This week Rev. Steve Kerhoulas, a former pastor of this church and a former pastor of mine, will be preaching homecoming at 10:30. then he will preach Sunday through Tuesday at 7:00Pm, for our revival services.
It is good for us all to reflect upon persons in our lives that God has used to reach us and bless us. Steve and his wife Candy are such persons for me. They discerned that God had a call upon my life before I was mature enough in the faith to recognize it myself, and they gently guided me and provided me with opportunities to make my own discovery.
Because of my pathological fear of public speaking I was a hard nut to crack and actually never did even share my testimony in the church Steve pastored. I played guitar for Wednesday night praise songs but I sat in the pew behind everyone and wouldn’t get up front. I couldn’t pray out loud until I almost was a preacher myself and had to. When I was a new preacher I wrote out my prayers and read them. I’ll probably retire before I achieve a level of sufficiency.
Thank God He counts faithfulness and following as things of great value. Thank God he brings others into our lives from whom we can learn what matters.
