"Because you are my help, I will sing in the shadow of your wings.
My soul follows close behind Thee,
your right hand upholds me."
-Psalm 63:7,8

*The following is an excerpt taken from when Pastor Ken Freeman spoke at the funeral on January 7th...

All the things shared today about the girls would only be words unless they held within
them the promise of hope & eternal life. When the news of the accident was received the
family all came together at Joe & Debbie’s and we began to look through pictures, scrapbooks
and sharing stories. One of the things found was a senior art project of Krista’s. It was
an assignment to explain herself through words & pictures.

There was a witness in our spirits about the truth she was able to express in her school project.
The first page reads as follows…



“For me to live is Christ, but to die is gain.” ~Philippians 1:21

What does that scripture mean? What does it mean to live for Christ?
If I’m not living my life for myself, if I can live my life daily from an eternal perspective,
then He can live His life through me.
If we take Christ out of that scripture & put anything else in there-it won’t make sense.
MY ABILITIES, MY TALENTS, MY DREAMS, MY PLANS, MY MONEY…
And then say… "death is gain"… it doesn’t make sense.
The equation is off! Because all those things cease!



These bookmarks were handed out as you came today as something to remember the girls by--
but also to have something tangible so that in weeks, months, possibly years from now you may
look at it and be confronted with the question of…

“What have I placed in that blank?” …”What is my life being spent for?”
What are you doing? And why are you doing it?
We’re not just going to need God when we leave this life.
But Jesus has said, “I have come that you would have life more abundant!”- John 10:10
God has a destiny for each of us; and we will fulfill that destiny when we are
living our life in Him. And then when our time comes… TO DIE WILL BE GAIN.
It will be just a natural step to walk into the presence of God and enjoy Him forever!
I believe God is challenging each one of us to confront that blank today.




Listen to "Press On" from the St Anthony High School Senior Baccalaureate Service,
sung by John Polland, Krista Mayer & Urgessa Gemada on June 5th, 2002.