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On that same day, our memorial service honored yet another faithful servant of God from Grace Baptist Church.  Donald Parks had gotten saved in about 1995.  His conversion was dynamic and he faithfully attended the services of Grace Baptist Church for the next six years, always eager to serve the Lord in any way he could whether it was on his knees scrubbing the restroom floors or on his knees in prayer.  He was always at the pastor’s right hand, ready to fetch tools, clean up the endless messes from building projects, or helping to hand out the thousands of fliers in our area.  Don’s marvelous bass voice blessed us and the work teams with his solos of Negro spirituals and other gospel songs and hymns.  His faith was childlike, but not small as demonstrated by his response to Pastor’s estimation in the year 2000 of the remainder needed to finish the building.  “Pastor, that’s just pocket change for God.”  From that comment evolved our pocket change offering which we have our young children receive during the Sunday morning service.  Folks accumulate their pocket change during the week and bring it in for this offering which has sustained the work steadily.  Don’s final help came in the form of a gift from his meager estate at his passing on December 13, 2001.  It was used to finish the construction of a pulpit for the new auditorium which Pastor had been making.  Hardly a day passes, but what Donald Parks crosses the memory of the Grace Baptist family he lovingly helped.  Perhaps it could be said of Don’s service as it was of Elisha of old, "here is he which poured water on the hands of Elijah. (II Kings 3:11)".  He was a friend and encourager.

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