I got word today from Margaret (my choir director at ECA) that Ann Redman, the wife of Nolan (the pastor who married Jon and I and was at ECA from 1986 until this last summer), died last night. She was terminally ill with cancer and decided to forgo chemo because it just wasn’t going to help her. She made the decision about 2 weeks ago with Nolan and all of her children present and I think her decision was really a good one. Chemo really takes everything from you and dying in a hospital bed connected to machines and life support apparatus is not how I want to die. She was able to die with her family there. I was really praying that she’d hang on for another 7 days because the 26th is their wedding anniversary but… God did not will that to be.

Please pray for Nolan and their family and please pray for ECA as I KNOW that they are mourning the loss of the one who helped to hold things together for 16 years.