I Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV) “Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.”

Today we remember one of Heartland’s members, and celebrate her homecoming in Heaven. Sister Gladys was the type of Christian that if she said she would pray for you, you believed that she would. She never shied away from sharing her testimony: she gave God the glory for all the ways He blessed her, all the lessons He taught her, and all the times He healed her.

When I was pregnant with my first child, Gladys told me that when she was pregnant with each of her four children, she worked in her garden up until it was time to deliver. I marveled that she had the energy to do that, but I didn’t doubt her (considering she was working in her garden well into her eighties)! And when I was in those last few weeks of each of my pregnancies, when getting off the couch was a struggle, I would remember her words and think, “If she could do that, I can do this!”

Want to be an encourager? Sometimes it’s as simple as sharing your story.

-Kevi

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