Prayer Chain

                                         THE HISTORY OF THE PRAYER CHAIN MINISTRY -

                                                                  AND REMEMBERING BEVERLY SCHIRPKE

 

In each of our lives, we remember a particular date as life changing - for ourselves and others. In 1979, we were a congregation of approximately three hundred active close- knit members led by Pastor Norman Brauer since our first service in January of 1961.

 

On June 30, 1979 I received a call from fellow member and friend Janet McCarthy asking me to pray for her 20 year old son David who was seriously injured in an industrial accident at a local machine shop. His shirt was caught in a chain saw which deeply cut into his shoulder and upper chest. He had a collapsed lung and great blood loss. Fellow worker drove him to ER where he was in ICU with life threatening injuries.

 

My first thought was to call Bev Schirpke and ask her to pray for David. I knew that Bev, with a family including her elderly father, arose early each day by going to a quiet place to pray. (Matt. 6:6)

 

I also called Lois Brauer and Eilleen Feilbach. I was reminded that there was a ministry called a 'prayer chain' at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church - and I knew that Bev should be our leader.

 

Since that date we have continued a Prayer Chain Ministry, remembering Beverly Schirpke's example of faith and evangelism in all walks of life. Soon after becoming members in 1973, Beverly, Andy and her father Roy Thorson, in his 90s, joined the Bethel Bible class I taught - a two year study in the early 70s.

 

We are thankful for the life and friendship of Bev Schirpke.

 

Ecc. 4:9, 10 -"Two are better than one. ...For if they fall, one will lift up his

 

companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up."

 

 


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