Dear friends,
just received a phone call that our dear friend Rudolf Geshe peacfully slipped into eternity this morning. He was well into his seventies, and had a history of assorted heart problems.

Rudolf was our fatherly mentor, father confessor, navigator on demand.

As young upstarts he counselled us personally, navigated us through sticky church and mission problems and incomprehensible counselling difficulties.
He was regularly invited to minister to us in the WORD. We were never envious, that his sermon tapes were in a great demand - we listen to them over and over again ourselves!

He took a keen interest in our personal well-being: the quality of our marriages, how we were handling family matters - if we even understood what a family is! How we failed or succeded in keeping some resemblance of balance between ministry, marriage, family.

This was obvious as we know now how many of his "Timothies" were on his prayer list over the decades!!

This is a double reminder:
In the Kingdom of God "old" never means "useless"!
Keep close contact and treasure the relationship to God's OWLS (Older Wiser Loving Saints)- they have a tendency to fade away ...