Birthday greetings to the following individuals from March 11th ~ 17th: 11th ~ Mabel Walker Lewis, Johana Wells, Faith Anderson, Geraldine Johnson-Brooks, Asia Fulcher, and Lataya King; 12th ~ Benita Gaines, James Johnson, Bernard Payne, and China Asleigh Lucas; 13th ~ Courtney Rhondell Jackson, Vincent Ball, and Amanda S. Wilson; 14th ~ Valerie Ann Brown-Weldon, Antron Brown, Lawrence Michael Hamm, Jr., and Angelica “Jelly” Baylor; 15th ~ Brenda Leigh Wells, Karen Fisher, Marques Taylor, Michael Andre Parker, Jr., Izola Coleman, William O. West, Kimberlynn Dixon, Endia Marie Ross, and Teresa “Tee” Parker; 16th ~ Carolyn W. Shaw, Irene J. Smith, Christopher Tyrone Maith, Emily Newman, Eric Christopher Clark, Keith Bryant, and Kevin Sutton; and 17th ~ Elijah Carey, Rosemary Carey, Elizabeth “Beck” Tate, and Corey Brown.

Anniversary blessings to Randy & Jolynn Wood, celebrating 24 years on March 16th, and to Frank Dumas, Jr. & Victoria Heid, also celebrating on the 16th.

Bible Study and church service (Sunday) ~ Wednesday’s @ 6 p.m. on Zoom. Meeting ID: 852 2369 8625; Passcode: 2021; Dial by your location: +1 646 876 9923. Join us on Wednesday mornings at 6 a.m. for our weekly Second Baptist Church’s WOW devotional and prayer. New Dial-in number is: (848) 777-1500, meeting ID: 283020. WOW monthly meetings are 3rd Saturday of each month at 9 a.m.

Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Farnham, VA, will host their annual Heritage Day on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 11 a.m. Guest speaker will be Ms. Toni Blue, Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Soul food lunch will be served after service. We invite you to come dressed in your African attire.

The Westmoreland Branch NAACP holds its Membership meeting the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Galilee Baptist Church, 20461 Kings Highway in Montross. New members are welcomed. For further information, contact: President, Lewis M. Thompson (575) 4421208; or email marcelle.thompson @gmail.com or Vice President, Rev. Dr. Joseph Haden, (240) 463-0769; epathways@aol.com.

Democratic Friends Social Meetups will be the first Tuesday of every month @ 7 p.m. For questions, contact Butch Foutz @ (804) 761-5897.

Our get-well, sick, shut-in and prayer list continue this week for: Helen Juanita Wells, Sandy Pinto, Luke Sisson, Ann Taylor, Erica Drummond, Charles & Barbara Newton, Charlene Ashton, Betty Mosier, Joyce Johnson, Reginald “Nookus” Fletcher, Delores Moody, and Tarita Ball. There are others, of course and if you would like other names to be included, please call me. It is great (as always) seeing some of the sick, improving greatly and out. Please keep one another lifted in prayer and stay safe. Call and encourage those individuals and others. They desire your calls, your cards, and your visits . . . but, above all, they need our prayers. Please be extra cautious with the many health issues that we are faced with. We ALL need prayer.

DEATH(S)

Funeral service for Beatrice Robinson Ball will be on Sunday, March 15th at 2 p.m. at The Community’s Christian Church, Warsaw, VA. Viewing will be on Saturday, March 14th from 4 – 6 p.m. at Berry O. Waddy’s Funeral Home in Burgess (not Lancaster). Following the services, burial will be at Second Baptist Church.

A memorial service for Bennie A. Gray III will be held in the chapel of Weldon-Fisher Funeral Home on Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 12 noon.