Celebration of Life - Kay Smith // (September 7, 2021)

we're going to start up start out with um a couple songs of worship and um i'd love if you sing along with me oh lord [Music] consider all the worlds thy hands have made i see the stars my savior to thee [Applause] how great they are how great they are how great [Applause] is [Music] let god his sign not sparing sends him to die i scares [Music] my word is to take away my seat how great how brave shall fill my heart and then [Music] [Music] my god [Music] [Applause] [Music] my savior how great [Music] to thee [Music] [Applause] amen um i i had a few conversations with um a few of you actually and and uh quite a few of you said that um i surrender all was one of kaye's favorite um hymns and that says a lot about a person um if i surrender all is is their favorite hymn or one of their favorites i don't know how she was but sometimes my favorites change throughout the years throughout the season um but it really does say a lot about kay's character i didn't know her really but this is quite a testimony of of who she was and i know that she would definitely love it if we sang it together today to jesus i surrendered [Music] to hear my freely and i will ever love and trust him in his praise and stately [Music] i [Music] surrender all all to thee my blessed savior i surrendered [Music] me jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh lord to jesus [Music] surrender make me save your holy life and let me feel the holy spirit and truly know that thou art [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] sing it one more time [Music] oh amen let me pray father we come before you this afternoon lord god to thank you so much for your grace for your love and mercies lord but how we thank you so much for the life that not only has been given to each one of us individually lord the lord the leaders that led us lord by example and lord we pray now for the future that your holy spirit would lead us so that we can all finish well and lord i thank you so much for the privilege father of knowing kay and chuck lord and what they taught me and my wife lord that i pray for their children i pray for their grandchildren lord and great-grandchildren lord and lord we ask you that you continue to move in their lives lord and to use them fully completely in jesus name i pray lord amen we want to welcome you to the home going celebration of kay smith one thing i want to share is that we rejoice that she is with jesus and she is with pastor chuck awesome awesome [Applause] the love of his life for sure i want to share a couple of things that i've learned from them that really impacted my life fully completely i wrote them down because i don't i'm so crying so i wrote them down that kay and chuck not only touched my life but he touched so many people's life and kate you know traveling with them i learned a lot many times we traveled by ships so many times by bus and so many times we walked everywhere just incredible with the whole family was really was a privilege for me to be able to do that and to know them for so many so many years as they continue to teach my life and kay was not only a loving and caring person but she was also a real right on christian she really knew jesus you didn't have to say to people she knows jesus people could see jesus in her life and she always was caring for people my wife and i whenever we had problems we call her and chuck and they would spank me and they come for her that's not fair but she was a caring person i remember that i went through a pretty heavy thing in my life and i called him at home and kate answered the phone and i just began to share with her some of the situations if it was okay to speak with pastor chuck and pastor chuck and her got on the phone and i began to share my heart with them and they'd be to pray for me chuck was loving but he spanked people too uh he you know he told me he says you want to continue ministry you want god to use your life and then you have to repent my sin at that time i wanted to kill this guy for what he did to my family and pastor chuck okay they pray like a mom and dad for me and how i thank god for that because he allowed me to stay in ministry and to continue to teach and preach the gospel and to know their family to be with their family so many years and to see god's hand upon them and continues to be upon them another thing that we that i remember really clearly we were up at twin peaks before all the calories began to spread out adam mcclure chuck greg laurie and all of us were there jeff johnson and we went up to twin peaks and chuck and kay wanted to pray with us so we had i think two days after we were sharing with one another praying for one another and then on the second day came over and laid hands for me and prayed for me and um when she laid inside me i received the baptism of the holy spirit which i needed in my life and that's the kind of woman she was and pastor chuck was just an incredibly incredible man i don't think he could have done it without kay just said my wife is a real has been a very very instrument in my life that she's put up with a lot she's gone through a lot and god has really blessed us even with the things that we go through today with my seizures and her cancer to see that god surely loves us and god loves you guys here all you hear the smith family loves you and i just really ask god to continue to bless every one of you and to pray for the family and god will continue to use them the grandkids that they may grow up to serve the lord and to love the lord fully completely one thing also that i learned is the word of god when we were in bible studies at that time we had the old king jeans i could barely speak english and we were in the old king james and so i asked chuck how can i understand the bible he says just sit down pay attention and then you'll hear the word of god and i begin to learn the word of god which was so incredible to me to hear his studies going to calvary and then to get the tapes and to listen to the tapes and being fed the word of god and every one of us here if you know what chuck has taught us the word of god and i give the glory to the holy spirit that he chose pastor chuck and kate to work with all the hippies at that time in the 670s that if it wasn't for them we wouldn't be here probably but god spoke to them and they obeyed god's word and they went ahead and did it but this time i want to invite my wife to come up here and she's going to share a little thank you so much for listening [Applause] hello isn't this a glorious day i we're trying it we're so joyful but we're trying to not cry so we can get out the things that are in our heart we feel so honored uh to have you all here and for us to be able to be here with you and share with you the things on our heart we have so much to share and we can't because kay was just full of love and passion and taught us so much but we're going to all try to give a little bit first we're going to see we're going to hear from some of the original board members there was 10 of us but four of us will be speaking uh this morning and then there was other board members that came throughout the years and they'll be sharing uh later on people that worked very intimately with kay and we're going to hear from some grandchildren so we're really you're just going to hear about kay today and you're going to learn so many things that you didn't know about her sandy macintosh was supposed to go first and she wasn't able to come because her husband had some kind of an operation on his back and he wasn't well enough to come and she's very sorry and i'm going to read her notes and they are amazing okay so here we go mike and i are so sad that we are unable to be with you today to honor and remember the amazing and beautiful kay smith k smith literally changed my life during the early days of calvary chapel when mike was on staff there i was privileged to attend her bible study first at gene mcclure's house and then at the church i grew so much there under her wonderful teachings but kate's deepest influence on my life happened when i was invited to serve on a board she was forming to plan the first ever pastor's wife retreat i remember 40 years ago arriving at calvary chapel for our first meeting i was so nervous i spilled coffee all over janie alfred and as i looked around the table i thought what in the world was kate thinking how did i get invited to be a part of this for 30 years i sat on the board and these are some of the many things i learned from k and about k that changed me deeply first i learned that k just knew things call it a spiritual gift a word of knowledge a word of wisdom prophecy but somehow she just knew she knew us she knew what we needed she knew when we needed to be loved when we needed to be corrected when we needed to listen or be listened to when we needed to be bold when we needed to be humble step out or step back she knew that we needed to pray with more passion and she showed us how i have never heard anyone pray like that that woman could pray that play i'm missing this up that woman could pray the shingles off the roof kaye also knew that we needed to be deep in god's word and she faithfully drew us there she knew we needed to learn how to love and serve the people in our churches and we watched her as she did that herself she knew when we needed to cry and when we needed to laugh kay smith had a wonderfully silly sight and often we left ourselves silly in the meetings i deeply loved her i deeply miss her but her influence can't stop here we must keep it going so let's take what we know and what we've learned from k smith let's pray with passion like never before let's lavish that love and encouragement on the churches our families our neighbors and each other let's dig deep into god's word and speak it boldly let's be willing to cry together and even laugh ourselves silly so that k will be remembered and god will be glorified and the world and the world will see that jesus the k smith loved so much isn't that awesome so sandy so loving so tender so kind now here comes mine i'm more more of a warrior okay i can just hear kaye say this live each day with eternity in view ponder the way that you take and make every decision one that will have eternal value that is so engraved in my heart there are so many of her words her thoughts her teachings that are just engraved they're just they're me now she gave them and they became me they lead me and they guide me in my life's journey i personally and many of us did witness kaye a spirit as spirit-controlled woman she had a spirit-controlled life throughout the 40 years that i interacted with her at the pastor's wife board meetings that i heard a teacher retreats her online studies and when she ministered to me personally i witnessed the spirit of god operating in her life kaye walked in the spirit she was active