School Boards The Lumberton ISD Board of Trustees meet the first Thursday after the first Monday each month at 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 121 South Main Street.

SchoolBoards TheLumbertonISDBoardofTrustees meetthefirstThursdayafterthefirst Mondayeachmonthat7p.m.atthe AdministrationBuilding,121SouthMain Street. TheSilsbeeISDBoardofTrusteesmeetat 7p.m.thesecondTuesdayeachmonthin theAdministrationOffice,415FM327W.

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April is National Volunteer Appreciation Month and one Silsbee volunteer is among many worthy of being honored this month. Stacey Howell has shown up once or twice a week at Paradigm at the Pines (formerly Pine Arbor) on FM 418 for more than 10 years now, much to the delight of many residents there.

It has been said that one of the best kept secrets in Silsbee is a weekly happening called Threads of Hope. Someone said the group is a sewing circle.

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School Boards The Lumberton ISD Board of Trustees meet the first Thursday after the first Monday each month at 7 p.m. at the Administration Building, 121 South Main Street.

Years ago, as a college student, I encountered a skeptical professor. I asked him if he believed in the ressurrection of Jesus. He said, “Everything in me tells me it is not possible, however, it is obvious that something extradorniary happened. I find the resurrection very frustrating.”

He is Risen! Indeed! This is a special time of year in which disciples of Jesus Christ celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from Death to Life. It is amazing that some 3500 years ago, as the people of Israel were preparing to flee the land in which they had been held as slaves for around 400 years, God gave them a picture of the salvation that would come in the Passover. A lamb was killed for each household and would be their final supper in the land of their enslavement. They were to take the blood of the lamb and smear it upon the door frame of their homes. That night, as Death went through the land, when it came to a house with the blood of the lamb on the door, he would “pass over” that house, and they would be spared the death of a loved one. The feast of the Passover was given as a perpetual ordinance to be observed every year on the 14th day of the first month.

Do we actually believe in a God who can create a baby in a virgin’s womb, or who can, three days after a man has died, raise him from the tomb? Do we believe in a God of miracles, who can make things happen which cannot be scientifically explained? Is it necessary to believe that Jesus was born of a virgin in order to be saved or to be a real Christian? Is it necessary to believe that Jesus literally, bodily and physically arose from the dead in order to be saved or to be a real Christian? My answer to all of these questions is yes. Let me answer the second one first, straight from the Bible.