In response to God’s leading in His life, Zack has decided to seek another call that will allow him greater opportunity to exercise the particular gifts that God has given him. He began this process in consultations with me and with the Session’s encouragement.
Therefore, over the next several weeks Zack, Tennyson and their family may be gone on particular Sundays to candidate in different churches. Please, remember them in your prayers as they seek the Lord’s leading.
No two situations are ever the same, but in 1983 I found myself pursuing a call to become pastor of East Ridge Presbyterian Church when just a couple of months earlier I would
But the Lord had other plans. The Session of Davenport Road PC encouraged me to accept the call from ERPC. They were persuaded that my gifts fit better the needs of East Ridge than they did the work of Davenport Road PC.
"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform” (Trinity Hymnal, p. 128, Cowper). What a wonderful truth. He’s at work. We seek to know His ways. And as we do so, we are confident that in and through us He will perform wondrous things to His praise and glory, which will be for the temporal and eternal good of others.
We left my in-laws Friday morning just a little after nine, hoping it would take no more than three hours to exit Pennsylvania and leave the snow behind. About half past twelve we stopped to eat lunch in West Virginia. So far, the only “weather” we had experienced was sunny, blue skies.
After lunch it began to rain heavily, but it had almost ended by the time we stopped for the evening in Lexington, Virginia.
But the temperature was just above freezing, and therefore, while it snowed all the way from Roanoke to just east of Knoxville, it never stuck to the road.
From Knoxville home it was free sailing, and the closer the horse got to the barn, the faster our car seemed to go. By four o’clock we were in Chattanooga.
So we thank you for your prayers. It was a quick but good trip. Linda’s parents came back with us. They’ll be here through Easter. Then they’ll go to Asheville for a few days. Carol, Linda’ sister, and her husband, Joel, will take them back to Moscow (PA that is).
The next morning it was no longer raining. But it was overcast, and the weather was turning much colder. As we headed south toward Roanoke, the wind picked up, and it began to flurry. Within just a few miles it was snowing so hard our visibility had been reduced to about fifty yards.
Linda and I appreciate the prayers for us on the part of many of you as we traveled to northeast Pennsylvania and then returned home during the past several days. Here’s a brief account of our return journey:
have told you that I would be in Simpsonville, SC for many more years as pastor of Davenport Road PC.
Likewise, remember to pray for the Session as they appoint a search committee to find a new pastor of family and youth. And, while you’re praying, remember the volunteers that are stepping up to the plate to assume responsibility for senior high and middle school youth, as well as the children’s programs on Wednesday and Sunday evenings.
Pastor Caines