in the gifts of the spirit she gently moved in the spirit her spiritual gifts were empowered by god's agape love how she loved us i witnessed in her faith in action as we received from her i witnessed and we all did words of wisdom words of knowledge words of prophecy discerning of spirits emotional spiritual and physical healing i received and many of us received from her she prayed fervently in the spirit and had the gift of interpretation when i first went to the first retreat i grew up in a pentecostal church so i could speak in tongues and i was sitting up front and i was praying and i was praying in the spirit softly and kay was up on the pulpit and she started interpreting what i was saying and i immediately stopped go i don't want everybody to know what i was saying but it was all wonderful the wonderful works of god but she had i think all the gifts i i saw them operating in her life through her spiritual gifts she exhorted and edified us the body of christ the church she would encourage us and say raise your hands and she would raise your hands to the lord and we'd be like trying to raise our hands she'd say pray in the spirit exercise your spiritual gifts and we were all kind of shy but she would encourage us and exercising her god-given spiritual gifts kay chose the more excellent way and that's the way of agape kay suffered along with us she was kind as it says in first corinthians 13 she didn't envy she wasn't puffed up she didn't seek her own kay was not easily provoked she didn't rejoice in iniquity but she rejoiced in the truth just loved the truth she would bear along with us she believed and hoped and endured all things for us for the body of christ for the church the fruit of the spirit just hung off of her being it was evidenced by her love her joy her peace her long-suffering her gentleness her goodness kaye was a spiritual warrior also she was filled with love tenderness filled with the spirit but she was a warrior and i got to be privileged to be a part of that in her life she dressed in the full armor of god she fought shoulder to shoulder with me for three years when i was being assaulted by the enemy by the wickedness of this world by spiritual beings by even satan she was there with me almost daily kay taught me to endure in the midst of the battle i just want to say okay forget it i don't want to be a pastor's wife anymore this is too hard but she taught me to endure by taking up the shield of faith and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god and by praying always that was such a powerful weapon and her life was praying always kaye as you can hear feared no man she feared no foe okay fear god i will miss god's warrior paz her teachings are emblazoned in my heart and i'm challenged to pass them to the pilgrims that i encounter along the way and you can hear those same teachings on word for today they're there and i still hear them today if kay could say something today to all of us i think this is what she would say be filled with spirit ephesians 5 speaking to yourselves in psalms hymns and spiritual songs singing and making a melody on your heart to the lord giving thanks always for all things and to god and the father in the name of the lord jesus christ amen okay now we're going to hear from karen johnson and also from gene mcclure it is a great honor and also a great blessing to be here and hopefully will all of us get through these times i remember the first time i met kay i was in the early 70s in the days of the tent and kaye always looked so beautiful she always just was tall she was a lady she was regal she she had the most incredible hands maybe some of you remember that i was into country music at the time and i always thought she looked like loretta lynn she had curly hair black hair in the back kind of pinned up on the sides and i just would look at her and i thought she looks just like loretta lynn and calvary chapel was born in 1973 and in 1976 chuck and kay were taking a tour to israel and they had two buses so they called jeff to say would you be the bus pastor over the second bus oh could we would we you know we were so excited to go uh we spent two weeks breakfast lunch and dinner with chuck and kay and i i can tell you like sharon said we learned so much and i was always watching her i was watching how she talked i was always watching how she walked she was just so incredibly approachable and through that trip our love affair with israel began and it still is as strong as it was that first trip kay had taken a few hebrew classes and so had i and so we would talk on the phone and we'd say you know our good mornings and goodbyes in hebrew it was so endearing and so fun like little girls out of all these pastor's wives on the board i was probably the most reluctant of all of them to be a pastor's wife i struggled so hard but kaye always allowed me some peaceful resolution dealing with my fears when myself wanted to take over and it did many many times under kay's influence she allowed me and found a way that i could deal with my fears and strongholds were broken in my life chains were broken in my life because of she was so open to allowing us to find a way through those things through prayer through the lord one time at a pastor's wise retreat it was snowing so bad and i just thought that's it i'm tired of this i'm not doing this anymore so i ran away in the snow um flip-flops and you know just i'm running away i'm gonna go up to that little store at twin peaks and i'm going to hitchhike home i was angry i'm going home well when somebody from the retreat came and said what are you doing up here and i go i'm taking a walk and they go do you want us to take you back to the conference center and i go yeah well kay came to the room she goes what are you doing and i said oh i don't know my face is all a mess and i'm just i'm just mad jeff's gone all the time and he goes well if you're if jeff was a doctor would you let him go deliver babies well i was a nurse i go well yeah he can go deliver babies well jeff is delivering spiritual children and she goes do you want to have lunch with me you want to sit next to me at lunch i go oh gosh no they'll all think i'm you know i'm a mess she goes no karen they'll see that you've been crying they'll say karen's so spiritual she's been she's been crying and so she's been with the lord and i go really and at lunch it was sort of like and you know kay just found a way that we could deal with those things she listen i was a nurse i knew what she was doing but it showed how much she loved me she was just so awesome but out of all the things the connections i had with kay the strongest one was through adoption ck was adopted and i had placed a child for adoption and also i had been the director of house of ruth for many years and we would talk for hours on the phone about adoption now kay had little or no information about her birth family but she was convinced that she had been abandoned and she felt that the lord had actually given her a word about being abandoned and one conversation went way way into the night i remember the sun going down and she said the lord gave me this first karen in psalms 27 10 when my father and mother forsake me the lord will take me up and my heart just broke i thought no i don't want this to be true for her and i quickly prayed lord give me give me a word give me something i can share with her and the lord did and he gave me psalms 68 6 for it is god who sets the lonely and and abandoned in families i said think of it kay if you had not been adopted you probably never would have met pastor chuck he said god was faithful to place you in that family and we just cried together we just just had such a wonderful time of fellowship but that was kay she would always go back to the word we all know the story of how chuck and t k would drive down to the beach and look at the hippies and just she would cry and just think chuck we've got to reach these kids well what what put that in her heart because you know chuck didn't have it he'd just go oh they need to take a bath but but kaye had a real burden for the kids and i i was thinking could it be that kay's own heart being so tenderized from being abandoned as a child she have felt the need of those kids as she felt she had been abandoned feeling the needs of those kids that had been cast out from society was there something that her that identified with those kids kids that needed a home a place of safety parents who loved them and it was through kaye's urgings to chuck that he opened up whatever walked in those doors at calvary costa mesa and let me tell you in those years we were dirty our feet were filthy and let me tell you we would put our feet on top of the pews and our toes and the communion cups and you know and and you know what carving our names in the pews and chuck just said i don't care they're there they're there we can all replace all that other stuff costa mesa became our new group home and we had so many brothers and sisters we became a family and chuck and kay became our spiritual foster parents and we would hold on to each other and we would sing songs we were like little children we'd be singing love love and holding on to one another because we needed the human touch and it was provided for us there at calvary costa mesa it was a safe place and we were fed the word they had very clean bathrooms by the way and one by one we came to find out that we had a heavenly father who had chosen us and wanted to adopt us into his family ephesians 1 talks about this thank you chuck and kay for your openness and after a few years we all left the nest jeff and i went to our hometown we've been there for 47 years same church same place calvary chapel downey and every time jeff ever saw kaye in those 47 years that we've of course in the last few years has been hard jeff would always say to her kay thank you for loving us hippies thank you for loving us hippies kay was a woman of the word the prayer i love to hear her pray sharon's right we would just wow i mean it was like being in the presence of the lord and she started that board 40 years ago but she was always very nurturing caring for us encouraging us growth she was ever present always praying loving us deeply and k we will miss you we already do miss you at our meetings we miss you deeply so okay i say to you shalom we will see you soon [Applause] it's hard to follow all that because um it's so precious isn't it and the memories are so great just one little insert in here my dad and mom started coming to the church early on and my dad could not stand hippies he would call them he'd go down the street and they'd be walking on the sidewalk he said those dirty filthy hippies and he always said this thing about it and so he goes to calvary chapel is one of his first times and we're sitting like on the second row and he's he's right next to me and a hippie comes up and