Happy New Year! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year. I am so thankful to the Weyerhaeuser Corporation for the donations to the hurricane relief efforts. I had been asked by Pastor Jeffery Colton, assistant pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in Jefferson, N.C. if we had any wood. I called Justin Norman of Knobbs Baptist Church and he said ABTICO didn’t make that type of board. I then called a friend who works with Weyerhaeuser. He said he would try to get a donation although the company had already made a donation to the North Wilkes High School to use in building a storage building they were giving to hurricane victims. With an email request from the church in Jefferson to Weyerhaeuser, a donation of board was received for use to sub floor in the rebuilding of homes damaged in Ashe County. PTL! Please be in much prayer for my brother in Christ, Dennis Shaw. Dennis is the Director of Mission in the Yadkin Association. Due to a fall Dennis suffered a knee injuries and by the time you read this he should already have a stent placed in his neck artery. Please keep Dennis in your prayers. I am excited for the great opportunities that 2025 will offer us to proclaim Christ Lord of all. As we close the door on 2024, let us each prepare our hearts and minds to carry out God’s great commission!