Super Busy!

Friendship Youth Rally 2009

We have been soooooooo busy with our normal hectic life during the summer months and it does not look like things are going to ease up anytime soon ... we might have a weekend off from now until the middle of November! What a blessing ... I had rather wear out for Jesus than any other reason though! Here is a picture of the children that attended our Youth Rally 2009 at Friendship.

Easter Sunday 2009

Friendship Youth

It's Not About Me ... It's All About Him!

Friendship Youth Choir ... We now have 3 CD's Available:

Making it Real 2005

1. In Due Time
2. Blessed Old Book
3. Give Me A Drink
4. City Of Refuge
5. In The Twinkling Of An Eye
6. He Left The Ninety And Nine ~ Writen By Bro. Gordon Berry
7. Is Anything To Hard For God
8. I Shall Return
9. Statue Of Liberty
10. I Rest My Case At The Cross
11. The Longer I Serve Him
12. Are you Ready For The Trumpet
13. Even In The Valley

Grace 2006

1. Introduction ~ Congregational Singing
2. Highway To Heaven
3. Gratefully
4. Under His Wings
5. Testimony
6. The Answer Is Christ
7. There Will Be Grace
8. Testimony
9. The Anchor Holds
10. The Old Ship Of Zion
11. Testimony
12. I Will Triumph In The Trials
13. A Love That Won't Stop
14. Testimony
15. Testimony
16. I Thank God For Grace
17. Just Any Day Now
18. Testimony
19. The Only Fire I'll Ever Feel
20. Forgive Me Lord
21. Brighter Day

It's Not About Us ... It's All About Him.

1. Its Not About Me ~ Written By: Bro Gordon Berry
2. Make Me A Blessing
3. Jesus Never Fails
4. Ask The Blind Man
5. He Is Really All That Matters
6. I Have Been Blessed
7. It Is Well
8. Calvary Conquered It All
9. Testimony ~ Bro Gordon
10. Mephibasheth
11. Amazing Love
12. Casting All Your Care Upon Him
13. I Will Make It
14. Come To Jesus
15. What Sins Are You Talking About
16. He Is Mine
17. Because He Loved Me
18. Whoever You Are
19. The Man In The Middle
20. The Alter Cried

If you are wanting a copy of ANY of these 3 CD's email me at: angiesayshowdy@yahoo.com and let me know!

Valentines Day 2009

What A Wonderful Suprise!

I came in and Gordon had the table all decorated for Valentine's Day. He had MADE me a heart shaped cake, with pink icing. He made a four layer two kind cake. It was strawberry & red velvet, with cream cheese icing. The heart shape pie is Rachel's doings. I bought the stuff to fix two pies for tomorrow night and she decided that she was going to decorate them to suit her. I think they turned out really pretty.

We have had a pretty hard week. I think Gordon was trying to bring my spirits up some.

Working each day sitting with my feet down at work is causing major trouble with my legs and feet. My right leg has always swelled some ... but since this other problem has started my left leg has been swelling as much maybe more so that the right one. After being at work all day coming home and trying to get all my daily "chores" done by the time I get everything done I can barely walk because my legs and feet are swelled so tight. They are doubling in size each day only going down a little each night.

So, I BEG you please pray for all of us. Gordon is running head over hills at his job and then trying to keep things done up at the church keeps him very busy. With me working each day and then trying to keep up with all of my duties ... somedays I feel like I may be losing my mind. Zach is trying to get everything ready to head off to Collage in the fall. Nathan is constantly on the phone or wanting to go somewhere with the girlfriend of his. I took him to the DR this week and she said that he had lost OVER 30lb's since December ... it is all the stress from his poor decisions ... We finally let him go and try for his permit ... and lo and behold he got it! Now that Rachel is 15 she is constantly talking about that boy she is hooked up with in Williamsburg ... I really think that they all 3 need to focus more on thier walk with the LORD that the trials and mishaps of this life down here.

WOW Look What We Got

Howdy from Kentucky!


My husband is the kind of person that he LOVES snow! He would love to have a foot or more of sno at one time! Not ice ... but snow! Well, we got this Winter Weather Advisory thing going on Monday afternoon ... we have had them several time before this winter with nothing! So, I was not too excited about this one passing through. Well, boy was I mistaken! We go to bed on Monday night ... and we get up on Tuesday morning to this ...

Lots and Lots of ICE! Well, it kept sleeting through out the day on Tuesday and then they were calling for more sleet for Tueday night and then for it to change over in to snow on Wednesday.