he says is that seat saved next to my dad and i'm just going it's going to be all over with because he was really blunt and straightforward you know he was a doctor they just tell it like it is and i'm going oh what's he going to say and he looked at him and he said that seat is saved for you i about fell over and then he leaned over and he whispered in my ear and he said you can tell when they're saved they've had a bath don and i had come back from bible college in england and he was going to talbot seminary and so we had moved down to that area and his sister asked us to go to a steak fry to hear love song with this little hippie church and um well we thought we'd go and i fell in love with it and so did dawn we felt the power of the holy spirit and that made all the difference so we started going over don was a youth pastor at another small church but we would sneak over to calvary whenever we could and um we just got so blessed and all the things chuck was saying we just agreed with and we were just thrilled to be there the church was in fairview it was small it was probably about 1971 and i remember in those days chuck would stand at the door do you remember that he'd shake hands with everybody and when he stood at the door we went by one of our first sundays and he said dawn mcclure and john says excuse me i don't think we've ever met each other he says oh no but he said there's some kids here that go to bible study in hollywood and they said that you were the bible study teacher and i thought that you were that don mcclure he said well actually i am and he was so sweet to us and so friendly and we felt so welcome a few sundays after that we walked by the door and he said would would you and gene go to lunch with kay and i after church well we couldn't believe it so we went and i think that was the first time i met kay and i was so impressed with her she was so classy and so pretty and just such a lady and um so kind and loving and welcoming i remember she used to play the piano do you remember those days every once in a while she would play the piano sandy was hosting weddings and i was singing at funerals with chuck and it was really fun and it was it was a great time and the word was preached and that i didn't okay real well yet and my sister-in-law and i went to go to a bible study so we went to a little tiny bible study in a trailer out front of the church and another gal was teaching it but not k so we had moved in to a house my folks bought across the street from the church off of fairview and so we were very close to the church and i said to kay one day would you be willing to come teach a bible study at my house and she really hesitated and i said well okay how about every other week she said well that might work i said would you just she said i have to talk to chuck and i said okay and will you pray about it and so um she did and i did and i begged god to make her come teach us because i was desperate to know what she knew i sent something in her that she had that i wanted she had a love for the lord she had a love for the word she had a love for people she was kind and uh i just thought i need to know what she knows i want it i knew the lord but she was a step beyond and so she came back and she said all right the lord gave me a scripture i said what is it she said the older people are supposed to teach the young people but i want to say something to you i am not old but i am older than you so i will come i think she was 42. so um she came and i was just talking to sandy recently and she said do you remember the first study because i was at your house for the first study and we were sitting all over the place all over the floor everywhere and she said that you know she opens her bible and cages start speaking and the words that poured out of her mouth they just hit us they were practical they were real they were right where we were at she uh you know just shared the love of christ and told us how to live and that first study her theme was for that message that how can uh how contagious dis contentment is and that women have a real tendency to be discontent and she told us that we're supposed to be content with the things that god has given us that he gave us himself he gave us his word and she just would encourage us and we walked the girls that walked out of the house that day looked at each other and said that was incredible and she had us and she ministered to us and she showed us how we were to live godly lives as young women young married girls young singles but i think the thing about her that i loved so much was her incredible passion for christ she was absolutely in love with him and that just radiated from her and made us want to fall in love with the lord just like she did and her prayer life was just unbelievable and it drew us all in it made us all go deeper she taught us things in those days that were were just lifelines for us she said girls don't do things that put christ to the cross don't have those things in your life she warned us about distractions of the world i remember when she told us don't be watching soap operas she would just get right down to it and tell us things that were important in life as she saw the world pull us in and saw those hippie girls that were coming out of all of that lifestyle and how they were being changed and she wanted to put those good things within them that they could know well the bible study began to grow as you can imagine as she told us those practical things she told us never to speak against her husband she says don't go to those mary kay parties and tupperware that just dated us and and talk against your husband she said don't ever do that and she taught us to love her husbands and she taught us to love our children she said no one will love your children like you do you take care of them and when you pick up their shoes you pray over them and you put things away in the house you pray over your husband and you pray over your children it was incredible and so the bible study grew and then by the time we had 70 women in the house there was no room left on the floor or in the chairs or in the street the city called me and they said i don't know what you're doing at your house but it's trash day and the neighbors are complaining that the trash trucks can't get to the trash cans you have to stop whatever you're doing in your house i got oh no we're in russia it's communism actually it was god because we moved to the church and that started the joyful life bible study isn't it great how god just moves you where you're supposed to be and you don't see it coming and shortly after that chuck asked on to go up to lake arrowhood and start to bible college in the church and all of that so we were leaving anyway but no matter where we went she always cared for us i felt really personally loved by her as i know all of you did didn't you just feel like it was just that incredible love that she had she was kind she always took time for anyone that would come to work she did pray though that god would spare her from the weary people and whom she could make no difference that was one of her prayers but lord let me help those i can help and she loved each and every one of us she was always there for us whether it was in ministry whether it was in life whether it was as a pastor's wife and from time to time i would get those phone calls i saw needed when we went to san jose and took over the church that was split and fractured and everything else and in horrible debt she called me she said don was just talking to chuck and he hung up before i could get the phone and i want to talk to you is mama k and she said listen the previous pastor left and you're going to have people having you over for dinner exactly this happened exactly as she said it would and some of them are going to just be so sad the pastor left and how could people treat him this way and then the next night another couple will have you over and they'll say that pastor was horrible he should have gone and she said i'm going to tell you what to do do not say one word if you will be quiet not pick sides or say anything in six months they'll trust you and it's exactly what happened i just think i'm so grateful for her words of wisdom another time another year we had three teenage boys pretty rascally and she sends me a letter and she said i just want to tell you my boys were rascals i felt so great it was such a comfort just to know that a woman understood raising kids and that she cared about my kids meant so much one time i called her up and i said okay we're in this church in san jose and chuck has loaned dawn a lot of money to keep this church afloat and we have to pay you back so i'm going to tell you something i'm going to have a women's conference this church seats 1900 people we're going to fill it and i need you to come speak and don't tell me no because if chuck ever wants to see that money again you better come help me with this church it was awesome one last thing i just want to share about her that i've thought about lately a lot during all we've gone through with persecution and covet and the whole thing and our son that's gone through the struggle that now has that church bless him and been fined millions of dollars by the health department and all that he's gone through and he's kept the doors open and the church is exploding but um praise god for that it's the lord he just quietly went into it and said i'm not shutting these doors but one day it forced home during camp dawn who always teased kay grabbed the keys to her room out of her hand and she's fighting with him over the keys and it tore her fingernail and you know her precious beautiful fingernails that was a no-no instead of her getting mad you know what she did she came to me weeks later and she said i want to tell you something that nail still has not healed but every time i look at it i pray for your son michael he had been very ill and had been in the hospital and the lord healed him but she had him on her heart and it's i've just wondered lately if those prayers because she knew things she just knew things and she prayed things that god told her to that of all of our children she prayed for him the most and i wondered if it was for these days for these days because of all of her boys michael's one i would have least picked it to go through this horrific thing he was sweet and quiet and shire and and yet somehow she knew i will always be grateful for her all of my life i will me i miss her terribly i'm so thankful for what she did for all of us she was a woman who truly lived pleasing god sharon's going to get upset with me if i don't say this but i'm so thrilled to introduce their two oldest grandchildren vanessa and bradley are going to come up and share with us and after that a few more board members will be coming up thank you for having us you know i love this little decoration here because