Reunion Attended

My 50th High School class reunion is history. It was similar to the stock market with gains and losses: weight gained, hair lost. Few looked the same. In fact when I entered I thought I had the wrong group. It looked more like a Branson, Missouri tour group than my classmates. Thanks to Facebook, and the fact that a sizable number of my classmates had become religious over the years, I was more popular at the reunion than I was in my student days. We have distinguished alumni (not all in my class obviously) Red Adair; A J Foyt, Sr.; Mary Kay Ash; Richard “Racehorse” Haynes; Dan Rather, several professional baseball players and an occasional minister or two. That would be my group. As a minister, I was reminded of a few life lessons. People change: the quiet, shy ones are no longer that way; the athletes are no longer in shape. There are exceptions to that “change” factor: some teen-age drunks are now senior adult drunks. Teachers, Coaches, and Counselors die even though some of them seemed to be bullet-proof. Long-time friends are gone: Out of our senior class of 693, 79 are known to be deceased, another 164 are missing. A person needs something steadfast in an ever-changing world: Jesus is “the same yesterday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8). I’m more pleased with that today than I was before last weekend’s reunion.

Join me in praying for the following global concerns:
• Pray for hundreds of collegiate summer missionaries who will be traveling this week to their summer assignments all over the world.
• Pray for Ukrainian missionaries and their Monday outreach to the people living in the Chernobyl Zone.
• Pray for Dano & Melinda as they seek to raise support to serve overseas with the Wycliffe Bible Translators.
• Pray for Patricia as she serves in Cameroon where they celebrated their 50th anniversary as an independent nation.