Kris remembers Cora sitting on the floor in the children's bedroom playing with them, Gerda remembers Cora working hard, sitting on the floor of the hospital on LaGonave, cleaning out cupboards. I remember a person who was always willing to do anything I would ask of her. For us she was always a wonderful team member and we were always thrilled when she joined us. She was such an example for us...never complaining, just always doing, working hard.
I remember once she told me that she had told her family that "she could die in Haiti as well as home." That was the time she came to Haiti on a work team shortly after heart surgery. She joined our team when she was well into her 80's and I can remember her sadness when she couldn't physically come along any longer. But even when she wasn't on a work team, she never forgot Haiti.
Cora probably will never be remembered as world mover by many, in our eyes she was. In her quiet, unassuming manor, she was a mentor, an example, a doer, a wife, grandmother, great grandmother and a friend. Our lives have been so touched by the privilege of knowing her and we have blessed by her life. I know that Cora is now home. To her family and those who loved her..we offer our sympathies, but know that Cora's life counted much for the Lord's kingdom.
I guess as a side note, I have been thinking lately of many who had been connected with the work her in Haiti who have recently been called to their eternal home. Donna Doan, Edna Taylor and now Cora. What I have wondering about is who will take their place.
I am sure that each of them upheld the work here in Haiti in prayer. We are seeing a whole generation of prayer warrior now pass away and I do wonder if there will be those who will stand in that gap. Are there those who will take the burdens of others to the Lord in prayer. Who will touch heaven with the cries of their hearts.
Missionaries rely on the prayers of God's people, it is as essential to their lives as the funding that they receive. Will you stand in the gap?
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We remember Cora as well. She came out with one of the teams that worked at Letan while we were there. That was probably 20 years or more ago. I'm glad she was able to serve for many more years after that.
I never met Cora, but this reminded me of my mom, in heaven for 9 years already. When she passed away I remember thinking and even saying to a few; "Now I'll never be sure that someone is praying for me every day." I was assured of that with my mom. I also know, Kris, that she prayed for you every day. I have tried to take up that "mantle". We do pray for you and your family sometime every day. God bless all the Lillians and Coras who are prayer warriors. Kathy B.
I pray that God would provide more missionaries with a heart like Cora's.
The day of His returning is fast approaching.
"Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest."
Luke 10:2 (King James Version)
Amen!
Thank you for writing such wonderful things about my Great Grandmother. She was such an amazing woman and we will all miss her very much! Her memory will live on in all the lives that she has touched throughout the years :) Thank you & God Bless you for the work that you do in Haiti.
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