I had gotten up that morning and fixed Bacon, scrambled eggs, & toast for everyone and got that mess cleaned up. I had also fixed a huge pot of Vegetable soup & a pan of cornbread and an Angel food cake so that just in case the electric was to go out ... we would atleast have something to eat. Well, we made it till about 3:00 PM and the electric went out. We stayed here with a propane heater that Gordon uses for camping until after 8:00.

We give up ... our neighbors across the street and next door had electric but we did not! We just all got ready and wentnt to the Pastor's house ... we knew they would have heat atleast. We got there and lo and behold they had electric too! So, we stayed up until about midnight and played Pictionary Man ... we played on teams ... "THE OLD FOGIES" ... agianst the "Young Blood" ... take a guess who won ... YEAH the old people won! It was Bro. Tim & Sis. Lisa ... with Gordon & Myself as one team playing agianst Bro. Caleb, Bro. Zach & Bro. Nathan.

Through the night the electric went out ... I could not sleep with all the racket, so I went to the van and slept there for about 2 hours ... went back in the house and layed back down on the couch. Anyhow ... it did not sleet anymore it simply rained all night long! When we all got up this morning it had started snowing within a few minutes we were covered over. The flakes we sooo big! It was beautiful!

So, we spent the entire day with The Shirley Family because we still had no electric. Gordon nor I either one have been able to go to work this week so far. Lucky for me ... my normal day off is tomorrow! Anyhow ... it is 24 degrees but we are back home with the electric furnace and all the lights and all the computer a humming ... making that electric meter go around so fast it could be slicing cheese!

Hope you all have had a wonderful week!

Our Baby Turns 15

WOW! Our BABY turned 15 this month.

I made a collage of her and a few of her friends ...

1st ~ Rachel & Autumn ...

2nd ~ Sammy Jo & Rachel ...

3rd ~ Kaleigh & Rachel

BIG TYE DYE BIRTHDAY CAKE

5th ~ Rachel & Hannah

6th ~ Emily & Rachel

7th ~ Rachel & Taylor

I am also including a picture of Rachel that she took Sunday on the way to Church ... I could just cry ... she is becoming a "Young Lady" and I am not comfortable with it! I think I would rather she stay "Momma's Little Girl!"

Loss Of A Co Worker And Friend

January 20th, 2009
We lost a Co-Worker & Friend. This is the 2nd Associate from Upstream that has passed away in a car accident in less than a years time.

A Taylor County woman died Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash on KY 88, just west of Greensburg.



Angelica “Angie” Heath graduated from Campbellsville High School last year, (2008) where she had been a cheerleader and student council officer. She was currently employed at Upstream in Campbellsville, KY where she worked as a Sales Agent. The class that she was trained in had just been out on the sales floor almost 2 weeks. She loved this new job.



She is survived by both her parents: Mitzi Simpson Heath & Randell Heath of Campbellsville. She is also survived by her fiancé Josh White. They had just become engaged through the Christmas Holiday and had planned to be married in the Spring.



Greensburg-Green County Fire and Rescue and Grab Fire Department firefighters assisted with extrication at the scene. The road was closed for more than two hours as traffic was rerouted around the crash scene.



According to Kentucky State Police Trooper John Boyd, Angelica Heath, 18, of Campbellsville, was pronounced dead at the scene by Green County Coroner Eudell Stilts.



According to Boyd's report, Heath was traveling east on KY 88 in a 1997 Nissan, when she lost control in a curve and slid sideways into the westbound lane of traffic. Heath's vehicle was struck in the passenger door by a 1999 Ford driven by Ben Bolden, 19, of Campbellsville.
The collision occurred at 9:02 a.m.



Bolden was transported by Green County EMS to Jane Todd Crawford Hospital and later flown to University of Louisville hospital by medical helicopter. He was in serious condition Wednesday morning. We were told today at work that Anglica's finace was in the car behind her ... meaning that he saw the accident. I cannot imagine what he is going through ...

Please pray for the families of the "Young People" who were involved in this accident.

Wonderful Week Because Of My Husband ... Gordon

This is week 51 remaining in my current working status. As most of you know I am a Full-Time Employee ... Full-Time Wife ... Full-Time Mother ... Full-Time Housekeeper ... Full-Time Assistant To The Pastors Wife ... and the list goes on and on.

On Monday's we have Discipleship Class ... which kind of makes it hard for me because that was the night that I used to play Catch up ... I would do the Church Bulletin for the next Sunday, Catch up on The CD Ministry and catch up on washing clothes ... you know after the weekend dirty clothes come out of the wood work ... I still think when you put them in a pile they get together and multiply like rabbits! Anyhow this past Monday Night my husband wanted me to go to the Discipleship Class with him ... knowing that I had MOUNTAIN of dirty laundry I went on. After getting home and getting a shower it was time for me to go to bed. He stayed up until he got every load washed dried folded and put into baskets. WHAT A BLESSING!

