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January 16, 2008
In Pastor's Words
Tribute to a Sunday School Teacher
One of the most striking memories I have as a teenager is the dedication and faithfulness of my Sunday School teacher. Harris Snowdon worked in a rubber factory who ended his nightly shift around 7:00 a.m. every day, including Sundays. Harris would come home on a Sunday morning, clean up, eat breakfast, review the Sunday School lesson and head 15 miles to church to arrive by 9:30. He was never late and he was never absent. His calling in life, according to his own assessment, was to teach our teens Sunday School class of six guys. Each one of us was special to Harris. We didn’t know it at the time, of course, but found out about fifteen years later. It was while I was doing deputation for missionary service in 1978, and visiting my home church where Harris was still teaching Sunday School, though now retired from working in the rubber factory, that he handed me a piece of paper after the service with the names of all six of our original classmates. Harris had prayed for each one of us every day and each one of us ended up going into a Christian ministry.
What I owe my Sunday School teacher is :
1) appreciation for his dedication to God and faithfulness to the class
2) application of the life lessons he taught us.
3) commitment to the ongoing rich ministry of the Sunday School wherever I would serve.
It was he who instilled within us the conviction that
seven days without Sunday School makes one weak!
Our Sunday School teachers are waiting for you this Sunday. The goal is 208 three times by March 9. To reach the goal we need your support and prayer. Time is short, only 8 Sundays left!
Let’s Reach 208
This Sunday 9:15 am
Pastor Ralph Partelow
Posted by Jennifer Herrmann at January 16, 2008 01:50 PM