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Annual service
Thi§ year’s Thanksgiving dinner may have special meaning for many families as fathers, brothers, sisters and mothers gather together—not just from across the miles but home from a country once at war.
For many the annual reunion is blessed with a special prayer.
Extending a welcome to the community, Rappahannock County’s annual Thanksgiving Day morning worship continues the tradition established over 17 years ago.
This year the service is held at Promise Land Baptist Church in Gid Brown Hollow with Methodist minister Rev. Merlin Shorb offering the sermon.
Combining efforts, Rappahannock clergy conduct this ecumenical service, rotating turns in the pulpit and service locations. Several Baptist churches, Trinity Episcopal Church, St. Peter’s Catholic Mission and the Methodist churches of the Rappahannock Charge join together for this time of prayer.
Services this Thanksgiving are conducted Thursday at 10 a.m.
Offering is taken and all collections are given to Rappahannock County Social Services.
Proceeds from the service help to provide funds for Christmas gifts and baskets for needy citizens throughout the county.
Reinstating a tradition of the past, the churches will offer, also, pre-Thahksgiving services Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings prior to the Thursday morning service.
The pre-Thanksgiving services are at 7:30 p.m. at Promise Land Baptist Church.
Monday’s service is lead by Dr. Wendell Grant of First Baptist in Washington. Tuesday’s services is rendered by Rev. Darrell Bare of Washington Baptist and Wednesday’s service is provided by Rev. Forrest Freeman of Bethel Baptist in Amissville.
Offering from each night will support the Promise Land Baptist Church building fund.
Refreshments are provided after each pre-Thanksgiving service. The community is invited to attend.
Fear of fire
When should you be concerned about the problem of deer overpopulation? Whenever you get into a vehicle and travel the highways and back roads of Rappahannock. Gov. Wilder took a lot of heat for opening the hunting season back up only hours after his ban was supposed to go into effect, but considering which is the lesser of two evils—deer overpopulation or the danger of forest fires—we think he made the right decision.
Besides being an economic and tourist boon to the area, hunting provides some of the best, cheapest entertainment for the millions of hunters who enter Virginia’s woods every fall. Most are sensible, by-the-book sportsmen, but some, sadly, are not. With the woods still tinder-dry despite some rain in the last week, the slob hunters are more of a potential problem than usual. This year particularly, hunters need to make each other aware of the danger and to be extra vigilant when it comes to fires, smoking and reporting abuses observed in the field. For the record: no fires, not even warming fires, and no smoking.
It was certainly a relief to see the trademark blaze orange come out of the woodwork this week, especially since the season was, for a matter of hours, postponed and on its way to being cancelled. If the state’s hunters are careful and if we’re all lucky, fears about forest fires will prove unwarranted by the end of the season.
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