We did get snow today...not a lot but enough to close schools (Well, not the Dorrell Academy due to the students not having to travel on slick roads to get to school!) and cover the roads and make them slick. The children happy for a reason to be out in it gladly walked through it for each of their times of school with me! Joy had her long time. She finished the center section of her quilt. She just needs to sash around that section before she starts adding some other large squares. She has done a very nice job and is excited to see it grow larger fairly quickly now. Tonight's photo was taken out our bedroom window one of the times that I looked out and saw that it was snowing quite a bit.
Woody's outside exercise of the day was to go to the mail box and empty the inside waste baskets into the outside trash can and roll it to the road for trash pick up tomorrow. Woody made us Red Lobster biscuits to go with our soup for lunch. Yum!
Along with the snow we have really low temperatures. At the moment it is 11 degrees and supposed to drop into the single digits over night with a wind chill of below 0. Just too cold! Tullahoma City schools have already declared another snow day tomorrow. Most all area schools are out due to road conditions. I'm sure that our daughter Melany is happy to have another snow day off from her school in Rutherford County (about 45 minutes away from us)! I did a little more on undecorating/redecorating today. I did get the china cabinet back to "normal." And the top of the buffet is "almost back to normal." I still have to find a couple of things that go on it.
The Furnace Room
The story is told of five young preachers from the US who went to London in the late 1800's to determine why there was a great revival at a church there. They got to the Metropolitan Tabernacle early and were waiting for the doors to open when a gentleman they assumed was the janitor offered to give them a tour of the church. They were shown the large sanctuary, the Sunday School rooms, in fact, almost the entire church complex. All the while the janitor kept telling them they really needed to see the furnace room, the power plant of the church. As it was July and already warm, they declined. But the janitor insisted, so they finally gave in. The janitor took them to the basement, walked over to the door, opened it and there inside were hundreds of people praying. At the end of the tour, the gentleman they assumed was the janitor introduced himself as Charles Spurgeon.
The number of people praying in the furnace room is believed to have been more than seven hundred. Estimates of the Sunday morning crowds were often over twenty-three thousand and no week passed without people being saved.
Significance for First Baptist Church, Tullahoma:
During the renovation of the old Sears Building to form what we now call the Ministry Center, an area on the roof was found where there was a lot of soot. And down below was evidence where at one time a furnace burned. This area is in the large room in the Ministry Center that the Youth use for large group time in Sunday School. This is the room where we will hold the Furnace Room; and hopefully we can be the power plant behind a great revival at First Baptist Church.
The Furnace Room Prayer Meeting is a deacon-sponsored prayer time with emphasis on praying for our pastor, staff and church, and for revival in our hearts and the hearts of people throughout our community and the world. Day and time: Mondays @ 6:30pm in the Ministry Center. Come join us.
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