Pastor's Blog

Caryn Hyatt Suthoff, 24 of Grand Bay, Alabama passed from this life on Friday, December 12, 2014 in Mobile, Alabama. She was born January 22, 1990 in Mobile. Caryn was a graduate of the University of South Alabama and taught Kindergarten at Dodge Elementary School in Mobile. She was a faithful and loving Christian with a wonderful sense of humor. She enjoyed yard sales, photography and spending time with her family. Caryn was preceded in death by her father, James Lane Hyatt. She is survived by her husband, Rusty Suthoff of Grand Bay; mother, Deborah Hyatt of Grand Bay; sister, Kayla Hatcher and husband Ryan of Grand Bay; brothers, James Hyatt, Travis Hyatt and wife Rosalie, Marshall Hyatt, and Cody Hyatt and wife Alia all of Grand Bay; grandparents, Norman and Martez Richerson of Grand Bay; and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. Visitation will be held on Monday, December 15, 2014 from 3:00 until 9:00PM at Friendship Baptist Church, 12581 Saeger Road, Grand Bay, AL 36541. Funeral services will be Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 11:00AM from the church with Rev. Teddy Turrentine officiating. Interment will follow in Grand Bay Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers will be James Hyatt, Travis Hyatt, Marshall Hyatt and Cody Hyatt. Honorary pallbearers will be Norman Richerson, Bernard Suthoff, Jason Poiroux, David Richerson and Jerry Lundy. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers that memorial donations be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, The American Cancer Society or Friendship Baptist Church in Grand Bay. Caryn’s family would like to offer a heartfelt “Thank you” to the 4th floor nurses at Springhill Medical Center and family and friends who have shown love and support during this most difficult time.

Today’s Bible reading – Obadiah 1:1-21 Revelation 4:1-11 Psalm 132:1-18 Proverbs 29:24-25

The real likely hood is that no one reading this blog entry will ever live long enough to see those numbers put together for the month, day, and year again.

It is almost 2:00AM and I have not been able to go to sleep after having slept basically none last night.  Could not sleep on the planes yesterday either which is somewhat out of the norm for me.  Arrived in Mobile around 10:00PM and Soy then took me to visit with Amy Reynolds and her family at Springhill Memorial.  He then drove me home and I spent some time with Rusty.  Rusty is hurting but he shows a maturity beyond his years.  The adrenaline is flowing pretty strongly tonight and I guess it is because of C’s passing.

If I am hearing correctly, there is no need for food at either Debbie Hyatt’s home or at Rusty’s.  May want to give it a day or two in order for them to eat some of those respective mountains of food down before taking any more.

Amy’s grandfather is doing much better than expected at this point.  He has had an aneurism in his stomach for a long time and it began to bleed yesterday which caused concern among the medical folks.

Keep praying for Lisa Thompson, Gloria Morrison and the others battling cancer.

Five of us arrived home from Guatemala yesterday/last night.  Eight more hope to do the same today.  The remaining twelve are scheduled to arrive home on Sunday.  Pray for traveling mercies.

No wedding shower for Jamie Hall today.  Ladies, please take note.

Upward basketball today from 8:00AM until 3:00PM in the CAB.

Derrick, Jodie & Bella in our morning services tomorrow.

Children’s choir Christmas musical in our 6:00PM service tomorrow.  (No DT now until January 2015)

I pray that you will have a great Saturday with Jesus.