Gearing Up

This blog will get into gear during the first full week in May.  

One of its features will be answers to questions sent in by readers.  Please send yours to pastormark@abcwesterville.com.  

Any question relating to the Christian faith and living it out in the realities of today's world is welcome.  I don't pretend, of course, to have all the answers, but I will share what wisdom I have received in the hope that it will be helpful.  The best questions are honest ones, and I will seek to give honest answers.  

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See you soon!

Pastor Mark

Thoughts for Today

Day after tomorrow I'll be presiding at the funeral service for the fourth member of our congregation to pass away in the past our months. One person a month beginning last November. Florence, Pat, Betty, and Jim. All had surpassed the "three score and ten" years marker - a frequent achievement in our church.

While one natural focus for Christians on such occasions is the hope of the resurrection, there is another, life before death. It is for this that we have stories at hand. I notice that when a loved one goes to be with Christ to await the resurrection, we tell stores of what they gave to us of themselves in the life before death. "He taught me to drive." "He encouraged me in my struggle." "She always had a smile for me." And so on.

Today we are writing the stores that will be told of us when our time comes.