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Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I want to thank all of you for the many ways you allowed me to be your pastor. As the years go by I will look back fondly on our time together; I trust the same will be true for you.
In twelve years, I’ve watched children grow up. I’ve baptized, performed marriages, performed too many funerals. I’ve visited hospitals and shut-ins. Together, we realized a few dreams, lived through a few trials, and persevered.
I pray you have a wonderful future. I pray that under new pastoral leadership you continue the good works, ministering to the hopeless, caring for the sick and shut-in, providing food to the hungry, speaking up for those who cannot do so for themselves. My brothers and sisters, “Do not grow weary in well doing for in due season, you shall reap if you faint not” (Galatians 6:9).
God is still blessing Southeast and as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor has entered into the human heart The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)
Finally, I share with you the Mizpah blessing, the words with which we close each Prayer Meeting: “The Lord watch between me and thee while we are absent one from the other.”
Be Blessed,
Pastor J. M. Hurst