WE REMEMBER AND WE ARE SO THANKFUL!
To all our military members and family,
I am amazingly thankful for all of you. Before living here in the Hampton Roads area I had a deep appreciation for all those serving in the military, but since moving into this area, that appreciation has grown leaps and bounds. The Harvest Church Norfolk family consist of probably 70% or more of those who are in military families. For me to have the privilege to work, laugh, cry, pray and serve with so many of you, has given me a much better inside look at the tremendous sacrifice all of you give. The deployments, the change in orders, and the uncertainty that you face everyday is costly. Truly freedom is not free. You, and many before you, are paying and have paid that cost, some with their own blood. Today, I and so many other Americans, salute you. Today is a day of thankfulness and resolve. Resolve, that this great sacrifice will not have been in vain. President Abraham Lincoln said it best, "It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." Gettysburg Address, November 19. 1863
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