Wonderful Day

Truly Sunday was a wonderful day.

Abilene Baptist honored us with a special commissioning service as a goodby for the eight years of service with them. Since our pastor is Chairman of the SBC Executive Committee, he invited Dr. Morris Chapman, President and CEO of the SBC Executive Committee to be the special speaker. Dr. Bob White, Executive Director and CEO of the GA Baptist Comvention, Rev. Don Wheeless, Associational Missionary of the Augusta Baptist Association, and Rev. Charles Drummond, a GA Baptist ministry consultant also attended and made comments. Don presented us with a bilingual NIV version of the Bible. David has worked with each of these men throughout our ministry here and they each wanted to be a part of the service. What a honor for them to attend!

David was honored to baptize three men Sunday morning as well. The first man was a youth who was saved the week before and wanted David to baptize him since David had recently baptized his mother and sister. The second young man recently came to faith in Christ through the faithful witness of his wife and her family and requested David baptize him as he had baptized his wife and son. Then the last man was saved years before, was walking with him but had not entered immersion baptism. What a special experience for them in their different stages of spiritual growth! May they continue to grow and be mighty men of God!

Our children were here. Living from Columbus, GA to Raleigh, NC, they are not able to all gather at the same time but a couple of times during the year so we were very thankful they were all to all attend. Many of our extended family were also able to come and join with us. How thankful we are for a family who love and support us in our journey.

As the choir began their special song of worship, David leaned over and said to me, "Uh-oh, this is like the girls' wedding songs." They sang "Thank You" as many of the church leaders and others came to us to hug and thank us - not a dry eye in the place including ours!

What a day! What a blessing! What a send off!