N Bald Knob 501-724-5195
Decorative Iron
From gazing balls to giant animals and home decor, Decorative Iron in Judsonia has it all!
833 Hwy. 367 • Judsonia 501-729-0140
Small Razorback $34.00 Medium Razorback $59.00 Oval Razorback w.d. $45.00
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Interior Creations SURYA 360 ° of style. RUGS • WALL ART • PILLOWS THROWS Custom order from a comprehensive collection of coordinating accessories.
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At Unpainted Furniture we have real wood furniture at VERY AFFORDABLE prices. You can finish it yourself or we can custom paint or stain for you. We are located across from Searcy Medical Center. Unpainted Furniture 607 Marion • Searcy • 501-279-1303 unpaintedfurnituresearcy.com
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Sassy Sweets
Gifts from the kitchen for your friends, family, employees, or customers. Make it special this year with something from Sassy Sweets.
405 N. Walnut in Searcy 501-278-5463
We would love to help with all your baking!
Fran’s Frame Shop
Framed art selection at Fran’s includes Hog fan gifts. There are many themed prints to choose from, but hurry in before your favorites are sold!
2301 W. Beebe-Capps Searcy 501-268-6754
The Lions Den
We have the largest selection of Searcy Lion merchandise!
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David and Leah Burks 816 Golf View Dr. (River Oaks)
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s I scrambled to get everything I needed together, I just wasn’t in the Christmas Spirit. Our church once again was performing the Living Nativity. Everyone in the family had to have extra layers of clothes, gloves and socks to wear under our costumes. It was a time consuming task and we were all tired from the nightly duties involved with just being there. As of late, I hadn’t been in the holiday spirit anyway. I had so much to do and not enough time. The kids had parties at school, with gifts to buy for those. They also had Sunday school parties and I needed to get their teachers a small gift of some kind. It’s not that I didn’t like Christmas, but I didn’t want to feel so overwhelmed that I couldn’t enjoy the Christmas season and really bask in the reason to celebrate it anyway. After all, I had been a Christian for years, was raised in a Christian home and wanted to pass on that heritage to my children. I had always believed that if the church didn’t offer the youth something to do, the world would. So every chance we got, we tried to stay involved in the church activities. My children enjoyed being in the nativity. They loved leading the goats around and petting the donkeys and calves. Aside from the manger, the camels are the main attraction. They would help their dad and the church men lead the animals out to their stations as everyone readied for the 40
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By Ronda Martin thousands of people that would drive through. Afterwards, they would help put all of the animals up for the night. In the past, our church had served a Christmas Dinner for everyone to attend. But then our Pastor felt God leading in a different direction. Something that our church could offer to the community and that‘s when the plans started for the nativity. Our church is a fairly large one and it is a combined effort of everyone to make this a yearly success. Our pastor urged us to pray for the community and to pray for those who don’t know Jesus, that as they drive through they might open their hearts and come to know Him. As I slipped my costume over my head, I prayed silently that God would bless our efforts. More than anything the world needs Jesus and some people have never heard about God’s love. Now after several years, we all knew what to do . We trudged out to the dirt streets of Bethlehem. We would stay in character. We would walk through the smoke filled town and register at the census window. Then on to shop for baskets and pottery. We enjoyed the fellowship with other people from our church and the traditional costumes made you feel as though you had stepped back in time. As I rounded the corner of the second street in Bethlehem, I just couldn’t get focused on why we were really here. My
mind wandered on all I had to do the next day, to get ready for all the parties and activities. A car window was down and I caught the sound of the voice on the CD. It was the CD they gave you as you entered Bethlehem. It told of a King, born in a stable among the cows and sheep. His parents had been turned away with no room in the Inn. The kings of the earth would not have been turned away and would never had slept with the animals. But the King of Kings did not come in pomp and splendor and had nowhere to lay his head. Finally his parents were given a stable and the baby was placed in a manger. I thought about this. No one was worried about Christmas parties the night our Savior was born. There were no concerns about the greatest and best gift or credit card debt or late shopping. I wanted to relive that night in Bethlehem. I wanted to be truly thankful for that baby that God sent for you and me. The One that was born that I might have life and have it more abundantly. I slowly walked on down the street passed the bread maker, leather shop and brick maker. As I gazed into the stable and fixed my eyes on the manger, I heard the voice of a small child coming from the nearest car saying “ I love you Baby Jesus, I love you�! It was only then that I realized it was all worth it. My heart swelled with thankfulness as our church ministered to the community and the seed was planted in the heart of a child!
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he story of our Christmas Countdown began three years ago when, at the beginning of the holiday season my then-seven-year old daughter began to whine about what things she wanted me to buy her for Christmas. Fed up with her selfishness and obvious interest in things only money could buy, I set out to find some way to teach her what Christmas is all about. After leafing through an issue of Better Homes and Gardens, I found what I was looking for. There was an article there with a picture of one family’s “countdown” which included small fabric bags on a clothesline, filled with candy and toys that would be opened on the appropriate number day. I decided to adopt this “countdown” to suit my purpose, so instead of filling my bags with more junk that my children didn’t need, I placed a card instead with an idea for an activity to help someone else. These are a few of the ideas we use: • Make a Christmas Card for the mail carrier • Buy teddy bears for the children at Hope Cottage • Help an elderly person decorate for Christmas • Make a special gift for your pastor • Bake cookies for the neighbors • Cook a meal for someone and deliver it • Go Christmas caroling • Give candy canes to everyone you meet (This is my daughter’s favorite one--the first year we went to Town & Country Plaza and handed them out to all the shoppers and store clerks we saw!) The possibilities are endless--you can adapt it to fit your budget, whatever it may be. The first year we had a bit more money put aside to do our projects; last year my husband was unemployed, so we had to do things a little differently. Overall, it is wonderful to see what an effect you can have on people with little things like homemade cards, cookies, or just a simple candy cane and a “Merry Christmas!” The point is that Christmas isn’t really about what you get for Christmas; it’s what you give! Christmas Countdown clothesline
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Searcy’s Chief of Police, Kyle Osborne, trims the tree in the records office at the Searcy Police Department. Chief Osborne and the entire Searcy Police Department would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday season. Merry Christmas! Christmas tree and decorations were bought with donations from the Searcy Police Department personnel. Records Clerks Lanelle Mendenhall and Amanda Webb decorated the tree.
