Thad's Notes

By Thad Kaylor

Hi everyone, 2:45 am here in Yangon, Myanmar.

We leave tomorrow for the Kuki Christian Convention in Tamu. I was told I would be asked, and forcefully encouraged by my good friend Charles R. Cherry to stand before 1,500, maybe 2,000 people, most who speak zero to very little English and who I am culturally ignorant of, and give them some encouragement. That makes me a little nervous. I am speaking to my Denver Church people here... you all know Thad Kaylor.

I knew I could give them some good Kaylor gift of gab...that scared me as well. I prayed for God to put something significant on my heart - his words. Not mine. The only Bible verse I can see, right now, stamped in my soul by Pete Zeien when I was 13 or so in Sunday school youth class is 1 Corinthians 10:13.

No that can’t be right. There has to be some verse more profound than that. I closed my eyes and thought about the Apostles and the Saints, what would they say to a Church far away? But the Apostles and the Saints - all praised decade after century, would not come to my head.

I am very fearful to put names on paper, for I might forget someone, but names and faces did start coming to mind, each nodding their head at my selected verse. Pete Zeien, Leota King. Cuba Vilander, Laverne Melvin, Betty Clark Hellyer, Sonja Mabry, Mom, Chuck and Elly Q-Webb, Sandy Little Arlis Dittmer, Leroy Kaylor, all of my peers in Denver Church, all those in our little Community growing up who serve one another, who trade off Sunday school classes, communion preparation, building and grounds…all important, but none so much as doing what the Bible tells us: serve one another in love and bring up your children in the Lord.

Thank you all for your Christ like love and mercy, and in my case, for not giving up on me. In the next few days this Denver Church Kaylor kid is taking 1 Corinthians 10:13 to the edge of Magellan’s map.

Yes, I am fully drowning in my own tears right now.

Love you all.

I pray I can get it out, ❤️❤️💯

Thad Kaylor