Tuesday I got up at 5:30 EST got ready and went to work. I got to come home from work early so I got supper started early ... I fixed Steak & Gravy, Mashed Potatoes, Green Beans & Corn. I got all of the clothes that Gordon had done put away ... and the house straightened up. What an accomplishment. Then I started working on the Friendship Church Calendar that I am already 10 days behind on!


Wednesday ... I got up at 5:30 again and got ready and headed off to work ... once again ... I got to come home early!When I got home today ... Gordon was at home too. He was doing something for work on his laptop and I went ahead and fixed a Spaghetti Bake for supper that night, got the mess cleaned up ... the house picked up and more clothes washed ... I even got to lay down and take a few minutes nap before heading off to Church! WOW! I also got some more work done on the Church Calendar. I got to stay up late tonight ... I made it until 10:15!


Thursday is my normal day off ... so I got to sleep in. Eveybody likes to sleep in every now and then. While I am sitting at the computer working on the calendar and the bulletin ... Gordon calls and says that he is in Russell Springs at thier K-Mart. He said it is a good thing that we do not have much money on the bank ... I of'course asked why ... he said that they still had aisle after aisle of Christmas stuff at 75% off! Then he goes to telling me about this Christmas Tree that he saw ... well you'all know how I LOVE Christmas! Anyhow ... was not able to get the tree. It was a 7 1/2 ft tree with white or colored lights and it rotates ... I had seen them before but knew that they were too expensive for me to ever have one! But 75% off! I ended up fixing BBQ Chicken, Mashed Potatoes, Macaroni & Tomatoes & Peas for supper ... got the mess cleaned up ... worked on the Calendar some more took a shower and it was bedtime again.


Friday I do the usual get up get ready and go to work ... I came out for lunch and sitting in my van were more than a dozen hot pink roses (mostly rosebuds) They were beautiful! Along with a sandwich and a little debbie cookie in the shape of a heart and it said ... Will You be My Valentine ... How romantic! At work no less. So, I called Gordon almost in tears I asked him what the flowers were for and he says "I think a beatuiful woman deserves to have beautiful flowers every now and then!" OH MY! I got to come home early again and I fixed a quick supper ... hamburger helper and mashed potatoes. Zach & Rachel went to the game to see Caleb play ... and Nathan was at a friends house. I was so PROUD ... I got the Calendar DONE!



Saturday ... got up and done the usual ... got to work on time ... they let me go home again early ... today my conversion rate was 42% they want it to be 15% ... WOW ... Smoking HOT today. I came home and my husband informs me that we are going to get the Chrismtas Tree! When we got there we got the LAST ONE! I am so excited and cannot hardly wait until Christmas this year!


What a Wonderful week it has been ... the good has out weighed the pain! e pain this week!

Christmas 2008

Treasuring The Little Things

Seems like when we least expect it … Our lives get busier.

There is always time to be put in at the “job”
The clothes that need to be washed, dried or folded and put away:
The house-work that needs to be done:
The dishes that need to be washed:
The meals that need to be cooked:
And Ladies you know the list could go on and on …
Seems like there is always something that can be done to take our minds off of what is most important.

So, this Christmas Season Our wish for you is for you to Slow Down. Take things one day at a time. Pray and ask the Lord to guide you during that day. So that everything you say and do will be to honor and glorify Him. We should always remember that without Him in our lives we are nothing. There is no need for worrying over what will happen tomorrow, next week or even next month. As we have seen this year: We have no promises of tomorrow.
The “chores” of this life will be here long after we are gone. A lesson that we need to learn is to treasure the things that are in our lives right now … whether it be your Husband or Dad, your Wife or Mom, your Children, your Grandma or Grandpa or even your Pet. Treasure them while they are near and hold them dear to you heart. One day they may be gone …

With Love To All...
Bro. Gordon, Angela Zach, Nathan, & Rachel

My Christmas Is Ruined ...

WOW! Who knew that being employed could ruin your Christmas!

They always put out these sign up sheets for Holidays ... but this time they put the sign up sheets out while most of us were either at break or lunch ... so by the time we got back in the office the day time shifts were already gone.

I was willing to work on Christmas Eve if I absolutely had to. BUT NO! They put me working on Christmas Eve from 4:00 PM getting off work at 12:30 AM ... so I actually do not get home until 1:00 AM! Then coming back in at 7:00 AM and working until 3:30 PM on Christmas Day ... I will miss everything!

