We are now two weeks into our Summer Series of Sermons. We have titled them "PUSH" as we talk about the push of God in the lives of people that are members of Holy Cross. Each week we are highlighting a different person, this last week we spoke about Rear Admiral Alene Duerk, the first women of Flag Rank in the Navy. We told we story and looked at James 2:14-18 as we talked about how the way we live our lives can show our faith to all that see us. Michelle Bergman wrote a Biography of Alene's life which we have posted on the church website, here is an excerpt from that article:
It was during the time of her father’s illness, that Alene was first exposed to nursing. Nurses regularly came to their home to treat her father’s progressing condition.
“The nurses who came always seemed so very nice—they were very helpful and comforting to my father.”
Despite the excellent care of nurses and doctors, Alene’s father would succumb to tuberculosis when she was only four years old—leaving Alene’s mother, a young widow at only twenty-seven years of age, with two little girls to raise all alone.
It was an extremely difficult time. Emma had few career skills, outside of homemaking. So, after much prayer and consideration, she decided to move the family to her parent’s home, which was located on a farm near Holgate, Ohio.
You can read the whole story at http://hclm.org/push Watch for a new person each week and information about them in the week following at our website.
In Christ,
Paul Hoyer
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