Ken;
Another view point, no more important nor less important than your own.
What if the driver was doing everything absolutely perfect, a stretch possibly
but go along with me, please. What if the church "body" failed to maintain the
van as "to expensive" right now. How many times have I shown up at PowWow and
had to tow or otherwise help another outpost with their van. I cringe and pray
that the Lord gives them extra protection. I thank God that our Sr. Pastor does
not let our van descend into maintenance hell and then expect the Rangers or the
Missionettes or the WM's or the Men's Ministry to use such hell on wheels for
transportation.
How many of us are responsible for allowing the conditions that may have existed
on that church van?
Forgive me Lord for I have been guilty, more times than I want to count. Not at
my present church but at churches in my past.
Now if the church van is not in top notch condition I will not allow my daughter
or my Rangers to ride in the wagon. We find other, better transportation.
Sorry for any offense, I am very passionate about this. These children are
entrusted to my care and I am Ready to do my best for them and for my Jesus.
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From: Ken Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [RR] Prayer for local outpost
| >This is one of those things that you say will "never happen to me". My
| >prayers and sympathies are with all the families and churches in that area.
|
| This is one of those things that I almost always have in my mind when I'm
| driving--especially the church van. By maintaining an attitude of "that
| driver over there won't stop at the intersection" or "the brakes may fail
| at any time" can prevent a lot of accidents. I'm not talking about an
| attitude of FEAR or DEFEATISM, but being READY! Pilots are trained in
| emergency procedures all the time. Ever heard of a similator session where
| an engine didn't fail at some inopportune moment? Sometimes, we get pretty
| lazy and pop the cruise control on, rest our leg over to the passenger
| side, get involved with a conversation behind us, take our seatbelts off...
|
| We should use this tragedy as a wakeup call. I'm not saying that this
| driver was at fault, as we all know that some things do happen beyond our
| control, and we all know that 15 passenger vans (fully loaded) are barely
| controllable under the best of conditions. Blow a tire at 65 mph in a
| fully loaded van and it becomes potentially an extremely deadly situation.
| What I am saying is that we as drivers have an awesome responsibility to
| protect the lives of our passengers. Get-there-itus is a dangerous thing,
| and habits that we form while commuting in our cars (like eating, cranking
| the stereo, etc) have no place in the driver's seat of the church van/bus.
|
| Ken Norton
|
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