It's been a typical late spring in southside Virginia. Heat, winds, RAIN to beat the band, and general mixed up weather. Things are settling out a little but I sense it will be quite the summer. At church we're in a bit of an odd place - we've just had one of our longest term members pass away on this past Thursday. We found out this morning that Mr. Paul K. Brady has been an official member of the church since June 12, 1927. He lived a long and vital life from September 25, 1914 until this year and lived and worked on many interesting projects: while serving in the Army in WWII he fought at the Battle of the Bulge; while in Suffolk he started a radio business; in 1954 he build Brady's Marina for the City of Suffolk; and in the late 1950s he was a member of the amateur salvage team that raised the tanker the African Queen that was abandoned off the Delmarva peninsula - doing something that professional salvage companies declined to do. Really an interesting story. At church this morning we talked about the life and ministry of Paul Brady and how they've shaped the church that St. John's is today. We also shifted our focus to his upcoming funeral service. We had time to reflect on the implications of our Acts reading today in my sermon entitled “What are we looking for?”
Les
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