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A Special Memory!

Posted by Roy on July 6, 2009

We’re in the middle of Family Week at Camp Nathanael. We have a full facility and many folks are coming in for the day. I think we fed around 275-300 folks at supper last night.

Dan & Joy Terhune presenting the flag to the Letcher Central Color Guard

Today we had one of those moments that will stick with you for a while. At our traditional patriotic flag salute before dinner we honored two

men who loved the Lord and then loved those around them. Eric Terhune and Bob Howard were two men who lived the truth of John 15:13, “Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” Eric laid down his life in Afghanistan on June 19, 2008 (see blog achieves for June 2008) protecting the life of a fellow soldier. Bob completed his earthly journey on the final day of camp, July 18, 2003, here on the grounds of Camp Nathanael.

At noon today we dedicated three new flag poles in their honor. One holds the American flag which Eric defended so well for twelve years. The others fly the Kentucky state flag and a newly designed Camp Nathanael flag which describes where and with whom Bob invested thirty years of ministry.

We’re thankful for the JROTC from Letcher County Central High School, where Bob ministered as Chaplain for the football team many years and his son, Bob, serves as one of the ROTC instructors, who provided the color guard for the ceremony.

Only in God’s perfect design could both men’s cemetary markers carry the same biblical reference, Isaiah 40:31, “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

A special memory for sure but an even great motivator to emulate the lives of Eric and Bob as we serve the Lord they loved and served.

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A Special Memory!

Posted by Roy on July 6, 2009

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