"And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."  Matthew 15:27 KJV

God calls plenty of people in the Bible, but there are only a few times when He calls out to individuals by name twice in a row…We continue our look at key people called twice by God. This morning we meet Samuel and Martha.

In a time when people rarely hear from God, a boy asleep in the tabernacle hears a voice calling him multiple times in the middle of the night. The boy Samuel assumes that the high priest is calling him, but soon learns that the voice is from someone far greater.

Samuel, Samuel!

1 Samuel 3:10-11 reads…The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.” And the Lord said to Samuel: “See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle.”

Samuel learns to discern the voice of God and grows up to become a prophet of God to the nation of Israel. 

Martha also had her name called twice by God.

Jesus is in the home of His friends Martha and Mary. Mary chooses to sit at Jesus’ feet, listening to His teaching.

Martha, on the other hand, focuses on all the tasks that come with hosting a Rabbi and His followers in her home. She’s annoyed and frustrated that Mary has left all the work on her, so she asks Jesus to have Mary help her.

“Martha, Martha.”

Luke 10:38-42 reads, As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.”

Jesus tells Martha that she is worried and distracted about so many things—and that Mary has taken advantage of the opportunity to learn from Him, which is the far better choice.

To God Be The Glory for Samuel and Martha! As a boy, Samuel heard God call his name, which was the start of his prophetic ministry. And Jesus gently rebuked Martha for being "troubled about many things" and called her to focus on what truly mattered—listening to Him.

Sister Cathy Black

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  "God Is Sovereign and Answers Prayer: Does God Keep His Promises?" 2 Chronicles 6:12-21
  
  Lesson Nugget:
  In today's lesson, King Solomon of Israel assembles all of Israel, kneels down before the altar of the Lord and offers an intercessory prayer in front of the temple. He acknowledges God's sovereignty and petitions God to continually watch over them and to hear their prayers.

      Do we as Christians possess an unwavering              belief that God always hears and answers our          prayers?                       

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Lexington, KY 40578

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WE ARE ONE!

Welcome to the 40 Year Christians' Cooking Corner! 

Here we will feature recipes from the 40 Year Christian Group. This week's recipe was submitted by Sister Alyce Emerson from Nutrition Education Program, UK Cooperative Extension Service.

Blessings to all.

Sister Linda Gates, President

Parmesan Carrot Chips

Prep time: 5 minutes

Cook time: 30 - 35 minutes

Ingredients

Nonstick cooking spray

1 bag (1 pound) carrot chips (or 4 large carrots, sliced 1/4-inch thick)

2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil

2 tablespoons cornstarch

2 teaspoons garlic powder

1 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon chil powder or cumin

Dash cayenne pepper or red pepper fiakes (optional)

1/4 cup parmesan cheese

Directions

1. Wash hands with warm water and soap, scrubbing at least 20 seconds
2. Preheat the oven to
   425 degrees F. Line a large baking sheet with foil or parchment paper. Spray with nonstick cooking
   spray. Set aside. (Note: You might need two baking sheets to avoid layering the carrots.)
3. In a medium bowl, mix olive oil, cornstarch, garlic powder, paprika, chili powder or cumin, and cayenne pepper (if using). Add carrots and toss to coat.
4. Spread carrots out in a single layer on the baking sheet. Place in the oven and bake for 18 minutes. Remove from oven, sprinkle with parmesan cheese, and toss to coat all sides. Return to the oven for 5 to 7 minutes or until crispy and slightly browned.
5. Remove from oven and allow to rest several minutes before serving
6. Refrigerate leftovers within 2 hours.

Recipe makes 4 servings

Serving size: 2/3 cup

Name: Dawn Offutt

Current Focus: Ensuring that my family members have what they need and making the appropriate lifestyle changes to lead a healthier life.

Career: Executive Director for Student Access with the Kentucky Council on Post Secondary Education. Our big focus is to increase the enrollment and graduation rates of low income and first-generation students, students with disabilities and adult learners. Our aim is to identify, address and eliminate obstacles that impede the success of these students.

