Uncle Edward

My Dad called at 6:00 this morning to let me know that Uncle Edward had passed away during the night. He was 80 years young.

Uncle Edward was an electrician and he loved to use his gifts to help God's work go forward. There are dozens of churches across this country and overseas that are all wired up, thanks to Uncle Ed. He also like to make burl clocks. He made scores of them for the Adventist media ministries who would in turn sell them to generate financial resources with which to keep going.

Uncle Ed's health slowly slipped away in recent years. Several weeks ago, while home alone, he slipped and fell in the driveway while trying to get his trash can out to the curb. He laid there for 20 hours before being found by a postal carrier. Uncle Ed was taken to the hospital and later transfered to a nursing home where he finished out his life here on earth.

Uncle Ed was a growing Christian. Through the years God mellowed him into a sweat, Christian gentleman. I'm looking forward to seeing him on the resurrection morning when Jesus comes.