the hymn that my grandma and i would always share was in the garden and i can't quote it i'm not going to sing it but you can look it up that time that my grandma had with jesus was why this is all here because she was intimate with god and for a woman to carry such a legacy and support a crown to my grandfather's head and to have women come by the thousands every week for decades and to be to us grandma she had a way of just being grandma and in fact i really didn't get to know her teachings until i was in college i was living in london and bless his heart steve mays and gail may sent me my grandma's teaching pleasing the heart of god and mike mcintosh sent me this journal and it was just a beautiful time but listening to my grandma having had grandma as just grandma it changed my life her studies studies changed my life because it was more about not just knowing the word but knowing the author and falling in love with him my grandma had four children 19 grandchildren and now she has like 40 plus great grands and her legacy will continue through them my brother and i had the privilege of not allowing my grandma to be an empty nester before her cheryl was in out of high school my brother and i moved back in i was five months old and bradley was 18 months old and so she had two bouncy babies and diapers and we came right into that home for my dad's visitation rights you know after my parents had their split and that's what i knew of grandma and grandpa it was home with them it was home you know that phone never did stop ringing it was constant and i know that because i you know as one of those rotary phones and i wanted to i wanted to see if grandma was off the phone so i'd pick it up and like she's not you know and hang it up be known as one of those little rotary phones and grandma was constantly serving and and serving the ladies and it was so sweet but yet we were able to run up to her bedroom and grandpa would make us the smoothies and they would come down and go swimming and everything so to have somebody that for to touch the hearts but yet just be real and genuine and be grandma grandma loved family and maybe karen i thought that too with her adoption is it because you know of her history that she just loved us as family family and in her presence was joy and smiles and laughter and she had those silly moments you know and little games that she would play so braley and i got to live with her for the first seven years of our life and it was the most beautiful wonderful time not just because my grandparents were there but my grandma made sure my dad didn't go on dates and that time was for us so it created a beautiful bond that my dad and my brother and i share because grandma would not let him go on dates and i love that about grandma even though i was like okay i didn't know that until later but i was like yes she created um moments for us she created those moments of quality time that i will cherish forever and whether it was traveling you know to europe with her going to israel or just having family vacations at bass lake or hawaii she created these opportunities of love and laughter and she was just real and genuine i love that about she's very curious though i don't know if it's because she was a legal secretary you know she was curious about life she liked mysteries she likes to solve things you know so there's been times when we were driving with grandpa and grandma and oh my goodness it was so funny because grandma is curiously looking at everybody going down the street and going charles do you think that person should be with that car do you think that do you think he's stealing the car you know okay you know i don't know you know a little while later charles look at her does she look sad to you and he's like katherine i'm trying to drive you know and then she turned to me vanessa what do you think i'm like i'm not getting in the middle of you too i think it's great as everything's okay grandma but she just had this curiosity about her and she loved details and you know that through the her words and her her teachings just the lists and the details that she pulled out of the scripture you know and she was true to that she was true she lived it out it's what she was it was who she was and we got to see it as grandma and grandma was attentive grandma you couldn't put anything past grandma and if you were being naughty do not look in her eyes because she knew you were being naughty you know you're like okay the blue eyes are coming out don't do that don't look at me grandma but she had just a sweet tender way of always loving us no matter what we are going through now some some of the kids would say mom i didn't like that attentive side of grandma you know we were talking about it i'm like why they're like because we try to sneak away and she would never let us sneak away she wanted to know where and see what happened was is when grandma got a little older she had to stay more upstairs she loved her second story home in newport because she loved exercise and she'd always say i love my steps so i move back in later in my life and grandma grandpa had asked me to so i could so he could travel and she could stay home so i was getting to that point where she'd just rather be at home and so we were there and she loved her two stories but to walk up the stairs and do all that but at one point she was more it was kind of dangerous you know you really had to have an arm support if you guys know caregiving for your parents it's it can be it's hard and so the kids would go up there well grandma had in her house the living room where we all sat and talked and stuff was toys grandma had a little little table for the kids and she was always concerned that the kids had a place to play because she knew it could be boring for the little ones you know the parents are all engaged in talking so she always had toys and she always had ice cream so we were upstairs and my kids were trying to sneak downstairs because that's where the toys were and that's where the ice cream was and grandma as soon as i'm i'm telling the kids like go ahead now's a good time go go so they're trying to sneak down where are they going vanessa where are they going where are they going what are they are they gonna have somebody watching them is somebody gonna be down there making sure they're okay and i was like okay i'm going grandma i'm gonna i'll go down there you know because i was just trying to send them along and then my poor husband i'd say eddie please go i want to talk to grandma i don't want to leave grandma's present you know so i'd send him down to watch the kids and they would sneak down and get their ice cream and why do i share this with you because my grandma was a just a wonderful radiant woman that was genuine and true she was grandma she was great grandma she was mom you know she did teach the family by example she taught us to love our husbands by the way she loved grandpa when i lived with them later in life i would be woken up to literally they woke me up because they were singing to each other in the kitchen it was so precious and she called grandpa her boyfriend and he i found a letter a little love letter from him and he signed it my strong devoted lover my grandparents they taught us to love they taught us to love family they taught us to love friends and when i started to think about what i was going to say today i was like did you notice my grandma made life about you it wasn't about her she made you the one that was the attention was all about and i thought wow grandma had a way of making you the priority and she was so fun to talk to all her emotions you know grandpa you would discuss something and you'd be like oh yeah oh but grandma was like give me all the details who what when where why what was going on you know she wanted to know everything so it's so fun to talk with her but later in the the last part of her life i just wanted to say this because the truth be told the loss of our grandfather in the way that he was and the bereavement that happened with him was a tragedy in our lives we haven't recovered and i watched my grandma go from ministering to thousands and thousands of women come back to a very quiet part of life i'm sorry and my family and i knew jeanette my daddy jeff my family eddie and the kids knew this is when grandma needs to be ministered to i want to thank the caregivers too for all the the effort and you know in a testimony of grandma she worshipped god all the way to the very end it got to a point where my kids and i we would go and do my kids got to do worship for grandma we'd sing songs they'd play their guitar and stuff and her little foot would just move to the music but we knew that this was where we needed to be we wanted to be because in the presence of grandma you felt god's strength you could feel the holy spirit my grandma was conscious and alert until the very day she died and i had been ministering in tecate with a group of friends and they had heard some things about kay people would always come up to me and say you know what how's your grandma and all this kind of stuff some things were really being fed through truthfully and honestly and there were some rumors going around and so they had questioned me how is your grandma i said well you want to go see her and they're like what i'm like yeah we're coming up through toccate and i called and she wanted to have them come and so they all came and just got to see kay and they were so blessed susie was there and um and they said vanessa she was a true worshiper of god you could feel the presence of my grandma and her love for us and all the way to the very end you know my grandma as a scripture say she was closed with strength and honor she rejoiced in the time to come she opened her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue the law of kindness i could sit here all day but i'm letting you guys know that my grandma with her children her grandchildren and her great grands rise up today and call her blessed thank you [Applause] good afternoon i'm bradley smith and i'm the oldest grandchild of my grandpa and grandma chucking k smith on like vanessa i had the privilege of living with grandpa and grandma several times actually not only when i was young but when i was going to bible college when i was 18 during that period of time and then several years later after my divorce and then uh the last about a year i think uh that grandpa was diagnosed and for about another five years after that i actually lived and cared for grandpa and grandma as much as i could so i had a lot of very unique one-on-one time as a grandchild and i got to tell you they didn't think they were a big deal they really didn't but i did they were a big deal to me and it wasn't because of calvary i just liked them i really did grandpa was an incredible cook oh my goodness the whole wheat cinnamon rolls oh and then it was the potato eat