The Riverside Beacon

The Riverside Beacon
A publication of Riverside Baptist Church
May 2016
May 8th is Mother’s Day. The modern American holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in
1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her
mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church
in Grafton, West Virginia. In 1908, the US Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother's Day an
official holiday, joking that they would have to proclaim also a "Mother-in-law's Day". However, owing
to the efforts of Anna Jarvis, by 1911 all US states
observed the holiday. In 1914, Woodrow Wilson
signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day,
held on the second Sunday in May, as a national
holiday to honor mothers.
The Bible had its own idea about the honoring of mothers and it is found in Proverbs 31:25-31
“Strength and honour are her clothing; and she
shall rejoice in time to come. (26) She openeth her
mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of
kindness. (27) She looketh well to the ways of her
household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. (28)
Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. (29) Many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
(30) Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a
woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
(31) Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her
own works praise her in the gates.”
I hope you will indulge me to share from my
own experience in the honor of my mother, Elizabeth “Betty” Newton. She
was born in 1918 and just
celebrated her 98th birthday. She met the love of
her life, my dad and was
married. In 1942 she had
her first son at the age of
24. Two years later she
had her second child, also
a son. She was excited to
be a mother. When these
two boys started school,
she wanted to try for a girl and so I was born, not
the girl she had wanted. Two years later, one last
try for a girl and my little brother was born. She
was the mother of four boys. Boys who were brought
up to love and respect her as the person our dad
adored. We were taught about love, honor and respect by these two parents. They seemed to be always in agreement about our discipline, and the
headship of our home. Mom loved Dad and Dad
loved Mom and we were taught to love them and
obey them as a team.
My father passed away when my little
brother and I were still at home. For about five
years, my mother had the responsibility of raising
these two teen boys on her own. Although difficult
at times, we knew she was to be honored and respected, Dad would expect that of us. That has
never stopped by any of us boys. I’m pretty sure that
if you were to ask any of our wives they would tell
you that we are “momma boys”. Ruby and I were
watching a program the other night and she said
that she admired a young man on the program because he loved his momma and that showed he was
a man of integrity. Knowing that she has said of me
on many occasions that I am a “momma’s boy” I simply responded, “thank you”.
Oh, by the way, those two
teens raised by their godly
mom are both preachers today.
It’s important that we honor
our parents! God expects this
of us!
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May 2016…………….Page 2
Upcoming Events
Mother’s Day is
May 8th
Special Gift for all moms
in attendance of the
8:30am or the 11 am
Service.
The Southern Plainsmen Quartet, organized in May
1978, in the rolling pine-hills of West-Central Louisiana, and is an outreach of the Southern Plainsmen
Ministries, Inc., a non-profit Christian organization.
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Bake Sale
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Deacon On Duty for May 1-7
Rodney Mitchell 936-661-4659
Deacon on Duty for May 8-14
Rob Louther 936-581-1714
Deacon on Duty for May 15-21
Dewayne Singleterry 936-435-1868
May 8th
Proceeds to
benefit GA
Camp.
Deacon on Duty for May 22-28
Richard Farnsworth 936-435-1768
Deacon of Duty for May 29-June 4
Grady Hanna 936-581-2781
On May 29th there will be a Commissioning Ceremony. We need all
VBS workers at the 11 am service. After the 11 am Commissioning
service we will be having a VBS Meeting and our Youth will be serving us lunch.
Riverside Baptist Church
P.O. Box 9 Riverside, TX. 77367
Non Profit
U.S. Postage
Riverside, TX
Permit No. 02
Phone: 926-594-6992 or 936-594-5535
Fax: 936-594-9752
Email: lighthouse@valornet.com
Sermons Online: www/sermonaudio.com/go/rbctx
Web Site: www.rbctx.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rbclighthouse
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This year’s participating churches
 Monday Night—Burning Hope
Baptist Church—Pastor Jim Parrish
and Friday Night Church – Pastor
Tim Dixon
 Tuesday Night—Faith Baptist
Church — Pastor Kyle Coston
Just like they did it in the old days!
 Wednesday Night—First Baptist
Huntsville — Pastor Jason Bay and
First Baptist Dodge — Pastor Patrick
Gernenz
 Thursday Night—Broyles
April 25—29
Location: Riverside
Adventures RV park
@ Trinity River Bridge
Meals served
at 5:30
Chapel—Pastor Davis and Living
Word Holiness Church—Pastor
Whiteside
 Friday Night—Riverside Baptist
Church—Pastors Jim Newton and
Ural Massey
Preaching starts at 6:00 PM
Everyone is invited!