We All Need to Pray

for the Stauffer family of Edson, Alberta, who have lost a beloved daughter and sister. From Terry Stauffer’s blog:

Last night at about 4:45 our precious 14 year-old daughter Emily was attacked and killed as she was out for a walk. We don’t know a lot of details, but we know that two young men came upon the scene right away, but it was too late for Emily.

Terry Stauffer is pastor of the Edson Baptist Church. Both Terry and his wife Juanita have commented here and posted Sunday hymns on their own blogs, and Juanita has contributed recipes to the Recipe Round Ups. So I feel like I know them, at least a little.

According to CBC News, here’s the statement the Stauffer family gave to the media :

The family of Emily Stauffer wish to thank the public for their sympathy and concern. We are mourning the death of our daughter, but we are comforted by knowing she is with our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our daughter was a vibrant young woman who loved Jesus and her life.

Let’s pray

• that our heavenly Father comfort them and give them his peace
• that he uphold them minute by minute over the next days, weeks and months.
  
• that he surround them with family and friends to care for them.
  
• that he bring his justice in this horrid, horrid, horrid crime.
• that he use these circumstance to show (quoting Terry Stauffer) “the value of good, Gospel theology.”
• that he use the witness of the Stauffers to bring people to himself.
• that he give the Stauffers their desire that Emily’s funeral be “be Gospel-saturated and glorifying to Christ our Redeemer.”

Read more from Canada.com.

Update on Monday, September 29, 2008 at 9:17AM by rebecca

In the comments, Kim from Hiraeth suggests that we pray for the boys who witnessed the attack on Emily and went for help.  I can think of at least two requests:

• That God protect them from being severly traumatized by what they saw.
  
• That he help them remember what they saw clearly enough that the killer can be identified and caught and brought to justice.
  

Sunday's Hymn

Here’s one of the hymns sung by the congregation of Riverdale Baptist Church in Whitehorse, Yukon this morning. My favorite line is the last one of the first verse, which is a reminder that no matter what happens to us, “Jesus doeth all things well.”

All the Way My Savior Leads Me

All the way my Savior leads me;
What have I to ask beside?
Can I doubt His tender mercy,
Who through life has been my Guide?
Heav’nly peace, divinest comfort,
Here by faith in Him to dwell!
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well;
For I know, whate’er befall me,
Jesus doeth all things well.

All the way my Savior leads me,
Cheers each winding path I tread;
Gives me grace for every trial,
Feeds me with the living Bread.
Though my weary steps may falter,
And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see.

All the way my Savior leads me
O the fullness of His love!
Perfect rest to me is promised
In my Father’s house above.
When my spirit, clothed immortal,
Wings its flight to realms of day
This my song through endless ages—
Jesus led me all the way;
This my song through endless ages—
Jesus led me all the way.

—-Fanny Crosby

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Other hymns, worship songs, sermons etc. posted today:

• Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Dwelling Place at Hiraeth
• Though Troubles Assail Us at Field Stone Cottage
• Lord’s Day 39, 2008 at The Thirsty Theologian
• O Thou Who Gavest Power to Love at joythruChrist
  
• Blessed Assurance at Conjubilant with Song
• In the Hour of Trial at Whatever Things…
• Love Constrained to Obedience at The Happy Wonderer
• The Solid Rock at Practicing Theology 
• Your Weekly Dose of Spurgeon: A Question That Must Be Pressed Home at Pyromaniacs
  

Have you posted a hymn today and I missed it? Let me know by leaving a link in the comments or by emailing me at the address in the sidebar and I’ll add your post to the list.

Home: September 26

Every Tuesday and Friday during September, I’ve been collecting posts on the topic of home. If you have a post I should include, please leave the link in the comments here or email it to me. Poems, photos, lists, stories, you-name-it—it’s all welcome.

Recent home related posts

Dorothy has posted a home hymn.

And I’ve posted Leaving Home and Coming Home, which is about the comings and goings in my home.