For the third time since I began this blog, I'm writing about dear friends who are being threatened by fire. Earlier this spring, I wrote about the devastating fire that destroyed my hometown's lovely old buildings. On July 4, a fire destroyed the company (Trussway) that my dear Henry worked for. And today I received an e-mail from my friend, Reverend Danny Hyde, pastor of Oceanside United Reformed Church in Oceanside, California, telling me that the out-of-control fires there are threatening the homes of his parishioners and Westminster Seminary in Escondido.
This evening Pastor Hyde sent me an update: He now has two evacuated families staying in his home, and Westminster Seminary has been closed for the week. In fact, fires are burning only a few miles from the campus.
Pray for Reverend Hyde and his congregation and for Westminster Seminary, its faculty and students. While these fires rage, seemingly out of control, it is comforting to know that we have a God who never loses control. "Thy Keeper slumbereth not, nor shall He cause thy foot to fail, when danger doth assail. Lo, He that keepeth Israel doth neither sleep nor slumber, naught shall thy soul encumber" (Psalter Hymnal, Psalm 121).
