03/30/09
In the midst of an emotional memorial service Sunday celebrating the life of the Rev. William “Bill” Alexander Green, scenes from the pastor’s life were flashed onto two large screens at Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church.Green talking to soldiers in southern Sudan. Green baptizing a baby. Green sharing a prayer with a man in need. Green toiling in a muddy field in Guyana. And this: Green perched on a tiny chair in the midst of laughing youngsters, all sporting wide grins and balloon hats.It was a high and holy moment that celebrated the Presbyterian pastor’s broad reach and grasp of the Christian faith he lived, reaching out to “the least, the last and the lost.”“You never had to wonder if Bill’s heart was in the right place,” the Rev. James D. Glatz, Saxe Gotha’s senior pastor, told the hundreds of mourners gathered in the Lexington sanctuary. “You never had to wonder if Bill loved God or if Bill loved others.”Green died March 14 at age 47 in his native Texas after battling myelodysplastic syndrome, a rare blood disorder, but even that ordeal served as an opportunity for the peripatetic Green to deepen relationships and explore the meaning of the Christian faith.
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