Dragoons Dixie Butt Sale Fundraiser

Dixie Butt Sale Coming This Month

We will conduct our annual "Dixie Butt" fundraiser beginning at the July meeting, so have your budget and contacts in order, and be ready to "Buy One and Sell One" so that we can achieve our usual good results and have funds to answer the SCV Charge throughout the rest of the year, as we have done in years past.  

Dixie Butt tickets will be available at the July Dragoons camp meeting--just see Past Commander Larry Spears and tell him how many you want for yourselves and friends and family.  Members can take the tickets with them and turn in the money later. Important note:  When you sell any tickets, be sure to get the buyer's info on the larger part of the ticket, which you keep, and leave him/her the stub to use to pick up the butt on 16 August.

For the first time in several years, because of an increase in the amount we must pay for the butts due to market price increases, we will have to raise the price of our tickets to $30.  As always the butts will be cooked by Fatman's BBQ in Prattville.  Butts will be picked up in exchange for the ticket stub at Fatman's at the Marathon Gas Station, Main Street and Memorial Drive in Prattville, 7-9 a.m. on Saturday 16 August. 

Dragoons at the Dixie Butt Distribution August 2013

 

Prattville Dragoons Chaplain's Column for July 2014

Chaplain’s Column:  How To Learn God's Will For Your Life

            Have you ever wanted to know what God’s will is for your life? Many times we may wonder what to pray for or in our decision making, we may wonder whether a particular choice is God’s will. How about the question as to whether we are being an effective witness for Christ.

            Because our heavenly Father wants us to know these distinctions, He has provided the Holy Spirit to instruct and guide us. God’s Spirit discerns perfectly because He knows everything that the Father and Son know (John 16:13).

            Just as it takes time and perseverance to develop strong physical muscles, acquiring discernment requires persistence and patient submission to the teaching of the Spirit. But this is our Father’s desire for us. Why would we want anything less?

            Having spiritual discernment is the ability to look at things from the Lord’s viewpoint. In having this spiritual discernment we can begin to see the difference between error and truth. We can then see the difference in what is good and what God sees as best. We can also see what is God’s will in our lives and what is man’s will.

            But as we mature in the knowledge and wisdom of the Lord, we will be able to pray confidently to perceive God’s will and to share our faith. It is the responsibility of the Holy Spirit to help us. He will guide us into all truth. We should be willing to cooperate with the Spirit and learn from Him (John 14:25-27; 16:5-15), to study the Word of God (Heb. 4:12-13), and to put into practice what is revealed to us.

            In order to get down this spiritual road of discernment we must  walk closer and closer with God in our prayer life and listen to His still small voice give us direction in our lives.

Please pray for all the Dragoons and their families who are ill and in need of the Lord's healing touch and comfort.  Also we Thank God for the final court decisions in Selma.  the following:

Yours In Christ

Tom Snowden, Chaplain

Prattville Dragoons Camp Dispatch News

The following was highlighted in the recent edition of the Dragoons Camp Dispatch:

Camp News

Long-time Dragoon Harry Rawlinson Encourages Dragoons - Following is an excerpt from a letter received from Harry Rawlinson, as mentioned last month now in an assisted-living home in Alexander City:  "I am now settled in The Meadows Assisted Living Facility in Alex City, Alabama.  I will try to write some things from my early times when I joined the Dragoons.  If I can remember!  You all keep up the good work you have done and I know you will continue to do so.  I never imagined the Dragoons would become so popular and so respected as it has become under the leadership, membership, and work of all Dragoons.  Our Ancestors are Proud!!!  Well Done!!!" --Harry Rawlinson

Dixie Butt Distribution and Indian Hills Cemetery Workday, 16 August 2014 - Dixie Butts will be exchanged for ticket stubs from 7-9 a.m. at Fatman's BBQ, Main Street and Memorial Drive in Prattville.  Tickets will be distributed beginning with our July meeting, and each member of the Dragoons will be asked to “Buy One and Sell One”.  This is our only fund-raiser of the year, and the proceeds allow us to continue successfully to answer the SCV Charge.  This is also a workday at Indian Hills Cemetery, so after you pick up your butts get your gloves and hat and head out there.  This will be the third workday following the initial cleanup in June and the next scheduled on August 2nd.

Communications Officer Will Keep Low Profile This Month - Your editor and Communications Officer Tyrone Crowley will be virtually unavailable for the next couple of weeks as he has two young grandsons visiting from California and they will require all his energy and attention!  Dragoons will look forward to Tyrone's renewed participation following some time with his family.

Prattville Dragoons July Camp Meeting Announced

Dragoon Sam Reid Speaks On Financing during the WBTS at July Meeting

            Dragoon Sam Reid, who educated us so well last January on the Emancipation Proclamation and period slavery, will be our speaker again in July.  Sam is a voracious reader on topics of interest to all of us, and this month we will benefit from Sam's reading of a new multi-volume publication, Bloodstains, as well as books by the Kennedy twins of Louisiana.  Sam will compare the two systems of labor, factory vs. slave labor, as well as the money interests whose influence and actions led to the War Between the States.  If you want some little-known but well-documented facts about conditions and events in the U.S. in the 1850s, don't miss Sam's presentation. This month's camp meeting will be held on Thursday July 10th at 7pm at the Shoney's on Cobbs Ford Rd in Prattville.  Come early starting at 6pm to enjoy fellowship and get yourself a delicious Shoney's buffet dinner or their strawberry pie.  This meeting will also provide an opportunity to purchase your Dixie Butt tickets for distribution on August 16th, the Dragoons annual fundraiser.