Mission Trip Video December 9, 2006
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I have been trying for months to figure out how to make movies with Windows Movie Maker, and I finally made my first short video. It is a compilation of the pictures we took on mission trips with Crosswell First Baptist when I was youth pastor there. There are trips to Kentucky and twice to Mexico.
Remembering a hero December 9, 2006
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Last Sunday, 3 December 2006 at 0800 Central Standard Time in the U.S., an officer that I knew who served here at Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center as the Commanding Officer of the Army unit, Delta Company 577th Engineer Battallion was killed in action in Iraq by an IED. Captain Shawn English was a hero in every way. I know the soldiers who served and are still here at the Dive School better than I knew him; but through them, I have come to know more of this man who was a loving husband, devoted father, and couragious Soldier. Shawn leaves behind a wife and 3 young boys who are a testimony to a man who wanted nothing more in his life than to do his job well, and show his family every day how much he cared for them. Shawn was a man who had his faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour as his pastor shared at the Memorial service that was held for him yesterday at Woodlawn Methodist church here in town. This is the most important fact about Shawn that a person could know, that he was a follower of Jesus Christ. While we sorrow at his death, we rejoice in the hope of the knowledge that he is with God in Heaven if he truly knew Christ.
This is the only the second death of someone in the Global War on Terror that I have been involved with and only the first that I have known personally. The Commanding Officer at Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center asked me to lead in a short memorial time after their uniform inspection this morning which I did. What I reflected on and continue to reflect on is that those who knew him best are really hurting. I told them that God understands that pain and grief and if they will turn to him for comfort, they can truly find it. The situation did not allow me to be much more evangelistic than that, but I think that it was appropriate and if it causes even one person to move a step closer to seeking an eventual relationship with God, through Jesus Christ, then Shawn’s death will have accomplished at least one good thing. Please keep the English family in your prayers as well as the soldiers of Delta Company 577th Engineers.
