Christ Reformed Info

A memorial service for elder Fran Shanahan will be held at Christ Reformed Church on Thursday, September 18, @ 11:00 AM.  A reception will follow.

Fran received the crown of life on Sunday, September 7, @ 6:00 PM.  Our friend and brother died of organ failure after undergoing major surgery to deal with the return of the cancer he had fought so long and so bravely.   He was buried at Pacific View Cemetery in a private service on Wednesday, September 10.

Fran's children have established a wonderful website in his honor.  Please check it out and leave your words of condolence and encouragement to the family.  Click here: http://www.fshanahan.com/

We ask you to remember the Shanahan family in your prayers, as Mimi mourns the loss of her husband, and their children, Stuart, Patrick, Audry, and John, mourn the loss of their father.

But the Shanahans grieve with hope!   And so do those who knew and loved Fran.  As Paul reminds us in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18:

"But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.  For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.  For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord,  that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.  For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.  Therefore encourage one another with these words."