Sunday morning March 27, 1994 came way too fast for both of us. FIRST though, I forgot that somewhere during the week Tim talked with the board about 11p.m. one night he decided to tell our son David about the changes coming into our lives. Let me say, it was not a good thing! David came running into our bedroom (I was already in bed reading) he was screaming and his face was blood red. He was screaming "Dad is crazy, Dad doesn't know what he's doing, Mom, you have to stop him"! Well, at 'that' point in time, I was pretty much in agreement with David! I still wasn't any too happy to be leaving the greatest part of our livs either. David had told me when he was about ten years old that his plans were to 'never' leave home. And to this day, he pretty much hasn't. That story comes in way later though.
OK, back to Sunday morning. We made it through worship and Tim began his message. Somewhere in that message he NEVER actually said the words "Resign". It was something of a dialogue of ''change''. I remember our friend (and Elvis impersonator) Jack said his wife leaned over to him somewhere in the message and asked him "did pastor Tim just resign"? His response was "I think he did"! Needless to say, there were lots of tears and hugs following the service. The next few months were busy, time consuming and hard! Our last Sunday would be June 26, 1994.
In April 1994 we took a ''fact finding trip'' to Pine Ridge so the church would know more of what we were doing.
OH just brought back a memory of 1993. August of 1993 we rented a car to go to General Council/Vacation in Minneapolis where I suffered with chest pains and high blood pressure all throughout the meetings from the stress of the changes coming and having NO one to share all of it with. We made ONE more trip out to Pine Ridge with long time friends Pastors Ed & Barbara. Tim promised we'd go back home via Colorado but that didn't happen. The four of us were going to stay a few days when Ed received an emergency call that his dad had been hospitalized and they had to head back to Minneapolis. We continued on taking another day through Pine Ridge Reservation. Had been nearly a year since our first visit there and my feelings had NOT changed at all. We did take a cool trip back through Branson, Missouri where it was hotter than all get out. Whew! General Council comes during the HOTTEST time of the year no matter where you are! That trip, we put 5,400 miles on that rental car!
OK back to 1994! April we flew back out to SD on a fact finding trip. Didn't find out many more facts than we had in 1992 and 1993! Nothing had changed, the poverty, the squallier, the oppression and depression, nothing had changed. Alcohol still ran rampant, children were hungry, grand mothers were raising way too many grand children. We shared on Sunday morning at a Wesleyan Church in Pine Ridge Village. That was quite an experience, way different from what I was use to. Met some very nice people. The pastors had been at the church for nearly 30 years. They had raised quite a number of native children. We stayed just over the week end then returned back to Cocoa on Monday.
That May we celebrated our last Mother/Daughter Banquet with an Italian Theme. It was as all our others, a great success. Sunday, June 26th came way too fast for me, our last Sunday as Pastors of Cocoa First Assembly of God.
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