Happy New Year 2019
Here it is the 6th of January and I am just now getting around to adding my new year journal entry. To tell the truth, I had forgotten to make any journal entries since my birthday back on December 14 of 2018. The year of 2018 went by way to fast. I know I repeat myself every year how fast time has went by. As each new, man made time, year begins it seems the past year passed by faster than the one before. Time is passing on.
To many bad things had happened in 2017 that I prayed 2018 would be so much better. The downside of 2018 actually began in December of 2017. Let's just say results from my yearly mammograms had been good. No cancer had been found in my body until December 5, 2017. I got a letter saying that the last mammogram was irregular and I needed to have an ultra sound mammogram done. I prayed that nothing would be found and it would be like the last few had been. On January 26, 2018 I went for another mammogram. A small nogel was found in my left breast. I prayed it wasn't cancer. On February 15 a biopsy was done on the nogel. My oncologist was Dr. Laurie Flynn. After she preformed the surgery, she told me to her it didn't look like cancer. I had been praying and I felt like God had answered my prayers and I was cancer free. The results came back and the small tumor was cancer. I was diagnosed with stage 1, low grade, invasive, ductal carcinoma. The tumor wasn't even an inch around. Most of you have heard my story. I had surgery to remove the tumor on April 4, 2018. As of October 5, 2018 I am still cancer free. December was the time for my mammogram on my right side. I had it done and had been waiting on the results. I hadn't heard anything. I finally got a call from CTCA and the nurse said the radiologist was wanting the film from my last one done back in December of 2017 to compare the 2018 one to. I kept forgetting to go and look online at the results until today. I have been praying I am cancer free on the right side also. My prayers were answered.
Our church "building" celebrated it's 70th Year Anniversary of being in Claremore. You might say, don't you mean the church's anniversary? No! Back in 1999 the church celebrated its 50th Anniversary of being in Claremore 1948 to 1998. The problem was the church organized in Claremore as a Sabbath School in 1943. Now here it was 2018 and it should have been the 75th Year Anniversary of the Church in Claremore. Our pastor started planning for a big celebration by the end of the year, 2018. The date was set for December 29, 2018. The first building for the church was moved from Inola by the order of the organization's Oklahoma State Conference Board on Thanksgiving Day 1948 and set on the property the Claremore church had purchased earlier. I am assuming since the 50th Anniversary was celebrated as from 1948 to 1998, the anniversary was deemed the 70th in the year 2018. To get it back on tract to when the church was first organized in Claremore, the 80th Anniversary should be in the year of 2023. I don't know what month.
At 4:00 p.m. on Sabbath December 29, 2018, a dedication of the new dining hall commenced. Elder Chip Hinds, the church organization's District Superintendent of the Southwest District was on hand to conducted the prayer dedication. He is the great-grandson of Elder John H. Hinds who was the pastor of the Inola Church of God. Pastor Barry had me write up a history of the church "building" and read it at the ceremony. A plaque was prayed over which will hang in the new dining hall. The ones in attendance that wanted to sign the plaque, were given the opportunity to do so.
I am praying God continues to bless and watch over me through out the new year. It seems my faith grows stronger every day. Praise His Holy Name.
*Starlight*
To many bad things had happened in 2017 that I prayed 2018 would be so much better. The downside of 2018 actually began in December of 2017. Let's just say results from my yearly mammograms had been good. No cancer had been found in my body until December 5, 2017. I got a letter saying that the last mammogram was irregular and I needed to have an ultra sound mammogram done. I prayed that nothing would be found and it would be like the last few had been. On January 26, 2018 I went for another mammogram. A small nogel was found in my left breast. I prayed it wasn't cancer. On February 15 a biopsy was done on the nogel. My oncologist was Dr. Laurie Flynn. After she preformed the surgery, she told me to her it didn't look like cancer. I had been praying and I felt like God had answered my prayers and I was cancer free. The results came back and the small tumor was cancer. I was diagnosed with stage 1, low grade, invasive, ductal carcinoma. The tumor wasn't even an inch around. Most of you have heard my story. I had surgery to remove the tumor on April 4, 2018. As of October 5, 2018 I am still cancer free. December was the time for my mammogram on my right side. I had it done and had been waiting on the results. I hadn't heard anything. I finally got a call from CTCA and the nurse said the radiologist was wanting the film from my last one done back in December of 2017 to compare the 2018 one to. I kept forgetting to go and look online at the results until today. I have been praying I am cancer free on the right side also. My prayers were answered.
Our church "building" celebrated it's 70th Year Anniversary of being in Claremore. You might say, don't you mean the church's anniversary? No! Back in 1999 the church celebrated its 50th Anniversary of being in Claremore 1948 to 1998. The problem was the church organized in Claremore as a Sabbath School in 1943. Now here it was 2018 and it should have been the 75th Year Anniversary of the Church in Claremore. Our pastor started planning for a big celebration by the end of the year, 2018. The date was set for December 29, 2018. The first building for the church was moved from Inola by the order of the organization's Oklahoma State Conference Board on Thanksgiving Day 1948 and set on the property the Claremore church had purchased earlier. I am assuming since the 50th Anniversary was celebrated as from 1948 to 1998, the anniversary was deemed the 70th in the year 2018. To get it back on tract to when the church was first organized in Claremore, the 80th Anniversary should be in the year of 2023. I don't know what month.
At 4:00 p.m. on Sabbath December 29, 2018, a dedication of the new dining hall commenced. Elder Chip Hinds, the church organization's District Superintendent of the Southwest District was on hand to conducted the prayer dedication. He is the great-grandson of Elder John H. Hinds who was the pastor of the Inola Church of God. Pastor Barry had me write up a history of the church "building" and read it at the ceremony. A plaque was prayed over which will hang in the new dining hall. The ones in attendance that wanted to sign the plaque, were given the opportunity to do so.
I am praying God continues to bless and watch over me through out the new year. It seems my faith grows stronger every day. Praise His Holy Name.
*Starlight*
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