Tomorrow is my husbands birthday. He will be 35. He will also be doing his first funeral. 
Sometimes being a pastor is just weird.
My SIL is in nursing school. A while back she met a gentleman, Mr. S, in a nursing home and struck up a conversation with him about the Bible on his nightstand. Come to find out, he had been raised in a church, his wife was a believer, but he just didn't know if he was saved or not. So my SIL says "You have to meet my brother."
My husband started to stop by and visit when he was in the area (3 hrs away). He would read scripture and answer questions. After a few visits Mr. S asked Jesus into his heart. Awesome, huh? My husband continued to visit when he could. Last week my husband got a call that Mr. S wasn't expected to live more than a day or so. My husband drove down right away. Mr. S was coherent enough to recognize my husband when he got there but then he started to slip away. My husband spent the day with the family. Many of them did not know he was saved and they were understandably upset. My husband was able to reassure them of his salvation and give them the peace that would be seeing him again someday. They asked my husband to do the funeral service and of course my husband said yes. So that is how he came to be doing his first funeral. On his birthday.
Blessings.
Your hubby sounds like quite a guy!! To drive 3 hours to visit with Mr. S and his family in his last hours!!! How wonderful!!! I am glad he is able to do the funeral and was able to reassure the family of his salvation as well!!!
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God's Blessings,
Amy Jo
I'm so happy your husband was able to lead this gentleman to the Lord!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful post Liese, and what a neat story. Isn't God great to have used your SIL in such a way to help bring your husband to help minister this man. Well I hope he had a great day, his b-day is the day after mine! I'm working on getting some berry plants to root for you. Lisa
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