A significant event

occurs in our community today. Pastor Dumas and Tex (pronounced "Tech")

Shellnut move out of their home here in Fayetteville to begin a new chapter

of their lives in an assisted living community in Atlanta.

What a blessing they

have been to so many! For over 50 years they have been a pastoral team

with the United Methodist Church. Imagine the number of lives they have

touched and blessed and enriched in all those years! Those of you who

know them know their warmth and love and caring ways. They are gentle

and good. They love The Lord and they love The Church.

To know Dumas and

Tex is to know the best of disciples here on earth. To know them is to

know the Savior through them. To know them is to see the fulfillment of

Jesus' command that his people love others as He first loved them.

I mentioned a "new

chapter" opening up for them. They are now a little past the days

for "the joys of homeowning". They have come to a time when

their energies will now be used for remembering and receiving. I know

one thing for sure: the assisted living center where they will call home

will be a much better place because of them.

Thank you, Dumas and

Tex, for your eagle-like spirits. Thank you for making this world and

this community a much better place by your presence. Thank you for being

our neighbors and our friends, our pastor and our examples.

We honor you this

day. We thank God for you! We pray for the peaceful and joyous living

out of your days. God be with you 'til we meet again!

Simply put, "Well

done, good and faithful servants!" God loves you! And so do we!

Kollmeyer is

Pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, located in Fayetteville on

Hwy. 314 between Lowe's and The Pavilion. Worship services are each Sunday

at 8:15, 9:30 (Contemporary), and 11:00. For more information please log-on

at www.popdove.com or call 770-461-3403.

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