Thank you from the Hankerson family

The family of Rachel LaNora Hankerson would like to thank each of you for your prayers, gifts, calls, texts, attendance, and so many other acts of kindness. A more formal correspondence of gratitude will be sent via postal mail. However, we wanted to provide you this initial notice of our gratitude. Your prayers are yet needed for Elijah IV, Raquel, Matthew, her parents, siblings, in-law, nieces, nephews & extended family. Finally, keep me in prayer. Yes, we know that God is not caught off guard. But, the sudden, unexpected illness and subsequent passing was a shock to all of us. As our Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard stated, we are “Temporarily Confused.” I know for a fact that my wife was a saint, a woman “sent from God.” She had so many hopes and promises. But, she died in faith, YET trusting God.  Hebrews 11:13, “These all died in faith, not having received

the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” Through tears I yet say, “every time I turn around.”

 

Elijah H. Hankerson III