D.R.O. @ Atomic

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This Memorial Day Weekend we took time to honor the men and women of our armed services with recognition of the men and women that were there with us Saturday night and a moment of silence for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom that we so often take for granted.

At the drivers meeting we talked about legacies, The ones that lost there lives in service to their country, The perfect legacy of Jesus Christ, and then I asked everyone about their own legacy, what were they going to be remembered for, something honorable, embarrassing, or somewhere in between. I asked if everyone remembered the legacy of Noah, how he listened to God and built the ark,then I asked if they knew that he had been a drunk, nobody remembered that.
Then I asked if everyone knew the legacy of Moses how he lead his people to the promised land and everyone knew that, I then asked them if they remembered that Moses stuttered so bad that without the spirit of God in him you couldn't understand him, Most of them had forgotten about that.
Then Jonah and everyone knew that he was swallowed by the whale, but then he understood that as long as God was with him that he could go to Nineveh and spread Gods word, and Peter everyone knew that he had denied Christ 3 times but again in the end his legacy is that he was the rock that Jesus built his church on.

I then asked one more time what everyone's legacy was going to be and I reminded them that all of us have something in our past that we hope will not be our legacy, but God has a way of cleaning up our past through his son Jesus and no matter how bad our past has been that if we put our faith in Jesus as our Lord and Savior that we would leave behind a Godly legacy.

Please pray for the following prayer requests;
Jeff & Roger--Heart problems
Scott & Danny--Bad Backs
Clifton--Healing after surgesry
A couple with Marital struggles
Taylor, Matt, and Jeff---healing/strength
Mark--flu
Dusty--Burn Surgery Thursday morning 6:30 a.m.

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God blessed us with a great night of racing and a lot of fun as during intermission instead of the candy/coin toss we held bicycle racing and it didn't disappoint as the kids in each division had a great time, While this was going on we had 6 drivers come into the stands passing their helmets around for the Hodge family who's house burned down Friday night, they collected about $1500.00 that was given to the family on Sunday.

This weeks devotion for the drivers we talked about worship and I used a quote from Fredrick Robertson;
Again, It is not a thing which a man can decide,whether he will be a worshiper or not; a worshiper he must be, the only question is WHAT will he worship? Every man worships,Every man IS a born worshiper.

We talked about a story in last weekends news about a father of two, a multi millionaire, I said he should be happy with that lifestyle but guess what, he shot and killed both children and then took his own life.
How could that be I asked he had everything he could ever want, but in reality he didn't because there is a void that God created in us that makes us need something to satisfy it and because we are born into sin time and again we try to fill it with the sinful garbage of the world, and that sustains us for a while, but never lasts. The only thing that will last and fill this void is the never ending LOVE and Worship of Jesus Christ our Lord. Pray that his word does not come back void!!

Please pray for the following prayer requests;

Dusty Lay, he was burned in a fire at Tazewell Speedway last Saturday night, he had skin graft surgery and it was more involved than the surgeons first thought but he is doing a lot better and might be able to come home as early as next week.

Pray for Justin Duncan the Pr. man for Tazewell Speedway as he was involved in a traffic accident Sunday afternoon, his car was totaled and he escaped with a concussion and a lot of cuts and bruises.

Continue to pray for Charles Wilson who is still at home and still making improvements which has both his family and the doctors very encouraged.

Continue to pray for Matt Henderson as he recovers from back surgery and the after affects of spending a lot of time on pain killers.
He did make it out the track Saturday night and spent some time in the tower talking to the fans and watching the races.

Pray for Ritchie Hodge and family, Friday night their house was completely destroyed by fire, thankfully they were not at home but they lost everything but the clothes they were wearing. We were able to raise about $1500.00 for the family Saturday night. They are living in a camper trailer they owned for now.

Pray for Jerry Simpson who broke his foot last week working in his race car, he was tightening up a lug nut and the wrench broke and he rolled over his foot and fell breaking it.

A praise from Kevin Coffey as he returned to racing after being out for almost a year after back surgery. He ran a great race and after the race his back was feeling great.

Pray for Charles Hopper Sr. he has been a long time fan at Atomic and he developed lung cancer during the winter and has spread quickly and he told his family that he is ready to go Home.

Pray for Scott Davis as he put his back out last week, he had surgery 2 years ago and he is going to have to have surgery again, it is set for the 27th but if there is an opening the doctor is going to get him in sooner.

Continue to pray for Scott's sister Bessie Croft as she has gotten worse she has undergone two more operations one on her heart and the other one on her leg, she is in critical condition.

Pray for Christy Haynes who twisted her ankle badly or so she thought, she is now in a cast as the doctors found she had torn some ligaments and will be in the cast for 6 weeks.

Pray for John Griffith as his blood sugar got all out of whack last week and he had to be rushed to the emergency room as at one time it dropped to 50. He is on an insulin pump after they had so much trouble keeping it regulated last summer and this has the doctors wondering what is going on now.

The same prayer request for Nick Miley as his dad found him in a diabetic coma, when they got him to the hospital his blood sugar was 30 then by the next morning it was 580. The doctors finally got it back under control and he was able to come home yesterday.

Pray for the Robertson family as Sally was hospitalized with congestive heart failure last Friday on life support and she passed away yesterday, pray for God's peace for her husband Mickey and the rest of her family.

Pray for Tee as she is going to be running the kitchen for Vacation Bible School at our church next week and she is starting to have a crisis of faith, pray for God's peace.

Continue to pray for me as after 1 week in physical therapy they have already taken me from 2 exercises back down to 1 as it is shaking things up too much, This bothered my therapist and it took me a while to convince her that "IT'S ALL GOOD"

To be honest I spent most of yesterday afternoon and my therapy this morning didn't go good, and I have had to quit typing this letter twice and just keep still because the constant moving of my head up and down starts things going downhill very fast.
The same with my therapy I have to do it with my eyes closed sitting in a chair and I get lost very fast. Like I said though
IT'S ALL GOOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In Christ,
Ray and Tee