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Post by Sarita on Jul 25, 2006 14:40:29 GMT -5
Dear Staff,
Probably most of you have heard by now that Jeremy Gibson and his brother-in-law, Carlos Diaz, were drowned yesterday afternoon in the Nehalem River in northwestern Oregon. Linda Gibson's mother lives near this river. Carlos, Leona and boys were up in Oregon visiting Jeremy and the family was together at Linda's mother's place. We don't have all of the details but Carlos was on the river with a canoe when it capsized. He was obviously in trouble and Jeremy dived into the river from the shore to help him. The little boys were on the shore and ran to the house to call their mother when they saw their Dad and Uncle Jeremy both go down and not reappear. Divers found the bodies a few hours later down stream a little distance in a depression in the river bottom.
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Post by sm on Jul 25, 2006 14:48:08 GMT -5
That is soo sad,
My thoughts are with the family.
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Post by Brenda on Jul 25, 2006 17:30:50 GMT -5
I heard of this this AM and made a post on the other board-- very sad-- I remember Jeremy being about a 10 year old kid when I was a teen. I was more good friends with one of his older brothers.
Sad for Leona losing a husband and a brother-- she was a few years older than me and helped me with my hair a few times at Santee
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Post by Hol on Jul 25, 2006 17:41:13 GMT -5
Our sympathies to the families in this tragedy....to die at such young ages in this manner. We remember the Nehalem River as a great place to fish and boat.
Our prayers for the families.
Hol
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Post by guest5 on Jul 25, 2006 18:12:20 GMT -5
BJ - What might the other site be if it is OK to tell. I looked at ReachingOut but didn't see anything there.
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Post by BJ unlogged on Jul 25, 2006 18:45:51 GMT -5
no I meant on the other board/thread here-- did not know what to call it-- the one with the death announcements--
sorry for the confusion
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Post by hrl on Jul 25, 2006 18:46:12 GMT -5
This is very sad news. My prayers are with all.
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Post by Sarita on Jul 25, 2006 19:02:21 GMT -5
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Post by lloydnipawin on Jul 26, 2006 9:19:56 GMT -5
Sorry to hear this
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Post by GuestS on Jul 28, 2006 6:24:47 GMT -5
The original poster said, "Dear Staff?" Does this mean that an overseer is posting/reading here? Is it now OK to use the dreaded internet to communicate? Interesting choice of names..."Sarita". Is that a man's name or do we now have women overseers?
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Post by euroman on Jul 28, 2006 6:41:38 GMT -5
Dear Staff,
Probably most of you have heard by now that Jeremy Gibson and his brother-in-law, Carlos Diaz, were drowned yesterday afternoon in the Nehalem River in northwestern Oregon. Linda Gibson's mother lives near this river. Carlos, Leona and boys were up in Oregon visiting Jeremy and the family was together at Linda's mother's place. We don't have all of the details but Carlos was on the river with a canoe when it capsized. He was obviously in trouble and Jeremy dived into the river from the shore to help him. The little boys were on the shore and ran to the house to call their mother when they saw their Dad and Uncle Jeremy both go down and not reappear. Divers found the bodies a few hours later down stream a little distance in a depression in the river bottom.
Joe and Linda caught a flight into Seattle last night and rented a car to drive to Linda's mother's home. They would have arrived at grandmother's on in the morning hours this morning.
Harold Bennett is in touch with Tom Hinkle and they are hoping to arrange an Oregon service for Jeremy on Thursday at the Boring convention grounds. Arrangements for the services for Jeremy and Carlos in California are still pending. Harold, Walter and I talked to Linda on the phone this morning. John Parish and Scott Wainwright are in touch with the family in the San Diego area and were going to visit Carlos' parents this morning.
This is such a shock to everyone - hard to believe that it has really happened. We feel the loss of a dedicated young brother worker and all of the family ties that are severed with both men - human and spiritual. A little family is left without a father. We are so thankful that there is balm in Gilead and there is a physician there.
