FALL FESTIVAL 2017
The Wadesboro Church of God held their third annual Fall Festival on
10-28-17 and was a great success. Rose High, our Youth Director along
with her spouse Bruce High, retired Minister headed up the event which
started at 1PM and lasted until around 8PM. This was an open invite
with everything free of charge!
Rose, Colette, Heather, Nathan and Bruce High.
The lower parking lot was used as the staging area for the event and a
rough estimated attendance was between 64 to 80. The weather was
fantastic for this event and there was plenty of good food; Grilled Hot Dogs with
all the trimmings, Pulled Pork BBQ, Chili n Beans, fresh deep fried Pork Skins by Boyce
Adcock, all types of "sweet items", cake, candy, donuts along with soft
drinks, etc. For those of us that partake of the fruit of the coffee bean, there
was fresh brewed coffee in the fellowship hall. I remember the recent sermon that covered caffeine addiction
along with many other things; I called it a John Deere with the mower deck
lowered down sermon, because all of us were mowed down. Go ahead and
grin Pastor Sam Abee! No, he didn't leave out
cell phone
aka
Obamaphone usage addiction either!
Temperance and moderation is the key!
The young folks had a wonderful time in two "bouncy houses" that were set
up. Our youngest grandson,
Xander Gonzales was non-stop playing until
around 7:32 P.M. when I had to get him back home, of which he was totally pooped
out.
My good friend Robert Webster of Hamlet, NC chatting with our Pastor Sam
Abee.
VITTLES IN THE MAKING
I took over eighty (80) pixs and will thumbnail most of them, therefore
click on them for a larger screen image.
Crystal High taking a break from grilling hot dogs:
Bruce High got caught in the line of fire of the
ole camera:
All Bruce needs is an Australian outback crocodile to wrestle with that
hat he has on.
Boyce Adcock deep frying pork skins.....beautimous
tasting stuff!
Sandra and Robert Webster of Hamlet, NC sampling some of those pork
skins. Sandra said she felt right at home; as a young girl attending
The Wadesboro Church of God.
More images of the bouncy houses:
The young folks gave those bouncy houses a workout along with themselves. The longer
camouflage bouncy house deflated in the mid afternoon, but the other one held in
there.
PICKIN AND GRINNING
Pastor Sam Abee, Joe High and Bill Porter proved some Gospel music for the
event:
Pastor Sam Abee and Joe High did the singing and Bill Porter did a little
pickin on the ole reso guitar.
AROUND THE FIRE PIT
Kevin McGrady getting the fire started under the supervision of Bruce
High.
Above Kevin McGrady and Isaac Abee.
Brother and Sister Abee with a good grin going. Sister Abee had a
birthday and we all got a chance to sing Happy Birthday to her and wish her
many, many more to come!
I didn't get to hang around long for the fire, having to get Xander
McKnight Gonzales back home.
In closing, we had a great time and a special Thank You to Rose and Bruce
High for making this event happen and all those that contributed leading to
a successful Fall Festival. The food and fellowship was outstanding
and as I like to say at every opportunity, "Two
of the Greatest Ships that ever Sailed; Friendship and Fellowship."
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."