Today, we gave honor to a great man, a Christian man, a church man, in a memorial service for Elmer Roden. I have known this man practically all my life, and was his pastor for the past 11 years.
Elmer Roden was part of the foundation of the Harvest Center church almost since its beginning. He was an example of Christian love, acceptance, forbearance, and giving. His stories of the history of this community of faith always kept me spell-bound. I always said, I'd like to have another 200 members just like Elmer Roden. Any pastor would be glad to have the same. This church will never be the same without him.
I will miss him. I will always hold him is high esteem. "I'll see you on the other side, my friend."
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Indeed this is a man in which there was no guile to be found! We shall surely miss him.
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