| HELLO DON AND FELLAS:
NOTHING LIKE WAITING TWO WEEKS TO TELL YOU MUCH OAKDALE ENJOYED HAVING YOU ALL FOR HOMECOMING. EVERYONE LOVED YOU AND WE HOPE YOU HAD JUST AS MUCH FUN AND FELLOWSHIP. I BELIEVE THAT YOU HAD SOME PEOPLE WHO CAME TO SEE YOU FROM CUMMING. WELL, SO DID PREACHER DAN. THE LUMMUS FAMILY HAD BEEN TELLING PREACHER DAN THEY WOULD COME AND VISIT HIM AT OAKDALE, BUT HE SAID HE WOULD BELIEVE IT WHEN HE SAW THEM. SO THEY DECIDED TO VISIT OAKDALE THAT SUNDAY TO HEAR PREACHER DAN PREACH. THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS HOMECOMING. THEY HAVE 2 GIRLS, 12 & 14. THEY DIDN'T STAY FOR LUNCH, WENT ON HOME. THE GIRLS BEGAN CRYING AND TOLD THEIR DAD THAT THEY WERE LOST. HE ASKED IF THEY WANTED HIM TO CALL PREACHER DAN TO COME OVER AND THEY SAID NO. SO THE PARENTS AND THE GIRLS BEGAN TO PRAY AND THE GIRLS WERE SAVED THAT AFTERNOON. SO PREACHER DAN CALLED ME AFTER HE HEARD SUCH WONDERFUL NEWS AND SAID TO MAKE SURE THAT I TOLD YOU OF THIS. HE WAS SO EXCITED. I KNOW THAT YOU ALL ARE, JUST ANOTHER ASSURANCE THAT YOU ARE DOING THE WORK OF THE LORD AND HOW MUCH YOU ALL MEAN TO OAKDALE. WE LOVE YOU, LET US KNOW IF WE CAN DO ANYTHING FOR YOU. TAKE CARE AND MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU REAL GOOD. I LIKE THAT OLD SONG, SEEMS LIKE I REMEMBER AS A LITTLE GIRL HEARING THAT ON SUNDAY MORNING GOSPEL SINGING ON TV-MAYBE THE LEFEVRES SANG IT. YOU KNOW HOW IT GOES, I SPEND A LOT OF TIME PRAYING THAT HE WOULD, MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU REAL GOOD. EARLENE |