Walter arrived at the Milltown grounds late yesterday afternoon. The brothers from Canada are expected by 10 AM. In fact, Paul Sharp just walked into the bedroom here as I was finishing the last sentence.
You will be notified as arrangements unfold. We would like as many of the staff as at all possible to be at the funeral - from CA, NV, AZ and Mexico.
With a heavy heart, Dale
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Post by guest5 on Jul 28, 2006 10:35:47 GMT -5
This was orginally posted to the STanding True site, and as usual someone took it from there and posted it here. IT was only a matter of a couple of hrs before it appeared here.
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Post by justamom on Jul 28, 2006 10:40:23 GMT -5
I received this same letter in my email a couple of days ago.. I am not on the other board.. so many, just maybe the poster also got the this letter in their email....
Have a great day..
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Post by Sylvestra on Jul 28, 2006 11:11:46 GMT -5
I also got this letter in an e-mail from family before it appeared here.
I knew the Gibson's many years ago when I was in San Diego for meetings, conventions a long time ago.
Very sad news. Edy
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Post by Sarita on Jul 28, 2006 17:41:14 GMT -5
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I posted only a portion of the email I received just to pass on the sad news. At no time did I mean to cause a conflict. I am happy to see that Euroman did post the whole letter.
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Post by just me on Jul 28, 2006 22:52:18 GMT -5
My condolences to the family
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Post by Sarita on Jul 29, 2006 13:25:12 GMT -5
I just feel compelled to share this information especially with those who knew/met Jeremy. It gave me some kind of closure.
Thanks, Sarita
Subject: Jeremy's funeral service - Sandy Pfeifer
The following came from Sandy Pfeifer:
Please feel free to forward this to any whose hearts were with us today.
It was a privilege today to represent, with 4 others, Jeremy's last prep crew at his funeral at the Boring convention grounds among more than 700 people and 80 workers who loved him and his calling. We who were from Montana and Wyoming mostly only knew Jeremy in the past few months. But we were the benefactors of the ripest of fruit from his life because it was his last days. And we truly appreciate the sweetness of it.
The Oregon workers worked at Boring yesterday to get the meeting shed ready for the funeral and it was set up like convention, with the deep, rich, red wooden casket at the back of the building before the service, then carried to the front by the pall bearers where it remained during the service. The casket spray contained a combination of flowers that would never be put together in any other bouquet.tropical blooms, cut flowers of every color, roses and the occasional sheaf of wheat. But it reflected a 'collection' of the places Jeremy has labored. California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Oregon. This same beautiful mingling was seen in the group of workers at the service, and the states and provinces they represented.
The workers sat on either side of the platform and Jeremy's family sat in the first rows of the middle section. I had never met any of his family before but it was not hard to pick out his brothers. Not so much from the physical resemblance, but more from even their posture, from the way they parted their hair the same, the way they seemed to be just about to smile, like Jeremy's expression always was. Jeremy has two sisters as well, and the one who lost her husband sat between her 4 boys, age 11 and down, all in matching blue shirts and ties. They were on a trip to visit Jeremy-from southern California.
The picture of Jeremy on the funeral folder looks just like him, with a big smile. It was taken this past Sunday. On the inside is another picture of Jeremy standing in front of the ocean and John 15v.13 is quoted: "Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends." These pictures of his happiness was comforting and soothing because the sight of Jeremy himself in the casket gave evidence of a death of trauma. The mortuary did well but his unnatural coloring under the stark fluorescent lights could not be unnoticed, despite his peaceful countenance. But even in its harshness, it reassured us that the magnitude of Jeremy's efforts to save another man's life were definitely as great as the magnitude of tragedy their deaths became. Not to be confused with their spiritual lives, which were no tragedy.