rolls that he made for thanksgiving uh just the banana cream pie taught me how to create crust from scratch everything was from scratch except the bananas even the even the uh the yogurt excuse me the pudding the vanilla pudding you know double boiler in the whole deal and and that's one of the things i really do miss about them um and i was more than happy to eat it and the leftovers were great and uh and the gifts and christmas and i could just go on and on uh but to me they they were a big deal they really influenced my life in a positive way and even more now than ever i'm realizing just how blessed i was you know it's often been said there would be no calvary without grandma and i believe that i really do they were one and i don't know if you know many of you know this but they met six weeks later they were married and i loved asking them about their love story okay so what was it about grandma like you know sorry for the first time you know what what was the deal and he's like whoa i saw her come to this baseball game and pushed some guys over and dusted off the seat and like here sit here sit here you know and i asked grandma about it she's like well i saw this handsome man and i saw that he had brushed off the seat for me to sit and she was so impressed and it's just so cute to hear the little stories in their different perspectives and and you know they would sometimes argue about who did what and when and and no that's not how it happened talking yes it is you know and and i'd get to sit back and kind of watch them just you know lovingly argue through it and i really love that there are so many things that were actually said today that were totally of the spirit i had them on my list in my head and i didn't have to share it but grandma was right she was abandoned it wasn't until grandma wasn't really able to communicate that we found out through dna of what her real blood sister went through abandoned in an apartment screaming with a little note and some clothes and the apartment manager found this infant child and never knew the parents and i believe or suspect that the same thing happened to grandma literally left in a room to scream until a stranger would come in and rescue but god never abandoned her and if my uncle and my father were rascals i don't know what i'd be ten times worse than that i don't even know if there's a word for it but she never abandoned me either grappa even kicked me out of his house once because i was you know partying and stuff and he wrote me a letter like dear john letter i came home when i i knew it i should have come home you know a little bit earlier and he would have no no he they knew they knew and they were gracious towards me and i often wondered like lord okay you know her body's given out she's very healthy she's not in pain but why is she still here come on and a woman in a prayer meeting gave me a word of knowledge is that she is waging war she is fighting more than she's ever fought in her life and i just knew that a huge part of that was for me i knew she never gave up on me you know ever never never gave up on me and uh you know by all natural means i should not be here i should be in the ground but i'm not and i'm here somebody told me you know nobody really cares about a dead preacher uh i think that's wrong because they still live in us in our hearts they'll never die what a gift what a gift from him and through us i feel led to share a verse uh actually a few of them in first corinthians chapter 12. it was kind of a sister verse to the last prayer of jesus in john chapter 17 where jesus had said you know i don't just pray for these but i also pray for those who will believe that's us i'd encourage you to read that prayer but in first corinthians chapter 12 i'm kind of kind of jump around from verse to verse i won't read the whole thing but in verse 12 for as the body is one and has many members but all the members of that one body being many are one body also so also is christ if the foot should say because i'm not the hand i'm not of the body is it therefore not of the body but now god has set the members each one of them in the body just as he pleased i like that just as he pleased but now indeed there are many members yet one body and the eye cannot say to the hand i i don't have any need of you nor again the head to the feet i have no need of you no much rather those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary so if you're sitting there today i'm not really that much i'm kind of weak do you not realize god sees you as necessary absolutely important and those members of the body which we think to be less honorable on these we bestow greater honor and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty there's a role for each of us in the body that there should be no schism in the body but that the members should have the same care one for another and if one member suffers all the members suffer with it or if one member is honored all the members rejoice with it now you are the body of christ and members individually i think that for the family both genetically and in the family of god that they love to see the individuality of every single person yet knowing that we are of one spirit and to be unified understanding that the weaker or the seemingly stronger that we all have a role to play within our family and you are family and whether you like it or not you're going to see me forever you can't get rid of me i've tried to get rid of me it didn't work god had a plan and we're going to be together for eternity and the thing that really bonds us is of course the one spirit right but what is the fruit of the spirit it's singular in the greek love and people say well what about you know joy peace and all those other things well how i see it and i could be wrong but how i see it is those are just slices of the same singular fruit of love she loved me no doubt grandpa loved me didn't always like me but i made that was my fault but he did always love me i remember floating in the colorado river scared as a five-year-old six-year-old little boy could be thinking sharks were gonna eat me not knowing that sharks aren't in you know fresh water and he would come over get out of the water and we literally jump out of the boat in the middle of the colorado river and of course it's moving it's not a lake and i was super scared my little life vest and he would sing floating down the river on a lazy afternoon you know and i'd be like hold me hold me but after a period of time i would just kind of float and just go along with grandpa and those are some of the neatest memories and i used to love watching grandpa grandma fight too because she'd be upstairs chuck you can't do that that's not right you know and she would be trying to give him spiritual advice from the second story and he'd be like oh you know and they'd go back and forth they were so human they were so real and you know a lot of people don't realize they just see this one thing from behind you know or on the stage or whatever but i gotta tell you i never heard grandpa say a bad word i mean i live with them okay they're upset they're irritating each other like crazy and i even saw the way that they fought and it was a testimony to me on okay gosh you know i don't have to take it to that level and eventually they would make up and they would sing songs together and they would cry together oh my goodness i remember we were having dinner once and they were ending the fight and grandma said something about a a song and i wish i could remember what it was and she was like oh chuck sing that song sing that song and he's like all right and he starts to sing it and the guy rarely cried but he started he couldn't sing the song he started choking up she knew how to get to him she knew what to do and more than that it really was the holy spirit you know i want to encourage you here today if you think about you know or hear all these stories and go gosh that could never be me what i just read i just want to encourage you it's the same spirit y'all it's not about you know what they did it's about what the holy spirit is willing and will do with you today and understand that it's the weaker or the greater the honorable dishonorable whatever you're all part of the member of the body you are necessary and you are adored and you are loved and if they had any example of that just multiply that by infinity and you'll have an idea of how god feels and thinks about you he will never abandon you he will never give up on you and i don't know where you're at today with this crazy state of the world and its affairs but hurting suffering confused yes i get it we're all part of that but we're together in this prayer is god definitely answers prayer i'm a living testimony to that and i think that they would want you to know that while they've been upgraded they're still looking down and with god's love they love you and this is how the world will know that jesus christ came from the father is our love for each other and it's okay to be different uh members it's okay to have different things going on in different churches you know god allows that but the spirit together in love may we be unified and as we leave and i know there's more to come but as we leave today i want you to be encouraged that it's possible because the same spirit that was in them is available to you thank you [Applause] bradley your grandparents really did love you make them proud okay my name is kathy dickinson better known to you from costa mesa's kathy d i got to be on staff there doing women's counseling and couples counseling with my husband dale and i was very involved in joyful life i loved that bible study and i also got to be a part of writing the bible study lessons with kay smith and under her supervision because that bible study was important to her and she had such a high standard for that study and i remember when i started writing she taught me don't you ever tweak scripture don't you ever take scripture out of context she taught me how to pull the heart out of verses she taught me how to be the best i could be and yet depend on the holy spirit to guide me and to teach me and i will be forever grateful for that she had such a high standard for herself and for those of us that got to serve with her and we're better for it but that standard she would call us out sometimes and i remember one time that she thought my friends and i had done something and i got a call from kay and you didn't want those kind of calls from kay and she said kathy don't you think that's a little junior heish and i said yes kay it was junior high you know we won't do that again i think i got to serve under kay or go to her bible studies more than any other senior pastor's wife i learned so much from her she had that gift of exhortation that was just absolutely incredible my teaching is nothing like kay's but i pray that my effect after i'm done