People move on...when they leave the church I serve--often for a variety of reasons--I always have to process how I feel about that.. Whatever the case, I always feel bad...and sad.
A close friend is joining a parachurch organization and will spend most of his time in Alabama. It is a good thing he is doing, but I will miss him.
A family in our church who have served well will be moving to Southern California and relocating for work. It is difficult to see them leave because they are such a viable part of our church family.
That's the whole thing in a nutshell, I guess. We are family. And we hate to lose those we have come to love.
They will be missed, but they will, hopefully, make a similar impact in another part of the family of God. Though we will be for the moment sad here...we will be glad for their new home.
Good-bye and God bless!
2 comments:
that is a difficult part of the church family. so many beautiful relationships that are hard to let go of. heaven will be grand!
jerry's parents are attending a revival this weekend led by herb anderson...i don't know him, you may not either?...maybe he preceded you at CREMC, anyway...just another example of long standing relationships!
Hey, heard that you had a blog. I actually went to the revival to hear Herb and sang for them. Saw several of the "old" friends..including the Gibsons! Don't know if you heard or not but I got married a little over a year and a half ago. God is good all the time. Glad I found your blog. I am on facebook and have reconnected with lots of folks. My page is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=550918132&ref=profile
you can check it out and find out more about my life than you probably want to know.
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