Monday, March 2, 2009

A tribute

Our Youth Group goes to lunch on the first Sunday every month. After lunch, we visit and serve Communion to some of our Shut In members. As you would expect, over time relationships are formed. The youth provide a wonderful service and our shut ins get some much needed one on one attention. Over the weekend one of our "regulars" passed away.

She had been one of the pillars of our church. You know them, standing ram-rod straight and ably performing any task necessary to serve God, the church and the congregation. Even though she has been obviously failing over the last several months, she always "felt like" seeing the young people and encouraging them to take an apple from the bowl in her room (she and her family have their own orchard).

We would have visited her yesterday but she couldn't wait and Saturday evening went to her eternal rest with God. We'll miss you Betty!

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