Thank You! (Part I)

This is the first in a series of entries written by the people of Christ the Servant to express how participating in the life of the church has been meaningful and valuable to them. Please continue to check back for more stories of people living our name with passion and purpose. If you have a story or testimony you'd like to share, please let us know using the contact form on our site!

Thank You.

​I want to write a too-belated, yet ever and always current Thank You to Pastor Jim and the Congregation of Christ the Servant. As the cold days of January 2019 brightened into warm days in March the constant and vigorous prayers, numerous visits and phone calls from Pastor Jim and many others in the Congregation saved my life. I was dying. I was diagnosed with just about every malady known to humankind, from acute kidney disease to advanced heart failure; hallucinations to near blindness. I know that the combination of your prayers and God given abilities to practitioners of medical and therapeutic arts and science not only saved me, but reversed most, possibly all, of my afflictions. I was taken apart but put back together. Doxycycline is the drug that killed the bacteria but your prayers led doctors to diagnose a rare infection and your prayers led directly to my healing and bodily restoration.

Christ the Servant has been a constant blessing in my life since I first learned about it in 2007 thanks to a work place conversation with CTS member Pam Beaver. Those blessings have multiplied exponentially since. To paraphrase the Gospel Writer of John, “… so many blessings have come to me from life with Christ the Servant Lutheran Church that if I tried to write them all down I’d never finish.”

Thank You Pastor Jim, Thank You Everyone, Thank You Christ the Servant.
Ken Smith