Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time together that we can come and support our past and his family, Lord.

We bless your name this evening, this morning, Lord.

And we just thank you again. Would you watch over all of us and keep us safe as we return to our respective places, Lord.

Bless our time together in fellowship in Jesus

name we pray amen amen I now know why families have the reception line after the service

give me a moment.

And appreciate your patience.

The service was delayed because of me. So, but I do, I don't know

how to adequately express the profound gratitude that our alhanna friends and even our church ohana have for you being here with us today.

Those of you here locally and those of you joining us online virtually all over the world

actually.

We just want to say thank you and we're glad that you're joining us.

I want to begin by explaining why I, after seeking the Lord, am calling it not just a celebration

of life, but a celebration of life and of eternal life. Kelly is alive in the Lord's presence. Death for the Christian is a relocation.

And she is absent now from her cancer riddled body and present with the Lord.

Yet we still grieve inwardly, mourn outwardly, but we don't, as the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians in chapter 4,

verse 13, we don't grieve as those without hope. What hope? The hope of salvation found only

in the person of Jesus Christ as the son of God and God the Son who said

there's no way to the Father except through me. I tell you there were mornings. Kelly

so wanted to be with Jesus which was like wow thanks a lot

she'd wake no this is true I have to because she'll come back and she'll be in the back with the

signs you know anyway I'm having a flashback sorry but she would wake up in the

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