Text Box: Audrey Strahl — irregular heartbeat, fractured vertebrae, ulcerated colitis (Jeff Booth’s mother) Vic Shaklee — fractured back , surgery; slowly recovering (Linda’s father) Kathyrn Scott — severe MS, losing use of arms and swallowing ability (friend of Baileys) Randy Gnessett — pulmonary hypertension and awaiting a lung for transplant (friend of Candace Sellers) Velvet Green — suffering from schizophrenia (Gary’s wife) Text Box: Sandy Booth — cancer in remission; tumor has disappeared. Thank you for your prayers & thank God for Sandy’s healing! (Jeff’s sister-in-law) Kathleen Calhoun — much improved (Susan Chiappone’s mother) David Carlson — malignant brain tumor; much improved (Roy’s brother) Kenny Crooks — lymphoma cancer Vickie Crevoi — chronic progressive MS (Linda Booth’s sister) Selwa Werr — lymphoma cancer (Norma Stickel’s mother) Text Box: Harry Gonzales — prostate surgery; doing well; thanks for your prayers Tina Gonzales — breast cancer; continuing chemo treatments (Cindy Lujan’s friend) Sam Kiser — multiple myloma cancer; doing better (friend of Jeff and Linda) Charlie Khoeler — stroke recovery through therapy (friend of John Stickel) Hank Unruh — two-year battle with cancer (friend of John Stickel) Dollie Meil — cerebral palsy Carrie McClenan —weekly dialysis for severe kidney failure Text Box: ANNIVERSARIES Weldon & Glennis McAlister 24th Text Box: Text Box: MONTH of APRIL BIRTHDAYS J. R. Hamilton 18th James Vines 26th Pedro Sosa 29th

PRAYER REQUESTS: “ . . . The prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up; . . . Pray for one another that you may be healed.” — James 5:15-16.
Text Box: Hymns for Him Text Box: CELEBRATIONS Text Box: Page # Text Box: Volume 14, Issue 4

Sing songs from your heart to Christ.  Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ .  ~  Ephesians 5:19-20, Msg.

“My faith looks up to Thee

Thou Lamb of Calvary

Savior Divine!”

Lowell Mason was employed by a bank and directed church choirs for sixteen years in Boston. It was the early 1830s.

While directing three choirs, he published hymns, compiled a songbook, and tried to get music education in the Boston public schools.

Then he had a chance meeting with a burned- out Ray Palmer,

whom he asked to write for him, compose some hymns for his projected hymnbook. He showed Mason a poem he had written two years before. It was a personal prayer for renewed zeal and courage when he was sick,

tired, and lonely. That night “My Faith Looks Up To Thee” was born. Though he wrote many hymns, he will be remembered for his first hymn. “May Thy rich grace impart, strength to my fainting heart, my zeal inspire.”