Why this Career?: I have been in education administration since 2004. I come from a long line of educators. Education was ultimately going to be my field. I didn’t think that at first. I earned my bachelor’s degree in French from Grambling University. When asked if I was going to teach my answer was always, no! I thought I was going to be an international lawyer or a diplomat.

Education was not my choice until it chose me. That happened when I was in graduate school at LSU and needed a job. I was offered a position as a French teacher. I taught on multiple levels. It was then that I realized how much I enjoyed imparting knowledge. Though I’m no longer in the classroom, I am still an educator. Leading trainings, creating initiatives and sharing information – all bring me great fulfillment.

What do you want your church family to know about you?: I don’t often talk about myself. My list of hobbies would include reading and watching movies. I enjoy reading and have recently joined two book clubs. I also like movies – of all sorts. Actions and thrillers are my thing. Reading and movies are two of my favorite “likes.” HPGMBC Choir is my peace!

I LOVE to sing. I think my love of singing started with my father. He would teach me songs, especially on road trips. On those trips he taught me to harmonize. When I take trips now, I always sing!

I’ve been singing at HPGMBC for a long time. I started with the Buds of Promise and then the Youth. I continued to sing when I went to college. It was in Grambling’s choir that I was “choir trained.” I sang in

Grambling’s choir as an undergraduate student. While attending graduate school, I was the Grambling choir advisor. One of my memorable opportunities with the choir was singing background for Yolanda Adams.

I love to sing good old choir music, and I love my HPGMBC Choir Family! We sing praises to our GOD.

We have the role of setting the tone for praise every Sunday morning. We might not know what members of the congregation have gone through during the week. Our job is to usher in the Spirit and that is an important task!

I take our task seriously! I am involved in several community organizations. They now know not to schedule meetings on Thursday if they expect me to attend. On Thursday evenings I am at choir rehearsal! I am with my HPGMBC Choir Family! Choir members are a mess – in the best kind of way! We enjoy laughing together. We have become our own family. We check in on each other. A couple have started calling me AD – i.e. Assistant Director. It is said in fun. It’s also a nod to how I like to jump in and help when and where I can.

Problem solving is part of my nature. I am a deep thinker and a deep processor. Sometimes when people see me, they think I may be difficult to approach. Actually, I am thinking all of the time. I wear my thoughts on my face. Please feel free to speak to me. If you see me in the store and I don’t speak, please know my not speaking is not on purpose. I have tunnel vision. Please tap me on the shoulder and say, Hi.

Is there anything special your church can do for you? Continue to keep me and my family in your prayers. With the way society and government are going, we all need prayer. Prayers go a long way. Prayer changes things.

What do you want your church family to know about GOD?: My favorite scripture is Romans 8:28 which states, “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love GOD, to those who are called according to HIS purpose.”

I attended a church in Louisiana while in graduate school. My watch care Pastor asked us to think about the baseball player who hits a home run. The player hits the ball but he still has to run the bases if he wants to get the point! He said that is what we as Christians must do. Yes! GOD has already worked it out, but you may still have some work to do. While doing the work, do not worry and do not fret.

Remember GOD has worked it out….and be willing to run the bases. That message has stuck with me for 30 years. Even when the home run is hit, you still have to run the bases.

Parents: Don and Dorothy Offutt

Son: Donovan Offutt

Sibling: Don Offutt II

Recent Requests

• Family of Brother Christ Fields, who passed. (Cousin of Sister Alyce Emerson)
  
  
• Family of Brother Ahira "Eric" Floyd, who passed. (Husband of the late Barbara Valentine Floyd; stepfather of Sister Lisa Valentine & Brother Dre Valentine) Service was Monday, November 10.
  
