Please Pray

[ldysly]

Heaven has a new angel. My dear dear brother please let me know if you need anything. My heart aches for you and your children and rejoices that Jan is in the arms of her Father who loves us all so well. She is dancing and singing and reuniting with all who went before her.
My heart is so heavy for the hardest part is for those who are left behind. May God hold you up and comfort you.

[Keith]

Oh my dear brother, I'm so sorry. Yes, take comfort that she's with the Lord and we'll all be united very soon. If you need anything don't hesitate to let us know.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7)

[Nita]

I'm also sorry, can't wait to meet her when we all get there.

[Deleted]

I feel in my heart that there will not be many more sad goodbyes, for the Lord is going to call us all home very, very soon. I can't prove, only feel it has to be near. I believe that we are looking at the big one so far as Israel is concerned. Seeing as how God's business is with the Jew, He won't be needing us Gentiles very much longer to just be in the way.

[Murph]

Drew I am so sad...for you and your family.

It made your front porch that much more precious in my mind because it was a point of departure of one of the saint...going home, so I know angels were there to escort Jan. She was not alone.

I join the other brothers and sisters here at Divine Intervention in prayers for you and your family...and an offer of whatever assistance I can be...you are a dear brother and have I have come to think of you as a dear friend.

May the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand...

Amen.

[sallyw]

I am sorry. Can't wait to me her.

[Nita]

Nov 17, 2012 19:07:34 GMT -6 Murph said:

Drew I am so sad...for you and your family.

It made your front porch that much more precious in my mind because it was a point of departure of one of the saint...going home, so I know angels were there to escort Jan. She was not alone.

I join the other brothers and sisters here at Divine Intervention in prayers for you and your family...and an offer of whatever assistance I can be...you are a dear brother and have I have come to think of you as a dear friend.

May the Lord hold you in the palm of His hand...

Amen.

Amen.

[Caretaker]

Janice (Jan) Faye Metcalfe Montgomery was born June 23rd 1953, in Emporia, Kansas, to Chester Carl and Bulah Faye Metcalfe. After a courageous battle with cancer she passed away at home on November 17, 2012, at the age of 59.

Jan would live her toddler years in California after her father came home from the Korean War, and then would move to Emporia, Kansas, during her elementary school years, while her father operated the Metcalfe Auto Salvage. Her later school years were spent just outside Neosho Rapids, KS, and she would attend Hartford High School. The family moved to a farm SW of Emporia, and Jan would graduate from Emporia Senior High School, where she sat behind her future husband Doug, in Mrs. Walker’s Senior English class.

Following graduation Jan would work for the Iowa Beef Processors, and began buying a home. Janice was united in marriage to Drew Douglas Montgomery on May 6, 1972, at the Westside Baptist Church. She continued working at IBP until she was expecting their first child. Over the years Jan would work as an accountant in K-Mart, would work the day shift at the Emporia Bowl, assist her husband by selling boat permits at Lake Kahola, and for a couple of years at the Cigarette Outlet in Council grove, KS. The last six years Jan was an associate with SABA and caring and sharing life-changing products one heart at a time.

Jan’s heart was her family, a legacy from her mother, and she would nurture and cherish each of her three children, and in time her grand-children, and great grandchildren. Her greatest joy was to gather as family, and her heart would expand without limitation to embrace so may friends as family over the many decades.

Janice is preceded in death by her parents. Janice is survived by her husband of the home, her brothers and sisters, David and Shirley Metcalfe of Hartford, KS, Danny and Carrie Metcalfe of Emporia, Debbie Bazil Sturm of Emporia, Mike Metcalfe of Golden Valley, Arizona, Teresa and Donn Mathena of Emporia, her Mother-in Law Darlene Montgomery of Russellville, AR, brother-in-law Joe Montgomery of Russellville, AR, and sister-in law Sue and Charles Busch of Russellville, AR. Janice is survived by her beloved children, Melissa and Mike Grover of Wilsey, KS, Drew Robert Montgomery of Council Grove, KS, and Allyson and David Oliva of Emporia, KS., and her eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. She is survived by her beloved nieces, nephews, cousins, aunts and uncles, and each dear friend who is also family. Her legacy in her brief 59 years was her steadfast trust and faith in Christ, and her open heart and dedicated love for others.

The memorial service for Janice Faye Montgomery will be held Wednesday November 21st, at 2:00 PM, at the Dunlap, KS, gymnasium, and cremation will follow, with inurnment and memorial at a later date.

[Caretaker]

God bless each of you so very much.

From my FaceBook page:

On this 18th day of November I am so very thankful for our Heavenly Father's love, which fills our heart, envelopes us from the top of our head to the tips of our toes, and leads us gently forward through the Valley of the Shadow. He gently took my my Precious One Home, to save her the pain and anguish of cancer treatment, which would have only slowed and prolonged the suffering. His love allowed us to face the curtain of death head-on without fear, and my Beloved's courageous loving heart was only concerned with myself and her babies. As my heart sank, as I picked-up my Beloved from the chair on the porch, as I cradled her in my arms and carried her in and laid her on the couch, the weight was so light, but the burden so very heavy. It was our Father's love, His truly Amazing Grace which sustains us in the darkest hour of separation. The tears flow, the big ugly nose runs almost uncontrollably, but the heart is sustained supernaturally by our Father's love and comfort. Beyond a shadow of a doubt as I placed my Beloved on the couch to await the arrival of the caring deputies and the rescue EMTs, beyond a shadow of a doubt I knew that my Dear-One was safe in my Father's Hand, and had been healed of the cancer which had so decimated.

