I was sick and you visited me

Mike Mellor  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Jan 2016
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I was sick and you visited me

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Mike Mellor, of Hope Church, Ferndown, encourages us to minister hope in times of need

She was frail as a sparrow.

Her legs were like pencils and her ill-fitting teeth barely kept up with her mouth as she spoke. But on asking how she was as she lay in her bed, Gracie’s china blue eyes twinkled mischievously as she beamed and chirped: ‘I’m packed and ready to go, pastor!’ And indeed she was and she did, as a few days later the Lord gathered up another of his jewels. It had been my immense privilege on my visits to seek to make her transition a little more comfortable.

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