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2011 Pictured on Cover: Paxton Crum and Olivia Crum Parents: Parker and Amanda Crum Sloan Mercer Parents: Justin and Marcy Mercer Anna Claire Showalter Parents: Roy and Nancy Showalter Cover Photographer Kimberly Brackins 501-279-1515
2010 Pictured on Cover: Kristen Tranum Avery Tranum Parents: Lynn and Carrie Tranum
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2008 Pictured on Cover: Whitney Hays Parents: Monte & Tammy Hays Cooper McLeod • Lindey McLeod Parents: Todd and Casey McLeod Avery Lutrell Parents: David Lutrell Casey McLeod Cover Photographer Maggie Hendrix 501-388-3256
2007 Pictured on Cover: Christian Cox Parents: Jared and Casey Cox
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2006 Pictured On Cover: Jadyn Ramsey Parents: Johnny & Betina Ramsey Landon & Keaton Hambrick Parents: John & Vicki Bates
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By Sandy Reynolds, Activities Director Harding Place Christian Retirement Have you ever received a gift that The story gets even better when would FOREVER change your life? Andy Bollinger came to visit Harding Would that gift have been a car, Place on September 9th. You see, Andy a check or a house? What about a is not the typical visitor to Harding shoebox?! Place. Andy is special. She is one of 85 The staff and residents at Harding million children, in 130 Countries, who Place Retirement joined forces with has received an Operation Christmas Deb Lewis at the River of Life Church Child shoebox since 1993! Andy, who and Phyllis Holston at Valley Baptist emigrated from her native country of Church in a nation-wide effort called Romania and now lives in Missouri Operation Christmas Child. with her husband, volunteers her time This is how our story begins: Phyllis telling people how a simple shoe box Holston whose mother lives at Harding forever changed her life. She and Place contacted me and asked if the her family were living in a time in Harding Place residents might have Romania when oppression reigned and any shoe boxes that they would like to finding food to eat was a challenge. donate to Operation Christmas Child. Many times, Andy and her siblings OCC uses shoe boxes as the packaging would stand in long lines to get 4 slices to hold small items like toothbrushes, of bread, not enough to feed all the soap, small toys and trinkets. The shoe members of her family. She vividly boxes are then wrapped in colorful remembers the day when she and her Christmas paper and shipped to children siblings were invited to a church in all around the world. I immediately said her city and were given a Christmas that Harding Place would love to help, wrapped shoe box. To this day, Andy but we would also like to supply items cherishes the hat, scarf and doll that that fill the shoe boxes. The residents were inside her box. Andy proudly were provided with the list of needed modeled her hat and scarf for everyone items, and they embraced the project to see. She remembers the taste of the and began buying items for OCC every bright red Twizzler candy and multitime that they went to Wal-Mart and colored Aquafresh toothpaste. . One of Dollar Tree. It’s amazing how much the Harding Place residents, Katherine you can buy for $20.00 to fill up a shoe Page, was so moved by Andy’s story box! that she committed to making 100 52
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beaded bracelets for the shoebox project. Everyone in the audience was brought to tears‌imagine, a small shoe box changing your life forever. According to Andy and Operation Christmas Child, it starts with a SIMPLE GIFT, filled with FUN, packed with LOVE and sent with PRAYER to children all around our world. God can take a simple shoe box and transform lives. For more information about Operation Christmas Child, go to www. samaritanspurse.org/occ or contact Phyllis Holston at Valley Baptist, Deb Lewis at River of Life Church or Sandy Reynolds at Harding Place.
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Submitted by Tanya Leckie
Because I have had a difficult (okay, IMPOSSIBLE) time locating French Onion Dip sold in stores that don’t contain MSG (monosodium glutamate), I had to resort to finding a homemade version. This has a fabulous, fresh flavor and it is simple to make. Even gluten-intolerant friends can enjoy it as long as the dipping chips are also gluten free.
2 Tbsp butter 1 large yellow onion, diced 1 tsp salt 1 clove garlic, minced 2 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 ¼ c. real sour cream ¼ c. mayonnaise 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper ¼ tsp fresh ground black pepper 2 green onions, tops only, finely chopped
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In a medium skillet sauté yellow onion in butter and salt over medium/low heat until onion is clear and soft. Add garlic and cook only 1 minute then add Worcestershire sauce, stirring to get the cooked bits off the bottom of the skillet (“deglazing”). Remove from heat and allow mixture to cool. Add remaining ingredients, ending with green onions, and chill until ready to serve.
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Submitted by Tia Stone In our family it has become a Christmas morning tradition to have “Oatmeal Warm and Sweet� for breakfast. It is very easy to make and I typically have all the ingredients already on hand. This recipe is from Sara Barton (Uganda, East Africa).
1/2 cup cooking oil 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 cup milk 1 tsp. salt 2 tsp. baking powder 3 cups oatmeal 1/2 cup raisins (optional) 1/2 cup sliced almonds (optional) 1 T. brown sugar (optional- I sprinkle this on immediately after I take out of the oven.)
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Stir ingredients together, place in greased baking dish and bake 30 minutes.
Abigail (7), Anthony (5), Anna Leigh (3), Ashton (8 months) By TK Photography
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