Arcade Church

On behalf of the Damron family and Arcade Church I want to thank all of you who have shown the love of Christ to the family during the tragic loss of Lexi. There is a fund established to help the family with the costs associated with this difficult situation. If you’d like to help, please call the church office for the information to make a donation.

I did want to let you know that a celebration of Lexi’s life will be Monday, February 16th at 11:00am at Arcade Church. There will be a reception afterwards and childcare will be available during the service.

I have had a number of people ask “why?”, “why would God take such a young vibrant girl?”. I don’t have an answer for people. The truth is I don’t know why God decide her and now. I personally have had to remind myself of two passages of scripture. Job 40:1-5 reminds me that I am small and that God is bigger, bigger than I can fully understand. Second, Isaiah 55:8-9 tells me that God’s ways are higher than my ways and His thoughts are higher than my thoughts. Someday might we see God’s hand at work throughout this terrible tragedy, someday His plan might be revealed, maybe.

I do know at times like this, whether the death of a child or any other tragedy that we face in life that we find ourselves at a “fork in the road”. Our choices  - walk down the path of rest,comfort and love found in Jesus Christ or down the path of the bitterness found in a cold and cruel world. I also know for the Damron family that the grieving process takes times.

Church, again, thank you for your love you have poured out to the Damrons, the Flanagans and others who have lost loved ones over this last week. Let’s keep our trust in the Sovereign God, who has a plan for each of His children, a plan for hope and eternity and not calamity and disaster (Jeremiah 29:11). Let’s praise Him that we can mourn as grieve unlike those who have no hope (1 Thessalonians 4:13).

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted - Matthew 5:4

Pastor Jeremy