  
• Brother Darius Hall, Jr. (14 year old Grandson of Sister Marion Hall) (Home)
  
  
• Brother Willis K. Bright, Jr. (Indianapolis, In)
  
  
• Brother Bruce from Tates Creek Golf Course Clubhouse
  
  
• Sister Gloria Coleman (Home)
  
  
• The Kierra Joseph Family
  
  
• Little Brother Braylen L. Moody (2 year old Grandson to Rev. Freddie Moody)
  
  
• Sister Sharon Scarber (Home)
  
  
• Brother Walter J. Speed, III (Home) (Son of Brother Walter J. Speed, Jr.)
  
  
• Sister Kendra Taylor (Home)
  
  
• Sister Carol Thomas (Home)
  

Ongoing Requests:

• Brother Levi Fishback (Harrodsburg Health & Rehabilitation Center, Harrodsburg, KY)
  
  
• Brother Joseph Grant (Hospital St. Louis, MO) (Father of Sister Jessica Grant)
  
  
• Sister Anna Jarber (Homestead Nursing Home)
  
  
• Sister Thelma Masterson (Homestead Nursing Home)
   
• Brother Glenn Allen (Home) (Relative of the Brooks Family)
  
  
• Sister Mary Ann Banksden (Florence, AL) (Sister of Brother Sammie Brooks)
  
  
• Sister Lillian Bell (Ruston, LA)
  
  
• Sister Ruby Branham (Prestonsburg, KY) (Mother of Sister Jackie Peoples)
  
  
• Sister Beverly Bowman (Home)
  
  
• Sister Bonita Brown (Home)
  
  
• Brother Byron Brown
  
  
• Sister Patricia Brown (Home)
  
  
• Sister Carrie Clay (Home) Upcoming surgery
  
  
• Sister Charmaine Collins (Home) (Daughter of Sister Debra Collins)
  
  
• Sister Debra Collins (Home)
  
  
• Brother Lonnie Cowan (Home)
  
  
• Crutcher, Jones, & Payne Family (especially Little Brother Vince Crutcher III and Sister Brittany Payne)
  
  
• Sister Laura Dunaway (Home)
  
  
• Sister Christa Dunn (Home)
  
  
• Brother Billy Edwards (Home)
  
  
• Sister Shirley Alcorn Edwards (Portsmouth, VA)
  
  
• Sister Jessica Embry
  
  
• Brother Marvin Emerson  (Home)
  
  
• Sister McKinley Emerson (Home)
  
  
• Brother Greg Forrest (Kevil, KY) (Nephew of Sisters Janice Jackson and Barbara Ridgeway)
  
  
• Sister Johnetta Frazier (Home)
  
  
• Sister Wanda Frazier (Home) (Sister of Brother Wayne Frazier)
  
  
• Sister Erica Gill (Daughter of the late Rev. O. D. Gill) (Home)
  
  
• Rev. Jerry Gumm (Home)
  (Friends of the late Dr. Charles Black's family)
  
  
• Sister Sheryl Haskins (Home)
  
  
• Sister Jeanette Higgins (Home)
  
  
• Sister Gwendolyn Holloman (Home) (Wife of Bishop J. B. Holloman)
  
  
• Sister Iris Horice (Paducah, KY) (Niece of Sisters Janice Jackson and Barbara Ridgeway)
  
  
• Brother Daron Houtman, Jr. (Wichita, KS) (Nephew of Sister Lisa Leath)
  
  
• Brother Branson Irvin (Indianapolis, IN) (Cousin of Sister Mary Thomas)
  
  
• Brother Julian Jackson (Home) (Father of Brother Jarold Jackson)
  
  
• Sister Kemona Johnson (Home)
  
  
• Sister Norma Johnson (Home)
  
  
• Sister Vera Johnson (Home) (Sister of Sister Marion Hall)
  
  
• Brother Vincino Johnson (Home)
  
  
• Brother Travis Jones (Home ) (Brother of Sisters Liz Brooks, Trina Morton, and Sobona Sweat)
  
  
• Sister Janet King (Classmate of Sister Norma Johnson)
  
  
• Brother Larry Leath (Home)
  
  
• Sister Lindsey Leath (Home)
  
  
• Sister Patricia Leavell (Home)
  
