Comments on: Moving In, Praying On

By: Greg Bailey

Greg Bailey — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:27:11 +0000

Dear Timmy:
We continue to pray for Tom, Donna and all the little Ascols. But we also pray for your expanded service at GBC-CC and the health and growth in grace of the church at large. It is rather awesome how God brought you to the church just a couple of months prior to the churches need. I pray you and the great Ken Puls and the other officers and members of the church are blessed even in Tom’s debilitation.
In Christ Alone,
Greg Bailey

By: Timmy Brister

Timmy Brister — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:55:42 +0000

Thanks everyone for your very kind comments. The past two weeks have been really challenging, and hopes are that by the end of next week life will start to be a little more normal. I have often reflected on where I am right now in life and how God has placed me where I am today. Blogging has given me opportunity to get to know many wonderful and encouraging people, and while I may have never met some of you in person, I am truly grateful for your prayers and support.

Adam, my hopes and prayers are the same. Great to hear from brother. Thanks for the encouragement.

By: Adam Winters

Adam Winters — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 05:29:45 +0000

Keep on preaching that gospel, Timmy. It seems God has brought you down to Cape Coral for such a time as this. I’ll keep Tom in prayer. I hope God uses this ordeal to make Tom’s life and ministry even more fruitful in the future. But for now, I’ll just pray God gives him the grace to appreciate such things as walking, talking, and sleeping.

By: Johnny Helms

Johnny Helms — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:18:14 +0000

I do pray, Timmy, that God will continually bless you and your family as you all take on these great ministries at your chuch. And even more so that He will strenghten Brother Ascol and his family, especially Mrs. Ascol, as he recovers. Pastor’s wives have enough to deal with already.

I hate moving. But when I and my family moved to my first church there were so many men from the church there waiting as we drove up that I actually had fun. In seminary at Southeastern when a new family arrived or a graduating family moved out, the brethren in our apartment complex poured out to help. It is glorifying to our Father when we bear one another’s burdens, even little ones like moving.

By: Carolyn in MN

Carolyn in MN — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:56:20 +0000

I didn’t know not many people survived lightning strikes! That makes it even more amazing that just a few days after I read about Tom Ascol on your blog, a friend of mine was struck (again, in Florida) inside her sons house while unpacking. It jumped from the sink and melted a hole in her blouse.

I also wanted to say my mom and I are both still chugging away at the Puritan Reading Challenge (7 done, 5 to go!) and really learning a lot. Thank you for blogging about it!

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:33:29 +0000

If we had been in the neighborhood we would have helped you out as well. You are loved.

Thanks for the updates on Tom. We continue to hold him up in prayer.