2021, PERRY AND I saw too many friends, including three people who were very close to us, depart this life and enter their eternal home. First was Perry’s mother Juanita, then Pastor Hank Davis, followed a few weeks later by Perry’s beloved friend of over forty-four years, Marcus Lamb. While sitting in the homegoing celebrations […]
ONE OF THE GREATEST PROMISES in the Bible for parents or grandparents is this verse: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Prov. 22:6). The word train in Hebrew refers to using some form of discipline. Many sports teams have spring […]
WHERE HAS TIME GONE? On April 2, 1982, I walked down the aisle at the Church of God in Northport, Alabama dressed in a beautiful white wedding gown to join in holy matrimony with a 145-pound, bushy, black-haired young preacher who had won my heart. We had no idea where this journey would carry us, […]
Everyone knows, COVID-19 began to spread in the United States in the fall of 2019. From January 2020 to Early March of 2021, I was around numerous people, including Perry, that were hit with COVID at various levels. Thankfully, Katie, Perry, and Amanda were subject to only mild symptoms and recovered well. In March of […]
Jesus is the reason for the season. How many times do we say, or do we see it on a sign and stop to think about it? It’s essential to stop and take time to think about the Lord so that this statement doesn’t just become another cliché that loses its meaning. This 2020 Christmas […]
I hear people all the time say “I’m hungry for more of God”. Well God has been dealing with me about that statement here lately. I see people in church all the time, hearing the Word of God through preaching and singing week in and week out. But what are they doing with what God […]
April 2, 1982, when Perry and I were married, we both understood that his ministry involved continually traveling, often staying in one location for consecutive weeks, living in small hotel rooms, or in the pastor’s homes where we were ministering. We felt it best not to have children in the first few years as we […]
When Perry And I Were Married, he literally preached week after week without any break. Our longest streak was a preaching marathon continuing for sixteen weeks. Near the conclusion, he could no longer physically preach or minister in the altars as he had no more strength. As strange as this may sound, it was almost […]
The year was 1994, Jonathan was only five years old, and knowing that we would be traveling with Perry from town to town as he preached revivals, we decided that we would homeschool him. The decision was based on one of two choices. Either he would live, week in and week out, in a pastors’ […]
It seems like just last night we were two young kids packing our luggage and putting tens of thousands of miles on our white van, making our way across the southeast, with a map, quarters for a pay phone, and a written letter from a pastor with directions. Perry conducted the revivals in local churches […]
