Marian Nichols

Last Friday night Marian Nichols attended our volunteer minister's appreciation party. On Saturday morning at about 4 AM, Marian passed away. This was certainly a shock to our church.

When I became the Lead Pastor of Living Hope, I began attending a Tuesday morning prayer time. It consisted of several older ladies of the church. When these "saints" prayed, it was as if God put everything else on hold and gave these ladies His full attention. I know that's not theologically correct, but that's what it felt like to me. My life has been greatly impacted by these ladies. Over the years, one by one, they entered heaven. Over the last couple of years it was mostly Marian and I that met for prayer. I calculated the estimated number of times that we would have prayed together. It came to just over 700!

We would always end our prayer time with a song, mostly the old ones. There was a few times she would stump me, but to my surprise, on a few occasions, I was actually able to pull and old song out of the hat that she didn't know.

As a Pastor, I realize that I am called to impact the lives of those in my church and community. Often times, this gets reversed and they impact my life. This is certainly the case with Marian.

The negative -My Tuesday's will never be the same.
The Positive - My life will never be the same!

Thank you Marian.