“Last night we had about 30 girls [K-2] on the AWANA game floor and did they scream!! I don’t wear my hearing aids on AWANA nights for that reason. They magnify the noise and make my head feel like a balloon. The joys of old age. But I thank the Lord all the time for the health and strength He gives me to keep serving Him, and not be a burden to my family. God is so good! …. I can’t think of any more earth-shaking news. Keep your eyes and hearts on the Savior, and don’t let the world shape you into its ungodly mold. Keep Christ first in your hearts and lives and you will have the abundant life Jesus has promised us. John 10:10b. Love, Me”
These notes are from a letter that I received from my grandmother just this morning. She celebrated her 93rd birthday last November. She has been serving the Lord in a low income community ministry for over fifty years. Prior to my grandfather’s death 6 years ago she used to write all the members of her family a weekly letter of encouragement (one letter that she would photocopy and mail to each of her six children and 32 grandchildren). However, her discipleship ministry to inmates through written correspondence-type Bible studies has increased to such a level that now she is only able to send us monthly letters!
While the letters don’t come so often, knowing that she daily prays Colossians 1:9-11 for us, and her 48 great-grandchildren, is a gift of immeasurable grace. It is my prayer that I might be so faithful to point the eyes and hearts of my four children, and any grandchildren and great-grandchildren God might give me to the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Grandma, how I thank God for you!
Teren Sechrist