teaching will be just like case because when we walked out of a study after kaya taught you could say what does she teach and and i know so many times i go all i know is i love jesus more and i want to please his heart when i went to ck after she had kind of withdrawn from teaching ministry and in public i went to her house and as you know she struggled with dementia and she would look at me and she'd say why did you leave the church and i'd say well okay i'm a pastor's wife now and she just get this gleeful expression and she'd raise her hand up and give me a high five and go oh that's glorious 15 minutes later she would look at me and say kathy why did you leave the church and and we'd go through that again but i could get in her face and i remember just saying how much she meant to me and how much i learned from her and how different because of her and then another time i went to see her i took my son and it was christmas time and for two hours we sang christmas carols and hymns and calvary songs and she knew every word every verse of every hymn and when we left i said to my son tim i said what was your favorite part about being there and he said mom i was watching you because i got to sit there with kay and and worship with her and there was just something about sitting with kay and then the first time i took gia to see her she is from a different period of time than and joyful life and she looked at me and she said who is she and i introduced jia to her and she started playing a few strumming and went into the first song and almost immediately she leaned over to me and she said she is very good i said yes she is and we got to worship together the very last time i got to see kay was just a few days before her passing i had felt impressed by the lord that he just wanted to give her some worship i ignored him i was busy and four days later i i got that prompting again and uh i knew he didn't want to give her worship through me that was never going to happen so i texted you and said will you come with me again and when we walked in the door and of her room she was frail she was so frail and and it was very evident that it was going to be about time for her to go home and i i said to her caretaker lisa i said can i touch her and she said sure climb up in the bed and stroke her hair because she loves to have her hair stroked so i did and we worshipped and we prayed and i stroked her hair and as vanessa was sharing her her foot would just tap to the beat of the music but my very favorite part was i could get right close to her and i talked about jesus and i talked about how we're gonna see jesus soon and and worship jesus face to face and kay would just light up even in that place where she couldn't speak and she'd turn towards me and she'd try to talk her lips would move but i couldn't understand anything but her eyes i'm a counselor i read eyes and her eyes spoke to me and her eye said she can't wait she couldn't wait to be face to face with her jesus because rk loved jesus and what amazes me about our god is that it was just a few days away and she was going to be able to worship him perfectly and yet he cared about her and this tent and in this life that he wanted to give her another time of worship because she was a worshiper and what an incredible god we have and to know that rk is worshiping him face to face now and i want to leave you with a challenge that has challenged me is when i spent time with k i walked away and i wanted to love jesus more may we be like that may we be the kind of people that when we touch and influence other lives they walk away and see that we love jesus and they want to have that same relationship with her may the lord work that in in each and every one of us may we we give that to kay as as a legacy of following her as representing and loving our jesus and debbie bryson is going to come up and share [Applause] so um when i looked at the list i thought oh my goodness i am i'm clear at the end after everyone said all these amazing things and and then i i thought well they probably wanted me because they wanted it to be short so and i just have a couple moments and i'm so jealous of every single thing that everyone said and all the moments that i had they had and um just the incredible legacy and um i just want to say to all of us lucky us lucky us well why did we get to live in this generation where they were raised up really literally to their estimation out of nowhere and in the time that the world was in crisis um in the late 60s i was a teenager and i was so confused and lost and so was my i didn't know my husband then george but he was hitchhiking across california and after i don't know how many days him and his three friends were hitchhiking and pastor chuck picked him up with three other guys in the car and and witnessed him and he wasn't famous then but he had that heart and um and george argued with him which is fairly typical of maybe george and but chuck went one and um and just a few days later i think maybe a week later george did come to the lord in the middle of the night his friends led him to the lord he stayed up all night reading the bible and the next morning as they that his friends woke up he said this is the best book i have ever read he had never read a book before and um and he said i know i know what we must do i have a whole bunch of drugs let's sell them and buy bibles and give them away so i mean that's what chuck had to work with really right well [Laughter] um but he he was our hero and uh kay was such a hero to all of us for me when we came to the lord it was all hands on deck when i was about two weeks old in the lord i went to a bible study at the end of it the pastor finished and said all the all the guys stay in the room and it was in a house people were looking in the windows of the house it was so crowded said all the guys stay here in the house with me and all you girls sit sit in a circle outside in the lawn and debbie will will speak to you and he looked at me and i said what me i'm i'm three weeks old in the lord and he said oh it's okay you know more than they do and i just told them everything i knew it took me about five minutes and then i told them all again i remembered the prayer of how you lead someone to the lord because i had just said that prayer and somebody came to the lord i mean it was just like a crazy time you know he we were so unqualified and so desperate for the holy spirit and um i'm jealous for those that got to linger in the late 60s and early 70s and go to the tent we were sent out to the field and it was all hands on deck really and um you know after some years i was a pastor's what i was a pastor's wife when i was i think four months old in the lord and um kind of pathetic probably but um then down the road um i i felt like i had lost my way a little bit doing the right thing but i was never mentored i was never discipled and i heard a rumor that kay was teaching a bible study on pleasing the heart of the lord of god and we lived in oregon and times were hard there the economy was bad and people were struggling and i was trying to do the right thing but i needed to be mentored and i called costa mesa and i said as soon as the tapes are are burnt you just send them to me i'm desperate i would go to my mailbox five times a day and i had heard of k smith but i had never heard her and it's the sweetest bible study if you have never gone through through that bible study you can still listen onward for the day on uh and on blue bladder i've been listening again on blue letter and it's crazy um you know she just like you i can see her face light up and and now that i know her so well and she just talked not not just in a uh let's read a scripture it was let's just know god and there's a scripture that says those that please the lord what is it i'll think of it in a minute i didn't come with any notes um oh those that please the lord even their enemies finish can be at peace with them and so later many years later when i was privileged to serve with her i was in a board meeting one day and many people had shared some of the gals they came in and often shared the hard times and the hard things with people and she listened and we talked for probably four hours and at the end of it she just smiled and she said oh we've had some stinkers too and then she just smiled and said you just gotta love him and what i learned from kay is it it's not what you do it's who you know and everyone that loved her and got a chance to be with her that's what they learned so keeping it short so diane brocade she's gonna she's gonna be the the end pitcher to end it up here [Applause] whoa i could say just say amen and walk off everything has been just such a loving beautiful tribute to kaye she would be she had that very shy and private private side and she would say oh you know don't don't be too a complimentary but i had the wonderful privilege of first hearing about kay in 1967. so i'm probably the oldest one here but my friend darlene may be close anyway we he was in vietnam and pastor chuck was teaching a bible study at neil and dede fox's house in my neighborhood and um a lot of what he was talking about i came from a very nice presbyterian background and i love presbyterians don't get me wrong but i had never heard the things that chuck was saying and talking about the holy spirit and it was a it was a treasured time and when my husband came back from vietnam we started to go to the little church on church street which is actually still there it has changed hands many times but it was a sweet little one and chuck would preach and uh those of you who worked in the sound department he drove them crazy because he would have these long pauses he would say these rarely profound things and then long pauses and we weren't a part of the group that went afterwards to a smorgasbord restaurant and just shared the time with the lord it was really precious but i have so many memories obviously since i knew her for more than 50 years but don't worry i won't go year by year i just picked a few highlights and one was kay had such a powerful passion for anyone that was hurting or anyone that was seemed lost and their the days today seem very similar to the days of the 60s and kaye kay taught us to look out for the one that was hurting and the one that was lost and her passion of course drove the movement of the jesus people and she was just she was incredible with them she didn't care whether it liked chuck she really didn't care whether they were spitting polished and so she just ministered from her heart to everyone and then um she was compelled to pray she was the the most powerful prayer warrior she literally sandy said took the shingles off but she she brought heaven down to earth and we saw so many miracles during that time and kaye was wonderful but um then before she went to jean's house she went to k madison's house with a