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 \u201cRacehorse\u201d 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 \u201cchange\u201d 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 \u201cthe same yesterday, today and forever\u201d (Heb. 13:8). I\u2019m more pleased with that today than I was before last weekend\u2019s reunion.<\/p>\n
Join me in praying for the following global concerns:
\n\u2022 Pray for hundreds of collegiate summer missionaries who will be traveling this week to their summer assignments all over the world.
\n\u2022 Pray for Ukrainian missionaries and their Monday outreach to the people living in the Chernobyl Zone.
\n\u2022 Pray for Dano & Melinda as they seek to raise support to serve overseas with the Wycliffe Bible Translators.
\n\u2022 Pray for Patricia as she serves in Cameroon where they celebrated their 50th anniversary as an independent nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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