Six times a year I think it is that I get the newsletter from the Bible College I went to. It is actually more a magazine and it is called “BRAKER EHEMALIGEN FORUM”. (The magazine for the Graduates)

You find letters from the present principal of the College in the magazine and the graduates are also invited to report what they are doing at the present time all over the world. And there are other news as well.

I have the October/November issue here before me and on page ten you can read about weddings, the births of children and about people who died.

There is quite a bit written about the people who got married lately and also about the  children that were born, but when it comes to the two people who died,  — there are no comments whatsoever, only the Name , the day when they died and the year when they graduated from the College.

One of the people who died I knew very well. We attended not only the same Bible College but we belonged to the same Missionary Society called WEC International. He worked in Africa with his wife, who came from The Netherlands. (Holland) And thinking a little bit more about the second death announcement, the name is also familiar. But I am not sure there.

One of these days my name will appear there whether I want it to appear there or not. One of these days it will be there!

But I want to make sure that not only my name will be written there. I think that is not good enough.

Dwight L. Moody said long before he died:

“Some day you will read in the papers that D. L. Moody of East Northfield is dead. Don’t you believe a word of  it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now.”

(The Life of Dwight L. Moody, by W. R Moody)

When I die and my name appears in the BRAKER EHEMALIGEN FORUM I want this included in my death notice:  Some day you will read in the papers that Werner Dekarski of Kaitaia is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now.

Can you write your name in the brackets?

Some day you will read in the papers that (………. ………… of ……….) is dead. Don’t believe a word of  it. At that moment  I shall be more alive than I  am now.