A Father’s Passion for Sharing about Heaven Inspires His Entire Family

A reader tagged us on Instagram in this wonderful reel about her father:

My dad wants everyone to know about Jesus, Heaven and the hope that God gave us all when He sent His son for us. Thank you, Jesus, for the blood and thank you Jesus for Heaven. Heaven truly does change everything.

In the note featured in the video, which he left for the housekeeping crew at a lodge his family stayed at, he wrote:

Father writing a note to leave with a Heaven bookletThese Heaven booklets are for you. The larger Heaven book was so inspiring and comforting to my wife and I in her last days battling pancreatic and lung cancer. Even though we had been Sunday School teachers for 40 years, this book really showed us what we really have to look forward to in Heaven. We know the great (4) times we’ve had for years in this lodge and place are not over with our 17 grandchildren. Great times await us in Heaven and on [the] New Earth.

I’m also looking forward to being with our other three grandchildren already there.

Our prayer for you and yours is that you know or will come to know Jesus Christ, so that you can also enjoy eternal life in Heaven and the New Earth.

We pray we will meet you there and get to know you. God bless you.

One of his other daughters wrote our ministry:

Not a day goes by that my dad goes without mentioning Randy’s Heaven book, and he has passed out (to be sure I’m not exaggerating we’ll just say over a thousand, but I’m sure more) of the Heaven booklets. My siblings and I have videos and pictures of how he has scattered these across the country, sharing the hope of Heaven with everyone he meets.

…Ever since mom’s passing in February 2022, we passed out Heaven booklets at her visitation and funeral, and my dad doesn’t leave home without them. If you pump gas in the stall next to my dad, you’re going to hear of the hope of Heaven and receive a booklet. If you are his waitress or just take his order at a fast-food restaurant, he’s going to share with you the hope we have and what we have to look forward to on the New Earth.

Jerry reading to his wife from the Heaven book

Thank you, Jerry, for your example of living with your mind set “on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God” (Colossians 3:1), and for sharing your rock-solid hope with so many. As an author, there’s no greater honor than to know that my books have been used by God to help readers like Jerry, and to reach people with the gospel. To God be the glory!

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries

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