Personal Background and Testimony:<\/strong><\/p>\nI accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior, during a Vacation Bible School in Camas, Washington, when I was in the third or fourth grade. It was a real experience and I have never turned back from following Him all of my life. I fell in love with my sweetheart, Joyce, when we were both 14. We have been married over 54 years and are devoted to each other.<\/p>\n
We were blessed with three beautiful children and eight grandchildren. Blessing is the operative word in our life. We have learned the secret of blessing. In 1991, one year after becoming pastor at Summit Lake Community Church, our oldest daughter ascended to be with our Lord. We\u00a0learned the blessing of trusting the Lord, even when allowing our precious girl to slip the bonds of this world. Her three children have been surrounded with our prayers and have become a joy to us.<\/p>\n
We enjoy having our son Dan and his wife Donna and their family living close to us.\u00a0Our youngest daughter, Lori, experienced kidney failure in 2001 She began\u00a0receiving kidney dialysis and went on the list for a transplant of both her kidney and pancreas. On December 18, 2001, our granddaughter, Jenna (Brenda\u2019s daughter), donated one of her kidneys to her aunt Lori. The transplant was a great success. On February 5, 2002, a pancreas became available and was transplanted at the University of Washington Medical Center where the kidney transplant had been completed. Several months later the pancreas failed and she received a second transplant. Lori has experienced several challenges since the transplants, but we walk by faith, as does she, and simply allow the Lord to work out the details.<\/p>\n
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In our early seventies, Joyce and I are experiencing the blessing of the Lord on our ministry. We feel that there is no such thing as retirement. We want to be found faithful when the Lord calls us to be with Him and reunited with our dear ones who have gone on before us.<\/p>\n
This is a small glimpse of\u00a0Pastor Cecil. My desire is to be used in any and every way the Lord chooses.<\/p>\n
Blessings dear hearts. Walk with God\u00a0today, trust Him completely, and be a blessing.<\/p>\n
– \u2013 – Pastor Cecil<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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My name is Pastor Cecil A. Thompson. I feel that I am the most blest man in the world. God has given me the opportunity to share the thoughts and memories that come into my heart on a daily basis. For over ten years I have been sending out a daily message by e-mail. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-563","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyevotional.com\/prior2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}