Sermon for the Funeral of Gwendolyn A. Kneip
Click here to listen to this sermon. Don, Steve, Jim, Barb, Brenda, other family and friends of Gwen: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ! Though each of us wishes we did not need to be here, (or at least that it would be for a different reason,) it is fitting that we are here at Trinity Lutheran Church in Jasper this morning. Though her failing health limited her ability to be with us here the last few years, many of the most important moments of Gwen’s life took place in this church. Gwendolyn Ann Larson was received as a child of God through the Sacrament of Holy Baptism here at Trinity Lutheran Church on August 19, 1934. Here, on May 16, 1948, she publicly confessed the faith given to her in her baptism in the Rite of Confirmation. Gwen and Don were united in Holy Matrimony here at Trinity on August 29, 1954. With her departure to be with the Lord, a wife and mother and grandmother and great grandmother is no longer here—a friend and sist...