A walk along Live Oak Drive offers messages of faith on lawns, intended for encouragement.

First, you’ll come to a yard sign with gigantic individual letters, not quite midway on left. Spelled out in large yellow letters it reads, “Be Still and Know That I am God.”

A few houses down is the home of Mayor Ralph and Marcia McClendon with the gigantic red “JOY” with white cutout within the “O” of Jesus in the manger with Mary and Joseph, from their Christmas d...