Please lift Sue Lezak in prayer at this time.
 

PRAYER for MISSIONARY Team
Boyd and Pat Henneman's son-in-law, Mike Scheel,
grandaughter, Lauren, and grandson, Sam, left with a 
Missionary group from Salem, Oregon for
a mission trip to India.... a tribal area near the 
Myanmar border. They will be there 2 weeks and they
are eager to share Christ and the Gospel.
Please pray for safety in all of their travels.

D E V O T I O N

  Just Stay

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman
to the bedside.

 "Your son is here," she said to the old man.
   She had to repeat the words several times
   before the patient's eyes opened.

Heavily sedated because of the pain of his
heart attack, he dimly saw the young
uniformed Marine standing outside the
oxygen tent. He reached out his hand. The
Marine wrapped his toughened fingers
around the old man's limp ones, squeezing
a message of love and encouragement.

The nurse brought a chair so that the
Marine could sit beside the bed.  All
through the night the young Marine sat
there in the poorly lighted ward, holding
the old man's hand and offering him words
of love and strength.  Occasionally, the
nurse suggested that the Marine move away
and rest awhile.

He refused. Whenever the nurse came into
the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her
and of the night noises of the hospital -
the clanking of the oxygen tank, the
laughter of the night staff members
exchanging greetings, the cries and moans
of the other patients.

Now and then she heard him say a few
gentle words. The dying man said nothing,
only held tightly to his son all through
the night.

Along towards dawn, the old man died. The
Marine released the now lifeless hand he
had been holding and went to tell the
nurse. While she did what she had to do,
he waited.

Finally, she returned. She started to
offer words of sympathy, but the Marine
interrupted her,  "Who was that man?" he asked.

The nurse was startled, "He was your
father," she answered.
"No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I
never saw him before in my life."

"Then why didn't you say something when
I took you to him?" "I knew right away there
had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed
his son, and his son just wasn't here.

 When I realized that he was too sick to tell
whether or not I was his son,
 knowing how much he needed me, I stayed."

I came here tonight to  find a Mr. William Grey. 
His Son was Killed in Iraq
today, and I was sent to inform him. What was
this Gentleman's Name?

 The Nurse with Tears in Her Eyes Answered,
 Mr. William Grey............              

The next time someone needs you ... just be there.  Stay.

We never KNOW how GOD will use us in our
daily walk.  Pray and 'Be ready' for the next Adventure,
GOD never disappoints!

 WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A
TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

 WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A
TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

   ANDY DYKSTRA (OUR church family Son in Afghanistan)
 

   EACN White, Andrew
NMCB 74 COP PAYNEUNIT
UNIT 40650
Remember Andy, as he is in Afghanistan.
All our troops around the world need
us to lift them up to GOD in daily prayers and
also for thanksgiving for their sacrifices.

 

 Andy on Duty
It IS hot in Afganistan !

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