Melvine grew up in a Christian home. Her parents, Russell and Frances Shropshire Stewart, were members of the Draper Pentecostal Holiness Church in Eden, NC. She received Jesus Christ as her personal Savior and Lord at an early age and has served Him faithfully all of her life.
I can tell you from first hand knowledge that Melvine is faithful in daily Bible reading and study and prayer. She loves to go to Sunday school and church and other times when special events, like revivals, are conducted. She is an excellent Bible teacher and can field any question you might have with confidence and respect. She would have made an outstanding attorney. She will defend her belief with grace and a winning attitude. She enjoys having fun, laughing, singing, and talking with others.
I failed to report on what her day was like on Tuesday of this week. When I got around to writing it, I was so tired and exhausted that I kept falling asleep at the keyboard.
Our very close friend and member of our church, Christian Life Worship Center in Athens, GA, brought our lunch. She had attended the funeral service for Sam Swindel. It was a treat to get a hamburger (a Whopper and Junior Whopper) from Burger King with onion rings. Claudia Strickland is her name, and we love her and her family. She grew up in the Flatwoods Pentecostal Holiness Church in Elberton, GA.
Her father was a dairy farmer and she learned early in life how to feed and milk cows, and later with modern equipment used automated milkers. She was the bookkeeper for Athens Christian School for close to 30 years. She does excellent work. You can depend on her for honesty and being a friend in all seasons. Her son, Bronson Strickland, Ph. D. teaches and does research and publishing at Mississippi State University, and her daughter, Sonja Strickland, is employed by the University of Georgia in editing. She is brilliant and has helped me with my work in writing a book entitled, Our Stephanie, which is still a work in progress. I just don't have the time in any day to do what I would like to do and need to do. In addition, I want to take some art classes at the University of Georgia in drawing portraits and eventually doing caricatures for everyone who would like for me to do it for them, for free. Then, I need time to play my Olds Super Trombone which is in my humble office for my pleasure and enjoyment.
I am sure Melvine and Claudia talk about things for which women are interested. We often invite Claudia, a widow (her husband Heywood Stricland), to dine with us when we go out to eat after church, or on Wednesday nights prior to church and for special events in our home.
Jeanette Herndon Phillips came and brought us some barbecue and Brunswick stew from the Bar-H- Barbecue Restaurant in Royston, GA. That is what the Women's Ministries of our church served the family of the Swindols, and/or Pearson family in Stephanie's Place after the funeral service.
I needed to get a prescription for Melvine at Farmer's Prescription Shop in Winder, GA, and Jeanette volunteered to go pick it up for me. What a blessing it was for Jeanette to help me as she does constantly.
Wednesday was a day of tiredness, and wanting to go back to bed. Melvine did go back to bed, and I tried to get a number of things done, and I finally fell asleep in my La-z-Boy chair.
I did harvest a number of sweet banana peppers from my two above the ground gardens, some leaves of basil and one small green tomato. I am giving most of them away. I eat what I want and love to give to others from the gardens God has given to me. Think of it. It is almost November and I am harvesting veggies from my gardens. That is what God does for us.
Melvine's first cousin, Mary Anne Shropshire Weeks, called late in the afternoon, and informed us that their planned trip on Friday to come to see and minister to us has had to be postponed to a later date due to a medical issue that Everett has and the doctor advised him not to make a long trip at this time.
We are disappointed but we fully understand why.
I can tell you from first hand knowledge that Melvine is faithful in daily Bible reading and study and prayer. She loves to go to Sunday school and church and other times when special events, like revivals, are conducted. She is an excellent Bible teacher and can field any question you might have with confidence and respect. She would have made an outstanding attorney. She will defend her belief with grace and a winning attitude. She enjoys having fun, laughing, singing, and talking with others.
I failed to report on what her day was like on Tuesday of this week. When I got around to writing it, I was so tired and exhausted that I kept falling asleep at the keyboard.
Our very close friend and member of our church, Christian Life Worship Center in Athens, GA, brought our lunch. She had attended the funeral service for Sam Swindel. It was a treat to get a hamburger (a Whopper and Junior Whopper) from Burger King with onion rings. Claudia Strickland is her name, and we love her and her family. She grew up in the Flatwoods Pentecostal Holiness Church in Elberton, GA.
Her father was a dairy farmer and she learned early in life how to feed and milk cows, and later with modern equipment used automated milkers. She was the bookkeeper for Athens Christian School for close to 30 years. She does excellent work. You can depend on her for honesty and being a friend in all seasons. Her son, Bronson Strickland, Ph. D. teaches and does research and publishing at Mississippi State University, and her daughter, Sonja Strickland, is employed by the University of Georgia in editing. She is brilliant and has helped me with my work in writing a book entitled, Our Stephanie, which is still a work in progress. I just don't have the time in any day to do what I would like to do and need to do. In addition, I want to take some art classes at the University of Georgia in drawing portraits and eventually doing caricatures for everyone who would like for me to do it for them, for free. Then, I need time to play my Olds Super Trombone which is in my humble office for my pleasure and enjoyment.
I am sure Melvine and Claudia talk about things for which women are interested. We often invite Claudia, a widow (her husband Heywood Stricland), to dine with us when we go out to eat after church, or on Wednesday nights prior to church and for special events in our home.
Jeanette Herndon Phillips came and brought us some barbecue and Brunswick stew from the Bar-H- Barbecue Restaurant in Royston, GA. That is what the Women's Ministries of our church served the family of the Swindols, and/or Pearson family in Stephanie's Place after the funeral service.
I needed to get a prescription for Melvine at Farmer's Prescription Shop in Winder, GA, and Jeanette volunteered to go pick it up for me. What a blessing it was for Jeanette to help me as she does constantly.
Wednesday was a day of tiredness, and wanting to go back to bed. Melvine did go back to bed, and I tried to get a number of things done, and I finally fell asleep in my La-z-Boy chair.
I did harvest a number of sweet banana peppers from my two above the ground gardens, some leaves of basil and one small green tomato. I am giving most of them away. I eat what I want and love to give to others from the gardens God has given to me. Think of it. It is almost November and I am harvesting veggies from my gardens. That is what God does for us.
Melvine's first cousin, Mary Anne Shropshire Weeks, called late in the afternoon, and informed us that their planned trip on Friday to come to see and minister to us has had to be postponed to a later date due to a medical issue that Everett has and the doctor advised him not to make a long trip at this time.
We are disappointed but we fully understand why.