In Sure and Certain Hope

As the 10 a.m. worship service finished the post communion prayer, we processed out to the Memorial Garden to consecrate the ground and to commit to the earth the mortal remains of Marc Dickman and Barbara Morris, both of whom died earlier and their ashes were awaiting the garden. We gave thanks for the gift Marc and Barbara were to us and committed their remains to God, laying them to rest as the first two burials on our grounds (though Marc had been interred under the gazebo until today when his ashes were moved to be buried as others will under a granite marker).