Christmas Eve is always hard for me because we always went to Mom's and ate with them and opened gifts. But now I get to spend that night with people I do not even know ... What fun that is going to be!

Christmas morning we always get up bright and early and the children open thier gifts ... they play around with what they got for a little while then we are usually at my Mother N Laws (Suzie) by 7:00 AM ... cause the children just cannot wait ... and after not getting much sleep the night before we are always starving ... Granny always cooks breakfast for all of us. We open gifts and spend some time with them ... normally then we come home and everyone crashes ... take a nap then we get up and go to Suzie's sister Norma's house for Christmas supper.

But now I do not get to do any of that ... I have to work ... PLEASE PRAY FOR ME! I am not very happy with this at all. I did not have to worry about this last year because I was still in training and we automatically got Christmas and Christmas Eve off.

This Christmas was hard enough on me ... I keep remembering Christmas past and it saddens me. Even before I found out that I had to work I knew that I will not even be able to spend time with any of my earthly family Christmas Season. But now this ... it is kind of like the icing on the cake for me. And people wonder why I sit around crying all the time ... I anxiously await the day that I can quit that job and come back to spending time at home and taking care of my family again.

Buddy And Scamp

Here are Rachel's 2 new puppies. I name the brown one Buddy ... Rachel named the black one Scamp.

They are doing pretty good "House-Training."

We have NO IDEA what kind of dogs they are ... so they may not be in the house for long.

This morning I thought that Scamp was going to die. He was very sick, but now he is doing much better. He is up running around and playing having a good old time.

Gordon does not like the puppies ... I am hoping that he "WARMS" up to them ... SOON!

Our Christmas Tree

Well, here is a picture of "The BIG Tree" The other 4 are mostly from the waist down.

Tonight the children and Gordon are all gone to the church for the Christmas Lock - In. I have to get up early in the morning and go to work, so I do not get to go tonight. This is the 2nd Lock - In that I have had to miss. I really do not like missing activities at the church. But I have to be up at 5:30 in the morning and be at work by 7:00. I cannot stay up all night and work all day ... I am way too old for that anymore! I know they are all gonna have a great time!

FBC's Annual Christmas Supper 2008

We had our Annual Christmas supper at FBC last night! What a glorious time we all had!

There was enough food to fill an army ... deep fried turkey, dressing, dumplins, scallopped potatos, corn, cornbread salad, veg all casserole, ham, baked turkey, devilled eggs, broccoli casserole, spaghetti bake, green beans with or without potatos, oh my goodness and the list goes on and on!

Now on to the desserts, there was Italian Creme', orange cake, bananna pudding, stawberry cake, strawberry pies, OH MY OH MY ...

we had a SPEACIAL set of visitors ... Bro. Gerald and Sis. Becky from TN came to enjoy this evening with us.

We had a great time of FOOD and FELLOWSHIP!

Straight From The Berrys' House

Well, here we are again one more day and we will be entering the month of December! WOW, this year sure has gone by super fast!

Gordon and I will be married 19 years on December 9th!

My children have grown up way too fast. Zach is now talking of which college he is going to attend: Nathan is always talking about his "girl-friend" Casey and Rachel ... well she is still the little girl in my eyes. I do not like it when she talks to me about BOYS! To me she should still think that all boys have cooteys! I am sure we all remember that stage!

Anyhow ... what I want to talk about today is my FAVORITE web site! It is www.picnik.com! You can take pictures from your computer that you have taken or that others have taken and do so many wonderful things with them. If you LOVe taking pictures like I do you should relaly enjoy this web site! BUT PLEASE ... do not go on that site unless you have a LOT OF TIME on your hands. I simply could spend hours on there doind this or that ... Rachel really loves it to! There are a LOT of things that you can do simply by going on the web site but then if you join and pay thier $25.00 fee ... you can have UNLIMITED access to everything on that web site for a whole year! I signed up for a year this past January it was a super great investment!

Take a look at the site and have FUN!

With Love ... Angela

Christmas At The Berry's House

Well, Christmas will soon be upon us again. My how the time does fly. It just seems like a few days ago I was wiping noses and changing diapers ... now I am working and trying to keep everything done.

Life does sometimes seem complicated and busy. But still yet Christmas is my favorite time of the year. I go to great lengths to make sure that everything gets decorated. Inside the house, outside the house.

Last year between jobs I had 3 weeks free. During those three weeks I decorated everything that would not move! I had several new things (well, new to me but these things are special they belonged to my Mom.) I put up Mom's wreath, Christmas balls that she had made for each of her grandchildren and the "Mopsie" family, the church that was given to me at her funeral and combined this all with the picture that Friendship bought for me when Mom passed away.

