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| Prepared by iD © HTB 2008 | |||
Charles Le Jeune
Go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
In the name of Christ. Amen!
No-one who knew Charles could fail to recognise his booming voice in response to the declarations at the end of the morning service. His passing early last Sunday morning has left a huge hole in all our lives, for Charles has been at the very centre of life at Holy Trinity since January 1969 when he and Jennifer and their young family returned from the Congo.
It wasn’t simply that he dedicated himself in selfless acts of service, though there was little at HT that Charles has not done, it was more that he had such a huge heart to welcome people wherever they were from. Everyone felt that they had a special relationship with him.
His life was authentically Christian. Indeed if I were to choose a person who exemplified today the message of the epistle of 1 John, it would be Charles. His faith, tested over many years, expressed itself in countless selfless acts of kindness. He truly served his Lord by serving others.
Therefore we can give thanks today for him. We can give thanks that his final suffering was not prolonged; indeed as he died his face settled into a smile, relief no doubt that he was over his pain, but happiness too as he was received by our Lord.
We will miss you, Charles, dreadfully; but we thank you that you showed us so powerfully the way of love. Our love, our prayers and our thoughts are with Jennifer, Nick, Richard and Benjy.
Reverend Peter Walley
