Chapter five Pitman Church of Christ, 5/05 (1) I have put off writing this letter for quite a time but you and I need this to get this out of the way. Back in 2002, I sold my house in Media, Pa. for $240,000. I had lived there for twenty-seven years. I bought it for $10,500., $500.00 down, a lease purchase and I work on the house and ground for years. It was like a labor of love; I got along with my neighbors and lived in harmony with God and man for many years. I had just stopped working with the union Boilermakers and Steamfitters around the time I bought the house in1975. My father a good man was employed as a welder for many years at the Atlantic Refining Co. in South Philly. It had become my trade and I became one of the fastest and best welders in the World. I always was good at something I set my mind to, but it takes years of hard work welding to get to the degree or skill I achieved. By the time you get this good you might have the beginning of cancer which also went along with the job plus more problems of respiratory diseases. My father died at age sixty in1970 and after I got past that, if you ever get past that. I wanted to get some fresh air and do something else besides welding. I went in to the concrete business and also blacktopping and roofing business at the same time. Life was very busy but I liked it that way. Later in life I built a large garage on our property and went into the auto detailing business and for years it did not work out for making money like how I planed it. My daughter, whom I and my wife paid for to go to Drexel collage to receive a degree in Chemical Engineering and latter got a masters degree in business at the prestige school Warten, at University of Penn., and got married in 1989. I am very proud of her and I mortgage my house to pay for the wedding. I also mortgage more money on my house during the auto detailing business. I never could recover from it and the next thing was I owned $170,000 on the house and it needed work. I had already gone back to work Boilermaking and welding with local 13 Phila to make money and to try to get a pension at 65 years of age. I don’t know whether you know anything about Union Boilermaking, but it is a very physical job and to work at it in your sixties is no joke. It pays good money a hour counting the benefits, plus most of the jobs I got with the union were mandatory overtime working six or seven days a week ten or twelve hours a day for up to six weeks work for me. You have money when you work but it was hit and miss for me. We sold the house in Pa .for $240,000 paid all our debts and moved to NJ, were I wanted to work with local 28 out of Bayonne NJ. We bought a trailer to stay in until we found a house. We first went to Toms River for three months and Worshiped with the Church there it was very nice. After three months we moved below Glassboro to a Camp Ground that was open all year and I came to the Pitman Congregation in the end of Oct. 2002. I met many of you and showed myself friendly and I always talk about God and his Word. I will not add to that word, as the commandment is given By Jesus recorded in the Gospel of John 14:21 through the 25th verse, He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. In 1 Peter 4:11, “If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God”. If you add to the Word of God then we have the commandment in 2 (2)Timothy 4:1 thru.5, I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. All these things I do. David R. Darrah
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:47:50 +0000
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