Doug is gone today to a Memorial service for a brother of a lady in our church. Our adult Sunday school class was interrupted a few weeks ago when one of our ladies received a call that her brother had been killed in a car accident. She came in S.S. crying. Pastor Euddy responded immediately by handing the lesson book to one of the ladies and left to take Esperanza to be with her family and start the funeral arrangements.
When they arrived at the funeral home (burial is normally done the same day here since they do not normally embalm the body), they learned that he really wasn't in a car accident, but that he had died of a heart attack the evening before! The funeral was held at 4:00 p.m. Sunday. Doug found out he was to preach the funeral message about 5 minutes before the service started. :-) He said the Lord helped him.
It is customary to have a memorial service for the deceased person about 10 days after their death. I think it is based on the Catholics praying them out of purgatory, but the Christians turn it into a memorial service and use it as a time to evangelize the family.
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