kaye had a bunch of kids i can't remember how many but she was the most organized mother i have ever seen and i was so impressed but kaye was in that little basement and that was the first time that i had heard someone pray that powerfully and if you ever had a problem you would want kaye to be the one to pray for you but um as a mother of four i called her the mother of four only children because each one of them was so different there was the rascal there was a deep thinker who loved crossword puzzles with her later in life and then there was the one that she would just roll her eyes when you would talk about and then the fourth one was she was a mixture of everybody i couldn't pin her down but kay loved those children and every time she talked about them her eyes would light up and she would say oh and just tell the adventures that she was having but once they were all in school and we had this large hippie population she really wanted to be able to teach them how to be christian mothers and wives and how to love the lord and his word and to how to live it out and she she was just wonderful and as gene shared those wonderful times in her living room that expanded and expanded and then moved on to the church it was really wonderful but once her children were grown she knew that that she needed to do more and so the study grew and women were growing but then she thought now these women need to know how to celebrate holidays and um so she said i know we'll have brunches and retreats and we'll have well we'll have ones for christmas one for easter one for thanksgiving one for new year's and we'll even have a summer so she wanted so much for all of us to live out what she was pouring in and so that's how those started i was so privileged to be part of the very first proofing of the study that she wrote because after a while the studies that we were doing she felt weren't really meeting the needs of the women that were attending so we started her writing well i don't know how other people write bible studies but i think hers was very unique she would sit at home on wednesdays and finish writing the study in her beautiful long hand penmanship and shorthand because as a legal secretary she had knew shorthand very few people know that today but she would work and then she would call the church and say come out and get the first two pages so someone would go out to the church and pick up the first two pages that she had written and sally joe who was chuck secretary at the time had the gift of interpretation and and she could figure out what kay was writing and so then she would formulate format it and then bring it bring it back to us in the bride's room well our our three-man team was kay carolyn lamb me and the fourth one was betty williams who was on standby and so we would get the back and i was the grammarian and i was sure that the periods and the commas and the quotations and the clarity were all working and carolyn was the one who said k now that's a good question but we need to go for the heart they they're going to learn all the facts but they need to go for the heart and betty we would call but sometimes we called the who it wasn't a word for today then but the bible answer man and so we always elected carolyn to make those calls because they might recognize kay's force and the united might not believe me so but it was a wonderful incredible time but we would we would labor over those and as kathy mentioned it was intense at times but the lord would always send as something that would make us laugh and i think this will make you laugh too we were in there and we were just studying away and suddenly there was this knock knock knock on the door and carolyn opened it and those of you who know him can picture this there was romaine head to toe dressed in rain gear and carrying two giant sandbags in his arms and he said ladies i don't know if you noticed but it's raining outside and chuck wants us to sandbag all the entrances to the bible study and then he proceeded to serenade us with that old johnny ray song it's beginning to rain rain rain and we laughed and um and moved on but that was just one instance of it and it it was really it was precious time kay and i were both born in los angeles and we both loved l.a and she happened to to go to angeles temple that's where she was raised and through a series of circumstances we attend that church weekly so kay would tell me oh amy sample mcpherson would do this and i said well today they do it this way and she was just fascinated but we we would also listen to gaither songs she loved she loved all kinds of music but she really loved the gaithers and she especially loved it and they reenacted billy graham's 1949 um uh his first outreach in intense in la and she remembered being there and what an impression it had made um then um finally i i'm not going to be a preacher and have three finales maybe two but one sunday after kay had quit driving my daughter and i had been picking her up for third service and when we got to church by the way did you know that she had names for her cars the car that she had to quit driving was named lady rose and it was a red car it was a coupe so it only had two doors and and but one back seat and it was very interesting to get in that back seat more interesting to get out of that but we we came came to church and we came to the back row and kaye looked up with this wonderful look of amazement and she said diana can you believe what god has done the sanctuary was filling the fellowship hall was already filled and the gym the overfull people were going in she said can you believe what god done did and that he let us be a part of it and if that was her heart it was never look what i've done look what look what i did or what chuck did it was always the glory to god and then when kay asked me to send flowers um for from joyful life when someone had passed away she said now be sure you always include psalm 116 15. precious in the sight of the lord is the death of his saints and we can only imagine what it was like for cade when jesus precious saint kay saw him face to face and then was reunited with chuck and all those that she loved so dearly and um one day we will all have that opportunity to see him face to face but kaye was so ready and so such a beautiful example of a godly woman who made all of us love jesus more loved the word more and loved to share so now um we are going to have crystal cooper armin and we're going to i told her i was glad that they were coming after me because they will touch your heart [Applause] oh what a joy and what an absolute honor for me to be here to close out the service with this is my good friend jim jim white and we were blessed to lead worship under pastor chuck and k smith about the last 15 years of their ministry and my grandmother was carolyn lamb that diane just talked about and my mother was kathy cooper a joyful life singer for several several decades so i am born and bred from these roots i like to say i was born under a pew at calvary costa mesa so anyway we know that pastor chuck and kay loved so many things we've heard about them today and they just loved music too they loved worship and they appreciated many different types of music so we'd like to share a song with you now called the prayer and we hope you enjoy it [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] i pray you'll be your eyes [Music] and watches where we go [Music] and help us to be wise [Music] in times when we don't know let this be your prayer when we lose [Laughter] [Music] lead us to a place guide us with your grace [Music] [Music] we will find each night let this be your prayers [Applause] [Music] lead us to a place guide us with your grace us faith [Music] is foreign [Music] just like every child just like every child needs to find a place guide us with your grace give us faith [Music] sweet [Music] send a cagey song [Music] [Music] [Applause] what a joy i get to share after that my goodness jan k asked me to come up and give some closing thoughts and what a privilege it is to be here this day not only to talk about a marvelous lady but an impact to all of our lives you know we need to go back a few years when the first time i met k smith i was 17 years old the year was probably 1971 1972 where were you what were you wearing i know the ladies were all dressed in granny skirts remember that us guys we had bell bottoms and long hair and a big old long beard and everything else but we were gathered there on 3800 south fairview road because the holy spirit was doing something special a sunday night service remember what time sunday night service would get out salt quite often at 9 30 and we would all be sitting down on the ground here all over the place just so hungry for the word of god and then tuesday night we were there with our dear friend and great wonderful pastor tom stipes and thursday night we were back with chuck and friday night i couldn't wait to hear this wonderful pastor don mcclure as he was taking us through the bible i even remember this day as he taught us out of the book of romans saturday night we were there we'd pack i had a 63 volkswagen van and we would pack it we didn't have to have seat belts back then pile as many people as we could into that van as not only mike mcintosh but tom stipes we're the evangelists at that time and many many many people were coming to know jesus as their lord and savior but then there was these sunday mornings because you know we'd get stabbed so late every once in a while we'd go to church on sunday morning and i mean remember being there sunday morning and pastor chuck was standing right outside of the tent and there was this lady standing by pastor chuck off in the distance i said to one of my friends i go who is that lady and he says well that's his wife kay and i'm 17 years old and my impression of kate smith was that's a godly woman you know i was never disappointed how about you not only was she a woman of faith she was a woman of purity she's a woman that inspired so many years as so many other people not only at calvary chapel costa mesa but around the world as you move forward in time i happen to be with pastor chuck just about every day of his life to seven eight years i don't know why but i happened to be the i used to tease him and laugh at him i said you just want me so i could be your carpool dummy as we drive along in a you know fast lane but i was at chuck's house or on the road with him and a lot of times kaye would be there and i remember on the road when it was time to go to sleep chuck would call kay it would be those words that you could hear between a husband and wife that was only they could share words of love and we were on the road one one year and chuck and i made it to prescott arizona he would speak it at the church there calvary chapel and he says terry let's go on over i wanted to go on over to the first church