A not forgotten man

Hebrews 6:10- For God is not unrighteous so as to forget your work and labor of love, which ye have shown toward His name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

One of the good things about Facebook is that I get to run into some old friends, and I mean from when I was young (at the age I am now, I even refer to my high school years as "when I was young"-but that's beside the point). One of the people that I have found and "friended" on FB is Karen Haynes, the widow of the first pastor that I had when I became a believer in 1980.

It was Pastor Haynes (who was a graduate of Florida Bible College) that was one of the men who had the idea to go to a Bible Camp for the youth at FBC during the summer. It was that camp that my uncle invited me to go in 1980 (of course hiding the fact that it was a Bible camp and telling us about going to Disneyland-which was a side trip [and how dense I was that I never really caught on about it until it was too late]) and on that trip I was given the Gospel by Dale Daffin and on July 31, 1980 outside of Columbus, Texas I was born for the second time.

And the thing that got me through the appendicitis, the colostomy bags (with the very early morning cleanings...),tracheotomy, the whole nine yards was the spiritual lessons that I learned- starting on that bus trip on that old blue school bus (oh what memories....). So while Richard Haynes, the man, may no longer be with us, the work that he did for and through Christ is still going on through those that he ministered and taught lessons to.....so thank you Pastor, for all that you did and to let you know that nothing you did was in vain....