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Thursday, April 27, 2006

Earl Best

Earl Best
Went to be with his Lord on April 24, 2006.

Earl was born February 22, 1927 in Long Beach, Calif., the son of Glen and Nellie Best. In 1932 the family moved from California to a farm in Admire, Kans., where he started school at the age of five. The family moved back to California. In 1936 they settled in Whittier. His father worked in the oil fields until they moved to Oregon in December 1941, to a farm on Thompson Creek. Earl enlisted in the Navy at age 17, and served in the South Pacific during WWII. In 1943 he met Doreene Duval, and they were married in Reno, Nev. on Nov. 11, 1945.

He was discharged from the Navy in 1946, and entered into a partnership with his dad, his uncle, Glenn Hunter, and his cousin, Billy Joe Hunter, and a sawmill was started on Thompson Creek, later moving to Ruch. Logging and sawmilling was a big part of his life.

In Nov. 1946, both Doreene and Earl accepted the Lord as their personal Savior. It was only a short time later when they dedicated their lives to the Lord and the Lord began the journey starting at Multnomah School of the Bible.

After graduation, Earl and Doreene went back to Ruch to start Ruch Community Bible Church. Throughout the years he pastored numerous churches in the valley. He started Wilderness Trails in 1967. Earl worked for Josephine County in the probation department in 1971-1979. He drove over the road truck before retirement. When he retired, he accepted a job as chaplain for Providence Hospital and Asante. He especially liked working in the cancer center. Earl also took on the new task of learning a second language. He chose Spanish to be of better assistance to those people who could use his help in his daily work.

Earl is survived by his wife, Doreene; his children, Linda Keener, Judy Milton, Douglas Best, and Glen Best; his sister, Grace Stephens; 11 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Services will be held Saturday, April 29 at 11:00 a.m. at Community Bible Church in Central Point. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Providence Hospital Hospice, Providence Cancer Center, Wilderness Trails, P.O. Box 4655, Medford, OR 97501, or your own personal favorite charity.

He's laughing!
He's loving!
He's living!


Published in the Mail Tribune (link) on 4/27/2006.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

The Beauty of Life

Quote of the Week 4/23

But He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 (New International Version)


My Grandpa went home the morning of 4/24. I was blessed to be able to sit and talk with him a couple of times over the last few weeks. He quoted 2 Corinthians 12:9 during our last visit. Over the course of my life I was able to spend much time discussing God's word with him; I very much look forward to that day when we can do it again, unencumbered by distraction and the constraints of time.

Sunday, April 16, 2006

Noah and Kaara

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Quote of the Week 4/16



You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)

The angel spoke to the women: "There is nothing to fear here. I know you're looking for Jesus, the One they nailed to the cross. He is not here. He was raised, just as he said. Come and look at the place where he was placed. Matthew 28:5-6 (NIV)

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Heros

Houston... You Have a Problem


Well it would appear the President Bush is going to nuke Houston on Easter(link).

This will be a spectacular media event involving the mass evacuation of three million people, already tested in the bizarre Rita stampede last November. Network cameras will be locked on Texas City, from a distance of course, to
ensure the best possible pictures of the flash and rising mushroom cloud. Many
Americans will die, and the once again the world will be changed forever.

This is ultimate reality, life in the raw, far removed from the fairytales taught in schools and portrayed in mass media. It simply doesn’t get more real than this. Within this report you will hear the voices of U.S. officials in reversed speech, a medium that reveals hidden thoughts, giving you the actual details about their little mushroom surprise for America and the world.

You will hear with your own ears WHAT it is, WHERE it is, HOW it got here, WHO is responsible, and WHEN they intend to set it off.

Perhaps, if you share this report with enough people, the plan will be changed. The nuke can be quietly recovered and they will take it somewhere else. However, events over the past decade clearly demonstrate that those who are calling the shots firmly believe that their control and corruption of the government and military is so complete that the American people are totally powerless. It simply doesn’t matter how many people are aware of what is really happening. There is nothing they can do about it. ~Ken Welch


Ken Welch's proof; he played several speeches backwards.

Ken, you are not Fox Mulder, that was TV and just like Wookies, Dungeons and Dragons and the Spiderman they are all make believe.

I will say, it would be an excelent way for the Illuminati to destroy the Halliburton Corperate headquarters and destroy the evidence that they engineered the war in Iraq and the flooding of New Orleans' 9th Ward (link). Wait, that makes too much sense... it's all true.

Quote of the Week 4/9


There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus
Blaise Pascal; French mathematician, philosopher and physicist, 1623-1662

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Quote of the Week 4/2


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby. 1896-1963