I Love You Harrah Church
After a lot of prayer and soul searching the Lord has shown Abby and me that it is time to leave Harrah Church. The last 15 years have been an incredible experience. Because we love this body beyond description the decision to leave has been difficult to make. However we look to the future eagerly anticipating the discovery of the next chapter of our lives. For those of you who are interested here is a video of our resignation. Resignation Video
Thank You Jimmy and Abby for using the gifts God gave You! Because you allowed God to use you, you both made incredible impacts in our life. We know that wherever you guys go or whatever you do, God is with you and will make many more impacts on many more lives. May God Bless You beyond your hearts desires.
“Some people come and go. Others (Holbrook Family) stay awhile and leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same. -David Kraft”
We will miss you all dearly,
Danelle and Mike Rush
Jimmy and Abby,
You both have been incredible inspirations to us in the way you passionately chase after Christ. We are proud to call you our Pastor. “…The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective” (Jas 5:16), thank you for your farewell prayer and charge, may we embrace it. We Love You and we will deeply miss you.
Dustin and Jennie Murray
Jimmy and Family,
I am not sure where to start. I have never been a real religious man but I have always wanted to help people. I went to several churches in my life, and never found my home. It wasn’t until Easter day in 2009 when I brought our family to HC. We sat in the back row, and watched how you spoke the bible like a poet, and reached part of me I never knew was there. God used you as a vessel to reach my soul and bring to life the Holy Spirit.
Even though I didn’t know you extremely well Jimmy, it felt like I have lost a family member. I know you are still here in Harrah, but it’s not the same. We both have large families, and it would make a great deal to me for our families to get together and have diner, lunch, or even being able to talk within someone of your statute. I have a lot to learn from the bible, and I always felt you, in some way, held me accountable of making sure I studied it.
I know I am writing a lot, but it can happen. Anyway, we have to keep in touch, because I need to make sure I beat you in the number of kids, hehe. Please share your knowledge with me when you can or think of it. We love you Jimmy and Family. I wish there was more people in this world like you.
Michael Ervin
What can I say? Our hearts are so heavy. We will miss you deeply. Thank you for allowing us to be a part of watching you use the precious gift God gave you. I have attended a lot of churches over the years and have never heard anyone with a gift for delivering Gods word like you do. Thank you so much. You will never know how much your sermons have helped my family to grow in christ. I only pray that we will have someone again to lead us that we love as much as we have loved seeing you and your family grow. We love you Holbrooks. May God bless and continue to surround you with his peace and love.
We hope you and Abby and the kids find a place where you are very happy. Jay R and I never got to meet with you to let you know we are joining Choctaw Road very soon. We just wanted to make sure to explain to you that it was never personal, because we know how hard it must be everytime someone leaves. It’s so hard when God tells you to move on especially when you have been there so long. It was very hard for us to let go, but we knew he was calling us somewhere else. We love you and Abby very much and will miss you! We hope you embrace this new chapter and have peace.
Love,
The Francis Family
Today is the first day I’ve allowed myself to really think about memories of the time you and Abby have spent with me, because it’s so hard to say goodbye and I love you all so much. Thank you for loving people and seeing in them things they don’t see or believe about themselves. God used you in my life powerfully. I learned every week as you preached. Didn’t sleep through one sermon – even after driving all night home from the mission trip! You taught me to pray a dangerous prayer, “Use me Lord.” and Know Greater Love came. You helped me have the courage to be bald in front of a congregation that I couldn’t even tell I was going bald for two years. You helped me through despair with losing two parents within 6 months of each other. You didn’t judge me when I told you how hopelessly lost in sin I was when I backslid and fell into addiction – instead you said, “We’re all screwups.” You then poured into me and let me serve in our ministry as a leader. You have been patient, responsive, always teaching life lessons. You taught me how to deal with conflict and no matter how badly someone mistreated, to give them a 2nd chance and forgive. I’m forever changed. God used you and Abby mightily in my life. I’m the praying, bible reading, people loving, enthusiastic sold-out follower of Christ today because you all cared and loved me no matter where I was in my walk. Thank you and God bless.
Jimmy,
I just wanted to say Thank you for all that you have taught David and I. We will be forever grateful for finding Harrah Church and having the opportunity to learn about Christ from an amazing leader. It won’t be the same without you, but you have given us the knowledge and love for Christ to know that we will make it through this change. I have dreaded this day since we started attending Harrah Church….dreading the day that you might leave. I now know that we are going to be ok…We will miss you dearly but because of you we have this love for Christ and a love for Harrah Church to help us through this. I used to say that if you left the church we would leave too but now I can not imagine leaving…we love our Sunday school class and have made some amazing friendships here. I hope you know how much you will be missed but I only wish you the best in whatever you do. Thank you for all of your amazing sermons and just for being you. Take care of yourself and you amazing beautiful family. Love you all very much!!! Thank you again!! We will be forever indebted to you because you have shown us how to be true Christ followers…true Warriors for Christ. Miss you already!!!
Jimmy,
We love you very much and I wanted to thank you for being God’s vessel. I haven’t had the pleasure of working alongside Abby but I know God has blessed her in her ability to show Christ’s love. She shines like the sun and loves people unconditionally. God has great things for all of us. We miss you dearly and I will continue to dive deep. As your mom would say Jeremiah 29:11… Thank you Jimmy for the last ten years we attended HC. Again, we love you.
The Reynolds family