  
• Sister Karisma Lockhart (Los Angeles, CA) and her family (Niece of Rev. Freddie Moody)
  
  
• Sister Jackie Lindsay (Home) (Sister of Brother Wayne Frazier)
  
  
• Sister Danise Madison (Seattle, WA) (Sister of Sister Bonita Brown)
  
  
• Brother Latemus Marshall (Home) (Husband of Sister Valerie Marshall)
  
  
• Sister Dawn Gay Martin (Home)
  
  
• Brother Everett Martin (Home)
  
  
• Sister Genice Moody Mays (Los Angeles, CA) (Youngest sister of Rev. Freddie Moody)
  
  
• Sister Irene Sykes McKenzie (Home)
  
  
• Sister Elnora Miller (Home) (Mother of Sister Lisa Miller)
  
  
• Sister Lisa Miller (Home)
  
  
• Brother Daryl Moberly (Uncle of Sister Marva Eubank)
  
  
• Sister Tyailan Moberly (Home) (Cousin of Sister Marva Eubank)
  
  
• Brother Charles Moore, Sr. (Denton, TX) (Brother of Sister Shelia Williams)
  
  
• Sister Dorothy Offutt (Home)
  
  
• Sister Ashanti Owens (Granddaughter of Sister Mary Thomas)
  
  
• Sister Brittany Payne (Home)
  
  
• Brother Stevie Pepper (Columbus, OH) (Cousin of Sister Mary Thomas)(Home)
  
  
• Sister Darlene Pope (Home)
  
  
• Brother Steven Prater (Richmond Hill, GA)
  
  
• Sister Ruth Rawlings (Friend of Sister Kim Bond)
  
  
• Veronica Ridgeway (Louisville, KY) (Cousin of Sisters Janice Jackson and Barbara Ridgeway)
  
  
• Sister Annette Reid (Home)
  
  
• Brother Ashley Roach
  
  
• Sister Gayle Rush-Coleman (Home)
  
  
• Sister Tamika Sales (Home)
  
  
• Brother Donald Scarber (Home)
  
  
• Brother Drery Shelton (St. Joseph Hospital) (Friend of Sister Bonnie Shelton)
  
  
• Brother Doug Smith (Brother of Rev. Michael Smith) (Home, Louisville, KY)
  
  
• Sister Lynn Smith (Home)
  
  
• Sister Pennie Smith (Home)
  
  
• Sister Eleanor Smothers (Home)
  
  
• Sister Delores Spencer (Home)
  
  
• Sister Tonia Stewart (Home)
  
  
• Brother Adrian Tatman (Home)
  
  
• Sister Anna Tatman (Home)
  
  
• Sister Cheryl "Midge" Taylor (Home)
  
  
• Brother Pete Thompson (Home)
  
  
• Sister Anna Ison-Walker (Home)
  
  
• Brother Kevin Walker (San Francisco, CA) (First Cousin of Rev. Freddie Moody)
  
  
• Sister Martha Warner (Home) (Mother of Sister Catherine Frye)
  
  

• Sister Tassa Wigginton (Home)
  
  
• Brother Melvin Williams (Home)
  
  

• Brother Leon Wilson (Home) (Brother-in-Law of Sister Mary Thomas)
  
  
  
• Each person listed on our Sick List
  
  
• HPGMBC Full Time Pastor Search Committee Members, their families and their work
  
  
• Victims of the Wildfires
  
  
• Families of the Children affected in war torn countries around the world
  
  
• Children orphaned due to war and worldwide crises
  
  
• Families affected by gun violence in our community and abroad
  
  
• COVID-19 Victims around the world
  
  
• The People of Ukraine
  
  
• Healthcare workers, First responders, etc.
  
  
• The Entire Pleasant Green Church Family
  
  
• Our our Local and National Government Officials

Heavenly Father, the world is full of promises that will only leave us empty. But our hope in You will never disappoint.  Please help us set our hope on You today. Thank you for Jesus. In His Name. Amen 

{Adapted from Our Daily Bread,  November 12, 2025}

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