A memorial service held for John Kossick at Florida Living Church, Apopka, Fla., followed the normal pattern with music, prayer, and words of comfort from Alan Jones, pastor, and numerous memories from relatives and friends.
You Matter to Us – a PK’s Perspective
Just When I Thought I was Done!
“Lord, You want me to do what?” “Hmmmm!”
“That doesn’t sound like something I would like to do, nor am I qualified!” “Are you sure, Lord?”
Yes, I questioned God about this new chapter in my life that He was orchestrating. I did not see it coming! You see, I was in the nursing field for 27 years and now God cornered me into leading a publishing company.“Seriously,” I said to the Lord, “You got jokes.” Well, I need to be grateful because God knew a day would come when I would no longer be able to physically manage being a nurse.
Getting Through the Pandemic
Within days of my husband accepting a new job that would require us to move over 3800 km across Canada, the pandemic hit. Suddenly, things got more complicated in being left alone to try to sell a house, and not being able to go and look for a new home because of the self-isolation rules. As a result, we have spent the last 4 months in an Airbnb with all our belongings in storage and living out of suitcases while looking for a house to buy.
Our Heavenly Father is Always With Us
A Change in Time
I am a nurse by profession. However, four boys and years of homeschooling consumed many of my pre-forty years. As thechildren began to go off to high school my world changed. No longer was I “just” a stay-at-home Mom and a spouse ofsomeone in ministry, but I was highly sought after and respected as a nurse in a third world country where the local medical care was substandard at best. I thrived in my newadult world.
Following the Leader
Great Expectations
Finding Myself
Expanding the Dimensions of Love
Life offers few things that compare with the joy of a God-centered marriage. That kind of love preps the heart and mind to endure and grow with change—a reality that defines and sustains life. When Larry and I entered youth ministry, opportunities and challenges for our family life were abundant. For example, summers meant relocating to youth camp for three months. The varied significantly at different camps. Sometimes we caught rainwater in buckets in our bedroom; repaired sewer line breaks, and shared living space with tiny blood-sucking flies. Other camps were posh in comparison. All of these experiences, though unsettling, were precious opportunities to partner with God and be together in ministry.
Loving the Unlovely
Have you ever tried to love somebody who is really not lovable? I want to share with you a personal experience I had in my life that forever changed me. It was an experience that happened in our early years of ministry, in which God exposed my true un-Christ-like nature and taught me how important it is to love all people, even the “unlovely.”
Living in Chapter 666
It was a dark and dreary day (the opening words of many bad stories)! The phone rang and it was “the conference” with the dreaded call. We were asked to transition to a new district. This time, we were going to a prison town, in my perception, a dark hole, and I felt sick. I loved our tourist town, church relationships, being near family, and my niche. I had friends, ministry, and purpose. I had grown to be myself and not try to be what others expected me to be. In other words, I was comfortable, and for some reason, that is a danger zone for me. God was calling me to move and I was digging in tooth and nail and showing Him just how I felt about it.