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Food
For Thought

By: 

Rev. Shirley D. Heermance

On May 10, 2026, we had the blessed opportunity to celebrate Mother's Day. It was the first Mother's Day that my family celebrated without our beloved Mama Winnie. I don't mind telling you that I felt her absence tremendously, and I felt myself moving into a place of sadness. But as I spoke to the Lord about it, I could hear the Spirit speak reminding me, that those who have gone on before us are more alive than we are in this place of mortal living. I pondered the joy in knowing that this year our mother is living life anew, without the challenges that she faced this time last year, and so many years before. As I thought about her eternal restoration, the reunion she must have experienced when she reached the shores of glory, my sadness transformed into joy in knowing as she is absent from her body, she is Home with the Lord. So, I just asked the Lord if He would deliver a message to her and all the darling Mothers who she's join in heaven, to express my love and my hope to one day join them there. And just to say thank you for being all that you are and forever will be to me.

Mental Health, Music, and Mission

 

Acts 16:25-26

Mental Health - Multiple pandemics and compounded grief have taken a toll on our well-being.

Music- is a unifying and comforting tool.  Like the hymns that Paul and Silas sang ...

Mission -is to meet the least, the lost, and the left out.

 

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Topeka, Kansas 66608

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