Pray for the Elmendorf Family Today

I will be in Rossville, Georgia today at Bible Way Baptist Church. A good man moved from the land of the dying to the land of the living on Sunday evening.

Trey Elmendorf III was a super Youth Pastor, a faithful associate pastor and minister of music, a loving husband and an awesome dad to his three children. He had battled cancer for the past five years and on Sunday cancer did not defeat him but rather proved to be the key to his eternal home.

Dr. Vince Estill, Pastor of Bible Way Baptist Church, will lead the service today at 1:00; there at the Church where Trey and his family have faithfully served for years. Pray for Dr. Estill as he conducts the service for his dear friend. Keep Trey's wife and children in your prayers as well. If you want more information on Trey just click HERE.

Marilyn and I were blessed to know and spend time with Trey and his family when we served with Word of Life Local Church Ministries. We have spent time in their home. We have been out to eat together many times. We have set in on his youth ministry. We have spent time together at various youth activities. We have planned youth ministry events together. All that is to say that I have been BLESSED by the friendship and fellowship I have enjoyed with the Elmendorf family.

Times like this bring the words of Henry Van Dyke to my mind.

I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,
spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and starts
for the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speck
of white cloud just where the sea and sky come to mingle with each other.

Then, someone at my side says, "There, she is gone"

Gone where?

Gone from my sight. That is all. She is just as large in mast,
hull and spar as she was when she left my side.
And, she is just as able to bear her load of living freight to her destined port.

Her diminished size is in me -- not in her.
And, just at the moment when someone says, "There, she is gone,"
there are other eyes watching her coming, and other voices
ready to take up the glad shout, "Here she comes!"

And that is dying...

Trey has sailed home, by the Grace of God. And in light of eternity it won't be long til we see him again. Praise God!


Praying for the Elmedorf's,

Pastor Mike