Once again the opportunity

to honor our Lord will be ours on Saturday, the 12th of May, in Fayetteville.

Each year for the last three

years, the South Metro Pastors' Association has supported the "March

for Jesus." Each year Fayetteville and the surrounding communities

and counties have joined in this nationwide effort.

Dr. John Hatcher from River's

Edge Community Church has for the last three years kept the fires burning

for this nationwide event and been the driving force to keep us focused.

Thanks go to him and his church for the many details that were done in

the past in this area.

This year we will assemble

as before at the Fayette County High School parking lot at 9 a.m. We will

then decorate floats, church vans and buses. There will be balloons, poster

paper, markers and streamers available to decorate. We will assemble the

march order and prepare to depart. Please have your groups there on time.

At 10 a.m. we will depart the

Fayette County High School parking lot and turn right on Hood Avenue.

We will then go right on Highway 85 and parade toward the Fayette Stonewall

Village Complex and Fountain. We will then conduct a rally consisting

of prayer, singing and honoring our faith in Christ .

Each year churches bring their

music people, both youth and adults, to openly honor our Lord with their

beautiful praise voices. There is nothing sweeter than to hear a group

of people outside marching and singing God's music openly and unashamed.

Often in years past, one group will start a song and it will ripple throughout

the whole parade and even the people along the parade route will join

in.

When I was in the Army as a

chaplain, I loved to worship in an Army Chapel. There was something very

pure about it. People would come into the chapels from all different religious

backgrounds.

In a Protestant worship service

you would have literally most all denominations represented from Pentecostal

to high Episcopal, but my what a sweet union and spirit we would have.

People would put their denominational differences aside and come into

the chapel for the express purpose of honoring Almighty God. To me it

is what heaven will be like.

In fact, at 11 years old I

gave my heart to the Lord in an Army Chapel at Fort Clayton, Panama Canal

Zone, in 1956. It was in a bilingual (Spanish-English) service that my

father had set up for the San-Blas Indians from off the Isthmus of Panama.

I will always have a special affection for the Spanish-speaking people

because it takes me