Hi, folks! How are you? We are great in most ways and the things that aren't are being managed by the King! I have been leading a study on the Book of Revelation and it has been one of the highlights of study in my life. I am having so much fun teaching them God's Word. I have the most interesting and interested group of students that I have fellowshipped with in years. As we study and talk among ourselves, we have sensed the Presence of Jesus and believe that the reading and the promised blessing that comes with the reading, is accomplishing in us the same thing it did in John as it was revealed to him.
Cherry, my eldest daughter, has continued to grow in the Lord and as an adult. I have watched her make many selfless decisions that reflect a current and vital fellowship with the Lord that is being energized by the Holy Spirit. I am very proud of her. She is being mentored by a friend of ours who we have known for years and in whom we have much confidence. Stacey McCarron Collins and her husband Mike have befriended Cherry and JC in an unusual way and we are deeply indebted to them. Stacey was one of Ralph and Shirley Hagamier's team that I first got to know in Zaire (Now the Congo) in 1994. She is a great missionary still, and I believe God alone is responsible for bringing her and Mike into Cherry and JC's life. By God's grace, they are watering the seeds that Beth and I and had planted over the years of our lives.
When 9/11 happened, I told my girls that one of the key values for every Strickland to pass on to their children is to be a missionary... to be God's voice to their world.
God bless you all.
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