In Memoriam

On Thursday evening (May 3) we learned that our sister and mother in the faith, Dorothy May Cole, went home to be with the Lord after an extended illness.

Our prayers are with her widower, our founding pastor and Pastor Emeritus, Reverend Dr. V. Seymour Cole.

If death my friend and me divide, Thou dost not, Lord, my sorrow chide,
Or frown my tears to see;
Restrained from passionate excess, Thou bidst me mourn in calm distress
For them that rest in Thee.

I feel a strong immortal hope, which bears my mournful spirit up
Beneath its mountain load;
Redeemed from death, and grief, and pain, I soon shall find my friend again
Within the arms of God.

Pass a few fleeting moments more and death the blessing shall restore
Which death has snatched away;
For me Thou wilt the summons send, and give me back my parted friend
In that eternal day.

-John Wesley, 1762.