The pall bearers were: Lee Irish, Stan Sullivan, Joe Layman, John Parish, Troy Patterson and Scott Wainright. The service began with hymn 340 "Let Not My Soul". Harold Bennett read the obituary and prayed. The last sentence of the obituary read: "Jeremy especially loved children and children loved him." Harold spoke then about the question in James 4, "what is thy life?" And mentioned something from the verses about our life as a vapor, a shepherd's tent, a tale that's told, and an eagle hastening to its prey. Next we sang 404 "There is No Gain". Steve Watts spoke from Ex 2 about Jeremy beginning, continuing and finishing his life on a river's brink. And how he never put his spiritual life at risk, but stayed where it was safe. Even though he didn't have a rope to help save another on the day he died, he knew what it was to help souls of men by the lifeline of the gospel. Tom Hinkle spoke very briefly about the verse quoted in the funeral folder and said that Jeremy practiced those words and on Monday he fulfilled those words. And that a life could never be disappointed leaving Earth with those words fulfilled. Dale Schultz talked about the last messages of Moses, David, Paul and Jesus. Each of those men lived a shorter amount of years than the one preceding them in the list. But the effectiveness of a life is not determined by the length of a life. We finished with 395, "Can Ye Not Watch?" which contains the words: ".One little hour to bravely meet disaster, eternal years to reign with him in white." John Parish closed in prayer.
Dale said that while this was a funeral for Jeremy, all these things could be said about Carlos too-Jeremy's brother-in-law. He also brought notice to the gap left in the ministry now. Carlos Diaz' funeral will be Monday in California and Jeremy's service in CA will be Tuesday evening. He will be buried at Mountain Ranch convention grounds next to Tom Fredgren, his good friend, according to the family's wishes.
Trish, Tia, Austin and Tawna Jacobsen brought Jeb and Cali Syverson with them from Manhattan, MT, and Bill and Chris Bellows were also MT faces in the crowd, as well as the Cooks.a couple who recently moved to Missoula who professed at the same time the Gibsons did in the 1970s in southern California. Jeremy was 5 when the Gospel came to his family.
This is just a few feeble words to describe something that cannot be described with words. But there is far more potential in the seeds that were planted today, hopefully in my own life most of all.
Please excuse any inaccuracies of this note.may it just compliment other's reports as well.
With care,
Sandy Pheifer
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Post by Hope For All on Jul 29, 2006 18:11:22 GMT -5
The original poster said, "Dear Staff?" Does this mean that an overseer is posting/reading here? Is it now OK to use the dreaded internet to communicate? Interesting choice of names..."Sarita". Is that a man's name or do we now have women overseers? What an utterly stupid post. A worker drowns- and you're worried about this? HFA
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Post by guest5 on Jul 30, 2006 8:34:41 GMT -5
The guest5 in this reply and the one in Reply 4 is not the same one as using that handle in reply 11. No big deal but this happens your know.
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Post by Roy on Jul 30, 2006 23:20:08 GMT -5
(this is complete service notes)
Jeremy Gibson's Funeral - July 27, 2006
Hymn 340
Harold Bennett:
James 4:13-14 For what is your life? Life is uncertain. Nothing is more uncertain than life, but death is certain. Where does life go? Life goes into eternity. Life is like a vapor. The vapor goes into the atmosphere, and nothing goes with it. We come into life with nothing, and we leave this world like a vapor. The only thing we take with us is what God has been able to put into our hearts. God put something into Jeremy's heart, and through the years it has worked there, and now that is the only thing he took with him into eternity. Jeremy's life was able to be used and guided and channeled to help others. Our life is like a vapor also, and we don't want to go off into the atmosphere and have nothing left.
Is. 38:12 Our lives are like a shepherd's tent that can be removed. When the shepherd's tent is folded up, every evidence of it will not be gone because of the effect that the shepherd had. There is a monument left where that tent was that will remain.
