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Grimes County residents photographed a sign of God’s promise after storms subsided Monday afternoon, Jan. 8.
Genesis 9:13-16 NIV: (13) “I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. (14) It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; (15) and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. (16) The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
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Happy Martin Luther King Day. A MLK Day Celebration will be held Saturday, Jan. 13, beginning with a parade at 11 a.m. Line up begins at 10 a.m. on Brosig Ave. in Navasota. For more information contact Kay Peavy, 936-419-9341 or Peggy Johnson, 936-577-3301.
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Well folks it’s another new year. Welcome to 2024. Hope that all is well with each and every one of you. Hope everyone of you have a wonderful new year. May God bless all of you. The membership of Evergreen Baptist Church started Sunday on the right note by having breakfast before their morning worship service Dec. 31. All sort of good eats were enjoyed by members and visitors. This is done the fifth Sunday of the month. The church also took communion at the close of the service.
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The Grimes County Mobile Food Bank will be open Thursday, Jan. 11, from 10-11:30 a.m. in the back parking lot of the Grimes County Fairgrounds in Navasota. Any resident of Grimes County will be served and will only need to show their driver’s license when they complete the once-a-year Client Assistant Intake form. For more information contact Patricia, jimcozby@gmail.com.
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The Christmas and NewYear festivities have come and gone. The reason for Christmas never leaves but unfortunately the tree, decorations, wreaths and other special items at some point need to be carefully wrapped and stored.
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Cornus florida, flowering dogwood, is a deciduous tree native to the U.S. and Mexico. It’s known for its striking white, sometimes pink, “flowers” that aren’t really flowers. They are four white 3-inch bracts with reddish-brown indentations that surround several 0.25 inch inconspicuous fragrant yellow-green flowers. Sometimes growing only a few centimeters per year, dogwoods can be 35 to 40 feet tall and live 80 years.
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Recent research of the Somerville 1842 campaign of driving a facet of the Mexican Army back across the Rio Grande into Mexico that led to the infamous Mier Expedition, I ran across a most “under told” history of a Texan teenager, John Christopher Columbus Hill.
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The 3rd annual St. Stanislaus Christmas Eve meal was a huge success. Approximately 125 plates were delivered to various families or homebound persons. Thanks to coordinators Charlie and Jenni Abraham and their children Tyler, Hannah, Will and Jessica for all their hard work. A big thank you to those who brought prepared food, those who volunteered to make plates and those who signed up to deliver them. You will be blessed from above.
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