Posted on October 12, 2011 by Dun Gordy
Maybe it was because the full harvest moon was so glorious last night, even the scattered clouds abandoned the sky leaving our morning beautifully clear. And because it was so cold, the Creator spread His blanket over the landscape. His blanket of frost.
As I enjoyed the beauty of the morning and the beauty of God’s wonderful Word in my hands, I was struck with how much this touch of His handiwork illustrated His grace. Frost! It covered everything with one un-asked-for blanket of beauty. The broken limbs, dirty windshield, the rusting tin on the barn roof. All covered and hidden from view by God’s frost. Even the left over evidence of the cows now moved to winter pasture, the stinking “cow pies”.
How much this frost reminded me of just a bit of the depth of glory of our Lord’s Grace. His unmerited favor and His lavish love have covered so much brokenness, so much dirt, so much rust and ruin in my life. And thankfully even the foul smell of death from so much worthless deeds in my life.
The frost is heaviest in the deepest shade and at the bottom of the gulch. It seems to me that looking back, it took extra grace to cover the worst of my life.
Then came the morning sun marching triumphantly over the eastern ridge and bursting victoriously thru the evergreen limbs of the Ponderosa pines. It’s warmth turning the frost into glistening dew. It’s brilliance hanging sparkling droplets on every pine needle and every stalk and blade. Even the barbed wire fence seemed to be sagging with the weight of tiny, glistening diamonds.
So the warmth and glory of God’s Amazing Grace, thru the gift of His Son, touches every extent of needy lives.
“Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound…” Sing the rest of it with me. I’m sure you know the tune. I hope you know the words. But most importantly, I pray you know the SON!
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Posted on October 10, 2011 by Dun Gordy
. . .but since I didn’t, I’ll quote my dear friend Ben Castagna:
Is doctrine important? Yes, but it will only bind us to those of like mind and depending on the depth of our convictions, those may be very few! Doctrine is important but it in itself only enlarges the brain but not the heart!
“It has been our experience in traveling around our country and meeting the Lord’s people in various places and under differing circumstances, that we have sensed a bond of fellowship with those who love His Word, His work and His people. Even though we may not have matched up in our doctrine, we did match up in our love for the Lord. The reason? The song writer had it right when he wrote that He binds our hearts in Christian love.”
. . . and I’ll add a hearty AMEN!
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Posted on October 8, 2011 by Dun Gordy
Both Dun and Harriet committed their lives to serve our Lord at young ages. They married in 1962 after Harriet’s graduation from Judson College and attended seminary until graduation in 1965.. Dun’s heart had been excited about reaching unevangelized people since his youth. Harriet was burdened for youth ministry as they entered seminary together. They served in pastorate of churches in Louisiana and Alabama during school. In 1962 they resigned a growing and exciting church to go to the foreign mission field. They joined New Tribes Mission, a nondenominational church-planting mission agency.
After completing the specialized training for tribal evangelism in Pennsylvania they were asked to stay on the home staff and help train and send others. They taught in the Mission Institute there for 3 years. In 1974 the Gordys went to Baker City, OR to help establish a training center for missionaries. Dun then began traveling among churches, Christian schools and colleges throughout the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, recruiting laborers for the tribes and language groups who still had not heard of Jesus.
Harriet had an effective ministry among the missionary candidates while she stayed home and raised the 3 children. Michael, Julieann and Kristie are now grown and married to good spouses. They have given Dun and Harriet 6 GRANDchildren. Their foster son Tom and his wife have 3 children. Kristie and her family are missionaries in Papua New Guinea.
Their ministry expanded when they helped establish and lead the short-term missions program. Dun traveled extensively to foreign countries where he had many opportunities to preach the good news as well as teach as visiting professor in Bible colleges and seminaries. Harriet accompanied him on several trips and had effective ministry among missionary wives and other women’s groups.
Dun had the privilege of visiting tribal missionary work, some in the most primitive groups on earth. He has traveled in 25 different countries and has had the privilege of preaching the Gospel on every continent – except Antarctica.
In 2001, Harriet suffered a near-fatal heart attack that left her with permanent kidney failure. She had dialysis treatment 3 times per week and had a good ministry among the medical caregivers thru her extended treatments and declining health. They were still able to travel together for the first 5 years of renal failure and dialysis. The need to care for aging parents led them to relocate to Panama City Beach, FL. Then, as Harriet’s health deteriorated, Dun curtailed traveling and was privileged to devote full time to caring for her.
Until the end of her life on this earth, Harriet continually challenged and encouraged Dun. She often urged him, “After I’m gone, promise me you will get back on the road and preach the Word!” Our Lord took Harriet from Dun’s arms into His very own on November 21, 2010.
Dun now declares, “I am on the road again!”
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Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dun Gordy
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Posted on September 26, 2011 by Dun Gordy
Camping on the Circle Bar P Ranch
Sunrise with the SON on the Circle Bar P
Moonrise over the mountains at the Circle Bar P
Breakfast is ready. Come join me!
Our Lord has been so good to me! I am enjoying my little camper, the beautiful Oregon outdoors, a chance to read, study and write, opportunity to preach in my church, the McEwen Bible Fellowship, and even a break now and then to play cowboy!
Who's the Marshall in these parts?
Look at those Mountains!
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Posted on August 11, 2011 by Dun Gordy
I am so thankful for our Lord’s provision of this camper. We were able to purchase it with the money from the sale of the van. Son Michael and daughter-in-love Wendy found it in Eugene and brought it to their house where we’ve been getting it ready to move to Eastern Oregon. I’ll be parking it on the Circle Bar P ranch, thanks to dear friends Larry and Peggy Pearson, and will be living in it this fall.
In 2 weeks I’ll be traveling up to Alberta Canada to speak in the annual Bible Camp of GOODSEED, Int. Please pray that I will be a blessing to those dear folks who will be gathering from ministries all over the world for a time of fellowship and refreshment. It is such a privilege to be invited.
Plans are to be back in my camper in the Sumpter Valley by Labor Day. I am Praying Specifically that our Lord will give me opportunities to preach in many churches in the Pacific Northwest in the following couple of months.
May you continually be rejoicing in the great privilege of serving the King of Kings!
Hope you’ve been able to follow Jessica and I thru our pictures posted on Facebook. We have had a great trip, driving from the Gulf of Mexico to the Willamette Valley of Oregon and on Friday I’ll take Jessica to put her feet in the Pacific Ocean!
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