Hugh's News & Commentary

Today is Thanksgiving Day 2010.

I am composing this newsletter on Wednesday, November 24, 2010.

The Morgan family, Melvine, Greg, Stephanie and I, are here in our country home in Winder, GA, in a subdivision called Sweet Apple. When you come to visit us we will endeavor to serve you apple strudel with a scoop of vanilla ice cream from the Black Forest Bakery and Mayfield Dairy.

We as a family join together in wishing you and your family and friends a blessed and happy Thanksgiving.

This year Stephanie is cooking the Thanksgiving Dinner for our family and friends. This will be a first for her, i. e., cooking our Thanksgiving Dinner. She is an excellent cook and often invites us to dine with her in her home about 5 miles from were we live.

Melvine is doing the supervising. We will have turkey and ham, cornbread dressing and gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, green beans, squash casserole, corn on the cob, with roles and a selection of apple pie and ice cream, keylime pie, sweetened and unsweetened ice tea, and coffee.

We are grateful for our board of directors for Hugh's News, Inc. to whom I am accountable and for their oversight of this ministry. They are Ken Phillips, Arlette Revells, and Janice Russ. We are grateful, too, for our attorney who helped us with the challenge to get incorporated as a non profit Christian organization, and to obtain an IRS Tax Exempt Status. He specializes in this kind of law and knows how to get it done efficiently, effectively, and with ease.

We are thankful, too, for Martus Solutions who has come along side Hugh's News to design and develop our new website and newsletter. Bill Cox is the owner, and Mel Tinney is the webmaster who helps me almost daily with the varied needs I might have, especially answering my questions and sizing the photos for publication. In addition, I want to thank Seth Cain for designing the the website and the newsletter format. It is second to none.

Last but not least, we want to thank you, our readers for subscribing to Hugh's News and standing with us during this economic melt down all across our nation. In addition, we want to thank those of you who feed us the news that we can publish about our denomination and the people we dearly love.

I must include a special thanks to those who have given financially to help me paid the bills for this newsletter operation. It is because of your financial gifts that we have been in ministry publishing the news for some 13 years. And, thank you all who have prayed and continue to pray for me, Melvine, and our adult children, Greg and Stephanie.

We are grateful to God for allowing Melvine and me to celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary with our family and friends last August in Bethlehem, GA, in the lovely fellowship hall of the Bethlehem United Methodist Church.

Let me thank you all personally for helping me to attract more readers and to work toward reaching our goal in the near future, yet to be actualized, to reach 10,000 readers for Hugh's News. You see, I believe nothing is impossible when we put our trust in God. The bottom line is that we only desire God's Will to be accomplished.

Our Mission Statement remains the same:

"The electronic flagship of communications serving IPHC Ministries and the body of Christ worldwide."

Our Mission Scripture is a constant reminder of our commission to win souls for Jesus Christ:

"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever" (Daniel 12:3, KJV).

It was that Scripture verse recorded in the Book of Daniel that God gave my mother, Julia Payne Morgan, during the time she was pregnant with me in her womb.

I am grateful that it was only after I told my her that I felt God was calling me to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, that she told me about that experience while we were sitting under a large oak tree in our yard in Tarrant City, near Birmingham, AL. I remember that conversation vividly today. At that time, I was visiting at home one weekend from my position as the chief clerk and assistant yard master of the the Southern Railroad Terminal Freight Yard in Mobile, AL.

As a result of my conversation with my mother and the prayer that followed, and later talking with my father, Hugh Henry Morgan, I decided to resign from that career field, go to Emmanuel College and begin my studies to be a preacher. Every time I see a train, I hear the voice of God speaking to me, I delivered you from the railroad business for higher purposes.

Little did I know that I would be, a pastor, church planter in other countries, an Air Force chaplain, a college president, and today the director/endorser of Chaplains Ministries, IPHC.

Certainly, I never dreamed I would be a writer or have a newsletter. All that I can say to all of that is that God's gracious hand has been upon my life and He has shown me His favor and success. I have endeavored to be faithful to God and to allow the presence and power of Jesus to give me victory over temptations that have come my way. I give Him all the honor, praise, and glory.

I am grateful for a godly father and mother who brought me up in our home to love Jesus, to honor and serve Him. What a heritage I have been given. And what's more, I love the International Pentecostal Holiness Church for affording me so many opportunities to serve over the years. Because of the debt I owe my church, I continue to serve you as the editor and founder of Hugh's News. However, my ministry reaches outside the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Would you believe I am the pastor to a couple in Dallas, TX, who are Spirit-filled Anglicans? So, I can truthfully say, I am still a pastor today.

I plan to read the Scripture I shared with you recorded in Colossians and pray with my family this Thanksgiving Day prior to our Thanksgiving Dinner meal. I am grateful that my family has confessed Jesus as Savior and Lord of their lives, and are serving Him.

Please remember our IPHC military chaplains and the young men and women they serve all across these United States and around the world.

On Tuesday of this week, Air Force, Chaplain, Captain Jamie Braswell stationed at Fort Meade, MD, joined me as we set up a display table at the Culbreth Memorial Auditorium in Falcon, NC, for Harvest Train. We talked with some outstanding youth who showed an interest in the milistry chaplaincy. Chaplain Braswell was sharp in his Air Force blue uniform with several rows of ribbons with his cross above them all. That cross is a visible reminder of the invisible God to Whom we owe our lives, our redemption, salvation, and eternal life.

Please remember Chaplain, Major Select Randy Sellers, United States Air Force, who is deployed in Afghanistan, and as he ministers to those in harm's way.

Let's remember the spouses and children of our military chaplains as well. We owe them a debt, too, that we can never repay for their many sacrifices as they serve in the military as dependents--spouses and children.

Let's remember Navy Chaplain, Lieutenant Commander Timothy Moore at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as he will oversee the visit of the Reserve Deputy Navy Chief of Chaplains this weekend. Timothy is meticulous in his planning and the execution of his plan. He is a talented administrator and a pastor to sailors and officers alike. I know. I have been with him on four of his assignments. He can preach too.