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A letter to you, our alumni, from Glenda

This has been a year overflowing with abundant blessings!  How gracious of our Heavenly Father to show Himself to us in so many ways.  As I ponder all that He has done in my personal life as well as the PAYH ministry, I can only praise Him and respond with Lamentations 3:23: “Great is Thy Faithfulness, morning by morning new mercies I see.”

You, our young men, our precious "family" continue to grow and learn, some more quickly than others and some more deeply than others, but you daily teach us:  as you learn, so do we.

Though times are changing, our mission today is the same as it was when we started in 1961:  to plant God's Word in your hearts.  We cannot change you, but, you know so well, that when you were here, we can require you to memorize Scripture.  As you recall your weeks, months, or years in our family, I pray that you will do so with fondness while your memory work moves from your head to your heart.

How often I have thought about the fact that you, our PAYH alumni, could change the world.  If you allow the truths that you have routinely learned and practiced here to take root, you can impact others, which would have a domino effect.  Multiply that by 16, 18, or 20 per year and imagine what a powerful difference you, our graduates could make for the Kingdom of Heaven.

Since 1961 our vision has been that the Paul Anderson Youth Home would be like that City on the Hill (Matthew 5:14).  A place where young men of character are "grown."  You are our harvest:  YOU are our legacy.  As the Lord Divinely appointed that time in your life to be here, He Divinely appointed that time to us, to "pour into you" all that we can and then send you out with the Word as your battle armor.  And so, as we recall the time we had together, there will be many memories.  Those were all investments made possible because of people God touched who care for you, many of whom you will never meet until you are in heaven.

My question to you as well as my challenge is:  what will you do with these investments?  Will they just be memories?  Have you simply taken up space during this “second chance opportunity” which your Heavenly Father has provided for you?  I pray that your answer will be as Isaiah's when asked by the Lord whom shall I send and who will go?  Isaiah responded, here am I, send me! (Isaiah 6:8)

My love to each of you, "my boys."