I just want to say it has been a blessing to be part of the team of Men’s NFTD #37.  Living in Tallahassee and having most all of our past weekend team meetings here, it was a blessing to share the sacrifice that many have given over the years coming from all over South Georgia.  Then you look up and see people that have not missed many team meetings that come from Panama City, Marianna, Jacksonville, and even Tennessee.  This is also to include people from the past coming from Live Oak and Alabama and Tennessee.  It lets me reflect on my weekend when some of the team sacrificed and came from Middle Tennessee, North Georgia, and Tampa Bay.  What a blessing it was to see commitment and be able to share in that blessing this weekend.

                                                                                                                                   A Team Member Men’s NFTD #37

Replacement of Men’s Leader

 

         I can not adequately tell you how much our friend John TerLouw meant to our North Florida Tres Dias community.  As your chairman, I would turn to John almost weekly with questions about our history or perhaps the thinking behind a certain by-law or policy.  He was active in North Georgia TD community, then he was selected to be the first person from North Florida Tres Dias to serve as a local Rector, Men’s NFTD #5.  Now He graduated to be a part of that celestial reunion.   I cherish the squeeze of my hand in that ICU room as he lay waiting the call to come over.

         Janie and I were with the Jim and Mary Bailey at The International Tres Dias Assembly in New York when we received the word of his home going.  I ask myself the question, “Now since John is gone, who will be able to step into those big shoes?”  I immediately began to pray for the person that God would have.  God was already at work.  A few weeks later our NFTD Secretariat unanimously selected Vic Parramore (one half of the weekend couple who are in rotation to go off the secretariat at the end of this year) to step in and finish the term of our Bro. John TerLouw.  Will you join me in welcoming Brother Vic Parramore as the new Men’s Leader for our North Florida Tres Dias community.

 

Vic, we are praying for you!

J. Harold Thurmond

Chairman

NFTD Secretariat