that we went to there in prescott it's still there he says i want to find it once again and and so we zigzagging around through prescott and we found the church and he wasn't so much concerned about the church building but he wanted to take us up alongside the hill there he says he found a spot that he believed that this big boulder was there you remember the story of this big boulder it was blocking the view of the everybody in the church and you want to make sure it had a good view so one day he decided to get this you know big old bar out and wedge that boulder loose and finally it broke loose but you know what happened that boulder was up the hill to the church and it started broke loose going down it smashed the side of the church there i'm standing there and go oh chuck that that was funny he says and he gave me that look he goes no because i had to go home and tell kay he goes because at that time we didn't have a lot of money for the church and we had to take our little money to go down to the hardware store and really the you know put the build the church back together and he would share stories about during those early days how god used k the mold and the shape the pastor that we know and love wasn't very you know years later after pastor chuck had moved on to heaven a couple years later i was called and asked and said would i go down to south county as k had moved down to south county to be close to their daughter jan to teach a bible study on a monday night and i said pinch me do i get to do that every monday night for years my wife and i would get in the car and drive down there and we had the joy to be with them and you know remember at the early days we were just on that monday night study we were developing what was known as our the word for today phone app and pastorchuck.org our dear friend john randall was helping us do that put that together and i remember showing it the case is kay look at this you can listen to yourself on the phone and she'd get those big eyes just shining i said some people are listening that to that around the world and then we would normally break in at a time of worship and you know the songs they kay loved to sing with those early songs from the 70s songs that you knew songs that we all could still sing this day she loved singing songs and and then we would go into time of prayer and she loved praying as we would all pray and then when we get into bible study but you know there i want to just share two things that she was so that would really get her attention in bible study and believe me i had to make sure i studied pastor chuck's notes before i went and taught because she would give me a look if i was out of bounds the bible studies that you love to hear was on the baptism the holy spirit first of all more than just the teaching of the whole baptism the holy spirit as you've heard other ladies here testify tonight she lived it she exercised the gifts of the holy spirit within her life and if she was here today she would say all of us to make sure that we stir up the gifts that are within us that we don't allow them to go dormant and she loved it she would just beam when we would talk about the baptism of the holy spirit the second thing that she loved was for me to talk about on those studies was the second coming of jesus christ a lot of times we would all be listening to jack hibbs or somebody else and we would be relaying the stories before the study then we would get into the bible study and we'd be talking about the rapture of the church and bush you know she was sitting just a couple feet from me and you could feel the excitement coming off for her because she believed that jesus christ can come back at any moment how about you do you still believe that [Applause] one of the words that i know that the lord said to her that last day well done thy good and faithful servant enter into the joy of the lord and i know the words that she would have me to say to you here this day and maybe you it's a word that they used to say during the early church and a word we used to use around calvary during the early days it was a simple word but maybe it's something that we got to remind ourselves it's the word maranatha how about if i say that you repeat it back to me maranatha amen the lord's coming back soon the family has prepared afterwards some refreshments for everybody but before we do that there's going to be a video that they're going to air but i thought we would before we do that we would close in prayer father we thank you for this great opportunity that you've given us to look back and remember and to give thanks for the impact of kay in all of our lives so many different stories that we all can tell of a woman that lived their life for you we just pray that we would take these stories and we would pass them on to other people lord until that glorious day that you come for us lord we thank you that you're the great god of comfort that you bring to each and every one of us here that great comfort knowing that one day you're going to come for your bride and we ask that you bless now in jesus name amen they have a video for you to watch on either side of the screen the love of god is greater far than tongue or pen can ever tell it goes beyond the highest star and reaches through the lowest the guilty fair bowed down with care god gave his son to win his every child he wrecked and silent from [Music] it shall forever angels [Music] where every place of brassic will and every man a stripe by [Music] [Music] through [Music] it shall forever glory [Music] my heart can sing when i pause to remember a heartache here is bought a stepping stone [Music] is [Laughter] [Music] joy i'll carry on until the day my eyes behold the city until the day god calls me home this weary world with all its toil and struggle may take its toll of misery and strike the soul of man [Music] it's destined for the skies then my heart will go until then with joy i'll carry on until the day my eyes behold the city until the day [Applause] [Music] all right [Music] now 25 years have seen some change but things that matter still remain the same the building's bigger and the crowds are too the bottom line the holy ghost still rules [Applause] now you gotta get all these words okay now some like numbers and some like fame but pastor chucky never played that game there's asap records in cat k wave but they're just there to get the people saved those hippie preachers of 20 years back are now pastor greg and rawl and mac about the only thing that's still the same as a crescendo cream puff named romaine [Applause] [Music] never been to scandal and it's a since truck didn't give the devil and there never is in fact that devil he's so upset because he ain't found a way to get a word in yet [Music] [Applause] [Music] now people still coming from miles around because the love of jesus is still abound people looking for the secret from coast to coast but there ain't no secret it's the holy ghost [Music] now pastor chuck he's a wise old bird never changed the tune he just preached the word and he's the man that he is today because he heard god and he listened to cain jesus jesus jesus there's just something about that name master savior jesus like the fragrance after the rain jesus jesus jesus let all heaven and earth proclaim kings and kingdoms shall all pass away but there's something about that name jesus jesus jesus there's just something about that name master savior jesus like the fragrance after the rain jesus jesus jesus let all heaven and earth proclaim kings and kingdoms will all pass away but there's something about that name his name is jesus jesus said hearts weep no more he has healed the brokenhearted open wide the prison doors he is able to deliver evermore his name is jesus jesus and hearts weep no more he has healed the brokenhearted open wide the prison doors he is able to deliver evermore [Music] jesus name above all names beautiful savior glory help lord lord changed me and it is i um i thought i had a uh something altogether and then it sort of was eluding me and then it came back again and then i just said oh god really it's up to you you have to minister to the women i can't i'll be a vessel i'll stand up there like a clay pot and you do your work through me and you minister to these precious women i we're still talking about our relationship to the lord because that's where it all begins even as we started out this afternoon and again i want to say to you if that relationship is not right tonight it doesn't matter how much you hear on self-esteem it doesn't matter how bright you are or how gorgeous you are or how talented you are or how effective you are in interpersonal relationships how marvelous the pastor's wife you are how much love you pour forth or anything else in the natural if you do not have your relationship with jesus christ and with our heavenly father right and the holy spirit is not dwelling within you to direct your path nothing else is going to be right and on the positive side if your relationship with the lord is right these other things will fall in their place where they're supposed to be satan will not have a victory in your life you will not only survive the crisis of this world but you're going to soar you truly will mount up with wings as eagles god is with us blessed redeemer [Music] living word jesus is the sweetest name i know and he's just the same as his holy name good so it's the day after christmas and we have a wonderful christmas and i really really pranked all [Music] can you hear [Music] so graciously in our family in our home the kids really in a sense sacrificed for the ministry because they didn't have an ordinary dad that was home every night most nights i was out teaching bible studies and kay was a faithful mother and always there when the kids would get home from school always there in the evening with them and she was a mother more than a pastor's wife really she was a mother first and took the responsibility of being with the children you broke it oh oh what did you do what happened i fixed it and the fact that the kids turned out so good is the lord and kay [Applause] sing hallelujah to the lord sing alleluia to the lord sing hallelujah sing hallelujah to the lord sing hallelujah [Music] to the lord sing hallelujah [Music] great warm-up you sound like angels god bless you [Applause] may the lord be with you bless and keep you in his love and may this be one of the greatest weeks that you've ever experienced as far as spiritual growth is concerned may you take a giant leap forward in your relationship with the lord the lord bless thee and keep thee the lord make his face to shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee and be gracious unto thee the lord lift us his countenance upon thee and give the peace [Music] [Music] meetings and for sunday school you

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