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people and their Saviour. We must think of them when we think of and thank Ray for his great care and commitment to the people of FAC and Calgary. As I have worked alongside him, watched him love people, and have myself been ministered to so often, I find myself wanting to imitate Ray. Like the Apostle Paul who says, “follow me as I follow Jesus” (1 Corinthians 11:1), Ray has given me a practical example of what it means to follow Jesus in life and in ministry. He is a pastor to pastors, and a pastor to all. tension with an articulate faith in God’s real presence. They have to say no to every form of fatalism, defeatism, accidentalism, or incidentalism that makes people believe that statistics are telling us the truth. They have to say no to every form of despair in which human life is seen in a pure matter of good or bad luck. They have to say no to the sentimental attempts to make people develop a spirit of resignation or stoic indifference in the face of the unavoidability of pain, suffering, and death. In short, they have to say no to the secular world and proclaim in unambiguous terms that the incarnation of God’s Word, through whom all A Life Well Spent Henri Nouwen, author, theologian, and minister of the gospel, writes: “The task of the Christian leader is not to make a little contribution to the solution of the pains and tribulations of their time, but to identify and announce the ways in which Jesus is leading God’s people out of slavery, through the desert to a new land of freedom. Christian leaders have the arduous task of responding to personal struggles, family conflicts, national calamities, and international things came into being, has made even the smallest event of human history into Kairos, that is, an opportunity to be led deeper into the heart of Christ.” 34
Ray Matheson has poured out his entire life doing just that … Ray’s coming to FAC in 1988 was a matter of prayer throughout a number of years as Pastor Wendell Grout, FAC’s Senior Lead Pastor from 1975-1995, wooed him from Regina, Saskatchewan to Calgary, Alberta. We are a rich congregation because of his choice in following God. He has served the people of FAC and his Lord so faithfully. I am certain that there are surely hundreds and probably thousands of people who Ray has touched and ministered to in the name of Jesus. I’m convinced that the streets of heaven will be filled with those who came to know Jesus as their Saviour because Ray Matheson shared the love of God with them. Read Licia Corbella’s tribute to Pastor Ray published in the Calgary Herald here. Heather Wile 35
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