GreenUp Connect

For 2026 I would like to acknowledge all family memberd birthdays and anniversaries each month so feel free to post when it's your special month!

We can start today for all January birthdays and anniversaries before the month runs out.

It was on a Saturday afternoon around 3:00 pm November 4, 1978 at an A.M.E. Church that the woman I love and chose to marry walked in that church in the arms of her father as Miss Black and walked out of that same church in my arms as Mrs Greenup!

What was the thoughts going through that 20 year old young man's mind as he strolled down the aisle of that church with his newly wedded wife as the people looked on.

Was he thinking about the responsibility he just acquired? Was he thinking she will be sleeping with me tonight? Or was he thinking what does my future looks like now that I have someone to share it with?

Whatever was on his mind on that November afternoon it laid the foundation and paved the pathway for the family and home that the two of them built together and as I now look back 47 years from where it all started and how far the two of us have traveled together, we can only thank God that we made it thus far by His Grace and by His goodness!

To that I say...To God be the glory!

Historical Afton Villa Baptist Church in St. Francisville, LA founded 1871. Wallace W. Greenup was the foundinig pastor.