Pastor's Blog

There will be a memorial service for Ray Versiga from the chapel of Serenity Funeral Home on Tuesday, 1/17, at 2:00PM.  This service will be preceded by a time of visitation with the family from 1:00PM until the service time.

The arrangements for Earl Gunter remain incomplete as an autopsy will be performed.  There is an uncertainty about how long that will take since it is a holiday weekend.

Pray for both of these families.  I suspect we will be asking for help with food during the services tomorrow.

It is now 2:40AM and I just returned from the hospital.  It saddens me to write that Earl Gunter has passed from this life.  (I am happy for Earl as I know he is now “absent from the body, present with the Lord!)  He became unresponsive in the ambulance and they never could get him back once he arrived at the hospital.

Pray for Hilda, Stacy, Earl’s siblings, and the entire family.  Merwyn will not learn of Earl’s passing until later this morning.  Thankfully, his son, Russell, is here from Virginia and will be the one to share the news to his dad.

The arrangements are incomplete.  I will post them here either later today but more likely on Sunday.

Folks, death comes without advance notice.  Are you ready?  Earl was and for that I am thankful!

It is 12:25AM and I just received a call from Hilda Gunter.  Earl is being transported by ambulance to a local hospital.  Do not know a lot of the details but do ask you to pray.  I will post an update once I return from the hospital.

Sue Blodgett’s heart cath revealed no blockages.  It did show an elevated pressure on one side of her heart but nothing that the doctors feel cannot be controlled.

As I was leaving the hospital yesterday morning, Janiece McLean called to let me know that Ray Versiga had passed away.  The arrangements are incomplete but a service will most likely take place on Tuesday, 1/17.  Pray for the Versiga family.  Pray for me as I prepare to preach that service.

Pray for the Upward ministry today.

As has been so in recent years, Dave & Donna Westhouse and the fine folks from Moline CRC have kicked off the year in the L.G. Camp, Jr. mission house in Guatemala.  They arrived on Thursday and had a good first day yesterday by completing nine houses up to the point of being ready for cement and they got a tenth house started.  Pray that the rest of their week will go well.

Again, I will update this entry (or add one) later.  Pray!