SLG Scholarship Fund

 

 

Tomorrow is a very special day.  The first annual Sarah's Memorial Golf Tournament will be held in New Kent, Virginia, to help raise funds for the Sarah Lindsey Gupta Memorial Scholarship Fund. 

As many of you know and remember, Sarah is Skip's cousin, and she was healed of Adrenal Cortical Cancer on November 6, 2011, by being called home to her Savior and Redeemer.  We know that Sarah is rejoicing and has not only been healed but is now living an eternal life of perfection. 

Sarah was full of love and life.  In addition to loving those around her, she had two passions:  Performing and teaching.  She loved to sing and dance, and she knew from a very early age that she wanted to be a teacher.  We have her childhood Fisher Price desk on loan, and I remember the sheer joy in her eyes when she told me how she used to play at that desk for hours and hours.  She also told me how she used almost all of her Christmas money one year to buy a large dry erase board to have hanging near the desk so that she could properly instruct her "class". 

Over the last several months, Sarah's sorority sisters, along with Sarah's parents, began working on a scholarship fund.  This fund will be used to help future students seeking an education degree at the College of William & Mary.  To help reach the ambitious goal of raising $50,000 (so that this fund might become an endowment and a perpetual memory of Sarah’s gift of teaching), Sarah's lifelong friend, Patrick Evelyn, has organized the Sarah Lindsey Golf Tournament on September 13, 2012.  The scope of this tournament has grown, much to everyone's delight, and I am asking a very special favor of you. 

Will you please pray for this event?  We would like for the event to be successful, of course, but I also ask that you pray for the family and friends who have poured their hearts and souls into this tournament.  Please pray that they are comforted by Sarah's presence, and that their strength will be renewed so they can continue to work each day to live one of Sarah's favorite verses: 

"This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it!" 
Psalm 118:24

Thanks so much, and let's rejoice!