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The Jenkins County Times
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - Page 5
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STUDENTS OF THE MONTH
FOR SEPTEMBER
Jenkins County Elementary School staff members nominated students for the September “FLY Student of the Month” to
reward academic excellence and behavior. These students are great representatives of the school discipline model: “FLY”
(F- Fly straight, L- Love of Learning, Y- You are responsible for YOU). Students received a Planters Electric Student of the
Month t-shirt and a lunch provided by our local
Dairy Queen.
Congratulations to the following students:
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Wherever
He Leads,
I'll Go
By Sam Eades, Publisher/Writer
for
The Times
Bottom Row: Delilah Bryant, Keely Bennett, Makenna Smith, Treston Moore, Brandon Diaz, Kingston
Roberson, Colton Simmons, Brayden Deas, Dawson Hooks, Derrick Copeland
Top Row: Gabriella Martin, Isaiah Taylor, Cailey Lane, Savannah Bennett, Kyleigh Johnson, Bernard
Thompson, Kimber Brackin, Landon Lane, Charles Bolds, Makenzie Smith
What would you do if the Lord spoke to your spirit and
asked you to go to a foreign Country and serve him? What
if he told you, "your path will be easy, I will set everything
up."
Sometimes, I feel a call to preach. However, I guess I am
one of those who says, "Lord, I am so busy with my work,
I just do not have time. Besides, I sing the word, isn't that
enough?"
I am a procrastinator for sure. I will say "let me pray about
it" and put off the discussion for a week or even months.
I do remember at one time in my life excepting the call
to ministry. The music ministry to be exact. I still use that
on occasion, however, I am not sure about a preacher. (Just
so you know, I am still in conversation with the Lord about
that one.)
I did one day tell the Lord, "wherever you lead, I will go."
But, sometimes don't we put a "but" on the end? Like,
okay, but DON'T send me to Africa or to those dirty places
where I have to sleep in a tent. Or my favorite, "not hot
weather. Lord! I sweat way too much."
When you make the decision, wherever you lead, I will
go, it is usually a good thing to just leave it there. He will
send you to places that only you will respond well to. He
will never put you in a situation that you could never handle.
He know us, he knows our
ways. He knows what is
good for us. The Lord also
knows you strengths and
weaknesses.
It was 1936 and two
friends serving together
at a Sunday school
conference in Alabama
were at lunch, sharing
what God was doing in
their lives.
One, a missionary to
Brazil, home on furlough,
told the other, a hymn
writer leading the music
for the conference, that a
health issue would keep
him from returning to the country he had grown to love.
The news, received just days before, had broken his heart.
The hymn writer asked, “What will you do?” And through
tears, the missionary, R.S. Jones, told the hymn writer, B.B.
McKinney, “Wherever He leads. I’ll go.”
McKinney was so moved that he penned the classic
hymn that afternoon and sang it that night after Jones had
preached, recounts Terry C. Terry, a musicologist who
wrote his doctoral dissertation about McKinney. Since then,
this song has been sung at invitation times and crusades,
revivals and worship services all over the world.
We may not always know where He will lead, but we do
know we can choose to follow.
The next time we stand at a crossroads of indecision and
are asked what we will do, may we have the grace to reply
like R.S. Jones and B.B. McKinney, “Wherever He leads.
I’ll go.
Sing with me,
"Take up thy cross and follow Me," I heard my Master say;
"I gave My life to ransom thee. Surrender your all today."
Wherever He leads I'll go. Wherever He leads I'll go.
I'll follow my Christ who loves me so, Wherever He leads I'll go.
He drew me closer to His side, I sought His will to know,
And in that will I now abide. Wherever He leads I'll go.
Wherever He leads I'll go. Wherever He leads I'll go.
I'll follow my Christ who loves me so, Wherever He leads I'll go.
It may be thru' the shadows dim. Or o'er the stormy sea,
I take my cross and follow Him, Wherever He leadeth me.
Wherever He leads I'll go. Wherever He leads I'll go.
I'll follow my Christ who loves me so, Wherever He leads I'll go.
My heart, my life, my all I bring To Christ who loves me so;
he is my Master, Lord, and King, Wherever He leads I'll go.
Wherever He leads I'll go. Wherever He leads I'll go.
I'll follow my Christ who loves me so. Wherever He
leads I'll go.
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B.B. McKinney
Bottom Row: Adrianna Bessent, Sueiry Vasquez, Tristan Gordon, Forrest Royal, Danile Ware, Andrea
Mendez, Evan Kirkland, Sa’Nyah Coney
Top Row: Staci Brown, Bryleigh Lane, Aubrey Wright, Vernicia Williams, Kamryn Reynolds, Bryce Grant,
Jordan Asbury, Holden Hughes
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