I met Diane when I joined the choir at Troy Baptist Church (now Woodside Bible Church)...my first church home after professing faith in Jesus Christ. When I took on the TBC 4 and 5 year-old-choir, I bought a piano and plead with Diane to take me on as one of her few adult students. A life-long friendship resulted and I had to quit my lessons because we talked too much and our talent for conversation proved more fruitful than my talent for the piano. Diane was not only friend, but my spiritual counsel and discipler. She loved the Lord and walked with Him and taught me to do the same. By her encouragement and urging I mapped a plan to leave the business world and prepare for ministry at William Tyndale College. I graduated in 1987 with a degree in Counseling Psychology and remain in ministry, with my Pastor husband, Jon to this day. I think Diane loved my Jon as much as I do. She was matron-of-honor at our wedding and traveled by air to Chicago with a stroller in tow when our son was born to teach me how to bathe and feed him because babies don't arrive with instructions. Diane was one of the most capable, intelligent, talented, informed and thoughtful women I have ever known and this week I lost a dear sister. I thank God for the gift of being sojouner on the way Home with her. And I thank Diane for sharing her life and Rachael, Hannah, Sarah and Mark with me! They were my first "kids" and I love them still. Rejoice in all the freedom Jesus promised us, Diane! I'll see you at the Bof House!