As we go into the celebration of Thanksgiving, I am so deeply thankful for the life and heart of my Beloved, and the eternal love of our Heavenly Father for His precious children.

[Murph]

Drew...that was beautiful...

and Amen.

[Keith]

We love you, brother Drew.

[Murph]

Nov 18, 2012 9:16:29 GMT -6 Keith said:

We love you, brother Drew.

Have had Drew on my mind all day. Today he is going to bury his beloved wife. My heart and my prayers are with him. I am not married and don't know exactly how it feels to go thru what he is going thru today...but have buried my beloved parents and stood with so many friends, as we are getting older, as they lay spouses to rest...

So Drew has been very much on my mind and in my heart and prayers today...

As Keith said...we all love you Drew...and even though we are not there standing beside you...we are there in the Body of Christ with you.

[Keith]

Amen.

[Murph]

Drew...you there?

...touch base with us when you can.

[Caretaker]

God bless you my precious Brethren. The very Hand of God has moved the last six days, and His love has sustained us when we should have been shattered, crushed, and immobile. Form her death, which was such a gentle and peaceful going Home and being healed, to the supernatural love and peace which enveloped me and has enabled me while periodicly flowing from the eyes and chasing a run-away nose, to comfort my children, and a huge number of family, and to move forward for all of the sudden arrangements, to being able to witness to literally several hundred, and to share the Gospel and the eternal love of God with folks I would never be able to share with. Jan's death has literally been a series of God's miracles.

The gentle going-Home. The strength and peace which flooded through every fiber of my being. I had just time the morning she died to request embalming. I did not make arrangements such as cosmetics until Monday. They simply washed Jan's hair draped it over her ears and onto her shoulders. She needed no cosmetics as her color was such that the features were clear, and it was exactly as if she were ready to wake-up. God changed the best laid plans and it resulted in a memorial filled with well over 200 and ministered to each precious one gathered.

Jan is being cremated and then I am setting up to prepare the plot next to her Mom out in the family cemetery out on a hill looking over the river valley. She will be laid to rest by her Mama, with a small double headstone which matches her parents, and I will be planting Yucca, Lilacs, white peonies, and transplanting a wildflower which blooms every year on our anniversary, has the color and fragrance of lilacs, and which I have had a vase of them waiting for the last 24 years, when Jan would awaken on our anniversary.

We will be able to schedule the burial on June 23rd, which is Jan's birthday and the date when I gave her the diamond engagement ring, 41 years ago.

Our Father has so blessed us in such a multitude of ways and how filled with joy and Thanksgiving my heart.

[Murph]

Lord told us His Grace is sufficient. You are living proof of that ...


Amen.

[Keith]

Bless you and the kids Drew.

[veterinarian]

You have beautiful plans, Drew.

My brother went to heaven on January 18, 2001. I miss him so much; we were very close. We always had each other's back. The one thing that has helped me deal with his absence is the knowledge that I will see him again.

I don't know if that helps you. I hope so. I pray for you always.

[Caretaker]

God bless each of you so very much, your hearts, and your prayers such a true and precious blessing.

I feel a deep sadness and such regret from time to time, that I could not take Jan's suffering on myself, or be able to see her healed, and from time to time for the next few years as I embrace and accept the grieving process.

Brother Joe has been the family pastor for 30 years, at the Bethel Baptist Church, and at times we have shared his pulpit as family have gone home, and recommended me to bring the service for my brother-in-law when he was not available. He read my journal of Jan's Last Days word for word in conjunction with his presentation of the Gospel message for her memorial, and we were able to touch many hearts. He saw me minister hugs and prayers to so many precious ones before and after the service.

As I have shared with so many over the past week, it would be so selfish of me to want Jan to stay and suffer so much, when she is now Home and our prayers for healing answered so perfectly.

As he was leaving we spoke of the need to grieve, and we have absolute faith and trust, but wee need the grieving for ourselves and as he said there have been a number of pastors who have sought to deny the natural grief as being a loss of faith, and they were so wounded and their ministry hurt down the road.

So I grieve for my precious one, and for what she endured, and for her absence, and for the sorrow and pain which our dear-ones are having to go through. It is sorrow and tears and also a deep and abiding sense of peace and comfort that my beloved sister in Christ awaits my finally getting to go Home, and the reunion which awaits us in Glory. I just place myself in the nail-scarred Hands of God, and if He can continue to use me then I am available.

We had a lovely Thanksgiving here at the lake. The kids did not want to get out of bed, but they encouraged one another, and they set-up tables in the Fire station next to the house, cooked three turkeys, and we had Thanksgiving dinner for 36. It was precious to welcome friends as "family", and share with them the love of God.

[Keith]

So glad you all got together for the day, Drew. Love you, brother!