These were Mom's Santa & Mrs. Claus ... I put them up along with her little tree in the dining room and combined it with all he icicles that she had collected throughout the years.

I helped her collect these over about a 10 year peiod of time, she loved Angels, Icicles, & Snowmen!

I made this for Mom several years ago ... I cried when I put it on the tree.

Secret Pal 2008

Sunday was A LOT of fun! After church all the women met and we had food galore!

We played "Dirty Santa" I am displaying the Christmas ornament that I took that my sister n law ended up taking home with her.

We had a great time of games fun and lots of laughter. We drew names for next year!

Secret Pal

Well, I am anxious for tomorrow to get here! After church we are having our Annual Secret Pal Dinner! We will be eating and gabbing and exchanging gifts and playing "Dirty Santa" but mostly enjoying one anothers company.

As most of you already know Christmas is my favorite time of the year ... I really wish that I had my tree up already but my physical problems have me limited to what I am able to do. So, I am hoping to get it up here in the next week or so.

I was hoping to do it on Thanksgiving (my day off) but we have 2 places to go and visit with Family ... so that is ruled out. Maybe we can get to working on it sometime that week.

Wish me luck!

Rough Day!

Well, today was a rough day! I had a lot of trouble motivating around yesterday. After cooking supper, cleaning up the mess and getting all the laundry done I was having a lot of trouble just walking around. Then I was up most of the night simply because I was in pain.

I got up this morning and went to work. Left the house it was freezing outside! Got to work and the more I sat there the more the pain increased. So, when I went out for my first break I called the doctor. I got in to see Jamie today. I laid all the cards out on the table and told her I was not there for her to tell me that I needed to lose my leg. I was there to find a cure to help me with the pain and to help me get the leg better. So, she decided that we would try and get the water weight gain down and then go from there. She said that she could not determine how much the leg would decrease because to her it looked like there was about 8 - 10 lbs of water in the one leg alone. Needless to say she put me off of work until Monday. She said that I was supposed to go home and go to bed with my feet up. We as Mom's like sitting down and putting our feet up until someone tells us that we have to ... then we find excuses to do things. But I am trying to be a good little girl and stay with my feet propped up.

Today is Nathan & Kasey's 2nd month ... so he worked yesterday to make enough money to take her out to supper and a movie. With Kasey's Mom as a shaperone. He will be home sometime this evening.

Gordon and Zach went to a Boy Scout Camp Out ... YEAH and it 27 outside! They are crazy! They will be home sometime tomorrow afternoon.

So, that leaves me and Rachel. We have laready watched a movie together and now she is on the desktop and I am on Gordon's laptop. Sitting on the couch with my feet propped up!

It's Not About Us ... It's All About Him!

It's Not About Us ... It's All ABout Him.

We are getting ready to release this Friendship Youth Choir's 3rd CD.

Here are the songs that will be on this CD.

1. It's Not ABout You
2. Make Me A Blessing
3. Jesus Never Fails
4. Ask The Blind Man
5. He Is Really All That Matters
6. I Have Been Blessed
7. It Is Well
8. Calvary Conquered It All
9. Testimony ~ Bro. Gordon Berry
10. Mephibasheth
11. Amazing Love
12. Every Need Supplied
13. I've Been Through The Blood
14. Come To Jesus
15. What Sins Are You Talking About
16. He Is Mine
17. Because He Loved Me
18. Whoever You Are
19. The Man In The Middle
20. The Blood Sacrifice

Inside Message:

The Lord has been so good to us here at Friendship Baptist Church. The blessings of our youth group and the parents that support them have been a great strength and inspiration to our congregation. The hard work of the choir director, the musicians, and the helpers has paid off multiple times and we are very grateful.

It is because of this understanding of the goodness of the Lord that we desire to be real in our service to him. We make no claim of professionalism or perfection. We are simply a group of believers that God has blessed, and due to his blessings we desire to be a blessing to others.

With this desire to “be what we are” in mind, I have struggled to know the will of God in the making of this CD. And although the quality of the music and sound is not professional, I believe the quality of the blessing within it is excellent. We have taken an accumulation of songs that the youth have sung at various churches and events and put them together to make this CD.

As I listen to it I can not help but believe that this is the direction the Lord would like for us to take in providing others with this blessing. Over the years the Lord has made many of you a part of our spiritual family and friends. The letters we receive are a strength and an encouragement to us and we thank you. I truly hope the sincerity of this CD will touch your heart as well as the presence of the Lord.

May God bless you all.
Bro. Tim Shirley

I am presently taking orders for this CD. Send me an email and let me know if you want one. angiesayshowdy@yahoo.com