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.
In dramatic fashion, the Little Falls Flyers Boys Basketball team upset #1 seed Apollo Eagles 63-62. If you were at the game you might have been thinking, "deja vu". Last year the Flyers beat the Eagles with a tip in by Danny Kornbaum, just as the clock expired. This year it was again, Danny, this time he drove the base line and made a lay up with about 5.5 seconds to go. That basket gave the Flyers the lead. Apollo had one last shot that hit the rim and bounced off, ending the game. (Video of last three minutes)
I was so impressed that the Flyers never quit. In the last four minutes, trailing by 10, they fouled as quick as they could, sending the Eagles to the free throw line. At first it didn't appear to be working, as Apollo kept making the shots. In my opinion the game started to turn in the Flyers direction when Nick was fouled from beyond the three point line. He made all three free throw attempts.
