Bannister Life Review 2016 (TFC Friends)
It's been a long time since we talked. But because of technology, like Facebook, we have been able to keep up with all of you. The line from the old Michael W. Smith song is true, "Friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them." After being in ministry for the past 15 years and watching all of you stand strong in the faith, I have a profound appreciation of this truth. So let me begin by saying, we are so glad to call you our friends. Distance tends to make strangers of us all, life continues to happen outside our shared class schedule we had at TFC. Family, children, jobs, ministry as well as sickness and trouble have appeared on our Facebook feeds concerning all of you, keeping us informed and helping to know how to pray for you, as the years have flown by. Vacations have been few and far between for us and visitations to our old stomping grounds, because our family is from the area, haven't netted the connection with each of...