Ps. 90:9 We spend our years as a tale that is told. Our lives are like a tale that is told. A tale has a beginning and an ending that's told to somebody. A tale can have a note of sorrow and tragedy or it can end on a note of victory. The best stories are those that have a message that makes an impact. Sweet is the story you shall tell at eventide, when day is done. The message from Jeremy's life could be it pays to serve Jesus, it pays to die daily, it pays to let God control. When day was done, he died trying to help someone else. He went into the ministry to help others, and he finished it helping someone else.
Job 9:26 Life is like an eagle that hasteth to the prey. The eagle's eyesight is sharp, and its wings are swift. A mouse that might be the prey probably had its plans for the day, but it wasn't aware of the eagle that hastened to it. I would like to live each day like it were my last day, and I'd like to live to help others as though it were their last day.
Hymn 404
Steve Watts:
Exodus 2:1B3
Jeremy began his life by the river's brink, he spent his life by the river's brink, and he ended his life by the river's brink. When Moses mother put her son by the river's brink, it was the safest place she could put him. Jeremy's parents did everything they could think of to make their home a safe home and a spiritual home.
Moses mother put that little life in the river, but only as far as she had to. The safest thing Jeremy could do was to respond to the Lord's dealings and stay in that safe place. It's the safest place. When he responded to the call of the harvest field, he went and stayed in the safest place. He might have been tempted to go out further into the river, but he never put his spiritual life at risk by doing this.
It wasn't that he wasn't concerned about others that were out in the river, but he used the lifeline of the gospel to reach them. Jeremy liked to encourage them to come back into the safe place, and he encouraged others to stay in the safe place. There were those who were there that he encouraged to stay in the safe place.
Jeremy was concerned for others that they didn't let the river of this world come into their homes. Sometimes parents may take their children out further into the river. Maybe the parents are able to stand, but their little children wouldn't be able to stand or to get back. I would like to encourage you to spend you life at the river's brink and don't venture out. Keep your life in the safest place. Jeremy would also encourage this.
Tom Hinkle:
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 These were the words of the son of God, and he lived those words in his life. A few years ago Jeremy began to practice those words, and a few days ago he fulfilled those words. I don't think anyone would regret having fulfilled those words when their life is over.
Dale Shultz:
While our hearts being human are grieved, we rest in peace. Jeremy didn't have time to leave a last message, but his life leaves a last message. Deut. 33.27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. Human arms are weak, but we can rest in arms that are everlasting, that are strong, they're underneath, and they're supporting. We are glad that God is a hearing God, a seeing God and a feeling God, but we are so glad that he is a helping God. The strength of his arms can be our support.
Joshua 24:15 But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. A settled purpose, a consecrated life. Jeremy's service was to the Lord. vs. 31 Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua.
2 Sam. 23:2 The last words of David. The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. vs. 4 a morning without clouds. We know days with clouds in this life, but we look forward to the eternal day that will dawn without a cloud.
2 Tim. 4:6 For I am ready to be offered, and the day of my departure is at hand. Jeremy didn't know that the time of his departure was at hand, but he was ready to be offered. He and Carlos had made ready, and they were maintaining that readiness on a day-to-day basis. They weren't scrambling to get ready, but they were maintaining that fellowship with the Lord and maintaining that response to the Lord. I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith. That kind of thing doesn't just happen.
Acts 20:24 to testify the gospel Paul's purpose of the gospel was accomplished in 2 Tim. 4. Daniel had a godly purpose, and that purpose stayed with him throughout his life. Jeremy was able to finish in the ministry. We're so thankful for those who are able to finish in the ministry. Not everyone is able to. The effectiveness of the lives of God's servants doesn't depend on the length of their lives. The one who had the shortest life span had the most impact on our salvation and on this kingdom.
Moses, Joshua, David, Paul, Jesus. There is a time in life when leaves are falling, and there is a certain stage in life when death is calling. Sometimes it isn't really time when leaves should fall, but the leaves flutter down. It wasn't really the time for leaves to fall when Jesus went to the cross, but it was his Father's time. Paul fought a good fight, finished in the ministry, but Jesus said to lift our eyes and behold the fields white unto harvest. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. It's very evident today that a gap is left in the harvest. It's good to feel the reminder today that Jesus left, that the Lord's people would continue to be shepherded, and the lost would be found.
