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Memorial Service for Rev Frank LaCrosse
Please come and let’s have a good day of Memories…
Special Memories of a Special Person
Rev Frank La Crosse went home to his reward. Monday. January 31, 2017. 11:55pm.
It is a happy time, as well as a sad time, as we prepare final goodbyes. If we are not careful we will let sadness rule the day. But for every child of God we know that this is also a very happy time. It was not premature. It is only after a long life lived for God that his time arrived.
Hence, I want to find the happiness in a servant of God finally getting to go home. This was Bro La Crosse’s wish every time I met him at the hospital.
I’m Doing Fine. Let’s Go Home!
If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it way too often this past year or so. I’m doing fine. Even when the ravages of time and age creeps on any one of us, to remember that our elder would only state, “I’m doing fine” teaches us to hold our heads high even when it seems the bottom is so close.
Let’s Go Home. We heard him say it Monday night several times. A time of prayer, and medical people galore. It was a blessing to have his son and daughter-in-law there. We all hoped to see him again at his home where he enjoyed time with his wife, Jean La Crosse, and feeding the squirrels in the back yard, or watching the beauty of the greenbelt. This home was a place where they entertained many folks over the past dozen years. Life-long friends, saints and connections from their years of being in the ministry.
It was a home bathed in love and care. Very comforting the first time you walked in, and on till the time it came to leave. But it was not Bro La Crosse’s final home. You see, that last time he uttered those words I believe he could already see his permanent home. Through that eternal veil that separates us from here and yonder, he was seeing what we are not yet privileged to experience. Here we are only travelers, sojourners for a very short time. But our home there is an eternal home. Forever. A blessed place we are looking forward to be.
A song came to my mind this past Tuesday and I’ve worn it’s welcome out in my home. Hopefully you will know it and will hum it as a memory of Rev Frank La Crosse.
I’m Longing For Home
For the sun goeth down.
I want to go where
Sweet Rest can be found!
I’m just about through
With this old house of clay.
I’m leaving this world!
For Glory someday.
We will be celebrating his life in a few weeks… Please check back in for an update in a week or so. Blessings to each of you!
2015 and Beyond!
Blessed to be a blessing!
That’s a theme for the future. Not only with First Church of Lacey, but with every person who walks through our doors. We want the church experience to bless every person! Then every person can be a blessing to others in return.
One of the important things we all need to remember – we will never touch another person effectively with our lives unless we are willing to spend a few moments with others. The old adage is appropriate here, “You have two ears and one mouth; so, listen more than you speak!”
How will we know what someone needs without listening? How do we start the conversation? By speaking.
God speaks to Moses to speak this blessing to the children of Israel. Moses listens to the spoken voice of God, and in turn speaks to the children of Israel who are listening to him. Do you see the process? This is the way a pastor prepares to speak to the congregation – Listen, Then Talk. This is the way a Worship Leader prepares songs for the service – Listen, then Lead!
Allow me to use this today to bless you the reader and I hope you will use it in return to minister to those God has put into your path.
The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. (Numbers 6:24-26 ESV)
Blessings to you all!