“By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13.35)
A publication of FBC Greensboro for our homebound members…
Summer 2015
When the Student is Ready, the Teacher Will Come… a Tribute to Isabel McNally by Kate Kitchen
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hroughout our lives, as Christians, we pray. When we’re little, we might pray for a new bike or doll house. Later on, we pray for boyfriends or girlfriends or to pass a math test. As we become older, we pray for health. We pray for jobs. We pray for family members who seem lost to Christ. We pray for everything under the sun (under the Son)–because we’ve been taught to pray, to ask, to be sincere in our belief and His promise that He will hear us and answer us (although many times, not in the way we wish). But there are those who ARE believers, who WERE productive citizens–those who were highly instrumental in building our churches, preparing our meals for fellowship, those who volunteered for any of a number of our ministries, who HAD families and friends surrounding them and now are left alone, perhaps unable to walk or talk or think or speak clearly…and who are now left devastated and despondent from overwhelming Isabel McNally and her faithful mom, Isabel Rollins. feelings of loss and isolation. These are the ones who no longer have the ability to drive–such a simple pleasure we take for granted. They no longer take Meals on Wheels to other needy people; they no longer serve up beverages in our kitchen on Wednesday nights or chair search committees for our next pastor, or serve as (continued on page 2)
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