Lk 23:34 Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. The son of God went into eternity without a twinge of unforgiveness in his spirit. That's a wonderful way to go into eternity. Jeremy's last words would be, if there is any unforgiveness toward a brother or sister, we would seek help from God to heal that spirit.
John 19:25 Jesus never forgot and always knew that there is always a human side to life. There are human bonds as well as spiritual bonds, and he thought of his mother, and he thought of tender bonds that would be broken. He asked John to take a special interest in his mother. We're so thankful for the help of heaven in life's deep experiences. We're very much aware of the kindness and care of our brothers who stand by. Jesus didn't want his mother to miss the support. We value those who stand by, feeling they can do so little, but want to stand in and do what they can. Let sorrow do it's work, come grief or pain, sweet are thy messengers, sweet their refrain.
Hymn 395
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Post by just an observation on Jul 31, 2006 17:35:20 GMT -5
Why do those on the Standing True list always feel they are the only ones who get these emails. There are thousands of people who share with each other. Maybe it would be nice to trust those on that list and not be so hasty to accuse.
Just an observation...
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Post by I keep laughing on Jul 31, 2006 18:50:05 GMT -5
"Why do those on the Standing True list always feel they are the only ones who get these emails. " because the one here is only trying to stur up trouble.... they only do that when they are sure something like that would have been posted on the list. Sometimes what they say is, isn't. That means they don't really have access... just sturring.
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Post by Playtime supervisor on Jul 31, 2006 21:54:59 GMT -5
I've observed this behavior a number of times here. Something shows up here and 'someone' has to point out that it came from some other site. Seems motivated by envy to me. Maybe some people don't like it that their site doesn't have the activity that this one does. Seems kind of childish to me; "Hey! No fair! I had that first! I'm tellin' Maaaaaaoom!"
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Post by lizzy on Aug 1, 2006 2:17:15 GMT -5
What is the Standing True site and how do we access it? Lizzy
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Post by Sylvestra on Aug 1, 2006 12:26:14 GMT -5
I've observed this behavior a number of times here. Something shows up here and 'someone' has to point out that it came from some other site. Seems motivated by envy to me. Maybe some people don't like it that their site doesn't have the activity that this one does. Seems kind of childish to me; "Hey! No fair! I had that first! I'm tellin' Maaaaaaoom!" I'd say this has a lot more to do with the fact that these folks haven't gotten the information yet that they are posting in a public forum!. I understand that people who post there must agree to NOT post things in other public forums, and they believe that makes them a private forum! You know, a little like they do with their church. Best regards, Edy
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Post by IQ on Aug 1, 2006 15:05:54 GMT -5
and they believe that makes them a private forum! You know, a little like they do with their church. Best regards, Edy Hardly think what you say is fair, when emails and information is posted from there to here, it is maliciously dissected by the former members of the F&W's. That cant be denied!
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Post by humm on Aug 1, 2006 15:42:49 GMT -5
and they believe that makes them a private forum! You know, a little like they do with their church. Best regards, Edy Hardly think what you say is fair, when emails and information is posted from there to here, it is maliciously dissected by the former members of the F&W's. That cant be denied! absolutely correct. i can't think of any place that those in the 2x2 do this sort of thing. is it part of christianity to do that? if it is i don't want nothing to do with it.
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Post by IQ on Aug 1, 2006 15:51:42 GMT -5
Hardly think what you say is fair, when emails and information is posted from there to here, it is maliciously dissected by the former members of the F&W's. That cant be denied! absolutely correct. i can't think of any place that those in the 2x2 do this sort of thing. is it part of christianity to do that? if it is i don't want nothing to do with it. Twister!
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