James Brent Montgomery
HENDERSON â Vance County residents have come together over the last few weeks to express their support of local Highway Patrol Trooper James Brent Montgomery, who is fighting for his life at UNC Hospitals in Chapel Hill due to COVID-19.
His wife, Heather Montgomery, is asking the community to keep her husband in their prayers as he battles COVID-19, and is optimistic that some recent minor improvements with his condition are a positive sign that he will recover from the virus.
The trooper is on a heart-lung machine, receiving whatâs called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation thatâs purging carbon dioxide from his bloodstream.
Churches face challenges as Christmas approaches
The Shawnee News-Star
COVID-19 has impacted everyone in some way, but among those hit hard by the pandemic are churches all across the country.
Many shut down to prevent spreading illness and especially to protect more vulnerable members of the congregation. Once doors opened again, things still didn’t look the same. Church websites, such as those for Frontline Shawnee, Shawnee’s First Baptist Church and Immanuel Baptist Church, have sections devoted to COVID-19 that outline safety measures that have been implemented. Just some of the steps that have been taken include:
• Streaming services for those who can’t attend in person;